Birth Sibling(s) Separated
- Ahbez, Eden
- Angelou, Maya
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Banks, John
- Best, James
- Brooks-Randolph, Angie
- Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
- Chaplin, Charles Spencer
- Chaplin, Sydney
- Clare, Monica
- Clausen, Curt
- Coolidge, Sherman
- Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna
- Edward VI
- Gökçen, Sabiha
- Graham, Eddie
- Grant, Julia
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Hancock, John
- Hoover, Herbert Clark
- Hura, Maata Te Reo
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
- Jarvis, Zane Te Wiremu
- Kamehameha IV (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Kamehameha V (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Langstone, Frank
- Leleiohoku, William Pitt Kalaho'olewa II (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Lennon, John Winston
- Lewis, Edmonia
- Lopez, Charlotte Anne
- Monroe, William Smith
- Morcom, Luke Sidney
- Moses Kekuaiua (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Pelzer, David J.
- Perrott, Caroline
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Quinn, Phil
- Radisson, Pierre-Esprit
- Roach, Archie
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Rowson, Martin
- Salter, Shane
- Stands In Timber, John
- Tamatoa V (under Pomare Dynasty)
- Te Kanawa, Kiri
- Teriimaevarua (under Pomare Dynasty)
- Teriimaevarua II (under Pomare Dynasty)
- Teriinavaharoa (under Pomare Dynasty)
- Tita (under Pomare Dynasty)
- von Kleist, Heinrich
- Wilkins, George
- Williams, Daniel Hale
- Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Wordsworth, William
- X, Malcolm
- Birth Sibling(s) Remained with or Returned to Birth Family
Ahbez, Eden
Ahbez is known as the First Hippy. His life story is unclear but one version has him born in 1908 (another after World War I) to a large and poverty-stricken family in Brooklyn. He and his ... [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]
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]
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]
Best, James
Best was born Jules Guy in Powderly, Kentucky, to a poor coal mining family with six children. When he was three poverty forced the family to place him in an orphanage, but he was adopted t... [more]
Brooks-Randolph, Angie
Brooks was one of nine children, and her parents were forced by poverty to place her in a foster home where she was brought up by a widowed seamstress. Ambitious to become a lawyer, she ... [more]
Chanel, Gabrielle Bonheur
Chanel was illegitimate, one of probably six children, although her parents married in 1885. She later surrounded her early life in romantic inventions, but the facts seem to be that her fa... [more]
Chaplin, Charles Spencer
The Chaplin half-brothers started out in variety as children - their parents were in show business - and went on to long and successful careers in America. Sydney was a straigh... [more]
Chaplin, Sydney
The Chaplin half-brothers started out in variety as children - their parents were in show business - and went on to long and successful careers in America. Sydney was a straigh... [more]
Clare, Monica
Clare was born in Dareel, Queensland, to an English mother and an Aboriginal shearer, Beatrice Scott and Ron McGowan. Her mother died in childbirth when she was seven years old and she and ... [more]
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