Famous Bisexuals In History--and people whose love life/sexual history includes more than one gender
List compiled by Sheela Lambert * * * * Over 200 listings
1. Christina Aguilera - singer (out, quoted Advocate March 16, 2004 p.10)
2. Alvin Ailey - choreographer/dancer (autobio Revelations
3. Pharaoh Akhenaten - married to Queen Nefertiti (disputed,W)
4. Alexander The Great*
5. Michael Alig - party promoter/club kid/murderer (subject of movie Party Monster)
6. Krista Allen - actress (out, W)
7. Peter Allen - singer/songwriter, Liza’s former husband and subject of Broadway show: The Boy From Oz (out, see lyrics to song Bi Coastal)
8. Jonathan Ames - former NYPress columnist, Guggenheim fellowship author of Wake Up Sir, The Extra Man, I Pass Like Night, editor Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. (writes about sex with women, men and male to female transsexuals)
9. Brett Anderson - lead singer of British group Suede (wrote song entitled Bi)
10. Susan B. Anthony - activist*
11. Greg Araki - film maker:Nowhere, The Living End, Totally F***ed Up (out)
12. Billie Joe Armstrong - lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Green Day (out, Advocate Jan 24, 1995)
13. Saint Augustine - theologian*
14. Richard Avedon - photographer (W)
15. Joan Baez - singer/songwriter (autobio)
16. Josephine Baker - singer, actress, dancer
17. Tallulah Bankhead - actress (bio by David Bret)
18. Djuna Barnes - writer (bio by Phillip Herring)
19. Drew Barrymoore - actress/producer (out)
20. Cecil Beaton - photographer/set & costume designer (bio by Hugo Vickers)
21. Simone de Beauvoir - writer/feminist
22. Sandra Bernhard - comedian, entertainer (out)
23. Sarah Bernhardt - stage actress*
24. Leonard Bernstein - conductor/composer
25. Amy Bloom - author (out)
26. David Bowie - singer, actor (autobio of wife Angela Bowie)
27. Angela Bowie - author, ex-wife of David Bowie (autobio)
28. Paul Bowles - writer, composer*
29. Marlon Brando - actor
30. Susie Bright - author/sexpert (out)
31. Louise Brooks - actress (bio by Barry Paris)
32. Romaine Brooks - painter (W)
33. Gioia Bruno - singer, formerly of the 80’s pop group Expose (out)
34. Bryher - poet*
35. President James Buchanan (maybe, Sex Lives of the Presidents by Nigel Cawthorne)
36. William S. Burroughs - beat writer (out, see autobio Naked Lunch)
37. Richard Burton - actor (maybe)*
38. Lord Byron - poet*
39. Julius Caesar - Emperor* (Julius Caesar's sexual escapades were such that according to Suetonius the elder Curio, in one of his speeches called him "every woman's man and every man's woman.")
40. Patrick (formerly Pat) Califia - writer (out)
41. Nell Carter - actress Gimme a Break (People Magazine 2/20/2003)
42. Dora Carrington - painter (bio by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina))
43. John Cheever - writer* (autobio/BB)
44. Margaret Cho - comedienne/actress (out)
45. Jan Claussen - author
46. Jean Cocteau - french writer & filmmaker: Beauty and the Beast (W)
47. Claudette Colbert - actress (Wisecracker by William J. Mann)
48. Colette - novelist, actress*
49. Gary Cooper - actor (Wisecracker by William J. Mann)
50. Katherine Cornell - actress*
51. Joan Crawford - actress (Hollywood Lesbians by Boze Hadleigh)
52. Countee Cullen - poet (library named after him in Harlem)*
53. Alan Cumming - actor (out)
54. Montgomery Clift - actor (bio by Patricia Bosworth)
55. Kurt Cobain - singer/songwriter of Nirvana (out)
56. Stephen Daldry - director of The Hours (out)
57. Ram Dass - spiritual teacher, author of Be Here Now (out, Gay Soul 1994)
58. Dave Davies - guitarist The Kinks (autobio Kink,W)
59. James Dean - actor (bio by Donald Spoto)
60. Andy Dick - actor (out)
61. Emily Dickinson - poet*
62. Marlene Dietrich - actress (bio by Donald Spoto, The Girls by McLellan)
63. Ani DiFranco - singer/songwriter (out)
64. Barry Diller - media mogul (formerly known as gay, now married to Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer)
65. Diane Di Prima - beat poet/writer (autobio)
66. Stephen Donaldson (Donny the Punk) - activist, punk rocker (out) Founded the first LGBT rights student group: the Student Homophile League (SHL) at Columbia University in 1966 and founded the group Stop Prison Rape after being raped in prison.
