Wealthy, Famous, Noble or Divine Adoptive or Foster Families

And adoptees/fosterees who married into such families

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Aberdeen, George Hamilton Gordon, Ada (under Alexander the Great), Albee, Edward Franklin, Alexander the Great, Alexander VI, Allan, Jani, Amo, Anton Wilhelm, Andal, Arthur, Astor, Joshua, Bach, Johann Sebastian, Bankhead, Tallulah, Barber, Dee Seton, Bayard, James Asheton, Sr., Berlin, Andy, Bhattacharya, Namita Kaul, Bijani, Laden & Laleh, Boson of Arles, Bradford, William, Brady, John Green, Brimeyer, Alex, Cain, Dean George Thomas, Caprotti, Gian Giacomo, Carl Louis John, Carr, Harold Herbert, Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste, Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Childebert II, Childebert III Adoptivus, Chinese Qing Dynasty, Chosroes II, Christy, Hirini Whaanga, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Clitus Niger, Cochran, Jacqueline, Cole, Carol, Cole, George, Cole, Nat Kelly, Collins, Joely, Crawford, Christina, Crazy Horse, CuChulain, Custis, George Washington Parke, Danilova, Alexandra Dyonysievna, Day, Sabrina Sidney (see Hannibal, Abram Petrovich), de Beauharnais, Eugène-Rose, de Beauharnais, Hortense, Delamere, Paora Kingi, Delamere, Paora Kingi, Dermit, Édouard, Douglas, Anthony, Duchin, Peter Oelrichs, Eliezer, Ellison, Edward Pohau, Emerick, Louis, Enkidu, Ephraim and Manasseh, Erichthonius, Esther, Eumenes I, Finn Mac Cumhal, Fitzgerald, Ella, Fowler, Percy Leo, Foyster, Adelaide, Francisco, Peter, Frankovich, Mike J., Frelinghuysen, Frederick Theodore, Gaveston, Piers, Genée, Adeline, Gilbert, Melissa Ellen, God's Wife, Graham, Eddie, Griffith, Calvin, Gülnüs Ummetüllah, Gökçen, Sabiha, Hancock, John, Hannibal, Abram Petrovich, Hawai'ian Royal Families, Heracles, Houston, Samuel, Hyllus, Ibrahim Pasha, India (Princely States), Jehoash, Jumping Bull, Kano Sansetsu, Karl XIV Johan, Kean, Edmund, Kiribati, Knight, Edward Austen, LaBadie, Florence, Lee, John Doyle, Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, Li Peng, Lin Huoping, Lone Wolf II, Lonewolf, Delos Knowles, MacBride, Roger Lea, Mahuta, Robert Te Kotahitanga a Koroki, Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla, March, Naomi (Nimmy), Maretu II, Mariner, William, Maugham, William Somerset, Maui, McArthur, James, McAuley, Catherine, McCartney, Heather, Melcher, Terry, Melville, Herman, Melzi, Francesco, Memminger, Christopher Gustavus, Michael V Kalaphates, Midas, Montu / Chons, Moriarty, John, Mortara, Edgardo, Moses, Muhammad, Murray, Andrew Buist, Nguyen, Martine (see under Bokassa I), O'Connell, James F., O'Connor, Hugh, O'Neil, Robert Vincent, Jr., Oedipus, Okada Keishu, Omahuru, Ngatau, Palmer, James Alvin, Perry, Mae Walker (under Walker, C.J.), Peter III, Phair, Elizabeth Clark, Philip V, Pitau, Otene, Poe, Edgar Allan, Pomare Dynasty, Ponsonby, Sarah, Poutapu, Wiremu Te Ranga, Presley, Priscilla Ann, Pryderi, Quinn, Katherine DeMille, Reagan, Michael E., Roland, Roman Empire, Roosevelt, Eleanor, Saigo Siro, Sancho, Ignatius, Sargon I, Schünemann-Pott, Friedrich, Seki Takakazu Kowa, Semiramis, Sennacherib, Shelton Kenneth, Shelton, Fincourt, Short, William, Singh, Vishwanath Pratap, Slocum, Frances, Smith, John Walter, Smith, Robyn, Stewart, Albert Oliphant, Strozzi, Barbara, Sun Kewang, Tangiia Nui, Te Ariki Upoko Tini, Te Atua, Henare, Te Waharoa, Tecumseh, Thyssen-Bornemisza, Heinrich, Tinh Hue, Tolstoy, Leo Nikolayevich, Trapp Family, Tu Tapu, Tydings, Joseph Davies, Tyson, Mike G., Utrillo, Maurice, William the Conqueror, Ýnan, Afet, Yoshida Shigeru, Zaid bin Haritha,

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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]

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]

Barber, Dee Seton

Barber was adopted in 1938 by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) and his second wife, Julia Moses Buttree. Seton had founded the Woodcraft movement in 1902 in Connecticut, which developed in... [more]

Bayard, James Asheton, Sr.

Bayard and his siblings were adopted by their uncle, John Bubenheim Bayard, when their father died. From 1797 to 1803 he was a member of the US House of Representatives from Delaware, fr... [more]

Berlin, Andy

Berlin was adopted as a baby and grew up in a loving family in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Nevertheless, he felt different from others, even fantasizing that his birth parents were Martians. ... [more]

Bhattacharya, Namita Kaul

Bhattacharya is the adopted daughter (some political opponents claim she is also his birth daughter) of Indian Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Atal Behari Vajpayee. She is... [more]

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]

Boson of Arles

Boson was born before 850, the son of Buwin, Count of Ardennes. His father made him governor of Lombardy and in 879 Boson convened the nobility of Provence and had himself elected King of P... [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]

Brady, John Green

Brady was born in New York. His mother died when he was very young. His father remarried, but Brady seems to have been unhappy with his step-mother, and he ran away from home when he was ei... [more]