Celebrities with insurance pops

Here’s a list of famous people whose fathers work or have worked in the insurance industry.

  1. Tom Brady‘s father is the founder & CEO of insurance firm Thomas Brady & Associates.
  2. Max Chilton‘s father Grahame Chilton is a businessman who co-owned insurance company Benfield Group, now a division of Aon.
  3. Ellen DeGeneres’ father was an insurance agent; however “we do not know much about him”.
  4. Patrick Dempsey‘s father William sold insurance.
  5. Kevin James, an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer best known for his role as Doug Heffernan on the CBS comedy The King of Queens, was the son of insurance agent Joseph Valentine Knipfing Jr.
  6. David Johansen‘s father was an insurance sales representative.
  7. Ellie Kemper‘s great-great-grandfather is banker, insurance man, and railroad magnate William Thornton Kemper Sr.
  8. Jay Leno‘s father was an insurance salesman with Prudential.
  9. Richard Linklater‘s father was an insurance underwriter; “My dad’s chill. He’s the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, ‘Well, nobody was hurt, it’s just some metal.”
  10. Matt Long‘s father was an insurance salesman.
  11. Jennifer Lopez‘s father David Lopez was a computer specialist at Guardian Insurance.
  12. Rami Malek‘s father was a door-to-door insurance salesman who immigrated to the US from Egypt.
  13. Mike Myers is the son of Eric Myers, who was an insurance agent.
  14. Rafael Nadal‘s father is “a businessman with interests in insurance”.
  15. Al Pacino‘s father Sal Pacino was a former life insurance salesman for MetLife.
  16. Forest Whitaker‘s father was an insurance salesman.