67. Lord Alfred Douglas, “Bosie” - poet, lover of Oscar Wilde (W, also see Natalie Barney listing)
68. Isadora Duncan - dancer (multi bio The Girls by McLellan)
69. Brett Easton Ellis - writer: Less Than Zero, American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction. (In his novel Lunar Park the main character named Brett Easton Ellis has “numerous affairs w/both sexes.” A characteristic shared by the author according to Time 8/22/05.)
70. Havelock Ellis - early sexologist*
71. Eric Emerson - Warhol film star (“He was coming on to everybody. He had about 5 illegitimate children, … and 100 boyfriends. He was very busy.”, Styles Caldwell, co-star in Jackie Curtis play Vain Victory, interviewed in Superstar in a Housedress, doc on Jackie Curtis.)
72. Marianne Faithfull - singer (autobio)
73. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje' (formerly Elias Farajaje-Jones) - bi activist, administrator and professor Starr King School of the Ministry (out)
74. Perry Farrell - frontman Jane’s Addiction, created Lollapalooza (out)
75. Michael Feinstein - pianist/singer (out)
76. Errol Flynn - actor*
77. Tom Ford - designer (has publicly dated males and females)
78. Jodie Foster - actress/director (bio by brother Buddy Foster)
79. Margaret Fuller - early feminist*
80. Mary Gaitskill - author: Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, Secretary
81. Judy Garland - actress/singer (bio by Clarke)
82. Greta Garbo - actress (multi-bio The Girls by McLellan, bio by Swenson)
83. President James Garfield (maybe, Sex Lives of the Presidents by Cawthorne)
84. Nan Goldin - photographer (out)
85. Emma Goldman - author, feminist, activist (The Girls by Diana McLellan)
86. Cary Grant - actor (bio by Higham and Mosely)
87. Merv Griffin - talk show host, owner many TV game shows (most likely, NY Times article 5/29/05: “I tell everybody I’m a quarter-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.”)
88. William Haines - silent film star/interior designer (bio by William J. Mann)
89. Wallace Hamilton - writer/playwright (memoir Christopher and Gay)
90. Mildred Harris - actress, wife of Charlie Chaplin (The Girls by McLellan)
91. Moss Hart - writer/director
92. Sophie B. Hawkins - singer/songwriter (out)
93. Anne Heche - actress, Ellen Degeneres' ex-girlfriend (autobio, out)
94. Nona Hendryx - singer LaBelle (out)
95. Katherine Hepburn - actress (most likely, bio Katherine Hepburn: The Untold Story)
96. Elaine Holliman - film maker (Chicks In White Satin, out)
97. Laurel Holloman - actress (The L Word, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love, Angel, out)
98. Billie Holliday - singer (bio by John Chilton)
99. Brenda Howard - bi & gay rights activist who co-organized first marches commemorating Stonewall in 1969 & 1970 and countless marches and demonstrations thereafter for LGBT rights as well as other causes, one of the original founders of New York Area Bisexual Network in 1987 she continued to help run NYABN until her death from cancer June 2005. (out)
100. Michael Huffington - oil millionaire, US Congressman, ex-husband of Arianna Huffington (came out in Esquire Jan 99 article by David Brock, later qualified he is bisexual-not gay)
101. Langston Hughes - poet*
102. Simon Hughes - President of Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party (out, Britain’s The Sun newspaper 1/26/06, widely reported in all UK press after)
103. Loraine Hutchins - bi activist, author, sexuality educator, recipient of 2005 award from The Task Force
104. Patricia Ireland - former President of NOW (out)
105. Mick Jagger - singer (autobio by Angela Bowie wife of lover David Bowie)
106. James I - King of England*
107. Angelina Jolie - actress (out)
108. Grace Jones - singer (out)
109. Janis Joplin - singer*
110. June Jordan - writer, activist (out)
111. Ashley Judd - actress (maybe, said on The View 9/13/05 that she has a crush on k.d. lang and would like to kiss her)
112. Lani Ka’ahumanu - bi activist, author, safer sex program director Grand Marshall of San Francisco 1994 Pride March
113. Frida Kahlo - artist (bio by Hayden Herera, movie Frida)
114. Danny Kaye - entertainer (bio of lover Lawrence Olivier by Spoto)
115. Jack Kerouac - beat writer (out)
116. John Maynard Keynes - economist*
117. Billie Jean King -- tennis pro*
118. Dr. Alfred Kinsey - sex researcher (film Kinsey, 2004)
119. Dr. Fritz Klein - psychiatrist, author, inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, bi activist
120. Eva La Gallienne - actress (multibio The Girls by Diana McLellan)
121. Heddy Lamarr - actress (memoir Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman)
122. D. H. Lawrence - author
123. Lotte Lenya - actress/singer, wife of Kurt Weill (bio by Donald Spoto)
124. President Abraham Lincoln - (The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C. A. Tripp *see Introduction, Sex Lives of the Presidents by Nigel Cawthorne))
125. Lindsay Lohan - actress, maybe (At a 2005 movie premiere when asked about her stated crush on Brad Pitt she said "Well, he's beautiful. But I've got more of a crush on Angelina (Jolie), though, than Brad," Lindsay laughed. "I'm infatuated with Angelina…And she's sexy as hell.")
