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Adoption Celebrities - Famous Adoptees Birth Parents Adoptive Parents Stars -Adoption Celebrities Well-Known Adopted Persons, Birth Parents & Adoptive Parents Many of us have a fascination with the well-known in the world of adoption and foster care: actors, entertainers, athletes, politicians, and others. The list below includes names in the adoption community that may be more recognizable to Americans, but this isn t the end of it. Want to adopt Pregnant click here For years, Roger Ridley Fenton has been compiling a list of individuals and groups of people who were formally and informally adopted, fostered, and otherwise raised apart from their biological parents. Each entry has been researched and cross-checked. The list is an eye-opener, since it includes not only well-known names in the U.S. and Canada, but also names from around the world. For students of adoption and foster care history, the document includes information about groups such as Child Migrants, Kindertransport, Orphan Trains, Chinese Dynasties, and others, that trace the history of child welfare, informal adoption, and the more formal type of adoption and foster care we know today. The list even includes several who have been rumored to have been adopted... and the truth is revealed. Read on... Adopted Persons Andy Berlin - entrepreneur: chairman of Berlin Cameron & Partners Anthony Williams - politician Aristotle - philosopher Art Linkletter - comedian Bo Diddley - musician, performer Buffy Sainte-Marie - musician, actress Carl-Theodor Dreyer - Danish film director Charlotte Anne Lopez - Miss Teen USA Christina Crawford - author Clarissa Pinkola Estes - author Crazy Horse - Lakota war chief Dan O Brien - decathlete Daunte Culpepper - football player Dave Thomas - entrepreneur: founder of Wendy s Debbie Harry - singer D.M.C. - hip hop artist Edgar Allan Poe - poet, writer Edward Albee - playwright Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady Eric Dickerson - athlete Faith ...