All About John Lennon's Two Sons, Julian and Sean, and Their Very Different Upbringings

The late Beatles member John Lennon was a father to two kids, Julian and Sean Lennon. He welcomed his younger son, Julian, in 1963 with his first wife, Cynthia Lennon. He then welcomed son Sean in 1975 with second his second wife, Yoko Ono.

While rockstars can certainly become overnight sensations these days, no stardom was quite as memorable as The Beatles craze in the 1960s. Together, the foursome comprised of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr made music, rock, and British history.

But while their songs like “Here Comes the Sun” and “Let It Be” will live on, the members’ legacy also lives on through their kids. That’s especially the case for John, who was tragically shot and killed on December 8, 1980. He was only 40 years old at the time.

John was a father to two children, Julian Lennon, who was born in 1963 to John and his first wife Cynthia Lennon, and Sean Lennon, born in 1975 to him and his second wife, Yoko Ono. While having very different relationships with their father, both children have carried on with the family name and followed in their dad’s famous musical footsteps.

When asked about being the “custodian” of his dad’s legacy in a December 2025 interview with CBS News, for instance, Sean embraced the title, while acknowledging how universal his dad’s music was. “Yeah, technically [I am], but obviously the world is also the custodian of his legacy, I would say,” he said. “I’m just doing my best to help make sure that the younger generation doesn’t forget about The Beatles and John and Yoko. That’s how I look at it.”

Of course, carrying on the family name also brought along some pressure. “It had always been, ‘John Lennon’s son, John Lennon’s son,’ and I’m going, ‘For f’s sake.’ I said, what I need to do for me, first and foremost, is to build up a body of work, a foundation that I can stand on, that nobody can take away from me,” Julian told The Guardian in January 2025. “And I continue to do so. It’s not to show off, it’s just to prove to myself that I can actually do this stuff.”

Source: instyle.com/Giovana Gelhoren 

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