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  1. John F. Kennedy

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy , also referred to as John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, or JFK, was the thirty-fifth President of the United States. In 1960 he became the youngest person ever to be elected President of the United States, and the second youngest, after Theodore Roosevelt, to serve. Kennedy served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

  2. Ted Kennedy

    Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (born February 22, 1932) is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. In office since November 1962, Kennedy is presently the second-longest serving member of the Senate, after Robert Byrd of West Virginia. The most prominent living member of the Kennedy family, he is the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both of whom were assassinated in the 1960s.

  3. Robert F. Kennedy

    Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy, also called RFK, was one of two younger brothers of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and served as United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964. He was one of President Kennedy's most trusted advisors and worked closely with the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis. His contribution to the African-American Civil Rights Movement is sometimes considered his greatest legacy.

  4. Caroline Kennedy

    Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999.

  5. Patrick Kennedy

    Patrick Kennedy (c. 1823 - November 22, 1858) was the father of Patrick Joseph Kennedy and great grandfather to former United States President John F. Kennedy. He was born in Dunganstown, County Wexford, Ireland, and emigrated to the United States, settling in East Boston, Massachusetts.

  6. John F. Kennedy Jr.

    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John, was an American lawyer, journalist, socialite and publisher. He was the son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the younger brother of Caroline Kennedy (as well as of the deceased Arabella Kennedy and older brother of the deceased Patrick Bouvier Kennedy).

  7. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

    Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. (b. January 17, 1954), often referred to as RFK Jr. or Bobby Jr., is the third of eleven children born to Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. He is an environmental lawyer and co-host of "Ring of Fire" on the Air America Radio network.

  8. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

    Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) was lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. The eldest of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel's 11 children, she is part of the Kennedy political family. She was named for her aunt Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, Marchioness of Hartington, who died in a plane crash in 1948.

  9. Sargent Shriver

    Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr., known as Sargent, (born November 9, 1915) is an American Democratic politician and activist. He is best known as an in-law of the Kennedy family, the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic Party's 1972 vice presidential candidate. Shriver's ebullient personality and creative energy made him one of the most effective leaders of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s.

  10. Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

  11. Eunice Kennedy Shriver

    Eunice Kennedy Shriver Director Emeritus President, Special Olympics For nearly five decades Eunice Kennedy Shriver has devoted her life to leading the crusade to improve the lives of those with mental retardation. The capstone of her many and varied accomplishments has been the founding, in 1968, and the continuing operation of the Special Olympics.

  12. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963 and was known as Jacqueline Kennedy or Jackie Kennedy. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. From 1968 until his death in 1975, she was married to Aristotle Onassis and was known as Jacqueline Onassis, Jackie Onassis, …

  13. Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

    Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 21, 1890 - January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and became its matriarch in the 20th century, when its members helped shape American politics.

  14. Kerry Kennedy

    Mary Kerry Kennedy (known as Kerry) was born September 8, 1959, in Washington, D.C., the seventh of the eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. She attended Brown University and Boston College Law School. She married Andrew Cuomo, son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, on June 9, 1990, in the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. They separated in 2003 and have since divorced.

  15. William Kennedy Smith

    William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of people disabled by them. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy political family and is famous for a well-publicized 1991 rape trial in which he was acquitted.

  16. Peter Lawford

    Peter Sydney Lawford (September 7, 1923 - December 24, 1984) was a British-born Hollywood actor, member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. In his earlier professional years (late 1930s through the 1950s) he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films.

  17. Jean Kennedy Smith

    Jean Kennedy Smith was born Jean Ann Kennedy on February 20, 1928 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the eighth of the nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.

  18. Rosemary Kennedy

    Rose Marie Kennedy was the third child and first daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, born a year after the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She underwent a lobotomy at the age of 23, after which she was totally incapacitated for the rest of her life.

  19. Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

    Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 - November 18, 1969), was a prominent United States businessman and political figure, the father of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. He was a leading member of the Democratic Party and of the Irish Catholic community. With business interests and connections nationwide, he built the political fortunes of the Kennedy family.

  20. Michael Skakel

    Michael, whose dyslexia was not diagnosed until he was 26, was an awful student who failed out of a dozen schools. His father railed at him for his poor academics, and Michael says he was "the family scapegoat" even as a young child. The central event of his childhood, and perhaps his life, was his mother's death from cancer in 1973 when Michael was 12. She had been the glue that held the family together, and Michael was devastated by her death.

  21. Michael Kennedy

    Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. He was a nephew of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy and senator of Massachusetts Edward M. Kennedy. He had six brothers and four sisters. His siblings, from oldest to youngest, are Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (b. 1951), Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (b. 1952), Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (b.1954), David Anthony Kennedy (1955-1984), Courtney Kennedy Hill (b. 1956), …

  22. Patrick J. Kennedy

    Patrick Joseph Kennedy (born July 14, 1967 in Brighton, Massachusetts) is the son of Senator Ted Kennedy and Joan Bennett Kennedy, as well as the nephew of both former President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. A Democrat, he serves in the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of Rhode Island (map).

  23. Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

    Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, née Carolyn Jeanne Bessette, was the wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr., the son of assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy. She died aged 33, along with her husband and her sister Lauren Bessette, when the private plane that John F. Kennedy, Jr. himself was piloting crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Their ashes were scattered at sea on July 22, 1999.

