- Father of Taya Snow with Christophe De Menil; Ganden Thurman, Uma Thurman, Dechen Thurman and Mipam Thurman with Nena Thurman.
- His mother, Elizabeth Dean Farrar, was a stage actress. His father, Beverly Reid Thurman Jr., was an editor for A.P. and a U.N. translator (French to English).
- College professor of actor Jake Gyllenhaal while he was enrolled at Columbia University.
- Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman is an American Buddhist author and academic who lived for three years as an ordained Buddhist monk. He has written, edited, and translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism, and was the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, before retiring in June 2019.
- Father of Uma Thurman.
- Former father-in-law of Ethan Hawke and Gary Oldman.
- His father was from Tennessee and his mother was from New York. He has English, Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Scottish, and German ancestry.
- Thurman and his wife Nena were involved in the making of the underground film Ciao Manhattan (1972), which was planned in 1967 by a splinter group from Andy Warhol's Factory and starred iconic Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick, who died of a drug overdose shortly after filming ended in 1971. Scenes of the Thurmans were shot but deleted in the final release.
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