Joseph Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jugashvili) was, according to a genetic test on one of his grandsons (Alexander Burdonsky), a member of Y-DNA haplogroup G2a1a (FGC595/Z6553). Other males purported to be members of Haplogroup G include: German-American pioneer and soldier Phillip Hamman, US politician Linn Banks, physicist John G. Cramer, American actors James Franciscus and Jake Gyllenhaal, American former professional basketball player Larry Bird, American businessman Najeeb Halaby, US lawyer and administrator Newton Minow, and US lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence Richard Stockton.