It is always exciting to find out a famous or well-known person is childfree (or was childfree if deceased). This is a running list collected from various sources so feel free to make suggestions or request corrections to this list. The list will include people who are/were childfree-by-choice and childfree-by-circumstance.
Did anyone on this list surprise you?
Who on the list are you most proud to share the childfree lifestyle with?
Let us know in the comments.
For clarification: the term “childfree”, in the sense of this list, will be in regards to people who, by-choice or by-circumstance, never had a child from a live birth, fostered a child, adopted a child, became a step-parent or legal guardian. They will also be over the age or 18 years old.
Appearing in alphabetical order by last name (links are being added over time). Click to open/close an area.
Samuel Herbert Adams – Sculptor (b. March 4, 1883)
Charles Addams – Cartoonist (The New Yorker) (b. January 7, 1912)
Jane Addams – Social Worker, Political Activist, Co-Founder of the ACLU, & Nobel Peace Prize Winner (b. September 6, 1860)
Nancy Addison – Actress (b. December 10, 1948)
Louisa May Alcott – Author (b. November 29, 1832)
Cynthia May Westover Alden – Author, Philanthropist (b. March 2, 1863)
Grover Cleveland Alexander – Baseball Player (b. February 26, 1887)
Suzy Allegra – Author, Artist, Motivational Speaker (b. July 17, 1954)
Marty Allen – Comedian (b. March 23, 1924)
John Murray Anderson – Musical Theatre Producer (b. January 9, 1886)
Laurie Anderson – Performance Artist (b. June 5, 1947)
Marian Anderson – Concert Singer (b. February 27, 1897)
Louis Andriessen – Composer (b. June 6, 1939)
Jennifer Aniston – Actress (b. February 11, 1969)
Susan B. Anthony – Woman’s Suffragist (b. February 15, 1820)
Samuel Appleton – Merchant, Politician, Philanthropist (b. October 25, 1766)
Geoffrey Arend – Actor (b. October 28, 1978)
Louis Armstrong – Musician (b. August 4, 1901)
Boris Artzybasheff – Artist (b. September 1, 1899)
Dorothy Arzner – Film Director (b. January 3, 1897)
Dr. Robert C. Atkins – Diet Doctor, Author, Creator of the Atkins Diet (b. October 17, 1930)
V.C. Andrews – Author (b. June 6, 1923)
Jane Austen – Author (b. December 16, 1775)
Max Baer Jr. – Actor (b. December 4, 1937)
Francis Bacon – Politician, Philosopher, Scientist (b. January 22, 1561)
Florence Bailey – Author, Naturalist, Ornithologist (b. February 22, 1863)
George Balanchine – Ballet Choreographer (b. January 22, 1904)
Tallulah Bankhead – Actress (b. January 31, 1902)
Abdullah al-Baradouni – Yemeni Poet (b. January 25, 1929)
Bob Barker – Game Show Host (b. December 12, 1923)
Joe Barr – Canadian Politician (b. April 2, 1947)
Lynda Barry – Cartoonist (b. January 2, 1956)
Clara Barton – Nurse, Humanitarian, Founder and First President of the American Red Cross (b. December 25, 1821)
Kathy Bates – Actress (b. June 28, 1948)
Jaya Battacharya – Actress (b. September 19, 1976)
King Baudouin – King of Belgium (b. September 7, 1930)
Simone de Beauvoir – Author (b. January 9, 1908)
Louise Beavers – American Film and Television Actress (b. March 8, 1902)
Samuel Beckett – Author, Playwright, Poet (b. April 13, 1906)
Ludwig Van Beethoven – Composer (b. December 17, 1770)
Joe Besser – Actor (b. August 12, 1907)
Isabella Bird – Explorer, Author (b. October 15, 1831)
Jacqueline Bisset – Actress (b. September 13, 1944)
Lewis Black – Comedian (b. August 30, 1948)
Eubie Blake – Musician, Composer (b. February 7, 1887)
William Blake – Artist (b. November 28, 1757)
Brenda Blethyn – Actress (b. February 20, 1946)
Marc Blitzstein – Composer, Dramatist (b. March 2, 1905)
Baroness Karen Blixen – Author (b. April 17, 1885)
Rosa Bonheur – French Painter and Sculptor (b. March 16, 1822)
Pierre Bonnard – Artist (b. October 3, 1867)
William Edgar Borah – Politician (b. June 29, 1865)
Lara Flynn Boyle – Actress (b. March 24, 1970)
Susan Boyle – Singer (b. April 1, 1961)
Georges Brassens – Singer (b. October 22, 1921)
Enya Patricia Brennan aka Enya – Musician (b. May 17, 1961)
Alison Brie – Actress (b. December 29, 1982)
Joe Bob Briggs aka John Bloom – Author, Movie Critic (b. January 27, 1953)
Raymond Briggs – Children’s Book Author (b. January 18, 1934)
Poppy Z. Brite – Author (b. May 25, 1967)
Anne Brontë – Author (b. January 17, 1820)
Charlotte Brontë – Author (b. April 21, 1816)
Louise Brooks – Actress (b. November 14, 1906)
Helen Gurley Brown – Feminist, Editor (Cosmopolitan) (b. February 18, 1922)
Reno Browne – Actress, Equestrian (b. October 25, 1921)
Delta Burke – Actress (b. July 30, 1956)
Kathy Burke – Actress, Comedian (b. June 13, 1964)
Pat Buchanan – Politician, Presidential Candidate (b. November 2, 1938)
James Burke – Creator of the BBC & PBS Series “Connections”, Scientific American columnist (b. December 22, 1936)
Raymond Burr – Actor (b. May 21, 1917)
Caryl Lee Burroughs – Hollywood Animal Trainer (b. January 1, 1934)
Leo Buscaglia – Author (b. March 31, 1924)
Brett Butler – Actress, Comedian (b. January 30, 1958)
Robin Miriam Carlsson aka Robyn – Singer (b. June 12, 1979)
Phyllis Carlyle – Film Producer (b. August 22, 1942)
Dora Carrington – Bloomsbury Artist (b. March 29, 1893)
Laura Carroll – Author (b. 1960)
Mary Cassatt – Artist (b. May 22, 1844)
Roger Casement – Irish Patriot (b. September 1, 1864)
Nina Cassian – Poet (b. November 22, 1924)
Barbara Castle – British Politician (b. October 6, 1910)
Kim Cattrall – Actress (b. August 21, 1956)
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Singer, Songwriter (b. February 21, 1958)
Rosamond Halsey Carr – Founder of Rwanda’s Imbabazi Orphanage, Author, Fashion Designer (b. December 7, 1923)
Richard Chamberlain – Actor (b. March 31, 1934)
Coco Chanel – Fashion Designer (Contested: Following her elder sister’s suicide, she looked after her son) (b. August 19, 1883)
Stockard Channing – Actress (b. February 13, 1944)
Charles II of Spain – King of Spain (b. November 6, 1661)
Tracy Chapman – Musician (b. March 30, 1964)
RuPaul Andre Charles – Drag Performer, TV Personality (b. November 17, 1960)
Judy Chicago – Artist (b. July 20, 1939)
Margaret Cho – Comedian (b. December 5, 1968)
Julia Child – Professional Chef, Cookbook Author (b. August 15, 1912)
Helen Clark – New Zealand Prime Minister (b. February 26, 1950)
Patricia Clarkson – Actress (b. December 29, 1959)
Dorothy Clewes – Children’s Book Author (b. July 6, 1907)
Imogene Coca – Actress (b. November 18, 1908)
Claudette Colbert – Actress (b. September 13, 1903)
Billy Collins – U.S. Poet Laureate (b. March 22, 1941)
Carlo Collodi – Author (b. November 24, 1826)
Frances Conroy – Actress (b. November 13, 1953)
Storm Constantine – Fantasy Writer (b. December 14, 1956)
Jill Ker Conway – Author, first woman President of Smith College (b. March 9, 1934)
Anne Cools – Canadian Senator (b. September 12, 1943)
Pat Coombs – Actress (b. May 21, 1926)
Nicolaus Copernicus – Scientist (b. February 19, 1473)
John Corbett – Actor (b. May 9, 1961)
Joseph Cornell – Artist and Creator of the Cornell Box (b. December 24, 1903)
Ann Coulter – Political Commentator (b. December 8, 1961)
Alec Sadler & Grace Craig – Australian Politician, Philanthropist (b. )
Quentin Crisp – Author, Actor (b. December 25, 1908)
Robert Bartleh Cummings (a.k.a. Rob Zombie) – American Singer, Songwriter, Filmmaker, and Voice Actor (b. January 12, 1965)
Tim Curry – Actor (b. April 19, 1946)
Charlotte Curtis – Journalist, Columnist, Editor at The New York Times (b. March 2, 1923)
Patrika Darbo – Actress (b. April 6, 1948)
Mahmoud Darwish – Palestinian Poet (b. March 13, 1941)
Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist (b. April 15, 1452)
Gray Davis – Governor of California (b. December 26, 1942)
Ellen DeGeneres – Comedian (b. January 26, 1958)
Jeffery Deaver – Author (b. May 6, 1950)
Eugene Victor Debs – Activist (b. November 5, 1855)
Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany) (b. September 3, 1891)
Dana Delany – Actress (b. March 13, 1956)
Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany) (b. September 19, 1889)
Don DeLillo – Author (b. November 20, 1936)
Del Rubio Triplets (Edith Bolling Boyd, Elena Rolfe Boyd, Mildred Stuart Boyd) – Musical Group (b. March 21, 1930)
Bo Derek – Actress (b. November 20, 1956)
René Descartes – Philosopher (b. March 31, 1596)
Portia de Rossi – Actress (b. January 31, 1973)
Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor (b. November 11, 1974)
Emily Dickinson – Poet (b. December 10, 1830)
Benjamin Disraeli – Politician, Author (b. December 21, 1804)
Steve Ditko – Cartoonist, Co-Creator of the Spider-Man Comics (b. November 2, 1927)
Dorothea Dix – Educator, Writer, Philanthropist (b. April 4, 1802)
Tamara Dobson – Actress (b. May 14, 1947)
Richard Donner – Film Director (b. April 24, 1930)
Lauren Shuler Donner – Film Producer (b. January 23, 1949)
Lizzie Douglas aka Memphis Minnie – Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter (b. June 3, 1897)
Marjory Stoneman Douglas – Environmentalist, Founder of Friends of the Everglades (b. April 7, 1890)
Maureen Dowd – Columnist, Pulitzer Prize Winner (b. January 14, 1952)
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet – Founder of Downing College, Cambridge, England (b. February 18, 1716)
Sir Jacob Gorman Downing, 4th Baronet (Margaret Price, Wife) – Baronet and Politician (b. January 1, 1754 and b. February 5, 1763)
Aimee Anne Duffy aka Duffy – Musician (b. June 23, 1984)
Gabriel Dumont – Native American Tribal Leader (Métis) (b. April 19, 1837)
Lena Dunham – Actress, Director, Producer (b. May 13, 1986)
Francis Drake – Explorer (b. circa 1540)
Fran Drescher – Actress (b. September 30, 1957)
Esther Dyson – Journalist, Author, Businesswoman, Commentator, Philanthropist (b. July 14, 1951)
Amelia Earhart – Aviator (b. July 24, 1897)
Deborah Eisenberg – Author (b. November 17, 1945)
Liubov Egorova – Dancer (b. May 7, 1909)
Anita Ekberg – Actress (b. September 29, 1931)
T.S. Eliot – Poet (b. September 26, 1888)
Havelock Ellis – Psychologist, Author (b. February 2, 1859)
Tracee Ellis Ross – Actress (b. October 29, 1972)
Harlan Ellison – Author (b. May 27, 1934)
Elizabeth I – Queen of England (b. September 7, 1533)
Joan Elm – Canadian Politician, Community Activist (b. February 23, 1940)
Bonnie Erbé – PBS Commentator and Columnist (b. February 23, 1949)
Dame Edith Evans – British Film and Stage Actress (b. February 8, 1888)
Linda Evans – Actress (b. November 18, 1942)
Rupert Everett – Actor (b. May 29, 1959)
Anne Ewers – CEO of the Utah Symphony & Opera (b. November 1, 1957)
Jane Fallon – Author (b. June 9, 1960)
Chow Yun-Fat – Actor (b. May 18, 1955)
Barbara Feldon – Actress (b. March 12, 1933)
Pamelyn Ferdin – Actress (b. January 4, 1956)
Ralph Fiennes – Actor (b. May 22, 1962)
Lynn Fontanne – Actress (b. December 6, 1887)
Margot Fonteyn – British Ballerina (b. May 18, 1919)
Juliana Rieser Force – Whitney Museum Director (b. January 31, 1876)
Richard Ford – Author, Editor of Granta (b. February 16, 1944)
Margaretta Forten – Abolitionist (b. 1806)
Dian Fossey – Primatologist, Conservationist (b. January 16, 1932)
Vivica Anjanetta Fox – American Actress, Producer, and Television Host (b. July 30, 1964)
Janet Frame – Poet (b. August 28, 1924)
Felix Frankfurter – Supreme Court Justice (b. November 15, 1882)
Tanya Franks – Actress (b. August 16, 1967)
William Frawley – Actor (b. February 26, 1887)
Frank Frazetta – Artist (b. February 9, 1928)
Alice Freeman – First woman to be President of a liberal arts college, (Wellesley), helped establish the University of Chicago. (b. March 17, 1855)
Elsie Freund – Artist, Jewelry Designer (b. August 13, 1903)
Louis Freund – Artist (b. January 8, 1896)
Robert Fripp – Composer, Musician (b. May 16, 1946)
Stephen Fry – Actor, Comedian (b. August 24, 1957)
Eva Gabor – Actress (b. February 11, 1919)
Magda Gabor – Actress (b. June 6, 1915)
Maxwell Gage – Noted New Zealand Geologist (b. 1943)
Diamanda Galas – Singer (b. August 29, 1955)
Tess Gallagher – Author (b. July 21, 1943)
Paul William Gallico – Author (b. July 26, 1897)
Janeane Garofalo – Actress, Comedian (b. September 28, 1966)
Greta Garbo – Actress (b. September 18, 1905)
Ava Gardner – Actress (b. December 24, 1922)
Henry Garfiled aka Henry Rollins – Musician (Black Flag, Rollins Band) (b. February 13, 1961)
Greer Garson – Actress (b. September 29, 1904)
Gloria Gaynor – Singer (b. September 7, 1949)
Anthony Geary – Soap Opera Actor (b. May 29, 1947)
Marie-Sophie Germain aka Auguste Antoine Le Blanc – Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher (b. April 1, 1776)
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga – Singer (b. March 28, 1986)
Ricky Gervais – Comedian (b. June 25, 1961)
Beth Gibbons – Singer (Portishead) (b. January 4, 1971)
Althea Gibson – Athlete (b. August 25, 1927)
William Schwenck Gilbert – Composer for Gilbert & Sullivan (b. November 18, 1836)
Dorothy Gish – Actress (b. March 11, 1898)
Lillian Gish – Actress (b. October 14, 1893)
Katharine Bruce Glasier – Author (b. August 6, 1872)
Susan Glaspell – Playwright (b. July 1, 1876)
Sharon Gless – Actress (b. May 31, 1943)
Crispin Glover – Actor (b. April 20, 1964)
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Composer (b. July 2, 1714)
Paulette Goddard – Actress (b. June 3, 1910)
Robert Hutchings Goddard – Physicist (b. October 5, 1882)
Kurt Godel – Author (b. April 28, 1906)
Alexander Godunov – Actor, Dancer (b. November 28, 1949)
Alison Goldfrapp – Musician (Goldfrapp) (b. May 13, 1966)
Stephen Goldin – Author (b. March 10, 1948)
Emma Goldman – Activist, Feminist (b. June 27, 1869)
Valeria Golino – Actress (b. October 22, 1965)
