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List of children of clergy

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List of noted children of clergy is a list of notable persons concerned with individuals whose status as a child of a cleric or preacher is important, preferably critical, to their fame or significance.

Western religions

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Christian

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Pre-Schism

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  • Saint Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland, son of a British deacon and grandson of a priest

Catholic

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Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI

Eastern Orthodox

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Dmitri Mendeleev, son of an Eastern Orthodox priest.[7][8]
Ivan Pavlov, son of a village Russian Orthodox priest
Nikola Tesla, son of a priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Oriental Orthodoxy

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Protestant

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John Adams, son of a deacon in the Congregational Church
Jane Austen, daughter of an Anglican clergyman
Theodor Mommsen, son of a Lutheran minister
Albert Schweitzer, Son of a Lutheran-Evangelical pastor
Margaret Thatcher, daughter of a Methodist pastor
Woodrow Wilson, son of a Presbyterian theologian
Wright Brothers – sons of a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Laurence Olivier, son of a priest of the Church of England
Aretha Franklin, daughter of a Baptist minister
Martin Luther King Jr. – son of a Baptist pastor
Élisée Reclus, son of a Protestant pastor
Denzel Washington, son of an ordained Pentecostal minister
Vincent van Gogh, son of a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church
Jessica Simpson, daughter of a Baptist minister
Angela Merkel, daughter of a Lutheran pastor, Theresa May, daughter of a Church of England clergyman
Bernard Montgomery, son of a Church of Ireland minister
Heinrich Schliemann, son of a pastor
Roy Acuff, son of a Baptist preacher
Robert Hooke, son of a curate of the Church of England

Islam (children of Imams, Shaykhs, or Ayatollahs)

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Jewish

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Émile Durkheim, Son of a rabbi

Eastern religion

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Buddhism

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Shinto

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See also

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