Editing Olivia Newton-John (section)

==Early life and family==
Olivia Newton-John was born on 26 September 1948<ref name="Eurovisionary">{{cite web|url=https://www.eurovisionary.com/eurovision-biography/olivia-newton-john-biography|title=Olivia Newton-John biography|date=7 November 2008|website=EuroVisionary|language=en-GB|access-date=5 November 2019}}</ref> in [[Cambridge]] to [[Brinley Newton-John|Brinley "Brin" Newton-John]] (1914–1992) and Irene Helene (née Born; 1914–2003).<ref name="Eurovisionary" /> Her father was born and raised in [[Welsh people|Wales]] to a middle-class family. Her mother was born and raised in Germany to a German Jewish academic family who came to the UK in 1933 to escape the [[Nazi Germany|Nazi regime]].<ref>{{cite web |date=8 August 2022 |title=Olivia Newton-John, 'Grease' star and granddaughter of Jewish Nobel laureate, dies at 73 |url=https://www.jta.org/2022/08/08/obituaries/olivia-newton-john-grease-star-and-granddaughter-of-jewish-nobel-laureate-dies-at-73 |access-date=10 August 2022 |publisher=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i2p1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 |title=Don't Stop Believin' - Olivia Newton-John - Google Books |isbn=9781982122263 |access-date=10 August 2022|last1=Newton-John |first1=Olivia |date=12 March 2019 |publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref>

Newton-John's maternal grandfather was [[German Jewish]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]]–winning physicist [[Max Born]].<ref name="maxborn">{{cite journal|url=http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/56/2/219.full.pdf|title=The wide-ranging family history of Max Born|year=2002|publisher=royalsocietypublishing.org|author=G.V.R. Born|journal=Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London|volume=56|issue=2|pages=219–262|doi=10.1098/rsnr.2002.0180|s2cid=72026412|access-date=2 March 2012}}</ref><ref>Multiple sources:
* {{cite web|url=http://www.tiemohollmann.de/Inhalt/Claussen/ppl/e/6/c0f949bd5342a64d66e.html|title=Genealogy of Tiemo Hollmann – Born, Irene Helene|date=9 January 2012|publisher=Tiemohollmann.de|access-date=11 November 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130223045/http://www.tiemohollmann.de/Inhalt/Claussen/ppl/e/6/c0f949bd5342a64d66e.html|archive-date=30 November 2012}}
* {{cite journal|year=1995|title=Recollections of Max Born|journal=Astrophysics and Space Science|volume=227|issue=1|pages=277–97|last1=Wolf|first1=Emil|doi=10.1007/bf00678085|bibcode=1995Ap&SS.227..277W|s2cid=189849885}} Born was practising Lutheranism before being officially baptised as a Lutheran in March 1914, before Irene's birth.
* {{Cite web|url=https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/wroclaw/Max_Born.html|title=Max Born|website=kehilalinks.jewishgen.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Conocimiento |first=Ventana al |date=5 January 2018 |title=Max Born, the Quantum Physicist who Believed that "God Plays Dice" |url=https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/leading-figures/max-born-the-rival-of-einstein-who-believed-that-god-plays-dice/ |access-date=22 March 2023 |website=OpenMind |language=en-US}}</ref> Her maternal grandmother Hedwig was the daughter of German Jewish jurist [[Victor Ehrenberg (jurist)|Victor Ehrenberg]] and his Lutheran wife, Helene Agatha von Jhering. Through Helene Agatha, Newton-John was a descendant of Protestant theologian [[Martin Luther]]. She was also descended from an unspecified Spanish monarch.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.universalcompendium.com/tables/his/gen/links/onj-luther.htm|title=Olivia Newton-John's links to notable persons|website=www.universalcompendium.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.12min.com/dont-stop-believin-pdf-summary|title=Excerpts from Olivia's Don't Stop Believin' memoir|date=23 May 2019 }}</ref> Helene Agatha's own father, Newton-John's great-great-grandfather, was jurist [[Rudolf von Jhering]]. Newton-John's uncle was pharmacologist [[Gustav Victor Rudolf Born]]. Through her Ehrenberg line, Newton-John was a third cousin of comedian [[Ben Elton]].<ref name="maxborn" />

