ALI, MUHAMMAD - boxer - girls. (changed name from Cassius Clay).

ATWOOD, DONNA - Ice Capades star - boys.

ARMSTRONG, LANCE - Author, cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France champion - girls (Isabelle Rose - 5 lb. 12 oz. and Grace Elizabeth - 5 lb. 2 oz.), born November 20, 2001.

BANKS, ERNIE - professional baseball player - boys.

BUNNING, JIM - former professional baseball player (1950 - 1971) and Congressman from Kentucky (first elected 1986) - 2 sets, both boy/girl (Jim and Joan/David and Amy). Jim and his wife (former Mary Catherine Theis) have nine children and 32 grandchildren (1998). Jim was inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1996.

CASH, PAT - Pat Cash is a former Australian Tennis Player who won Wimbledon in 1987 in the mens singles. He is the father of fraternal boys, Jett and Shannon, born 9 October 1994 to his second wife, Emily.

FLORES, TOM - professional football player/coach/author. Flores was a quarterback for 10 seasons with the Raiders, Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. Flores coached the Oakland and Los Angeles Raiders to two Super Bowl victories in the 1980s.

GONZALES, LUIS - professional baseball player. He and his wife, Christine, had triplets on June 26, 1998, with the arrival of Megan, Jacob and Alyssa. "Gonzo" hit an RBI single with one out in the ninth inning of Game 7 in the 2001 World Series to give the Arizona Diamondbacks their first World Series win and upend the three-time defending champion Yankees. Luis has established the "Kids Going Gonzo for School" program in Arizona, while also working closely with Make-A-Wish Foundation and Sunshine Acres. Gonzo was named the City of Houston's 1997 Sportsman of the Year by the RBI Foundation.

GONZALES, PONCHO - former tennis star - girls.

HARMON, TOM and KNOX, ELYSE - football great (Michigan Wolverines' first Heisman Trophy winner) and actress - grandparents - boys. (Matthew and Gunnar Nelson)

KIDD, JASON - professional basketball player (b. 3/23/73) and wife, Joumana Samaha - girls (Miah and Jazelle, b. 2001). He was a member of Team USA that won the Tournament of Americas in 1999 and the gold medal in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

The Jason Kidd Foundation was established in March of 1999, an organization dedicated to providing funds for children's medical research and to charitable organizations supporting the needs and interests of children.

LYNN, JANET - professional ice skater - boys.

MORA, MELVIN & GISEL - Quints - Baltimore, Maryland, July 28, 2001 - born at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, there are two boys -- Christian and Matthew David -- and three girls -- Genesis, Rebekah and Jada Priscilla. They have an older sister, Tatiana...The Moras live year-round in Fallston, MD. Melvin Mora is a professional baseball player on the Baltimore Orioles team.

ROOF, PHIL - professional baseball player - girls

SAMMARTINO, BRUNO - champion of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (NE U.S.) - boys

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ASNER, ED - television and film actor - boy/girl.

BACH, JOHAN SEBASTIAN and MARIA BARBARA - composer - boy/girl. Johann Christoph and Maria Sophia, born 23 February, 1713, and died, 23 Feb and 13 March.

BATES, ALAN - actor - boys. Bates married actress Victoria Ward in 1970. Their twin sons, Benedick and Tristan, were born in 1971. Tristan died during an asthma attack in 1990; Ward died in 1992. The current Patron of the Actors Centre in London, Bates and his family have endowed a theatre there in memory of Tristan Bates, who, like his mother, father and brother, was an actor.

BERGMAN, INGRID and ROBERTO ROSSELLINI - Oscar winning actress and director - girls (Isotta and Isabella. Ingrid Bergman is perhaps most remembered for her roles in " Casablanca" (1942) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1943). Born August 29, 1915, Ingrid Bergman died the same day in 1982. Roberto Rossellini died in 1977.

BERNSEN, CORBIN and PAYS, AMANDA - actor and actress - boys, 1992.

BAXTER, MEREDITH and BIRNEY, DAVID - actor and actress - boy/girl (Peter and Mollie). Meredith and David starred together in their television series "Bridget Loves Birney" in 1972. They were divorced in the mid 80s. Meredith played the role of Mrs. Keaton on "Family Ties." She has also starred in a number of TV films and played the role of Nancy in the TV series "Family" (1976). (Meredith is the daughter of Whitney Blake who may best be remembered in the role of Dorothy in the 1960's TV series "Hazel."

