<p>Irene Joliet-Curie (daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie) did not get her Nobel Prize with her parents. They won the Nobel prize for physics in 1903, but Irene won the Nobel prize for chemistry in 1935. She shared it with her husband, Frederic Joliet-Curie.</p>
<p>So I would definitely count her as being a scientist equal in stature – if not fame – to her parents. But then very few scientists get to be as well-known as athletes and musicians. :)</p>
<p>Author Larry McMurtry is the father of singer songwriter James McMurtry</p>
<p>John Raitt/Bonnie Raitt</p>
<p>Tennis star Yannick Noah and son NBA player Joachim Noah</p>
<p>Steven Tyler/Liv Tyler</p>
<p>Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks is the father of Derek Trucks also of the ABB who is married to Susan Tedeschi</p>
<p>^liv tyler is only famous because of her dad though, i wouldnt call her talented</p>
<p>quincy jones’ (music producer) daughter is rashida jones (the office, i love you man). i was really surprised when i found that out since i didnt realize she was african-american even.</p>
<p>Several members of the Bach family were famous composers. I remember playing some of the work of the lesser known Bach’s when I was a kid.</p>
<p>Ken Norton (heavyweight champion of the world, fought Ali) had a son who played for the San Francisco 49ers. I can think of quite a few athletes whose sons made it. It’s much rarer for the son of a superstar to also be a superstar. More often, the child or the parent was a professional and the other was a superstar.</p>
<p>Nat King Cole/Natalie Cole</p>
<p>Bob Marley/Ziggy Marley</p>
<p>^bob marley’s son damien too</p>
<p>As someone pointed out, to the extent we are aloud to say that talent can be inherited, there is clearly going to be regression to the mean, which means that a blazingly successful father or mother is less likely to have an equally successful child. However, I suspect we are less likely to know about a star son whose father was a journeyman football player than the reverse. So there is probably a fair bit of bias in the names we recall.</p>
<p>Similarly, I think it is frequently the case that kids of famous parents get a substantial boost in their careers because of their names and parents’ contacts. So a number of the probably talented offspring have better careers than similarly talented folk from unknown stock. I suspect that is true of James Taylor and Carly Simon’s son and many others.</p>
<p>That said, Ivan Reitman produced and/or directed lots of mediocre movies that made money. His son Jason may be operating at a higher level (Juno, Thank You for Smoking, and Up in the Air). I’m sure it was a lot easier getting started in the business with his father’s help and connections, but his beginning looks quite promising. David Bowie’s son (nee Zowie and now Duncan) is regarded as a very talented film-maker (Moon). </p>
<p>I had a well-known father in one academic field and got a summer job as a college freshman from someone who said he was hiring me for my DNA. I chose to go into another direction, in part because I didn’t want to compete with my father and in part because I didn’t think that is where my greatest strengths lay. I suspect you find a lot of that.</p>
<p>George and Rosemary Clooney. Wasn’t she his aunt?</p>
<p>Carl Reiner and Rob Reiner</p>
<p>Not a direct link but isn’t Nicholas Cage Martin Scorcese’s nephew?</p>
<p>I think true genius is like being struck by lightning–not inheritable.</p>
<p>Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is the son of Tatyana Ovechkina, caption and point guard of the Soviet Union that won gold in the Montreal and Moscow Olympics.</p>
<p>Vladimir Bure, the Soviet swimmer who medaled in Mexico and Munich, is the father of Pavel and Valeri Bure (hockey). Pavel Bure was three times scoring champion of the NHL. </p>
<p>An Byeong-hun, the youngest winner of the US Amateur Golf Championship, is the son of South Korea’s An Jae-hyung and China’s Jiao Zhimin. Both parents medaled (table tennis) for their respective countries in the Seoul Olympics.</p>
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<p>I believe Nicholas Cage is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, not Martin Scorcese.</p>
<p>Baseball has the longest history in team professional sports. Yet I can’t think of one member of the Baseball Hall of Fame whose son also became a member. Some of the reasons include lack of the same drive to excell, being in a higher economic class, and not having the same luck or series of events to propel you.</p>
<p>It is odd that a son has a lot more going for him than his athletic father yet seldom will he outperform his dear old dad. One player who did do this was Cal Ripken Jr. but his dad was not a superstar ballplayer. I enjoy reading famous athlete’s biographies where they mention that their parents had never played their sport and merely sat in the stands rooting for them. It gives hope to the rest of us.</p>
<p>There are many visual artist families but they aren’t as well known to the general public. Roberto Matta (father-Chilean painter) and Gordon Matta-Clark (American sculptor, conceptual artist), who may have eclipsed his father (both dead, there was a recent retrospective of Matta-Clark at the Whitney Museum in NYC). Tony Smith (American sculptor) and Kiki Smith, also a sculptor. Robert DeNiro’s father was a pretty well known painter in his time.</p>
<p>Audubon’s sons were also natural history artists. But with him (as with Andrew Wyeth), the sons did not have the father’s gifts. </p>
<p>Did anyone mention the Wainwrights? I think they’re all musicians.</p>
<p>It is odd that a son has a lot more going for him than his athletic father yet seldom will he outperform his dear old dad</p>
<p>I know Griffey Jr. was already mentioned, but when the heck did Trey get to be * fifteen years old?*</p>
<p>Tetsuhiko Kariya was a fly half (rugby) for UBC and Canada in the 60s. His son Paul Kariya is playing hockey for the St. Louis Blues. His best years, I think, were with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.</p>
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<p>The Coppola posts reminded me that someone in that family was a composer-- so I looked it up and found this article from Entertainment Weekly that seems appropriate for this thread. [Coppola</a> Family Flow | Movies | EW.com](<a href=“http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20166108,00.html]Coppola”>http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20166108,00.html)</p>
<p>Boxing: Muhammed Ali / his daughter (name??) Well, she was a pioneer for gender, even if not equally great talent at same age.</p>
<p>Music: Judy Garland / Liza Minelli (mother/daughter) as song stylists making a song their own, I think equally brilliant.</p>
<p>A match made in heaven? A while back, Sara Lee Guthrie (a daughter of Arlo) was singing on stage with Pete Seeger’s grandson Tao. I wanted them to have a baby who’d become a great musicologist (Pete’s father) able to rouse groups treated unjustly (Woody Guthrie) by playing the banjo so brightly (Pete), writing unforgettable songs (Woody, Pete, Pete’s sister Peggy…) about injustice, all while spinning a hilarious yarn (Arlo). Nah, talent isn’t hereditary… I can’t know who’s a “genius” in those two clans and who just extraordinarily on target with their generation. </p>
<p>How about that young adult illegitimate son of David Crosby whose mom finally revealed his parentage. He didn’t know why he wanted to spend all his time playing guitar in his garage. I think he donated a needed organ (kidney) to his Dad, saving his life. They appeared together on stage for a while. Son was a very decent musician.</p>