Hart wrestling family

The Hart wrestling family is a Canadian family with a long history associated with professional wrestling. The patriarch of the family is wrestling legend Stu Hart, amateur and professional wrestler, promoter, and trainer.

Members

 * Smith (b. 1949), wrestler.
 * Bruce (b. 1951), a wrestler and promoter
 * Keith (b. 1952), wrestler and firefighter
 * Wayne (b. 1953), wrestling referee.
 * Dean (1954-1990) who died of kidney failure, also a wrestler.
 * Ellie (b. 1955), who married the wrestler Jim Neidhart, with whom she had three daughters: Jennifer, Kristen (Muffy) and Nattie Neidhart.
 * Georgia (b. 1956), who married the wrestler, firefighter and gym owner B.J. Annis, with whom she had four children: Teddy Hart, Matt (who died from flesh-eating disease in 1996 at the age of thirteen), Annie and Angela. She is currently employed in Calgary at The Cookbook Company.
 * Bret (b. 1957), WWF and WCW wrestling legend. Bret has four children with his first wife Julie, whose sister, Michelle was married to the Dynamite Kid.
 * Alison (b. 1959), who was married to the wrestler Ben Bassarab, with whom she has two daughters, Lindsay and Brooke Bassarab.
 * Ross (b. 1961), a wrestling producer and part-time wrestler.
 * Diana (b. 1963), who was married to the wrestler Davey Boy Smith (The British Bulldog) up until 2000. She wrote a book entitled Under the Mat about life in the Hart family. It was removed from bookstores only weeks after its release in November 2001, following a lawsuit by Owen Hart's widow Martha over the contents. Her son is wrestler Harry Smith, and she and Davey also have a daughter together, Georgia Smith.
 * Owen (1965-1999), a WWF wrestler who died when a wrestling stunt involving a rope descent from the top of an arena to ring level went wrong.