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- Caddell, James
- Cain, Dean George Thomas
- Caines, Michael
- Callahan, John
- Cameron, Rhona
- Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki
- Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
- Canadian Native Children
- Capitein, Jacobus
- Capote, Truman
- Caprotti, Gian Giacomo
- Captives
- Cardozo, Abraham
- Carl Louis John
- Carlson, Richard Warner
- Carmody, Kev
- Carr, Harold Herbert
- Carruthers, Kitty
- Carruthers, Peter
- Carter, Forrest
- Carver, George Washington
- Casals, Rosemary
- Casement, Roger David
- Castelo Branco, Camilo
- Catches, Pete
- Catherine I
- Cerullo, Morris
- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch
- Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
- Chaplin, Charles Spencer
- Chaplin, Sydney
- Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste
- Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope
- Child Migrants
- Childebert II
- Childebert III Adoptivus
- Chinese Qing Dynasty
- Chips, Horn
- Chisholm, Colin
- Choi Yong Sul
- Chosroes II
- Christy, Hirini Whaanga
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church, Charlotte
- Church, John
- Clapton, Eric
- Clare, Monica
- Clausen, Curt
- Clinton, William Jefferson
- Clitus Niger
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Cockenoe
- Cohn, Leopold
- Colden, Cadwallader
- Cole, Carol
- Cole, George
- Cole, Lynnette
- Cole, Nat Kelly
- Cole, Nat King
- Collins, Joely
- Commager, Henry Steele
- Connolly, Brian
- Conrad, Joseph
- Constantius I (under Roman Empire)
- Cookson, Catherine Anne
- Coolidge, Sherman
- Coombs, Herbert Cole (under Honorific Adoption)
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Cosmas Melodus
- Crawford, Christina
- Crazy Horse
- Cross, June
- CuChulain
- Cugoano, Ottobah
- Cullen, Countée
- Cullen, Eric Robertson
- Culpepper, Daunte
- Custis, George Washington Parke
- Cyrus the Great
Caddell, James
Caddell was an English cabin-boy on a sealing ship, the Sydney Cove, in Foveaux Strait, between Stewart Island and the South Island of New Zealand, when he was captured by the local Maori p... [more]
Cain, Dean George Thomas
Cain's birth-father is Japanese-Irish and his mother is white; he identifies himself as Japanese, but has never had any contact with his father. His parents were divorced before he was b... [more]
Caines, Michael
Caines is a transracial adoptee, born in Jamaica and raised in Exeter. He was trained as a chef by Raymond Blanc. In 1994 he lost his right arm in a car accident, but with hard work, dedica... [more]
Callahan, John
Callahan was born to an unmarried woman in Portland, Oregon, and adopted as a baby by a childless couple who then had five birth children. He felt an outsider in his family and began to abu... [more]
Cameron, Rhona
Cameron was born in Dundee or Musselburgh, Scotland, and adopted when she was very young. Her adoptive father also died, when she was 14, sending her into a long-term depression. She was... [more]
Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki
Campbell was born in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific and is part Cook Island Maori. Orphaned as a young child, he was sent to Dunedin, NZ, and raised there in an orphanage from 1933, ... [more]
Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
Campbell is part Portuguese, Northern Cheyenne (and has been inducted into their council of chiefs) and possibly also Apache and Pueblo, a rancher and horse trainer, jewellery designer, jud... [more]
Canadian Native Children
Canadian Native Children were, as were Native American and Alaskan Native Children , and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children , routinely rounded up and taken away fr... [more]
Capitein, Jacobus
Capitein was a former slave brought to the Netherlands by a Dutch ship captain. In Leiden he attended school, learned several European languages and in 1742 he became a clergyman after theo... [more]
Capote, Truman
At the age of six Capote's parents abandoned him to the care of four elderly, unmarried maternal cousins, three sisters and a brother, living together. He was a high-school dropout, apprent... [more]
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