Beate Shirota Gordon (Austria, Japan, USA). At age 22, she was the only woman who were selected to be in the committee to write post WW II the constitution of Japan. She played an integral part in writing into the Japanese constitution legal equality between men and women- the only constitution in the world that is clearly included for equality between men and women.
She speaks Russian, German, French, English, and Japanese.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz (Philippines, Israel, US). She first picked up a camera while living at Clark Air Base in Pampanga.

Timothy Geithner, US Secretary of the Treasury (Zimbabwe, Zambia, India, Thailand - he graduated from ISB!). He speaks Japanese and Chinese.

Nichkhun Horvejkul
He's member of 2pm, famous
Korean singing group
He's also Thai TCK who lived in
Thailand, NZ, and USA before
He lives in Korea now for his career
and can speak Thai, English, and Korean

Another note,

Another personal favorite musician third culture kid of mine is Lila Downs...as an anthropologist I lived and did fieldwork in the town she's from on her mother's side...and besides her music is awesome!

Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures. Here's a Wikipedia entry on her!

Downs is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer Anita Sánchez and Allen Downs, a Scottish/English-American[1] professor of art and cinematographer from Minnesota. She grew up partly in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, partly in the U.S. state of California as a teen, and Minnesota as an adult where she graduated from the University of Minnesota in voice and anthropology

Hey guys,

didn't see this posted so I thought you might be interested to know that Bryan Adams is a Canadian TCK diplobrat...even went to one of my schools, AIS in Israel.

Khaled Hosseini - author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid suns is originally from Afghanistan (Iran, France, US)

And, of course, don't forget Timothy Geithner, newly-appointed Treasury Secretary, who grew up in India and Thailand, among other places...

Alexander Pushkin was half Ethiopian, half Russian.

Napoleon Bonaparte was originally Italian. (Apparently his French classmates made fun of him for it... which may explain things a bit.)

George Papandreou (and all his siblings), leader of the Greek Socialist party P.A.S.O.K. (U.S.A., Canada, Sweden, Greece)

Kari, I loved that line, too. I was a missionary kid in Tanzania and I KNOW THAT SONG!!!

Another one for the celebrity list: Ariel Dorfman, writer and political activist (Argentina, Chile, New York City).

I noticed my brother (Greg Mortenson) is listed in this forum. This is one of my favorite lines from his book, "The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment-an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German hymn in Swahili." Do you recognize the TCK? lol!

Please don't take this as a snobbish post!

I went to school with the Jordanian royal family in England Pryscilla... I didn't know Abdullah personally but did know the crown prince Hamza and cousin Rashid who were very much trying to find their ID's as kids... I found myself identifying with them quite strongly as (superficially) a fish out of water.

I have no doubts that even as (supposedly) direct descendants of Muhammad, their personalities have been shaped strongly by their TCK experiences.

Another one! Lisa Ono, a Japanese bossa nova artist who grew up between Japan and Brazil :) And she's coming to Shanghai! I'm really excited!

Photographer Annie Leibovitz was an army brat and discovered photography as a teenager living in the Philippines. She spent time in Israel too.

Lennox Lewis - former boxing heavyweight champion of the world.

He was born in England, then moved to Ontario, Canada when he was 13. He won the Gold medal in boxing for Canada in I believe was the '88 Seoul Olympics (could be wrong about which Olympics it was, not about his Gold for Canada), then when Canada didn't give him a decent shot at pro boxing, he took up an offer in England and went back to England and subsequently became one of the greatest boxers ever.

He never felt comfortable being considered "British" since he spent so many of his formative years in Canada, and after being repeatedly pestered about his nationality, finally settled on calling himself Jamaican (his parents nationality).

Don King spoke about this, saying that his indeciseveness about where he came from was "uninspiring" since England or Canada fans couldn't really say he represented either country.

I'm not a boxing fan btw, just was naturally interested in Lewis's story, since it is very similar to my own.

