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Some famous people who didn’t have kids . . .

June 2nd, 2010 · 66 Comments · Poetry, Politics, Real-life Adventure Tales, Weird Things About Me

Sans Sons —

a Song in Names Only

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This the most complete, up-to-date and diligently researched list of childless people anywhere on the internet or in print.

Just for fun — if you speak each name aloud or to yourself (rather than just scan) it takes you on much more of a journey.  It starts in triplet, then opens up  . . .

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Jesus Christ 

Isaac Newton

Plato.

Mary Magdalene

Mother Teresa

Florence Nightingale;

Joan of Arc

Lawrence of Arabia

Edward the Confessor,

Betsy Ross

Rosa Parks

Bert Parks

Susan B. Anthony

Arthur C. Clarke

Ralph J. Gleason

the Dali Lama

the Pope

the Happy Hooker

Dr. Kellogg

Dr. Atkins

Dr. Seuss

Howard Hughes

Amelia Earhart

and both the Wright brothers

Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Clellon Holmes

George Bernard Shaw

Beethoven

Tchaikovsky

Mussorgsky

T.S. Elliot

W.H. Auden

H.L. Mencken

George Gershwin

George Balanchine

George Washington

Lionel Hampton

Lillian Hellman

Helen Keller

Helen Thomas

Helen Mirren

Quentin Crisp

Colin Quinn

Robin Quivers

D.H. Lawrence

E.M. Forster

J.M. Barrie

Billie Holiday

Bettye LaVette

Bettie Page

Leonardo

Michelangelo

Vincent

Salvador Dali

David Hockney

Jackson Pollock

Lee Krasner

Mary Cassatt

Frida Kahlo

Thoreau

Chekhov

Nietzsche

Schubert

Spinoza

Virgil

Keats

Poe

Proust

Rimbaud

Whitman

Tennessee Williams

Washington Irving

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hans Christian Andersen

Yves Saint Laurent

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Minnesota Fats

Alexander Pope

William Blake

Thomas Hardy

Harlan Ellison

Henry James

James Buchanan

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Beckett

George R.R. Martin

Lewis Carroll

Landford Wilson

Noel Coward

Hart Crane

Edward Albee

Virginia Woolf

George Eliot

Isak Dineson

Jane Austen

Willa Cather

Margaret Mitchell

Alice B. Toklas

Louisa May Alcott

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Joyce Carol Oates

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Mansfield

Flannery O’Connor 

Edith Wharton

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Eudora Welty

Emily Dickinson

Emily Bronte

Anne Bronte

Mary Oliver

Harper Lee

Amy Tan

Anaïs Nin

Maureen Dowd

Gwen Ifill

Ann Patchett

Dorothy Parker

Raymond Chandler

James Baldwin

Joseph Campbell

Carlos Castaneda

Bernardo Bertolucci

Terrence Malick

Don DeLillo

Dean Koontz

Christian Dior

Ricky Jay

Jean Genet

Jerzy Kosinski

John Paul Jones

Gus Van Sant

Gene Autry

Randall Jarrell

Seymour Hersh

Delmore Schwartz

John Ashbery

Jim Marshall

Lester Bangs

Billy Collins

Gore Vidal

Edward Gorey

Allen Ginsberg

Henri Cru

Ralph Nader

Jerry Brown

Andy Warhol

Keith Haring

René Magritte

Merce Cunningham

Rudolf Nureyev

Alexander Godunov

Ahmet Ertegun

Brian Epstein

Bob Barker

Bill Blass

Sandy Koufax

Oliver Sacks

Paulo Coelho

George Peabody

Amy Clampitt

Son House

Wally Wood

Man Ray

Anita O’Day

Maria Callas

Nikola Tesla

Francis Drake

Francis Bacon

Frank O’Hara

Edwin Denby

Edwin Hubble

Vaclav Havel

Hannibal

Handel

Halston

Houdini

Baudelaire

Robespierre

Copernicus

Kant

Locke

Lenin

Raffi

Vivaldi

Versace

Armani

Odetta

Selina

Oprah

Queen Latifah

Queen Elizabeth I

Eva Perón

Eva Gabor

Elaine Kaufman

Ma Rainey

Harriet Tubman

Hattie McDaniel

Kamala Harris

Nina Totenberg

Andrea Mitchell

Diane Sawyer

Dian Fossey

Danica Patrick

Annie Oakley

Angela Davis

Anita Hill

Molly Ivins

Elizabeth Drew

Maggie Estep

Edith Head

Sally Ride

Terry Gross