126. Rebecca Loos - british TV personality and former girlfriend of David Beckham (out, New Magazine, LOGO TV)
127. Phillip of Macedon - King*
128. Madonna - singer (is she more than a “media bisexual?” who cares! she certainly has gotten bisexuality media attention.)
129. Maria Maggenti - film maker (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love, Puccini for Beginners, out)
130. Thomas Mann - novelist*
131. Evelyn Mantilla - Connecticut State Representative (out)
132. Princess Margaret - (British ITV documentary reported her 2 yr. affair w/American socialite Sharman Douglass who confirmed relationship, see ezresult.com)
133. Ricky Martin - singer (semi-out, see Barbara Walters interview)
134. W. Somerset Maugham - novelist*
135. Carson McCullers - author*
136. Rep. Stuart McKinney (Conn.)*
137. Rod McKuen - poet*
138. Margaret Mead - anthropologist (Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, by Lapsley)
139. Herman Melville - writer (bio by Laurie Robertson-Lorant/BB)
140. Freddy Mercury - lead singer Queen (memoir by lover Tim Hutton)
141. Edna St. Vincent Millay-poet (bio by Nancy Milford)
142. Kate Millet-writer/feminist*
143. June Miller - (novelized autobio Crazy Cock by ex-husband Henry Miller, diaries Henry and June by lover Anais Niin)
144. Anchee Min - author (autobio Red Azalea)
145. Sal Mineo - actor (out, co-starred w/James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause)
146. Vincent Minneli - director, Judy Garland’s husband/Liza’s dad
147. Megan Mullally - actress, “Karen” on Will & Grace (out)
148. Iris Murdock - author (bio by Peter J. Conradi, movie Iris)
149. (Kathy Najimi) - actress (possibly, at GLAAD awards speculating jokingly on why she hasn’t received an award “because I’m not fully gay. Maybe I kissed a few girls along the way...”)
150. John Nash - Nobel laureate in Mathematics (bio A Beautiful Mind)
151. Dave Navarro - guitarist Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction and star of MTV reality series Til Death Do Us Part w/wife Carmen Electra & co-host of Rock Star INXS on CBS (Alex)
152. Alla Nazimova - (bio by Gavin Lambert)
153. Me'shelle Ndegeochello - singer/songwriter (out)
154. Holly Near - singer/songwriter (autobio)
155. Sir Harold Nicolson - writer and diplomat, husband of bi writer Vita Sackville-West (bio by Nigel Nicolson, his son)
156. Vaslav Nijinsky - dancer*
157. Anaïs Nin - author, married and had affairs w/Henry Miller, his wife June and Gore Vidal (diaries Henry and June)
158. Cynthia Nixon - actress (Miranda on Sex and the City, was in 15 yr relationship w/father of her 2 kids, now has a girlfriend)
159. Laura Nyro - singer/songwriter (OUT Sept. 1997)
160. Robyn Ochs - bi activist, author, teaches university course on bisexuality (out)
161. Rosie O’Donnell - entertainer (see p. 73 of memoir Find Me re: love relationship w/man at age 29, note also Tom Cruise crush)
162. Georgia O'Keefe - painter (maybe)
163. Lawrence Olivier - actor (bio by Donald Spoto)
164. Camille Paglia - writer (out)
165. Anthony Perkins - actor (out)
166. Pink - singer (out, 11/21/2003 HX, 12/2003 Out, QTN World News reports UK interview Pink says she had “lesbian lover” at 13 but her brother stole her girlfriend)
167. Tyrone Power - actor*
168. Prince - singer/songwriter/producer (most likely: see lyrics to Controversy, Sexuality, and Jack U Off)
169. Carol Queen - erotic author/editor (out)
170. Gertrude "Ma" Rainey - singer*
171. Lou Reed - songwriter/musician (out)
172. Little Richard - singer/musician (out, autobio)
173. Richard The Lionhearted - King of England (relationship with Philip of France see movie Lion In Winter)
174. Lord Rochester (John Wilmot) - poet (most likely, see poems:The Disabled Debauchee, Upon His Drinking a Bowl)
175. Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady/wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, writer (bio by Blanche Wiesen Cook)
176. Vita Sackville-West - writer (bio by Nigel Nickelson, her son, which includes her diary of her affair w/Violet Trefusis)
177. Rachel Sage - singer-songwriter (out)
178. George Sand - writer (BB)
179. Sappho - ancient greek poet*
180. May Sarton - author (multiple journals/BB)
181. Joel Schumacher - director (lover Liz Smith’s autobio and her 12/5/00 Advocate interview), Guardian Review article: “I’m not hiding anything. But I am totally and completely against labels.”)
