Unmarried Mother
- Anstis, Toby
- Ashcroft, Edith Margaret Emily
- Aucoin, Kevyn
- Audubon, John James
- Baker, Josephine
- Bay, Michael
- Beachley, Layne
- Beley, Ennis
- Bellwood, James Charles
- Berlin, Andy
- Björk, Carl Axel
- Black, Pauline
- Bloodvessel, Buster
- Braimoh, Dilly
- Brown, Rita Mae
- Callahan, John
- Carver, George Washington
- Castelo Branco, Camilo
- Childebert III Adoptivus
- Clapton, Eric
- Connolly, Brian
- Cookson, Catherine Anne
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Cross, June
- Culpepper, Daunte
- de Porres, Martin
- Douglas, Anthony
- Emerick, Louis
- Frampton, Phil
- Fremstad, Olive
- Fyodorova, Victoria
- Genet, Jean
- Gill, Madge
- Gorham, Clare
- Grayson, Larry
- Haas, Michael
- Håkon I [The Good] (under Norwegian Ruling Families)
- Hansen, Ashia
- Head, Bessie
- Holmes, Ann
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jakszyk, Jakko M.
- Jameson, Derek
- Jarvis, Zane Te Wiremu
- Johnson, Nkosi
- Jones, Stewart Whyte McEwan
- Kean, Edmund
- Lapotaire, Jane
- Lear, Frances
- Leonard, Hugh
- Magnani, Anna
- March, Naomi (Nimmy)
- Maretu II
- McDaid, Desmond
- McMillon, Doris E.
- Middlemiss, Philip
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Moore, Brian
- Nicholson, Jack
- Paulger, Irene
- Plato, Dana Michelle
- Rowson, Martin
- Saigo Siro
- Salter, Shane
- Schad, Brenda
- Schramm, Leo Paul
- Sissay, Lemn
- Stanhope, Albert
- Strozzi, Barbara
- Te Kanawa, Kiri
- Thomson, John
- Wallace, Edgar
- Watton, Paul
- Wilkomirski, Binjamin
- William the Conqueror
- Williams, Jett
- Yoshida Shigeru
- Later Married Birth Father
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]
Black, Pauline
Black's birth mother was a teenage secretary, Jewish, and her father was a Nigerian prince, Oladosu Adenle. She was born Belinda Magnus and because her parents were unmarried her mother was... [more]
Bloodvessel, Buster
Douglas Trendle was born in Stoke Newington, London, and raised by his great-aunt and -uncle, believing his mother was his Auntie Lily. He overheard that he was adopted when he was seven: &... [more]
Braimoh, Dilly
Braimoh was born to a white Jewish mother and a Nigerian father. He never knew his mother, had only slight contact with his father, and was raised in a children's home in Surrey. He present... [more]
Brown, Rita Mae
Brown was born to an unmarried woman who left her in an orphanage. She was soon placed with birth relatives who adopted her. She was raised in poverty on a farm in the rural South and now f... [more]
Callahan, John
Callahan was born to an unmarried woman in Portland, Oregon, and adopted as a baby by a childless couple who then had five birth children. He felt an outsider in his family and began to abu... [more]
Carver, George Washington
Carver was born into slavery, to a "good" owner, Moses Carver; his mother was the only slave he had ever owned, and she was well-treated. His father, from a neighboring plantation... [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]
Childebert III Adoptivus
Childebert is usually reckoned to be the natural son of Grimoald I, the mayor of the palace of King Sigibert III of Austriasia (the region of present-day France around Metz), who adopted hi... [more]
Clapton, Eric
Clapton was born to an unmarried girl of 16 and a Canadian soldier, and raised by her parents. His mother left home, returning in 1957, but for some years the fiction was maintained that th... [more]