King Abdullah II, of Jordan. He was born ins Jordan but raised in England and USA. I remember to had read that he speaks arabic with an english accent. :-)

http://cominganarchy.com/2007/09/19/things-change/

"Modern day members of the Tokugawa clan—the xenophobic dynasty of Shoguns that shut Japan off from the world for centuries—are up in arms because the man set to one day become head of the family has married a non-Japanese. Iehiro Tokugawa, who is poised to one day become the 19th head of the clan that ruled the country as Shoguns from 1603 to 1868 and maintained a rigid ban on foreigners entering Japan, has tied the knot with a Vietnamese woman."

And he's a TCK :p

wow that´s so interesting...

Writer:

Edward Said.... Political thinker and the mastermind behind "Orientalism"

His autobiography "Out of Place" deals with growing up internationally, losing his cultural homeland of Palestine, growing up as an American in the Middle East, being a "native" in British colonial society, and growing up Arab in America.

In interviews with major American newspapers and in The God Journey podcasts, Young has spoken frankly about his difficult years as a child of Canadian missionaries, living in the highlands of New Guinea with the Dani tribe until he was 10 years old (he calls himself a "third culture kid").

In The New York Times article, The Shack, a Christian novel, becomes a surprise best seller (June 24, 2008), Young also said that he spent a decade in therapy after an extramarital affair 15 years ago.


http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Young

Peter Sarsgaard - actor, mil-brat

Sarsgaard was born at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, where his father was an Air Force engineer. His family moved over twelve times during his childhood, following his father's job.

Mohsin Hamid, novelist

Mervyn Peake, author and illustrator

Mike Volpi, CEO of Joost

Michel Gondry - film director

Santiago Cabrera - actor, Hero

Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France

Julie Christie, actress - "Julie's father ran a tea plantation in India, where she grew up."

John Kerry, former US presidential candidate - Attended boarding school in Switzerland while his father was a US diplomat in Germany.

Teresa Heinz - Kerry's wife, born in Mozambique.

Elizabeth Edwards - wife of John Edwards, US vice-presidential candidate - "Edwards is the daughter of a Navy pilot and lived in a dozen places by the time she was 18. 'There is no better experience' in preparing someone for the madness of a presidential campaign, she says." New York Times, July 17, 2004

Katharine Gun, whistle-blower:


Scott Foley, actor "Foley relocated often during his childhood due to his father's career in international banking. He lived all over the world, including Sydney, Australia, and Tokyo, Japan."

Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist - born in Kenya

Joss Whedon, screenwriter and creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - partly schooled in the UK

Kathleen Turner, actor - diplomatic "brat"

Hugo Weaving, actor - born in Nigeria, has lived in Australia, South Africa, England.

John Rhys-Davies, actor - "Rhys-Davies spent his formative years in Wales and East Africa, returning to the UK when he was nine."

Viggo Mortensen, actor: "I remember coming to the U.S. and not only having to learn the accent but the slang," Mortensen says, adding that being forced to adapt quickly helped him later on. "Out of habit you assume that you have something in common with people no matter how different they seem." Washington Post

Cordwainer Smith - A science fiction writer who spent many of his formative years in China and was bilingual in Chinese and English.

I said this on the facebook group, but Sabra, the 2007 winner of So You Think You Can Dance is a TCK.

I was watching an interview with Kobe this week where he was able to speak Spanish to the Spanish press because he speaks Italian. Wickid!?

Olivia Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England on September 26th 1948; her family moved to Australia when she was 5. Her mother was German, daughter of the physicist Max Born, her father was Welsh, a professor of German at Cambridge and Melbourne. I guess that qualifies!

Ann and Nancy Wilson (Heart), Taiwan. Their father and grandfather are both officers in the United States Marine Corp
Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and Dan Peek (America) All three are English-American and fellow Air Force Brats

Awesome.. I didn't know Angela Kinsey was a TCK? I love The Office!

In a way T.E. Lawrence was a TCK. Though born and raised in the UK he developed the common TCK syndromes. Such as not sure who he was really loyal to, saw the world with different eyes than others, spoke a second language (Arabic) and never really fit in back in his native country. A true TCK!

