Famous Adoptees
Steve Jobs
The former Apple CEO, who passed away Oct. 5, was adopted by a California couple, shortly after his birth in 1955. As an adult, Jobs found his biological parents and biological sister, a successful novelist.
Coleman became famous for his TV role as an orphan taken in by a millionaire, but was adopted in real life as well.
This free agent quarterback was adopted by a Florida woman who gave 17 children a home.
A New Jersey couple adopted the baby girl who would become an iconic star of a 1970s punk rock group
Long before he was an Olympic gold medalist, Hamilton was an infant adoptee.
This country star was reared in what she has called a “very stable … God-fearing home” in Star, Miss.
The veteran radio and TV host was adopted by a Canadian couple that later relocated him to California.
A New Jersey couple took this soon-to-be wise guy actor into their home back in 1955.
This future Olympic gold medalist was born to unwed teen parents and adopted several months later.
Revered as one-third of a groundbreaking rap act, McDaniels was taken in by a Queens, NY, couple in the early ‘60s.
Oher, an NFL offensive tackle, suffered from neglect and homelessness before a Tennessee couple adopted him. Their story became a blockbuster movie, starring Sandra Bullock. Find the movie.
Though they never formally adopted the literary giant, a Virginia couple did take Poe in after his mother died.
Previn was adopted from her native country (where?) and was raised in a large family of siblings. Her adoptive parents later divorced, and her famous mother raised her with an iconic movie director (who was that, again?), whom Previn ultimately married and is still with today.
American expatriates raised the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter and her two adopted brothers
Thomas, the lovable founder of Wendy’s, was adopted a few weeks after his birth in 1932.