Below, Newsweek highlights some of the most interesting social media posts, adding the context and spotting the hidden references.
Mariah Carey
Carey’s parents divorced when she was a toddler, with the future R&B star spending most weekends with her father.
She has spoken fondly of their relationship in the past and wrote about the influence he had on her in her book, The Meaning of Mariah Carey.
“My father craved discipline, culture, and freedom, so he joined the military—a logical choice for a man who’d had no say over the time or skin into which he was born,” she wrote. “My father took surgical care with everything he did.”
Following his death, Carey wrote and recorded the song “Sunflowers for Alfred Roy” in tribute to him. When he was in the hospital with cancer, sunflowers were the only flowers he could tolerate because of his allergies.
Tyler Perry
Actor, director, producer, screenwriter… and father. Tyler Perry’s Father’s Day message included a nod to his close friend, Meghan Markle.
Posting a short video on Facebook, the director included a strategically placed copy of the duchess’ first children’s book The Bench.
Prince Harry and Meghan stayed at one of Perry’s homes when they first moved to relocate from Canada to California.
Prince William and Kate
This Father’s Day tribute noticeably did not feature Meghan.
A picture collage shared by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s official Twitter account featured Kate’s father, Prince William’s father, Prince Charles. It also showed Queen Elizabeth II with her husband, the late Prince Philip, and seven of their great-grandchildren.
David Ortiz
Former Major League Baseball star Ortiz left a poignant picture message for his own father and dads across the world.
In a post written in both English and Spanish, the Dominican-American thanked his dad “for being there for me since the day l was born” and helping shape him into the man he is today.
“…happy Father’s Day to you and to all those fathers that take their time and sacrifice so much to be like my dad…”
Ortiz would famously look up and point skyward when he crossed the plate after hitting a home run. The gesture was a tribute to his mother, Angela Rosa Arias, who died in a car crash in 2002. She was 46-years old.
Kevin Hart
At first glance, not the most interesting of Father’s Day posts. But look beyond the superficial Facebook post and you can watch the comedian speak about the importance of fatherhood, during a preview of his Red Table with actor Will Smith.
“What makes a good father?” Smith asks. Hart replies: “Being different to mine.”
He goes on to say: “When your child shows disappointment you don’t realize the impact that your mistakes can truly have.”
Jennifer Weiner
The author was a teenager when her father abandoned the family, but in a moving Facebook post, the In Her Shoes writer detailed her relationship with him.
She described him as a “wonderful, hands-on” father when she was a young child, however, he also had years when he was none of the good things and all of the bad." He died of a crack cocaine overdose in 2008.
Tyra Banks
The 47-year-old supermodel shared a photo of her with her father, Donald, a computer consultant.
TV personality Banks was photographed with her dad and her own 4-year-old son, York, at a Harlem Globetrotters basketball game in February.
David and Victoria Beckham
The former soccer star turned Inter Miami FC owner teased his dad, David Sr., about how his fashion sense might or might not have inspired him to become a prominent fashion influencer.
Meanwhile, the other half of the power couple shared this photo of herself and her father taken during her original Spice Girls days.