Jan Goodwin – Author, Travel Writer (b. 1945)
Edward Gorey – Artist (b. February 22, 1925)
Lotte Goslar – Dancer (b. September 7, 1915)
Lauren Graham – Actress (Contested – Her long-term partner has a child.) (b. March 16, 1967)
Martha Graham – Choreographer (b. May 11, 1894)
Cecil Green – Former CEO of Texas Instruments, Philanthropist (b. June 15, 1900)
Johnny Green – Musician (b. September 5, 1908)
Gael Greene – Food Critic, Author (b. March 25, 1933)
Baroness Susan Greenfield – Director of the Royal Institution, Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University, Neurologist (b. October 1, 1950)
John Robert Gregg – Inventor of the Gregg Shorthand Method, Publisher (b. July 17, 1867)
Joyce Grenfell – British Actress (b. February 10, 1910)
Nanci Griffith – Singer, Songwriter (b. July 6, 1953)
Martha Griffiths – First Female Michigan Lieutenant Governor (b. December 9, 1912)
Terry Gross – NPR Host (b. February 14, 1956)
James Grout – Actor (b. January 2, 1933)
Mabel Dole Haden – Former President of NABWA (b. Month, Day, Year)
Catherine Hakim – British Sociologist (b. Month, Day, Year)
Daryl Hall – Singer, Musician (Hall & Oates) (b. October 11, 1946)
Regina Lee Hall – American Actress (b. December 12, 1970)
Lewis Hamilton – Race Car Driver (b. January 7, 1985)
Jon Hamm – Actor (b. March 10, 1971)
Celia Hammond – Former Model and Animal Activist (b. November 26, 1943)
Lionel Hampton – Musician (b. April 20, 1908)
Georg Friedrich Handel – Composer (b. February 23, 1685)
Chelsea Handler – Comedian (b. February 25, 1975)
Howard Harold Hanson – Pulitzer-Prize Winning Composer (b. October 28, 1896)
Setsuko Hara – Japanese Actress (b. June 17, 1920)
Warren Gamaliel Harding – 29th U.S. President (b. November 2, 1865)
E Chambré Hardman – Photographer (b. Month, Day, Year)
Jean Harlow – Actress (b. March 3, 1911)
Debbie Harry – Singer (Blondie) (b. July 1, 1945)
Polly Jean “PJ” Harvey – Musician (b. October 9, 1969)
Darren Hayes – Singer, Songwriter (Savage Garden) (b. May 8, 1972)
Alex Heard – Author (b. Month, Day, Year)
Sir Edward Heath – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. July 9, 1916)
Susan Helms – Astronaut (b. February 26, 1958)
Christina Hendricks – Actress, Model (b. May 3, 1975)
Adrian Henri – Poet, Painter (b. April 10, 1932)
Marguerite Henry – Children’s Book Author (b. April 13, 1902)
Katherine Hepburn – Actress (b. May 12, 1907)
Milton S. Hershey – Founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company (b. September 13, 1857)
Lorena Hickok – AP Political Reporter (b. February 19, 1893)
Anita Hill – American Lawyer and Academic (b. July 30, 1956)
Taiko Hirabayashi – Author (b. Month, Day, Year)
Nicole Hollander – Cartoonist (b. November 24, 1939)
Thelma Holt – Actress, Theatre Producer (b. Month, Day, Year)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (USA) (b. March 8, 1841)
Grace Murray Hopper – Computer Scientist (b. December 9, 1906)
Niall Horan – Singer (One Direction) (b. September 13, 1993)
Rima Horton – Politician (b. January 15, 1947)
Soad Hosni – Egyptian Actress (b. January 26, 1943)
Lila Kedrova Howard – Actress (b. October 9, 1921)
Mick Hucknall – Singer (b. June 8, 1960)
Howard Hughes – American Business Magnate, Investor, Pilot, Engineer, Film Director, Philanthropist (b. December 24, 1905)
Bonnie Hunt – Actress (b. September 22, 1961)
Kristin Hunter – Children’s Book Author (b. March 19, 1926)
Lauren Hutton – Actress, Model (b. November 17, 1943)
Patricia Ireland – President of the National Organization for Women, NOW (b. February 1, 1945)
George J. Irbe – Creator of the Great Lakes water temperature climatology (b. Month, Day, Year)
Satoru Iwata – 4th President and CEO of Nintendo (b. December 6, 1959)
John A. “Jack” Jackson – Philanthropist, Oilman (b. Month, Day, Year)
Tove Jansson – Children’s Book Author (b. August 9, 1914)
Randall Jarrell – Poet (b. May 6, 1914)
Anna Jarvis – the “Founder of Mother’s Day” (b. May 1, 1864)
Joan of Arc – Christian Saint (b. January 6, 1412)
Jack Johnson – First African-American to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world (b. March 31, 1878)
Margaret Johnston – Actress (b. May 15, 1919)
Martin and Osa Johnson – Authors, Photographers, explorers, and naturalists (b. Martin: October 16, 1884; Osa: March 14, 1894)
Richard Mentor Johnson – U.S. Vice-President (b. October 17, 1780)
Samuel Johnson – Author, Editor (b. September 18, 1709)
William Hugh Johnston – Labor Leader (b. Month, Day, Year)
Carolyn Jones – Actress (b. April 28, 1930)
Renee Jones – Actress (b. October 15, 1958)
Spike Jonze – Film Director (b. October 22, 1969)
Ashley Judd – Actress, Activist (b. April 19, 1968)
Madeline Kahn – Actress (b. September 29, 1942)
Immanuel Kant – Philosopher (b. April 22, 1724)
Julie Kavner – Actress (b. September 7, 1950)
Nikos Kazantzakis – Author (b. February 18, 1883)
Odette Keene – Musician (b. December 28, 1908)
Helen Keller – Author (b. June 27, 1880)
Joyce Kennard – Judge (b. January 12, 1948)
Joe Kernan – Politician (b. February 5, 1946)
Maynard Keynes – Economist (b. June 5, 1883)
William Lyon MacKenzie King – Former Canadian Prime Minister (b. December 17, 1874)
William Rufus King – U.S. Vice-President (b. April 7, 1786)
Robert Kiyosaki – Author (b. April 8, 1947)
Caroline Knapp – Author (b. January 9, 1959)
Aleksandra Kollontai – Author (b. March 31, 1872)
Dean Koontz – Author (b. July 9, 1945)
Tadeusz Kościuszko – Polish Patriot (b. February 4, 1746)
Jerzy Kosinski – Author (b. June 14, 1933)
Jonathan Kozol – Author, Activist (b. September 5, 1936)
Lee Krasner – Artist (b. October 27, 1908)
Albert Kroc – Co-Developer of McDonald’s Fast Food Chain (b. October 5, 1902)
Swoosie Kurtz – Actress (b. September 6, 1944)
Henry Richardson Labouisse – Diplomat, Former Head of UNICEF (b. October 13, 1904)
Karl Lagerfeld – Fashion Designer (b. September 10, 1933)
Princess Lakshmi – Indian Princess (b. 1938)
Elsa Lanchester – Actress (b. October 28, 1902)
Philip Larkin – Author, Poet (b. August 9, 1922)
Charles Laughton – Actor, Director (b. July 1, 1899)
Dan Lauria – Actor (b. April 12, 1947)
Frank John Lausche – Politician (b. November 14, 1895)
Tom Lehrer – Singer, Musician (b. April 9, 1928)
Jay Leno – TV Host (b. April 28, 1950)
Richard Lewis – Comedian (b. June 29, 1947)
Lyn Lifshin – Poet (b. March 19, 1942)
Queen Liliuokalani – Queen of Hawaii (b. September 2, 1838)
Siân Lloyd – Weather Broadcaster (b. November 5, 1954)
Carole Lombard – Actress (b. October 6, 1908)
Jack Lord – Actor (b. December 30, 1920)
Pauline Lord – Actress (b. February 22, 1892)
Patty Loveless – Singer (b. January 4, 1957)
Alfred Lunt – Actor (b. August 21, 1892)
John Lyon – Philanthropist (b. 1600)
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart – Musician (b. September 13, 1977)
Rose McClendon – Actress (b. March 14, 1907)
Barbara McClintock – Scientist (Cytogeneticist) (b. June 16, 1902)
Robert McCormick – Former Owner of the Chicago Tribune (b. July 30, 1880)
Mary Jackson McCrorey – Politician, Activist (b. September 19, 1910)
Hattie McDaniel – American Actress, Singer-Songwriter, and Comedian (b. June 10, 1895)
Roddy McDowall – Actor, Photographer (b. September 17, 1928)
Odd McIntyre – Newspaper Columnist (b. January 2, 1888)
Ian McKellen – Actor (b. May 25, 1939)
Kristy McNichol – Actress (b. September 11, 1962)
Janet McTeer – Actress (b. August 5, 1961)
Christine McVie – Singer, Songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) (b. July 12, 1943)
Dora Maar – Photographer (b. November 22, 1907)
René Magritte – Artist (b. November 21, 1898)
Bill Maher – TV Personality (b. January 20, 1956)
Katherine Mansfield – Author (b. October 14, 1888)
Shirley Manson – Singer (b. August 26, 1966)
Vito Anthony Marcantonio – Politician (b. December 10, 1902)
Francesca Marciano – Actress (b. March 9, 1955)
Miriam Margoyles – Actress (b. May 18, 1941)
Mary Ellen Mark – Award-Winning Photographer (b. March 20, 1940)
Bobbie Ann Mason – Children’s Book Author (b. May 1, 1940)
Mari Matsunaga – Creator of i-mode, Named One of the Top 25 Tech Women of the Web (b. May 20, 1975)
James Clerk Maxwell – Scientist (Electromagnetism, Maxwell’s equations, proof that speed of light is a constant in all reference frames, earliest groundwork for relativity theory) (b. June 13, 1831)
Theresa May – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. October 1, 1956)
Giuseppe Mazzini – Italian Patriot (b. June 22, 1805)
Fradique de Menezes – President of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. March 9, 1954)
Melina Mercouri – Greek Actress (b. October 18, 1920)
Freddie Mercury – Musician (b. September 5, 1946)
Angela Merkel – German Chancellor (b. July 17, 1954)
George Michael – Musician (b. June 25, 1963)
Oscar Micheaux – Film Director, Producer, Author (b. January 2, 1884)
Edna St. Vincent Millay – Poet (b. February 22, 1892)
Alley Mills – Actress (b. May 9, 1951)
Brenda Milner – Renowned Professor of Neuro-Psychology (b. July 15, 1918)
Kylie Minogue – Singer (b. May 28, 1968)
Helen Mirren – Actress (b. July 26, 1945)
Margaret Mitchell – Author (b. November 8, 1900)
Eugenio Montale – Nobel Prize Winner, Poet, Author, Editor, Translator (b. October 12, 1896)
Vicki Moore – Spanish Animal Rights Philanthropist (b. September 3, 1947)
John Morgan – Founder of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School (b. 1735)
Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) – Author (b. December 25, 1783)
Morrissey – Musician (b. May 22, 1959)
Rob Morse – Columnist (San Francisco Chronicle) (b. 1956)
Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam – Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (b. September 18, 1949)
Diana Muldaur – Actress (b. August 19, 1938)
Megan Mullally – Actress (b. November 12, 1958)
Jan Munroe – Actor (b. March 22, 1946)
Ona Munson – Actress (b. June 16, 1903)
Leilani Münter – Race Car Driver, Environmental Activist (b. February 18, 1974)
Haruki Murakami – Author (b. January 12, 1949)
Iris Murdoch – Author (b. July 15, 1919)
Mikayil Mushfig – Poet (b. December 12, 1911)
Modest Mussorgsky – Composer (b. March 21, 1839)
Kanagarajah Muthiah – Tamil Activist (b. August 12, 1957)
Ralph Nader – Activist (b. February 27, 1934)
Taslima Nasrin – Author (b. August 25, 1962)
Alla Nazimova – Actress (b. June 22, 1879)
Noel Neill – Actress (b. November 25, 1920)
Bebe Neuwirth – Actress (b. December 31, 1958)
Sir Isaac Newton – Scientist (b. January 4, 1643)
Stevie Nicks – Singer (Fleetwood Mac) (b. May 26, 1948)
Friedrich Nietzsche – Philosopher (b. October 15, 1844)
Florence Nightingale – Nurse (b. May 12, 1820)
Emmy Noether – Mathematician (Noether’s theorem, theory of algebraic rings) (b. March 23, 1882)
Ursula Nordstrom – Children’s Book Editor (b. December 2, 1910)
Jessye Norman – Opera Singer (b. September 15, 1945)
Kim Novak – Actress (b. February 13, 1933)
Rudolph Nureyev – Dancer (b. March 17, 1938)
Anita O’Day – Jazz Singer (b. October 18, 1919)
Georgia O’Keeffe – Artist (b. November 15, 1887)
Frederick D. O’Neal – Actor, Playwright (b. January 10, 1911)
Joyce Carol Oates – Author (b. June 16, 1938)
Nick Offerman – Actor (b. June 26, 1970)
Sandra Oh – Actress (b. July 20, 1971)
Claire Parker – Director, Animator (b. May 23, 1987)
Dorothy Parker – Author (b. August 22, 1893)
Suzanne-Lori Parks – Playwright (b. May 10, 1963)
Rosa Parks – Activist (b. February 4, 1913)
Dolly Parton – Singer, Actress (b. January 19, 1946)
Julia Pascal – Playwright (b. January 11, 1953)
Ann Patchett – Author (b. December 2, 1962)
Saint Patrick – Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland (b. c. 385 – c. 461)
Alicia Patterson – Editor (b. May 17, 1906)
Wolfgang Pauli – Physicist (b. April 25, 1900)
Linus Pauling – Winner of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace (b. February 28, 1901)
Sarah Paulson – Actress (b. December 17, 1974)
Michelle Paver – Author (b. September 7, 1960)
Anna Pavlova – Dancer (b. February 12, 1881)
Molly Peacock – Poet, President Emerita of the Poetry Society of America (b. July 11, 1947)
Minnie Pearl – Singer (b. October 25, 1912)
Samuel Pepys – Author (b. February 23, 1633)
Rosie Perez – American Actress, Choreographer and Community Activist (b. September 6, 1964)
Matthew Perry – Actor (b. August 19, 1969)
Bernadette Peters – Actress (b. February 28, 1948)
Jean Peters – Actress (b. October 15, 1926)
Arthur Phillip – First British Administrator Sent to Australia (b. October 11, 1738)
Wendell Phillips – Orator and Reformer (b. November 29, 1811)
William Phillips – Co-founder and Editor of Partisan Review, Writer, Critic (b. May 4, 1926)
Marge Piercy – Author, Poet (b. March 31, 1936)
Plato – Philosopher (b. c. 428/427 BCE – d. 348/347 BCE)
Martha Plimpton – Actress (b. November 16, 1970)
Edgar Allan Poe – Author (b. January 19, 1809)
Jackson Pollock – Artist (b. January 28, 1912)
Katherine Ann Porter – Author (b. May 15, 1890)
Parker Posey – Actress (b. November 8, 1968)
Beatrix Potter – Children’s Book Author (b. July 28, 1866)
Charles Edward Potter – Politician, Philanthropist, Administrator of the Cheboygan County Bureau of Social Aid (b. January 22, 1870)
Joyce Purnick – Former New York Times Metro Editor, Journalist (b. June 6, 1943)
Edna Purviance – Silent Movie Actress (b. October 21, 1895)
Sara Keirsten Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara) (b. September 19, 1980)
Tegan Rain Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara) (b. September 19, 1980)
Colin Quinn – Comedian (b. June 6, 1959)
Robin Quivers – Radio Host (b. August 8, 1952)
Daniel Radcliffe – Actor (b. July 23, 1989)
Raffi – Children’s Musician (b. July 8, 1948)
