Richard Warren

Richard Warren (ca. 1580 - ca.1628) was a passenger on the Mayflower on its 1620 voyage from the Old World to the New. He was one of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact.

Descendants

His descendants in the United States are legion and include many notable Americans: 
American Civil War general and United States President Ulysses S. Grant, 
United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 
astronaut Alan Shepard, 
children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, 
actors Richard Gere, Orson Welles, and Joanne Woodward,
writers Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 
Lavinia Warren (the wife of General Tom Thumb), 
aviator Amelia Earhart, 
United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, 
Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright, 
Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, 
chef Julia Child, and many more.

References
Rootsweb

Category:Mayflower passengers
Category:1580 births
Category:1628 deaths