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- Acre, Mark
- Ahbez, Eden
- Albee, Edward Franklin
- Andrews, Ben
- Angelou, Maya
- Antoine, Josephine Louise
- Apess, William
- Armstrong, Louis Daniel
- Aucoin, Kevyn
- Audubon, John James
- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Baiul, Oksana
- Baker, Josephine
- Bankhead, Tallulah
- Barber, Dee Seton
- Barberie, Jillian
- Bartholomew, Freddie
- Bartram, John
- Bates, Daisy
- Bay, Michael
- Bayard, James Asheton, Sr.
- Beley, Ennis
- Bemo, John
- Ben Sira, Eva
- Bergman, Ingrid
- Berlin, Andy
- Best, James
- Big Day, William
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Blood Clot Boy
- Boone, Daniel (under Honorific Adoption)
- Bradford, William
- Brady, John Green
- Brainerd, David
- Brakhage, Stan
- Brodkey, Harold
- Brooks-Randolph, Angie
- Brown, James
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Brown, Lester Raymond
- Brown, Matthew
- Brown, Rita Mae
- Burke, Andrew Horace
- Burton, Richard
- Bustamante, William Alexander
- Byrd, Robert C.
- Cain, Dean George Thomas
- Callahan, John
- Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
- Capote, Truman
- Carlson, Richard Warner
- Carruthers, Kitty
- Carruthers, Peter
- Carver, George Washington
- Casals, Rosemary
- Catches, Peter
- Cerullo, Morris
- Chaplin, Charles Spencer
- Chaplin, Sydney
- Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste
- Chips, Horn
- Chisholm, Colin
- Christy, Hirini Whaanga
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Clausen, Curt
- Clinton, William Jefferson
- Cochran, Jacqueline
- Cockenoe
- Cohn, Leopold
- Colden, Cadwallader
- Cole, Carol
- Cole, Lynnette
- Cole, Nat Kelly
- Commager, Henry Steele
- Coolidge, Sherman
- Cornwell, Bernard
- Cornwell, Patricia
- Crawford, Christina
- Crazy Horse
- Cross, June
- Cullen, Countée
- Culpepper, Daunte
- Custis, George Washington Parke
- Dahlberg, Edward
- Daniels, Faith
- Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna
- Danson, Ted
- Davidson, Tommy
- Davies, William Henry
- Dean, James Byron
- Dickerson, Eric Demetric
- Diddley, Bo
- Dodson, Adrian
- Douglass, Frederick
- Dowd, Donny
- Duchin, Peter Oelrichs
- Eastman, Charles Alexander
- Elder, Lonne III
- Ellison, Lawrence J. (Larry)
- Estés, Clarissa Pinkola
- Farragut, David Glasgow
- Fashanu, Justinius Sonny
- Fisher, Antwone
- Fisher, Florence Anna
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Ford, Gerald R.
- Forman, Miloš
- Fox, Ruth May
- Foyster, Adelaide
- Francisco, Peter
- Frankovich, Mike J.
- Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore
- Fremstad, Olive
- Fyodorova, Victoria
- Garrison, William Lloyd
- Gilbert, Melissa Ellen
- Gingrich, Newton Leroy
- Glazer, Tom
- Goldie
- Goldwyn, Sam
- Goolagong-Cawley, Evonne Fay
- Green, Tim
- Griffis, Joseph
- Griffith, Calvin
- Grimsby, Roger
- Haas, Michael
- Hamilton, Alexander
- Hamilton, Scott Scovell
- Hancock, John
- Hansen, Ashia
- Harry, Deborah
- Hawai'ian Royal Families
- Haynes, Lemuel
- Hensley, Albert
- Henson, Matthew Alexander
- Hill, Faith
- Hilton, Daisy & Violet
- Hoover, Herbert Clark
- Houdini, Harry
- Houston, Samuel
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Hyde, Joseph Peter
- Hyde, Orson
- Ice-T
- Jackson, Andrew
- Jackson, Henry
- Jackson, Jesse
- Jackson, Thomas (Stonewall)
- Jobs, Steven Paul
- Jones, Frederick McKinley
- Juárez, Benito Pablo
- Jumping Bull
- Kindertransport
- Kipling, J. Rudyard
- Kitt, Eartha
- Kul Kul Stu Hah
- Kutner, Lawrence
- La Marr, Barbara
- LaBadie, Florence
- Laborteaux, Matthew
- Laborteaux, Patrick
- Langston, John Mercer
- Laurent, Robert
- Lear, Frances
- Lee, John Doyle
- Lehmann, Henry
- Lemke, Leslie
- Lennon, John Winston
- Lewis, Edmonia
- Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis
- Li Lu
- Lifton, Betty Jean
- Linkletter, Art
- Liotta, Ray
- Little Richard
- Little Sun, Roy
- Lone Wolf II
- Lonewolf, Delos Knowles
- Long Lance, Buffalo Child
- Lopez, Charlotte Anne
- Louganis, Gregory E.
