Which James Bond character are you most closely connected to?

Question

This week's Example Profile of the Week is Sean Connery, fondly remembered for his role as the title character in many James Bond films. 

Featured alongside him are others who are connected to the James Bond franchise:

• Sir Roger Moore ("James Bond")
• Ian Fleming (author of Bond novels)
• Dame Diana Rigg ("Countess Teresa di Vincenzo", Bond's wife)
• Harold Sakata ("Oddjob")
• Lois Maxwell ("Moneypenny")
• Desmond Llewelyn ("Q")
• John Huston ("M")
• Bernard Lee ("M")

Who are you most closely connected to? If you're one of the 20,920,000 of us who are connected to each other on our big tree you can check with the Connection Finder.

You can also check for shared ancestors with the Relationship Finder. Are you a cousin to any of them? Your Relationship Finder Quick Links page (see your profile pull-down menu under "Relationships") has quick links for several notable groups.

Let us know below!

P.S. Help us choose and improve profiles for next week's First Thanksgiving feature.

Answer 1

I am most closely connected to Ian Fleming at 22 degrees.

• 22 degrees from Ian Fleming
• 23 degrees from John Huston
• 26 degrees from Lois Maxwell
• 26 degrees from Diana Rigg
• 27 degrees from Bernard Lee
• 29 degrees from Harold Sakata
• 31 degrees from Roger Moore
• 33 degrees from Sean Connery
• 34 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn

Comments

• 24 degrees from Sean Connery
• 26 degrees from Roger Moore
• 21 degrees from Ian Fleming
• 21 degrees from Diana Rigg
• 32 degrees from Harold Sakata
• 25 degrees from Lois Maxwell
• 34 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn
• 22 degrees from John Huston
• 29 degrees from Bernard Lee

I find it incredibly amusing that, after working so hard to get him connected, I am farthest from Desmond Llewelyn.

I like being (equal) closest to Diana, as I adored her as Emma Peel.  (I even had a comic book (today's graphic novel) I would get every week that included The Avengers in serial form, so I got my Emma Peel "fix" on TV and in my weekly reading.)

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Ian Fleming for me, too. 20 degrees.

Answer 2

I am 16 from Ian Fleming via his wife. I also had 19 on Diana Rigg. All the rest were over 20.

Answer 3

I am most closely connected to Sean Connery at 24 degrees.

Answer 4

Looks like my closest connection runs through Ian Fleming and John Huston. I'm greatly IMPRESSED that I have a 24 degree connection to Harold Sakata! Kudos to those who helped make that happen!

Scott is 28 degrees from Sean Connery, 19 degrees from Ian Fleming, 19 degrees from John Huston, 24 degrees from Bernard Lee, 34 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn, 23 degrees from Lois Maxwell, 26 degrees from Roger Moore, 22 degrees from Diana Rigg, 24 degrees from Harold Sakata

Answer 5

Ian Fleming is my 21st cousin once removed  but I am more closely related to Lois Maxwell at 7th cousin thrice removed 

Answer 6

• 21 Degrees from Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908 - 1964)
• 22 Degrees from John Marcellus Huston (1906 - 1987)
• 22 Degrees from Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (1938 - 2020)
• 23 Degrees from John Bernard Lee (1908 - 1981)
• 23 Degrees from Lois Ruth (Hooker) Maxwell (1927 - 2007)
• 23 Degrees from Pamela Culy
• 27 Degrees from Roger George Moore K.B.E. (1927 - 2017)
• 27 Degrees from Harold Toshiyuki Sakata (1920 - 1982)
• 31 Degrees from Thomas Sean Connery (1930 - 2020)
• 35 Degrees from Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (1914 - 1999)

Blood relations to only two people.

Ian Fleming at 9th cousin twice removed and Pamela Culy at 19th cousin (uncertain)

Answer 7

28 degrees from Sean Connery

17 degrees from Ian Fleming. 17th cousin once removed. MRCA Henry FitzHugh (abt 1358 -1425)

20 degrees from John Huston

21 degrees from Bernard Lee

34 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn

24 degrees from Lois Maxwell

28 degrees from Roger Moore

18 degrees from Diana Rigg

23 degrees from Harold Sakata

Answer 8

20 degrees from Ian Fleming, 18th cousins twice removed, MRCA Thomas Umfreville b. 1364 (Umfreville-82)
21 degrees from Lois Maxwell, 11th cousins twice removed, MRCA Wolphert (Gerritsz) van Couwenhoven b. 1579 (Gerritsz-51)
22 degrees from Bernard Lee
23 degrees from Diana Rigg
24 degrees from John Huston
28 degrees from Sean Connery
28 degrees from Harold Sakata
29 degrees from Roger Moore
34 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn

Answer 9

18 degrees from Ian Fleming, 

18 degrees from John Huston

18 degrees from Diana Rigg

Answer 10

I'm most closely connected to Ian Fleming at 18 degrees.