Bonnie Raitt – Singer, Songwriter (b. November 8, 1949)
Joey Ramone – Musician (b. May 19, 1951)
Ayn Rand – Writer, Philosopher, Author (b. February 2, 1905)
Philip Randolph – Politician (b. April 15, 1889)
Jeanette Rankin – 1st Female US Representative (b. June 11, 1880)
Man Ray – Artist (b. August 27, 1890)
Rachel Ray – Celebrity Chef (b. August 25, 1968)
Lou Reed – Singer, Musician (b. March 2, 1942)
George Reeves – Actor (b. January 5, 1914)
Frances Reid – Actress (b. December 9, 1914)
Leni Riefenstahl – Filmmaker (b. August 22, 1902)
Janet Reno – Former U.S. Attorney-General (b. July 21, 1938)
Judith Resnick – Astronaut (b. April 5, 1949)
Jennifer Rhodes – Actress (b. August 17, 1947)
Condoleezza Rice – National Security Advisor (b. November 14, 1954)
Cliff Richards – Musician (b. October 14, 1940)
Miranda Richardson – Actress (b. March 3, 1958)
Alan Rickman – Actor, Director (b. February 21, 1946)
Elizabeth Riddell – Journalist (b. April 17, 1914)
Sally Ride – First American Female Astronaut (b. May 26, 1951)
Bridget Riley – Artist (b. April 24, 1931)
John Ringling – Founder of Ringling Brothers Circus (b. May 31, 1866)
Mary Roach – Author (b. March 20, 1959)
Morgan Andrew Robertson – Author (b. September 30, 1861)
Debbie Rochon – Actress (b. November 3, 1968)
Norman Perceval Rockwell – Illustrator (b. February 3, 1894)
Eric Rohmann – Author, Winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal for Best Illustrated Children’s Book (b. August 19, 1957)
Ginger Rogers – Actress (b. July 16, 1911)
Richard Roeper – Film Reviewer, Chicago Sun-Times (b. October 17, 1949)
Wilhelm Rontgen – Awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901, discoverer of X-Rays (b. March 27, 1845)
William Bruce Rose Jr. aka Axl Rose – Musician (Guns N’ Roses) (b. February 6, 1962)
Mickey Rourke – Actor, Boxer (b. September 16, 1952)
Patricia Routledge – Actress (b. February 17, 1929)
Joan Ruddock – Activist (b. January 23, 1943)
John Ruskin – Author (b. February 8, 1819)
Winona Ryder – Actress (b. October 29, 1971)
Yves Saint-Laurent – Fashion Designer (b. August 1, 1936)
Hironobu Sakaguchi – Video Game Designer/Producer, Creator of the Final Fantasy Series (b. November 25, 1962)
Dr. Lee Salk – Child Psychologist (b. March 5, 1921)
Renu Saluja – Indian Film Editor (b. 1955)
Diana Sands – Actress (b. August 22, 1934)
Aligi Sassu – Artist (b. June 17, 1912)
Dame Cicely Saunders – Nurse, Social Worker, Physician and Writer. Major Contributor to the Hospice Movement (b. June 22, 1918)
John Sayles – Director (b. September 28, 1950)
Jean-Paul Sartre – Existential Philosopher (b. June 21, 1905)
Diane Sawyer – TV News Anchor (b. December 22, 1945)
Rosika Schwimmer – Author, Activist (b. May 21, 1883)
Ed and Thelma Schoenberger – Co-founders of the Indiana Flower & Patio Show (b. dates not available)
Ellen Browning Scripps – Newspaper Columnist, Philanthropist (b. June 18, 1836)
Joel Schumacher – Film Director (b. August 29, 1939)
David Sedaris – Humorist, Comedian, Author (b. December 26, 1956)
Maurice Sendak – Children’s Book Author (b. June 10, 1928)
George Bernard Shaw – Playwright (b. July 26, 1856)
Lionel Shriver – Author (b. May 18, 1957)
Sarah Silverman – Comedian, Actress (b. December 1, 1970)
Wallis Simpson – Duchess of Windsor (b. June 19, 1896)
Michael Sinelnikoff – Actor (b. June 16, 1946)
Siouxsie – Singer, Musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (b. May 27, 1957)
Sheri Lyn Skurkis (a.k.a. Sheri Moon Zombie) – American Actress, Model, Dancer and Fashion Designer (b. September 26, 1970)
Robert Smith – Singer, Musician (The Cure) (b. April 21, 1959)
David Shogren – Bassist (Doobie Brothers) (b. May 23, 1950)
Betty Smith – Author (b. December 15, 1896)
Dodie Smith – Playwright, Author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians (b. May 3, 1896)
Gladys Louise Smith aka Mary Pickford – Actress, Producer, Screenwriter, Businesswoman (b. April 8, 1892)
Howard Worth Smith – Politician (b. January 17, 1883)
Kate Smith – Singer (b. May 1, 1907)
Lemony Snicket (Real Name: Daniel Handler) – Children’s Book Author (b. February 28, 1970)
David Souter – Supreme Court Justice (b. September 17, 1939)
Octavia Lenora Spencer – American Actress, Author, and Producer (b. May 25, 1972)
Jill St. John – Actress (b. August 19, 1940)
Richard Stallman – Computer Programmer, Activist (Free software movement and GNU/Linux advocate) (b. March 16, 1953)
Mabel Stark – Female Tiger Trainer (b. January 9, 1889)
Gertrude Stein – Author, Patron of the Arts (b. February 3, 1874)
Victor Strauss – WWII Journalist (b. July 20, 1918)
Gloria Steinem – Activist, Writer (b. March 25, 1934)
Maria W. Stewart – Author, Activist (b. 1803)
Lily Strickland – Composer, Writer, Artist (b. August 1, 1884)
Harry Styles – Singer (One Direction) (b. February 1, 1994)
Patrick Swayze – Actor (b. August 18, 1952)
Loretta Swit – Actress (b. November 4, 1937)
Henrietta Szold – Holocaust Heroine (b. December 21, 1860)
Wislawa Szymborska – Nobel Prize Winning Poet (b. July 2, 1923)
Amy Tan – Writer, Author (b. February 19, 1952)
Sara Teasdale – Poet (b. August 8, 1884)
Annamarie Tendler – Artist (Makeup and Hairstyling as well as Textile Crafts) (b. June 9, 1985)
Neil Tennant – Musician (Pet Shop Boys) (b. July 10, 1954)
Toni Tennille – Singer (Captain and Tennille) (b. May 8, 1940)
Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma – French-Spanish Political Activist and Academic (b. March 28, 1933)
Nikola Tesla – Scientist, Inventor (b. July 10, 1856)
Theodora – Empress and wife of Justinian I (b. c. 500)
Susanna Thompson – Actress (b. January 27, 1958)
Georgianne Thon – Actress (b. February 19, 1954)
Carey Thomas – President of Bryn Mawr College (b. January 4, 1857)
Willie Mae Thornton – Singer, Songwriter (b. December 11, 1926)
Maura Tierney – Actress (b. February 3, 1965)
Jennifer Tilly – Actress (b. September 16, 1958)
Wendy Tokunaga – Author (b. August 28, 1962)
Marisa Tomei – Actress (b. December 4, 1964)
Lily Tomlin – Actress, Playwright (b. September 1, 1939)
Alan Turing – Mathematician, Computer Scientist (b. June 23, 1912)
Ann Turkel – Model (b. July 16, 1946)
Randy Travis – Singer (b. May 4, 1959)
Maxine Trump – Film Producer, Director (b. March 24, 1952)
Edward Tylor – Anthropologist (b. October 2, 1832)
Nobuo Uematsu – Composer, wrote the music for most of the Final Fantasy series (b. March 21, 1959)
Andrew Vachss – Novelist (b. October 19, 1942)
Vincent Van Gogh – Artist (b. March 30, 1853)
Vivian Vance – Actress (b. July 26, 1909)
Zebulon Baird Vance – Politician (b. May 13, 1830)
Luther Vandross – Singer (b. April 20, 1951)
Ann Van Dyk – Cheetah Preservationist (b. 1936)
Reginald VelJohnson – Actor (b. August 16, 1952)
Mariska Veres – Singer (The Shocking Blue) (b. October 1, 1947)
Amerigo Vespucci – Merchant, explorer, cartographer (b. March 9, 1451)
Carl Vinson – Politician (b. November 18, 1883)
Monica Vitti – Actress (b. November 3, 1931)
Larry Wachowski – Film Director (b. June 21, 1965)
Christopher Walken – Actor (b. March 31, 1943)
Bob Wallace – Computer Shareware Pioneer, Philanthropist, Founding Employee of Microsoft (b. November 23, 1946)
Nina Wang – Was Asia’s richest woman, with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion USD at the time of her death (b. September 23, 1936)
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward – Author (b. August 31, 1844)
Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson – Musician (b. January 5, 1969)
Ethel Waters – Actress, Evangelist, Singer (b. October 31, 1896)
John Waters – Director (b. April 22, 1946)
Alberta Watson – Canadian Actress (b. March 6, 1955)
Emma Watson – Actress & Women’s Rights Activist (b. April 15, 1990)
Dawn Wells – Actress (b. October 18, 1938)
Eudora Welty – Author (b. April 13, 1909)
Mae West – Actress, Comedian (b. August 17, 1893)
Edith Wharton – Author (b. January 24, 1862)
Raymond Milner Wheeler – Civil Rights Activist (b. July 16, 1927)
Alan Whicker – TV Host, Documentarian (b. August 2, 1921)
Baroness White – Former UK Labour Government Minister (b. October 10, 1912)
Betty White – Actress (b. January 17, 1922)
Margaret Bourke-White – Photographer (b. June 14, 1904)
Sarah Helen Power Whitman – Poet, Essayist, Transcendentalist (b. January 19, 1803)
Walt Whitman – Poet (b. May 31, 1819)
Richard (Dick) Whittington – Philanthropist (b. c. 1354)
Ann Widdecombe – UK Member of Parliament (b. October 8, 1947)
Toyah Wilcox – Punk Rocker, Activist (b. May 18, 1958)
Thornton Wilder – Playwright (b. April 17, 1897)
William III & Mary II of England – King & Queen of England, Ireland, and Scotland (b. April 4, 1650, and April 30, 1662)
Barry Williams – Actor (b. September 30, 1954)
Lucinda Williams – Musician (b. January 26, 1953)
Wendy O. Williams – Singer (The Plasmatic) (b. May 28, 1949)
August Wilson – Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright (b. April 27, 1945)
Bill W. (Wilson) – Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (b. November 26, 1895)
Rebel Wilson – Actress (b. March 2, 1980)
Barbara Windsor – Actress (b. August 6, 1937)
Amy Winehouse – Singer, Songwriter (b. September 14, 1983)
Edgar Winter – Musician (b. December 28, 1946)
Jeanette Winterson – Author (b. August 27, 1959)
Estelle Winwood – English Actress (b. January 24, 1883)
Kim Woodburn – Co-Star of TV Cleaning Duo Kim and Aggie (b. March 25, 1947)
Robert Winship Woodruff – Former CEO of Coca Cola, Philanthropist (b. December 6, 1889)
Leonard Woolf – Political theorist and Author (b. November 7, 1880)
Virginia Woolf – Author (b. January 25, 1882)
Orville Wright – Aviator (b. August 19, 1871)
Stephen J. Wright – College President (Fisk University) (b. October 6, 1935)
Wilbur Wright – Aviator (b. April 16, 1867)
TBD
Yanni – Composer (b. November 14, 1954)
Dwight Yoakam – Singer, Actor (b. October 23, 1956)
Marguerite Yourcenar – Author, First Woman To Be Elected To The Academie Francaise (b. June 8, 1903)
David Young – Almanac Maker, Astronomer, Poet (b. February 11, 1869)
Will Young – Singer, Songwriter, Actor (b. January 20, 1979)
YuPen – Chinese Actor, Singer (b. March 22, 1991)
Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Olympic Athlete (b. June 26, 1911)
Renee Zellweger – Actress (b. April 25, 1969)
Stephanie Zimbalist – Actress (b. October 8, 1956)
Émile Zola – Author (b. April 2, 1840)
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Herbert Samuel Adams – Sculptor
Charles Addams – Cartoonist (The New Yorker)
Jane Addams – Social Worker, Political Activist, Co-Founder of the ACLU, & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Nancy Addison – Actress
Louisa May Alcott – Author
Cynthia May Westover Alden – Author, Philanthropist
Grover Cleveland Alexander – Baseball Player
Suzy Allegra – Author, Artist, Motivational Speaker
Marty Allen – Comedian
John Murray Anderson – Musical Theatre Producer
Laurie Anderson – Performance Artist
Marian Anderson – Concert Singer
Louis Andriessen – Composer
Jennifer Aniston – Actress
Susan B. Anthony – Womans’ Suffragist
Samuel Appleton – Merchant, Politician, Philanthropist
Geoffrey Arend – Actor
Louis Armstrong – Musician (Contested: The Louis Armstrong Museum states he had no children, but in 2012 Sharon Preston-Folta has claimed to be his daughter from Lucille “Sweets” Preston, a dancer at the New York Cotton Club)
Boris Artzybasheff – Artist
Dorothy Arzner – Film Director
Dr. Robert C. Atkins – Diet Doctor, Author, Creator of the Atkins Diet
V.C. Andrews – Author
Jane Austen – Author
Max Baer Jr. – Actor
Francis Bacon – Politician, Philosopher, Scientist
Florence Bailey – Author, Naturalist, Ornithologist
George Balanchine – Ballet Choreographer
Tallulah Bankhead – Actress
Abdullah al-Baradouni – Yemeni Poet
Bob Barker – Game Show Host
Joe Barr – Canadian Politician
Lynda Barry – Cartoonist
Clara Barton – Nurse, Humanitarian, Founder and First President of the American Red Cross
Kathy Bates – Actress
Jaya Battacharya – Actress
King Baudouin – King of Belgium
Simone de Beauvoir – Author
Samuel Beckett – Author, Playwright, Poet
Ludwig Van Beethoven – Composer
Joe Besser – Actor
Isabella Bird – Explorer, Author
Jacqueline Bisset – Actress
Lewis Black – Comedian
Eubie Blake – Musician, Composer
William Blake – Artist
Brenda Blethyn – Actress
Marc Blitzstein – Composer, Dramatist
Baroness Karen Blixen – Author
Rosa Bonheur – French Painter and Sculptor
Pierre Bonnard – Artist
William Edgar Borah – Politician
Lara Flynn Boyle – Actress
Susan Boyle – Singer
Georges Brassens – Singer
Enya Patricia Brennan aka Enya – Musician
Alison Brie – Actress
Joe Bob Briggs aka John Bloom – Author, Movie Critic
Raymond Briggs – Children’s Book Author
Poppy Z. Brite – Author
Anne Brontë – Author
Charlotte Brontë – Author
Louise Brooks – Actress
Helen Gurley Brown – Feminist, Editor (Cosmopolitan)
Reno Browne – Actress, Equestrian
Delta Burke – Actress
Kathy Burke – Actress, Comedian
Pat Buchanan – Politician, Presidential Candidate
James Burke – Creator of the BBC & PBS Series “Connections”, Scientific American columnist
Raymond Burr – Actor
Caryl Lee Burroughs – Hollywood Animal Trainer
Leo Buscaglia – Author
Brett Butler – Actress, Comedian
Robin Miriam Carlsson aka Robyn – Singer
Phyllis Carlyle – Film Producer
Dora Carrington – Bloomsbury Artist
Laura Carroll – Author
Mary Casatt – Artist
Roger Casement – Irish Patriot
Nina Cassian – Poet
Barbara Castle – British Politician
Kim Cattrall – Actress
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Singer, Songwriter
Rosamond Halsey Carr – Founder of Rwanda’s Imbabazi Orphanage, Author, Fashion Designer
Richard Chamberlain – Actor
