This is a list of people who remarried each other, usually after divorcing. To qualify, at least one member of each marital pair must have their own Wikipedia page.
Noteworthy cases
edit- Cato the Younger and Marcia who divorced so that Marcia could marry another man named Quintus Hortensius and have children by him, but speedily remarried as soon as Hortensius died.
- Roman emperor Elagabalus married Aquilia Severa first as his second wife, then divorced her to marry another woman, but soon divorced his third wife to remarry Aquilia
- Kid McCoy, American prize fighter, who married and divorced ten times, but only from eight women, since three of those marriages were to the same spouse, Julia Woodruff
- Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor, who was twice married and divorced from Flynn Belaine, and twice married to Jennifer Lee
- Joyce Mathews, American actress, who was twice divorced from both Milton Berle and Billy Rose
List
editName | Description | Spouse | 1st marriage |
1st divorce | 2nd marriage |
2nd divorce |
Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
David Adkins | American comedian Sinbad | Meredith Fuller | 1985 | 1992 | 2002 | [1] | |
June Allyson | American actress | Alfred Glenn Maxwell | 1963 | 1965 | 1966 | 1970 | |
Pamela Anderson | American actress | Rick Salomon | 2007 | 2008 | 2014 | 2015 | Their first marriage was annulled. |
Milton Berle | American actor, entertainer | Joyce Mathews | 1941 | 1947 | 1949 | 1950 | Mathews later twice married and divorced Billy Rose |
Fred Berry | American actor, dancer | Franchesska Berry | 1976 | 1976 | 1978 | 1980 | Berry had 3 other marriages |
Birabongse Bhanudej | Thai Prince, Olympic sailor and Formula 1 racing driver | Ceril Heycock | 1938 | 1949 | 1983 | - | He had 4 other wives between these two marriages |
Robert Bolt | English playwright, screenwriter | Sarah Miles | 1967 | 1976 | 1988 | - | After their divorce but before remarrying, they had their only child together (his fourth) |
Haydn Bunton Sr. | Australian footballer and cricketer | Lylia Austin | 1936 | 1945 | 1946 | ||
Richard Burton | Welsh actor | Elizabeth Taylor | 1964 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | Burton had 3 other marriages, Taylor 6 others |
Alan Campbell | American actor, screenwriter | see Dorothy Parker | |||||
Art Carney | American actor | Jean Myers | 1940 | 1965 | 1980 | - | He married and divorced another woman in between these marriages |
Jack Carter | American comedian | Roxanne Wander | 1971 | 1977 | 1992 | - | [2][3] |
Oleg Cassini | American fashion designer | Gene Tierney | 1941 | 1948 | 1948 | 1952 | |
Rosemary Clooney | American singer, actress | José Ferrer | 1953 | 1961 | 1964 | 1967 | Clooney had 1 other marriage, Ferrer 3 others |
Joseph Stephen Crane | American actor, restaurateur | see Lana Turner | |||||
Tyrone Curtis | American basketball player | Kim Harris | 1989 | 1997 | 2015 | [4][5] | |
Mitch Daniels | American politician | Cheri Herman | 1978 | 1993 | 1997 | ||
Rodney Dangerfield | American comedian | Joyce Indig | 1949 | 1962 | 1963 | 1970 | |
Hugh Sykes Davies | British poet, novelist | Fay de Courcy | 1947 | 1962 | 1982 | She was the 3rd and 5th of his 5 wives[6] | |
Gloria DeHaven | American actress | Richard Fincher | 1957 | 1963 | 1965 | 1969 | |
Colleen Dewhurst | Canadian actress | George C. Scott | 1960 | 1965 | 1967 | 1972 | |
Rachel Donelson | Wife of future United States President | see Andrew Jackson | |||||
Sir Talbot Duckmanton | ABC general manager | Janet Strickland | 1979 | 1981 | ?? | ||
Eminem | American rapper, actor | Kim Scott | 1999 | 2001 | 2006 | 2006 | |
James T. Farrell | American writer | Dorothy Butler | 1931 | ?? | 1955 | - | They separated again in 1958, but remained married until his death. In between these marriages to Butler, he married and divorced another wife |
José Ferrer | American actor | see Rosemary Clooney | |||||