182. Randolf Scott - actor (lover Cary Grant’s bio by Higham and Mosely)
183. William Shakespeare - playwrite, poet (see Sonnets)
184. Roy Simmons - pro football player (out, Out Jan 2006, autobio)
185. Skin - Singer (Skunk Anansie) in a British band (Alex)
186. Bessie Smith - singer (bio by Chris Albertson)
187. Liz Smith - gossip columnist (out, Advocate Dec 5 2000, autobio)
188. Socrates - philosopher*
189. Susan Sontag - writer/critic (out)
190. Dusty Springfield - singer (out)
191. Annie Sprinkle - sex educator/performance artist/porn star (out)
192. Starhawk - author/activist (out)
193. Michael Stipe - singer/songwriter REM (out)
194. Jacqueline Susann - writer (Vanity Fair Jan 2000)
195. Tristan Taormino - editor/writer/sexpert (out)
196. Robert Taylor - actor, (bio of wife Barbara Stanwyck by Madsen)
197. Peter Tchaikovsky - composer*
198. Wallace Thurman - writer*
199. Pete Townshend - guitarist, The Who (out/BB)
200. Violet Trefusis- novelist (bio of lover Vita Sackville-West by Nicolson)
201. Tommy Tune - dancer/choreographer/actor (autobio Footnotes)
202. Rudolph Valentino - actor* (Wisecracker by Mann)
203. Paul Verlaine - poet*
204. Gore Vidal - writer, actor (memoir Palimpsest)
205. Salka Viertel - actress, friend of Garbo (The Girls by McLellan)
206. Voltaire - writer*
207. Alice Walker - writer/activist (out)
208. Rebecca Walker - writer, daughter of Alice Walker (out)
209. Walt Whitman - poet (read his poems)
210. Oscar Wilde - author/playwright*
211. Mary Woolstonecraft - writer*
212. Virginia Woolfe - writer(bio of lover Vita Sackville-West by Nicolson)
List compiled by Sheela Lambert. This list has been in existence since 1997. Listings taken from Lavender Lists by Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher and Adrien Saks, published by Alyson are marked with an asterisk*. Listings from Wikipedia are marked W. Listings marked Alex were contributions from Alex Hajnal. For those listed as “out”, google them (type their name in on Google.com) and look up magazine articles/interviews especially in Advocate or Out (this is easier if you also type Advocate or OUT in the search box.) Song lyrics can also be found by googling the artist’s name w/the word “lyrics” or “song lyrics.” All books listed as a source were personally read by Sheela unless marked BB (to order books mentioned try BRC or amazon.com.) Listings marked BB were taken from the Bisexual Biography section of the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC) website/bookstore (check out the site for huge list of bisexual books.) Also thanks to queertheory.com and ezresults.com for leading me to additional sources.
Is there someone who should be on this list but isn't? Let me know but please include a source.
