Public Family Trees

Nastia Liukin Family Tree - The Liukin Gymnastics Family

The Liukins are a gymnastics family of champions: Olympic gold medallist Valeri Liukin, world champion Anna Kotchneva and their daughter Nastia Liukin. Nastia won the 2008 Olympic all-around title. ## Origins Valeri Liukin was born in Aktyubinsk, in the Kazakh SSR, in 1966, and became one of the leading gymnasts of the Soviet team, the first to perform a triple back somersault on floor. Anna Kotchneva was born in Moscow in 1970 and won the clubs title at the 1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. They married in 1988, the year Valeri won two Olympic golds in Seoul, and their daughter Anastasia, known as Nastia, was born in Moscow in October 1989. When Nastia was two and a half, the family emigrated to the United States, settling first in New Orleans and then in Texas. In 1994 Valeri and his business partner Yevgeny Marchenko opened the World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA) in Plano, where Valeri went on to coach his daughter. ## Notable members - **Nastia Liukin**, 2008 Olympic all-around champion with five medals in Beijing and nine World Championship medals. - **Valeri Liukin**, 1988 Olympic champion with the team and on high bar, and co-founder of WOGA. - **Anna Kotchneva**, 1987 world clubs champion in rhythmic gymnastics. ## Significance Few families have produced champions in two gymnastics disciplines across two countries. The Liukins carried a Soviet training tradition to Texas, and WOGA became one of the most successful clubs in American gymnastics, producing an Olympic all-around champion coached by her own father. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Family roots | Aktyubinsk (Kazakhstan) and Moscow (Russia) | | Family home | Plano, Texas, United States | | Best-known member | Nastia Liukin, artistic gymnast | | Olympic champions | Valeri (1988), Nastia (2008) | | World champions | Valeri, Anna and Nastia | | Family gym | World Olympic Gymnastics Academy (WOGA), founded 1994 |

Nadia Comăneci Family Tree - Parents and Husband Bart Conner

Nadia Comăneci, the first gymnast to score a perfect 10 at the Olympics, comes from Onești, Romania, and married US Olympic champion Bart Conner in 1996. Their marriage joined two of the best-known names in gymnastics. ## Origins Nadia Elena Comăneci was born on 12 November 1961 in Onești, Romania, to Gheorghe Comăneci, an auto mechanic, and Ștefania-Alexandrina Comăneci, and she has a younger brother, Adrian. So energetic as a child that her mother struggled to manage her, she was enrolled in gymnastics. At 14, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, she scored the first perfect 10.0 in Olympic gymnastics and went on to earn seven of them in those Games. In November 1989, weeks before the Romanian revolution, she defected across the border into Hungary and made her way to the United States. There she renewed her friendship with Bart Conner, the Chicago-born gymnast she had first met in 1976. ## Notable members - **Nadia Comăneci**, winner of nine Olympic medals (five gold) at Montreal 1976 and Moscow 1980. - **Bart Conner**, double Olympic gold medallist at Los Angeles 1984 and 1979 world parallel bars champion. - **Gheorghe Comăneci**, Nadia's father, an auto mechanic from Onești. ## Significance Nadia and Bart married on 27 April 1996 in Bucharest, in a ceremony broadcast live across Romania. Their son, Dylan Paul Conner, was born in Oklahoma City in 2006. The couple settled in Norman, Oklahoma, where they run the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, making them one of the most famous marriages in the history of the sport. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Family roots | Onești, Romania, and Chicago, Illinois | | Best-known member | Nadia Comăneci, artistic gymnast | | Historic first | First perfect 10.0 in Olympic gymnastics (1976) | | Olympic medals | Nadia 9 (5 gold), Bart 2 (both gold) | | Marriage | 27 April 1996, Bucharest | | Family home | Norman, Oklahoma, United States |