Mel Ferrer | American actor | Frances Gunby Pilchard | 1937 | 1939 | 1944 | 1953 | These were the first and third of his six marriages |
Eugene Fodor | American violinist | Susan Davis | 1978 | 1986 | 2010 | - | He died in 2011, three months after their remarriage. |
Friedrich Franz | Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin | Karin Elisabeth von Schaper | 1941 | 1967 | 1977 | - | |
Emma Goldman | Russian-American political activist | Jacob Kershner | 1887 | 1887 | 1888 | 1899 | She divorced Kershner after discovering on their wedding night that he was impotent; she nevertheless agreed to remarry him |
Pancho Gonzales | American tennis player | Madelyn Darrow | 1960 | 1968 | 1970 | 1972 | He married and divorced 6 times and had 8 children |
Elliott Gould | American actor | Jenny Bogart | 1973 | 1975 | 1978 | 1979 | Gould's earlier marriage was to Barbra Streisand |
Carol Grace | American actress, writer | William Saroyan | 1943 | 1949 | 1951 | 1952 | She later married Walter Matthau |
Melanie Griffith | American actress | Don Johnson | 1976 | 1976 | 1989 | 1996 | |
Leland Hayward | American theatrical producer | Inez "Lola" Gibbs | 1921 | 1924 | 1930 | 1934 | |
Leona Helmsley | American businesswoman | Joseph Lubin | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
Benny Hinn | American evangelist | Suzanne Harthern | 1979 | 2010 | 2013 | - | |
Paul Hogan | Australian comedian, actor | Noeline Edwards | 1958 | 1981 | 1982 | 1990 | After divorcing the first time, they continued to reside under the same roof |
Terrence Howard | American actor, singer | Lori McCommas | 1989 | 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | |
Ken Hughes | British film director | Charlotte Epstein | 1946 | 1957 | 1982 | 2001 | |
Andrew Jackson | President of the United States | Rachel Donelson Robards | 1791 | - | 1794 | - | They married in 1791, believing her divorce from her first husband Captain Lewis Robards was final. When it was revealed this was not the case, and that their marriage was null and void, they married again in 1794. She died before he became president. |
John Jarratt | Australian actor | Rosa Miano | 1974 | 1988 | 2017 | - | He married 2 other women, including Noni Hazlehurst, before returning to Rosa |
Don Johnson | American actor | see Melanie Griffith | |||||
Frida Kahlo | Mexican artist | Diego Rivera | 1929 | 1939 | 1940 | - | |
George Kennedy | American film, TV actor | Norma "Rebel" Wurman[7] | 1959 | 1971 | 1973 | 1978 | |
Larry King | American television, radio host | Alene Akins | 1961 | 1963 | 1967 | 1972 | |
Estée Lauder | American cosmetician | Joseph Lauter | 1930 | 1939 | 1942 | - | Joseph Lauter later changed his surname to Lauder |
Stan Laurel | English actor | Virginia Rogers | 1934 | 1937 | 1941 | 1946 | |
NeNe Leakes | American television personality | Gregg Leakes | 1997 | 2011 | 2013 | 2021 | Gregg died in September 2021.[8] |
Lotte Lenya | German singer, actress | Kurt Weill | 1926 | 1933 | 1937 | - | |
Jerry Lee Lewis | American singer and pianist | Myra Gale Brown | 1957 | 1958 | 1970 | The marriage to Brown, his cousin once removed and the third of his seven wives, took place before his second marriage was finalised, so he married her again to ensure its validity | |
Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé | Salvadoran-American mental health-care advocate | see John Forbes Nash Jr. | |||||
Marga López | Argentine-Mexican actress | Carlos Amador | 1941 | ? | 1961 | ? | |
Sophia Loren | Italian actress | Carlo Ponti | 1957 | 1962 | 1966 | - | As Ponti was still married to his first wife, his marriage to Loren was annulled in 1962. After his divorce, they married a second time |
Joyce Mathews | American actress | see Milton Berle and Billy Rose | |||||
Gavin MacLeod | American actor | Patti Kendig | 1972 | 1982 | 1985 | - | |
Dame Hilary Mantel | British novelist | Gerald McEwen | 1973 | 1981 | 1982 | - | |
