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A nepo baby, or nepotism baby, is a famous or notable figure descended from another famous person or affluent family of some kind. In this episode of List Show, host Erin McCarthy lists 18 nepo babies from history, from Charlie Chaplin to Pericles.

00:00 Oscar Wilde
00:55 Intro
01:47 Charlie Chaplin
02:38 Jean Renoir
03:07 George H.W. Bush
03:55 John Quincy Adams
04:27 Benjamin Harrison
04:45 Pericles
05:17 Leo Tolstoy
05:55 Charles Darwin
06:48 Ludwig van Beethoven
07:31 Mary Shelley
08:19 Martin Amis
08:49 Virginia Woolf
09:06 T.S. Eliot
09:13 Emily Dickinson
09:19 Ursula K. Le Guin
09:28 Irène Joliot-Curie
09:58 Louis Zborowski

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