- Lowell, Scott
- Loxterkamp, David
- Lue Gim Gong
- MacBride, Roger Lea
- Majors, Lee
- Massey, Edith
- Masters, Tom
- Maximo and Bartola
- McArthur, James
- McCarthy, Mary Therese
- McCartney, Heather
- McDermott, Dylan
- McKenzie, Richard B.
- McMillon, Doris E.
- McQueen, Steve
- McShane, Mike
- Melcher, Terry
- Melville, Herman
- Memminger, Christopher Gustavus
- Meyer, Julius
- Michener, James Albert
- Mikita, Stan
- Mills, Billy
- Minik
- Mo Keen, Loki
- Monaghan, Thomas
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Monroe, William Smith
- Montezuma, Carlos
- Mountain Wolf Woman
- Mourning, Alonzo
- Murphy, Edward Regan
- Murray, Andrew Buist
- Mustache, James
- Naismith, James
- Naked, Bif
- Native American and Alaskan Native Children
- Nelson, Willie
- Nicholson, Jack
- O'Brien, Daniel Dion
- O'Connor, Hugh
- Orphan Trains of the USA
- Palmer, James Alvin
- Parker, Quanah
- Pelzer, David J.
- Perry, Mae Walker (under Walker, C.J.)
- Phair, Elizabeth Clark
- Pitt River Charley
- Plato, Dana Michelle
- Poe, Edgar Allan
- Powell, Peter John
- Presley, Priscilla Ann
- Quinn, Katherine DeMille
- Rabbit Boy
- Reagan, Michael E.
- Reagan, Nancy Davis
- Rees, Ebenezer
- Riles, Wilson C.
- Robbins, Harold
- Robinson, Bill
- Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Rosnes, Renee
- Rowell, Victoria
- Ruth, George Herman ("Babe")
- Sacagawea
- Saffian, Sarah Ruth
- Sainte-Marie, Buffy
- Salter, Shane
- Schad, Brenda
- Schuon, Frithjof (under Honorific Adoption)
- Schünemann-Pott, Friedrich
- Scott, George
- Scott, Todd M.
- Scully, Julia
- Senser, Joe
- Shabazz, Betty Jean Sanders
- Shabbona
- Shakers
- Shelton Kenneth
- Shelton, Fincourt
- Shenandoah
- Sherman, William Tecumseh
- Shin, Paull H.
- Short, William
- Slocum, Frances
- Smith, Joseph Fielding
- Smith, Robyn
- Smith, Venture
- Soll, Joe
- Spalding, Henry Harmon
- Spencer, Percy LaBaron
- Stands In Timber, John
- Stanley, Henry Morton
- Sudbury, Julia
- Tall Mountain, Mary
- Tecumseh
- Tekakwitha, Kateri
- Tenskwatawa
- Thomas, R. David
- Train, George Francis
- Trapp Family
- Troxler, G. William
- Tyson, Mike G.
- Walker, C.J.
- Webster, Tumoana
- Weisner, Conrad (under Honorific Adoption)
- Westheimer, Ruth Siegel
- Wheatley, Phillis
- White, Eartha Mary Magdalene
- Whitman, Marcus
- Wiesel, Eliezer
- Williams, Anthony A.
- Williams, Daniel Hale
- Williams, Jett
- Wilson, Flip
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Wirt, William
- Wright, Allen
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
- X, Malcolm
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