JOE STRUMMER. of course he was a TCK, he was much too awesome to be anything else. i'm only half joking =D

Hahaha! Yes that's right! :D I didn't bother to get the facts straight yesterday coz I just got off the plane LOL

Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar.

Joe Strummer of The Clash was a diplomat kid - lived in Turkey as a child.

That Conrad Keely of the band And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead grew up in Thailand.

Gerald Durrell, zookeeper, who wrote 'My Family and Other Animals' was brought up in Greece.

Nina Wadia, British comedienne, went to school at my high school in Hong Kong. (Not at the same time as me).

I saw your comment on the margin and for one second thought it was about ELVIS.

The King was born in Massachussets and moved to Switzerland when he was around 3 or so I think. His bro and sis were born in thailand. He was educated there and moved back when his brother, Rama VIII died .
=D

I realized that the current King of Thailand is also a TCK. I mean I knew about his history but I never made the connection LOL I think him and his older sister and brother were born and raised in Switzerland. And later returned to become King of Thailand. Actually many members of the past royal families of Thailand were TCKs as well.

Also I found out that Angela Kinsey (played "Angela" in the US version of The Office) is also a TCK! This is quoted from her bio on NBC.com

"Originally from Texas, Kinsey grew up in Jakarta, Indonesia, and still speaks the language."

Is that cool or what?? They actually had pictures of her when she was a kid in Indonesia...

George Orwell, of 1984 fame, was a TCK too. His father was stationed in India for a while where he lived for a few years until he moved back to England with his mother and siblings. I think he still played with multi-cultural kids in England, but it's been a while since I wrote that research paper on him in high school. ^^;

It appears so! lol

KOOOBEEEE! Go Lakers!! Just had to get that out.

You guys know Chris Sligh, 10th place finisher on American Idol season 6? OK maybe you don't know him :) But he's an MK, parents from US, grew up in Germany at least, maybe other places.

Is it just me, or do a lot of the characters from The Lord of the Rings seem to be TCKs?!

Placido Domingo (as in The Three Tenors) was born in Spain and moved to Mexico at the age of 8.

I used to have a website that listed famous global nomads (www.globalnomaddirectory.com) among other lists, but my site has been down for over 6 months since someone who was trying to help me, accidentally knocked it offline :( No one has been able to put it back on - it's a real computer techie mystery!!

Here is what I had collected with the help of visitors (& sorry for repetition)...

ACTORS
Keanu Reeves - US actor ( Lebanon )
Reese Witherspoon - US actor ( Germany )
John Rys-Davies - UK actor ( "Africa" )
Dominic Monaghan - UK actor ( Germany )
Colin Firth - UK actor ( Nigeria )
Brendan Fraser - US actor ( US, England, Italy )
Uma Thurman - US actor ( India )
Mel Gibson - US actor ( Australia )
Glenn Close - US actor ( Zaire, Switzerland )
Julie Christie - UK actor ( India )
Kathleen Turner - US actor ( Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, England )
Viggo Mortensen - US actor ( Venezuela, Argentina, Denmark )
Hugo Wallace Weaving - UK actor ( Nigeria, Australia, South Africa )
Santiago Cabrera - Chilean actor ( England, Romania, Spain )
River Phoenix & Joaquin Phoenix - US actors ( Venezuela, ? )
Romola Garai - UK actor ( Hong Kong, Singapore )

WRITERS
JRR Tolkien - UK writer ( South Africa )
Pearl S. Buck - US writer ( China )
JG Ballard - UK writer ( China )
Martin Booth - UK writer ( Hong Kong )
Pico Iyer - ? writer ( UK, US )
John Hersey - US writer ( China )
Jean Fritz - US writer ( China )
Isabel Allende - writer (Peru, Lebanon)
Judith Martin - "Ms. Manners" writer ( Greece & ? )
Amélie Nothomb - Belgian writer ( Japan, China, Bangladesh, US, Burma )
Carlos Fuentes - Mexican writer ( Panama , US, Chile, Argentina )
Alexandra Fuller - US writer ( Zimbabwe, Zaire ...? )
Barbara Kingsolver - US writer ( Congo )
Michael Arndt - US screenwriter ( India, Sri Lanka )