Nina Blackwood

Emma Goldman

Martha Graham

Gertrude Stein

Gloria Steinem

Georgia O’Keefe

Alberta Hunter

Patricia Ireland

Candace Bushnell

Carson McCullers

Fran Lebowitz

Simone de Beauvoir

Berenice Abbott

Helen Gurley Brown

E. Jean Carroll

Edie Sedgwick

Edie Kerouac

Jan Kerouac

Joanne Kyger

Julia Child

Janet Reno

Angela Merkel

Liz Smith

Rachael Ray

Suze Orman

Monica Seles

Billie Jean King

Martina Navratilova

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Big Mama Thornton

Big Joe Turner

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Liza Minelli

Ginger Rogers

Imogene Coca

Coco Chanel

Mack Sennett

Billy Wilder

Thornton Wilder

Burgess Meredith

Roddy McDowell

Robert Preston

DeForest Kelley

George Reeves

Montgomery Clift

Matthew Perry

Hal Ashby

John Sayles

John Waters

John Mahoney

Jim Nabors

Verne Troyner

Gary Coleman

Rock Hudson

River Phoenix

Raymond Burr

James Dean

Sal Mineo

Bud Cort

Tab Hunter

Max Baer

Tim Curry

Patrick Swayze

Joel Schumacher

Sam Rockwell

Rupert Everett

John Corbett

Tim Courtenay

Terence Stamp

Mickey Rourke

Ralph Fiennes

Richard Chamberlain

Alan Rickman

Charles Laughton

Ian McKellen

Christopher Walken

Harry Dean Stanton

David Ogden Stiers

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Katherine Hepburn

Greta Garbo

Jean Harlow

Mae West

Carole Lombard

Paulette Goddard

Claudette Colbert

Valerie Kaprisky 

Valérie Lemercier

Arielle Dombasle 

Beatrice Dalle

Tallulah Bankhead

Louise Brooks

Elsa Lanchester

Lillian Gish

Mitzi Gaynor

Greer Garson

Vivian Vance

Marilyn Monroe

Ann-Margret

Anita Ekberg

Elke Sommer

Ava Gardner

Kim Novak

Linda Evans

Lauren Hutton

Jacqueline Bisset

Stephanie Powers

Victoria Principal

Morgan Fairchild

Carmen Electra

Samantha Fox

Bo Derek

Ashley Judd

Jane Lynch

Delta Burke

Dawn Wells

Kim Cattrall

Marisa Tomei

Portia de Rossi

Renee Zellweger

Lara Flynn Boyle

Joey Lauren Adams

Jennifer Aniston

Winona Ryder

Fran Drescher

Frances Farmer

Barbara Harris

Heather Graham

Daryl Hannah

Tanya Roberts

Shelley Duvall

Valerie Perrine

Brenda Vaccaro

Bebe Neuwirth

Bernadette Peters

Stockard Channing

Shirley Booth

Julie Christie

Betty White

Barbara Feldon

Bonnie Hunt

Jennifer Tilly

Kathy Bates

Linda Blair

Carol Kane

Madeline Kahn

Marlo Thomas

Cicely Tyson

Sandra Oh

Parker Posey

Leslie Bibb

Loretta Swit

Swoozie Kurtz

Sarah Paulson

Patricia Clarkson

Kristy McNichol

Wendi McClendon-Covey

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Allison Janney

Julie Kavner

Carla Gugino

Marsha Mason

Miriam Margolyes

Anjelica Huston

Dick Cavett

Rick Mercer

Oliver Hardy

Buck Henry

Bill Hicks

Bill Maher

Marty Allen

Jay Leno

Seth Rogan

Mitch Hedberg

Ricky Gervais

Richard Belzer

Richard Lewis

Lewis Black

Garry Shandling

Graham Chapman

Graham Norton

Michael O’Donoghue

Louie Anderson

Gilda Radner

Brett Butler

Lily Tomlin

Minnie Pearl

Kathy Griffin

Jan Hooks

Nora Dunn

Cheri Oteri

Chelsea Handler

Janeane Garofalo

Ellen DeGeneres

Elayne Boosler

Lizz Winstead

Megan Mullally

Margaret Cho

Susie Essman

Sarah Silverman

Syd Barrett 

Sid Vicious

Albert Collins

Johnny Winter

Edgar Winter

Guy Lombardo

Barry Manilow

Glenn Gould

Aaron Copland

Cole Porter

Charley Patton

Eddie Cochran

Little Richard

Cliff Richard

Sonny Rollins

Louis Jordan

Lee Morgan

King Curtis

Sidney Bechet 

Eubie Blake

Billy Strayhorn

Stephane Grappelli

Luther Vandross

Johnny Mathis

Randy Travis

Freddie Mercury

Nick Drake

Dobie Gray

Tim Hardin

Tom Lehrer

Garth Hudson

Mike Bloomfield

Rory Gallagher

Tommy Bolin

Bob Welch

Lou Reed

Jim Morrison

Steve Miller

J.J. Cale

John Cage

Jeff Beck

Jeff Buckley

Joey Ramone

Johnny Ramone

Dee Dee Ramone

Tommy Ramone

Vince Welnick

Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernon

