Tom Hanks - Family and Companions

• father Amos Hanks: divorced Hanks' mother in 1960; had custody of Hanks and two older siblings; married two more times; died in 1992
• mother Janet Turner: divorced Hanks' father in 1960; retained custody of Jim Hanks; remarried several times
• sister Sandra Hanks: born on July 31, 1951
• brother Larry Hanks: born on January 26, 1953; teaches at University of Illinois
• brother Jim Hanks: younger; born on June 15, 1961
• siblings : has numerous half-siblings and stepsiblings due to parents' marriages
• son Colin Hanks: born in 1977; mother, Samantha Lewes (aka Susan Dillingham)
• daughter Elizabeth Ann Hanks: born on May 17, 1982; mother, Samantha Lewes (aka Susan Dillingham)
• son Chester Marlon Hanks: born on August 4, 1990; mother, Rita Wilson
• son Truman Theodore Hanks: born on December 26, 1995; mother, Rita Wilson

• wife Samantha Lewes: were college sweethearts; married in 1979; mother of Hanks's older two children; separated in 1985; divorced in 1987
• wife Rita Wilson: born c. 1956; married 1988; mother of Hanks' second and third sons; met on the set of "Volunteers" (1985)