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Edward Albee
Aristotle
Dame Peggy Ashcroft
John J. Audubon
Anita Baker
Jeff Bates
Jamie Baulch
Michael Bay
Layne Beachley
Ingrid Bergman (guardianship)
James Best
Jeff Bezos
Surya Bonaly
Les Brown
Sen. Robert Byrd
John Callahan
Peter and Kitty Carruthers
George Washington Carver
Charlotte Church
Bill Clinton
Lynnette Cole
Christina Crawford
Daunte Culpepper
Faith Daniels
Bobby Darin
Tommy Davidson
Eric Dickerson
Rebecca de Mornay
Adrian Dodson
(Queen) Esther (Biblical; Old Testament)
Gerald Ford
Jonathan Gilbert
Melissa Gilbert
Newt Gingrich
Tim Green
Roger Grimsby
Scott Hamilton
John Hancock
Ashia Hansen
Debbie Harry (Blondie)
Faith Hill
Jesse Jackson
Brent Jasmer
Steve Jobs
Jim Jones, Jr.
Eartha Kitt
Matthew Laborteaux
Patrick Labyorteaux
Betty Jean Lifton
Art Linkletter
Ray Liotta
Charlotte Anne Lopez
Greg Louganis
James MacArthur
Lee Majors
Tim McGraw
James Michener
Tom Monaghan
Demi Moore
Sean Moran
Dan O'Brien
Hugh O'Connor
Jim Palmer
Liz Phair
Dana Plato
Edgar Allan Poe
Katherine DeMille Quinn
Michael Reagan
Nancy Reagan
George "Superman" Reeves
Wilson Riles
Harold Robbins
Renee Rosnes
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Sarah Saffian
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Marcus Samuelsson
Eric Schweig
George Scott
Sen. Paull Shin
Peter Shulman
Robyn Smith
Dame Kiri TeKanawa
Dave Thomas
Shania Twain
Mo Vaughn
Fatima Whitbread
Anthony Williams
Jett Williams


NOTE: I've tried to include people who were legally adopted by one or both parents. To my knowledge, there are no informal kinship care arrangements represented on the list unless so noted. When I firstmade up the list, I tried separating it out, however, there are many who were adopted by a stepparent as infants, others as older children, others after a death, others after a divorce, and a surprising number either (1) discovered as adults they had been adopted by the one parent, and/or (2) were prevented by the biological parent from obtaining any information about the non-present parent. Therefore, the range of issues is so great and varied - just as it is between those of us adopted as infants and those of us adopted as older kids from foster care - that it made more sense to include everyone on the list. This way, the entire spectrum of the adoption experience is represented.

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