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Sonny Boy Williamson

Long John Baldry

Dave Van Ronk

Nash the Slash

Robert Smith

Robert Fripp

Ray Sawyer

Tupac Shakur

Billy Preston

Billy Gibbons

Burton Cummings

Bobby Neuwirth

Nicky Hopkins

John Cipollina

Ellie Greenwich

Bonnie Raitt

Bessie Smith

Kate Smith

Mavis Staples

Marcia Ball

Shirley Manson

Tracy Chapman

Lucinda Williams

Laurie Anderson

Karen Carpenter

Mary Chapin Carpenter

K.D. Lang

Gloria Gaynor

Amy Winehouse

Patty Loveless

Dusty Springfield

Diane Warren

Dolly Parton

Debbie Harry

Fiona Apple

Toni Tennille

Nanci Griffith

Nona Hendryx

Kylie Minogue

Merry Clayton

Lisa Fischer

Stevie Nicks

Christine McVie

Joan Armatrading

Joan Jett

Janis Ian

and .. . ..

Janis Joplin.

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510  (and counting)  . . .  264 men /  246 women

Last updated:   June 28th, 2024

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Researched and sequenced by Brian Hassett

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We strive for accuracy.
Any corrections or additions appreciated
in the comments below
or at:

karmacoupon@gmail.com

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Criteria for exclusion / inclusion:

If someone ever sired or birthed a child, obviously they’re not included.

If someone adopted a child, they’re not included.

If someone died as a teenager too young to have really lived the possibility — say, Anne Frank or Ritchie Valens — they’re not included.

If someone died childless, but had begun procreation — say, Charlotte Bronte who died while pregnant with her first, or Buddy Holly whose wife was pregnant when his plane went down — they’re not included.

If someone never sired / birthed a child, or adopted, but married someone with children — say, George Washington or Marlo Thomas — they are included because they didn’t personally birth kids or adopt before or after marrying someone who happened to have children.

Living persons of childbearing age are excluded — with the occasional exception of someone in their later years who never had a child and made clear they do not intend to have one.

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Here’s another cool list —  Great Americans” Not Born in America

Or the eternal life-affirming — Be The Invincible Spirit You Are

Or something to internalize — Love Is

Or if you just wanna dig the greatest live musical performances ever captured on film, there’s — The Peaks from RockPeaks

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Here’s where you can get my book — The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Jack Kerouac.

Here’s where you can get How The Beats Begat The Pranksters & Other Adventure Tales.

Here’s where you can get the third book in The Beat Trilogy — On The Road with Cassadys & Furthur Visions.

Here’s the star-studded musical Adventure of the Woodstock 25th anniversary — Holy Cats!  Dream-Catching at Woodstock.

Or here’s the political adventure book if that’s more your thing — Blissfully Ravaged in Democracy: Adventures in Politics 1980–2020.

 

You can read tons of people’s raving reviews and reactions here or here.

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Or here’s a video “performance” version as the list stood in May 2016  . . . 

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by Brian Hassett              karmacoupon@gmail.com            BrianHassett.com

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66 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Rob Salmon // Jun 12, 2010 at 8:38 PM

    Man, that is a LOT of musicians and movie stars … would not have ever guessed that!

  • 2 Linda Ranson-Smith // Jun 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM

    I can see how it makes sense that it’s the choice for you.

