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Perry, Mae Walker (under Walker, C.J.)

Walker was born Sarah Breedlove and orphaned in 1874 when both her parents died of yellow fever. She was then raised for several years by her older brother and sister, but married for the f... [more]

Peter III

Peter was the son of Duke Charles Frederick of Holstein-Gottrop and Anna, the daughter of Czar Peter the Great and was born in Kiel, Germany. He was adopted by the Empress Elizabeth Petr... [more]

Phair, Elizabeth Clark

Phair was adopted as a baby by a well-to-do couple with another adopted child. She had a conventional, middle-class childhood, but began to rebel in high school. She graduated from Oberlin ... [more]

Philip V

Philip was born the son of King Demetrius II, but was adopted by Antigonus Doson, whom he succeeded as king in 221. He defeated the Aetolian League, Sparta and Elis in a war from 220 to 217... [more]

Pidgley, Tony

Pidgley is the co-founder and head of the Berkeley Group, one of Britain's largest up-market house builders, and also of Thirlstone Homes. He was a Barnardo boy before being adopted aged... [more]

Pitau, Otene

Pitau was the son of an English trader, Thomas Halbert, and a Maori woman named Pirihira Konekone. They separated before he was born, and his mother became part of the household of the Ngat... [more]

Pitt River Charley

These two men were captured as boys by the Klamath and Modoc people before 1864. They remained with their captors until after the Modoc War of 1872-73, when they returned to their home in C... [more]

Plato, Dana Michelle

Dana Plato's was the stereotypical life of a child star who couldn't make the transition to adult acting. She was the second child of a young unmarried birthmother who relinquished her for ... [more]

Pliny the Younger (under Roman Empire)

Ancient Roman society institutionalized the adoption of adults. It was relatively common for a wealthy Roman couple to adopt an adult man, even a slave, as heir if they did not have any son... [more]

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poe's actor parents died before he was three years old (his father had disappeared before he was born and his mother died in 1811) and he was fostered (never formally adopted) by a merchant... [more]