Coco Chanel – Fashion Designer (Contested: Following her elder sister’s suicide, she looked after her son)
Stockard Channing – Actress
Charles II of Spain – King of Spain
Tracy Chapman – Musician
RuPaul Andre Charles – Drag Performer, TV Personality
Judy Chicago – Artist
Margaret Cho – Comedian
Julia Child – Professional Chef, Cookbook Author
Helen Clark – New Zealand Prime Minister
Patricia Clarkson – Actress
Dorothy Clewes – Children’s Book Author
Imogene Coca – Actress
Claudette Colbert – Actress
Billy Collins – U.S. Poet Laureate
Carlo Collodi – Author
Frances Conroy – Actress
Storm Constantine – Fantasy Writer
Jill Ker Conway – Author, first woman President of Smith College
Anne Cools – Canadian Senator
Pat Coombs – Actress
Nicolaus Copernicus – Scientist
John Corbett – Actor
Joseph Cornell – Artist and Creator of the Cornell Box
Ann Coulter – Political Commentator
Alec Sadler & Grace Craig – Australian Politician, Philanthropist
Quentin Crisp – Author, Actor
Tim Curry – Actor
Charlotte Curtis – Journalist, Columnist, Editor at The New York Times
Patrika Darbo – Actress
Mahmoud Darwish – Palestinian Poet
Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist
Gray Davis – Governor of California
Ellen Degeneres – Comedian
Jeffery Deaver – Author
Eugene Victor Debs – Activist
Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany)
Dana Delany – Actress
Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany)
Don DeLillo – Author
Del Rubio Triplets (Edith Bolling Boyd, Elena Rolfe Boyd, Mildred Stuart Boyd) – Musical Group
Bo Derek – Actress
Rene Descartes – Philosopher
Portia De Rossi – Actress
Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor
Emily Dickinson – Poet
Benjamin Disraeli – Politician, Author
Steve Ditko – Cartoonist, Co-Creator of the Spider-Man Comics
Dorothea Dix – Educator, Writer, Philanthropist
Tamara Dobson – Actress
Richard Donner – Film Director
Lauren Shuler Donner – Film Producer
Lizzie Douglas aka Memphis Minnie- Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter
Marjory Stoneman Douglas – Environmentalist, Founder of Friends of the Everglades
Maureen Dowd – Columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet – Founder of Downing College, Cambridge, England
Sir Jacob Gorman Downing, 4th Baronet (Margaret Price, Wife) – Baronet and Politician
Aimee Anne Duffy aka Duffy – Musician
Gabriel Dumont – Native American Tribal Leader (Métis)
Lena Dunham – Actress, Director, Producer
Francis Drake – Explorer
Fran Drescher – Actress
Esther Dyson – Journalist, Author, Businesswoman, Commentator, Philanthropist
Amelia Earhart – Aviator
Deborah Eisenberg – Author
Anita Ekberg – Actress
T.S. Eliot – Poet
Havelock Ellis – Psychologist, Author
Tracee Ellis Ross – Actress
Harlan Ellison – Author
Elizabeth I – Queen of England
Joan Elm – Canadian Politician, Community Activist
Bonnie Erbé – PBS Commentator and Columnist
Dame Edith Evans – British Film and Stage Actress
Linda Evans – Actress
Rupert Everett – Actor
Anne Ewers – CEO of the Utah Symphony & Opera
Jane Fallon – Author
Chow Yun-Fat – Actor
Barbara Feldon – Actress
Pamelyn Ferdin – Actress
Ralph Fiennes – Actor
Lynn Fontanne – Actress
Margot Fonteyn – British Ballerina
Juliana Rieser Force – Whitney Museum Director
Richard Ford – Author, Editor of Granta
Margaretta Forten – Abolitionist
Dian Fossey – Primatologist, Conservationist
Janet Frame – Poet
Felix Frankfurter – Supreme Court Justice
Tanya Franks – Actress
William Frawley – Actor
Frank Frazetta – Artist
Alice Freeman – First woman to be President of a liberal arts college, (Wellesley), helped establish the University of Chicago.
Elsie Freund – Artist, Jewelry Designer
Louis Freund – Artist
Robert Fripp – Composer, Musician
Stephen Fry – Actor, Comedian
Eva Gabor – Actress
Magda Gabor – Actress
Maxwell Gage – Noted New Zealand Geologist
Diamanda Galas – Singer
Tess Gallagher – Author
Paul William Gallico – Author
Janeane Garofalo – Actress, Comedian
Greta Garbo – Actress
Ava Gardner – Actress
Henry Garfiled aka Henry Rollins – Musician (Black Flag, Rollins Band)
Greer Garson – Actress
Gloria Gaynor – Singer
Anthony Geary – Soap Opera Actor
Marie-Sophie Germain aka Auguste Antoine Le Blanc – Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga – Singer
Ricky Gervais – Comedian
Beth Gibbons – Singer (Portishead)
Althea Gibson – Athlete
William Schwenck Gilbert – Composer for Gilbert & Sullivan
Dorothy Gish – Actress
Lillian Gish – Actress
Katharine Bruce Glasier – Author
Susan Glaspell – Playwright
Sharon Gless – Actress
Crispin Glover – Actor
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Composer
Paulette Goddard – Actress
Robert Hutchings Goddard – Physicist
Kurt Gödel – Author
Alexander Godunov – Actor, Dancer
Alison Goldfrapp – Musician (Goldfrapp)
Stephen Goldin – Author
Emma Goldman – Activist, Feminist
Valeria Golino – Actress
Jan Goodwin – Author, Travel Writer
Edward Gorey – Artist
Lotte Goslar – Dancer
Lauren Graham – Actress (Contested – Her long-term partner has a child.)
Martha Graham – Choreographer
Cecil Howard Green – Former CEO of Texas Instruments, Philanthropist
Johnny Green – Musician
Gael Greene – Food Critic, Author
Baroness Susan Greenfield – Director of the Royal Institution, Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University, Neurologist
John Robert Gregg – Inventor of the Gregg Shorthand Method, Publisher
Joyce Grenfell – British Actress
Nanci Griffith – Singer, Songwriter
Martha Griffiths – First Female Michigan Lieutenant Governor
Terry Gross – NPR Host
James Grout – Actor
Mabel Dole Haden – Former President of NABWA
Catherine Hakim – British Sociologist
Daryl Hall – Singer, Musician (Hall & Oates)
Lewis Hamilton – Race Care Driver
Jon Hamm – Actor
Celia Hammond – Former Model and Animal Activist
Lionel Hampton – Musician
Georg Friedrich Handel – Composer
Chelsea Handler – Comedian
Howard Harold Hanson – Pulitzer-Prize Winning Composer
Setsuko Hara – Japanese Actress
E Chambré Hardman – Photographer
Jean Harlow – Actress
Debbie Harry – Singer (Blondie)
Polly Jean “PJ” Harvey – Musician
Darren Hayes – Singer, Songwriter (Savage Garden)
Alex Heard – Author
Sir Edward Heath – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Susan Helms – Astronaut
Christina Hendricks – Actress, Model
Adrian Henri – Poet, Painter
Marguerite Henry – Children’s Book Author
Katherine Hepburn – Actress
Milton S. Hershey – Founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company
Lorena Hickok – AP Political Reporter
Taiko Hirabayashi – Author
Nicole Hollander – Cartoonist
Thelma Holt – Actress, Theatre Producer
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (USA)
Grace Murray Hopper – Computer Scientist
Niall Horan – Singer (One Direction)
Rima Horton – Politician
Soad Hosni – Egyptian Actress
Lila Kedrova Howard – Actress
Mick Hucknall – Singer
Howard Hughes – American Business Magnate, Investor, Pilot, Engineer, Film Director, Philanthropist
Bonnie Hunt – Actress
Kristin Hunter – Children’s Book Author
Lauren Hutton – Actress, Model
Patricia Ireland – President of the National Organization for Women, NOW
George J. Irbe – Creator of the Great Lakes water temperature climatology
Satoru Iwata – 4th President and CEO of Nintendo
John A. “Jack” Jackson – Philanthropist, Oilman
Tove Jansson – Children’s Book Author
Randall Jarrell – Poet
Anna Jarvis – the “Founder of Mother’s Day”
Joan of Arc – Christian Saint
Jack Johnson – First African-American to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
Margaret Johnston – Actress
Martin and Osa Johnson – Authors, Photographers, explorers, and naturalists.
Richard Mentor Johnson – U.S. Vice-President
Samuel Johnson – Author, Editor
William Hugh Johnston – Labor Leader
Carolyn Jones – Actress
Renee Jones – Actress
Spike Jonze – Film Director
Ashley Judd – Actress, Activist
Madeline Kahn – Actress
Immanuel Kant – Philosopher
Julie Kavner – Actress
Nikos Kazantzakis – Author
Odette Keene – Musician
Helen Keller – Author
Joyce Kennard – Judge
Joe Kernan – Politician
Maynard Keynes – Economist, Founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet, Financed the Arts Theatre in Cambridge, England
William Lyon MacKenzie King – Former Canadian Prime Minister
William Rufus King – U.S. Vice-President
Robert Kiyosaki – Author
Caroline Knapp – Author
Aleksandra Kollontai – Author
Dean Koontz – Author
Tadeusz Kościuszko – Polish Patriot
Jerzy Kosinski – Author
Jonathan Kozol – Author, Activist
Lee Krasner – Artist
Albert Kroc – Co-Developer of McDonald’s Fast Food Chain
Henry Richardson Labouisse – Diplomat, Former Head of UNICEF
Karl Lagerfeld – Fashion Designer
Princess Lakshmi – Indian Princess
Elsa Lanchester – Actress
Philip Larkin – Author, Poet
Charles Laughton – Actor, Director
Dan Lauria – Actor
Frank John Lausche – Politician
Tom Lehrer – Singer, Musician
Jay Leno – TV Host
Richard Lewis – Comedian
Lyn Lifshin – Poet
Queen Liliuokalani – Queen of Hawaii
Siân Lloyd – Weather Broadcaster
Carole Lombard – Actress
Jack Lord – Actor
Pauline Lord – Actress
Patty Loveless – Singer
Alfred Lunt – Actor
John Lyon – Philanthropist, Regarded as the Founder of The Great Public School Of Harrow
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart – Musician
Rose McClendon – Actress
Barbara McClintock – Scientest (Cytogeneticist)
Robert McCormick – Former Owner of the Chicago Tribune
Mary Jackson McCrorey – Politician, Activist
Hattie McDaniel – Actress
Roddy McDowall – Actor, Photographer
Odd McIntyre – Newspaper Columnist
Ian McKellen – Actor
Kristy McNichol – Actress
Janet McTeer – Actress
Christine McVie – Singer, Songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
Dora Maar – Photographer
René Magritte – Artist
Bill Maher – TV Personality
Katherine Mansfield – Author
Shirley Manson – Singer
Vito Anthony Marcantonio – Politician
Francesca Marciano – Actress
Miriam Margoyles – Actress
Mary Ellen Mark – Award-Winning Photographer
Bobbie Ann Mason – Children’s Book Author
Mari Matsunaga – Creator of i-mode, Named One of the Top 25 Tech Women of the Web
James Clerk Maxwell – Scientist (Electromagnetism, Maxwell’s equations, proof that speed of light is a constant in all reference frames, earliest groundwork for relativity theory)
Theresa May – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Giuseppe Mazzini – Italian Patriot
Fradique de Menezes – President of Sao Tome and Principe
Melina Mercouri – Greek Actress
Freddie Mercury – Musician
Angela Merkel – German Chancellor
George Michael – Musician
Oscar Micheaux – Film Director, Producer, Author
Edna St. Vincent Millay – Poet
Alley Mills – Actress
Brenda Milner – Renowned Professor of Neuro-Psychology: Mcgill’s Faculty Of Medicine And At The Montreal Neurological Institute
Kylie Minogue – Singer
Helen Mirren – Actress
Margaret Mitchell – Author
Eugenio Montale – Nobel Prize Winner, Poet, Author, Editor, Translator
Vicki Moore – Spanish Animal Rights Philanthropist
John Morgan – Founder of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and Medical Director of the Continental Army
Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) – Author
Morrissey – Musician
Rob Morse – Columnist (San Francisco Chronicle)
Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam – Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
John Mulaney – Comedian
Annamarie Tendler Mulaney – Artist
Diana Muldaur – Actress
Megan Mullally – Actress
Jan Munroe – Actor
Ona Munson – Actress
Leilani Münter – Race Car Driver, Environmental Activist
Haruki Murakami – Author
Iris Murdoch – Author
Mikayil Mushfig – Poet
Modest Mussorgsky – Composer
Kanagarajah Muthiah – Tamil Activist
Ralph Nader – Activist
Taslima Nasrin – Author
Alla Nazimova – Actress
Noel Neill – Actress
Bebe Neuwirth – Actress
Sir Isaac Newton – Scientist
Stevie Nicks – Singer (Fleetwood Mac)
Friedrich Nietzsche – Philosopher
Florence Nightingale – Nurse
Emmy Noether – Mathematician (Noether’s theorem, theory of algebraic rings)
Ursula Nordstrom – Children’s Book Editor
Jessye Norman – Opera Singer
Kim Novak – Actress
Rudolph Nureyev – Dancer
Anita O’Day – Jazz Singer
Georgia O’Keeffe – Artist
Frederick D. O’Neal – Actor, Playwright
Joyce Carol Oates – Author
Nick Offerman – Actor
Sandra Oh – Actress
Claire Parker – Director, Animator
Dorothy Parker – Author
Suzanne-Lori Parks – Playwright
Rosa Parks – Activist
Dolly Parton – Singer, Actress
Julia Pascal – Playwright
Ann Patchett – Author
Saint Patrick – Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland
Alicia Patterson – Editor
Wolfgang Pauli – Physicist
Linus Pauling – Winner of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace
Sarah Paulson – Actress
Michelle Paver – Author
Anna Pavlova – Dancer
Molly Peacock – Poet, President Emerita of the Poetry Society of America
Minnie Pearl – Singer
Samuel Pepys – Author
Matthew Perry – Actor
Bernadette Peters – Actress
Jean Peters – Actress
Arthur Phillip – First British Administrator Sent to Australia
Wendell Phillips – Orator and Reformer
William Phillips – Co-founder and Editor of Partisan Review , Writer, Critic
Marge Piercy – Author, Poet
Plato – Philosopher
Martha Plimpton – Actress
Edgar Allan Poe – Author
Jackson Pollock – Artist
Katherine Ann Porter – Author
Parker Posey – Actress
Beatrix Potter – Children’s Book Author
Charles Edward Potter – Politician, Philanthropist, Administrator of the Cheboygan County Bureau of Social Aid
Joyce Purnick – Former New York Times Metro Editor, Journalist
Edna Purviance – Silent Movie Actress
Sara Keirsten Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Tegan Rain Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Colin Quinn – Comedian
Robin Quivers – Radio Host
