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Annie Malone

Orphaned at a young age, Annie attended a public school in Metropolis before moving to Peoria to live with an older sister.

Annie Rooney

Little Annie Rooney, an American comic strip about a young orphaned girl and her dog

Awareness Cambodia

In 2000, land was purchased in Kampong Speu, and the first buildings were erected to make a home for children orphaned due to the ravages of AIDS.

Batman Live

After his circus acrobat parents are murdered by a gangster during a performance in Gotham City, the orphaned Dick Grayson is put into the care of Bruce Wayne and his faithful butler Alfred by Commissioner Gordon.

Bed of Rose's

A young orphaned man in a small town (possibly modeled after the Statlers' hometown of Staunton, Virginia) has for some reason become shunned by the "polite" members of society, and is forced to beg in the streets.

Benjamin Fitzpatrick

Born in Greene County, Georgia, Fitzpatrick was orphaned at the age of seven and was taken by his sister (Celia Fitzpatrick Baldwin) to Alabama in 1815.

Cavan Orphanage Fire

The Industrial Schools Act 1868 provided for the establishment of the Industrial school system in Ireland to provide accommodation and education for orphaned and abandoned children.

Children in the Holocaust

The German authorities held other children under appalling conditions in transit camps, such as the case of Anne Frank and her sister in Bergen-Belsen, and non-Jewish orphaned children whose parents the German military and police units had killed in so-called anti-partisan operations.

Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice

Christie Clark as Lacey Hellerstat: A local orphaned girl whom Danny has a crush on.

Chris Zurawsky

He is also a board member of Home of Hope – U.S., a non-profit that works with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, in southern India, to care for poor orphaned children.

David Fleay Wildlife Park

The Park has a long tradition of breeding native animals and also includes an animal hospital for sick, injured and orphaned animals.

Denis Bowen

After being orphaned at a young age, Bowen moved to England where he was raised by his aunt in Huddersfield.

Elisha Williams House

Born in 1773 in Pomfret, Connecticut, Williams was orphaned as a child and taken into the care of a family friend.

Eric Norelius

Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota traces its history to 1865 when Eric Norelius and his congregation took in four orphaned immigrant children and later opened Vasa Lutheran Home for Children.

Her Right to Live

Polly Biggs (Peggy Hyland) is the eldest of a family of orphaned children who are taken in by their uncle, Mayor Hoadley (John S. Robertson).

Industrial Schools Act 1868

Industrial Schools Act 1868 was an Act of Parliament which created Industrial schools in Ireland to care for neglected, orphaned and abandoned children.

Judge Giant

Orphaned shortly after the Apocalypse War in 2104, Giant's son had been inducted into the Academy of Law, where he performed extremely well but with a worrying streak of violence that threatened his ability as a judge.

Kel Seliger

It also establishes a program to address abandoned or orphaned oil and gas wells and includes considerations for potential future periods of decline in oil and gas prices.

Klaus Riedel

The orphaned Riedel was raised by his grandmother in Bernstadt.

Kumily Priory

Upon his return to India, Fr Zacharias built a school for orphaned and impoverished children in Kumily.

Lawrence Pyke

In 1927, on his mother's death, Pyke was orphaned and he was adopted by Lawrence Adamson, the bachelor Headmaster of Wesley.

Leah Manning

She organised the evacuation of orphaned or at risk Basque children during the Spanish Civil War.

Lei Feng

Born in Wangcheng, Hunan (near the town of Leifeng, Changsha, Hunan, named in his honour), Lei was orphaned at an early age.

Lloyd Aldrich

When Alrich was three months old, his parents moved to Los Angeles, California and when he was 12 he was orphaned and ended up living with his older brother in Colorado.

Loyal Order of Moose in Great Britain

The aims are the same as the Loyal Order of Moose in the United States, which are to help the orphaned and the widowed.

Manuel Argüello Mora

Orphaned at a young age, he was brought up by his uncle Juan Rafael Mora Porras, the president of Costa Rica between 1849 and 1859, and his historical novel La trinchera recounts Mora Porras' campaign against William Walker's forces in Nicaragua in 1856.

