Adopted Celebrities

Adopted Celebrities

Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady
Lynette Cole - Miss USA 2000
Melissa Gilbert - Actress
Priscilla Presley - Actress
Sarah McLachlan - Singer
Scott Hamilton - Professional Figure Skater
Edward Albee (playwright)
John J. Audubon (naturalist)
Les Brown (motivational speaker)
Sen. Robert Byrd
Peter and Kitty Carruthers (skaters)
Nat King Cole (singer)
Christina Crawford (author)
Faith Daniel’s (TV news personality)
Ted Danson (actor) (he is adopted and has adopted a child also)
Eric Dickerson (professional football)
President Gerald Ford
Melissa Gilbert (actress)
Newt Gingrich (politics) Scott Hamilton (skater)
Debi Harry (singer)
Brent Jasmer (actor)
Steven Paul Jobs (co-founder of Apple Computers)
Matthew and Patrick Laborteaux (actors)
Rep. Jim Lightfoot
Art Linkletter (TV personality)
Charlotte Anne Lopez (Miss Teen USA)
James McArthur (actor, son of Helen Hayes)
James Michener (author)
Tom Monaghan (founder of Domino’s Pizza, owner of Detroit Tigers)
Marilyn Monroe (actress)
Moses (Biblical leader)
Dan O’Brien( Olympic gold medalist-Decathlon)
Hugh O’Connor (actor)
Jim Palmer (prof. baseball)
Michael Reagan (President’s son)
Nancy Reagan (First Lady)
Wilson Riles (educator)
Victoria Rowell (actress)

Birth Parent Celebrities

Roseanne Barr - Actress

Adoptive Parent Celebrities

Calista Flockhart - Actress
Dan Marino - Professional Athlete
Ed McMahon - Entertainer
Jane Fonda - Actress
Kirby Puckett - Professional Athlete
Magic Johnson - Professional Athlete
Maury Povich - Talk Show Host
Ozzy and Sharon Osborne - Singer and Actress
Willie Mays - Hall of Fame Professional Athlete
Brooke Adams
Woody Allen (director)
Julie Andrews (singer/actress)
Eve Arden (actress)
Pearl Bailey (singer/actress)
Harry Belafonte (singer)
Regina Belle (singer)
Lloyd Bentsen (Sec. of Treasury)
Taurean Blacque (actor)
Erma Bombeck (humorist)
Mai Britt (actress, ex-wife of Sammy Davis Jr.)
Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland (actors)
Denise Scott Brown (architect)
Art Buchwald (humorist)
George Burns (comedian)
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Kitty Caruthers (skating champion)
Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien and Aline (Prime Minister, Canada)
Jamie Lee Curtis (actress)
Ted Danson (actor)
Bette Davis (actress)
Sammy Davis, Jr. (entertainer)
Oscar de la Renta (fashion designer)
John DeLorean (industrialist)
Patty Duke (actress)
John Gregory Dunn and Joan Didion (authors)
Peter Falk (actor)
Henry Fonda (actor)
Joan Fontaine (actress)
Robert Fulghum (author)
Teri Garr (actress)
Lou Gosselt, Jr. (actor)
Karen Grassle (actress)
Horace George Hamilton
Valerie Harper (actress)
Helen Hayes (actress)
Sen. Jesse Helms
Bob and Dorothy Hope (comedian/singer)
Sen. Gordon Humphrey
Kate Jackson (actress)
Jill Krementz (author)
Kris Kristofferson (singer)
Patti LaBelle (singer)
Hedy Lamarr (actress)
Michael Landon (actor)
Jerry Lewis (comedian, singer, dancer, actor, entertainer )
Willle Mays (prof. baseball)
Sen. John McCain
Ed McMahon (TV personality)
Richard King Mellon
Donna Mills (actress)
Paul Newman (actor)
Carroll O’Connor (actor)
Marie Osmond (singer)
Estelle Parsons (actress)
Michelle Pfeiffer (actress)
Kirby Puckett (prof. baseball)
Sarah Purcell (TV personality)
Sally Jessy Raphael (TV personalily)
President Ronald Reagan
Roy Rogers/Dale Evans (actors)
Al Roker (TV personality)
Linda Ronstadt (singer)
Isabella Rossellini (model, actress)
Susan Ruttan (actress)
Gail Sheehy (author)
Sen. Paul Simon
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Sr. (newspaper publisher)
Gloria Swanson (actress)
Robert Urich (actor) and wife Heather Mendes (actress)
Robert Venturi (architect)
Kurt Vonnegut (author)
Jane Wallace (TV personality)
Marcia Wallace (actress)
Barbara Walters (TV personality)
Jann Wenner (magazine editor)
Diane Wiest (actress)
Jo Beth Williams (actress)
Judy Woodruff (TV news personality)
Ted Danson (actor) (he is adopted and has adopted a child too)