Orphaned (Both Parents)

advertisement

Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Abramovich, Roman, African Children's Choir, Agnelli, Umberto, Alda, Frances Jeanne, Antoine, Josephine Louise, Argentinian Orphans of the Dirty War, Aristotle, Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Baiul, Oksana, Ballinger, John, Bartram, John, Bates, Daisy, Bergman, Ingrid, Bokassa I, Brainerd, David, Burke, Andrew Horace, Campbell, Alistair Te Ariki, Carver, George Washington, Castelo Branco, Camilo, Catches, Peter, Catherine I, Chips, Horn, Cochran, Jacqueline, Cohn, Leopold, Cole, Carol, Commager, Henry Steele, Conrad, Joseph, Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna, Dante Alighieri, Diamond, Jeff, Dodson, Adrian, Dodson, Michael, Dodson, Patrick, Douglas, Catherine, Edward VI, Elder, Lonne III, Esther, Fitzgerald, Ella, Forman, Miloš, Francis, Benjamin, Gay, John, Genet, Jean, Gökçen, Sabiha, Goldwyn, Sam, Graham, Eddie, Grahame, Kenneth, Hale, Matthew, Hedgewar, Keshav Baliram, Henson, Matthew Alexander, Hobsbawm, Eric, Hoo-moo-thy-ah, Hoover, Herbert Clark, Hyde, Orson, Ice-T, Isidore of Seville, Jackson, Andrew, Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall), Jacobs, Peter, James, Lennie, Jehoash, Jenkins, Robert Thomas, Jobs, Steven Paul, Jones, David Ivon, Jones, Frederick McKinley, Juárez, Benito Pablo, Julian the Apostate (under Roman Empire), Juliana of Liège, Kereluk, Cynthia, Kujau, Konrad, Kul Kul Stu Hah, Langston, John Mercer, Langstone, Frank, Lewis, Edmonia, Li Peng, Lloyd, Ellis, Lonewolf, Delos Knowles, Maugham, William Somerset, McAuley, Catherine, McCarthy, Mary Therese, McCarthy, Thaddeus, Memminger, Christopher Gustavus, Mills, Billy, Monroe, William Smith, Morley, Eric Douglas, Muhammad, Munk, Kaj, Murray, Andrew Buist, Nanbaree, Niyazov, Saparmurat Ataevich, Parker, Quanah, Pàscoli, Giovanni, Poe, Edgar Allan, Ponsonby, Sarah, Pryse, Robert John, Quinn, Katherine DeMille, Raeburn, Henry, Riles, Wilson C., Robinson, Bill, Roosevelt, Eleanor, Sancho, Ignatius, Seymour, Alan, Shoah, Smith, Joseph Fielding, Stands In Timber, John, Tekakwitha, Kateri, Templer, James, Terupe, Tui, Thomas, Leslie John, Tolkien, J.R.R., Train, George Francis, Verdingkinder, von Lipp, Joseph, Walker, C.J., Weinstock, Arnold, Westheimer, Ruth Siegel, Wiesel, Eliezer, Wilkomirski, Binjamin, Williams, John Owen, Wilson, Flip, Wirt, William, Wolde, Degaga, Wordsworth, Dorothy, Wordsworth, William, Wright, Allen, Zhang Xianzhong (under Sun Kewang), Zuzunaga Cavero, Willy F., Zvi, Sarah, Zweig, Stefan Jerzy,

advertisement

Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon

George Gordon was the grandson of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen. His mother died in 1791 and his father in 1795, leaving him in the care of two guardians: William Pitt the Younger (the ... [more]

Abramovich, Roman

Abramovich was born in Saratov in southern Russia. His mother died when he was 18 months old, and his father was killed in a construction accident when he was four. He was first taken to li... [more]

African Children's Choir

This choir of children aged five to 12 years was founded in 1984 by Raymond R. Barnett, himself an Irish-Canadian orphan and ordained minister, who first went to Uganda in 1982. It was begu... [more]

Agnelli, Umberto

Agnelli was the youngest of seven children of the third generation of the greatItalian Fiat automobile manufacturing dynasty.  The children's father died in 1935 ina plane crash and their mo... [more]

Alda, Frances Jeanne

Alda (her stage name) was born Fanny Jane Davis in New Zealand. Her parents divorced when she was 15 months old, and her mother, a professional singer, died in 1884, after which young Fanny... [more]

Antoine, Josephine Louise

Antoine was born in Denver, Colorado and adopted after being orphaned while still a baby. She began to study voice in 1921 at college. She won a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute... [more]

Argentinian Orphans of the Dirty War

Between 1976 and 1985 the military dictators of Argentina operated a policy of kidnapping, torturing, murdering and "disappearing" their political opponents. Children of their vic... [more]

Aristotle

Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus, physician to King Amyntas II. His parents died when he was still a very young boy and he was brought up by a guardian, Proxenus, who sent him to Plato's... [more]

Baca, Jimmy Santiago

When their parents divorced and abandoned them, Baca, aged two, and his siblings were sent to live with grandparents. By the time he was five his mother had been murdered by her second husb... [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]