Pre-school Years

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Abramovich, Roman, Adler-Collins, Je Kan, African Children's Choir, Ahbez, Eden, Angelou, Maya, Apess, William, Aristotle, Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Bálint, Lea, Best, James, Bijani, Laden & Laleh, Bishop, Elizabeth, Björk, Carl Axel, Bradford, William, Brodkey, Harold, Brown, Matthew, Burke, Andrew Horace, Canadian Native Children, Castelo Branco, Camilo, Catherine I, Cerullo, Morris, Chaplin, Charles Spencer, Child Migrants, Childebert II, Chips, Horn, Christy, Hirini Whaanga, Church, John, Cole, Carol, Cole, Lynnette, Cross, June, Dalai Lamas, Damodar Rao (under India - Princely States: 7), Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna, Diddley, Bo, Eastman, Charles Alexander, Eirik Blood-Axe (under Norwegian Ruling Families), Fashanu, John, Fashanu, Justinius Sonny, Finch, Peter, Fox, Ruth May, Francisco, Peter, Glazier, Sidney, Goldie, Grahame, Kenneth, Grey Owl, Griffis, Joseph, Gülnüs Ummetüllah, Hale, Matthew, Harrison, Pakariki, Hokusai, Hopkins, Antony, Hyde, Joseph Peter, Johnson, Nkosi, Jones, Frederick McKinley, Juárez, Benito Pablo, Kamehameha IV (under Hawai'ian Royal Families), Kean, Edmund, Kepler, Johannes, Kinder der Landstraße, Kindertransport, Kul Kul Stu Hah, Langston, John Mercer, Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, Li Peng, Mary the Virgin, McCartney, Heather, McDaid, Desmond, Memminger, Christopher Gustavus, Monaghan, Thomas, Montgomery, Lucy Maud, Moriarty, John, Morton, Samantha, Muhammad, Murphy, Edward Regan, Murray, Andrew Buist, O'Brien, Daniel Dion, Parata, Tame Haereroa, Pidgley, Tony, Poe, Edgar Allan, Presley, Priscilla Ann, Pryse, Robert John, Roach, Archie, Ruth Luka Ke'ekikolani (under Hawai'ian Royal Families), Salter, Shane, Samuel, Seki Takakazu Kowa, Shahu Shivaji II Bhonsle (under India - Princely States: 2), Shin, Paull H., Shoah, Slocum, Frances, Smith, Robyn, Stanhope, Albert, Stanley, Henry Morton, Stewart, Albert Oliphant, Swift, Jonathan, Takuta, Tio, Te Atua, Henare, Te Kurapa, Hikawera, Te Waharoa, Te Wiata, Inia, Tenskwatawa, Tito, Train, George Francis, Trapp Family, Verdingkinder, Villon, François, Waaka, Te Kari, Wilkomirski, Binjamin, Wolde, Degaga, Zweig, Stefan Jerzy,

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Bijani, Laden & Laleh

Laden and Laleh Bijani were born joined at the head, to a poor farming family in Shiraz, Iran. The family had 11 children and were unable to care for them. They remained in hospital for som... [more]

Bishop, Elizabeth

Bishop's father died when she was a baby. When she was five her mother was permanently hospitalized for mental illness and she never saw her again. She was then raised by her grandparents i... [more]

Björk, Carl Axel

Björk was the child of an unmarried seamstress in Stockholm and an unknown man. When his mother died he was four years old and went to live in an orphanage for two and a half years before b... [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]

Brodkey, Harold

Brodkey was born Aaron Weintraub. His mother died when he was two years old and he was adopted by his father's cousin's family, but his new parents also soon died. He was sexually abused by... [more]

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]

Burke, Andrew Horace

Burke was born in New York and his mother died in childbirth. He was orphaned at the age of four and became a ward of the Children's Aid Society, which sent him on an Orphan Train to Nobles... [more]

Canadian Native Children

Canadian Native Children were, as were Native American and Alaskan Native Children , and Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children , routinely rounded up and taken away fr... [more]

Castelo Branco, Camilo

Castelo Branco was born illegitimate in Lisbon, and raised by relatives after being orphaned as a very young child. As a young man he led a wild life but then took minor orders in the Ch... [more]

Catherine I

Marta Skavronskaya was born a peasant in what is now Latvia, orphaned when three years old and fostered by a Lutheran pastor named Glück. In 1702 she was taken prisoner during a war with Ru... [more]