Theater, Broadcasting, Cinema
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- Adie, Kate
- Akabusi, Kriss
- Albee, Edward Franklin
- Angelou, Maya
- Anstis, Toby
- Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily
- Bankhead, Tallulah
- Barberie, Jillian
- Bartholomew, Freddie
- Bay, Michael
- Berglas, David
- Bergman, Ingrid
- Best, James
- Bilderback, Nicole
- Black, Pauline
- Bowen, Jim
- Braimoh, Dilly
- Brakhage, Stan
- Brosnan, Pierce
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Brown, Rita Mae
- Burke, Kathy
- Burton, Richard
- Byrd, Robert C.
- Cain, Dean George Thomas
- Cameron, Rhona
- Carlson, Richard Warner
- Carruthers, Peter
- Chaplin, Charles Spencer
- Cole, Carol
- Cole, Nat Kelly
- Collins, Joely
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Cross, June
- Cullen, Eric Robertson
- Custis, George Washington Parke
- Daniels, Faith
- Danson, Ted
- Davidson, Tommy
- Dean, James Byron
- Dermit, Édouard
- Diamond, Jeff
- Dreyer, Carl-Theodor
- Elder, Lonne III
- Emerick, Louis
- Evans, Barry
- Faka'osilea, Lorris
- Fashanu, John
- Field, Shirley Ann
- Finch, Peter
- Fisher, Antwone
- Forman, Miloš
- Fowler, Percy Leo
- Frankovich, Mike J.
- Fyodorova, Victoria
- Gay, John
- Geisha
- Genet, Jean
- Gilbert, Melissa Ellen
- Glazier, Sidney
- Goldwyn, Sam
- Gorham, Clare
- Grayson, Larry
- Green, Tim
- Grimsby, Roger
- Hamilton, Scott Scovell
- Harry, Deborah
- Hill, David
- Hilton, Daisy & Violet
- Hopkins, Antony
- Houdini, Harry
- Ice-T
- Iwasaki, Mineko (under Geisha)
- Jameson, Derek
- Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan
- Kean, Edmund
- Kereluk, Cynthia
- Kitt, Eartha
- Kutner, Lawrence
- La Marr, Barbara
- LaBadie, Florence
- Laborteaux, Matthew
- Laborteaux, Patrick
- Lapotaire, Jane
- Linkletter, Art
- Liotta, Ray
- Little Richard
- Liu, Gordon
- Long Lance, Buffalo Child
- Louganis, Gregory E.
- Lowell, Scott
- Magnani, Anna
- Majors, Lee
- March, Naomi (Nimmy)
- Massey, Edith
- Maximo and Bartola
- McArthur, James
- McDermott, Dylan
- McMillon, Doris E.
- McQueen, Steve
- McShane, Mike
- Medwin, Michael Hugh
- Mici Plwm
- Middlemiss, Philip
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Morley, Eric Douglas
- Morrissey, Neil
- Morton, Samantha
- Murphy, Edward Regan
- Nettles, John
- Newman, Robert
- Nicholson, Jack
- O'Connell, James F.
- O'Connor, Hugh
- Palmer, James Alvin
- Plato, Dana Michelle
- Presley, Priscilla Ann
- Quinn, Katherine DeMille
- Reagan, Michael E.
- Reagan, Nancy Davis
- Richardson, Anna Ryder
- Robinson, Bill
- Rollason, Helen
- Rowell, Victoria
- Sanderson, Teresa Ione
- Schweig, Eric
- Seymour, Alan
- Sherrin, Scott
- Sissay, Lemn
- Thomson, John
- Thorne, Grahame
- Truffaut, François
- Tsuya-Giku (under Geisha)
- Westheimer, Ruth Siegel
- Whitehead, Phillip
- Wilson, Flip
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
- Zweig, Stefan Jerzy
Adie, Kate
Adie is especially famous for her reports from war zones (Turkey, Lebanon, the Gulf War, China, the former Yugoslavia, etc.). Her mother became pregnant while her husband was away at war an... [more]
Akabusi, Kriss
Akabusi was born an Igbo prince in Nigeria, but taken to England as a child, where he went into care when his mother returned to Nigeria. He spent time in a children's home and also had mul... [more]
Albee, Edward Franklin
Albee has won three Pulitzer Prizes. His 13 plays (including The Zoo Story, The Sandbox, Tiny Alice, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Three Tall Women) are among the most famous in 20th... [more]
Angelou, Maya
Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in California. Her parents divorced when she was a young child and she and her brother were sent by their father to live with his mother i... [more]
Anstis, Toby
Anstis began broadcasting while still a comprehensive school-boy in Northampton, where he was born (also representing his county in rugby and cricket). He got a degree in marketing and psyc... [more]
Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily
Ashcroft was German Jewish and Danish on her mother's side and English on her father's side. Both her parents (Violetta and William) died before she was 20. She began acting before her p... [more]
Bankhead, Tallulah
Bankhead was born into an illustrious American political family: her father was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1936-40. Her mother died shortly after she was born, and she was sent... [more]
Barberie, Jillian
Barberie was born in Ontario and adopted as a baby by an electrician and a nurse, Jim and Mariel Warry. Her birth parents, immigrants from Ireland and England, felt they were too young to ... [more]
Bartholomew, Freddie
Bartholomew was born in Dublin but abandoned by his parents to the care of an aunt, Millicent Mary Bartholomew. In 1930 he began his film career as a child star with Fascination, and... [more]
Bay, Michael
Bay was adopted as a small baby by an accountant and child psychologist in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. His parents later also adopted a baby girl. His birth father is rumored to b... [more]
