18th Century
- Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon
- Amo, Anton Wilhelm
- Apess, William
- Audubon, John James
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Baiteke (under Kiribati)
- Bartram, John
- Basavis (under Devadasi)
- Bayard, James Asheton, Sr.
- Bhayats (under India - Princely States)
- Bogams (under Devadasi)
- Bolívar, Simón
- Boone, Daniel (under Honorific Adoption)
- Brainerd, David
- Brown, Matthew
- Caddell, James
- Capitein, Jacobus
- Captives
- Cardozo, Abraham
- Carl Louis John
- Catherine I
- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch
- Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope
- Child Migrants
- Chinese Qing Dynasty
- Church, John
- Colden, Cadwallader
- Cugoano, Ottobah
- Custis, George Washington Parke
- d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
- de Beauharnais, Eugčne-Rose
- de Beauharnais, Hortense
- de Rossi, Giovanni Battista
- Devadasi
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Fatehsinh I Raje Sahib Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Francis, Benjamin
- Francisco, Peter
- Frank, Eva
- Gay, John
- Geisha
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Hamir Singh II (under India - Princely States: 4)
- Hancock, John
- Hannibal, Abram Petrovich
- Hawai'ian Royal Families
- Haynes, Lemuel
- Hokusai
- Houston, Samuel
- Ibrahim Pasha
- Ivan VI
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jiji Bai Sahib Maharaj (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Jogatis (under Devadasi)
- Karl XIV Johan
- Kean, Edmund
- Keats, John
- Knight, Edward Austen
- Lakhaji Tamachi Jadeja Sahib (under India - Princely States: 3)
- Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis
- Mariner, William
- McAuley, Catherine
- Muko Yoshi
- Muralis (under Devadasi)
- Nanbaree
- Natis (under Devadasi)
- Peter III
- Pomare Dynasty
- Ponsonby, Sarah
- Radisson, Pierre-Esprit
- Raeburn, Henry
- Rajaram II Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Sacagawea
- Saigo Siro
- Sancho, Ignatius
- Seki Takakazu Kowa
- Shabbona
- Shahu II Raje (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Shahu Shivaji II Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Shahu Shivaji Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Shakers
- Shenandoah
- Short, William
- Slaves
- Slocum, Frances
- Smith, Venture
- Swift, Jonathan
- Tamaiti Whangai
- Te Waharoa
- Tecumseh
- Templer, James
- Tenskwatawa
- Thevardiyar (under Devadasi)
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
- Transportees
- Trokosi
- von Kleist, Heinrich
- von Lipp, Joseph
- Weisner, Conrad (under Honorific Adoption)
- Wheatley, Phillis
- Wild Boy of Aveyron (under Feral Children)
- Wirt, William
- Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Wordsworth, William
- Ystumllyn, John
Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon
George Gordon was the grandson of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen. His mother died in 1791 and his father in 1795, leaving him in the care of two guardians: William Pitt the Younger (the ... [more]
Amo, Anton Wilhelm
Amo was born on the Gold Coast (Ghana) about 1703 and taken to Amsterdam when he was about four. He was given to the Duke of Wolfenbüttel and baptised Anton Wilhelm. He was educated with su... [more]
Apess, William
Apess's parents were itinerant basket-makers and he lived as a young child mostly with his grandparents, who were very cruel to him. When his grandmother broke his arm he was rescued by an ... [more]
Audubon, John James
Audubon was born in what is now Haiti, the son of a well-to-do married French naval captain and slave trader and his Creole servant-mistress. His mother died soon after his birth and his fa... [more]
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bach was born in Eisenach, the eighth and last child of Johann Ambrosius and Maria Elisabeth Bach. His mother died in 1694 and his father in 1695. The nine-year-old orphan and his brother J... [more]
Baiteke (under Kiribati)
The Pacific island country of Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) includes the atoll of Abemama, inhabited by the tribe of Abemama, Kuria and Aranuka. The hereditary high chiefs of thes... [more]
Bartram, John
Bartram, born to a Quaker family in Pennsylvania, was orphaned when he was 13. He taught himself botany, medicine and surgery while working as a farm laborer. He was appointed Botanist to t... [more]
Basavis (under Devadasi)
Devadasi (mainly of Maharashtra and Karnataka states) and related practices ( Maharis in Kerala, Natis in Assam, Muralis in Maharashtra, Bogams in Andhra Pradesh, Jogatis and Basa... [more]
Bayard, James Asheton, Sr.
Bayard and his siblings were adopted by their uncle, John Bubenheim Bayard, when their father died. From 1797 to 1803 he was a member of the US House of Representatives from Delaware, fr... [more]
Bhayats (under India - Princely States)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
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