Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter and only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and current New York Senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her name was inspired by her parents' fondness for Judy Collins's recording of the Joni Mitchell song "Chelsea Morning".

In Arkansas, Clinton attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts and Science Magnet Elementary School and Horace Mann Junior High School. In Washington, D.C., she attended Sidwell Friends School. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University and a graduate degree from Oxford.

Had a cat, Socks, and a dog, Buddy.

Is an accomplished ballerina, pianist, and soccer player.

While in elementary school, Chelsea skipped the third grade.

Graduated from Sidwell Friends School in Washington D.C. in 1997, where she was on the varsity soccer team.

1997 National Merit Scholar Semi-Finalist.

Daughter of Bill Clinton (I) and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Named one of People magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People of 1996"

She was named after one of her mom's favorite songs, "Chelsea Morning" by Joni Mitchell.

Was born at 11:45 PM, CST

Is a vegetarian.

Was named "Gutsiest Girl in America" by the teenage readers of Jane magazine in 1999.

Her Secret Service code name is "Energy".

Was named to Richard Selzer (I)'s "37th Annual Best Dressed List".

Chelsea's appearance on the cover of People magazine in February 1999 generated more reader mail than any other cover story in People history.

Named one of the "Geeks to watch out for 2000" by geekfactory.com as part of their annual "Geek 100, honoring those Geeks who made a difference this year."

Is portrayed as the lead character in the low-budget movie, Chelsea's Chappaqua (2000).

Was named one of the "Ten Best-Mannered People of 1998" by the National League of Junior Cotillions.

Weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce at birth.

Speaks fluent German.

Her parents gave her a Volkswagen Beetle as a high school graduation present.

Had her tonsils removed when she was a child.

(17 June 2001) Graduated from Stanford University, with a bachelor's degree in history, with highest honors. She wrote her 150-page senior thesis on the 1998 Northern Ireland peace process. It includes interviews with her father, to whom the paper formally refers in the third person.

When Chelsea turned 16, some radio stations in the Washington, D. C. area phoned the White House and offered to give Chelsea a new car. The Clintons declined.

Spent the summer of 1999 interning at the N-Bar Ranch in central Montana, where she helped move cattle, sorted pairs, weighed bulls, assisted with embryo transfers and collected biocontrol insects.

(24 June 2001) Named one of Manhattan File's Big Apple's 100 most eligible New York bachelorettes.

Tattler magazine named her as one of England's ten most eligible women.

Turned down Harvard, Yale, Brown, and Princeton to attend Stanford University from 1997 - 2001.

Dog Buddy was killed on January 2, 2002 by a car after he ran into heavy traffic near the Clinton home in New York. Cat, Socks, was sent to live with her father's former secretary, Betty Currie, in Virginia after her father left office on January 20, 2001.

Majored in chemistry at Stanford before switching to history after 2 years.

Attended Little Rock's Forest Park Elementary School.

(July 2002) Interning for one month with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. Chelsea is working on a new WHO initiative on healthy environments for children.

Was named after the annual "Chelsea Flower Show" in London, which her parents visited a year before Chelsea's birth.

Named one of People Magazine's "25 Most Intriguing People 2002."

(June 2003) Earned her MPhil in International Relations from University College, Oxford University.

She trained at the Washington School of Ballet and danced in performance of the Nutcracker.

Granddaughter of Virginia Clinton Kelley.

Mentioned in the movie Rush Hour (1998).

She trained at the Washington School of Ballet and danced "The Sugar Plum Fairy" in performance of the Nutcracker.

Is a member of the Board of Directors of the School of American Ballet.