Robert Alan Pritzker

Pritzker was married three times:

His first wife was Audrey Frances Gilbert, whom he married on December 19, 1948 and divorced in 1979. In 1981, she married again to Albert B. Ratner, the co-chairman of Cleveland-based real estate developer Forest City Enterprises. Pritzker and Gilbert had three children:

Jennifer N. Pritzker (b. James, 1950) – retired Lt Colonel in the U.S. Army and founder of the Pritzker Military Library. Jennifer has three children: daughter Tal Hava Pritzker and sons Andrew and William.

Linda Pritzker (b. 1953) – psychotherapist and ordained Tibetan Buddhist lama.

Karen Pritzker Vlock (b. 1958) – married to investor Michael Vlock.

In 1980, he married Australian Irene Dryburgh, whom he met while she worked at a Hyatt hotel in Australia. Prior to their divorce in 1989, they had two children:

Matthew Pritzker (b. 1982) – is a real-estate entrepreneur, the head of the Matthew Pritzker Company, former owner of Chicago-based HomeMade Pizza Company, and State Street Pictures.

Liesel Pritzker Simmons (b. 1984) – a child actress who starred in A Little Princess and played the U.S. President's daughter in the film Air Force One. She co-founded with her mother the IDP Foundation, dedicated to "developing innovative, scalable and replicable programs through sustainable initiatives that move away from aid based models and lead to greater progress in the achievement of Education for All for the most deprived."

His third wife, whom he married in 1994, was Sao Mayari Sargent, the daughter of the Austrian author Inge Sargent (née Eberhard), and her first husband Sao Kya Seng, last Saopha of Hsipaw State in Shan State, Burma.

Robert Pritzker preferred to fly coach despite having access to a family-owned corporate jet: "If I ask my managers to go coach how can I go first class? That's leadership."

Pritzker received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1983.

Pritzker's nephew and namesake, J. B., was elected Governor of Illinois in 2018.