Gabby Douglas Family Tree - Parents and Siblings

The Douglas family is the family of Gabby Douglas, the first African American woman to win the Olympic all-around gymnastics title, at London 2012. Her mother Natalie Hawkins and siblings Arielle, Joyelle and Johnathan shared her road to the Olympics on the reality series Douglas Family Gold. ## Origins Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas was born on 31 December 1995 in Newport News, Virginia, one of four children of Natalie Hawkins. Her father is Timothy Douglas, a staff sergeant in the Air National Guard who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Gabby started gymnastics at six after her eldest sister, Arielle, persuaded their mother to sign her up for classes. At 14 Gabby moved alone to West Des Moines, Iowa, to train with coach Liang Chow, living with a host family while her mother and siblings stayed in Virginia. The sacrifice paid off two years later in London. ## Notable members - **Gabby Douglas**, 2012 Olympic all-around champion and three-time Olympic gold medallist. - **Natalie Hawkins**, Gabby's mother and manager, and the central figure of Douglas Family Gold. - **Arielle Hawkins**, the eldest sister who first steered Gabby into gymnastics. - **Joyelle Douglas** and **Johnathan Douglas**, Gabby's sister and brother, who appeared with the family on television. - **Timothy Douglas**, Gabby's father, an Air National Guard staff sergeant. ## Significance The Douglas family became one of the best-known families in American sport after London 2012, when a teenager whose family had made real sacrifices for her training won the sport's biggest individual prize. In 2016 Oxygen aired Douglas Family Gold, a six-episode series following Gabby, her mother, her siblings and her grandmother as they balanced their own lives with her bid for the Rio Olympics, where she won a second team gold. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Family home | Virginia, United States | | Best-known member | Gabby Douglas, artistic gymnast | | Historic first | First African American Olympic all-around champion (2012) | | Olympic golds | 2012 team and all-around, 2016 team | | Television | Douglas Family Gold, Oxygen, 2016 (6 episodes) | | Books | Grace, Gold and Glory (2012), Raising the Bar (2013) |

Simone Biles Family Tree - Parents, Siblings and Husband

The Biles family is the family of Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, raised in Spring, Texas, by her adoptive parents Ron and Nellie Biles. She is married to NFL safety Jonathan Owens. ## Origins Simone Biles was born in Columbus, Ohio, on 14 March 1997. When she was a young child, her maternal grandfather, Ron Biles, and his wife, Nellie Cayetano Biles, took Simone and her younger sister Adria into their home near Houston, and in 2003 they formally adopted both girls. Simone has always called them Mom and Dad. Her two older biological siblings, Ashley and Tevin, were raised by a great-aunt in Cleveland. Nellie brought a second family line into the story. She was born in Belize City, the daughter of Silas Cayetano, a teacher who became a senator in Belize, and she moved to Texas at 18 to study nursing. Through her, Simone is celebrated in Belize as one of the country's own. ## Notable members - **Simone Biles**, 11-time Olympic medallist (7 gold) and 30-time World Championship medallist (23 gold), with five skills named after her. - **Ron Biles**, Air Force veteran and retired air traffic controller, Simone's grandfather and adoptive father. - **Nellie Biles**, nurse turned businesswoman who co-owned nursing homes across Texas and, with Ron, bought the gym now known as World Champions Centre. - **Silas Cayetano**, Belizean educator and senator, Nellie's father. - **Jonathan Owens**, NFL safety who married Simone in April 2023. ## Significance The Biles story is often told as a story about adoption: a grandfather and his wife who became parents again, then built a training centre around a daughter's talent. World Champions Centre in Spring, Texas, bought by Ron and Nellie in 2014, is where Simone trains, and the family's businesses and her career have grown up together. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Family home | Spring, Texas, United States | | Best-known member | Simone Biles, artistic gymnast | | Adoption | Simone and Adria adopted by Ron and Nellie Biles in 2003 | | Family gym | World Champions Centre, Spring, Texas (purchased 2014) | | Belizean roots | Through Nellie Biles, daughter of senator Silas Cayetano | | Simone's marriage | Jonathan Owens, 22 April 2023 |

Hayden Panettiere - Complete Family Tree

Hayden Panettiere was an American actress and singer who began performing as a child and became widely known for her roles in *Heroes*, *Nashville*, and the *Scream* franchise. Born on August 21, 1989, she was the daughter of actor Lesley Vogel and Alan Lee “Skip” Panettiere, a former firefighter. Hayden’s younger brother, Jansen Panettiere, was also an actor, appearing in productions including *Tiger Cruise* and *The Last Day of Summer*. He later developed a strong passion for painting and visual art. Jansen died in 2023 at age 28. Hayden’s former fiancé and the father of her daughter Kaya is Wladimir Klitschko, the Ukrainian former heavyweight boxing champion and 1996 Olympic gold medalist. Hayden and Klitschko welcomed Kaya in 2014. Her mother, Lesley Vogel, is an actress and producer known for television work including *Loving*, while her father, Skip Panettiere, worked as a firefighter and later remarried. Together, the family combines entertainment and professional sports, with Hayden, Jansen, Vogel, and Klitschko each gaining public recognition in their respective fields. Hayden died on August 16, 2026, at age 36.

The Jackson Family Tree - Michael Jackson