Birth Identity Disputed or Deliberately Concealed, Page 2
Concealed by the adoptee/fosteree, parents, or authorities (includes foundlings and feral children).
- Andal
- Argentinian Orphans of the Dirty War
- Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily
- Audubon, John James
- Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children
- Baiteke (under Kiribati)
- Bálint, Lea
- Bhattacharya, Namita Kaul
- Bloodvessel, Buster
- Burnum, Burnum
- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch
- Child Migrants
- Church, John
- Cross, June
- Cyrus the Great
- d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
- Dodson, Patrick
- Enkidu
- Feral Children
- Fisher, Florence
- Foundlings
- Grey Owl
- Hill, David
- Kawananakoa, Abigail Kapiolani (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Kinder der Landstraße
- Long Lance, Buffalo Child
- Maui
- McDaid, Desmond
- McNab, Andy
- Michener, James Albert
- Native American and Alaskan Native Children
- Nazi Germany
- Nguyen, Martine (see under Bokassa I)
- O'Neil, Robert Vincent, Jr.
- Oedipus
- Oldfield, Bruce
- Paulger, Irene
- Perkins, Charles
- Perrott, Caroline
- Presley, Priscilla Ann
- Primakov, Yevgeny Maximovitch
- Rajaram II Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Roach, Archie
- Romulus and Remus
- Sacagawea
- Semiramis
- Shoah
- Sissay, Lemn
- Slaves
- Soll, Joe
- Spain, 1936-75
- Stanhope, Albert
- Wilkins, George
- Williams, Jett
Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch
Chamfort's birth parents are not known for certain, but may have been Jacqueline de Montrodeix and her lover. He was adopted by a grocer, François Nicolas, and his wife. After a good educat... [more]
Child Migrants
These are the children sent from Britain and Ireland to colonies and former colonies with the express intention of helping to culturally swamp the native peoples by increasing the white pop... [more]
Church, John
Church was a foundling , discovered on the steps of St. John's Church Clerkenwell, (hence his name) or St. Andrew's Church Holborn as a young toddler, barely able to walk. He was sent to t... [more]
Cross, June
Cross' mother was a white actress and her father a Black vaudeville entertainer; they were not married. Her mother gave her to Black friends when she was two years old and no longer able to... [more]
Cyrus the Great
Cyrus was the founder of the Achaemenid empire, one of the greatest of the ancient kingdoms, centered on Persia. According to legend Cyrus was the son of prince Cambyses and the daughter o... [more]
d'Alembert, Jean le Rond
d'Alembert was a foundling , discovered near the church of St. Jean-le-Rond in Paris (hence his name), but he was in fact the son of Madame de Tencin and General Destouches-Canon. His fath... [more]
Dodson, Patrick
According to the account given in chapters 11-13 of Chatwin's The Songlines, Dodson (called Dan Flynn by Chatwin) was a foundling, left in a store at Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia, by... [more]
Enkidu
Enkidu is one of the central characters in the Epic of Gilgamesh, a 5,000-year-old poem from Mesopotamia. He was a wild man of the hills (see Feral Children), created from the earth by a go... [more]
Feral Children
These are children, almost always babies, who are taken and raised by wild animals. Occasionally they find their way back to society. They may be carried off from their villages by females ... [more]
Fisher, Florence
Fisher (she has reverted to her birth name) spent 20 years, from the age of 22, searching (successfully) for her birth parents in the face of nearly total official and family opposition. H... [more]
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