BLOCKER, DAN - actor - identical girls (Debra and Danna). Dan Blocker played role of Eric "Hoss" Cartwright in the long-running TV series "Bonanza" (1959-72). He was also the father of producer David Blocker and actor Dirk Blocker. He was born December 10, 1928 and died May 3, 1972 following gall bladder surgery.

BOONE, DEBBY and FERRER, GABRIEL - actress/singer/author and daughter of singer/entertainer/evangelist Pat Boone and artist/illustrator Gabriel Ferrer, son of singer Rosemary Clooney and the late actor Jose Ferrer. They are the parents of four children including fraternal twin girls, Gabrielle and Dustin.

BOONE, PAT - singer/entertainer/evangelist Pat Boone and Shirley (daughter of the late Red Foley are grandparents of twin girls, Gabrielle and Dustin. They are daughter Debby's children.

BRYANT, ANITA - TV actress, singer - boy/girl. Anita Bryant, former Miss Oklahoma, Miss America runner-up 1958, She was a regular performer on the "George Gobel Show" (1954). She will also be remembered for her appearance in commercials and as a spokesperson for the Florida orange juice industry.

CLOONEY, ROSEMARY and FERRER, JOSE - singer/actress/entertainer and actor Jose Ferrer (died in 1992). (Jose's real name was Jose Vincente Ferrery Centron.) Grandparents of twin girls, Gabrielle and Dustin, the daughters of son, Gabriel and wife Debby Boone. (Rosemary Clooney died in 2002.)

COLE, NAT KING and MARIA (Ellington) - Grammy Award-winning singer - girls (Timolin and Casey born 9/26/61). Nat King Cole was a very famous jazz pianist and singer. (Maria was also a singer and sang in Nat's band for a time.)

CRAWFORD, JOAN - Oscar Award-winning actress - adopted girls. Her real name was Lucille Fay LeSueur. Joan Crawford was born in 1904 - 1908 (depending on the source) and died in 1977 from cancer.

CROSBY, BING AND LEE, DIXIE - actor/singer and actress/singer - boys. Twins, Philip and Dennis, were born in 1934 and Dennis died in 1991. Dennis and Philip joined brothers Gary and Lindsay in a nightclub act during the late Fifties, often appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show. Dixie Lee, born Wilma Wyatt, was a singer and an actress. She died November 1, 1952 from ovarian cancer at age 40. Bing (Harry Lillis) Crosby, both actor and singer, won and Oscar for best actor for playing an easy going priest in "Going My Way" (1944). He died in October, 1977 at the age of 73 while playing golf in Spain.

CURTIS, TONY - actor - boys. Tony Curtis was born with the name Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925. He started his career in movies in 1949. Twins were born to Tony and former wife, Leslie Allen.

D'ANGELO, BEVERLY and PACINO, AL - actress and actor - boy (Anton)/girl (Olivia) twins on January 25, 2001. The twins were the first children for D'Angelo, 46, who has been with Pacino, 60, for four years.

DE NIRO, ROBERT and SMITH, TOUKIE - actor/producer - twin sons, 1995. Girlfriend, Toukie Smith, conceived via in vitro fecundation. Robert De Niro has acted in or produced dozens of films.

DIX, RICHARD - actor - twins.

DOUGLAS, MIKE - actor - girls. Born in 1925 in Chicago, IL, his real name was Michael Dowd. He and wife, Genevieve Purnell, have three daughters including twins.

FARROW, MIA and PREVIN, ANDRE - actress and conductor/composer/pianist - boys (Matthew Phineas and Sascha Villiers). Mia Farrow and Andre Previn had six children, among them twins. Mia Farrow was born with the name Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow in 1945. She was once married to the late Frank Sinatra. Andre Previn was born in Germany in 1929. Previn scored numerous films in the '50s, '60s and early '70s, among them Oscar winners "Gigi," "Porgy and Bess," "Irma La Douce," and "My Fair Lady."

FORMAN, MILOS - director - boys. Milos Forman directed "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). Some other films of Milos Forman were the musical " Hair (1979)" and his biography of 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' "Amadeus (1984)" which won nine oscars. Milos Forman and Vera Kresadlova are the parents of twins, Petr Forman and Matej Forman, Czechoslovakian film actors.

FOX, MICHAEL J. and TRACY POLLAN - actor and actress - identical girls, 1995 (Aquinnah Kathleen and Schuyler Frances)

GIBSON, MEL and ROBYN MOORE - actor - boys (Edward and Christian), 16 years old.

