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 OBrien (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 Wendys 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.