Daniel Radcliffe -Actor
Raffi – Children’s Musician
Bonnie Raitt – Singer, Songwriter
Joey Ramone – Musician
Ayn Rand – Writer, Philosopher, Author
- Philip Randolph – Politician
Jeanette Rankin – 1st Female US Representative
Man Ray – Artist
Rachel Ray – Celebrity Chef
Lou Reed – Singer, Musician
George Reeves – Actor
Frances Reid – Actress
Leni Riefenstahl – Filmmaker
Janet Reno – Former U.S. Attorney-General
Judith Resnick – Astronaut
Jennifer Rhodes – Actress
Condoleezza Rice – National Security Advisor
Cliff Richards – Musician
Miranda Richardson – Actress
Alan Rickman – Actor, Director
Elizabeth Riddell – Journalist
Sally Ride – First American Female Astronaut
Bridget Riley – Artist
John Ringling – Founder of Ringling Brothers Circus
Mary Roach – Author
Morgan Andrew Robertson – Author
Debbie Rochon – Actress
Norman Perceval Rockwell – Illustrator
Eric Rohmann – Author, Winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal for Best Illustrated Children’s Book
Ginger Rogers – Actress
Richard Roeper – Film Reviewer, Chicago Sun-Times
Wilhelm Rontgen – Awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901, discoverer of X-Rays
William Bruce Rose Jr. aka Axl Rose – Musician (Guns N’ Roses)
Mickey Rourke – Actor, Boxer
Patricia Routledge – Actress
Joan Ruddock – Activist
John Ruskin – Author
Winona Ryder – Actress
Yves Saint-Laurent – Fashion Designer
Hironobu Sakaguchi – Video Game Designer/Producer, Creator of the Final Fantasy Series
Dr. Lee Salk – Child Psychologist
Renu Saluja – Indian Film Editor
Diana Sands – Actress
Aligi Sassu – Artist
Dame Cicely Saunders – Nurse, Social Worker, Physician and Writer. Major Contributor to the Hospice Movement
John Sayles – Director
Jean-Paul Sartre – Existential Philosopher
Diane Sawyer – TV News Anchor
Rosika Schwimmer – Author, Activist
Ed and Thelma Schoenberger – Co-founders of the Indiana Flower & Patio Show
Ellen Browning Scripps – Newspaper Columnist, Philanthropist
Joel Schumacher – Film Director
David Sedaris – Humorist, Comedian, Author
Maurice Sendak – Children’s Book Author
George Bernard Shaw – Playwright
Lionel Shriver – Author
Sarah Silverman – Comedian, Actress
Wallis Simpson – Duchess of Windsor
Michael Sinelnikoff – Actor
Siouxsie – Singer, Musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Robert Smith – Singer, Musician (The Cure)
David Shogren – Bassist (Doobie Brothers)
Betty Smith – Author
Dodie Smith – Playwright, Author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Gladys Louise Smith aka Mary Pickford – Actress, Producer, Screenwriter, Businesswoman
Howard Worth Smith – Politician
Kate Smith – Singer
Lemony Snicket (Real Name: Daniel Handler) – Children’s Book Author
David Souter – Supreme Court Justice
Jill St. John – Actress
Richard Stallman – Computer Programmer, Activist (Free software movement and GNU/Linux advocate)
Mabel Stark – Female Tiger Trainer
Gertrude Stein – Author, Patron of the Arts
Victor Strauss – WWII Journalist
Gloria Steinem – Activist, Writer
Maria W. Stewart – Author, Activist
Lily Strickland – Composer, Writer, Artist
Harry Styles – Singer (One Direction)
Patrick Swayze – Actor
Loretta Swit – Actress
Henrietta Szold – Holocaust Heroine
Wislawa Szymborska – Nobel Prize Winning Poet
Amy Tan – Writer, Author
Sara Teasdale – Poet
Neil Tennant – Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
Toni Tennille – Singer (Captain and Tennille)
Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma – French-Spanish Political Activist and Academic
Nikola Tesla – Scientist, Inventor
Theodora – Empress and wife of Justinian I
Susanna Thompson – Actress
Georgianne Thon – Actress
- Carey Thomas – President of Bryn Mawr College
Willie Mae Thornton – Singer, Songwriter
Maura Tierney – Actress
Jennifer Tilly – Actress
Wendy Tokunaga – Author
Marisa Tomei – Actress
Lily Tomlin – Actress, Playwright
Alan Turing – Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Ann Turkel – Model
Randy Travis – Singer
Maxine Trump – Film Producer, Director
Edward Tylor – Anthropologist
Nobuo Uematsu – Composer, wrote the music for most of the Final Fantasy series)
Andrew Vachss – Novelist
Vincent Van Gogh – Artist
Vivian Vance – Actress
Zebulon Baird Vance – Politician
Luthur Vandross – Singer
Ann Van Dyk – Cheetah Preservationist
Reginald VelJohnson – Actor
Mariska Veres – Singer (The Shocking Blue)
Amerigo Vespucci – Merchant, explorer, cartographer
Carl Vinson – Politician
Monica Vitti – Actress
Larry Wachowski – Film Director
Christopher Walken – Actor
Bob Wallace – Computer Shareware Pioneer, Philanthropist, Founding Employee of Microsoft
Nina Wang – Was Asia’s richest woman, with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion USD at the time of her death
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward – Author
Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson – Musician
Ethel Waters – Actress, Evangelist, Singer
John Waters – Director
Alberta Watson – Canadian Actress
Emma Watson – Actress & Women’s Rights Activist
Dawn Wells – Actress
Eudora Welty – Author
Mae West – Actress, Comedian
Edith Wharton – Author
Raymond Milner Wheeler – Civil Rights Activist
Alan Whicker – TV Host, Documentarian
Baroness White – Former UK Labour Government Minister
Betty White – Actress
Margaret Bourke-White – Photographer
Sarah Helen Power Whitman – Poet, Essayist, Transcendentalist
Walt Whitman – Poet
Richard (Dick) Whittington – Philanthropist
Ann Widdecombe – UK Member of Parliament
Toyah Wilcox – Punk Rocker, Activist
Thornton Wilder – Playwright
William III & Mary II of England – King & Queen of England, Ireland, and Scotland
Barry Williams – Actor
Lucinda Williams – Musician
Wendy O. Williams – Singer (The Plasmatic)
August Wilson – Pulizer Prize Winning Playwright
Bill W. (Wilson) – Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Rebel Wilson – Actress
Barbara Windsor – Actress
Amy Winehouse – Singer, Songwriter
Edgar Winter – Musician
Jeanette Winterson – Author
Estelle Winwood – English Actress
Kim Woodburn – Co-Star of TV Cleaning Duo Kim and Aggie
Robert Winship Woodruff – Former CEO of Coca Cola, Philanthropist
Leonard Woolf – Political theorist and Author
Virginia Woolf – Author
Orville Wright – Aviator
Stephen J. Wright – College President (Fisk University)
Wilbur Wright – Aviator
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Yanni – Composer
Lubov Yegorova – Dancer
Dwight Yokam – Singer, Actor
Marguerite Yourcenar – Author, First Woman To Be Elected To The Academie Francaise
David Young – Almanac Maker, Astronomer, Poet
Will Young – Singer, Songwriter, Actor
YuPen – Chinese Actor, Singer
Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Olympic Athlete
Renee Zellweger – Actress
Stephanie Zimbalist – Actress
Émile Zola – Author
Herbert Samuel Adams – Sculptor
Charles Addams – Cartoonist (The New Yorker)
Jane Addams – Social Worker, Political Activist, Co-Founder of the ACLU, & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Nancy Addison – Actress
Louisa May Alcott – Author
Cynthia May Westover Alden – Author, Philanthropist
Grover Cleveland Alexander – Baseball Player
Suzy Allegra – Author, Artist, Motivational Speaker
Marty Allen – Comedian
John Murray Anderson – Musical Theatre Producer
Laurie Anderson – Performance Artist
Marian Anderson – Concert Singer
Louis Andriessen – Composer
Jennifer Aniston – Actress
Susan B. Anthony – Womans’ Suffragist
Samuel Appleton – Merchant, Politician, Philanthropist
Geoffrey Arend – Actor
Louis Armstrong – Musician (Contested: The Louis Armstrong Museum states he had no children, but in 2012 Sharon Preston-Folta has claimed to be his daughter from Lucille “Sweets” Preston, a dancer at the New York Cotton Club)
Boris Artzybasheff – Artist
Dorothy Arzner – Film Director
Dr. Robert C. Atkins – Diet Doctor, Author, Creator of the Atkins Diet
V.C. Andrews – Author
Jane Austen – Author
Max Baer Jr. – Actor
Francis Bacon – Politician, Philosopher, Scientist
Florence Bailey – Author, Naturalist, Ornithologist
George Balanchine – Ballet Choreographer
Tallulah Bankhead – Actress
Abdullah al-Baradouni – Yemeni Poet
Bob Barker – Game Show Host
Joe Barr – Canadian Politician
Lynda Barry – Cartoonist
Clara Barton – Nurse, Humanitarian, Founder and First President of the American Red Cross
Kathy Bates – Actress
Jaya Battacharya – Actress
King Baudouin – King of Belgium
Simone de Beauvoir – Author
Samuel Beckett – Author, Playwright, Poet
Ludwig Van Beethoven – Composer
Joe Besser – Actor
Isabella Bird – Explorer, Author
Jacqueline Bisset – Actress
Lewis Black – Comedian
Eubie Blake – Musician, Composer
William Blake – Artist
Brenda Blethyn – Actress
Marc Blitzstein – Composer, Dramatist
Baroness Karen Blixen – Author
Rosa Bonheur – French Painter and Sculptor
Pierre Bonnard – Artist
William Edgar Borah – Politician
Lara Flynn Boyle – Actress
Susan Boyle – Singer
Georges Brassens – Singer
Enya Patricia Brennan aka Enya – Musician
Alison Brie – Actress
Joe Bob Briggs aka John Bloom – Author, Movie Critic
Raymond Briggs – Children’s Book Author
Poppy Z. Brite – Author
Anne Brontë – Author
Charlotte Brontë – Author
Louise Brooks – Actress
Helen Gurley Brown – Feminist, Editor (Cosmopolitan)
Reno Browne – Actress, Equestrian
Delta Burke – Actress
Kathy Burke – Actress, Comedian
Pat Buchanan – Politician, Presidential Candidate
James Burke – Creator of the BBC & PBS Series “Connections”, Scientific American columnist
Raymond Burr – Actor
Caryl Lee Burroughs – Hollywood Animal Trainer
Leo Buscaglia – Author
Brett Butler – Actress, Comedian
Robin Miriam Carlsson aka Robyn – Singer
Phyllis Carlyle – Film Producer
Dora Carrington – Bloomsbury Artist
Laura Carroll – Author
Mary Casatt – Artist
Roger Casement – Irish Patriot
Nina Cassian – Poet
Barbara Castle – British Politician
Kim Cattrall – Actress
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Singer, Songwriter
Rosamond Halsey Carr – Founder of Rwanda’s Imbabazi Orphanage, Author, Fashion Designer
Richard Chamberlain – Actor
Coco Chanel – Fashion Designer (Contested: Following her elder sister’s suicide, she looked after her son)
Stockard Channing – Actress
Charles II of Spain – King of Spain
Tracy Chapman – Musician
RuPaul Andre Charles – Drag Performer, TV Personality
Judy Chicago – Artist
Margaret Cho – Comedian
Julia Child – Professional Chef, Cookbook Author
Helen Clark – New Zealand Prime Minister
Patricia Clarkson – Actress
Dorothy Clewes – Children’s Book Author
Imogene Coca – Actress
Claudette Colbert – Actress
Billy Collins – U.S. Poet Laureate
Carlo Collodi – Author
Frances Conroy – Actress
Storm Constantine – Fantasy Writer
Jill Ker Conway – Author, first woman President of Smith College
Anne Cools – Canadian Senator
Pat Coombs – Actress
Nicolaus Copernicus – Scientist
John Corbett – Actor
Joseph Cornell – Artist and Creator of the Cornell Box
Ann Coulter – Political Commentator
Alec Sadler & Grace Craig – Australian Politician, Philanthropist
Quentin Crisp – Author, Actor
Tim Curry – Actor
Charlotte Curtis – Journalist, Columnist, Editor at The New York Times
Patrika Darbo – Actress
Mahmoud Darwish – Palestinian Poet
Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist
Gray Davis – Governor of California
Ellen Degeneres – Comedian
Jeffery Deaver – Author
Eugene Victor Debs – Activist
Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany)
Dana Delany – Actress
Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany)
Don DeLillo – Author
Del Rubio Triplets (Edith Bolling Boyd, Elena Rolfe Boyd, Mildred Stuart Boyd) – Musical Group
Bo Derek – Actress
Rene Descartes – Philosopher
Portia De Rossi – Actress
Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor
Emily Dickinson – Poet
Benjamin Disraeli – Politician, Author
Steve Ditko – Cartoonist, Co-Creator of the Spider-Man Comics
Dorothea Dix – Educator, Writer, Philanthropist
Tamara Dobson – Actress
Richard Donner – Film Director
Lauren Shuler Donner – Film Producer
Lizzie Douglas aka Memphis Minnie- Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter
Marjory Stoneman Douglas – Environmentalist, Founder of Friends of the Everglades
Maureen Dowd – Columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet – Founder of Downing College, Cambridge, England
Sir Jacob Gorman Downing, 4th Baronet (Margaret Price, Wife) – Baronet and Politician
Aimee Anne Duffy aka Duffy – Musician
Gabriel Dumont – Native American Tribal Leader (Métis)
Lena Dunham – Actress, Director, Producer
Francis Drake – Explorer
Fran Drescher – Actress
Esther Dyson – Journalist, Author, Businesswoman, Commentator, Philanthropist
Amelia Earhart – Aviator
Deborah Eisenberg – Author
Liubov Egorova – Dancer
Anita Ekberg – Actress
T.S. Eliot – Poet
Havelock Ellis – Psychologist, Author
Tracee Ellis Ross – Actress
Harlan Ellison – Author
Elizabeth I – Queen of England
Joan Elm – Canadian Politician, Community Activist
Bonnie Erbé – PBS Commentator and Columnist
Dame Edith Evans – British Film and Stage Actress
Linda Evans – Actress
Rupert Everett – Actor
Anne Ewers – CEO of the Utah Symphony & Opera
Jane Fallon – Author
Chow Yun-Fat – Actor
Barbara Feldon – Actress
Pamelyn Ferdin – Actress
Ralph Fiennes – Actor
Lynn Fontanne – Actress
Margot Fonteyn – British Ballerina
Juliana Rieser Force – Whitney Museum Director
Richard Ford – Author, Editor of Granta
Margaretta Forten – Abolitionist
Dian Fossey – Primatologist, Conservationist
Janet Frame – Poet
Felix Frankfurter – Supreme Court Justice
Tanya Franks – Actress
William Frawley – Actor
Frank Frazetta – Artist
Alice Freeman – First woman to be President of a liberal arts college, (Wellesley), helped establish the University of Chicago.
