Exile or Persecution (Religious, Political or Social)
- Amo, Anton Wilhelm
- Apess, William
- Bálint, Lea
- Bokassa I
- Bradford, William
- Brady, John Green
- Christy, Hirini Whaanga
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Church, John
- Cohn, Leopold
- Conrad, Joseph
- Crazy Horse
- Cullen, Eric Robertson
- Dahlberg, Edward
- Dalai Lamas
- Damodar Rao (under India - Princely States: 7)
- Dante Alighieri
- Dreyer, Carl-Theodor
- Duleep Singh (under India - Princely States: 5)
- Finn Mac Cumhal
- Forman, Miloš
- Fyodorova, Victoria
- Hannibal, Abram Petrovich
- Heracles
- Hyde, Orson
- Ivan VI
- Jehoash
- Jesus Christ
- Jones, David Ivon
- Juárez, Benito Pablo
- Juliana of Liège
- Jumping Bull
- Kinder der Landstraße
- Kindertransport
- Kul Kul Stu Hah
- Langston, John Mercer
- Lee, George Patrick
- Lee, John Doyle
- Li Lu
- Little Sun, Roy
- Lone Wolf II
- Mabo, Edward Koiki
- Mabon Mab Modron
- Magnus of Orkney (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Magnus the Good (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
- Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
- Michael V Kalaphates
- Minik
- Montezuma, Carlos
- Moses
- Muhammad
- Nana Saheb (under India - Princely States: 6)
- Native American and Alaskan Native Children
- Nazi Germany
- Nguyen, Martine (see under Bokassa I)
- Oedipus
- Olaf the Tree-Feller (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Pu Chun (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Pu Yi (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji (under India Princely States: 3)
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Rua Kenana Hepetipa
- Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Schramm, Leo Paul
- Schünemann-Pott, Friedrich
- Shabbona
- Shahu Shivaji Raje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- Shoah
- Smith, Joseph Fielding
- Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki
- Tecumseh
- Tenskwatawa
- Trapp Family
- Tu Tapu
- Vanunu, Mordechai
- Venkuiraje Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 1)
- von Lipp, Joseph
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Wilkomirski, Binjamin
- William the Conqueror
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
- X, Malcolm
- Zai Yi (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Zvi, Sarah
- Zweig, Stefan Jerzy
Amo, Anton Wilhelm
Amo was born on the Gold Coast (Ghana) about 1703 and taken to Amsterdam when he was about four. He was given to the Duke of Wolfenbüttel and baptised Anton Wilhelm. He was educated with su... [more]
Apess, William
Apess's parents were itinerant basket-makers and he lived as a young child mostly with his grandparents, who were very cruel to him. When his grandmother broke his arm he was rescued by an ... [more]
Bálint, Lea
Balint spent part of World War II living under an assumed name in a Polish convent in Brwinow, near Warsaw. Her parents placed her there when she was five and she emerged at the end of the ... [more]
Bokassa I
Jean-Bédel Bokassa was born to a married couple, and his father was a chief. His father was murdered by the French colonial occupiers when he was six, and his mother committed suicide a wee... [more]
Bradford, William
Bradford was born into a well-off family in Yorkshire, but his father died in 1591. His mother remarried in 1593 and William was then raised by his grandfather and uncles as a farmer. Wh... [more]
Brady, John Green
Brady was born in New York. His mother died when he was very young. His father remarried, but Brady seems to have been unhappy with his step-mother, and he ran away from home when he was ei... [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]
Cohn, Leopold
Cohn was born Itsak Leib Jaszovics in Berezna, Hungary and orphaned when he was seven. I have been unable to discover who cared for him after that. The story he told of himself was tha... [more]