GREENE, LORNE - actor - girl/boy. Twins (Melinda Susan and Charles) were born in 1945 to Lorne Greene and former wife Rita Hands of Toronto. Lorne Greene was born in 1915 and passed away in 1987. He will especially be remembered for his role as Ben Cartwright on the TV series "Bonanza" (1959-73).

HARDIN, TY and ANDRA MARTIN - actor and actress - boys. Ty Hardin's real name was Orson Whipple Hungerford II.

HARRINGTON, AL - actor - boys. Al Harrington played the role of Detective Ben Kokua, a Hawaiian who returned home after suffering a college football injury on the TV series "Hawaii Five-0" (1968-80). Harrington retired after 20 years on the Waikiki entertainment circuit. He is working on a motivational book in Provo, Utah, and preparing to co-star in a movie with Jack Palance. (Source: Hawaii Magazine, February, 1993.)

HAYWARD, SUSAN - actress - boys. (Died March 14, 1995 at age 56. Birth name was Edythe Marrener.)

HEIDT, HORACE - late band leader, actor and philanthropist - boys. (Also visit the Internet Movie Database for additional information.)

HIATT, SHELBY - TV actress who played Jane Dawson on " General Hospital" in 1968 - boys.

HORNE, LENA - singer/actress - grandsons.

HOWARD, RON and CHERYL - actor/director and actress- girls.

IGLESIAS, JULIO - international recording artist (Spain's most famous singer) and wife, Miranda Rijnsburger - girls (Victoria - 6 lbs 10 oz. - and Cristina - 6 lbs 3 oz.), born May 2, 2001.

LADD, MARGARET AND KESSLER, KYLE - actress and writer/actor/producer - boy/girl.

LANE, MARYON and DAVID BLAIR - former Royal Ballet - soloists - girls.

LESLIE, JOAN - film and TV actress - girls. Joan Leslie was born January 26, 1925 with the name Joan Brodel. She began her career as a child performer. She married Dr. William Caldwell in 1950 and later quit her acting career to raise her identical twin daughters, Patrice and Ellen. She resumed her acting career once her daughters had grown up. Both reportedly went on to earn doctorate degrees and teach at universities.

LINKLETTER, ART - TV and radio personality, author, speaker - grandfather - boys. Art Linkletter's real name is Arthur Gordon Kelly. He was the host of the popular TV Emmy-winning TV show, "House Party," (1952) which featured a segment called "Kids Say the Darndest Things." After 25 years off TV, Linkletter has returned to TV. A producer on "Kids Say the Darndest Things," he also shows up on-screen each week with classic "House Party" clips. Art Linkletter has served on President Nixon's National Advisory Council for Drug Abuse Prevention; on the Presidential Commission to Improve Reading in the U.S., on President Reagan's Commission on Fitness and Physical Education; and he was Ambassador to Australia and named Commissioner General to the 150th Australian Anniversary Celebration.

LONDON, JULIE and TROUP, BOBBY - singer/actress and jazz musician/song writer/actor - boys. Julie London's real name was Julie Peck. Julie London was one of the top female vocalists during the 50s and early 60s. She was once married to Jack Webb. Both Julie (Nurse Dixie McCall and Bobby (Dr. Joe Early) had roles in the TV series "Emergency" (early 1970s). Julie appeared in many other films and TV shows. Bobby Troup wrote title song "Route 66" of the 1960s TV show of the same name.

LYNN, LORETTA - country music singer - girls (Patsy and Peggy).

MAC MURRAY, FRED and HAVER, JUNE - saxophonist/vocalist/actor and actress - adopted girls. June Haver was born June 10, 1926 and her real name was June Stovenour. Fred MacMurray was born August 30, 1908 and died November 5, 1991 from pneumonia. He had roles in numerous films and may be remembered most for his role as Steve Douglas in the TV series "My Three Sons."

MAJORS, LEE and VELEZ, KAREN - actor and model/Playmate of the Month - boys. Lee Majors' real name is Harvey Lee Yeary II. Lee Majors will be remembered for his role as Colonel Steve Austin in the TV series "Six Million Dollar Man."

MANCINI, HENRY and O'CONNOR, GINNY - musician/composer/conductor/ film scorer and band singer - girls (Monica and Felice born in 1952). Henry Mancini died June 14, 1994 at the age of 70. Mancini was a prolific recording artist, collecting 20 Grammys and 6 gold albums. On television, he appeared on a half-hour musical TV series, numerous specials, and his concerts sold out around the world. He wrote and conducted the music for more than 80 movies. He won Oscars for the songs "Moon River" (1962) and "Days of Wine and Roses" (1963) and the scores of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1962) and "Victor/Victoria" (1982).