  • 3 Lisa Daniels // Jul 9, 2010 at 5:02 PM

    Nice compilation. Best one I’ve found. Thanks.

  • 4 Deb Reul // Sep 14, 2010 at 9:17 PM

    You’re right! You *can* read that like a song! It starts with a stable waltz grounding, and then solos. Thanks for hippng me to it. It’s got a total rhythm — just like *all* your poetry. 🙂
    And it’s a real feel-good piece, too.
    I hear ya!

  • 5 Hugh Reilly // Oct 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM

    It’s a conspiracy!!!
    😀

  • 6 Nigel Milner // Nov 6, 2011 at 10:09 AM

    Nice list. Nice order.

  • 7 Bonnie Peers // May 3, 2012 at 8:42 PM

    I can see how some might be better off without, but having my two kids was definitely the best decision I ever made. People who don’t have kids never know the love that that is.

  • 8 Barry Floch // Jun 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM

    In the voice of Johnny Carson, “I did not know that.”

  • 9 Bernie Thompson // Aug 17, 2012 at 11:31 PM

    Marilyn Monroe, Ann-Margaret, Jacqueline Bisset, Bo Derek … how did THAT never happen??????

  • 10 Joe Myles // Aug 18, 2012 at 6:08 PM

    or Debbie Harry, Dolly Parton and Stevie Nicks!!!!

  • 11 Samantha Graham // Sep 24, 2012 at 11:33 AM

    Thanks for this.

  • 12 Lewis McDermott // Nov 12, 2012 at 6:43 PM

    That’s so weird about Lewis Carroll and Dr. Suess and J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan) and Robert Louis Stevenson …

  • 13 Emmett Pratt // Feb 21, 2013 at 4:28 PM

    WOW !!!! That is one hell of a list!!!
    Took me about an hour to scroll down it!
    Cool.

  • 14 Al Robinson // Jul 14, 2013 at 10:10 AM

    Screamin Jay Hawkins picked up the slack — he had somewhere between 55 and 75 children! (seriously, literally)
    And Brando and Ray Charles had 27 between them!

  • 15 Mary Jo Sullivan-Hicks // Aug 1, 2013 at 10:41 PM

    Love ya Brian – and I’m happy you are exactly who you should be. I wouldn’t be who I am without my kids. They ground me and make realize there really is such a thing as unconditional love.

  • 16 Gil Johnson // Aug 2, 2013 at 2:20 PM

    Maybe this is one reason why Helen Mirren still looks hot at 67. This list contains about 80% of my favorite people in history, such as Mencken, Shaw, Havel, Dorothy Parker, Raymond Chandler, Joseph Campbell and, of course, Sandy Koufax.

  • 17 Mark Goldhammer // Aug 2, 2013 at 7:49 PM

    7 billion miracles is enough.

  • 18 Brian Humniski // Aug 3, 2013 at 12:08 PM

    I really enjoyed this list of people without the burden of kids. An alternate view and amazing amount of great literature that I think was partially the result of a life devoted to discovery of more than diapers and dinner.

  • 19 Juliana Moreira Leite // Sep 20, 2013 at 9:05 PM

    Loved this list Brian!!! This is awesome! Thank you for posting!

  • 20 Juliana Moreira Leite // Sep 20, 2013 at 9:06 PM

    Ps. I loove so many people from this list, Mingus, Billie, Stevie…

  • 21 June King // Jan 24, 2014 at 10:51 PM

    I love falling down the wonderful rabbithole of colorful Brianland!
    Just so you know … I have grown children, but know so so many people who have elected not to have kids and, overpopulation being the root of much of the world’s hardship (the taproot, anyway), if I were twenty or thirty-something today, I’d probably elect not to add to the population. I very much respect the decision NOT to procreate! Having done so, however, I will say that my offspring are exceptionally loveable people who add much to the world around themselves. Characters!

  • 22 Joe Myles // Oct 30, 2014 at 1:23 AM

    wow … this is quite the list!!!

  • 23 lutus // Mar 28, 2017 at 8:25 PM

    Good list, but Dostoievski had 4 children.

  • 24 Brian // Mar 28, 2017 at 8:45 PM

    Thank you so much! Removed.

