21st Century
- Abramovich, Roman
- Acre, Mark
- Adie, Kate
- Adler-Collins, Je Kan
- African Children's Choir
- Agbabi, Patience
- Agnelli, Umberto
- Åhlstad, Simon
- Akabusi, Kriss
- Albee, Edward Franklin
- Allan, Jani
- Anderson, Edward Warrigal
- Andrews, Ben
- Angelou, Maya
- Anstis, Toby
- Astor, Joshua
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Baiul, Oksana
- Bálint, Lea
- Banks, John
- Barber, Dee Seton
- Barberie, Jillian
- Basavis (under Devadasi)
- Baulch, Jamie
- Bay, Michael
- Beachley, Layne
- Ben Sira, Eva
- Berglas, David
- Berlin, Andy
- Best, James
- Bhattacharya, Namita Kaul
- Bijani, Laden & Laleh
- Bilderback, Nicole
- Bird, A. John
- Black, Pauline
- Bloodvessel, Buster
- Bogams (under Devadasi)
- Bonaly, Surya
- Bowen, Jim
- Braimoh, Dilly
- Brakhage, Stan
- Brickley, James
- Brooks-Randolph, Angie
- Brosnan, Pierce
- Brown, James
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Brown, Lester Raymond
- Brown, Mick
- Brown, Rita Mae
- Burke, Kathy
- Bussell, Darcey Andrea
- Byrd, Robert C.
- Cain, Dean George Thomas
- Caines, Michael
- Callahan, John
- Cameron, Rhona
- Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki
- Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
- Carlson, Richard Warner
- Carmody, Kev
- Carruthers, Kitty
- Carruthers, Peter
- Casals, Rosemary
- Cerullo, Morris
- Chisholm, Colin
- Church, Charlotte
- Clapton, Eric
- Clausen, Curt
- Clinton, William Jefferson
- Cole, Carol
- Cole, George
- Cole, Lynnette
- Collins, Joely
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Crawford, Christina
- Cross, June
- Culpepper, Daunte
- Daniels, Faith
- Danson, Ted
- Davidson, Tommy
- Devadasi
- Diamond, Jeff
- Dickerson, Eric Demetric
- Dickinson, David
- Diddley, Bo
- Divine, David
- Dodson, Adrian
- Dodson, Michael
- Dodson, Patrick
- Douglas, Anthony
- Dowd, Donny
- Duchin, Peter Oelrichs
- Edwards, Skye
- Ellison, Lawrence J. (Larry)
- Emerick, Louis
- Estés, Clarissa Pinkola
- Faka'osilea, Lorris
- Fashanu, John
- Fever, Fred
- Field, Shirley Ann
- Fish, Laura
- Fisher, Antwone
- Fisher, Florence Anna
- Ford, Gerald R.
- Forman, Miloš
- Foyster, Adelaide
- Frampton, Phil
- Friedlander, Marti
- Fyodorova, Victoria
- Gardiner, Wira
- Gilbert, Melissa Ellen
- Gingrich, Newton Leroy
- Glazer, Tom
- Glazier, Sidney
- Goldie
- Goolagong-Cawley, Evonne Fay
- Gorham, Clare
- Graham, Eddie
- Grant, Julia
- Green, Tim
- Gökçen, Sabiha
- Haas, Michael
- Hamilton, Scott Scovell
- Hansen, Ashia
- Harrison, Pakariki
- Harry, Deborah
- Hill, David
- Hill, Faith
- Hirst, Damien
- Hobsbawm, Eric
- Holmes, Ann
- Holt, Gary
- Hopkins, Antony
- Hyde, Joseph Peter
- Ice-T
- Iti, Tame
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jagamarra, Malcolm
- Jakszyk, Jakko M.
- James, Lennie
- James, Wendy
- Jameson, Derek
- Jarvis, Zane Te Wiremu
- Jobs, Steven Paul
- Jogatis (under Devadasi)
- Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan
- Kawananakoa, Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike (Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Kay, Jackie
- Kereluk, Cynthia
- Kinder der Landstraße
- Kindertransport
- Kitt, Eartha
- Klein, Hans-Joachim
- Kutner, Lawrence
- Laborteaux, Matthew
- Laborteaux, Patrick
- Lapotaire, Jane
- Lee, George Patrick
- Leitch, David
- Lemke, Leslie
- Leonard, Hugh
- Li Lu
- Li Peng
- Lifton, Betty Jean
- Linkletter, Art
- Liotta, Ray
- List, Liesbeth
- Little Richard
- Little Sun, Roy
- Liu, Gordon
- Lopez, Charlotte Anne
- Louganis, Gregory E.
- Lowell, Scott
- Loxterkamp, David
- Macarthur, Wally
- Mahuta, Robert Te Kotahitanga a Koroki
- Majors, Lee
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
- March, Naomi (Nimmy)
- Massow, Ivan
- Masters, Tom
- Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
- McArthur, James
- McCarthy, Thaddeus
- McCartney, Heather
- McDaid, Desmond
- McDermott, Dylan
- McKenzie, Richard B.
- McLachlan, Sarah
- McMillon, Doris E.
