Birth or Infancy

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Adie, Kate, Afrasiab (under Feral Children), African Children's Choir, Agbabi, Patience, Albee, Edward Franklin, Allan, Jani, Andal, Anstis, Toby, Antoine, Josephine Louise, Arthur, Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily, Aspinall, John Victor, Astor, Joshua, Aucoin, Kevyn, Audubon, John James, Baiteke (under Kiribati), Baker, Josephine, Bankhead, Tallulah, Bartholomew, Freddie, Bates, Daisy, Baulch, Jamie, Bay, Michael, Beachley, Layne, Bishop, Bernice Pauahi (under Hawai'ian Royal Families), Black, Pauline, Bowen, Jim, Brakhage, Stan, Brosnan, Pierce, Brown, Leslie Calvin, Brown, Mick, Brown, Rita Mae, Burke, Kathy, Burnum, Burnum, Byrd, Robert C., Cain, Dean George Thomas, Callahan, John, Cameron, Rhona, Carr, Harold Herbert, Carver, George Washington, Casals, Rosemary, Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch, Clapton, Eric, Cochran, Jacqueline, Cole, George, Cole, Nat Kelly, Connolly, Brian, Cookson, Catherine Anne, Cornwell, Bernard, CuChulain, Cullen, Countée, Cullen, Eric Robertson, Culpepper, Daunte, Custis, George Washington Parke, Cyrus the Great, d'Alembert, Jean le Rond, Dahlberg, Edward, Daniels, Faith, Dickinson, David, Douglas, Anthony, Dreyer, Carl-Theodor, Duchin, Peter Oelrichs, Eaton, Peter, Edwards, Skye, Ellison, Edward Pohau, Enkidu, Erichthonius, Evans, Barry, Faka'osilea, Lorris, Feral Children, Fever, Fred, Finn Mac Cumhal, Fisher, Antwone, Fisher, Florence, Ford, Gerald R., Foundlings, Foyster, Adelaide, Frampton, Phil, Fyodorova, Victoria, Genet, Jean, Gilbert, Melissa Ellen, Gill, Madge, Gorham, Clare, Grayson, Larry, Haas, Michael, Hakiwai, Reremoana, Hamilton, Scott Scovell, Hansen, Ashia, Harry, Deborah, Haynes, Lemuel, Head, Bessie, Hensley, Albert, Heracles, Hill, Faith, Hitler, Adolf, Holmes, Ann, Hura, Maata Te Reo, Iti, Tame, Ivan VI, Jakszyk, Jakko M., Jarvis, Zane Te Wiremu, Jesus Christ, Jobs, Steven Paul, Jones, Pei Te Hurinui, Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan, Joseph the Carpenter, Kamala and Amala (under Feral Children), Karna, Kinder der Landstraße, Kindertransport, Kitt, Eartha, Krishna, LaBadie, Florence, Lapotaire, Jane, Lear, Frances, Leitch, David, Lemke, Leslie, Leonard, Hugh, Li Lu, Lifton, Betty Jean, Liotta, Ray, Lopez, Charlotte Anne, Louganis, Gregory E., Love, Makere Rangiatea Ralph, Loxterkamp, David, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabon Mab Modron, MacArthur, James, Magnani, Anna, Magnus the Blind (under Norwegian Ruling Families), Manuera, Eruera Riini, March, Naomi (Nimmy), Maui, McMillon, Doris E., McNab, Andy, McQueen, Steve, Michabo, Michener, James Albert, Middlemiss, Philip, Momotaro, Monroe, Marilyn, Moore, Brian, Morcom, Luke Sidney, Morgan, Tukoroirangi, Moses, Myners, Paul, Nebuchadnezzar II, Nelson, Willie, Nettles, John, Nicholson, Jack, O'Connor, Hugh, O'Neil, Robert Vincent, Jr., Oedipus, Oldfield, Bruce, Palmer, James Alvin, Paulger, Irene, Phair, Elizabeth Clark, Pitau, Otene, Plato, Dana Michelle, Poutapu, Wiremu Te Ranga, Pryderi, Pu Wei (under Chinese Qing Dynasty), Pu Yi (under Chinese Qing Dynasty), Rajaram II Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1), Rat-Children of Shah Daula, Ratana, Raniera Te Ao Hou, Richardson, Anna Ryder, Robbins, Harold, Robinson, Bill, Romulus and Remus, Rosnes, Renee, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Rowson, Martin, Rua Kenana Hepetipa, Saffian, Sarah Ruth, Sainte-Marie, Buffy, Sancho, Ignatius, Sanderson, Teresa Ione, Sargon I, Schad, Brenda, Schweig, Eric, Scott, Todd M., Seal, Seed, Michael, Semiramis, Sherrin, Scott, Shivaji V Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 2), Shoah, Sissay, Lemn, Soll, Joe, Soseki, Natsume, Spalding, Henry Harmon, Spencer, Percy LaBaron, Strozzi, Barbara, Sudbury, Julia, Sykes, Annette, Taare, Sonny, Te Hau, Matiu Te Auripo, Te Kanawa, Kiri, Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki, Thomas, R. David, Thomson, John, Thorne, Grahame, Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, Traynor, Joanna, Troxler, G. William, Vander-Kuyp, Kyle, von Lipp, Joseph, Wallace, Edgar, Ward, Glenyse, Waters, William R., Watton, Paul, Webster, Tumoana, Whitbread, Fatima, White, Donald Edwin, White, Eartha Mary Magdalene, Wild Boy of Aveyron (under Feral Children), Wiles, Terry, Williams, Jett, Winfrey, Oprah, Winterson, Jeanette, Yoshida Shigeru, Zahhak (under Feral Children),

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Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily

Ashcroft was German Jewish and Danish on her mother's side and English on her father's side. Both her parents (Violetta and William) died before she was 20. She began acting before her p... [more]

Aspinall, John Victor

Aspinall was adopted by a British Indian Army colonel as a very young child and spent most of his childhood in English boarding schools. He was expelled from Cambridge University for faking... [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]

Aucoin, Kevyn

Aucoin was born to Nelda Mae Williams in Louisiana, and adopted at a month's age as the first of four children of Thelma and Isidore Aucoin, in Lafayette. From a very early age he showed... [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]

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]

Baker, Josephine

Baker (the surname of her second husband) was born Josephine Carson to an unmarried couple in the slums of St. Louis, Missouri. Her father abandoned the family before she was a year old, an... [more]

Bankhead, Tallulah

Bankhead was born into an illustrious American political family: her father was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1936-40. Her mother died shortly after she was born, and she was sent... [more]

Bartholomew, Freddie

Bartholomew was born in Dublin but abandoned by his parents to the care of an aunt, Millicent Mary Bartholomew. In 1930 he began his film career as a child star with Fascination, and... [more]

Bates, Daisy

Bates' mother was murdered by white racists when she was a baby. Her father left to look for her and never returned, so she was adopted by his best friend. She was the prime mover in the fam... [more]