Notable third culture kids
- Current US President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and a Kenyan father and spent part of his childhood in Indonesia.
- Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent most of his teenage years in the suburbs of Philadelphia, graduating from high school there.
- Jared Taylor was born in Japan to U.S. parents, and lived in Japan until age 16.
- Former U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry lived in Switzerland as a teenager.
- North Korean leader Kim Jung Il was born in the Soviet Union and spent parts of his childhood in China.
- Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was born in Morocco and raised in Venezuela.
- One of the giants of English literature Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, and reported being more competent in the vernacular than his "native" English during his childhood.[31]
- Gerald Durrell grew up in India and Greece.
- Uma Thurman grew up in India.
- British singer Engelbert Humperdinck was born in Chennai (then Madras), India to a British Army officer and his wife, and remained in India until the family returned to England when he was 10 years old.
- Keanu Reeves was born in Lebanon and grew up in Australia
- Viggo Mortensen was born in New York City and grew up in Venezuela, Denmark, and Argentina before returning to the U.S. as a teenager.
- Current NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, the Philadelphia-born son of professional basketball player Joe Bryant, lived in Italy from ages 6 to 13 while his father played in that country.
- David Duke spent part of his childhood in the Netherlands.
- Former NBA star and current team executive Steve Kerr, son of American academic Malcolm Kerr, was born in Beirut and spent most of his childhood in various countries in the Arab world, only moving to the U.S. permanently in high school.
- Another current NBA player, Wally Szczerbiak, is the son of professional basketball player Walter Szczerbiak; Wally was born in Madrid while his father was playing for Real Madrid, and spent his first several years in Spain.
- NBA player Steve Nash was born in South Africa and grew up in Canada.
- Zack Kim, Notable guitarist was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Actor Lee Pace spent a few years of his childhood in Saudi Arabia.
- Lead singer of Queen Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar to Parsi Indian parents and later lived in the United Kingdom.
- Slovenian politician Andrej Bajuk, born in Slovenia, spent his childhood in Argentina, studied in the United States, worked in Paris, before returning to Slovenia in the 1990s.
- U.S. Presidential candidate Bob Barr lived in several countries when his father traveled for his job.
