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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

Anita Hill – American Lawyer and Academic

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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

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

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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