- McNab, Andy
- McRobbie, Narelle
- McShane, Mike
- Medwin, Michael Hugh
- Melcher, Terry
- Mici Plwm
- Middlemiss, Philip
- Mihinui, Dorothy Huhana
- Mikita, Stan
- Mills, Billy
- Monaghan, Thomas
- Moore, Brian
- Morcom, Luke Sidney
- Morgan, Tukoroirangi
- Moriarty, John
- Morrissey, Neil
- Morton, Samantha
- Mourning, Alonzo
- Muko Yoshi
- Muralis (under Devadasi)
- Murphy, Edward Regan
- Myers, Billie
- Myners, Paul
- Naked, Bif
- Natis (under Devadasi)
- Nelson, Willie
- Nettles, John
- Newman, Robert
- Nicholson, Jack
- Niyazov, Saparmurat Ataevich
- O'Brien, Daniel Dion
- O'Neil, Robert Vincent, Jr.
- Okada Keishu
- Oldfield, Bruce
- Palmer, James Alvin
- Pascale, Lorraine
- Pelzer, David J.
- Phair, Elizabeth Clark
- Pidgley, Tony
- Poutu, Liana
- Powell, Peter John
- Presley, Priscilla Ann
- Primakov, Yevgeny Maximovitch
- Quinn, Phil
- Rat-Children of Shah Daula
- Reagan, Michael E.
- Reagan, Nancy Davis
- Restavecs
- Reynolds, George
- Richardson, Anna Ryder
- Riles, Wilson C.
- Roach, Archie
- Rosnes, Renee
- Rowell, Victoria
- Rowson, Martin
- Saffian, Sarah Ruth
- Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Salter, Shane
- Sanderson, Teresa Ione
- Schad, Brenda
- Schweig, Eric
- Scott, George
- Scott, Todd M.
- Scully, Julia
- Seal
- Seed, Michael
- Senser, Joe
- Seymour, Alan
- Shahu II Bhonsel (under India - Princely States: 2)
- Shelton Kenneth
- Shelton, Fincourt
- Shin, Paull H.
- Singh, Vishwanath Pratap
- Sissay, Lemn
- Slaves
- Smith, Robyn
- Soll, Joe
- Stanhope, Albert
- Stokes, Richard
- Sudbury, Julia
- Sykes, Annette
- Taare, Sonny
- Tamaiti Whangai
- Te Kanawa, Kiri
- Tenzin Gyatso (under Dalai Lamas)
- Terupe, Tui
- Thevardiyar (under Devadasi)
- Thomas, Leslie John
- Thomas, R. David
- Thomson, John
- Thorne, Grahame
- Tierney, Sydney
- Trapp Family
- Traynor, Joanna
- Trokosi
- Troxler, G. William
- Tyson, Mike G.
- Valero, Helena
- Vander-Kuyp, Kyle
- Vanessa-Mae
- Vanunu, Mordechai
- Ward, Glenyse
- Wark, Betty
- Waters, William R.
- Watton, Paul
- Webster, Tumoana
- Weinstock, Arnold
- Welch, Bruce
- Westheimer, Ruth Siegel
- Wheeler, Caron
- Whitbread, Fatima
- Whitehead, Phillip
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Wiles, Terry
- Wilkins, George
- Wilkomirski, Binjamin
- Williams, Anthony A.
- Williams, Jett
- Wine, Maria
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Wolde, Degaga
- Zuzunaga Cavero, Willy F.
- Zweig, Stefan Jerzy
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]
Anderson, Edward Warrigal
Anderson was born in Victoria, Australia and named after a dingo that witnessed his birth. When he was 10 years old he ran away from Moonee Ponds to escape government agents in the area to ... [more]
Andrews, Ben
Andrews was born in Yugoslavia and adopted by an American diplomatic family there. He became interested in the guitar as a child but did not become entirely focused on the instrument until ... [more]
Angelou, Maya
Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in California. Her parents divorced when she was a young child and she and her brother were sent by their father to live with his mother i... [more]
Anstis, Toby
Anstis began broadcasting while still a comprehensive school-boy in Northampton, where he was born (also representing his county in rugby and cricket). He got a degree in marketing and psyc... [more]
Astor, Joshua
Astor is the birth son of Joe "Gannex" Kagan, friend of the British prime minister Harold Wilson, but was adopted aged three by his step-father, Michael Astor, MP (one of the weal... [more]
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
When their parents divorced and abandoned them, Baca, aged two, and his siblings were sent to live with grandparents. By the time he was five his mother had been murdered by her second husb... [more]
Baiul, Oksana
Baiul was born in Dnepropetrovsk. Different sources give the year as 1977 or 1978 and the date as 26 February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, acco... [more]
Bálint, Lea
Balint spent part of World War II living under an assumed name in a Polish convent in Brwinow, near Warsaw. Her parents placed her there when she was five and she emerged at the end of the ... [more]
Banks, John
Banks was a New Zealand National Party MP from 1981 to 1999 and has been Minister of Tourism; Sport, Fitness and Leisure; Local Government; and Civil Defence (he resigned his cabinet posts ... [more]
