Famous Orphans

Try to guess these famous orphans from across history.

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Last updated: July 2, 2019

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Description	Answer
South African civil rights leader and president.	Nelson Mandela
Mongol warlord who conquered most of Asia.	Genghis Khan
Founder of Islam.	Mohammed
Empress of the Byzantine Empire, wife to Justinian.	Theodora
Most famous Nazi leader.	Adolf Hitler
American civil rights leader who was assassinated by the Nation of Islam.	Malcolm X
Author of Lord of the Rings.	J.R.R. Tolkien
Most famous American female novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector	Gertrude Stein
Chinese-American architect of the glass pyramid at the Louvre.	I.M. Pei
American frontiersman who slaughtered prairie animals.	Buffalo Bill
French founder of uranium.	Marie Curie
Many consider him to be America's best baseball player in history.	Babe Ruth
Russian cosmonaut and first woman to enter space.	Valentina Tereshkova
American singer of "Like a Virgin"	Madonna
Russia's most famous mystic with a catchy song named after him.	Grigori Rasputin