JFK family tree
The second of nine children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy: his brothers and sisters and whom they married, his wife Jackie and her sister Lee, and the next generation.
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John and Jacqueline Kennedy’s children, by birth
- 1Arabella Kennedy (1956 – 1956)
- 2Caroline Kennedy (b. 1957)
- 3John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960 – 1999)
- 4Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (1963 – 1963)
Who is related to whom in the JFK’s family
How is Arnold Schwarzenegger related to JFK?
John F. Kennedy is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s former wife’s uncle.
How was Joe Kennedy Jr. related to JFK?
John F. Kennedy is Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.’s brother. Both descend from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
How was Eunice Kennedy Shriver related to JFK?
John F. Kennedy is Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s brother. Both descend from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
How was Jackie’s mother, Janet Auchincloss, related to JFK?
John F. Kennedy is Janet Lee Auchincloss’s son-in-law.
How was Lee Radziwill related to JFK?
John F. Kennedy is Lee Radziwill’s brother-in-law.
How were John F. Kennedy Jr. and RFK Jr. related?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is John F. Kennedy Jr.’s first cousin: their fathers were brothers. Both descend from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
How is Patrick J. Kennedy related to JFK?
John F. Kennedy is Patrick J. Kennedy’s paternal uncle. Both descend from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
How are Caroline Kennedy and Maria Shriver related?
Maria Shriver is Caroline Kennedy’s first cousin: John F. and Eunice Kennedy were brother and sister. Both descend from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy.
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The JFK’s family, generation by generation
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- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888 – 1969): Financier, first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and ambassador to Britain; father of a president, a senator and an attorney general. · married Rose Kennedy (1890 – 1995): Daughter of Boston mayor John F. Fitzgerald; she lived to 104 and outlived four of her nine children.
- Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915 – 1944): The eldest of the nine; a navy pilot killed in 1944 on a bombing mission over England.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963): The 35th president, elected in 1960 and assassinated in Dallas in November 1963; the second of nine children. · married Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929 – 1994): First lady from 1961 to 1963; she later married the Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis. Lee Radziwill was her younger sister.
- Arabella Kennedy (1956 – 1956): Stillborn in August 1956.
- Caroline Kennedy (b. 1957): The only surviving child of John and Jacqueline Kennedy; a lawyer and author who became US ambassador to Japan and later to Australia. · married Edwin Schlossberg (b. 1945): Designer and artist; he married Caroline Kennedy in 1986.
- Rose Schlossberg (b. 1988)
- Tatiana Schlossberg (1990 – 2025)
- Jack Schlossberg (b. 1993)
- John F. Kennedy Jr. (1960 – 1999): Lawyer and founder of the magazine George; he died in 1999 when the small plane he was piloting crashed off Martha's Vineyard. · married Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy (1966 – 1999): Fashion publicist who married John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1996; she died with him in the 1999 crash.
- Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (1963 – 1963): Born five weeks early in August 1963 and died two days later.
- Rosemary Kennedy (1918 – 2005): The third child; a lobotomy in 1941 left her permanently disabled. Her sister Eunice later founded the Special Olympics.
- Kathleen Cavendish (1920 – 1948): Known as Kick; she married the Marquess of Hartington in May 1944, was widowed that September, and died in a plane crash in France in 1948. · married William Cavendish (1917 – 1944): Heir to the Duke of Devonshire; he married Kathleen Kennedy in 1944 and was killed in action in Belgium four months later.
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921 – 2009): Founder of the Special Olympics and wife of Sargent Shriver; Maria Shriver's mother. · married Sargent Shriver (1915 – 2011): First director of the Peace Corps and the Democratic candidate for vice president in 1972; Maria Shriver's father.
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- Bobby Shriver (b. 1954) · married Malissa Feruzzi (b. 1963)
- Maria Shriver (b. 1955): Journalist and author; Eunice Shriver's daughter and so John Kennedy's niece; first lady of California from 2003 to 2011. · was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger (b. 1947): Austrian-born bodybuilder and actor, governor of California from 2003 to 2011; he married Maria Shriver in 1986 and the divorce was finalised in 2021.
- Katherine Schwarzenegger (b. 1989): Author and daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver; she married the actor Chris Pratt in 2019. · married Chris Pratt (b. 1979): Actor; he married Katherine Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver's daughter, in 2019.
- Patrick Schwarzenegger (b. 1993)
- Timothy Shriver (b. 1959)
- Mark Shriver (b. 1964)
- Anthony Shriver (b. 1965) · married Alina Shriver (b. 1965)
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford (1924 – 2006): Married the British actor Peter Lawford in 1954; they divorced in 1966. · was married to Peter Lawford (1923 – 1984): British-born actor and member of the Rat Pack; married to Patricia Kennedy from 1954 to 1966.
- Christopher Lawford (1955 – 2018): Actor and author; Patricia and Peter Lawford's son.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 – 1968): Attorney general under his brother, then senator for New York; shot in Los Angeles in June 1968 while running for president. · married Ethel Kennedy (1928 – 2024): Robert Kennedy's wife; they had eleven children, the youngest, Rory, born after his death.
