Childfree Icons

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