Public Family Trees/Kennedy/Robert Francis Kennedy
1925 - 1968 Β· Male Β· Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
Son of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Robert Francis Kennedy
1925 - 1968
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
b. 1951
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II
b. 1952
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.
b. 1954
David Anthony Kennedy
1955 - 1984
Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill
b. 1956
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy
1958 - 1997
Mary Kerry Kennedy
b. 1959
Christopher George Kennedy
b. 1963
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy
b. 1965
Douglas Harriman Kennedy
b. 1967
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy
b. 1968
Robert F. Kennedy was United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and a Senator from New York from 1965 until his death. The seventh child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, he was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1925, served in the Navy, and graduated from Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School. He made his name as counsel to the Senate committee investigating labour racketeerβ¦
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Gen 4 Β· b. 1967
Patrick J. Kennedy is an American politician and mental health advocate who represented Rhode Island in the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2011. The youngest child of Senator Edward M. Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy, he was born in 1967 and elected to the Rhode Island House of Representatives at twenty-one while still a student at Providence College. In Congress he was a lead author of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, which required insurers to cover mental health and addiction treatment on the same terms as physical illness. After leaving office he founded the Kennedy Forum and co-founded One Mind for Research, and co-wrote the book "A Common Struggle".
Gen 4 Β· b. 1954
Bobby Shriver is an American lawyer, journalist and activist, and the eldest child of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver. Born in Chicago in 1954, he was educated at Yale and Yale Law School and worked as a reporter before turning to advocacy. With the musician Bono he co-founded the ONE Campaign and Product Red, which raised very large sums for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, and he produced the "A Very Special Christmas" albums benefiting the Special Olympics. He served on the Santa Monica City Council from 2004 and as the city's mayor in 2010, campaigning on homelessness and veterans' housing. He is a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and a brother of Maria Shriver.
Gen 4 Β· 1955 - 2018
Christopher Kennedy Lawford was an American actor, author and public health advocate, the son of the actor Peter Lawford and Patricia Kennedy Lawford and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy. Born in Santa Monica in 1955, he was educated at Tufts, Boston College Law School and Harvard's School of Public Health, and appeared in soap operas including "All My Children" and "General Hospital" as well as films such as "Thirteen Days", in which the family's own history figured. He wrote several bestselling books on recovery from addiction, beginning with the memoir "Symptoms of Withdrawal", and served as a goodwill ambassador for drug dependence treatment with the United Nations. He died in 2018 at the age of sixty-three.
Gen 4 Β· b. 1955
Maria Shriver is an American journalist, author and former First Lady of California. Born in Chicago in 1955 to Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, she graduated from Georgetown University and built a broadcasting career at CBS and then NBC News, anchoring the "CBS Morning News", co-anchoring "Dateline NBC" and winning Peabody and Emmy recognition for her work. She married the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1986 and stepped back from network news during his governorship of California from 2003 to 2011, using the role to run the California Governor's Conference on Women and to publish "The Shriver Report" on women and poverty. She has written several bestselling books, founded the Women's Alzheimer's Movement and is the mother of Katherine and Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Gen 4 Β· b. 1957
Caroline Kennedy is an American diplomat, lawyer and author, and the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Born in New York in 1957, she spent her early childhood in the White House, graduated from Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School, and wrote or edited books on constitutional rights and poetry, including "In Our Defense" and "The Right to Privacy" with Ellen Alderman. She led fundraising for New York City public schools, served for years as president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and was United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017 and Ambassador to Australia from 2022. She married the designer Edwin Schlossberg in 1986; their children are Rose, Tatiana and Jack Schlossberg.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1989
Katherine Schwarzenegger is an American author, the eldest child of the journalist Maria Shriver and the actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a great-granddaughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Born in Los Angeles in 1989, she graduated from the University of Southern California and published her first book, "Rock What You've Got", on body image while still a student. She has since written "I Just Graduated, Now What?" and "The Gift of Forgiveness", a collection of interviews about forgiveness, as well as children's books, and she is a longtime advocate for animal rescue and adoption. She married the actor Chris Pratt in 2019.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1993
Jack Schlossberg is an American writer and political commentator, the youngest child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy. Born in New York in 1993, he graduated from Yale and later took law and business degrees at Harvard. He has introduced the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the Kennedy Library, written for Time and Vogue on politics and public service, and built a large following for the political commentary videos he posts on social media. He campaigned publicly in the 2024 election cycle and in 2025 announced a run for Congress in New York. He is the brother of Rose and Tatiana Schlossberg.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1993
Patrick Schwarzenegger is an American actor and model, the son of the journalist Maria Shriver and the actor and former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a great-grandson of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Born in Los Angeles in 1993, he studied business at the University of Southern California while beginning a modelling career, and has appeared in films including "Midnight Sun", "Daniel Isn't Real" and "The Staircase" on television. He drew wide attention in 2025 for his role in the third season of the HBO series "The White Lotus". He is the brother of the author Katherine Schwarzenegger and a nephew of Timothy, Mark, Anthony and Bobby Shriver.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1988
Rose Schlossberg is an American writer and performer, the eldest child of Caroline Kennedy and the designer Edwin Schlossberg and the first grandchild of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Born in New York in 1988 and named for her great-grandmother Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, she studied at Harvard and took a master's degree in interactive telecommunications at New York University. She co-created and starred in the satirical web series "End Times Girls Club", which used comedy to address anxiety about the future, and has worked in video and performance art in New York. She is the sister of the journalist Tatiana Schlossberg and the writer Jack Schlossberg.