    I don’t know how that happened. But it’s the first mistake anyone’s caught in about 5 years — and this page is read by a ton of people every day. 🙂

    If you — or anyone else — notices any errors, please let me know and I’ll remove immediately.

    Or, of course, has any additions.

    Good thing I just added ol’ Jerzy Kozinski last week — traded one male Eastern European author for another. 🙂

    Thanks again!

  • 25 Jojo // Jul 19, 2017 at 2:35 AM

    There are some that shouldn’t be in the list
    Henry Miller had children
    Florence Griffith Joyner had a daughter
    Jim Croce had one son

  • 26 Brian // Jul 19, 2017 at 2:46 AM

    Fantastic! Thanks!
    All 3 checked, confirmed and removed.

  • 27 Brandon // Aug 9, 2017 at 1:47 AM

    I noticed Jimi Hendrix is on the list, but DNA has proved that he had at least two children, Tamika Laurice James-Hendrix and James Sundquist.

    And Victor Mature had a daughter named Victoria.

    Great list otherwise!

  • 28 Brandon // Aug 9, 2017 at 3:44 AM

    Unless I’m mistaken, here are some possible additions that I don’t believe are listed:

    Glenn Gould (classical pianist)
    Bob Welch (musician)
    Louis Jordan (musician)
    Jeff Beck (musician)
    Steve Miller (musician)
    Lee Morgan (jazz musician)
    Terence Stamp (English actor)

  • 29 Brian // Aug 9, 2017 at 3:36 PM

    Hey Brandon —

    Fantabulous!
    Thanks for the corrections and additions!
    They all check out . . . and page updated. 🙂

  • 30 Episode 79-part two, 11 Childless not by Choice Women who Changed the World - Childless Not By Choice // Jan 22, 2018 at 12:25 PM

    […] https://brianhassett.com//2010/06/people-who-dont-have-kids/ […]

  • 31 Marissa // Sep 3, 2018 at 1:33 PM

    Hey Brian, I have some more to add to the list:
    Elsa Lancaster
    Wendi McClendon Covey
    Jennifer Tilly
    Sarah Paulson
    Carla Gugino
    Sam Rockwell
    Leslie Bibb
    Katherine Hepburn
    Jay (and wife Mavis) Leno
    Robert Smith (the Cure) & wife Mary Poole

  • 32 Brian // Sep 5, 2018 at 9:27 AM

    Thanks! Good ones! All duly checked out and added.

  • 33 Sagalina // Nov 14, 2018 at 11:25 PM

    You forgot Ralph Fiennes, I have such a crush on him, he was so beautiful in The English Patient

  • 34 Brian // Nov 21, 2018 at 6:34 PM

    Okay — Thanks for the update! I love the quote of his I found — “Children? Ewww!” 🙂

    Now added.

  • 35 Dee Maple // Sep 12, 2019 at 11:22 AM

    Wow.

  • 36 Jeanne in Oswego // Sep 12, 2019 at 8:30 PM

    Love this! 🙂

  • 37 Mandee Temperton // Sep 13, 2019 at 12:31 AM

    That’s pretty amazing.

  • 38 George Sochan // Jul 16, 2020 at 6:42 PM

    Item number seventeen in the list is the pope. This is wrong for a number of reasons. First, the pope is not a person; the pope is a position in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Next, there have been a number of persons who have filled this position (occupied this office) who have had children. One of these persons is Rodrigo de Borgia, who was Pope Alexander VI. He had a few children that are famous; they are Cesare Borgia and Lucrezia Borgia.

  • 39 Brian // Jul 26, 2020 at 9:21 AM

    Interesting.
    I wasn’t referring to every Pope ever — but the Pope we all know today — Francis.
    If the current person known as the Pope had children, I’d take his name off the list.

  • 40 Celino // Sep 17, 2020 at 10:32 PM

    Leonardo DiCaprio probably won’t have children I think it’s past his time

  • 41 Fewoz // Oct 8, 2020 at 4:10 PM

    Theresa May and Emanuel Macron can also be added.

  • 42 Fewoz // Oct 8, 2020 at 4:16 PM

    You can also add someone from my country (Paulo Coelho)

  • 43 Alice // Jan 13, 2021 at 12:11 PM

    Schubert!

