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* Eddie, the protagonist of ''[[The Five People You Meet In Heaven]]'' grew up (and spent the rest of his life) at a seaside amusement park. It was where he met his wife and eventually died; one of the eponymous people is the Blue Man from the freak show; a flashback shows Eddie using his ability to juggle to fight off his captors during the war in the Phillippines, etc.
* The protagonist of [[Margaret Mahy]]'s ''Maddigan's Fantasia'', Garland, is the daughter of the titular circus' Ringmaster.
* Bob Snarly from [[Anthony Horowitz]]' YA novel ''The Switch'' is close to a deconstruction of the trope. He's a brat raised by circus people alright, but he's far from open-minded, instead behaving like common trailer trash. [[An Aesop]] is learned.
* Dorothy Shaw in ''[[Gentlemen Prefer Blondes]]''.
* Carlotta in [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''[[St. Clare's]]'' series grew up in a circus. {{spoiler|She keeps this a secret but is betrayed by the school sneak. Her friends, however, are thrilled by her exotic background.}}
* One of the girls in a book called ''About Face'' grew up with a traveling circus when her dream is to stay in one town and own a house.
== Video Games ==
* Ellis from ''[[Battle Arena Toshinden]]''. Thanks to horrific events in her past, her [[Badass Long Hair|fa]][[Papa Wolf|ther]] sent her to be raised anonymously as a dancer in a Turkish traveling circus in order to keep her safe from the mysterious organization hunting them. As result, she became an extremely skilled [[Dance Battler]], arguably one of the fastest playable characters in the game and capable of jumps and acrobacies that [[Not Quite Flight|actually makes the viewers think she can fly]].
* Razputin from ''[[Psychonauts]]''. In an inversion, he ran ''away'' from the circus. He had a strict upbringing {{spoiler|because his father was trying to prepare him for encounters with their family's many enemies, who were hinted at in a [[Sequel Hook]] that never took off, sadly.}}
* Regina Berry in ''[[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All]]''. She's very sheltered in many respects, such as having no concept of death and finding nothing strange about {{spoiler|a marriage proposal from a ventriloquist's dummy. Not the performer, his dummy.}}
* Jetta Maxx from ''[[Eternal Champions]]''.
* In at least one strategy guide, [[Mad Scientist|Doctor Neo Cortex]] of ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' is said to have been raised in a family of circus performers, and was literally branded a nerd due to his preference to science over the performing arts (hence the "N" on his forehead).
* Sumire Nozaki in ''[[Tokimeki Memorial|Tokimeki Memorial 2]]''. A [[Secret Character]] in this game, [[A Day in the Limelight|she gets]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|more spotlight]] in the [[Concept Art Gallery]] spin-off game ''Tokimeki Memorial 2 Music Video Clips : Circus de Aimashou''.
== Western Animation ==
* ''School's Out: The Musical'', a movie spawned from ''The [[Fairly Oddparents]]''. Flappy Bob's childhood life as a clown and his secret love for it, despite his boring Pixie-life, is a vital part of the plot.
* Princess Tenko of ''[[Tenko and the Guardians of the Magic]]'' grew up in a magic show.
* Ty Lee of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' fame is this, by way of the 'ran away to join the circus' variant.
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