Elsie Freund – Artist, Jewelry Designer
Louis Freund – Artist
Robert Fripp – Composer, Musician
Stephen Fry – Actor, Comedian
Eva Gabor – Actress
Magda Gabor – Actress
Maxwell Gage – Noted New Zealand Geologist
Diamanda Galas – Singer
Tess Gallagher – Author
Paul William Gallico – Author
Janeane Garofalo – Actress, Comedian
Greta Garbo – Actress
Ava Gardner – Actress
Henry Garfiled aka Henry Rollins – Musician (Black Flag, Rollins Band)
Greer Garson – Actress
Gloria Gaynor – Singer
Anthony Geary – Soap Opera Actor
Marie-Sophie Germain aka Auguste Antoine Le Blanc – Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga – Singer
Ricky Gervais – Comedian
Beth Gibbons – Singer (Portishead)
Althea Gibson – Athlete
William Schwenck Gilbert – Composer for Gilbert & Sullivan
Dorothy Gish – Actress
Lillian Gish – Actress
Katharine Bruce Glasier – Author
Susan Glaspell – Playwright
Sharon Gless – Actress
Crispin Glover – Actor
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Composer
Paulette Goddard – Actress
Robert Hutchings Goddard – Physicist
Kurt Godel – Author
Alexander Godunov – Actor, Dancer
Alison Goldfrapp – Musician (Goldfrapp)
Stephen Goldin – Author
Emma Goldman – Activist, Feminist
Valeria Golino – Actress
Jan Goodwin – Author, Travel Writer
Edward Gorey – Artist
Lotte Goslar – Dancer
Lauren Graham – Actress (Contested – Her long-term partner has a child.)
Martha Graham – Choreographer
Cecil Green – Former CEO of Texas Instruments, Philanthropist
Johnny Green – Musician
Gael Greene – Food Critic, Author
Baroness Susan Greenfield – Director of the Royal Institution, Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University, Neurologist
John Robert Gregg – Inventor of the Gregg Shorthand Method, Publisher
Joyce Grenfell – British Actress
Nanci Griffith – Singer, Songwriter
Martha Griffiths – First Female Michigan Lieutenant Governor
Terry Gross – NPR Host
James Grout – Actor
Mabel Dole Haden – Former President of NABWA
Catherine Hakim – British Sociologist
Daryl Hall – Singer, Musician (Hall & Oates)
Lewis Hamilton – Race Care Driver
Jon Hamm – Actor
Celia Hammond – Former Model and Animal Activist
Lionel Hampton – Musician
Georg Friedrich Handel – Composer
Chelsea Handler – Comedian
Howard Harold Hanson – Pulitzer-Prize Winning Composer
Setsuko Hara – Japanese Actress
Warren Gamaliel Harding – 29th U.S. President
E Chambré Hardman – Photographer
Jean Harlow – Actress
Debbie Harry – Singer (Blondie)
Polly Jean “PJ” Harvey – Musician
Darren Hayes – Singer, Songwriter (Savage Garden)
Alex Heard – Author
Sir Edward Heath – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Susan Helms – Astronaut
Christina Hendricks – Actress, Model
Adrian Henri – Poet, Painter
Marguerite Henry – Children’s Book Author
Katherine Hepburn – Actress
Milton S. Hershey – Founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company
Lorena Hickok – AP Political Reporter
Taiko Hirabayashi – Author
Nicole Hollander – Cartoonist
Thelma Holt – Actress, Theatre Producer
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (USA)
Grace Murray Hopper – Computer Scientist
Niall Horan – Singer (One Direction)
Rima Horton – Politician
Soad Hosni – Egyptian Actress
Lila Kedrova Howard – Actress
Mick Hucknall – Singer
Howard Hughes – American Business Magnate, Investor, Pilot, Engineer, Film Director, Philanthropist
Bonnie Hunt – Actress
Kristin Hunter – Children’s Book Author
Lauren Hutton – Actress, Model
Patricia Ireland – President of the National Organization for Women, NOW
George J. Irbe – Creator of the Great Lakes water temperature climatology
Satoru Iwata – 4th President and CEO of Nintendo
John A. “Jack” Jackson – Philanthropist, Oilman
Tove Jansson – Children’s Book Author
Randall Jarrell – Poet
Anna Jarvis – the “Founder of Mother’s Day”
Joan of Arc – Christian Saint
Jack Johnson – First African-American to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
Margaret Johnston – Actress
Martin and Osa Johnson – Authors, Photographers, explorers, and naturalists.
Richard Mentor Johnson – U.S. Vice-President
Samuel Johnson – Author, Editor
William Hugh Johnston – Labor Leader
Carolyn Jones – Actress
Renee Jones – Actress
Spike Jonze – Film Director
Ashley Judd – Actress, Activist
Madeline Kahn – Actress
Immanuel Kant – Philosopher
Julie Kavner – Actress
Nikos Kazantzakis – Author
Odette Keene – Musician
Helen Keller – Author
Joyce Kennard – Judge
Joe Kernan – Politician
Maynard Keynes – Economist, Founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet, Financed the Arts Theatre in Cambridge, England
William Lyon MacKenzie King – Former Canadian Prime Minister
William Rufus King – U.S. Vice-President
Robert Kiyosaki – Author
Caroline Knapp – Author
Aleksandra Kollontai – Author
Dean Koontz – Author
Tadeusz Kościuszko – Polish Patriot
Jerzy Kosinski – Author
Jonathan Kozol – Author, Activist
Lee Krasner – Artist
Albert Kroc – Co-Developer of McDonald’s Fast Food Chain
Henry Richardson Labouisse – Diplomat, Former Head of UNICEF
Karl Lagerfeld – Fashion Designer
Princess Lakshmi – Indian Princess
Elsa Lanchester – Actress
Philip Larkin – Author, Poet
Charles Laughton – Actor, Director
Dan Lauria – Actor
Frank John Lausche – Politician
Tom Lehrer – Singer, Musician
Jay Leno – TV Host
Richard Lewis – Comedian
Lyn Lifshin – Poet
Queen Liliuokalani – Queen of Hawaii
Siân Lloyd – Weather Broadcaster
Carole Lombard – Actress
Jack Lord – Actor
Pauline Lord – Actress
Patty Loveless – Singer
Alfred Lunt – Actor
John Lyon – Philanthropist, Regarded as the Founder of The Great Public School Of Harrow
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart – Musician
Rose McClendon – Actress
Barbara McClintock – Scientest (Cytogeneticist)
Robert McCormick – Former Owner of the Chicago Tribune
Mary Jackson McCrorey – Politician, Activist
Hattie McDaniel – Actress
Roddy McDowall – Actor, Photographer
Odd McIntyre – Newspaper Columnist
Ian McKellen – Actor
Kristy McNichol – Actress
Janet McTeer – Actress
Christine McVie – Singer, Songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
Dora Maar – Photographer
René Magritte – Artist
Bill Maher – TV Personality
Katherine Mansfield – Author
Shirley Manson – Singer
Vito Anthony Marcantonio – Politician
Francesca Marciano – Actress
Miriam Margoyles – Actress
Mary Ellen Mark – Award-Winning Photographer
Bobbie Ann Mason – Children’s Book Author
Mari Matsunaga – Creator of i-mode, Named One of the Top 25 Tech Women of the Web
James Clerk Maxwell – Scientist (Electromagnetism, Maxwell’s equations, proof that speed of light is a constant in all reference frames, earliest groundwork for relativity theory)
Theresa May – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Giuseppe Mazzini – Italian Patriot
Fradique de Menezes – President of Sao Tome and Principe
Melina Mercouri – Greek Actress
Freddie Mercury – Musician
Angela Merkel – German Chancellor
George Michael – Musician
Oscar Micheaux – Film Director, Producer, Author
Edna St. Vincent Millay – Poet
Alley Mills – Actress
Brenda Milner – Renowned Professor of Neuro-Psychology: Mcgill’s Faculty Of Medicine And At The Montreal Neurological Institute
Kylie Minogue – Singer
Helen Mirren – Actress
Margaret Mitchell – Author
Eugenio Montale – Nobel Prize Winner, Poet, Author, Editor, Translator
Vicki Moore – Spanish Animal Rights Philanthropist
John Morgan – Founder of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and Medical Director of the Continental Army
Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) – Author
Morrissey – Musician
Rob Morse – Columnist (San Francisco Chronicle)
Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam – Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
John Mulaney – Comedian
Annamarie Tendler Mulaney – Artist
Diana Muldaur – Actress
Megan Mullally – Actress
Jan Munroe – Actor
Ona Munson – Actress
Leilani Münter – Race Car Driver, Environmental Activist
Haruki Murakami – Author
Iris Murdoch – Author
Mikayil Mushfig – Poet
Modest Mussorgsky – Composer
Kanagarajah Muthiah – Tamil Activist
Ralph Nader – Activist
Taslima Nasrin – Author
Alla Nazimova – Actress
Noel Neill – Actress
Bebe Neuwirth – Actress
Sir Isaac Newton – Scientist
Stevie Nicks – Singer (Fleetwood Mac)
Friedrich Nietzsche – Philosopher
Florence Nightingale – Nurse
Emmy Noether – Mathematician (Noether’s theorem, theory of algebraic rings)
Ursula Nordstrom – Children’s Book Editor
Jessye Norman – Opera Singer
Kim Novak – Actress
Rudolph Nureyev – Dancer
Anita O’Day – Jazz Singer
Georgia O’Keeffe – Artist
Frederick D. O’Neal – Actor, Playwright
Joyce Carol Oates – Author
Nick Offerman – Actor
Sandra Oh – Actress
Claire Parker – Director, Animator
Dorothy Parker – Author
Suzanne-Lori Parks – Playwright
Rosa Parks – Activist
Dolly Parton – Singer, Actress
Julia Pascal – Playwright
Ann Patchett – Author
Alicia Patterson – Editor
Wolfgang Pauli – Physicist
Linus Pauling – Winner of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace
Sarah Paulson – Actress
Michelle Paver – Author
Anna Pavlova – Dancer
Molly Peacock – Poet, President Emerita of the Poetry Society of America
Minnie Pearl – Singer
Samuel Pepys – Author
Matthew Perry – Actor
Bernadette Peters – Actress
Jean Peters – Actress
Arthur Phillip – First British Administrator Sent to Australia
Wendell Phillips – Orator and Reformer
William Phillips – Co-founder and Editor of Partisan Review , Writer, Critic
Marge Piercy – Author, Poet
Plato – Philosopher
Martha Plimpton – Actress
Edgar Allan Poe – Author
Jackson Pollock – Artist
Katherine Ann Porter – Author
Parker Posey – Actress
Beatrix Potter – Children’s Book Author
Charles Edward Potter – Politician, Philanthropist, Administrator of the Cheboygan County Bureau of Social Aid
Joyce Purnick – Former New York Times Metro Editor, Journalist
Edna Purviance – Silent Movie Actress
Sara Keirsten Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Tegan Rain Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Colin Quinn – Comedian
Robin Quivers – Radio Host
Daniel Radcliffe -Actor
Raffi – Children’s Musician
Bonnie Raitt – Singer, Songwriter
Joey Ramone – Musician
Ayn Rand – Writer, Philosopher, Author
- Philip Randolph – Politician
Jeanette Rankin – 1st Female US Representative
Man Ray – Artist
Rachel Ray – Celebrity Chef
Lou Reed – Singer, Musician
George Reeves – Actor
Frances Reid – Actress
Leni Riefenstahl – Filmmaker
Janet Reno – Former U.S. Attorney-General
Judith Resnick – Astronaut
Jennifer Rhodes – Actress
Condoleezza Rice – National Security Advisor
Cliff Richards – Musician
Miranda Richardson – Actress
Alan Rickman – Actor, Director
Elizabeth Riddell – Journalist
Sally Ride – First American Female Astronaut
Bridget Riley – Artist
John Ringling – Founder of Ringling Brothers Circus
Mary Roach – Author
Morgan Andrew Robertson – Author
Debbie Rochon – Actress
Norman Perceval Rockwell – Illustrator
Eric Rohmann – Author, Winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal for Best Illustrated Children’s Book
Ginger Rogers – Actress
Richard Roeper – Film Reviewer, Chicago Sun-Times
Wilhelm Rontgen – Awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901, discoverer of X-Rays
William Bruce Rose Jr. aka Axl Rose – Musician (Guns N’ Roses)
Mickey Rourke – Actor, Boxer
Patricia Routledge – Actress
Joan Ruddock – Activist
John Ruskin – Author
Winona Ryder – Actress
Yves Saint-Laurent – Fashion Designer
Hironobu Sakaguchi – Video Game Designer/Producer, Creator of the Final Fantasy Series
Dr. Lee Salk – Child Psychologist
Renu Saluja – Indian Film Editor
Diana Sands – Actress
Aligi Sassu – Artist
Dame Cicely Saunders – Nurse, Social Worker, Physician and Writer. Major Contributor to the Hospice Movement
John Sayles – Director
Jean-Paul Sartre – Existential Philosopher
Diane Sawyer – TV News Anchor
Rosika Schwimmer – Author, Activist
Ed and Thelma Schoenberger – Co-founders of the Indiana Flower & Patio Show
Ellen Browning Scripps – Newspaper Columnist, Philanthropist
Joel Schumacher – Film Director
David Sedaris – Humorist, Comedian, Author
Maurice Sendak – Children’s Book Author
George Bernard Shaw – Playwright
Lionel Shriver – Author
Sarah Silverman – Comedian, Actress
Wallis Simpson – Duchess of Windsor
Michael Sinelnikoff – Actor
Siouxsie – Singer, Musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Robert Smith – Singer, Musician (The Cure)
David Shogren – Bassist (Doobie Brothers)
Betty Smith – Author
Dodie Smith – Playwright, Author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Gladys Louise Smith aka Mary Pickford – Actress, Producer, Screenwriter, Businesswoman
Howard Worth Smith – Politician
Kate Smith – Singer
Lemony Snicket (Real Name: Daniel Handler) – Children’s Book Author
David Souter – Supreme Court Justice
Jill St. John – Actress
Richard Stallman – Computer Programmer, Activist (Free software movement and GNU/Linux advocate)
Mabel Stark – Female Tiger Trainer
Gertrude Stein – Author, Patron of the Arts
Victor Strauss – WWII Journalist
Gloria Steinem – Activist, Writer
Maria W. Stewart – Author, Activist
Lily Strickland – Composer, Writer, Artist
Harry Styles – Singer (One Direction)
Patrick Swayze – Actor
Loretta Swit – Actress
Henrietta Szold – Holocaust Heroine
Wislawa Szymborska – Nobel Prize Winning Poet
Amy Tan – Writer, Author
Sara Teasdale – Poet
Neil Tennant – Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
Toni Tennille – Singer (Captain and Tennille)
Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma – French-Spanish Political Activist and Academic
Nikola Tesla – Scientist, Inventor
Theodora – Empress and wife of Justinian I
Susanna Thompson – Actress
Georgianne Thon – Actress
- Carey Thomas – President of Bryn Mawr College
Willie Mae Thornton – Singer, Songwriter
Maura Tierney – Actress
Jennifer Tilly – Actress
Wendy Tokunaga – Author
Marisa Tomei – Actress
Lily Tomlin – Actress, Playwright
Alan Turing – Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Ann Turkel – Model
Randy Travis – Singer
Maxine Trump – Film Producer, Director
Edward Tylor – Anthropologist
Nobuo Uematsu – Composer, wrote the music for most of the Final Fantasy series)
Andrew Vachss – Novelist
Vincent Van Gogh – Artist
Vivian Vance – Actress
Zebulon Baird Vance – Politician
Luthur Vandross – Singer
Ann Van Dyk – Cheetah Preservationist
Reginald VelJohnson – Actor
Mariska Veres – Singer (The Shocking Blue)
Amerigo Vespucci – Merchant, explorer, cartographer
Carl Vinson – Politician
Monica Vitti – Actress
Larry Wachowski – Film Director
Christopher Walken – Actor
Bob Wallace – Computer Shareware Pioneer, Philanthropist, Founding Employee of Microsoft
Nina Wang – Was Asia’s richest woman, with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion USD at the time of her death
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward – Author
Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson – Musician
Ethel Waters – Actress, Evangelist, Singer
John Waters – Director
Alberta Watson – Canadian Actress
Emma Watson – Actress & Women’s Rights Activist
Dawn Wells – Actress
Eudora Welty – Author
Mae West – Actress, Comedian
Edith Wharton – Author
Raymond Milner Wheeler – Civil Rights Activist
Alan Whicker – TV Host, Documentarian
Baroness White – Former UK Labour Government Minister
Betty White – Actress
Margaret Bourke-White – Photographer
Sarah Helen Power Whitman – Poet, Essayist, Transcendentalist
Walt Whitman – Poet
Richard (Dick) Whittington – Philanthropist
Ann Widdecombe – UK Member of Parliament
Toyah Wilcox – Punk Rocker, Activist
Thornton Wilder – Playwright
William III & Mary II of England – King & Queen of England, Ireland, and Scotland
Barry Williams – Actor
Lucinda Williams – Musician
Wendy O. Williams – Singer (The Plasmatic)
August Wilson – Pulizer Prize Winning Playwright
Bill W. (Wilson) – Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Rebel Wilson – Actress
Barbara Windsor – Actress
Amy Winehouse – Singer, Songwriter
Edgar Winter – Musician
Jeanette Winterson – Author
Estelle Winwood – English Actress
Kim Woodburn – Co-Star of TV Cleaning Duo Kim and Aggie
Robert Winship Woodruff – Former CEO of Coca Cola, Philanthropist
Leonard Woolf – Political theorist and Author
Virginia Woolf – Author
Orville Wright – Aviator
Stephen J. Wright – College President (Fisk University)
Wilbur Wright – Aviator
Coming Soon…
Yanni – Composer
Dwight Yokam – Singer, Actor
Marguerite Yourcenar – Author, First Woman To Be Elected To The Academie Francaise
David Young – Almanac Maker, Astronomer, Poet
Will Young – Singer, Songwriter, Actor
YuPen – Chinese Actor, Singer
Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Olympic Athlete
Renee Zellweger – Actress
Stephanie Zimbalist – Actress
Émile Zola – Author
It is always exciting to find out a famous or well-known person is childfree (or was childfree if deceased). This is a running list collected from various sources so feel free to make suggestions or request corrections to this list. The list will include people who are/were childfree-by-choice and childfree-by-circumstance.