Marie-Thérèse Figueur

According to her memoirs, Marie-Thérèse Figueur was born in Talmay, near Dijon, the daughter of François Figueur, a miller and merchant, and Claudine Viard, from a family of minor nobility; orphaned aged nine, she was entrusted to a maternal uncle, Jean Viard, a sous-lieutenant in an infantry regiment.

Martin Boos

Orphaned at the age of four, he was reared by an uncle at Augsburg, who finally sent him to the University of Dillingen, where he studied under Sailer, Zimmer, and Weber.

Paul Roudakoff

A morganatic descendant of Catherine the Great, he was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after his father, General, also named Paul Roudakoff, was wounded in battle, and his mother died of typhus five days later.

Paull Shin

Orphaned at the age of four, he lived on the streets of Seoul begging for food until the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, at which point he became a houseboy to a group of U.S. Army officers.

Pierre Louis Dulong

An only child, he was orphaned at the age of 4, he was brought up by his aunt on Auxerre.

Porphy no Nagai Tabi

Focuses on features a Greek boy named Porphyras Patagos (more fondly known as Porphy) and his sister Mina, who have been orphaned after a devastating earthquake which destroyed their home in Greece.

Robert Macauley

When he learned that it would take more than a week to evacuate the surviving orphans due to the lack of military transport planes, Macauley chartered a Boeing 747 from Pan American World Airways and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.

Salui, Malawi

Salui is home to many orphaned children, most likely as a result of a large number of adult deaths due to HIV infection.

Sofia Hellqvist

Since 2010 Hellqvist spends most of her time in Langa, South Africa with Project Playground a center for abused and orphaned children, a center she and her sister Frida Vesterberg has started together.

Sophie Chandauka

In January 2009, Chandauka was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Sentebale ('Forget Me Not' in Sesotho), the African children's charity that was established by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Prince Harry to help vulnerable children and young people in Lesotho, particularly those who have been orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS.

Steve Van Buren

Van Buren was born in La Ceiba, Honduras but, after he was orphaned as a boy, he was sent to live with relatives in New Orleans.

The Cheesy Adventures of Captain Mac A. Roni

:Orphaned and set adrift on the sailing sea on a simple dinghy, if it was not for a school of Mackerel, the legend of Captain Mackerello Aloysius Roni a.k.a. “Captain Mac. A. Roni” would never be sung.

The History of Henry Esmond

The novel opens on Henry as a boy – the supposedly illegitimate (and eventually orphaned) son of Thomas, the third Viscount Castlewood, and cousin of the Jacobite fourth viscount, Francis, and his wife, the Lady Castlewood.

The Outsiders of Uskoken Castle

The book is based on his experiences with these orphaned children in the Croatian city of Senj, where there is a castle called Nehaj Fortress.

Thomas Hopsonn

Orphaned at an early age, he was fostered and apprenticed as a tailor in nearby Niton.

Thomas R. Ranson

Today, local folks in Ansted, in an area which became the new State of West Virginia, tend the gravesite of the young mother and speak of her little orphaned boy who grew up to be the legendary Stonewall Jackson.

Ranson knew of the short and tragic life of Jackson's mother, who had been buried in an unmarked grave in Fayette County along the James River and Kanawha Turnpike when Thomas was orphaned at the age of only 7 in 1831.

Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel

They found an orphaned squirrel after Hurricane David and raised it as a family pet who would ride on their shoulders even as they dipped in the pool.

Udawalawe Elephant Transit Home

In order to support these orphaned elephants, the Department of Wildlife Conservation set up the Elephant Transit Home within Udawalawe National Park with help from the Born Free Foundation.

Ulf Ekberg

After Ekberg experienced the tsunami in Phuket, Thailand he founded the Surin Relief Fund to support affected children by providing facilities to educate children and care for orphaned children.

Vienna Dredd

Vienna is Judge Dredd's niece, the daughter of his corrupt brother Rico, and was orphaned when Dredd was forced to kill her father.


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