• 29 degrees from Sean Connery
• 18 degrees from Ian Fleming
• 21 degrees from John Huston
• 22 degrees from Bernard Lee
• 34 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn
• 23 degrees from Lois Maxwell
• 28 degrees from Roger Moore
• 20 degrees from Diana Rigg
• 25 degrees from Harold Sakata
• 20 degrees from Pamela Culy

Answer 11

My closest Bond connection is Ian Fleming with 30 degrees. But Pamela Culy and the husband of my Texas cousin are 5C2R through Mary (Jordan) Anderson.

Answer 12

31 degrees from Sean Connery

21 degrees from Ian Fleming, 19th cousins, MRCA Henry (Scrope) le Scrope Scrope-153

  Ian Lancaster Fleming Fleming-2508, his wife Ann (Charteris) Fleming Charteris-28, 11th cousins once removed MRCA Thomas Welby Welby-10

24 degrees from John Huston

25 degrees from Bernard Lee

32 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn

20 degrees from Lois Maxwell

30 degrees from Sir Roger Moore

21 degrees from Dame Diana Rigg

  her husband's mother Susan Rachel (Bligh) Stirling Bligh-408, 14th cousins once removed MRCA Randle Grosvenor Grosvenor-7

28 degrees from Harold Sakata

21 degrees from Pamela Culy, 17th cousins twice removed MRCA Randal Mainwaring Mainwaring-11

Answer 13

Hmmm, I'm connected to them all. The closest connection is to Ian Fleming, 20 degrees.

Answer 14

Rob is 27 degrees from Sean Connery, 23 degrees from Ian Fleming, 26 degrees from John Huston, 28 degrees from Bernard Lee, 35 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn, 26 degrees from Lois Maxwell, 33 degrees from Roger Moore, 23 degrees from Diana Rigg, 32 degrees from Harold Sakata and 26 degrees from Pamela Culy on our single family tree.

And the winner is ... Ian Fleming tied with Diana Rigg.

Answer 15

No one really close... Ian Fleming being the closest...

• 35 degrees from Sean Connery
• 23 degrees from Ian Fleming
• 25 degrees from John Huston
• 30 degrees from Bernard Lee
• 36 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn
• 24 degrees from Lois Maxwell
• 31 degrees from Roger Moore
• 24 degrees from Diana Rigg
• 31 degrees from Harold Sakata
• 26 degrees from Pamela Culy

Answer 16

Here are my degrees for Bond, James Bond:

• 31 degrees from Sean Connery
• 20 degrees from Ian Fleming
• 22 degrees from John Huston
• 25 degrees from Bernard Lee
• 35 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn
• 21 degrees from Lois Maxwell
• 28 degrees from Roger Moore
• 21 degrees from Diana Rigg
• 29 degrees from Harold Sakata

What is really cool is that Ian Fleming and I are 24th cousins. We share Walter FitzRobert as our common ancestor. 

Answer 17

Closest to me is Ian Fleming (18 degrees), followed by Sean Connery (20), John Huston (22) and the late great Lady Diana Rigg (23).  To think, both Diana and Sean have passed away in the last two months.  I guess he couldn't stand to lose his beloved Tracy again (the only Bond girl to get him past the bed and to the altar).

Answer 18

My top three are:

17 degrees - Lois Maxwell

20 degrees - Ian Fleming

22 degrees - John Houston

Answer 19

Looks like through my paternal line via "marriage", I am 33 degrees from Sean Connery, 22 degrees from Ian Fleming & 22 degrees from John Huston. I tried to copy/paste here, the linkage info from the bottom of my profile page but it will not let me, hmmmm

Answer 20

20 degrees from Ian Fleming,

20 degrees from Diana Rigg

21 degrees from John Huston,

24 degrees from Bernard Lee, 

24 degrees from Lois Maxwell, 

28 degrees from Roger Moore, 

29 degrees from Harold Sakata 

30 degrees from Sean Connery and 

 34 degrees from Desmond Llewelyn.

I'm impressed that my connection with Sean Connery seems to go through his wife's Australian connections back to my father's Cambridgeshire birthplace without going through any North American links except me!