Famous Celebrities You Had No Idea Were Adopted

Langston Hughes

Like many others, after his parents divorced, Langston was raised by his maternal grandparents. His mother, Caroline "Carrie" Langston, was a schoolteacher and married James Nathaniel Hughes. His name was a product of his mother's former name and his father's last name. His father left shortly after he was born, abandoning not only Carrie and Langston but Langston's older sister as well.