Patrick Arnold Shriver Schwarzenegger (born September 18, 1993) is an American actor and model. He is the elder son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. A member of the Kennedy family, Schwarzenegger is also the grand nephew of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy.
Schwarzenegger was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is the elder son of Maria Shriver, a journalist and author who is a member of the Kennedy family, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born bodybuilder, actor, and former Republican Governor of California. His maternal grandmother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founded the Special Olympics and was a sister of John F. Kennedy and of former U.S. Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward "Ted" Kennedy, and his maternal grandfather, Sargent Shriver, was a United States Ambassador to France, the first director of the Peace Corps, and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee under George McGovern in the 1972 U.S. presidential election.