David Suzuki is a father of 5 children: Who are they?

David Suzuki is an award-winning Canadian academic geneticist, science broadcaster and environmental activist. Since the mid-1970s, Suzuki has been known for his television and radio series, documentaries and books about nature and the environment. He is best known as host and narrator of the popular and long-running CBC Television science program The Nature of Things, seen in over 40 countries. He is also well known for criticizing governments for their lack of action to protect the environment.

Suzuki, a long-time climate change activist, co-founded the David Suzuki Foundation in 1990 with his wife Tara Elizabeth Cullis to work “to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that does sustain us.” Priorities for the Foundation include oceans and sustainable fishing, climate change and clean energy, sustainability, and Suzuki’s Nature Challenge.

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The Foundation is also working on ways to protect the oceans from large oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster. From 1982 to 1987, Suzuki was also a director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

Who are David Suzuki’s children?

Aside from all these wins, David Suzuki is a family man. He has been married twice is a father of 5 children. Suzuki’s first marriage was to Setsuko Joane Sunahara from 1958 to 1965; the couple had three children- Tamiko Suzuki, Troy Suzuki, Laura Suzuki. After his marriage with Setsuko Joane Sunahara came to an end, he met and married his current wife Tara Elizabeth Cullis. Suzuki’s second marriage also produced two children- Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Sarika Cullis-Suzuki.

David Suzuki’s children- Tamiko Suzuki, Troy Suzuki, and Laura Suzuki

Tamiko Suzuki is the first child of David Suzuki and his first wife Setsuko Joane Sunahara. According the scientist, his first child Tamiko was a good student. She went to McGill University in Montreal and studied biology. At McGill, Tamiko met and fell in love with Eduardo Campos, a Chilean Canadian. The couple walked down the aisle after graduation and decided to have a footloose life, working for periods and saving enough money to travel to different parts of the world.

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However, she reaccessed her decision later and decided to have child- Tamo, David Suzuki’s first grandson. Accroding to Vancouverobserver‘s report, David Suzuki’s daughter Tamiko and granddaughter Midori Campos crossed the police line, while protesting the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain. The women were promptly arrested.

Tamiko Suzuki and the other protesters were detained for violating the court order prohibiting protesters from interfering with Kinder Morgan’s survey work for a new pipeline route through the conservation area. Since then, they have all been released, according to Burnaby Mountain Updates’ Facebook page.

Troy Suzuki was born in January 1962. He is 61 years old as of 2023. Troy is the second born of the famous scientist. His name came from the father of Suzuki’s roommate Howie Bonnett in college. According to Suzuki, his son Troy Suzuki suffered from the expectations teachers inadvertently laid on him. “Oh, are you going to be a scientist like your father?” they would ask innocently. However, he reacted by not trying at all to compete academically, David revealed.

Laura Suzuki was born on July 4, 1964 in British Columbia. She is 59 years old as of 2023. She was conceived before her parents had agreed to separate. Her father revealed  she was born prematurely and at that very same time he went into the hospital for a month in isolation after contracting hepatitis b from eating contaminated oysters.

Per japanesecanadianartists, David Suzuki’s daughter Laura Suzuki is a multidisciplinary graphic designer with a background in biological psychology, science writing, and print and web design. She co-founded Doodletronics with illustrator Peter Cook, which specializes in web communications and also publishes children’s books about science, nature, and the environment.

 Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Sarika Cullis-Suzuki.

 Severn Cullis-Suzuki and Sarika Cullis-Suzuki are from David’s second marriage to Tara Elizabeth Cullis. Severn Cullis-Suzuki was born on November 30, 1979. She is 44 years old as of 2023. She is an environmental activist and writer. She has spoken around the world about environmental issues, urging listeners to define their values, act with the future in mind and take individual responsibility.

Severn Cullis-Suzuki tied the knot in 2008 to Cullis-Suzuki and lived with her husband and two sons in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, until August 2021. Severn moved to Vancouver, BC in order to start her new role as the Executive Director of the David Suzuki Foundation, which she began in September 2021.

Severn is not the only person making the family proud, Sarika Cullis-Suzuki was named one of Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 by Explore Magazine, and an “influential Canadian millennial” by Huffington Post Canada in 2012. In 2015, she was also featured as Ms. Chatelaine.

David Suzuki’s daughter Sarika is a member of the Centre for the Salish Sea’s board of directors and a visiting scientist with Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria. She is also an honorary board member of the David Suzuki Foundation and a member of the WWF-Canada Oceans Advisory Committee.