Is Bill Gates related to the Maxwell family? According to the author: Bill Gates' maternal grandfather James Willard Maxwell, Jr. was a prominent banker in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lived until 1960.  The name Maxwell is also from the peerage, linking Gates to physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Bill's mother was a prominent Maxwell herself, being on the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystem. It is in Billings, Montana. That was named for the Billings family.  Strongly suggest you download this pdf and read about his family history: https://files.catbox.moe/5wwbqc.pdf. Also, there are many other papers by this author that connect the dots on family history.  In the end, it looks as if most major movements and events are nothing but projects with actors playing different roles, pretending to be on different sides. And they all seem to be related.