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- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (b. 1951) · married David Lee Townsend (b. 1947)
- Maeve Kennedy McKean (1979 – 2020)
- Joseph P. Kennedy II (b. 1952) · married Elizabeth Kelly (b. 1957)
- Joseph P. Kennedy II was also married to Sheila Brewster Rauch (b. 1949)
- Joe Kennedy III (b. 1980): Robert Kennedy's grandson; a Massachusetts congressman from 2013 to 2021.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1954): Environmental lawyer and author; he ran for president in 2024 and was later named US health secretary. · married Cheryl Hines (b. 1965)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also married Mary Richardson Kennedy (1959 – 2012)
- Conor Kennedy (b. 1994)
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was also married to Emily Black (b. 1957)
- Robert F. Kennedy III (b. 1984) · married Amaryllis Fox (b. 1980)
- David A. Kennedy (1955 – 1984)
- Courtney Kennedy Hill (b. 1956) · was married to Paul Hill (b. c.1955)
- Saoirse Kennedy Hill (1997 – 2019)
- Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (1958 – 1997): Robert Kennedy's sixth child; he died in a skiing accident in Aspen on New Year's Eve 1997. · married Victoria Denise Gifford (b. 1957)
- Kyle Francis Kennedy (1984 – 2026)
- Kerry Kennedy (b. 1959): Human-rights lawyer and president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. · was married to Andrew Cuomo (b. 1957): Governor of New York from 2011 to 2021; married to Kerry Kennedy from 1990 to 2005.
- Christopher G. Kennedy (b. 1963)
- Max Kennedy (b. 1965) · married Victoria Anne Strauss
- Douglas Harriman Kennedy (b. 1967)
- Rory Kennedy (b. 1968) · married Mark Bailey (b. 1968)
- Jean Kennedy Smith (1928 – 2020): The youngest daughter and the last of the nine to die; US ambassador to Ireland from 1993 to 1998. · married Stephen Edward Smith (1927 – 1990)
- Stephen Edward Smith Jr. (b. 1957)
- William Kennedy Smith (b. 1960)
- Amanda Smith (b. 1967)
- Kym Smith (b. 1972)
- Ted Kennedy (1932 – 2009): The youngest of the nine and a senator for Massachusetts from 1962 until his death in 2009. · married Victoria Reggie Kennedy (b. 1954)
- Ted Kennedy was also married to Joan Bennett Kennedy (1936 – 2025)
- Kara Kennedy (1960 – 2011)
- Edward M. Kennedy Jr. (b. 1961)
- Patrick J. Kennedy (b. 1967): Ted Kennedy's son; a Rhode Island congressman from 1995 to 2011 and an advocate on mental health. · married Amy Kennedy (b. 1978)
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- Patrick Kennedy: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Mary Augusta Kennedy: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- John Francis Fitzgerald: photo by Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain
- Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.: photo by Photographer: Larry Gordon, Public domain
- Rose Kennedy: photo by CBS Television, Public domain
- Aristotle Onassis: photo by Pieter Jongerhuis, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł: photo by Cecil Stoughton, Public domain
- Sargent Shriver: photo by Rowland Scherman, Peace Corps, Public domain
- Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.: photo by John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Public domain
- John F. Kennedy: photo by Cecil W. Stoughton, Public domain
- Kathleen Cavendish: photo by "Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. ", Public domain
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver: photo by Claire Flanders, photographer, Washington, D.C., Public domain
- Peter Lawford: photo by Macfadden Publications page 2, Public domain
- Patricia Kennedy Lawford: photo by Photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston., Public domain
- Robert F. Kennedy: photo by Harry Warnecke, Public domain
- Stephen Edward Smith: photo by Not stated, Public domain
- Ethel Kennedy: photo by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Jean Kennedy Smith: photo by unattributed, Public domain
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: photo by Mark Shaw, Public domain
- Ted Kennedy: photo by Ted_Kennedy,_official_photo_portrait.jpg : United States Senate derivative work: Tktru ( talk ), Public domain
- Lee Radziwill: photo by Associated Press, Public domain
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: photo by DHSgov, Public domain
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: photo by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Public domain
- Joseph P. Kennedy II: photo by KrKring84, Public domain
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: photo by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public domain
- Bobby Shriver: photo by Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA, CC BY 2.0
- Christopher Lawford: photo by PeachStatePam, CC BY 3.0
- David A. Kennedy: photo, author unknown, Public domain
- Andrew Cuomo: photo by Pat Arnow, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Caroline Kennedy: photo by United States Department of State, Public domain
- John F. Kennedy Jr.: photo by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Edward M. Kennedy Jr.: photo by US Department of Labor, Public domain
- Mark Shriver: photo by Amanda Rhoades, CC BY 2.0
- Cheryl Hines: photo by The White House, Public domain
- Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy: photo by John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Patrick J. Kennedy: photo by United States Congress, Public domain
- Rory Kennedy: photo by Lyndie Benson, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Chris Pratt: photo by Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0
- Joe Kennedy III: photo by Franmarie Metzler, U.S. House Office of Photography/House Creative Services, Public domain
- Tatiana Schlossberg: photo by U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Australia, Public domain
- Patrick Schwarzenegger: photo by Tabercil, CC BY-SA 2.0
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