He later adopted Portuguese citizenship, and married a Portuguese woman.
He adopted Bolivian citizenship and entered the army as a general.
This figure does not include those who have adopted Japanese citizenship.
That changed in 1985, when he adopted British citizenship, and his knighthood became substantive.
The award became substantive when he adopted Australian citizenship in 2000.
He came to Britain aged 16 and adopted British citizenship.
He also adopted Italian citizenship in virtue of a Italian grandmother.
After 1880 most adopted the Jim Crow system of segregation and second-class citizenship for blacks, although they were still allowed to vote.
Disappointed, Laughton returned once again to America, where he was soon to adopt citizenship.
Meinecke retired to Canada, adopting citizenship there, and died there at age 82 in 1975.