Did anyone on this list surprise you?
Who on the list are you most proud to share the childfree lifestyle with?
Let us know in the comments.
For clarification: the term “childfree”, in the sense of this list, will be in regards to people who, by-choice or by-circumstance, never had a child from a live birth, fostered a child, adopted a child, became a step-parent or legal guardian. They will also be over the age or 18 years old.
Names appear in alphabetical order (links are being added over time).
Herbert Samuel Adams – Sculptor
Charles Addams – Cartoonist (The New Yorker)
Jane Addams – Social Worker, Political Activist, Co-Founder of the ACLU, & Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Nancy Addison – Actress
Louisa May Alcott – Author
Cynthia May Westover Alden – Author, Philanthropist
Grover Cleveland Alexander – Baseball Player
Suzy Allegra – Author, Artist, Motivational Speaker
Marty Allen – Comedian
John Murray Anderson – Musical Theatre Producer
Laurie Anderson – Performance Artist
Marian Anderson – Concert Singer
Louis Andriessen – Composer
Jennifer Aniston – Actress
Susan B. Anthony – Womans’ Suffragist
Samuel Appleton – Merchant, Politician, Philanthropist
Geoffrey Arend – Actor
Louis Armstrong – Musician (Contested: The Louis Armstrong Museum states he had no children, but in 2012 Sharon Preston-Folta has claimed to be his daughter from Lucille “Sweets” Preston, a dancer at the New York Cotton Club)
Boris Artzybasheff – Artist
Dorothy Arzner – Film Director
Dr. Robert C. Atkins – Diet Doctor, Author, Creator of the Atkins Diet
V.C. Andrews – Author
Jane Austen – Author
Max Baer Jr. – Actor
Francis Bacon – Politician, Philosopher, Scientist
Florence Bailey – Author, Naturalist, Ornithologist
George Balanchine – Ballet Choreographer
Tallulah Bankhead – Actress
Abdullah al-Baradouni – Yemeni Poet
Bob Barker – Game Show Host
Joe Barr – Canadian Politician
Lynda Barry – Cartoonist
Clara Barton – Nurse, Humanitarian, Founder and First President of the American Red Cross
Kathy Bates – Actress
Jaya Battacharya – Actress
King Baudouin – King of Belgium
Simone de Beauvoir – Author
Samuel Beckett – Author, Playwright, Poet
Ludwig Van Beethoven – Composer
Joe Besser – Actor
Isabella Bird – Explorer, Author
Jacqueline Bisset – Actress
Lewis Black – Comedian
Eubie Blake – Musician, Composer
William Blake – Artist
Brenda Blethyn – Actress
Marc Blitzstein – Composer, Dramatist
Baroness Karen Blixen – Author
Rosa Bonheur – French Painter and Sculptor
Pierre Bonnard – Artist
William Edgar Borah – Politician
Lara Flynn Boyle – Actress
Susan Boyle – Singer
Georges Brassens – Singer
Enya Patricia Brennan aka Enya – Musician
Alison Brie – Actress
Joe Bob Briggs aka John Bloom – Author, Movie Critic
Raymond Briggs – Children’s Book Author
Poppy Z. Brite – Author
Anne Brontë – Author
Charlotte Brontë – Author
Louise Brooks – Actress
Helen Gurley Brown – Feminist, Editor (Cosmopolitan)
Reno Browne – Actress, Equestrian
Delta Burke – Actress
Kathy Burke – Actress, Comedian
Pat Buchanan – Politician, Presidential Candidate
James Burke – Creator of the BBC & PBS Series “Connections”, Scientific American columnist
Raymond Burr – Actor
Caryl Lee Burroughs – Hollywood Animal Trainer
Leo Buscaglia – Author
Brett Butler – Actress, Comedian
Robin Miriam Carlsson aka Robyn – Singer
Phyllis Carlyle – Film Producer
Dora Carrington – Bloomsbury Artist
Laura Carroll – Author
Mary Casatt – Artist
Roger Casement – Irish Patriot
Nina Cassian – Poet
Barbara Castle – British Politician
Kim Cattrall – Actress
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Singer, Songwriter
Rosamond Halsey Carr – Founder of Rwanda’s Imbabazi Orphanage, Author, Fashion Designer
Richard Chamberlain – Actor
Coco Chanel – Fashion Designer (Contested: Following her elder sister’s suicide, she looked after her son)
Stockard Channing – Actress
Charles II of Spain – King of Spain
Tracy Chapman – Musician
RuPaul Andre Charles – Drag Performer, TV Personality
Judy Chicago – Artist
Margaret Cho – Comedian
Julia Child – Professional Chef, Cookbook Author
Helen Clark – New Zealand Prime Minister
Patricia Clarkson – Actress
Dorothy Clewes – Children’s Book Author
Imogene Coca – Actress
Claudette Colbert – Actress
Billy Collins – U.S. Poet Laureate
Carlo Collodi – Author
Frances Conroy – Actress
Storm Constantine – Fantasy Writer
Jill Ker Conway – Author, first woman President of Smith College
Anne Cools – Canadian Senator
Pat Coombs – Actress
Nicolaus Copernicus – Scientist
John Corbett – Actor
Joseph Cornell – Artist and Creator of the Cornell Box
Ann Coulter – Political Commentator
Alec Sadler & Grace Craig – Australian Politician, Philanthropist
Quentin Crisp – Author, Actor
Tim Curry – Actor
Charlotte Curtis – Journalist, Columnist, Editor at The New York Times
Patrika Darbo – Actress
Mahmoud Darwish – Palestinian Poet
Leonardo Da Vinci – Artist
Gray Davis – Governor of California
Ellen Degeneres – Comedian
Jeffery Deaver – Author
Eugene Victor Debs – Activist
Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany)
Dana Delany – Actress
Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany – Civil Rights Pioneer, Author (Sister of Annie Elizabeth “Bessie” Delany)
Don DeLillo – Author
Del Rubio Triplets (Edith Bolling Boyd, Elena Rolfe Boyd, Mildred Stuart Boyd) – Musical Group
Bo Derek – Actress
Rene Descartes – Philosopher
Portia De Rossi – Actress
Leonardo DiCaprio – Actor
Emily Dickinson – Poet
Benjamin Disraeli – Politician, Author
Steve Ditko – Cartoonist, Co-Creator of the Spider-Man Comics
Dorothea Dix – Educator, Writer, Philanthropist
Tamara Dobson – Actress
Richard Donner – Film Director
Lauren Shuler Donner – Film Producer
Lizzie Douglas aka Memphis Minnie- Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter
Marjory Stoneman Douglas – Environmentalist, Founder of Friends of the Everglades
Maureen Dowd – Columnist, Pulitzer Prize winner
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet – Founder of Downing College, Cambridge, England
Sir Jacob Gorman Downing, 4th Baronet (Margaret Price, Wife) – Baronet and Politician
Aimee Anne Duffy aka Duffy – Musician
Gabriel Dumont – Native American Tribal Leader (Métis)
Lena Dunham – Actress, Director, Producer
Francis Drake – Explorer
Fran Drescher – Actress
Esther Dyson – Journalist, Author, Businesswoman, Commentator, Philanthropist
Amelia Earhart – Aviator
Deborah Eisenberg – Author
Liubov Egorova – Dancer
Anita Ekberg – Actress
T.S. Eliot – Poet
Havelock Ellis – Psychologist, Author
Tracee Ellis Ross – Actress
Harlan Ellison – Author
Elizabeth I – Queen of England
Joan Elm – Canadian Politician, Community Activist
Bonnie Erbé – PBS Commentator and Columnist
Dame Edith Evans – British Film and Stage Actress
Linda Evans – Actress
Rupert Everett – Actor
Anne Ewers – CEO of the Utah Symphony & Opera
Jane Fallon – Author
Chow Yun-Fat – Actor
Barbara Feldon – Actress
Pamelyn Ferdin – Actress
Ralph Fiennes – Actor
Lynn Fontanne – Actress
Margot Fonteyn – British Ballerina
Juliana Rieser Force – Whitney Museum Director
Richard Ford – Author, Editor of Granta
Margaretta Forten – Abolitionist
Dian Fossey – Primatologist, Conservationist
Janet Frame – Poet
Felix Frankfurter – Supreme Court Justice
Tanya Franks – Actress
William Frawley – Actor
Frank Frazetta – Artist
Alice Freeman – First woman to be President of a liberal arts college, (Wellesley), helped establish the University of Chicago.
Elsie Freund – Artist, Jewelry Designer
Louis Freund – Artist
Robert Fripp – Composer, Musician
Stephen Fry – Actor, Comedian
Eva Gabor – Actress
Magda Gabor – Actress
Maxwell Gage – Noted New Zealand Geologist
Diamanda Galas – Singer
Tess Gallagher – Author
Paul William Gallico – Author
Janeane Garofalo – Actress, Comedian
Greta Garbo – Actress
Ava Gardner – Actress
Henry Garfiled aka Henry Rollins – Musician (Black Flag, Rollins Band)
Greer Garson – Actress
Gloria Gaynor – Singer
Anthony Geary – Soap Opera Actor
Marie-Sophie Germain aka Auguste Antoine Le Blanc – Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga – Singer
Ricky Gervais – Comedian
Beth Gibbons – Singer (Portishead)
Althea Gibson – Athlete
William Schwenck Gilbert – Composer for Gilbert & Sullivan
Dorothy Gish – Actress
Lillian Gish – Actress
Katharine Bruce Glasier – Author
Susan Glaspell – Playwright
Sharon Gless – Actress
Crispin Glover – Actor
Christoph Willibald Gluck – Composer
Paulette Goddard – Actress
Robert Hutchings Goddard – Physicist
Kurt Godel – Author
Alexander Godunov – Actor, Dancer
Alison Goldfrapp – Musician (Goldfrapp)
Stephen Goldin – Author
Emma Goldman – Activist, Feminist
Valeria Golino – Actress
Jan Goodwin – Author, Travel Writer
Edward Gorey – Artist
Lotte Goslar – Dancer
Lauren Graham – Actress (Contested – Her long-term partner has a child.)
Martha Graham – Choreographer
Cecil Green – Former CEO of Texas Instruments, Philanthropist
Johnny Green – Musician
Gael Greene – Food Critic, Author
Baroness Susan Greenfield – Director of the Royal Institution, Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University, Neurologist
John Robert Gregg – Inventor of the Gregg Shorthand Method, Publisher
Joyce Grenfell – British Actress
Nanci Griffith – Singer, Songwriter
Martha Griffiths – First Female Michigan Lieutenant Governor
Terry Gross – NPR Host
James Grout – Actor
Mabel Dole Haden – Former President of NABWA
Catherine Hakim – British Sociologist
Daryl Hall – Singer, Musician (Hall & Oates)
Lewis Hamilton – Race Care Driver
Jon Hamm – Actor
Celia Hammond – Former Model and Animal Activist
Lionel Hampton – Musician
Georg Friedrich Handel – Composer
Chelsea Handler – Comedian
Howard Harold Hanson – Pulitzer-Prize Winning Composer
Setsuko Hara – Japanese Actress
Warren Gamaliel Harding – 29th U.S. President
E Chambré Hardman – Photographer
Jean Harlow – Actress
Debbie Harry – Singer (Blondie)
Polly Jean “PJ” Harvey – Musician
Darren Hayes – Singer, Songwriter (Savage Garden)
Alex Heard – Author
Sir Edward Heath – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Susan Helms – Astronaut
Christina Hendricks – Actress, Model
Adrian Henri – Poet, Painter
Marguerite Henry – Children’s Book Author
Katherine Hepburn – Actress
Milton S. Hershey – Founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company
Lorena Hickok – AP Political Reporter
Taiko Hirabayashi – Author
Nicole Hollander – Cartoonist
Thelma Holt – Actress, Theatre Producer
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (USA)
Grace Murray Hopper – Computer Scientist
Niall Horan – Singer (One Direction)
Rima Horton – Politician
Soad Hosni – Egyptian Actress
Lila Kedrova Howard – Actress
Mick Hucknall – Singer
Howard Hughes – American Business Magnate, Investor, Pilot, Engineer, Film Director, Philanthropist
Bonnie Hunt – Actress
Kristin Hunter – Children’s Book Author
Lauren Hutton – Actress, Model
Patricia Ireland – President of the National Organization for Women, NOW
George J. Irbe – Creator of the Great Lakes water temperature climatology
Satoru Iwata – 4th President and CEO of Nintendo
John A. “Jack” Jackson – Philanthropist, Oilman
Tove Jansson – Children’s Book Author
Randall Jarrell – Poet
Anna Jarvis – the “Founder of Mother’s Day”
Joan of Arc – Christian Saint
Jack Johnson – First African-American to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world.
