Cynthia Lillian Lennon née Powell was the first wife of John Lennon.

Cynthia grew up in the middle-class area of Hoylake, on the Wirral, and gained a place at the Liverpool College of Art, which is where she met Lennon in a lettering class. She started a relationship with Lennon, and married him in 1962, after becoming pregnant. They had a son, Julian Lennon, who also became a musician. Julian was their only child together.