SINGERS
Michael Hutchence - Astralian singer for INXS ( Hong Kong, US )
Manu Chao (born José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao) - Spanish singer ( France )

POLITICIANS & THEIR SPOUSES
Madeline Albright - US politician ( Czech Republic (then a citizen there), Yugoslavia, London, Switzerland )
Barak Obama - US politician ( Indonesia )
Elizabeth Edwards - US politician's wife (Japan)
Theresa Heinz - US politician's wife ( Mozambique )
John Kerry - US politician ( TCK, Germany )
Dominique de Villepin - French Prime Minister ( Morocco )

OTHERS
Greg Mortenson - US humanitarian / philanthropist ( Tanzania )
Richard Dawkins - evolutionary biologist, writer ( Kenya )
Lorenzo Michael Murphy Odone - depicted in "Lorenzo's Oil" ( Comoros )
Kobe Bryant - US athlete ( Italy )
Christiane Amanpour - US journalist ( Iran )
Henry Luce - US media mogul ( China )
General Norman Schwarzkopf - US soldier ( Iran )
Katharine Teresa Gun - US whistle-blower ( Taiwan )
Rachael Renee Smith - Miss USA 2007 ( Panama )

PS My site had JRR Tolkien's quote "Not all who wander are lost" at the top - I found it very apropos! :)

Maybe that's where Aragorn growing up with elves and becoming an 'elvish' human came from :)

I'd say at three he wouldn't have had any problems adjusting to British society at all, but one can have vague memories of when was three years old of time spent in a very different world.

Eddie Izzard (of "Do you have a flag?" fame) was born in Aden, Yemen!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IzDbNFDdP4
(On being bilingual!)

Julio Cortázarwas (intellectual and author of experimental novels and short stories) was born to his Argentinian parents on August 26, 1914, in Brussels, Belgium, where his father was involved in a commercial venture as part of Argentina's diplomatic presence. Many years later, Cortázar would say "my birth was a product of tourism and diplomacy."

Because the Cortázar family were nationals of a neutral country not involved in World War I, they were able to pass through Switzerland and later reach Barcelona, where they lived for a year and a half. Cortázar regularly played at the Park Güell and its colourful ceramics would remain vivid in his memory for many years.[citation needed]

When Cortázar was four years old, his family returned to Argentina. He spent the rest of his childhood in Banfield, near Buenos Aires, together with his mother and his only sister, who was one year his junior

sorry guys I've gone celebrity nuts :DDDD

Baiyewu was born in London, but moved to Nigeria at the age of five after the death of his father. Ten years later he moved back to England, attending the University of Northumbria in Newcastle upon Tyne, and obtained a degree in accounting. He saw posters advertising for a singer and subsequently met Paul Tucker - their partnership began, and they formed the Lighthouse Family.

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JRR Tolkein was born in Bloemfontein South Africa, of british parents, I am not sure it qualifies himas a TCK since he left when he was three and lived permanently in th UK

Yul Brynner

He was born Yuliy Borisovich Brynner in Vladivostok, Russia. His mother, Marusya Blag?vidova (, was the daughter of a Russian doctor and his father, Boris Brynner, was an engineer and inventor, who was of Swiss and 1/16th Mongolian ancestry. He was named Yul after his paternal grandfather, Jules Brynner.

After Boris Brynner abandoned his family, his mother took Yul and his sister, Vera Bryner, to Harbin, China, where they attended a school run by the YMCA, and in 1934 she took them to Paris.

During WWII (1941-D-Day) Brynner worked as a French speaking radio announcer and commentator for the US Office of War Information, broadcasting propaganda to occupied France.

