Phoenix Chi (b. 19 February 1999 – 13 days before Brooklyn Beckham, and therefore the first child of a
Spice Girl), Angel (2007), Madison (2011) |
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Melanie Brown (Mel B – Scary) |
Brooklyn Joseph (b. 4 March 1999), Romeo James (2002), Cruz David (2005), Harper Seven (2011) |
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Victoria Beckham (née Adams – Posh) |
Bluebell Madonna (b. 2006) |
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Geri Halliwell (Ginger) |
Beau Lee (b. 2007), Tate Lee (2011) |
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Emma Bunton (Baby) |
Scarlett (b. 2009); father was Thomas Starr |
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Melanie Chisholm (Mel C – Sporty) |
Isabella Rossellini's mother |
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Ingrid Bergman |
Shirley Williams's mother (voluntary nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist) |
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Vera Brittain |
Jason Connery's mother |
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Diane Cilento |
Gwyneth Paltrow's mother |
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Blythe Danner |
Earl Spencer and Mrs. Frances Shand–Kydd: father and mother of |
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Princess Diana |
Blue Peter presenter, mother of Sophie Ellis–Bextor |
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Janet Ellis |
Liza Minnelli's mother |
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Judy Garland |
Mother of Mick Jagger's seventh child, Lucas Maurice (b. 1999) |
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Luciana Gimenez |
Mother of actress Dakota Johnson (her father is Don Johnson) |
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Melanie Griffith |
Mother of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans (Charles II was the father) |
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Nell Gwynn |
Mother of actress Kate Hudson |
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Goldie Hawn |
Melanie Griffith's mother |
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Tippi Hedren |
Mother of Blue Peter presenter Caron Keating (died of breast cancer, 2004) |
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Gloria Hunniford |
Mother of Mick Jagger's first child (Karis, b. 1970) |
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Marsha Hunt |
US heiress who married Lord Randolph Churchill and became the mother of (Sir) Winston |
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Jennie Jerome |
Wife of Sir Michael Redgrave, and mother of his three children (Vanessa, Lynn and Corin) |
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Rachel Kempson |
Emma Thompson's mother |
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Phyllida Law |
Jamie Lee Curtis' mother |
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Janet Leigh |
Mother of actress Mariska Hargitay – star of the NBC drama series Law & Order: Special Victims
Unit (1999 to present) |
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Jayne Mansfield |
Actress mother of actor Larry Hagman |
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Mary Martin |
Mother of James I of England |
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Mary Queen of Scots |
Emma Forbes's mother |
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Nanette Newman |
Mia Farrow's mother (played Jane to Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan in Tarzan of the Apes, 1932) |
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Maureen O'Sullivan |
Mother of Claudia Winkleman (TV presenter) |
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Eve Pollard |
One of Britain's most famous agony aunts (died in 2019, aged 79): her son (Jason Matthew) joined The
Observer in 1988, and (as of 2019) is its restaurant critic |
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Claire Rayner |
Mother of Natasha and Joely Richardson (not Miranda) |
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Vanessa Redgrave |
Carrie Fisher's mother – died the day after her, in December 2016 |
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Debbie Reynolds |
Actress (best known as Wendy in Genevieve, the mother in The Railway Children,
and another mother in the sitcom Don't Wait Up): mother of Jeremy Hanley (Tory chairman 1994–5) and Magpie presenter
Jenny Hanley |
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Dinah Sheridan |
Mother of actors Chris Larkin (born 1967) and Toby Stephens (born 1969) |
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Maggie Smith |
Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany |
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Princess Victoria |
Mother of Mary Shelley: author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792; married the writer and
philosopher William Godwin; died 11 days after giving birth |
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Mary Wollstonecraft |
Famous son of Jennie Jerome (born 1854 in Brooklyn, New York) |
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Winston Churchill |
Son of Wanda Ventham, who played Col. Virginia Lake in Gerry Anderson's UFO (ITV, 1970–1) and
Cassandra's mother in Only Fools & Horses |
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Benedict Cumberbatch |
British TV presenter: son of actress Julia Foster (whose film credits include Alfie and
Half a Sixpence) |
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Ben Fogle |
Doria Ragland (an American social worker, and former make–up artist, travel agent and yoga instructor) is
the mother of |
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Meghan (Markle), Duchess of Sussex |
Famous son of the woman who invented typists' correction fluid
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Mike Nesmith |
Anthrolopogist Ann Dunham (also known as Stanley Ann Dunham) was the mother of (American politician)
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Barack Obama |
Mary Anne MacLeod (1912–2000), born into a Gaelic–speaking family in the village of Tong, on the
island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, was the mother of |
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Donald Trump |