MASTERS, MARIE - actress/director - boy/girl. She is well-known for her role as Dr. Susan Stewart on the daytime drama, "As the World Turns." Her twin children, Jenny and Jesse, are both graduates of Cornell University. Jenny made her television debut in 1974 as Master's ATWT character's daughter, Emily.

MATTHEWS, DAVE - vocalist/guitarist of Dave Matthews Band - fraternal girls. His twin girls, Stella Busina and Grace Anne, were born in August of 2001 to Matthews and his wife Ashley in Seattle.

MERRITT, THERESA - actress - boy/girl. She played the role of Mama Eloise Curtis in "That's My Mama." She was a 1985 Tony Award nominee for her performance in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Born in 1924, Theresa Merritt died June 12, 1998.

MERBRIER, REV. W. CARTER - "Captain Noah Children's Show" - granddaughters.

MOONEY, BILL - actor - boys.

MORGAN, HENRY - movie actor - boys.

MORIARTY, CATHY and GENTILE, JOSEPH - actress - girl (Catherine Patricia) and boy (Joseph John) born September 11, 2000. Appeared in many films including Raging Bull and Kindergarten Cop.

MURRAY, ARTHUR and KATHRYN - dancers and TV show hosts - girls. Arthur Murray's real name was Moses Teichman. He was born in 1895 and died in 1991.

NELSON, OZZIE and HARRIET - actor and actress - grandparents of boys (Matthew and Gunnar Nelson).

NELSON, RICKY and KRIS HARMON - entertainer - boys (Matthew and Gunnar Nelson)

NORRIS, CHUCK and O'KELLEY, GENA - actor (Norris) and model (O'Kelley) - boy and girl (Dakota Alan and Danilee Kelley), born August 20, 2001. Carlos Ray Norris Jr. (born March 10, 1940), better known in the entertainment world as Chuck Norris, is a martial artist, an American action movie actor and Hollywood star. He is the star of the former TV series, "Walker, Texas Ranger".

PACINO, AL and D'ANGELO, BEVERLY - actress and actor - boy (Anton)/girl (Olivia) twins on January 25, 2001. The twins were the first children for D'Angelo, 46, who has been with Pacino, 60, for four years.

PAGE, GERALDINE and TORN, RIP - actress and actor - boys

PARKS, BERT - TV entertainer - boys

PARSONS, ESTELLE and RICHARD GEHMAN - actress and author - girls

PAULEY, JANE and GARY TRUDEAU - TV journalist (Today Show and Dateline NBC) and cartoonist - boy/girl, 1983

PATTI, SANDI - Grammy award winning contemporary Christian and gospel singer - boy/girl, 1988

PEETE, HOLLY ROBINSON and RODNEY - actress - boygirl twins (Rodney Jackson and Ryan Elizabeth), October 19, 1997

PERRI, VALERIE - actress - boys

PHILLIPS, LOU DIAMOND and KELLY - actor - girls (Grace and Isabella), October 5, 1997. Born Lou Upchurch), he has appeared in numerous productions including Stand and Deliver and La Bamba.

POINTER, RUTH and SAYLES, MICHAEL - entertainers - boy/girl

POLLAN, TRACY and MICHAEL J. FOX - actress/actor - identical girls, 1995

PREMINGER, OTTO - producer/director - boy/girl

RICHARDSON, PATRICIA and BAKER, RAY - actress, actor - twins. Patricia plays the role of Jill Taylor in the popular TV series, " Home Improvement."

ROBERTS, JULIA and MODER, DANIEL - Oscar-winning actress (Roberts, b. 10/28/67), cinematographer (Moder, b. 1/31/69) - boy/girl twins (Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia), b. November 28, 2004 . Julia Roberts has appeared in numerous films. Some of them include: Mystic Pizza (1988); Satisfaction (1988); Steel Magnolias (1989); Pretty Woman (1990); The Pelican Brief (1993); I Love Trouble (1994); Something to Talk About (1995); Everyone Says I Love You (1996); Mary Reilly (1996); My Best Friend's Wedding (1997); Stepmom (1998); Runaway Bride (1999); Notting Hill (1999); Erin Brockovich (2000); The Mexican (2001); America's Sweethearts (2001); Ocean's Eleven (2001); Mona Lisa Smile (2003); Ocean's Twelve (2004). Her great grandmother was a twin and Julia has twin cousins.

With many movies to his credit, Moder and Roberts met on the set of The Mexican, and were married July 4, 2002.

