Keanu Reeves and geology?! – Celebrities and their geo-relatives

A comment on Facebook gave me the idea to create a list of celebrities with parents, childs or other relatives who are connected with geosciences. Did you know that Keanu Reeves‘ father has been a geologist? Such a compilation is only realizable with the help of you.

If you know a famous person (dead or alive) with a family member related to the geosciences, please leave a comment with a link to one source for this information. You may also add celebrities with some geo-related experience in their own lives. There is one disqualifier for listing a person: the person must not be famous for her geoscientific work, e.g. William Smith (famous geologist in 18th/19th century) would not be listed.

Such a list with celebrities and their relationship to geosciences may offer a fantastic way for outreach work. Imagine you’re talking to young teenagers in school. With which of the following words you attract most of their attention at the beginning of your talk: with “Keanu Reeves” or “geology”?

Here’s the beginning of the list:

Greg Graffin (US-singer, songwriter and College Professor; Bachelor and Master degree in geology)
Léo Gordon Laporte (US-technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur; father: paleontologist)
Carey Lowell (US-actress; father: geologist)
Hugh MacLeod (US-cartoonist; father: geologist)
Colin Powell (General, former Secretary of State of the U.S.A.; Bachelor of Science degree in geology)
Keanu Reeves (US-actor; father: geologist)

Léo Gordon Laporte

Tags: Berühmtheit, Berühmtheiten, celebrities, celebrity, Familien, Geologen, Geowissenschaftler, Stars

This entry was posted Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 8:01 pm under Miscellaneous . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Keanu Reeves and geology?! – Celebrities and their geo-relatives”

Ron Schott says:

Monday, August 9th, 2010 at 8:18 pm

I have a couple of submissions for you.

First, General (and former US Secretary of State) Colin Powell has a Batchelors degree in geology from the City College of New York.

Leo Laporte’s father was a paleontologist who taught at UC-Santa Cruz

Hugh MacLeod(@gapingvoid)’s father was a geologist who wrote a guidebook to the geology of the Big Bend area of Texas.

Carey Lowell(actress)’s father was a geologist.
Tim W. says:

Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 6:42 pm

Here is another famous geologist:
“Greg Graffin graduated from the University of California Los Angeles with a degree in both Anthropology and Geology. Graffin continued onto graduate school at UCLA in the Department of Geology. Graffin’s masters dissertation is entitled ‘A new locality of fossiliferous Harding Sandstone : insights into the earliest vertebrate environment and some aspects of dermal skeletal tissue’ (1990)”