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Cameron Diaz was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and an Anglo-German mother.Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, Morocco, and Paris.
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Kilmer, the second of three sons, was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Gladys (née Ekstadt) and Eugene Kilmer, an aerospace equipment distributor and real estate developer.
Kilmer has Scottish, Irish, Sephardic Jewish, Cherokee Native American (from a paternal great-grandmother), Swedish, German and Mongolian ancestry.
Kilmer's paternal grandfather was a gold miner in New Mexico; the poet Joyce Kilmer is a second cousin of Kilmer's. Kilmer grew up in the San Fernando Valley with his two siblings, older brother Mark and younger brother Wesley, but says that even as a child growing up in California he did not like it there.
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Sorry tha would be Keanu reeves :)

Hugo Wallace Weaving( agent smith on the matrix) was born on April 4, 1960 in Nigeria. The middle sibling of three, Hugo has an older brother Simon and a younger sister Anna who both also currently live and work in Australia. During his early childhood, the Weaving family spent most of their time traveling between Nigeria, Great Britain, and Australia.

Reeves was born in Beirut, Lebanon, the son of Patricia Bond (née Taylor), a costume designer and performer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, Jr., a geologist. Reeves's mother is English and his father is an American of Irish, Portuguese, Hawaiian and Chinese descent. Reeves's mother was working in Beirut when she met his father. Reeves's father worked as an unskilled laborer and earned his GED while imprisoned in Hawaii for selling heroin at the Hilo airport.

Utada Hikaru - Japanese singer (born in New York but traveled back and forth between Japan and US while growing up, went to an international school in Tokyo)

Kim Sun Ah - Korean actress (grew up in Japan and went to Japanese school, and went to a US college for a while to study piano before she dropped out and became an actress)

Jung Ryu Won - Korean actress/singer (born in Korea but moved to Australia at age of 12)

You know that it's only last month that I suddenly realized that that move to Egypt and back again made Jesus a TCK? (I'd been told before that that move from Heaven to earth made him a TCK, but I never really bought it. It must have been quite the culture change, but it's not the same as living in and absorbing more than one culture during your childhood.)

The singer Roger Whittaker is also a TCK. He was British and born in Nairobi.

Jesus was a TCK!

Born in Bethlehem, moved to Egypt, moved back to Israel.

Besides that, He came from Heaven, which is a totally different culture!!" (don't you love Savvy?)


Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, son of Benazir Bhutto and current chairman of Pakistan Peoples Party

Ken Jennings, record holder of longest winning streak of game show, "Jeopardy!"

I'll list some that many of us from fb already know about:


Rudyard Kipling, the man who wrote The Jungle Book.

Richard E Grant, grew up in Swaziland.


Stacie Orrico, the singer, is a TCK as well. An MK to be exact.


Bryan Adams. He was born in Ontario, Canada. Hspeaks French and has lived in France.

Sandra Bullock. She went to the high school in Wakefield. Born in Arlington, VA (D.C.), then lived and traveled around Europe with her parents (opera singers) till she was 12. She speaks German.


Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn from the LOTR movies)
Hugo Weaving (Elrond from the LOTR movies)
John Rhys-Davies (Gimli from the LOTR movies)
Sen. John Kerry
Theresa Heinz-Kerry
Kelly Preston (wife of John Travolta)
Amerie (singer)
Elizabeth Edwards (wife of U.S. presidential candidate, John Edwards)



Luol Deng of the Chicago Bulls.



Vivien Leigh - born and raised in India for a while

Joss Whedon - Creator of Buffy and Firefly lived in England for a while during his childhood

Benedict Anderson, author of "Imagined Communities." Born in China to British parents and raised in the US. He wrote about nationalism.

Hanson (as in, MMMBop...oh yes). They're oil kids!!

Samaire Armstrong (actress, and also appeared in a Hanson video...connections!)


Kobe Bryant of the L.A lakers grew up in Italy, speaks fluent italian and went to international school in switzerland.


Brian Molko, Placebo's singer (part American, part Scottish, brought up in England and Luxembourg)

Doris Lessing, British parents, born in Persia (now Iran), brought up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

Oliver Platt - Actor, Diplomat kid.

Andy Serkis (Gollum in LOTR).
Check out this great interview with him: http://movies.ign.com/articles/383/383888p1.html


Rudyard Kipling.

Brendan Fraser
Gillian Anderson (X-files)
Dominic Monaghan (Lost, LOTR)
Kathleen Turner