Vol. 6, No. 2• May 2002

Famous adoptees

• Mark Acre (baseball player)

• Edward Albee (playwright)

• Louisa May Alcott (writer)

• Alexander the Great

• Aristotle (philosopher)

• John J. Audubon (naturalist)

• Freddie Bartholomew (actor)

• Shari Belafonte-Harper (actress)

• Ingrid Bergman (actress)

• Les Brown (motivational speaker)

• Richard Burton (actor)

• Senator Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia)

• George Washington Carver (inventor)

• President Bill Clinton

• Nat King Cole (singer)

• Christina Crawford (writer)

• Crazy Horse (Lakota war chief)

• Daunte Culpepper (football player)

• Faith Daniels (TV personality)

• Ted Danson (actor)

• Charles Dickens (writer)

• Eric Dickerson (football player)

• Clarissa Pinkola Estes (writer)

• President Gerald Ford

• Melissa & Sara Gilbert (actresses)

• Scott Hamilton (figure skater)

• Langston Hughes (poet and writer)

• Jesse Jackson (political activist)

• Brent Jasmer (actor)

• Steve Jobs (co-founder of Apple Computer and owner of Pixar)

• Matthew & Patrick Laborteaux (actors)

• Dalai Lama

• John Lennon (musician)

• Representative Jim Lightfoot (R-Ohio)

• Art Linkletter (TV personality)

• Ray Liotta (actor)

• Greg Louganis (diver)

• Malcolm X (civil rights leader)

• Nelson Mandela (leader and politician)

• James Michener (writer)

• Sarah McLachlan (singer)

• Marilyn Monroe (actress)

• Moses (Biblical leader)

• Dan O’Brien (decathlete)

• Jim Palmer (hall of fame baseball player)

• Edgar Allen Poe (poet and writer)

• Priscilla Presley (actress)

• Nancy Reagan (First Lady)

• Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady)

• Jean Jacques Rousseau (philosopher)

• Buffy Sainte-Marie (musician and actress)

• Dave Thomas (founder of Wendy’s restaurants)

• Leo Tolstoy (writer)

• Mark Twain (writer)

Reprinted from the 1999/2000 National Adoption Awareness Month Guide, published by the North American Council on Adoptable Children; 651-644-3036; fax 651-644-9848; [email protected]; www.nacac.org.