Found Anyone Famous

[downside]

1) Robin Hood is not a real person, so no one is related to him.
2) Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone, he stole the design and concept from an Italian when he worked in a patent office.
3) I'm not sure whether I would like to boast about the fact that I was related to Wat Tyler.

[Nick29]

2) Alexander Graham Bell did not invent the telephone, he stole the design and concept from an Italian when he worked in a patent office.

More than 600 people disputed Bell's patent for the telephone (probably more, but only 600 people filed lawsuits).  None of them were successful.  The person you're referring to (Antonio Meucci) had his case thrown out due to a lack of evidence.  The indisputable fact is that although more than 600 people claimed to have invented the telephone, only one man got the patent for it, and that man was Alexander Graham Bell.

[Annie65115]

Downside, perhaps you're taking it a bit seriously - I'm not sure that many people here are boasting! I suspect many tongues are firmly in cheeks!

As for my royal claims, I was brought rudely back to earth last night by a dearth of servants doing my bidding. Hey ho, back to common old Annie it is!

[toni*]

1) Robin Hood is not a real person, so no one is related to him.

really 

[downside]

I was hoping someone would claim Robin Hood as an ancestor. 

Personally I'm related to Sherlock Holmes.

[toni*]

How about Dick Turpin ?

[JillJ]

I was hoping someone would claim Robin Hood as an ancestor. 

Nah...not Robin Hood, but Maid Marion.....or at least the person whose life was supposedly the basis for Maid Marion.....yes!

Jill

[Fitty]

I was hoping someone would claim Robin Hood as an ancestor. 

Personally I'm related to Sherlock Holmes.

You should have no problem hunting down peeps in your tree then

[stonechat]

Dick Turpin was real I think - highwayman on Hounslow Heath