This is a list of notable individuals who have been romantically or maritally coupled with a full first cousin.
Worldwide, more than ten percent of marriages are between first or second cousins.Kershaw, Sarah. "Shaking Off the Shame", The New York Times, 26 November 2009.
Cousin marriage is an important subject in sociology, anthropology, and alliance theory.Ottenheimer, Martin. (1996) Forbidden Relatives: The American Myth of Cousin Marriage, University of Illinois Press, chapter 5. .
Notable people A Edwin Abbott (1808–1882), English educator, and his first cousin, Jane Abbott (1806–1882) Samuel Abravanel (1473–1551), Sephardic-Italian financier, and his first cousin, Benvenida Abrabanel (c. 1473 – c. 1560s), philanthropist and businesswoman Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi' (d. 634), son-in-law and Companion of Muhammad, and his first cousin Zainab bint Muhammad (600–629) Julius Adam (1852–1913), German painter, and his first cousin, Amalie Adam John Adams II (1803–1834), American government functionary and businessman, and his first cousin, Mary Catherine Hellen Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879–1941), Chilean president, and his first cousin, Juana Rosa Aguirre (1877–1962) Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin (c. 659 – c. 713), grandson of Ali ibn Abi Talib, and his first cousin, Fatimah bint Hasan Lewis F. Allen (1800–1890) and his first cousin, Margaret Cleveland. Mark Antony (83 BC - 30 BC) and his first cousin, Antonia Hybrida Minor
B Josiah Bartlett (1729–1795), second signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and his first cousin, Mary Bartlett Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 1st Baronet (1741-1821) and his first cousin, Millicent Agnes Yielding Ilsley Boone (1879–1968) and his first cousin, Ella Murray "Mae" Boone, founder of the American Sunbathing Association, which today is known as the American Association for Nude Recreation James Boswell (1740–95), biographer of Samuel Johnson, and his first cousin Margaret Montgomerie (1738-1789) married in 1769.Uglow, Jenny. "Big Talkers" (review of Leo Damrosch, The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, Yale University Press, 473 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXVI, no. 9 (23 May 2019), p. 28. Christine Boutin (b. 1944), French politician and her first cousin, Louis Boutin"Christine Boutin poursuivra en justice ceux qui l'attaquent sur son mari (et cousin germain)", ozap.com, 5-29-2013. Boverianda Nanjamma and Chinnappa (the family name is Boverianda), Indian translators and scholars, were first cousins and a married couple. Both were the grandchildren of compiler Nadikerianda Chinnappa (1875-1931); Nanjamma was his son's daughter and Boverianda Chinnappa was Nadikerianda Chinnappa's daughter's son. Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) and his first cousin, Maria Luise von Quistorp Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), American architect, and his first cousin, Hannah ApthorpCharles Bulfinch biography, Notable Names Database (NNDB). Retrieved 2008-03-13.
