Fathers and their Children (June 2025)

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  1. 6. While the father, Henry VIII, set up the Church of England, it was his long-reigning daughter that would give her name to its final religious settlement.
  2. 7. While the father, Pat, was an actual Major League Baseball pitcher, his son, Patrick’s, throws on the gridiron are often said to resemble one.
  3. 8. Both father, Tony, and daughter, Jamie Lee, were Academy Award nominees, with the daughter winning an Oscar for her performance in Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
  4. 9. While the father, William, was a pioneer in women's education, the daughter, Florence, would take that mantle to make her marks on both modern nursing and medical statistics.
  5. 12. The father, Giuseppe, was an Italian aristocrat and landowner. While his son, Guglielmo, would not inherit his father’s titles or land, he still learned how to send a message wirelessly, contributing to instantaneous communication today.
  6. 14. While his son __________, is a great military commander and is considered the epitome of being French, his father, Carlo Buonaparte, was a prominent lawyer and spoke Italian as his first language.
  7. 16. The father, Clarence, was a prominent Baptist minister while the daughter, often dubbed “The Queen of Soul” with songs like “Respect” and “Think”, would go on to sell more than 75,000,000 records worldwide over a sixty-year singing career.
  8. 19. While his son, William, is famous for what he writes with his hands, John is remembered for what he made for people's hands.
  9. 20. While the father, George, was an Anglican priest who wrote and published many sermons, his daughter, Jane, wrote six completed novels that are much better known and remembered today.
  10. 21. Both the father, Pierre, and his son, Justin, were Canadian prime ministers.
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  1. 1. Father LeBron and son Bronny, on October 22, 2024, became the first father-son duo in NBA history.
  2. 2. The father, Kosma, was a Russian emigrant and a prosperous merchant, his son, Vladimir, would become an engineer and the principal inventor of the television.
  3. 3. Father-son duo who, representing the Swedish shooting team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, managed to win the Gold Medal together, becoming first parent-child medalists in Olympic history.
  4. 4. Father-son Nobel prize winners; father William and son Lawrence, shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915.
  5. 5. Both father and son of the same name; Each would become British prime ministers, with the son becoming Prime Minister at just 23 and the father having the city of Pittsburgh named after him.
  6. 10. Father and son, both named Ken, on August 31, 1990, became the first father and son to play on the same team in a Major League Baseball game.
  7. 11. Both father and son were golfers. The father, Earl, was an exceptional amateur player and coach while his son, Eldrick, went on to become one of the greatest professional golfers of all time.
  8. 13. First father-son duo in outer space; Father Owen, a NASA astronaut who flew on Skylab in 1973, was followed by his son, Richard, a private astronaut and successful video game developer, who traveled to the International Space Station in 2008.
  9. 15. While the father Philip was able to conquer Macedonia, the son, __________, managed to conquer all lands from Greece to India. This made be why the son is called the Great.
  10. 17. While the father, Piero, was a notary who documented legal matter, his son _____________ documented seemingly everything else, a true Renaissance man. One of his works of art, now housed at the Louvre in Paris, is considered the world’s most famous painting.
  11. 18. Considered the first family of classical music; the works of Johann Sebastian are often considered to make up the end of the Baroque era while the works of his four sons are often considered part of the Classical era.