Editing Johnny Weissmuller (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Velez-Weissmuller.jpg|thumb|With his second wife, the Mexican actress [[Lupe Vélez]], in a newspaper press photo (1934)]]

Weissmuller was married five times: to band and club singer Bobbe Arnst (married 1931, divorced 1933); to actress [[Lupe Vélez]] (married 1933, divorced 1939); to Beryl Scott (married 1939, divorced 1948); to Allene Gates (married 1948, divorced 1962); and to Maria Gertrude Baumann (born 1921, died 2004; they were married from 1963 until his death in 1984).<ref name=":0" />

With his third wife, Beryl, Weissmuller had three children: [[Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.]] (1940–2006), Wendy Anne Weissmuller (born 1942), and Heidi Elizabeth Weissmuller (1944–1962), who was killed in a car crash. He also had a stepdaughter with Baumann, Lisa Weissmuller-Gallagher.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 10, 2021|title=Lisa Weissmuller, Daughter Of Johnny, Dies In Los Angeles At 66|url=https://www.erbzine.com/gw/GridleyWave297.pdf}}</ref>

Weissmuller saved many people's lives throughout his own life. One very notable instance was in 1927 during training for the Chicago Marathon, when Weissmuller saved 11 people from drowning after a boat accident.<ref name=":0" /> On July 28, 1927, 16 children, 10 women, and 1 man drowned when the ''Favorite'', a small excursion boat cruising from Lincoln Park to Municipal Pier (Navy Pier), capsized half a mile off North Avenue in a sudden, heavy squall. When the boat tipped over, 75 women and children and 6 men sank with the boat, but rescuers saved over 50 of them. Weissmuller was one of the Chicago lifeguards who saved many.<ref>{{Cite web|date=June 1, 2017|title=The Effortless and Legendary Life of Johnny Weissmuller Part 4: Real Life Hero Saves 11 Lives|url=https://theolympians.co/2017/06/01/the-effortless-and-legendary-life-of-johnny-weissmuller-part-4-real-life-hero-saves-11-lives/}}</ref>