Most Famous Orphans
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1.
Herbert Hoover
...and then he became President.
86 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
2.
Edgar Allan Poe
The pain was hard to hide.
78 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
3.
James Michener
Famous author was abandoned by his parents.
74 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
4.
Leo Tolstoi
13 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
5.
Barbara Stanwyck
8 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
6.
Elanor Roosevelt
8 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
7.
Coco Chanel
The perfume giant.
7 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
8.
Ingrid Bergman
Both her parents died when she was young.
7 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
9.
Dante Culpepper
football player
6 points - added 11 years ago by guest -
10.
Boris Karloff
6 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
11.
Charles Curtis
Oddly, Hoover's VP was also an orphan.
0 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
12.
Ralph Bunche
0 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
13.
Truman Capote
Shuttled from home to home in his troubled youth.
-22 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
14.
Simon Bolivar
South American revolutionist.
-28 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
15.
Muhammad
-31 points - added 13 years ago by BradHemphill -
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