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character: Cleveland Brown Jr.
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wikidata: Q2532372
household: Spooner Street
last_verified: 2026-10-20
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# Cleveland Brown Jr.

Cleveland Brown's son, full name Cleveland Orenthal Brown Jr., usually called Junior.

## Core facts

- **Voiced by:** Mike Henry in early Family Guy episodes (S02E05, S02E21); Kevin Michael Richardson since *The Cleveland Show* (credited from S08E19 onwards)
- **First appearance:** Love Thy Trophy (S02E05, 14 March 2000)
- **Created by:** Seth MacFarlane
- **Credited appearances:** 9 episodes across 7 seasons. This is a floor, because the source records at most ten voice credits per episode.

## Relationships

- **Parents:** [Cleveland Brown](cleveland-brown.md) and his late first wife, [Loretta Brown](loretta-brown.md)
- **Stepmother:** [Donna Tubbs-Brown](donna-tubbs-brown.md), whom Cleveland married after settling in Stoolbend, Virginia
- **Stepsiblings:** [Rallo Tubbs](rallo-tubbs.md) and Roberta, Donna's children

## Character history

- In early Family Guy he is thin and sporty. From *The Cleveland Show* onwards he is fourteen and heavily overweight.
- After his parents divorced, he moved with his father to Stoolbend, Virginia.
- He has mild seizure-like episodes, called brainstorms, and takes medication for them.
- He rejects belief in God but declines to call himself an atheist, regarding atheism as a religion too.
- He was a main character in *The Cleveland Show* and has been a recurring minor character in Family Guy since He's Bla-ack!.

## Common errors to avoid

- **The voice actor changed.** Mike Henry voiced him first; Kevin Michael Richardson has voiced him since the spin-off.
- **His design changed.** The thin early version and the overweight later version are the same character.
- **Donna is not his birth mother.** His mother is Loretta.

## Key episodes

- S02E05 Love Thy Trophy: his first appearance, voiced by Mike Henry
- S08E19 The Splendid Source: his first credited episode voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson

## Sources

- https://familyguy.co.uk/characters/cleveland-brown-jr/ (full appearance list by season)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Brown_Jr.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Family_Guy_characters
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2532372

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