Gen 5 Β· b. 1990
Tatiana Schlossberg is an American journalist and author who writes about climate change and the environment. Born in New York in 1990, the second child of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, she studied history at Yale and took a master's degree at the University of Oxford. She reported on science and climate for The New York Times and has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post and other publications. Her book "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have" examines the hidden carbon and water costs of everyday goods, from streaming video to denim. She is the sister of Rose Schlossberg and Jack Schlossberg.
Gen 4 Β· b. 1959
Timothy Shriver is an American disability rights leader and educator who has chaired the Special Olympics since 1996, succeeding his mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver as head of the movement she founded. Born in Washington in 1959, he was educated at Yale, the Catholic University of America and the University of Connecticut, where he took a doctorate in education, and he began his career teaching in New Haven public schools and co-founding the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning. Under his leadership Special Olympics expanded to nearly two hundred countries and added health screening and inclusive schooling programmes. He is a producer of the film "Amistad", the author of "Fully Alive", and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
The Bachchan family is an Indian family of poets, film actors and industrialists, descended from the Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan of Allahabad and known above all for his elder son, the actor Amitabh Bachchan, whose own marriage and children have kept the family at the centre of Hindi cinema for more than half a century. ## Origins in Allahabad The family's documented line begins with Pratap Narayan Shrivastava, a Srivastava Kayastha from Babupatti in the Raniganj area of Pratapgarh district, in what is now Uttar Pradesh, who settled in Allahabad and worked in the city's paper trade. He and his wife Saraswati Devi had a son, Harivansh Rai, born in 1907. The boy was called "Bachchan" at home, a Hindi word meaning child, and he later took the nickname as his pen name. It has been the family surname ever since, which is why the Bachchans carry a name that began as a term of endearment rather than a caste or clan title. ## Poet, star and the generations after Harivansh Rai Bachchan became one of the most widely read Hindi poets of the twentieth century. His 1935 collection Madhushala is still recited across north India, and he combined writing with teaching English at Allahabad University, a Cambridge doctorate on W. B. Yeats, and service in the Ministry of External Affairs. His first wife, Shyama, died in 1936; his second, Teji Suri, was a Punjabi social activist who became a well-known figure in Delhi's cultural life. Their sons were Amitabh, born in 1942, and the businessman Ajitabh, born in 1947. Amitabh Bachchan's career, from Saat Hindustani in 1969 through Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay to Kaun Banega Crorepati, made him the single most recognisable figure in Indian popular culture. He married the actress Jaya Bhaduri in 1973, joining the family to the Bhaduris of Bhopal, whose head was the journalist and author Taroon Kumar Bhaduri. Their daughter Shweta became an author and columnist, and their son Abhishek an actor. ## The Nanda and Rai branches Two marriages widened the family considerably. In 1997 Shweta married Nikhil Nanda of Delhi, chairman of the Escorts Kubota engineering group, the son of the industrialist Rajan Nanda and of Ritu Nanda, herself a daughter of the film-maker Raj Kapoor. Their children are the entrepreneur Navya Naveli Nanda and the actor Agastya Nanda. In 2007 Abhishek married Aishwarya Rai, Miss World 1994 and one of Indian cinema's most internationally recognised stars, bringing in the Rai family of coastal Karnataka: her father Krishnaraj Rai, a biologist with the Indian Army, her mother Brindya, and her brother Aditya. ## Significance Few Indian families span so many fields in four generations: Hindi literature, mainstream cinema, heavy engineering and parliamentary politics, with Jaya Bachchan serving several terms in the Rajya Sabha. The Bachchan house in Mumbai has been a fixed point of Indian public life for decades, and the family's marriages have tied it to the Bhaduris, the Nandas and, through Ritu Nanda, to the Kapoor film dynasty. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founding figure | Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907-2003), Hindi poet | | Surname origin | "Bachchan", a childhood nickname meaning "child", adopted as a pen name | | Native place | Babupatti, Pratapgarh district, and Allahabad (Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh | | Best known member | Amitabh Bachchan (born 1942), actor | | Generations covered | Four, from Pratap Narayan Shrivastava to Navya Naveli and Agastya Nanda | | Families married in | Bhaduri of Bhopal, Nanda of Delhi, Rai of Mangalore | | Fields | Hindi poetry, cinema, business, politics |
