Art, Architecture, Planning
- Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon
- Alexander VI
- Audubon, John James
- Beley, Ennis
- Bute, John Crichton-Stuart
- Callahan, John
- Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
- Caprotti, Gian Giacomo
- Carl Louis John
- Dermit, Édouard
- Friedlander, Marti
- Fyodorova, Victoria
- Geisha
- Gill, Madge
- Graham, Eddie
- Hadrian (under Roman Empire)
- Harrison, Pakariki
- Hirst, Damien
- Hokusai
- Holmes, Ann
- Jagamarra, Malcolm
- Kano Sanraku
- Kano Sansetsu
- Laurent, Robert
- Lewis, Edmonia
- Long Lance, Buffalo Child
- Mantegna, Andrea
- McCartney, Heather
- Melzi, Francesco
- Michener, James Albert
- Moriarty, John
- Nero Claudius Caesar (under Roman Empire)
- Poutapu, Wiremu Te Ranga
- Pu Sin (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Raeburn, Henry
- Richardson, Anna Ryder
- Rukupo, Raharui
- Schuon, Frithjof (under Honorific Adoption)
- Schweig, Eric
- Scipio Africanus Minor (under Roman Empire)
- Te Wiata, Inia
- Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista
- Utrillo, Maurice
Friedlander, Marti
Friedlander was brought up in a London Jewish orphanage. In 1958 she and her new husband emigrated to New Zealand, and she became a photographer. Her photographs, especially of Maori sub... [more]
Fyodorova, Victoria
Fyodorova was the child of American naval officer Jackson Tate and Russian actress Zoya Fyodorova, from a brief affair at the end of World War II. When she was a year old her mother was imp... [more]
Geisha
Geisha are professional entertainers in Japan, with their main centers in Tokyo and Kyoto. The tradition is centuries old and continues today, although the heyday of the geisha was before W... [more]
Gill, Madge
Gill was born to an unmarried woman and spent 10 years in an orphanage. She married in 1907 but did not begin to paint until one of her sons died of influenza. She became a spiritualist ... [more]
Graham, Eddie
Graham was adopted by his aunt and uncle when he was five, after his birth parents died. His sister was adopted by their grandmother. The family were well-to-do dairy farmers near Johannesb... [more]
Hadrian (under Roman Empire)
Ancient Roman society institutionalized the adoption of adults. It was relatively common for a wealthy Roman couple to adopt an adult man, even a slave, as heir if they did not have any son... [more]
Harrison, Pakariki
Paki Harrison is the eldest of 21 children, and was a tamaiti whangai (foster child) of his grandparents until he was 17 or 18. He comes from a long line of Maori carvers and began carving ... [more]
Hirst, Damien
Hirst was born Damien Brennan, and adopted by a car dealer and his wife (his birth father was a photographer). He did not do well in school art and was rejected by St. Martin's College (but... [more]
Hokusai
Hokusai's first few years are a mystery, but he was born near Tokyo, and when he was four or five he was adopted by a mirror-polisher named Nakajima Ise. There is speculation that Nakajima ... [more]
Holmes, Ann
Holmes was adopted as a baby in the late 1940s. Her birth mother was 23 and unmarried, her father an American. She was director of the National Housing and Town Planning Council. She has... [more]