ROMANO, RAY - actor and standup comedian. Starred in the television series "Everybody Loves Raymond." Boys.

SEVARIED, ERIC - TV newscaster - boys

SEYMOUR, JANE and KEACH, JAMES - actress/producer and actor/producer\ /writer/director - fraternal boys. Jane Seymour, 45 years old when her twin sons were born, is also the author of Two at a Time: The Journey Through Pregnancy and Birth (© 2001).

SHEPHERD, CYBILL - actress - boy/girl

SHRINER, HERB - TV entertainer - boys (Wil and Kin)

SILVERS, PHIL - actor - girls

SKIBINE, MARJORIE TALLCHIEF - ballerina - boys

SMALLEY, ROY - professional baseball player - girls. He played for 13 years in the Major Leagues with the Minnesota Twins and the New York Yankees. He was the starting shortstop in the 1979 All Star Game and was a member of the 1987 Twins World Series Championship Team.

STEWART, JAMES (JIMMY) and GLORIA - Oscar-winning actor - girls, Judy and Kelly. Gloria died in 1994 and Jimmy Stewart died July 2, 1997. Jimmy Stewart will be remembered for his roles in many movies including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

SUTHERLAND, DONALD and DOUGLAS, SHIRLEY - actor - boy (Kiefer)/girl (Rachel). Kiefer is also an actor.

THOMAS, RICHARD - actor "The Waltons" - 3 (identical) girls

WASHINGTON, DENZEL and PAULETTA - actor and former actress. The Washingtons are the parents of 4 children which include 9-year old boy/girl twins, Malcolm and Olivia.

WAYNE, DAVID - actor - girls.

WAYNE, JOHN - actor -grandchildren - boy/girl. John Wayne was born Marion Michael Morrison in 1907 and died in 1979. He was a grandfather and great-grandfather of twins. He was grandfather to Molly and Patrick Munoz-- children of Wayne's daughter, Melinda Wayne Munoz. He was great-grandfather to identical boys, Matthew and Luke-- grandsons to Wayne's daughter, Toni Wayne LaCava, and sons of Toni's daughter, Anita.

WHITE, WHITNEY and MORGAN - appeared on "Knot's Landing"

WILLIAMS, ANDY - singer - boys

WILLIAMS, MARY ALICE - former NBC anchor person

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BALDWIN, FAITH - author - twins. Born in 1893 and died in 1978. She published more than 60 novels with such titles as Those Difficult Years (1925), The Office Wife (1930), Babs and Mary Lou (1931), District Nurse (1932), Manhattan Nights (1937), and He Married a Doctor (1944). Her last completed novel, Adam's Eden, appeared in 1977.

BURNS, ROBERT - Scottish poet - 2 sets, boy/girl (Robert and Jean - 1786), girls (1788).

CARTER IV, W. HODDING - writer and adventurer - girls. Hodding Carter led an expedition which retraced Leif Eriksson's voyage in a replica Viking ship, sailing from Greenland to Newfoundland in 87 days in 1998. He and his wife, Lisa, are the parents of 4 year-old twins Anabel and Eliza, as well as a 2-1/2 year-old daughter Helen.

CLEARY, BEVERLY - author - boy/girl (Marianne Elisabeth and Malcolm James).

COLLIER HERBERT - psychologist, author - boy/girl.

ESPY, HILDA COLE - author - girls.

KERR, JEAN COLLINS and WALTER - author/critic (Jean) and Pulitzer-prize winning drama critic and author of "The Silent Clowns" (Walter) - boys. Walter Kerr was born July 8, 1913 and has since died. Jean Kerr was born in 1923. In 1957 she published a collection of comic sketches on domestic life under the title "Please Don't Eat the Daisies" The book was a best-seller and was adapted as a motion picture and later a television series under the same title.

KIMBROUGH, EMILY - author - girls.

LEIBOVITZ, HARRY - artist - girls.

PEIRCE, WALDO - artist - boys. Artist from Maine born in 1884 and died in 1978.

ROCKWELL, NORMAN - artist - grandfather - boy/girl

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM - playwright and poet - boy (Hamnet)/girl (Judith)

STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER - author - girls. Eliza and Harriet (Hattie) Stowe were born to Harriet Beecher Stowe and husband Calvin Ellis Stowe on September 29, 1836. Mr. Stowe was a theology professor and Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. She died in 1896. Hattie Stowe died in 1907 and her sister died five years later. Neither twin married.

WILDE, OSCAR - writer - granddaughters

ZINER, FEENIE - author - triplets

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