What is the full name of J.K. Rowling’s first child, born in 1993?

J.K. Rowling’s first child, born in 1993, is Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes.

Jessica was born while Rowling was living in Portugal and was named partly in connection with Rowling’s admiration for the activist and journalist Jessica Mitford. Rowling married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in 1992, and the couple separated in 1993.

After returning to the United Kingdom, Rowling became a single parent while developing the manuscript that became Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Her experiences during this period are part of the biographical background to her early writing career, though the novels are fictional rather than autobiographical.

Jessica’s name is sometimes confused with Rowling’s other children. Rowling later married Neil Murray and had a son, David, and a daughter, Mackenzie. Jessica Isabel Rowling Arantes is the eldest of the three children.