Famous Adoptees & Fosterees

Introduction

• The List, A-Z
• What Is This Directory?
• Who Is Included and Excluded?
• Why Such a List?
• What Information Is Included?
• Other Lists
• Acknowledgements

Indexes

• Adoptees & Fosterees
  • Generic Groups
  • Mythological, Traditional and Divine Figures
  • Ethnic Background
  • Nationality or Citizenship
  • Historical Period
  • Career, Profession, or Sphere of Influence
  • Self-Made Men and Women
  • Sexuality: Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transsexuals
  • Who Are or Were Also Adopters or Foster Parents
  • Who Are or Were Also Birth Parents
  • With Special Problems in Childhood or Adulthood
• Their Adoptive and Foster Families; Care Careers
  • Formal, American/European-Type Adoption
  • Formal, American/European-Type Fostering
  • When Adopted, Fostered or Entered the Care System
  • Why Adopted, Fostered or Entered the Care System
  • Who Adopted or Fostered?
  • Adoptive/Foster Family Included Birth Child(ren)
  • Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families
  • Very Poor (Financially) Adoptive or Foster Families
  • Transracial, Transtribal, International or Transcultural Adoption or Fostering
  • Other Kinds of Care Careers
  • Divorce or Premature Death of Adoptive Parent(s)
• Their Birth Families
  • Adoptees/Fosterees from Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Birth Families
  • Birth Parents' Marital Status
  • Birth Siblings
  • Contact With Birth Family

What is the Directory?

This is an alphabetical list of over 700 famous or influential people, with information about their lives and guides to further reading. Each person here was either formally adopted or fostered, lived in an orphanage or children's home, or for some reason was raised for a significant period during childhood by people other than his or her birth parents.

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At the end I have included a number of indexes of different kinds: ethnic group, nationality, profession, historical period, age at placement, transracial adoptees, type of placement, contact with birth family, etc.