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- Andy Berlin
- Anthony Williams
- Aristotle
- Art Linkletter
- Bo Diddley
- Buffy Sainte-Marie
- Carl-Theodor Dreyer
- Charlotte Anne Lopez
- Christina Crawford
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Crazy Horse
- Dan O'Brien
- Daunte Culpepper
- Dave Thomas
- Debbie Harry
- D.M.C.
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edward Albee
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eric Dickerson
- Faith Daniels
- Faith Hill
- Freddie Bartholomew
- George Washington Carver
- Greg Louganis
- James MacArthur
- James Michener
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Jesse Jackson
- Jesus
- Jett Williams
- Jim Palmer
- John J. Audubon
- John Hancock
- John Lennon
- Langston Hughes
- Larry Ellison
- Lee Majors
- Leo Tolstoy
- Les Brown
- Lynnette Cole
- Malcolm X
- Mark Acre
- Matthew Laborteaux
- Melissa Gilbert
- Michael Reagan
- Moses
- Nancy Reagan
- Nat King Cole
- Nelson Mandela
- Patrick Labyorteaux
- Peter and Kitty Carruthers
- President Gerald Ford
- President William Clinton
- Priscilla Presley
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- Sarah McLachlan
- Scott Hamilton
- Sen. Paull H. Shin
- Sen. Robert Byrd
- Steve Jobs
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- Tim Green
- Tim McGraw
- Tom Monaghan
- Tommy Davidson
- Victoria Rowell
- Wilson Riles
Andy Berlin
Berlin was adopted as a baby and grew up in a loving family in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, he felt different from others, even fantasizing that his birth parents were Martians. ... [more]
Anthony Williams
Williams was born in Los Angeles and was adopted by Virginia and Lewis Williams, one of eight children in the family. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale and went on to get a doctorat... [more]
Aristotle
Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus, physician to King Amyntas II. His parents died when he was still a very young boy and he was brought up by a guardian, Proxenus, who sent him to Plato's... [more]
Art Linkletter
Linkletter was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He was abandoned by his parents as a child and adopted by an elderly couple who were itinerant evangelists. After several years they settled ... [more]
Bo Diddley
Diddley (a nickname he acquired in his high school days) was born Otha Ellas Bates in Mississippi. He was adopted, along with three cousins, by his mother's cousin and her partner. The fami... [more]
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Sainte-Marie is part Cree and was born on the Piapot Reserve in Canada. She was adopted by a white family from Maine, USA, and raised in Maine and Massachusetts. Her family encouraged her i... [more]
Carl-Theodor Dreyer
Dreyer was born in Copenhagen and went immediately into foster care, but he was adopted in 1891. He first became a journalist but by 1913 he was a caption writer for silent films. His fi... [more]
Charlotte Anne Lopez
Lopez was Miss Teen USA in 1993. She was placed in care by her mentally ill mother as a baby (with her brother and sister) and lived in foster homes in Vermont state for 15 years; by the... [more]
Christina Crawford
Crawford is the adopted daughter of the American movie star Joan Crawford. According to her biography of her mother, made into a movie in 1981, her childhood was bizarre, abusive and unhapp... [more]
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Estés was born to a Mestizo (Native American-Hispanic) couple but adopted as an older child by a family of Hungarian refugee immigrants to America. She is a Ph.D. and a Jungian psychoana... [more]
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