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Famous & Well-Known Adoptive Parents (with biographies)

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Famous People Who Are Adoptive Parents

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Brooke Adams
Louisa May Alcott
Gracie Allen
Woody Allen
Kirsty Alley
Loni Anderson
Julie Andrews
Eve Arden
Aristotle
Gladys Aylward
Pearl Bailey
Josephine Baker
Regina Belle
Milton Berle
Jack Benny
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen
Larry Bird
Taurean Blacque
Erma Bombeck
Mai Britt
Pierce Brosnan
Sen. Sam Brownback
Pearl Buck
George Burns
Ellen Burstyn
Richard Burton
Bustamente, Sir (William) Alexander
Kirk Cameron
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Kate Capshaw
Nell Carter
Billy Casper
Steven Curtis Chapman
Jean Chrétien
William Christopher
Connie Chung
Fr. George Clements
Nat King Cole
Sen. Larry Craig
Joan Crawford
Tom Cruise
Jamie Lee Curtis
Ted Danson
Linda Darnell
Bette Davis
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Oscar de la Renta
Delilah
John DeLorean
Rep. Bill Delahunt
Cecil B. DeMille
Robert De Niro
John Denver
Joan Didion
Eduardo Macedo dos Santos
Doris Duke
Patty Duke
Faye Dunaway
Isadora Duncan
John Gregory Dunne
Bob Dylan
Christine Ebersole
Dale Evans
Peter Falk
Mia Farrow
Calista Flockhart
Henry Fonda
Jane Fonda
Joan Fontaine
Connie Francis
James Garner
Teri Garr
Louis Gossett, Jr.
Karen Grassle
Andy Griffith
Valerie Harper
Phil Harris
Helen Hays
Sen. Jesse Helms
William Holden
Bertha Holt
Bob Hope
Sen. Gordon Humphrey
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
Jill Ireland
Hugh Jackman
Bobby Jackson
Kate Jackson
Earvin "Magic" Johnson
Angelina Jolie
George Jones
Jim Jones
Diane Keaton
David Kelley
George Kennedy
Nicole Kidman
Jill Krementz
Patti LaBelle
Hedy Lamarr
Michael Landon
Sen. Mary Landrieu
Rep. James Leach
Jerry Lewis
George Lucas
Jackie "Moms" Mabley
Dan Marino
Dean Martin
Harpo Marx
Willie Mays
Sen. John McCain
David McCallum
Frances McDormand
Ed McMahon
Donna Mills
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Rep. Connie Morella
Allen Neuharth
Wayne Newton
Rep. Anne Northup
Carroll O'Connor
Rosie O'Donnell
George Orwell
Marie Osmond
Estelle Parsons
Michelle Pfeiffer
Rep. Earl Pomeroy
Paula Poundstone
Maury Povich
Kirby Puckett
Sarah Purcell
Sally Jessy Raphael
Maureen Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Burt Reynolds
Roy Rogers
Al Roker
Linda Ronstadt
Isabella Rossellini
Babe Ruth
Susan Ruttan
Patty Sheehan
Gail Sheehy
Sen. Paul Simon
Manny Skar
Rep. Gordon Smith
Joe Spano
Stephen Spielberg
Barbara Stanwyck
Ben Stein
Parker Stevenson
Sharon Stone
Gloria Swanson
Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Kiri TeKanawa
Billy Bob Thornton
Cheryl Tiegs
Billy Tipton (aka Dorothy Tipton
Robert Urich
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Wagner
Barbara Walters
Dianne Wiest
Jo Beth Williams
Ann Wilson
Dan Wilson
Jane Wyman

NOTE: The list includes those who adopted infants, older children, unrelated children, and step-children. It is hoped that this represents the entire spectrum of the adoptive parent experience.

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