None of them were nominated as enormous talents in this thread.
Missed that. Consider it knocked off.
Came here to nominate the Huxleys. What a crew!
I would think they are what the OP was looking for.
Johann Ambrosius Bach was a fine town musician, playing the viola and trumpet and doing a good job keeping the family business a going concern. 4 of his kids became musicians, with his son, JS Bach, undoubtedly the greatest of the Bach’s.
So we had a guy, enormously talented who gave birth to children as equally as talented (one who was more talented than the rest, of course).
Then JS’s kids were no slouch either. CPE Bach was very well-respected musician and composer who was one of the major players in the transition from baroque to classical styles. Wiki sez:
In terms of popular support during their respective lifetimes, CPE had it miles over his old man and if you had asked somebody in 1786 who was the greatest composer out of the family, odds were excellent that CPE would’ve gotten the nod.
Another of the Old Wig’s sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, wasn’t as famous as his brother, but he was considered one of the best improvisers of his day.
So, I don’t know… of course the rest of the family doesn’t equal JSB’s towering achievements, but it seems apparent that his family’s story does match the OP’s request.
All the people in this Magical Family were practically BORN famous! They never really had to do anything but just be themselves and WHAM O! Famous!
Richard Dimbleby, and his sons Jonathon and David.
The phrase made me think of another magi9cal family,.
John Nevil Maskelyne
Nevil Maskelyne
Jasper Maskelyne
Kim Il-sung was North Korea’s greatest novelist, historian, teacher, general, and architect during his lifetime, and his son arguably surpassed him in many fields of endeavor. For instance, Kim Jong-il wrote 1,500 books and six operas while in college, and he once played a 38-under round of golf, with 11 holes in one.
And we all have high expectations for his son.
Mother: Marie Curie (Nobel Prize physics 1903; Nobel Prize chemistry 1911)
Daughter: Irene Joliot-Curie (Nobel Prize chemistry 1935)
Father: William Henry Bragg (Nobel Prize physics 1915)
Son: William Lawrence Bragg (Nobel Prize physics 1915 - shared with papa)
Grandfather: Christian Bohr (certain Nobelist had the prize been available in his time)
Father: Nils Bohr (Nobel Prize physics 1922)
Son: Aage Bohr (Nobel Prize physics 1975)
Father: Arthur Kornberg (Nobel Prize medicine 1959)
Son: Roger Kornberg (Nobel Prize chemistry 2006)
ETA:
[Lionel Penrose](Father: "Lionel Penrose - Wikipedia) (groundbreaking medical geneticist)
Son: Roger Penrose (physicist and polymath)
Son: Oliver Penrose (mathematician)
Son: Jonathan Penrose (UK Chess Champion and chess International Grandmaster)
I know there are other father/son Nobel exactas, but can’t think of them at the moment.
All the above notwithstanding, it is hard to conceive of a family more endowed with geniuses than The Bernoullis; one and hundred and fifty years of generation-to-generation of the world’s premier mathematicians and physicists.
Pro wrestling is almost as nepotistic as NASCAR. Off the top of my head:
The whole damn McMahon dynasty, which is, what, four generations strong now?
Dusty Rhodes and his sons Dustin (Goldust) and Cody Rhodes.
The Hart family, which includes members and in-laws such as Bret Hart, his deceased brother Owen, WWE Diva Natalya, Davey Boy Smith the British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart, and more.
The Guerreros are now in their third generation of wrestlers with Shaul (the late Eddie’s daughter) working for the WWE in FCW.
What with the wrestler’s propensity to marry within their ranks and for sons (and now daughters) following in their parent’s footsteps, we may see even more second, third, fourth, and even FIFTH generation wrestlers in the ring in coming years.
The OP specified: “Equally enormously talented child.”
I just learned who Ronan Farrow was. Mia’s and Woody Allen’s son. Freaking brilliant kid.
Mia’s mother of course being Maureen O’Sullivan, Tarzan’s Jane.
Jef Raskin was on the UI team for the original Apple Macintosh and wrote the seminal book, “The Humane Interface”.
Aza Raskin was the creative lead on Firefox and is now the CEO of a healthcare startup.
Both were influential on designs that have touched hundreds of millions of people.
Bob Elliot (of Bob and Ray fame) begat Chris Elliot, and we have high hopes for Chris’s daughter Abby Elliot.
And really, it’s not a surprise that someone raised in a household where the arts are taken seriously would excel at them, even if it doesn’t happen all that regularly.
Rufus Wainwright is at the nexus of three famous musical families (Wainwrights, McGonigles, Roches), and his grandfather was a respected journalist.
Bridget Fonda? Not quite as durable as her grandfather or her aunt, but nothing to sneeze at. I’d say her career is pretty comparable to her daddy’s, with some high marks and a few dry stretches.
I wrote this not knowing that she retired from show biz ten years ago following a rather bad traffic accident, subsequently marrying Danny Elfman and raising a family.
Art Donovan Jr was a Hall of Fame football player back in the 1950s and a great guest on late night talk shows telling funny stories about the game. His father, Art Sr, was a highly respected boxing official. His grandfather, Professor Thomas Donovan, was middleweight boxing champion in the 19th century.
From the 17th century, you have Admiral Sir William Penn and his pacifist Quaker son William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania.
In Formula 1 both Graham Hill and his son Damon were world champions
Carl Ripken jr/sr?