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
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
Louise Beavers – American Film and Television Actress
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
Robert Bartleh Cummings (a.k.a. Rob Zombie) – American Singer, Songwriter, Filmmaker, and Voice 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
Vivica Anjanetta Fox – American Actress, Producer and Television Host
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)
Regina Lee Hall – American Actress
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
Swoosie Kurtz – Actress
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 – American Actress, Singer-Songwriter, and Comedian
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
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
Rosie Perez – American Actress, Choreographer and Community Activist
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)
Sheri Lyn Skurkis (a.k.a. Sheri Moon Zombie) – American Actress, Model, Dancer and Fashion Designer
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
Octavia Lenora Spencer – American Actress, Author, and Producer
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
Annamarie Tendler – Artist (Makeup and Hairstyling as well as Textile Crafts)
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
TBD
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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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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