Military and Defense
- Adler-Collins, Je Kan
- Alexander the Great
- Antonius Pius (under Roman Empire)
- Baker, Josephine
- Banks, John
- Bokassa I
- Bolívar, Simón
- Boone, Daniel (under Honorific Adoption)
- Bustamante, William Alexander
- Carl Louis John
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Constantius I (under Roman Empire)
- Crazy Horse
- CuChulain
- de Beauharnais, Eugčne-Rose
- Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji (under India - Princely States: 3)
- Eirik Blood-Axe (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Farragut, David Glasgow
- Francisco, Peter
- Gaius Marius the Younger (under Roman Empire)
- Gardiner, Wira
- Germanicus Julius Caesar (under Roman Empire)
- Gökçen, Sabiha
- Hadrian (under Roman Empire)
- Hĺkon I [The Good] (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Hĺkon of Trondhjem (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Halfdan the Black (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Hannibal, Abram Petrovich
- Harald of Sogn (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Haynes, Lemuel
- Hoo-moo-thy-ah
- Houston, Samuel
- Hyllus
- Ibrahim Pasha
- Ingjald the Evil-Adviser (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
- Janissaries
- Julian the Apostate (under Roman Empire)
- Jumping Bull
- Karl XIV Johan
- Karna
- Klein, Hans-Joachim
- Lee, John Doyle
- Long Lance, Buffalo Child
- Magnus the Blind (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Magnus the Good (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Marcus Ulpius Trainus (under Roman Empire)
- Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
- McNab, Andy
- Mills, Robert Scourfield
- Montu / Chons
- Nana Saheb (under India - Princely States: 6)
- Olaf the Tree-Feller (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Pasha, Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa
- Philip V
- Pliny the Younger (under Roman Empire)
- Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji (under India Princely States: 3)
- Sargon I
- Scipio Africanus Minor (under Roman Empire)
- Semiramis
- Sennacherib
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Stokes, Richard
- Sun Kewang
- Svein Ulfson (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Tangiia Nui
- Te Waharoa
- Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (under Roman Empire)
- Tito
- Tu Tapu
- Vanunu, Mordechai
- Watton, Paul
- Westheimer, Ruth Siegel
- Xianzi (under Chinese Qing Dyansty)
- Zai Yi (under Chinese Qing Dynasty)
- Zaid bin Haritha
Cochran, Jacqueline
Cochran was born sometime between 1906 and 1910, and was orphaned as a baby. She was a foster child in a feckless, poverty-stricken family (she got her first pair of shoes when she was eigh... [more]
Constantius I (under Roman Empire)
Ancient Roman society institutionalized the adoption of adults. It was relatively common for a wealthy Roman couple to adopt an adult man, even a slave, as heir if they did not have any son... [more]
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse was named Curly when he was born, to a Brule Sioux mother and a Lakota Sioux father. He was adopted as an adolescent by High Back Bone (or Hump), a great Oglala Sioux warrior, w... [more]
CuChulain
Setana was the son of the god Lugh and the mortal Dechtire, wife of Sualtam. He had seven pupils in each eye and 14 fingers and toes. He was sent to be fostered by the best men in Ulster, a... [more]
de Beauharnais, Eugčne-Rose
de Beauharnais was the son of Joséphine de Tascher de la Pagerie and Alexandre, Viscount de Beauharnais. Alexandre was guillotined during the Terror in 1794 and his mother married the futur... [more]
Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji (under India - Princely States: 3)
Until the 19th century what is now India (like Europe) was a patchwork of over 650 princely states, like kingdoms, ranging from the small and relatively unimportant, to the large, immensely... [more]
Eirik Blood-Axe (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
In the Middle Ages fostering was practiced between the great families of Norway, possibly as a means of cementing interfamily alliances or demonstrating reciprocal status relationships. Acc... [more]
Farragut, David Glasgow
Farragut, of Hispanic descent, was born the son of a career naval officer. His mother died in 1808, and from the age of nine he never saw his father (who died in 1817) again. He was adopted... [more]
Francisco, Peter
Francisco was found abandoned on the docks of Hopewell, Virginia, in 1765, aged about five. He could speak no English and after a week he was taken in by the wealthy judge Anthony Wilson, a... [more]
Gaius Marius the Younger (under Roman Empire)
Ancient Roman society institutionalized the adoption of adults. It was relatively common for a wealthy Roman couple to adopt an adult man, even a slave, as heir if they did not have any son... [more]