C George Cayley (1831–1895), British cricketer, and his first cousin, Catherine Louisa Worsley Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer and his first cousin, Clodia Fuad Char (born 1937), Colombian politician, and his first cousin, Adela Chaljub Char Burwell Colbert (1783–1862), freed American former enslaved person, and his first cousin, Critta Hemings Henry Nelson Coleridge (1798–1843) and his first cousin, Sara Coleridge
D Charles Darwin and his first cousin, Emma Wedgwood.Intimate Disclosures in Darwin Letters, The New York Times, 29 August 1915. Retrieved 2008-03-13. Their respective siblings Caroline Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood III (1795–1880), entrepreneur, also married. St George Daly, Irish judge and politician, and his first cousin, Louisa Gore Sir Thomas Domvile, 1st Baronet and his first cousin, Elizabeth Lake Pierre S. du Pont (1870–1954), American businessman and philanthropist, married his first cousin, Alice Belin, in 1915 Samuel Francis Du Pont (1803–1865), American Navy rear admiral, and his first cousin, Sophie Madeleine du Pont, the daughter of his uncle, Eleuthère Irénée du Pont Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799–1871), American diplomat and his first cousin, Emily Donelson (1807–1836)
E Albert Einstein (1879–1955), physicist, and his first cousin, Elsa Löwenthal née EinsteinAlbert Einstein – Great Minds, Great Thinkers, edInformatics. Retrieved 2008-03-13. William Crowninshield Endicott (1826–1900), former US Secretary of War, and his first cousin, Ellen PeabodyNotable Kin: Boston Cousins of Queen Victoria and Yankee Ancestors of Mrs. Thomas Philip, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved 2008-03-13. Ulises Espaillat (1823–1878), Dominican Republic liberal caudillo, and his first cousin Eloísa Espaillat
F Viriato Fiallo, Dominican Republic dissident, and his first cousin Prudencia Fiallo, daughter of his uncle Fabio Fiallo Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), British explorer, and his cousin Joyce Connell
G Carlo Gambino (1902–1976), a mob boss, and his first cousin, Catherine Castellano Buddha Gautama and first cousin Yaśodharā André Gide, Nobel Prize-winning French author, and his cousin Madeleine Rondeaux Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American author, and her first cousin, George Houghton GilmanBiographies – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gale Group. Retrieved 2008-03-13. Carl Giles (1916–1995), British cartoonist, and his first cousin, Joan Giles A. D. Gordon (1856–1922), Russian-Jewish philosopher, and his cousin, Faige Tartakov Samuel L. Gouverneur (1799–1865), and his first cousin, Maria Hester Monroe, daughter of James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr (1764–1830), French general and later Marshal of the Empire, and his first cousin, Anne Gouvion Duncan Grant (1885–1978), Scottish painter, who was in a relationship with his male first cousin, the English writer Lytton Strachey. Bibb Graves (1873–1942), Governor of Alabama, and his first cousin, politician Dixie Bibb (1882–1965) Edvard Grieg (1843–1907), Norwegian composer and pianist, and his first cousin, Danish–Norwegian lyric soprano Nina Hagerup (1845–1935)Edward and Nina Grieg, Peter Hughes. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
H Sir Henry Halford, 2nd Baronet and his first cousin, Barbara Vaughan Shaykh Haydar (1459–1488), leader of the Safavid order and his first cousin Alam-Shah Begum Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), Austrian-British economist, and his cousin Helene Bitterlich Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), Russian writer and political activist, and his cousin Natalya Zakharina Mark Hopkins Jr. (1814–1878), American railroad executive, and his first cousin, Mary Sherwood (1818–1891) Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), fifth President of Iraq, and his first cousin Sajida Talfah (b. 1935)
J Ja'far al-Sadiq (700 or 702 – 765), Muslim scholar, and his first cousin, Fatima bint al-Hussain'l-Athram bin al-Hasan bin Ali Jesse James (1847–1882), American outlaw and guerilla, and his first cousin, Zerelda "Zee" Mimms (1845–1900) Jón Sigurðsson (1811–1879), leader of the 19th-century Icelandic independence movement, and his first cousin, Ingibjörg Einarsdóttir
K Naoto Kan (b. 1946), former Prime Minister of Japan, and his first cousin, Nobuko Himei (b. 1945), essayist Nobusuke Kishi (1896–1987), former Japanese statesman, and his first cousin, Yoshiko Kishi Natasha Klauss (born 1975), Colombian actress, and her first cousin, Marcelo Greco Kujō Michiie (1193–1252), Japanese regent, and his first cousin, Saionji Rinshi
