Adoptee Biographies, Page 2

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Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse was named Curly when he was born, to a Brule Sioux mother and a Lakota Sioux father. He was adopted as an adolescent by High Back Bone (or Hump), a great Oglala Sioux warrior, w... [more]

Dan O'Brien

O'Brien was born in Portland, Oregon and adopted transracially (his birth parents are African-American and Finnish) when he was aged two by a family with two born-to and six adopted childre... [more]

Daunte Culpepper

Culpepper was born to an unmarried teenager in jail for armed robbery (she is now a qualified social worker, with five other children, and they have always been in contact, although he has ... [more]

Dave Thomas

Thomas was adopted as a baby but his adoptive mother died when he was five. His father remarried three times and Thomas had an unsettled childhood. He did not learn he was adopted until ... [more]

Debbie Harry

Harry was adopted aged three months. Her family includes a born-to sister and a cousin who lived with her parents. She spent most of her twenties working at odd jobs, including spells as... [more]

D.M.C.

Darryl "D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels (birth name Darryl Lovelace), bornMay 31, 1964 is one of the pioneers of hip hop culture and founding members of the legendary hip hop group Run... [more]

Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's actor parents died before he was three years old (his father had disappeared before he was born and his mother died in 1811) and he was fostered (never formally adopted) by a merchant... [more]

Edward Albee

Albee has won three Pulitzer Prizes. His 13 plays (including The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, Tiny Alice, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Three Tall Women) are among the most famous in 20th... [more]

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt was born, the eldest of three children into a wealthy and prominent New York family (her uncle was President Theodore Roosevelt), but her mother and one brother died when ... [more]

Eric Dickerson

Dickerson was born and raised in Texas. In high school he was Texas state school 100-yard champion. He was 2nd choice pick in the 1983 National Football League draft, and played for the Ind... [more]