Tommy Manville | American socialite | He was married 13 times to 11 women; the record is somewhat confused | |||||
Kid McCoy | American pugilist, actor | Julia Woodruff | 1897 | 1900 | 1901 | 1902 | They married and divorced a third time 1902-?. McCoy was married 10 times to 8 women. Woodruff was his 3rd, 4th and 5th wife.[9] |
Carson McCullers | American novelist | Reeves McCullers | 1937 | 1941 | 1945 | - | Reeves committed suicide in 1953, after failing to persuade Carson to join him in a suicide pact. Carson had attempted suicide in 1948. |
David Merrick | American entrepreneur | Etan Aronson | ?? | ?? | ?? | ?? | |
Sarah Miles | English actress | see Robert Bolt | |||||
Jan Morris | UK historian, novelist, travel writer | Elizabeth Tuckniss | 1949 | ? | 2008 | They married when he was a male named James Morris; after his sex change, they divorced; their 2008 reunion was under a civil partnership | |
Lebohang Morake | South African producer and composer | Angela Ngani-Casara | 2009 | 2013 | 2016 | 2017 | |
Elon Musk | Canadian-American business magnate, engineer | Talulah Riley | 2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2016 | They filed for a divorce in 2014 but this application was withdrawn. |
John Forbes Nash Jr. | American mathematician | Alicia Lopez-Harrison de Lardé | 1957 | 1963 | 2001 | - | They both died in a car accident in 2015 |
Ne Win | Burmese politician and military commander | Ni Ni Myint | ? | ? | ? | - | She was the 4th and 6th of his wives |
Jennifer O'Neill | American actress | Richard Alan Brown | 1986 | 1989 | 1993 | 1996 | Brown was her 6th and 8th husband, of her so-far 9 marriages |
Marie Osmond | American singer, actress | Steve Craig | 1982 | 1985 | 2011 | - | |
Jack Paar | American actor | Irene Paar | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
Dorothy Parker | American writer, humorist | Alan Campbell | 1934 | 1947 | 1950 | 1963 | |
Carlo Ponti | Italian film producer | see Sophia Loren | |||||
Gladys Portugues | American body builder, actress | see Jean-Claude Van Damme | |||||
Richard Pryor | American comedian, actor | Jennifer Lee | 1979 | 1982 | 2001 | - | |
Flynn Belaine | 1986 | 1987 | 1990 | 1991 | |||
Esther Rahim | Pakistani painter | Jalaludin Abdur Rahim | 1929 | 1945 | 1952 | - | |
Jalaludin Abdur Rahim | Pakistani politician | see Esther Rahim | |||||
Erich Maria Remarque | German-American novelist | Ilse Jutta Zambona | 1925 | 1930 | 1938 | 1957 | |
Ruth Rendell | British crime novelist | Don Rendell | 1950 | 1975 | 1977 | - | |
Diego Rivera | Mexican sculptor | see Frida Kahlo | |||||
Rachel Donelson Robards | Wife of future United States president | see Andrew Jackson | |||||
Billy Rose | American impresario, producer, lyricist | Joyce Mathews | 1956 | 1959 | 1961 | 1963 | Mathews had earlier twice married and divorced Milton Berle. Rose divorced three other women, including Fanny Brice and Eleanor Holm. |
Phil Ruffin | American businessman | Mary Louise Miller | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
Rick Salomon | American poker player | see Pamela Anderson | |||||
William Saroyan | American playwright, novelist | see Carol Grace | |||||
Hermann Scherchen | German conductor | Auguste Marie (Gustl) Jansen | 1921 | ?? | 1929 | ?? | Of his 6 marriages, those to Jansen were his first and third. |
George C. Scott | American actor | see Colleen Dewhurst | |||||
Jerry Sheindlin | American author | see Judy Sheindlin | |||||
Judy Sheindlin | American TV judge ("Judge Judy") | Jerry Sheindlin | 1977 | 1990 | 1991 | - | |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | English poet | Harriet Westbrook | 1811 | - | 1814 | They firstly eloped to Scotland, but this marriage was not recognised under English law; the second marriage, in London, rectified this. They separated but never divorced; three weeks after Harriet's suicide in 1816, Shelley married Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | |
