WThis is a list of groups of siblings who achieved notability together, whether in music, arts or other spheres of life.
WThe New Testament describes James, Joseph (Joses), Judas (Jude), and Simon as brothers of Jesus. Also mentioned, but not named, are sisters of Jesus.
WThe Daughters of Zelophehad were five sisters - Mahlah, Noa, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah - mentioned in the Biblical Book of Numbers. They lived during the Israelites' Exodus from Egypt as they prepared to enter the Promised Land and who raised before the Israelite community the case of a woman's right and obligation to inherit property in the absence of a male heir in the family. Zelophehad, a man of the Tribe of Manasseh, had five daughters but no sons, and therefore no male heirs.
WThe Gabor sisters were three famous Hungarian-American actresses/socialites: Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva. Born in Budapest, Hungary, the trio relocated to the United States in hopes of starting film careers.
WThe Goebbels children were the five daughters and one son born to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels. The children, born between 1932 and 1940, were murdered by their parents in Berlin on 1 May 1945, the day both parents committed suicide.
WThe Jugović brothers, or Nine Jugović, commonly known as the Jugovići, the nine sons of Jug Bogdan, are popular mythological characters of Serbian epic poetry. In poems, the Jugović brothers and their blood brother Miloš Obilić fight to their death in the Battle of Kosovo (1389), dying as heroes. This is based on mythology, in which Miloš Obilić and other knights lost their life "in glory as martyrs". One of the earliest accounts of the battle was the Florentine chancellor Coluccio Salutati who described twelve Christian noblemen who broke through the Ottomans, one of whom killed the Sultan.
WThe Karbelashvili brothers – Pilimon, Andria, Petre, Polievktos, and Vasil – were five brothers from Georgia active in the preservation of Georgian musical and religious traditions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For their efforts they were canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church in 2011.
WNine Brothers Kherkheulidze with their mother and sister were heroes of the Battle of Marabda. All of them died defending their motherland.
WThe Phogat sisters are six sisters from Haryana, India, all of whom are wrestlers. In order of their dates of birth, they are: Geeta, Babita, Priyanka, Ritu, Vinesh and Sangeeta. While Geeta, Babita, Ritu and Sangeeta are daughters of former wrestler and coach Mahavir Singh Phogat, Priyanka and Vinesh were brought up by Mahavir after their father, who is the younger brother of Mahavir, died when they were young. Mahavir trained all six of them in wrestling in their home village of Balali in Bhiwani district.
WThe Ruellan brothers were French siblings from Paramé, Brittany, who fought during the First World War. Ten brothers, from a family of fifteen children, were on the front lines. Six were killed in action, setting the record for the highest number of French siblings killed during World War I. A seventh brother, who had been exposed to a chemical agent during the war, died few years later of his injuries.
WThe five Sullivan brothers were World War II sailors of Irish American descent who, serving together on the light cruiser USS Juneau, were all killed in action in and shortly after its sinking around November 13, 1942.
WThe Zosimades or Zosimas brothers were 18th-19th century Greek benefactors and merchants.