in 1943 In 1918, whilst they were both studying medicine at the
University of Adelaide, Cilento became engaged to, and on 18 March 1920 at St Columba's Church of England,
Hawthorn he married
Phyllis McGlew, who also became a well-known medical practitioner and medical writer. They briefly set up in general practice in
Tranmere before departing for Malaya in October. Together they had three sons and three daughters. The three sons and Ruth became medical practitioners, Margaret became an artist, and Diane became an actress. :Raphael C. F. Cilento (19 February 1921 – 21 May 2012) became a neurosurgeon. He married Billie Solomon in 1947, and had four children: Adrienne, Julien, Vivienne and Raphael. He took over his mother's practice in Brisbane in 1949. In 1953, he had a son Vivian Walker (later Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal) with Kath Walker (later
Oodgeroo Noonuccal), who was working for his parents as a domestic servant. He later divorced Billie and married Mavis Ross in 1958. They had five children: Penny, Giovanna, Abby, Naomi and Benjamin. His youngest son, Benjamin West Cilento, also became a physician who lived in the
Houston, Texas area with his wife and three children. He is also an accomplished artist in his own right. From 1963–2007, Raphael was licensed to practise in New York. He had a fall in his early 80s that incapacitated him and he died of pneumonia at the age of 91. :
Margaret Cilento (23 December 1923 – 21 November 2006) became a painter and printmaker. She grew up in
Brisbane, moved to Sydney in 1943, and joined her father in New York in 1945. She spent most of the 1950s and early 1960s in Europe, marrying Geoffrey Maslen in 1963, and returned to Brisbane in 1965 to raise their family. She took up art again seriously around 2000, holding several exhibitions. :Ruth A Yolanda Cilento (30 July 1925 – 18 April 2016) graduated in medicine and surgery from Queensland University in 1949. She took up duty at Cairns Base Hospital in December 1949, and married Westall David Smout in 1950. In addition to a medical career, she had three children, is a sculptor, a sketcher, has an angora goat stud and wrote a children's book,
Moreton Bay Adventure in 1961, which elder sister Margaret illustrated. :Carl Lindsay Cilento (1928-2004) married Diana Lauderdale Maitland in 1952. They had six children: Peter (1953), Miranda (1955), Joanne and Belinda (1957), Richard (1961) and Madeline (1966). :
Elizabeth Diane Cilento (2 April 1932 – 6 October 2011) was born in Brisbane. ==Other interests==