Newton-John's father was an [[MI5]] officer<ref>{{cite web|title=Olivia Newton-John Biography|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/olivia-newton-john.html|website=The Biography Channel (UK)|publisher=AETN-UK|access-date=9 March 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140309055031/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/olivia-newton-john.html|archive-date=9 March 2014}}</ref> on the [[Enigma machine|Enigma]] project at [[Bletchley Park]] who took [[Rudolf Hess]] into custody during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/7749272/Fame-and-Fortune-Olivia-Newton-John.html |first1=Sarah |last1=Ewing |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/7749272/Fame-and-Fortune-Olivia-Newton-John.html |archive-date=10 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Fame & Fortune: Olivia Newton-John |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=21 May 2010}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.merrymedia.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2416&Itemid=62|title=Olivia Newton-John on The Biography Channel|publisher=Merrymedia.co.uk|date=3 February 2007|access-date=10 November 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090202202748/http://www.merrymedia.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2416&Itemid=62|archive-date=2 February 2009}}</ref> After the war, he became the headmaster of the [[Cambridgeshire High School for Boys]] and was in this post when Newton-John was born.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-school-olivia-newton-johns-22594051|title=The Cambs school where Olivia Newton-John's dad was headteacher|first=Gabrielle|last=Wilde|date=29 December 2021|website=CambridgeshireLive}}</ref>

Newton-John was the youngest of three children, following her brother Hugh (1939–2019), a medical doctor, and her sister Rona (1941–2013), an actress who was married to restaurateur Brian Goldsmith<ref name="Engagement Rona to Brian">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article265714834 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Australian Jewish Herald|volume=24 |issue=29 |date=26 March 1959 |access-date=22 August 2022 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and was later married to Newton-John's ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'' co-star [[Jeff Conaway]] (from 1980 until their divorce in 1985). She also had a half-brother, Toby, and a half-sister, Sarah, both of whom were born of her father's second marriage.

In early 1954, when Newton-John was five, her family emigrated to [[Melbourne]], [[Victoria (state)|Victoria]], on the [[RMS Strathaird|SS ''Strathaird'']].<ref name="Pass List 1954">{{cite web |url=https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Gallery151/dist/JGalleryViewer.aspx?B=30133959&S=4&N=26&R=0#/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=30133959&T=P&S=4 |title=Digital Item Page Gallery |publisher=[[National Archives of Australia]] |date=25 January 1954 |access-date=22 August 2022 }} Note: London to Fremantle, Western Australia.</ref> Her father worked as a professor of German and as the master of [[Ormond College]] at the [[University of Melbourne]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-ohh-sandy-vol-10-no-5/|title=Ohh Sandy!|website=People|first=Robert|last=Windeler|date=31 July 1978|access-date=10 November 2008}}</ref> Her family attended church while her father served as the head of the Presbyterian college.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ncregister.com/cna/olivia-newton-john-attended-catholic-mass-said-favorite-prayer-daily|title=Olivia Newton-John Attended Catholic Mass, Said 'Favorite Prayer' Daily|website=NCR|date=11 August 2022 }}</ref>

Newton-John attended Christ Church Grammar School in the Melbourne suburb of [[South Yarra]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carbone |first1=Suzanne |title=Romantic reunion of a kind on stage for Olivia |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/romantic-reunion-of-a-kind-on-stage-for-olivia-20120221-1tllp.html |access-date=5 August 2019 |work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=22 February 2012}}</ref> and then the [[University High School, Melbourne|University High School]] in [[Parkville, Victoria|Parkville]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newton-John |first=Olivia |year=2018 |title=Don't Stop Believin' |location=Camberwell, Australia |publisher=Viking Australia |isbn=978-0143788935 | page=40}}</ref>