page_title: List of orphans and foundlings
section_title: Otherwise notables
hierarchical_section_title: List of orphans and foundlings / Otherwise notables
caption_attribution_description: Japanese International Olympic Committee member jodoka Jigoro Kano (L) smiles as the 1940 Olympic Games goes to Tokyo after the vote during the IOC congress at Hotel Adlon on July 31, 1936 in Berlin, Germany.
context_page_description: Notable orphans and foundlings include world leaders, celebrated writers, entertainment greats, figures in science and business, as well as innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics. While the exact definition of orphan and foundlings varies, one legal definition is a child bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents". According to the United Nations, the definition of an orphan is anyone that loses one parent, either through death or abandonment.
caption: Kanō Jigorō
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