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- Agnelli, Umberto
- Abaiang People (under Kiribati)
- Abramovich, Roman
- Abelites
- Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon
- Acre, Mark
- Ada (under Alexander the Great)
- Adie, Kate
- Adler-Collins, Je Kan
- Afrasiab (under Feral Children)
- African Children's Choir
- Agbabi, Patience
- Ahbez, Eden
- Åhlstad, Simon
- Akabusi, Kriss
- Albee, Edward Franklin
- Alda, Frances Jeanne
- Alexander VI
- Alexander the Great
- Allan, Jani
- Amo, Anton Wilhelm
- Amonortais (under God's Wife)
- Andal
- Anderson, Edward Warrigal
- Andrews, Ben
- Angelou, Maya
- Ankhnasneferibre (under God's Wife)
- Ann-Margret
- Anstis, Toby
- Antoine, Josephine Louise
- Antonius Pius (under Roman Empire)
- Apess, William
- Argentinian Orphans of the Dirty War
- Arimardan Singh (under India - Princely States: 10)
- Arirei (under Kiribati)
- Aristotle
- Armstrong, Louis Daniel
- Arthur
- Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily
- Aspinall, John Victor
- Astor, Joshua
- Aucoin, Kevyn
- Audubon, John James
- Augustus Caesar Octavius (under Roman Empire)
- Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
African Children's Choir
This choir of children aged five to 12 years was founded in 1984 by Raymond R. Barnett, himself an Irish-Canadian orphan and ordained minister, who first went to Uganda in 1982. It was begu... [more]
Agbabi, Patience
Agbabi was born in London to Nigerian parents but fostered from birth by a white family, while maintaining frequent contact with her birth family. She was brought up in Sussex and North Wal... [more]
Ahbez, Eden
Ahbez is known as the First Hippy. His life story is unclear but one version has him born in 1908 (another after World War I) to a large and poverty-stricken family in Brooklyn. He and his ... [more]
Åhlstad, Simon
Åhlstad was born in India and adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. He suffered from polio as a child but has become a champion swimmer. In the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics he won the 200 mete... [more]
Akabusi, Kriss
Akabusi was born an Igbo prince in Nigeria, but taken to England as a child, where he went into care when his mother returned to Nigeria. He spent time in a children's home and also had mul... [more]
Albee, Edward Franklin
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]
Alda, Frances Jeanne
Alda (her stage name) was born Fanny Jane Davis in New Zealand. Her parents divorced when she was 15 months old, and her mother, a professional singer, died in 1884, after which young Fanny... [more]
Alexander VI
Pope Alexander VI was born into the wealthy and corrupt Borgia family of Valencia, Spain, and adopted by his maternal uncle, Alfonso Borgia (later Pope Callistus III). He collected religiou... [more]
Alexander the Great
Alexander was one of the greatest generals in history. His empire stretched from Greece to Egypt, Asia Minor and as far east as the River Ind in India. He was born the son of Philip II of ... [more]
Allan, Jani
Allan was adopted aged one month by a wealthy British-South African couple, John and Janet Fry. John Fry died when she was 10. She has been a model and married a wealthy South African, G... [more]
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