  • 44 Brian // Jan 13, 2021 at 1:29 PM

    Thanks, Alice. Checked out … and added. 😉

  • 45 Sagalina // Feb 18, 2021 at 5:24 PM

    I wonder if Longoria & Diaz have since become mothers, as I have heard they became moms in 2018. If so, you can take both of em out of the list

  • 46 Brian // Feb 18, 2021 at 5:38 PM

    Oh wow! Yep — that checks out. They’re now gone from the list. Thank you So Much for letting me know.

  • 47 Christian // Apr 19, 2021 at 5:35 PM

    Peter Ustinov had a number of children and should not be on the list

  • 48 Brian // Apr 19, 2021 at 5:51 PM

    Huh. You’re right. THANKS. Don’t know how that happened. Fixed it.

  • 49 Sagalina // Apr 28, 2021 at 8:48 AM

    Many big-name fashion & celebrity photographers never had any children.

    You can also add Garbage’s Shirley Manson on that list.

  • 50 Brian // Apr 28, 2021 at 9:54 AM

    Thanks. Good one. Done. 😉

  • 51 Simon Hawk // May 11, 2021 at 11:33 AM

    Ezra Pound had children.

  • 52 Brian // May 11, 2021 at 11:50 AM

    Ahh — so he did! Thanks for the heads-up. Now removed.

  • 53 heino berthel // May 20, 2021 at 10:42 PM

    hans christian andersen

  • 54 Brian // May 20, 2021 at 11:10 PM

    Good one. Thanks.

  • 55 Tracy Sweet // Feb 28, 2022 at 5:31 PM

    Gram Parsons has a daughter, Polly.

  • 56 Brian // Feb 28, 2022 at 5:56 PM

    Oh — fantastic. Thanks so much for the heads-up, Tracy. I just removed his name. Thanks again.

  • 57 Brandon // Mar 6, 2022 at 9:08 PM

    Louis Armstrong had a secret daughter named Sharon Preston.

    Some additions (if I didn’t miss their names):

    Billy Gibbons (of ZZ Top)
    Tommy Bolin (guitarist/singer)
    Albert Collins (blues guitarist/singer)
    Wallace “Wally” Wood (comic/fantasy artist)

  • 58 Brian // Mar 6, 2022 at 10:20 PM

    Thanks! Wild story about Satchmo and Sharon Preston! I hadn’t heard of the recent revelation.
    https://www.broadwayworld.com/sarasota/article/Sharon-Preston-Folta-Daughter-of-Louis-Armstrong-Brings-Regional-Premiere-Of-LITTLE-SATCHMO-to-Sarasota-20220202

    And Albert Collins is a surprise!

    Unless you know otherwise — it seems Billy Gibbons has a daughter named Angela Montenegro.
    https://bones.fandom.com/wiki/Billy_Gibbons

  • 59 Brandon // Mar 6, 2022 at 11:57 PM

    Billy Gibbons played father to the fictional character, Angela Montenegro, on the TV show Bones. The actress’ real name is Michaela Conlin and she is not Billy’s daughter.

  • 60 Brian // Mar 9, 2022 at 4:36 AM

    Thanks, Brandon!

    He made the list. 🙂

  • 61 Katie // Jun 1, 2023 at 9:56 PM

    DeForest Kelly had no children.

  • 62 Brian Hassett // Jun 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM

    Thanks so much, Katie. That checks out, and I just added him.

  • 63 Caroline Wright // Aug 6, 2023 at 6:52 PM

    Bill Monroe had two children, Melissa and James. James is still playing bluegrass music professionally.

  • 64 Brian Hassett // Aug 6, 2023 at 7:49 PM

    Oh, fantastic, Caroline. Thanks so much. I just removed his name.

  • 65 Salient_hope // Apr 27, 2024 at 1:25 PM

    Great list. Please correct me if i’m wrong but didn’t Hannibal have a child Haspar Barca.

  • 66 Brian Hassett // May 5, 2024 at 12:05 PM

    Hey Salient!
    Sorry for the delay responding.
    According to his Wikipedia entry and other scholar entries online, it seems that of the four primary sources from the time, three of them say no kid, and only the poet Silius suggests he had a son in a poem.
    Do you have a source of something that confirms the son?
    It was over 2,000 years ago and paper birth records obviously aren’t in existence.
    If you have a solid source that he did have a son, I’ll gladly remove him from the list. But it
    seems a majority of the reliable sources from the time do not mention one.
    Let me know if you have any evidence to the contrary.

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