The Gandhi family is the direct biological lineage of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), the Indian independence leader known as Mahatma Gandhi, tracing his descendants through his wife Kasturba Gandhi and their four sons down to his great-grandchildren active in India, South Africa and beyond. This family is entirely distinct from the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, whose surname comes from Indira Gandhi's husband Feroze Gandhy and shares no blood relation with Mahatma Gandhi at all. ## Origins The family's roots lie in Porbandar, in the Kathiawar region of present-day Gujarat, where Mohandas Gandhi was born to Karamchand Gandhi, diwan (chief minister) of the princely state, and his wife Putlibai. Gandhi married Kasturba Makhanji Kapadia in 1883, and the couple's shared life, spanning his legal training in London, two decades of activism in South Africa, and his return to lead India's independence movement, produced four sons: Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas and Devdas. Each son's branch of the family took a markedly different path, from journalism and diplomacy to activism against apartheid, while remaining bound by their shared descent from Mohandas and Kasturba. ## Notable members Manilal Gandhi carried his father's work to South Africa, editing the newspaper Indian Opinion for decades; his children Arun Gandhi and Ela Gandhi became, respectively, an internationally known peace educator and an anti-apartheid Member of the South African Parliament. Devdas Gandhi became a leading Indian journalist as editor of the Hindustan Times, and his four children with Lakshmi Gandhi, Rajmohan, Ramchandra, Gopalkrishna and Tara, went on to prominence as a historian, a philosopher, a diplomat-turned-Governor of West Bengal, and a writer. The family's fourth generation includes Tushar Gandhi, a great-grandson through eldest son Harilal's line, known for his writing on his great-grandfather's life and legacy. ## Significance Across four generations, the Gandhi family has remained closely tied to the causes Mohandas Gandhi championed: nonviolent resistance, civil rights, journalism in service of public life, and constructive social work, carried forward in India, South Africa and internationally rather than concentrated in any single institution or country. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Patriarch | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) | | Native place | Porbandar, Gujarat, India | | Spouse | Kasturba Gandhi (1869-1944) | | Sons | Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, Devdas | | Generations covered | 4 (parents to great-grandchildren) | | Members in this tree | 21 | | Distinct from | The Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty |
The House of Bourbon is a European royal dynasty, descended in the male line from the Capetian kings of France, that ruled France from 1589 to 1792 and again from 1814 to 1848, and that still reigns in Spain today under King Felipe VI. Over four centuries its members also held the thrones of Navarre, Naples and Sicily, Parma and Etruria, which makes it one of the most widely established royal houses in European history. ## Origins The family takes its name from the lordship of Bourbon in the Auvergne, centred on Bourbon-l'Archambault. Its royal line descends from Robert, Count of Clermont, a younger son of King Louis IX of France, whose marriage to Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress of Bourbon, carried the name into the Capetian house in 1272. For three centuries afterwards the Bourbons were powerful French princes of the blood rather than kings. That changed with Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendome, whose marriage to Jeanne d'Albret, queen regnant of Navarre, produced Henry of Navarre. When the Valois line died out in 1589, Henry was the senior Capetian heir, and he took the French throne as Henry IV. ## Notable members Henry IV ended the French Wars of Religion and issued the Edict of Nantes in 1598. His son Louis XIII, guided by Cardinal Richelieu, built the centralised state that Louis XIV, the Sun King, carried to its height across a reign of seventy-two years, the longest of any European sovereign, and to the palace of Versailles. Louis XV and then Louis XVI inherited that system, and Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette, were swept away by the French Revolution in 1792. The dynasty returned with Louis XVIII in 1814 and Charles X in 1824, and in 1830 the crown passed to Louis Philippe I of the cadet House of Orleans, the last king to rule in France. ## The Spanish branch In 1700 the childless Charles II of Spain left his crown to Philip, Duke of Anjou, a grandson of Louis XIV. Philip became Philip V, the first Bourbon king of Spain, at the cost of the War of the Spanish Succession, which ended with his renunciation of any claim to the French throne. His descendants include the reforming Charles III, Ferdinand VII, Isabella II, Alfonso XII and Alfonso XIII, who left Spain in 1931. The monarchy was restored in 1975 under Juan Carlos I, grandson of Alfonso XIII, who presided over Spain's transition to democracy and abdicated in 2014 in favour of his son Felipe VI. Felipe's elder daughter Leonor, Princess of Asturias, is heir to the throne. ## Significance No other family links the absolute monarchy of Versailles to a working constitutional monarchy in twenty-first century Madrid. Bourbon marriages tied the house to the Habsburgs of Austria and Spain, the dukes of Savoy, the Medici of Florence and the British royal family, so a Bourbon family tree doubles as a map of European dynastic politics from the Reformation to the present day. