Christian
- Abelites
- African Children's Choir
- Alexander VI
- Apess, William
- Augustus Caesar Octavius (under Roman Empire)
- Bede, the Venerable
- Bemo, John
- Bradford, William
- Brady, John Green
- Brainerd, David
- Brown, Matthew
- Byrd, Robert C.
- Capitein, Jacobus
- Cerullo, Morris
- Chosroes II
- Christy, Hirini Whaanga
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church, John
- Cockenoe
- Coolidge, Sherman
- Cosmas Melodus
- Davies, Daniel John
- Davis, John
- de Porres, Martin
- de Rossi, Giovanni Battista
- Delamere, Paora Kingi
- Edward VI
- Fox, Ruth May
- Foyster, Adelaide
- Francis, Benjamin
- Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore
- Gertrude the Great
- Griffis, Joseph
- Håkon I [The Good] (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Haynes, Lemuel
- Heiric of Auxerre
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Hugh of Cluny
- Hura, Maata Te Reo
- Hyde, Joseph Peter
- Hyde, Orson
- Isidore of Seville
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jacobs, Peter
- Jesus Christ
- Joseph the Carpenter
- Juliana of Liège
- Kamehameha IV (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Kul Kul Stu Hah
- Lee, George Patrick
- Lee, John Doyle
- Lewis, Monsignor (Dilwyn John) David
- Lin Huoping
- Little Richard
- Lonewolf, Delos Knowles
- Magnus of Orkney (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Mary the Virgin
- Mason, Sophia Thomas
- McAuley, Catherine
- Michelowski, Alexander (under Nazi Germany)
- Mortara, Edgardo
- Munk, Kaj
- Nero Claudius Caesar (under Roman Empire)
- Oblates
- Peter III
- Pitau, Otene
- Powell, Peter John
- Ratana, Raniera Te Ao Hou
- Ratana, Tahupotiki Wiremu
- Schünemann-Pott, Friedrich
- Seed, Michael
- Shakers
- Shelton Kenneth
- Skanudharova
- Smith, Joseph Fielding
- Spalding, Henry Harmon
- Swift, Jonathan
- Te Atua, Henare
- Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki
- Te Kurapa, Hikawera
- Tekakwitha, Kateri
- von Lipp, Joseph
- Whitman, Marcus
- Wright, Allen
- Zuzunaga Cavero, Willy F.
Brown, Matthew
Brown's father died in 1778, and he was adopted by an uncle in Pennsylvania. He graduated from college in 1794 and became a teacher, and was licensed by the Presbyterian church to preach in... [more]
Byrd, Robert C.
Byrd was born Cornelius Calvin Sale, Jr. His mother died in 1918 or 1919 during the flu pandemic and his father sent him to live with and be adopted by her sister and brother-in-law, an impo... [more]
Capitein, Jacobus
Capitein was a former slave brought to the Netherlands by a Dutch ship captain. In Leiden he attended school, learned several European languages and in 1742 he became a clergyman after theo... [more]
Cerullo, Morris
Cerullo was born the fifth child of a Jewish family but his mother died when he was very young and his father placed him in an Orthodox orphanage. One of the staff there converted him to ev... [more]
Chosroes II
Chosroes was the son of King Hormizd IV, in whose overthrow and assassination in 590 he participated. After his father's death he escaped to the Byzantine Empire and was adopted by Emperor ... [more]
Christy, Hirini Whaanga
Christy was the descendent of an important Ngati Kahungunu-Ngati Rakaipaaka family. As a young child he was given to his grandparents as a tamaiti whangai. His family had converted to the C... [more]
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) practiced a form of ritual adoption from about 1842 to 1894. It is apparently first referred to in an article in The Latter-day... [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]
Cockenoe
Cockenoe was an Algonquian Indian, captured as a youth by the British (in 1636 or 1637). He became a servant of a British officer, Richard Collicot, where he came to the notice of John Elio... [more]
Coolidge, Sherman
Runs On Top was born in Wyoming. His father was killed by Bannock Indians when he was seven, and in 1870 he and his brother were kidnapped by Bannocks and Shoshones and turned over to white... [more]
