Synge's uncle John Millington Synge was a famous playwright, and Synge is more distantly related to the 1952 Nobel prizewinner in chemistry Richard Laurence Millington Synge.
Synge's uncle John Millington Synge was a famous playwright, and his niece is Canadian mathematician Cathleen Synge Morawetz. He is more distantly related to the 1952 Nobel prizewinner in chemistry Richard Laurence Millington Synge.