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Family name | House of Bourbon (Maison de Bourbon, Casa de Borbon) | | Place of origin | Bourbon-l'Archambault, Auvergne, France | | Founder of the line | Robert, Count of Clermont (1256-1317), son of Louis IX | | First king of France | Henry IV, reigned 1589 to 1610 | | Last king to rule France | Louis Philippe I, reigned 1830 to 1848 | | First king of Spain | Philip V, reigned 1700 to 1746 | | Head of the house in Spain | King Felipe VI, since 2014 | | Heir in Spain | Leonor, Princess of Asturias | | Principal seats | Versailles, Fontainebleau, the Louvre, the Royal Palace of Madrid |
The Deol family is a Punjabi film dynasty of Hindi cinema, founded by the actor Dharmendra and continued by his sons Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol, his daughter Esha Deol, his nephew Abhay Deol and his grandsons Karan and Rajveer Deol. Few families have kept such a long unbroken presence on the Hindi screen. From Dharmendra's debut in 1960 to his grandsons' first films in 2019 and 2023, three generations of Deols have worked as leading actors, and the family's production banner, Vijayta Films, has launched several of them. ## Origins The Deols come from the Ludhiana district of Punjab. Dharmendra was born Dharam Singh Deol in 1935 to Kewal Kishan Singh Deol, a schoolteacher, and his wife Satwant Kaur, and grew up in the villages of rural Punjab. In 1954 he married Prakash Kaur, and a few years later he left for Bombay after winning a talent contest, making his screen debut in *Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere* (1960). His younger brother Ajit Deol also settled in Bombay, where Ajit's son Abhay was born. ## Notable members - **Dharmendra** (1935-2025), the family patriarch, starred in *Phool Aur Patthar*, *Satyakam*, *Seeta Aur Geeta*, *Chupke Chupke* and *Sholay*, received the Padma Bhushan in 2012 and served as a Member of Parliament for Bikaner. - **Hema Malini**, Dharmendra's second wife, is one of Hindi cinema's best-known actresses, a classical dancer and a Member of Parliament for Mathura. - **Sunny Deol**, Dharmendra's elder son, became an action star with *Betaab*, *Ghayal*, *Damini*, *Border* and *Gadar: Ek Prem Katha*. - **Bobby Deol**, the younger son, debuted in *Barsaat* (1995) and found a second wave of success with *Aashram* and *Animal*. - **Esha Deol**, daughter of Dharmendra and Hema Malini, starred in *Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe*, *Dhoom* and *Yuva*. - **Abhay Deol**, Dharmendra's nephew, is known for independent-minded films such as *Dev.D*, *Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!* and *Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara*. - **Karan Deol** and **Rajveer Deol**, Sunny Deol's sons, represent the third generation of Deol actors. ## Significance The Deols are closely identified with a rugged, rural Punjabi screen image, carried from Dharmendra's action roles of the 1970s to Sunny Deol's patriotic dramas. The family also spans politics: Dharmendra, Hema Malini and Sunny Deol have each been elected to the Lok Sabha. Films such as *Apne* (2007) and *Yamla Pagla Deewana* (2011) put father and sons on screen together, and the family's two branches, through Prakash Kaur and Hema Malini, are among the most discussed relationships in Indian cinema. ## Quick facts | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Origin | Ludhiana district, Punjab, India | | Founder | Dharmendra (Dharam Singh Deol), 1935-2025 | | Field | Hindi cinema, Indian politics | | Production banner | Vijayta Films | | Generations of actors | Three | | Best-known films | *Sholay*, *Ghayal*, *Gadar: Ek Prem Katha*, *Animal* | | Members of Parliament | Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Sunny Deol |
Robert Francis Kennedy's recorded parents are Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy has 11 recorded children: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., David Anthony Kennedy, Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, Mary Kerry Kennedy, Christopher George Kennedy, Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Douglas Harriman Kennedy, Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy married Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy has 8 recorded siblings: Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Rose Marie Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Jean Kennedy Smith, Edward Moore Kennedy.
Robert Francis Kennedy is recorded as US Attorney General and Senator from New York in the Kennedy family tree.
Robert Francis Kennedy's recorded native place is Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.
6 ancestors and 13 descendants of Robert Francis Kennedy are recorded so far, within a tree of 56 people.
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