Margaret Johnston – Actress
Martin and Osa Johnson – Authors, Photographers, explorers, and naturalists.
Richard Mentor Johnson – U.S. Vice-President
Samuel Johnson – Author, Editor
William Hugh Johnston – Labor Leader
Carolyn Jones – Actress
Renee Jones – Actress
Spike Jonze – Film Director
Ashley Judd – Actress, Activist
Madeline Kahn – Actress
Immanuel Kant – Philosopher
Julie Kavner – Actress
Nikos Kazantzakis – Author
Odette Keene – Musician
Helen Keller – Author
Joyce Kennard – Judge
Joe Kernan – Politician
Maynard Keynes – Economist, Founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet, Financed the Arts Theatre in Cambridge, England
William Lyon MacKenzie King – Former Canadian Prime Minister
William Rufus King – U.S. Vice-President
Robert Kiyosaki – Author
Caroline Knapp – Author
Aleksandra Kollontai – Author
Dean Koontz – Author
Tadeusz Kościuszko – Polish Patriot
Jerzy Kosinski – Author
Jonathan Kozol – Author, Activist
Lee Krasner – Artist
Albert Kroc – Co-Developer of McDonald’s Fast Food Chain
Henry Richardson Labouisse – Diplomat, Former Head of UNICEF
Karl Lagerfeld – Fashion Designer
Princess Lakshmi – Indian Princess
Elsa Lanchester – Actress
Philip Larkin – Author, Poet
Charles Laughton – Actor, Director
Dan Lauria – Actor
Frank John Lausche – Politician
Tom Lehrer – Singer, Musician
Jay Leno – TV Host
Richard Lewis – Comedian
Lyn Lifshin – Poet
Queen Liliuokalani – Queen of Hawaii
Siân Lloyd – Weather Broadcaster
Carole Lombard – Actress
Jack Lord – Actor
Pauline Lord – Actress
Patty Loveless – Singer
Alfred Lunt – Actor
John Lyon – Philanthropist, Regarded as the Founder of The Great Public School Of Harrow
Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart – Musician
Rose McClendon – Actress
Barbara McClintock – Scientest (Cytogeneticist)
Robert McCormick – Former Owner of the Chicago Tribune
Mary Jackson McCrorey – Politician, Activist
Hattie McDaniel – Actress
Roddy McDowall – Actor, Photographer
Odd McIntyre – Newspaper Columnist
Ian McKellen – Actor
Kristy McNichol – Actress
Janet McTeer – Actress
Christine McVie – Singer, Songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
Dora Maar – Photographer
René Magritte – Artist
Bill Maher – TV Personality
Katherine Mansfield – Author
Shirley Manson – Singer
Vito Anthony Marcantonio – Politician
Francesca Marciano – Actress
Miriam Margoyles – Actress
Mary Ellen Mark – Award-Winning Photographer
Bobbie Ann Mason – Children’s Book Author
Mari Matsunaga – Creator of i-mode, Named One of the Top 25 Tech Women of the Web
James Clerk Maxwell – Scientist (Electromagnetism, Maxwell’s equations, proof that speed of light is a constant in all reference frames, earliest groundwork for relativity theory)
Theresa May – Politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Giuseppe Mazzini – Italian Patriot
Fradique de Menezes – President of Sao Tome and Principe
Melina Mercouri – Greek Actress
Freddie Mercury – Musician
Angela Merkel – German Chancellor
George Michael – Musician
Oscar Micheaux – Film Director, Producer, Author
Edna St. Vincent Millay – Poet
Alley Mills – Actress
Brenda Milner – Renowned Professor of Neuro-Psychology: Mcgill’s Faculty Of Medicine And At The Montreal Neurological Institute
Kylie Minogue – Singer
Helen Mirren – Actress
Margaret Mitchell – Author
Eugenio Montale – Nobel Prize Winner, Poet, Author, Editor, Translator
Vicki Moore – Spanish Animal Rights Philanthropist
John Morgan – Founder of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and Medical Director of the Continental Army
Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson) – Author
Morrissey – Musician
Rob Morse – Columnist (San Francisco Chronicle)
Marjorie “Mo” Mowlam – Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
John Mulaney – Comedian
Annamarie Tendler Mulaney – Artist
Diana Muldaur – Actress
Megan Mullally – Actress
Jan Munroe – Actor
Ona Munson – Actress
Leilani Münter – Race Car Driver, Environmental Activist
Haruki Murakami – Author
Iris Murdoch – Author
Mikayil Mushfig – Poet
Modest Mussorgsky – Composer
Kanagarajah Muthiah – Tamil Activist
Ralph Nader – Activist
Taslima Nasrin – Author
Alla Nazimova – Actress
Noel Neill – Actress
Bebe Neuwirth – Actress
Sir Isaac Newton – Scientist
Stevie Nicks – Singer (Fleetwood Mac)
Friedrich Nietzsche – Philosopher
Florence Nightingale – Nurse
Emmy Noether – Mathematician (Noether’s theorem, theory of algebraic rings)
Ursula Nordstrom – Children’s Book Editor
Jessye Norman – Opera Singer
Kim Novak – Actress
Rudolph Nureyev – Dancer
Anita O’Day – Jazz Singer
Georgia O’Keeffe – Artist
Frederick D. O’Neal – Actor, Playwright
Joyce Carol Oates – Author
Nick Offerman – Actor
Sandra Oh – Actress
Claire Parker – Director, Animator
Dorothy Parker – Author
Suzanne-Lori Parks – Playwright
Rosa Parks – Activist
Dolly Parton – Singer, Actress
Julia Pascal – Playwright
Ann Patchett – Author
Alicia Patterson – Editor
Wolfgang Pauli – Physicist
Linus Pauling – Winner of Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Peace
Sarah Paulson – Actress
Michelle Paver – Author
Anna Pavlova – Dancer
Molly Peacock – Poet, President Emerita of the Poetry Society of America
Minnie Pearl – Singer
Samuel Pepys – Author
Matthew Perry – Actor
Bernadette Peters – Actress
Jean Peters – Actress
Arthur Phillip – First British Administrator Sent to Australia
Wendell Phillips – Orator and Reformer
William Phillips – Co-founder and Editor of Partisan Review , Writer, Critic
Marge Piercy – Author, Poet
Plato – Philosopher
Martha Plimpton – Actress
Edgar Allan Poe – Author
Jackson Pollock – Artist
Katherine Ann Porter – Author
Parker Posey – Actress
Beatrix Potter – Children’s Book Author
Charles Edward Potter – Politician, Philanthropist, Administrator of the Cheboygan County Bureau of Social Aid
Joyce Purnick – Former New York Times Metro Editor, Journalist
Edna Purviance – Silent Movie Actress
Sara Keirsten Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Tegan Rain Quin – Musician, Songwriter (Tegan and Sara)
Colin Quinn – Comedian
Robin Quivers – Radio Host
Daniel Radcliffe -Actor
Raffi – Children’s Musician
Bonnie Raitt – Singer, Songwriter
Joey Ramone – Musician
Ayn Rand – Writer, Philosopher, Author
A. Philip Randolph – Politician
Jeanette Rankin – 1st Female US Representative
Man Ray – Artist
Rachel Ray – Celebrity Chef
Lou Reed – Singer, Musician
George Reeves – Actor
Frances Reid – Actress
Leni Riefenstahl – Filmmaker
Janet Reno – Former U.S. Attorney-General
Judith Resnick – Astronaut
Jennifer Rhodes – Actress
Condoleezza Rice – National Security Advisor
Cliff Richards – Musician
Miranda Richardson – Actress
Alan Rickman – Actor, Director
Elizabeth Riddell – Journalist
Sally Ride – First American Female Astronaut
Bridget Riley – Artist
John Ringling – Founder of Ringling Brothers Circus
Mary Roach – Author
Morgan Andrew Robertson – Author
Debbie Rochon – Actress
Norman Perceval Rockwell – Illustrator
Eric Rohmann – Author, Winner of the 2003 Caldecott Medal for Best Illustrated Children’s Book
Ginger Rogers – Actress
Richard Roeper – Film Reviewer, Chicago Sun-Times
Wilhelm Rontgen – Awarded the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901, discoverer of X-Rays
William Bruce Rose Jr. aka Axl Rose – Musician (Guns N’ Roses)
Mickey Rourke – Actor, Boxer
Patricia Routledge – Actress
Joan Ruddock – Activist
John Ruskin – Author
Winona Ryder – Actress
Yves Saint-Laurent – Fashion Designer
Hironobu Sakaguchi – Video Game Designer/Producer, Creator of the Final Fantasy Series
Dr. Lee Salk – Child Psychologist
Renu Saluja – Indian Film Editor
Diana Sands – Actress
Aligi Sassu – Artist
Dame Cicely Saunders – Nurse, Social Worker, Physician and Writer. Major Contributor to the Hospice Movement
John Sayles – Director
Jean-Paul Sartre – Existential Philosopher
Diane Sawyer – TV News Anchor
Rosika Schwimmer – Author, Activist
Ed and Thelma Schoenberger – Co-founders of the Indiana Flower & Patio Show
Ellen Browning Scripps – Newspaper Columnist, Philanthropist
Joel Schumacher – Film Director
David Sedaris – Humorist, Comedian, Author
Maurice Sendak – Children’s Book Author
George Bernard Shaw – Playwright
Lionel Shriver – Author
Sarah Silverman – Comedian, Actress
Wallis Simpson – Duchess of Windsor
Michael Sinelnikoff – Actor
Siouxsie – Singer, Musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees)
Robert Smith – Singer, Musician (The Cure)
David Shogren – Bassist (Doobie Brothers)
Betty Smith – Author
Dodie Smith – Playwright, Author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Gladys Louise Smith aka Mary Pickford – Actress, Producer, Screenwriter, Businesswoman
Howard Worth Smith – Politician
Kate Smith – Singer
Lemony Snicket (Real Name: Daniel Handler) – Children’s Book Author
David Souter – Supreme Court Justice
Jill St. John – Actress
Richard Stallman – Computer Programmer, Activist (Free software movement and GNU/Linux advocate)
Mabel Stark – Female Tiger Trainer
Gertrude Stein – Author, Patron of the Arts
Victor Strauss – WWII Journalist
Gloria Steinem – Activist, Writer
Maria W. Stewart – Author, Activist
Lily Strickland – Composer, Writer, Artist
Harry Styles – Singer (One Direction)
Patrick Swayze – Actor
Loretta Swit – Actress
Henrietta Szold – Holocaust Heroine
Wislawa Szymborska – Nobel Prize Winning Poet
Amy Tan – Writer, Author
Sara Teasdale – Poet
Neil Tennant – Musician (Pet Shop Boys)
Toni Tennille – Singer (Captain and Tennille)
Princess María Teresa of Bourbon-Parma – French-Spanish Political Activist and Academic
Nikola Tesla – Scientist, Inventor
Theodora – Empress and wife of Justinian I
Susanna Thompson – Actress
Georgianne Thon – Actress
M. Carey Thomas – President of Bryn Mawr College
Willie Mae Thornton – Singer, Songwriter
Maura Tierney – Actress
Jennifer Tilly – Actress
Wendy Tokunaga – Author
Marisa Tomei – Actress
Lily Tomlin – Actress, Playwright
Alan Turing – Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Ann Turkel – Model
Randy Travis – Singer
Maxine Trump – Film Producer, Director
Edward Tylor – Anthropologist
Nobuo Uematsu – Composer, wrote the music for most of the Final Fantasy series)
Andrew Vachss – Novelist
Vincent Van Gogh – Artist
Vivian Vance – Actress
Zebulon Baird Vance – Politician
Luthur Vandross – Singer
Ann Van Dyk – Cheetah Preservationist
Reginald VelJohnson – Actor
Mariska Veres – Singer (The Shocking Blue)
Amerigo Vespucci – Merchant, explorer, cartographer
Carl Vinson – Politician
Monica Vitti – Actress
Larry Wachowski – Film Director
Christopher Walken – Actor
Bob Wallace – Computer Shareware Pioneer, Philanthropist, Founding Employee of Microsoft
Nina Wang – Was Asia’s richest woman, with an estimated net worth of $4.2 billion USD at the time of her death
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward – Author
Brian Warner aka Marilyn Manson – Musician
Ethel Waters – Actress, Evangelist, Singer
John Waters – Director
Alberta Watson – Canadian Actress
Emma Watson – Actress & Women’s Rights Activist
Dawn Wells – Actress
Eudora Welty – Author
Mae West – Actress, Comedian
Edith Wharton – Author
Raymond Milner Wheeler – Civil Rights Activist
Alan Whicker – TV Host, Documentarian
Baroness White – Former UK Labour Government Minister
Betty White – Actress
Margaret Bourke-White – Photographer
Sarah Helen Power Whitman – Poet, Essayist, Transcendentalist
Walt Whitman – Poet
Richard (Dick) Whittington – Philanthropist
Ann Widdecombe – UK Member of Parliament
Toyah Wilcox – Punk Rocker, Activist
Thornton Wilder – Playwright
William III & Mary II of England – King & Queen of England, Ireland, and Scotland
Barry Williams – Actor
Lucinda Williams – Musician
Wendy O. Williams – Singer (The Plasmatic)
August Wilson – Pulizer Prize Winning Playwright
Bill W. (Wilson) – Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
Rebel Wilson – Actress
Barbara Windsor – Actress
Amy Winehouse – Singer, Songwriter
Edgar Winter – Musician
Jeanette Winterson – Author
Estelle Winwood – English Actress
Kim Woodburn – Co-Star of TV Cleaning Duo Kim and Aggie
Robert Winship Woodruff – Former CEO of Coca Cola, Philanthropist
Leonard Woolf – Political theorist and Author
Virginia Woolf – Author
Orville Wright – Aviator
Stephen J. Wright – College President (Fisk University)
Wilbur Wright – Aviator
Yanni – Composer
Dwight Yokam – Singer, Actor
Marguerite Yourcenar – Author, First Woman To Be Elected To The Academie Francaise
David Young – Almanac Maker, Astronomer, Poet
Will Young – Singer, Songwriter, Actor
YuPen – Chinese Actor, Singer
Babe Didrikson Zaharias – Olympic Athlete
Renee Zellweger – Actress
Stephanie Zimbalist – Actress
Émile Zola – Author
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