List of noted children of clergy is a list of notable persons concerned with individuals whose status as a child of a cleric is important, preferably critical, to their fame or significance.
Western religions
Christian
Pre-Schism
Saint Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland, son of a British deacon and grandson of a priest
Catholic
George Bariț – son of an Eastern-rite Catholic priest who once trained for the priesthood. Amy Coney Barrett, United States Supreme Court justice, daughter of a Catholic deacon. Cesare Borgia Lucrezia Borgia George Coșbuc – Romanian poet, 14 generations of his family were Eastern-rite priests including his father Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma Marcion of Sinope – son of the Bishop of Sinope, propagator of Marcionism, an early Christian heresy Pope Silverius – legitimate son of a pope Thomas I of York – Archbishop of York in Catholic era (Celibacy had become the rule, but was still haphazardly enforced.)
Eastern Orthodox
Dmitri Mendeleev - Russian chemist and inventor. He is best remembered for formulating the Periodic Law and creating a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements. Nikolay Bogolyubov – Russian theoretical and mathematical physicist. Sergei Bulgakov – Russian theologian. Nikolai Chernyshevsky – Socialist thinker, writer, and materialist Cyriacus the Anchorite – saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. Demetri Martin – comedian, served as an altar boy. Ivan Pavlov – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1904), Scientist. H. G. Wells's autobiography indicates the Soviets tolerated his continued attendance at the Russian Orthodox Church. Stanislav Radonjić – Montenegrin governor Staniša Radonjić – Montenegrin serdar George Stephanopoulos – former altar boy. Theophan the Recluse – saint in the Russian Orthodox Church Yevgeny Zamyatin – Bolshevik who initially supported the October Revolution Adrian Zmed – actor Justin Popović – Serbian theologian Miloš Milojević – Serbian writer and politician
Oriental Orthodoxy
Abraham Kovoor – skeptic and atheist.