Do you know of any famous adoptees in addition to those listed below?

Question

here are a few famous adoptees who have made contributions -- be it fun ones, medical ones, singing ones, etc -- they've made contributions somehow and matter to someone . . . and they didn't kill anyone either . . .

Maya Angelous

Ann Margaret

Aristotle

Louis Armstrong

Babe Ruth

Johann Sebastian Bach

John Banks

Ingrid Bergman

Bo Jangles

William Bradford

Pierce Brosnan

Richard Burton

Dean Cain

George Washington Carver

Coco Chanel

Eric Clapton

Bill Clinton

Nat King Cole

Crazy Horse

Dante Culpepper

Ted Danson

Tommy Davidson

Bo Diddly

Ella Fitzgerald

Gerald Ford

Newt Gingrich

Sam Goldwyn

oh my, the list goes on and i've only made it to the G's . . .

there are positive adoptee role models who haven't killed anyone yet . .

http://www.dils.aber.ac.uk/dils/Research/RFocus9/HTML_SL.HTM

Answer 1

lol, Adoption is A-OK,  looks like nobody wants to hear it.

You can lead a dehydrated horse to water........but you can't make him HAPPY to drink.

Seems only "beating a dead horse" brings happiness.

But thanks for the effort.

Answer 2

Victoria Rowell

She was raised by 4 diverse women and although

she is black, her daugter was born with blue eyes

and blond hair. People thought she was her own

baby's nanny!

Answer 3

Sara Gilbert (she is the actress who played Darlene on the sitcom Roseanne) is an adoptee.  She is also the sister of Melissa Gilbert who was also an adoptee (you probably know she played the role of Laura on Little House on the Prairie).

Roseanne also is a real life birth mom.

Answer 4

No list is complete without a woman who has a special place in my heart -- Norma Jeane Baker, better known as Marilyn Monroe.  Her adoption was very, very brief, however, as it failed.  She spent most of her childhood in foster care.  She married at 16 to get out of the system.

As a side note:  Aristotle and Alexander weren't adopted.

Aristotle was simply raised by relatives when his parents died.  He was 10 at the time of their death.

Alexander the Great was raised by his mother and step-father.  Unfortunately he was suspected of killing his step-father.  He was a rather brutal figure and an alcoholic.  He really should NOT be on THIS list. LOL

ETA:

No, we're not all killers.  There are an number of serial killers who were adopted, but there are a lot of non-adopted killers, too.  I honestly don't know any stats regarding if there's a higher rate among either group or not, so I can't say one way or the other.

Answer 5

Bill Clinton was adopted by his mother's husband, basically transfer of paternal rights due to the death of his biological father, so I don't think I would consider that an adoptee.

Answer 6

Bill Clinton was a step-parent adoption.  His natural father died in an automobile accident before he was born.  He was cared for by his grandparents while his mother completed nursing school so that he would not have to be given away to strangers to be raised.  His mother remarried, and it was not until he turned fourteen that he formally adopted his stepfather's surname of Clinton, although he had assumed use of it before then.

Clinton has said that he remembers his adoptive father (stepfather) as a gambler and an alcoholic who regularly abused his mother and, at times, his half-brother, Roger, Jr.

So, before we all start farting rainbows and breaking our arms patting Clinton's abusive adoptive father on his back, let's make sure all of the facts are on the table and we give credit where credit is due - to Clinton's biological mother and his biological grandparents who stepped in when they were needed.

Don't you just love how adopters like to twist the facts?

Answer 7

Is Bill Clinton really the face of adoption you want to see? When I think of Bill Clinton all I remember is his famous line "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Perhaps his inability to tell the truth is because he never knew the truth of the most basic of things...his origins

Babe Ruth a great baseball player, well known for his over indulgence in food...an eating disorder perhaps caused by his feelings of abandonment?

Alexander the Great, a man suspected of killing his step father... just one of those 17% huh?

"Crazy Horse" name kinda says it all

OH!! and lets not forget the greatest example of them all

LIZZIE BORDEN - Miss 40 whacks with the ax

*ETA* Now that I've had a chance to think some more... I can up with one that could outdo even good "ole Lizzie......Nicole Ritchie

Answer 8

Man, some of you people really need to lighten up.

Answer 9

it is true that not all adoptees grow up to murder, rape and steal. but then not all adoptees spent time in foster care. not all adoptees experienced abuse or neglect. everyones experience is different. add to that, every person reacts differently to things. you know the expression what doesn't break you will make you. what breaks one person, makes another stronger.

foster kids and kids who have spent time in abusive and or neglectful homes, as well as children who have for whatever reason had a parent removed from their lives, (sometimes through death) are at a higher risk than children who grew up in ideal loving homes to become murderers and such. i am not saying kids living with biological loving parents don't murder, nor am i saying that adoptees do. just pointing out there is a higher risk. i would go on to say that most adoptees do become productive and wonderful additions to society. most adoptees become loving and awesome parents.

however if we know about the risks and can recognize symptoms, we can help the kids who don't do as well. i have studied reactive attachment disorder extensively, i know many rads. i help with respite care and i support the parents trying to help their child. there is hope, and there is help. knowledge is key though. i won't go into the disorder, if you'd like more info there is a lot out there. just google it. adoptees who suffer from this condition are in the minority, but that doesn't mean you should underestimate how many children suffer from it.

Answer 10

You do realize that almost everyone on your list was a stepparent or family adoption, and did not get the full adoption experience as most of us here did, right?

Did you also realize that a disproportionately high number of adoptees, in comparison to the general  public, are responsible for murders and other violent crimes?  Did you know a higher number of prison inmates are represented by former foster children and/or adoptees?  Why do you think that is?  Did you know juvenile adoptees are also highly overrepresented in social services?  It does not mean they are all guaranteed to have problems, but there are problems.  The reasons why ought to be studied.

Yes, there are some adoptees who went on to become famous.  There are many more non-adoptees who are famous.  There are some from both groups who end up committing crimes, although percentagewise, the adoptee group is higher.

julie j

reunited adoptee

Answer 11

Nicole Richie

Answer 12

Faith Hill

Answer 13

Melissa Gilbert (from Little House on the Prairie)

There are some more on http://famous.adoption.com

Answer 14

Daryl McDaniels

There are many more..

Robert Michener is also one I believe..

Answer 15

Sarah Maclaughlin, singer

sarah Gilbert, actress

Melissa Gilbert, actress

Dave Thomas, founder of Wendy's

Faith Hill, singer

http://famous.adoption.com/famous/index-...

is a website that list's famous adoptees and fosteree's.  It is quite extensive.

Answer 16

I'm absolutely surprised, with a smile from ear to ear that nobody has mis-represented the dear Moses by saying he was adopted when he wasn't.