  24. David Kennedy

    David Anthony Kennedy (June 15, 1955 - April 25, 1984) was born in Washington, D.C. He was the fourth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Witnessing his father's assassination on June 5, 1968 fuelled David's introspection and sensitivity. Like others in his generation of Kennedys, he began experimenting with drugs shortly thereafter. A 1973 Jeep accident in which his eldest brother, Joseph Kennedy II, was driving left his then-girlfriend, …

  25. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

    Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (July 25, 1915 - August 12, 1944) was the oldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. Older brother of future President John F. Kennedy, he was expected to bear the family's political hopes.

  26. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

    Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (August 7, 1963 - August 9, 1963) was the younger son of United States President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He was born five and a half weeks prematurely by emergency caesarean section at the Otis Air Force Base Hospital, with a birth weight of 4 lb, 10 1/2 oz (1.863 kg), and was transferred to Boston Children's Hospital where he died two days later of hyaline membrane disease.

  27. Patricia Kennedy Lawford

    Patricia "Pat" Kennedy (formerly Lawford was an American socialite, the sixth child of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. She was the younger sister of former president John F. Kennedy. She was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Considered the most sophisticated, yet also the most introverted, of her parents' five daughters, Pat since childhood had a fascination with travel and Hollywood. She in time would become a world traveler, …

  28. P. J. Kennedy

    Patrick Joseph Kennedy (January 14, 1858 - May 18, 1929) was an American politician. He was the father of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., and paternal grandfather to former United States President John F. Kennedy, former Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy.

  29. Rory Kennedy

    Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the youngest of the eleven children of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Kennedy married Mark Bailey on August 2, 1999. They have three children: Georgia Elizabeth Kennedy-Bailey, born in September 2002; Bridget Katherine Kennedy-Bailey, born in July 2004; and Zachary Corkland Kennedy-Bailey born in July 16, 2007 at 9:47 am, …

  30. Joseph Patrick Kennedy II

    Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (born September 24 1952 in Brighton, Massachusetts), named after his late uncle Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., is the eldest son of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy

  31. Kara Kennedy

    Kara Kennedy (Allen) was born on February 27, 1960, in Bronxville, New York. She is the only daughter of U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, D-MA and Virginia Joan Bennett. Her siblings are Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy of Rhode Island and Teddy Kennedy of Connecticut. She is also very close to her two step-siblings (children of Victoria Reggie Kennedy): Curran Raclin of Boston, MA and Caroline Reggie Raclin, a student at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

  32. Maria Owings Shriver

    Shriver was born in Chicago in 1955 to two very political parents. She is a member of Kennedy family through her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver , who is the sister of President John Kennedy . Her father, Sargent Shriver , is a former ambassador and a former candidate for the U.S. Vice-Presidency. Maria Shriver was born into politics, and seemingly cannot escape from the political life.

  33. Andrew Cuomo

    Andrew Cuomo was elected the 64th Attorney General of New York State on November 7, 2006. As Attorney General, Cuomo is the highest ranking law enforcement officer for the State, responsible for representing New York and its residents in legal matters. Cuomo has a long record of fighting for justice and championing government reform. In 1996 President Clinton nominated Cuomo to serve in his Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

  34. Ethel Skakel Kennedy

    Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born April 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois) is a member of the Kennedy family by her marriage to Robert F. Kennedy. Her parents were Ann (nee) Brannack, who was Catholic, and George Skakel, who was Protestant. She was raised as a Catholic in the affluent town of Greenwich, Connecticut. Her father was the founder of the very successful Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, which is affiliated with the steel industry.

  35. Timothy Perry Shriver

    Timothy Perry Shriver, Ph.D., (born August 29, 1959) is chairman of the Special Olympics. He is part of the Kennedy family. His father is Sargent Shriver and his mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy who founded the Special Olympics movement in 1968. His brother-in-law is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California (married to his sister Maria). He received his bachelor's degree from Yale University, …

  36. Robert Sargent Shriver III

    Robert Sargent Shriver III (born April 28, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois), nicknamed Bobby Shriver, is a graduate of Yale University, where he became a member of Scroll and Key, and is a Yale Law School graduate and former part-owner of Baltimore Orioles. He is part of the Kennedy family. His mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy and his father is (Robert) Sargent Shriver, Jr..

  37. Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy

    Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy (born January 11 1965), also known as Max Kennedy, was born in New York, New York. He is the ninth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.He graduated with honors from Harvard University and majored in American History. He married Victoria Anne Stauss on July 13 1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Both he and his wife graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992.

  38. Christopher George Kennedy

    Christopher George Kennedy was born July 4 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the 8th child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. He married Sheila Sinclair Berner August 15 1987 in Winnetka, Illinois. They have four children: Katherine Berner Kennedy, born November 4 1990, Christopher George Kennedy, Jr., born June 15 1992, Sarah Louise Kennedy, born September 26 1994 and Clare Rose Kennedy, born November 3 1998.

  39. Douglas Harriman Kennedy

    Douglas Harriman Kennedy (born March 24, 1967 in Washington, D.C.) is the tenth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, named in honor of W. Averell Harriman, a family friend and former governor of New York. He married Molly Elizabeth Stark on August 22 1998 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. They have three daughters: Riley Elizabeth Kennedy, born August 26 1999 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Mary McCauley, born August 22 2001, and Rowen Francis born in June 2004.

  40. Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver

    Anthony Paul Kennedy Shriver (born July 20, 1965) is a United States activist for people with intellectual disabilities. In 1989, he founded Best Buddies International, an international organization that helps the intellectually disadvantaged to find employment and social opportunities. He is part of the Kennedy family. His father is Sargent Shriver and his mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy who founded the Special Olympics movement in 1968.

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