That's right! I have been having so much fun with this, and you can too!
Go to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/
You can join for free, or you can just look. Type in any ancestor's name and see who you are related to. For best results, pick the furthest back ancestor you know.
If you are a descendant of Phoebe Esther Rushton Spence (Grannie, Grannie English), or her mother Susan West, you have a ton of famous relatives:
Royalty!
Queen Elizabeth II - 20th cousins twice removed. I always felt I was related to Princess Anne!
and Princess Diana
And 21st cousins once removed from Princess Diana!As well as the last kings of France, Belgium, Romania, and Yugoslavia.
US Presidents Ronald Reagan - 7th cousin
Franklin Roosevelt - 6th cousin 3x removed
Ulysses S Grant - 6th cousin 6x removed
Thomas Jefferson - 18th cousin 4x removed
20th cousins with George Washington, 25th with Prime Ministers Pierre and Justin Trudeau, and 27th with Barack Obama, because we all descend from Cecilia Arden, born in England 1000 years before me.
Also, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Richard Nixon, and 12 others.
Of course, our closest famous cousin is Sir Charles Tupper, Founding Father of Canada, 2nd cousin 5x removed. Meaning that, if we were living in 1867 when Canada began, our grandfather and his grandmother would be brother and sister.
Also, Canadian Prime Ministers Stephen Harper and 3 others.
Then there is Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Justin Bieber, Linda Ronstadt, and of course, Elvis Presley (22nd cousin twice removed)! 
Famous actors include Burt Reynolds, Lucille Ball, Shirley Temple, Christopher Reeve, Judy Garland, John Wayne, Robin Williams,
and my heartthrob, David Cassidy of the Partridge Family!
If you are a Robertson with ancestor Ann Acker of Churchover, sorry, your only famous relative is Senator Dr. Robert William Weir Carrall, a Founding Father of Canada from British Columbia. You are 7th cousins. ( https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Carrall-24) But you are related by marriage to President Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Isaac Newton, and Robert the Bruce, first King of Scotland.
If you are a Spence descended from John W. Spence and Ann Elmira Pettigrew, you have no famous cousins, but you are related through your Rector relatives and their marriages to poet Emily Dickinson, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and inventor of basketball James Naismith, among others. 
My 4th grade teacher had us memorize her poems.
Aunt Jessie, Uncle Arthur Spence's wife, has a lot of famous relatives from medieval England. See if you can find them.
If you're a Sulzbach, sorry, got nothing.
16 generations 
Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004)
17 generations Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
20 generations Hiram Ulysses Grant (1822-1885)
21 generations Leslie Lynch (King) Ford Jr. (1913-2006)
21 generations George Bush
24 generations Jimmy Carter Jr.
41 generations John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
42 generations Zachary Taylor (1784-1850)
42 generations Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
44 generations Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964)
46 generations Stephen Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
46 generations Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923)
47 generations George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018)
49 generations George Washington (1732-1799)
50 generations James Madison Jr. (1751-1836)
50 generations Bill (Blythe) Clinton III
51 generations William Howard Taft (1857-1930)
51 generations William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)
52 generations John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872-1933)
53 generations Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)
53 generations Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901)
54 generations Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994)
57 generations Barack Obama Jr.
11 generations Charles Tupper Bt (1821-1915)
17 generations Lester Bowles Pearson (1897-1972) 6th cousin 3x removed
19 generations Richard Bedford Bennett (1870-1947) 7th cousin 3x removed
25 generations Stephen Harper 11th cousin once removed
51 generations Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937) 22nd cousin 5x removed
54 generations Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliot Trudeau (1919-2000) 25th cousin twice removed
55 generations Justin Trudeau
35 generations Jane (Grey) Dudley (1537-1554)
44 generations Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor (1926-2022)
45 generations Diana Frances (Spencer) Mountbatten-Windsor (1961-1997)
46 generations Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi (1923-2005)
47 generations Alfonso Jaime Marcelino Manuel Víctor María (Bourbon) de Borbón y Dampierre (1936-1989)
48 generations Baudouin Albert Charles Léopold Axel Marie Gustave (Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha) van België (1930-1993)
48 generations Mihai (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) al României (1921-2017)
48 generations Petar (Karadordevic) of Yugoslavia II (1923-1970)
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