Meet Donald Trump's four siblings — including federal judge


Donald is one of five Trump children, and not the only one to find noteworthy success in the world of business and politics


Photograph dated 1982 of Donald John Trump.© Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Daisy Finch
Daisy FinchAudience Writer
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It can't be easy being the President's brother, but several of Donald Trump's siblings have had their own notable career successes, including an impressive run as a federal judge. Read on to find out more about this famous family tree, the lives of Donald's four siblings and the parents who welcomed a crying future-president...

Mary Trump and Fred Trump attend the PAL dinner in May 1987 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. © Getty Images

Donald Trump's parents had very different backgrounds

Meet the parents

Born to German immigrants Elizabeth Christ and Frederick Trump in 1905, Frederick Christ Trump followed his father into a successful real estate portfolio. His career included several public controversies, including accusations he had been profiteering from affordable housing and that he had refused to rent to black people and Puerto Ricans.

Donald Trump's mother Mary Anne MacLeod had more humble beginnings, arriving in New York from the island of Lewis at just 18 years old. She married Fred six years later and became a US citizen in 1942. Mary passed in 2000 at the age of 88, while Fred died the year before.

Maryanne Trump Barry.© Getty Images

Maryanne Trump Barry had the backing of several presidents

Maryanne Trump Barry

The first born of the Trump siblings, Maryanne Trump Barry, arrived in 1937. She had a successful career as a senior judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Maryanne was picked for the role of district judge by Ronald Reagan in 1983 and nominated as a Circuit Judge by Bill Clinton in 1999, before assuming senior status in 2011. 

She stepped back from the role in 2017 and is reportedly close to her presidential brother. Maryanne is a republican, but President Trump previously stated that the pair "have different views a little bit". She was a mother of one, welcomed in her first marriage, while her second husband John Barry passed in 2000, with Maryanne passing away in 2023.

Developer Fred Trump attends the opening of the restored Wollman Rink in Central Park on November 5, 1987 in New York City, New York. © Getty Images

Fred was named after his father, Fred Sr., shown here

Fred Trump Jr.

Frederick is something of a family name, passed from Donald's grandfather to his father and then onto Fred Trump Jr. who was born in 1938. He worked for a while with his father before leaving to become a pilot.

He married and welcomed two children but struggled with alcohol addiction. He passed in 1981 at the age of 42. 

Portrait of American siblings, real estate developer Donald Trump smiles and banker Elizabeth Trump Grau, as they pose together during a brunch at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, January 30, 2005.© Getty Images

Elizabeth Trump Grau is the only living sibling of Donal Trump

Elizabeth Trump Grau

Born in 1942, Elizabeth Trump Grau is the third of the five Trump children and the president's only living sibling of Donald. 

Details on her life are sparser than those of her brothers and sisters, but she is known to have worked as a banker. Elizabeth was married to film producer James Grau from 1989 until his death in 2023.

Portrait of married couple, real estate developer Robert Trump (1948 - 2020) (left) and Blaine Trump, as they pose with the former's bother, fellow deveioper Donald Trump, during an event at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Palm Beach, Florida, January 23, 2005© Getty Images

Robert was the youngest of the five Trump children

Robert Trump

Robert Trump was the youngest of the Trump siblings, born in 1948, two years after Donald. He worked for the family business and kept largely out of the spotlight. 

He married Blaine Trump in 1984, separated in the mid-2000s and officially divorced in 2009. Robert wed his long-term partner Anne Marie Pallan in early 2020 and passed in August 2020. 

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