Dmitri Shostakovich | Soviet composer, pianist | Nina Varzar | 1932 | 1935 | ? 1936 | - | They remarried when it was revealed she was pregnant with his child. They remained married until her death in 1954 but the marriage was open and he had other relationships. |
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Russian novelist | Natalia Reshetovskaya | 1940 | 1952 | 1957 | 1972 | |
Radek Štěpánek | Czech tennis player | Nicole Vaidišová | 2010 | 2013 | 2018 | ||
Yma Sumac | Peruvian singer | Moisés Vivanco | 1942 | 1957 | 1957 | 1965 | |
Dame Elizabeth Taylor | British-American actress | see Richard Burton | |||||
Amanda Thane | Australian operatic soprano | Glenn Winslade | 1978 | 1989 | 1999 | - | Thane died in 2012 |
Gene Tierney | American actress | see Oleg Cassini | |||||
Lana Turner | American actress | Joseph Stephen Crane | 1942 | 1943 | 1943 | 1944 | Crane's divorce from his first wife was not final when he married Turner in 1942, so the marriage was annulled. When Turner discovered she was pregnant to him, she remarried him, but they divorced the following year |
Nicole Vaidišová | Czech tennis player | see Radek Štěpánek | |||||
Jean-Claude Van Damme | Belgian martial artist, actor | Gladys Portugues | 1987 | 1992 | 1999 | 2015 | |
Willem van Otterloo | Dutch conductor | Anette Heukers | 1941 | 1943 | 1944 | 1954 | |
Moisés Vivanco | Peruvian composer | see Yma Sumac | |||||
Robert Wagner | American actor | Natalie Wood | 1957 | 1962 | 1972 | - | |
Barbara Walters | American journalist | Merv Adelson | 1981 | 1984 | 1986 | 1992 | |
Dionne Warwick | American singer | William Elliott | 1966 | 1967 | 1967 | 1975 | |
Kurt Weill | German-American composer | see Lotte Lenya | |||||
Glenn Winslade | Australian operatic tenor | see Amanda Thane | |||||
Glynn "Scotty" Wolfe | Baptist minister | Charlotte Devane | 1935 | 1936 | 1936 | - | Wolfe's second marriage to Charlotte Devane ended in her death in 1938. Wolfe held the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages; he married 31 times to 29 women. His final wife Linda Taylor held the record for the most-married woman (23 husbands). |
Katherine Archer | 1948 | 1948 | 1949 | 1951 | |||
Sharon Goodwin | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | ?? | |||
Natalie Wood | American actress | see Robert Wagner | |||||
Christian Wulff | German President (2010–2012) | Bettina Wulff | 2008 | 2013 | 2015 | 2020 | Third marriage 2023 |
Jane Wyman | American actress | Fred Karger | 1952 | 1955 | 1961 | 1965 | |
Joker Xue | Chinese singer-songwriter | Leixin Gao | 2012 | 2015 | 2017 | - | These were the first and second marriage for both of them, and their first child was born in 2018. |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "20 Stars Who Married The Same Person Twice". ScreenRant. 14 February 2018.
- ^ "Comedian Jack Carter dies at 93". New York Daily News. 29 June 2015.
- ^ "Jack Carter, comedian and film star, dies aged 93". Telegraph. 30 June 2015.
- ^ "Muggsy Bogues has his own story to tell". Baltimore Sun. 7 November 1994. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
- ^ Sorensen, Tom (February 13, 2015). "A Valentine's Day story from ex-Hornet Muggsy Bogues". The Charlotte Observer. Archived from the original on May 30, 2017.
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- ^ Bernstein, Adam (February 29, 2016). "George Kennedy, Oscar-winning character actor of 'Cool Hand Luke,' dies at 91". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on March 2, 2016. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
- ^ Roberts, Jamie (1 September 2021). "Real Housewives star Nene Leakes' husband Gregg dies aged 66 after cancer battle". The Mirror. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ "Norman Selby, aka Kid McCoy or - Genealogy.com". www.genealogy.com.