L David Lean (1908–1991), British film director, and his first cousin, Isabel Lean (his first wife) Charles Lilburn Lewis and his first cousin, Lucy Jefferson Lewis Li Ka-shing (born 1928), founder of Cheung Kong Holdings, married his first cousin Chong Yuet Ming (c. 1935 – 1990) John Amory Lowell and his first cousin, Susan Cabot Lowell
M Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734), Scottish outlaw, and his cousin Mary Helen MacGregor of Comar, who married in January 1693 Gerardo Machado (1869–1939), fifth president of Cuba, and his first cousin, Elvira Machado NodalGerardo Machado, History of Cuba. Retrieved 1-29-2010. Maeda Toshiie (1538–1599), Japanese Daimyō in the 15th century, and his first cousin, Maeda Matsu (1547–1617) Nanaia Mahuta, Minister of Foreign Affairs (New Zealand), and her first cousin, William Gannin Ormsby Delarivier Manley, British playwright and political satirist, and her first cousin John Manley Francis Marion, American revolutionary leader also called the "Swamp Fox," and his first cousin, Mary Esther VideauBrigadier General Francis Marion of the American Army, myrevolutionarywar.com. Retrieved 2008-03-13. Humphrey Marshall and his first cousin, Anna Maria ("Mary") Marshall. Abraham Maslow, father of humanistic psychology, and his first cousin, Bertha GoodmanAbraham Maslow, Notable Names Database (NNDB). Retrieved 2008-03-13. John Minor Maury and his first cousin, Eliza Maury Matthew Fontaine Maury married his first cousin, Ann Hull Herndon, sister of Captain William Lewis Herndon, who died on his ship SS Central America Randolph "Randall" McCoy, patriarch of the McCoy clan involved in the Hatfield–McCoy feud, and his first cousin Sarah "Sally" McCoy Darius Milhaud, French composer, and his first cousin Madeleine MilhaudMadeleine Milhaud: Actress wife of the composer, The Independent. 31 January 2008. Retrieved 9-6-2010. Christopher Robin Milne, son of author A. A. Milne who was the model for the character Christopher Robin of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, and his first cousin on his mother's side Lesley Sélincourt Marina Mora, Peruvian beauty queen and former Miss Peru, and her first cousin Gustavo Mora Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer, and his first cousin Mary Morgan (daughter of his uncle Edward Morgan). William Morgan (c. 1640 – 1680) and his first cousin, Blanche Morgan Mōri Terumoto, Japanese Daimyo in late 15th and early 16th century, and his cousin (first wife), Minami no Kata. Gouverneur Morris Jr. (1813–1888), American railroad executive, and his first cousin, Martha Jefferson Cary the daughter of writer Virginia Randolph Cary Ignacy Mościcki, Polish chemist and president and his first cousin, Michalina Czyżewska Muhammad, Islamic prophet (c. 570 – 632) and his first cousin, Zaynab bint Jahsh George Munro, 1st of Newmore and his first cousin, Anne MunroMackenzie, Alexander. (1898). History of the Munros of Fowlis with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which are added those of Lexington and New England. Inverness: A. & W, Mackenzie.
N Naoe Kanetsugu (1559–1620), Japanese samurai and Karō of the Uesugi clan in 16th and 17th centuries, and his first cousin, Osen. Sócrates Nolasco (1884–1980), Dominican Republic writer, and his first cousin Flérida Lamarche (1891–1976), who was a renowned pianist, writer, and teacher.
O Henry Ormsby (1812–1887), Irish lawyer and judge, and his first cousin, Julia Hamilton Ōtomo no Yakamochi (c. 718 – 785), Japanese statesman and waka poet in the Nara period, and his cousin, Sakanoue no Ōiratsume.
P Ahmad Maher Pasha (1888–1945), assassinated Egyptian prime minister, and his first cousin, Ihsan Hanem Sami Endicott Peabody (1857–1944), American educator, and his first cousin, Fannie Peabody. Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud Platou (1848–1923), Norwegian psychiatrist, and his first cousin, Mimi Platou (1852–1928)Berner, Jørgen H. (1952). "Platou, Lars Hannibal Sommerfeldt Stoud". In Brøgger, A. W.; Jansen, Einar (eds.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 11 (1st ed.). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 121. Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), American writer and critic, and his first cousin, Virginia Clemm (1822–1847)Long, William J. Outlines of English and American Literature, Edgar Allan Poe. Humanitiesweb.org. Retrieved 2008-03-13. John J. Pettus (1813–1867), 23rd Governor of Mississippi, and his first cousin, Permelia Virginia Winston