1. Christina Aguilera - singer (out, quoted Advocate March 16, 2004 p.10)
2. Alvin Ailey - choreographer/dancer (autobio Revelations
3. Pharaoh Akhenaten - married to Queen Nefertiti (disputed,W)
4. Alexander The Great*
5. Michael Alig - party promoter/club kid/murderer (subject of movie Party Monster)
6. Krista Allen - actress (out, W)
7. Peter Allen - singer/songwriter, Liza’s former husband and subject of Broadway show: The Boy From Oz (out, see lyrics to song Bi Coastal)
8. Jonathan Ames - former NYPress columnist, Guggenheim fellowship author of Wake Up Sir, The Extra Man, I Pass Like Night, editor Sexual Metamorphosis: An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs. (writes about sex with women, men and male to female transsexuals)
9. Brett Anderson - lead singer of British group Suede (wrote song entitled Bi)
10. Susan B. Anthony - activist*
11. Greg Araki - film maker:Nowhere, The Living End, Totally F***ed Up (out)
12. Billie Joe Armstrong - lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Green Day (out, Advocate Jan 24, 1995)
13. Saint Augustine - theologian*
14. Richard Avedon - photographer (W)
15. Joan Baez - singer/songwriter (autobio)
16. Josephine Baker - singer, actress, dancer
17. Tallulah Bankhead - actress (bio by David Bret)
18. Djuna Barnes - writer (bio by Phillip Herring)
19. Drew Barrymoore - actress/producer (out)
20. Cecil Beaton - photographer/set & costume designer (bio by Hugo Vickers)
21. Simone de Beauvoir - writer/feminist
22. Sandra Bernhard - comedian, entertainer (out)
23. Sarah Bernhardt - stage actress*
24. Leonard Bernstein - conductor/composer
25. Amy Bloom - author (out)
26. David Bowie - singer, actor (autobio of wife Angela Bowie)
27. Angela Bowie - author, ex-wife of David Bowie (autobio)
28. Paul Bowles - writer, composer*
29. Marlon Brando - actor
30. Susie Bright - author/sexpert (out)
31. Louise Brooks - actress (bio by Barry Paris)
32. Romaine Brooks - painter (W)
33. Gioia Bruno - singer, formerly of the 80’s pop group Expose (out)
34. Bryher - poet*
35. President James Buchanan (maybe, Sex Lives of the Presidents by Nigel Cawthorne)
36. William S. Burroughs - beat writer (out, see autobio Naked Lunch)
37. Richard Burton - actor (maybe)*
38. Lord Byron - poet*
39. Julius Caesar - Emperor* (Julius Caesar's sexual escapades were such that according to Suetonius the elder Curio, in one of his speeches called him "every woman's man and every man's woman.")
40. Patrick (formerly Pat) Califia - writer (out)
41. Nell Carter - actress Gimme a Break (People Magazine 2/20/2003)
42. Dora Carrington - painter (bio by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina))
43. John Cheever - writer* (autobio/BB)
44. Margaret Cho - comedienne/actress (out)
45. Jan Claussen - author
46. Jean Cocteau - french writer & filmmaker: Beauty and the Beast (W)
47. Claudette Colbert - actress (Wisecracker by William J. Mann)
48. Colette - novelist, actress*
49. Gary Cooper - actor (Wisecracker by William J. Mann)
50. Katherine Cornell - actress*
51. Joan Crawford - actress (Hollywood Lesbians by Boze Hadleigh)
52. Countee Cullen - poet (library named after him in Harlem)*
53. Alan Cumming - actor (out)
54. Montgomery Clift - actor (bio by Patricia Bosworth)
55. Kurt Cobain - singer/songwriter of Nirvana (out)
56. Stephen Daldry - director of The Hours (out)
57. Ram Dass - spiritual teacher, author of Be Here Now (out, Gay Soul 1994)
58. Dave Davies - guitarist The Kinks (autobio Kink,W)
59. James Dean - actor (bio by Donald Spoto)
60. Andy Dick - actor (out)
61. Emily Dickinson - poet*
62. Marlene Dietrich - actress (bio by Donald Spoto, The Girls by McLellan)
63. Ani DiFranco - singer/songwriter (out)
64. Barry Diller - media mogul (formerly known as gay, now married to Diane von Fürstenberg, fashion designer)
65. Diane Di Prima - beat poet/writer (autobio)
66. Stephen Donaldson (Donny the Punk) - activist, punk rocker (out) Founded the first LGBT rights student group: the Student Homophile League (SHL) at Columbia University in 1966 and founded the group Stop Prison Rape after being raped in prison.
67. Lord Alfred Douglas, “Bosie” - poet, lover of Oscar Wilde (W, also see Natalie Barney listing)
68. Isadora Duncan - dancer (multi bio The Girls by McLellan)
69. Brett Easton Ellis - writer: Less Than Zero, American Psycho, The Rules of Attraction. (In his novel Lunar Park the main character named Brett Easton Ellis has “numerous affairs w/both sexes.” A characteristic shared by the author according to Time 8/22/05.)
70. Havelock Ellis - early sexologist*
71. Eric Emerson - Warhol film star (“He was coming on to everybody. He had about 5 illegitimate children, … and 100 boyfriends. He was very busy.”, Styles Caldwell, co-star in Jackie Curtis play Vain Victory, interviewed in Superstar in a Housedress, doc on Jackie Curtis.)
72. Marianne Faithfull - singer (autobio)
73. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje' (formerly Elias Farajaje-Jones) - bi activist, administrator and professor Starr King School of the Ministry (out)
74. Perry Farrell - frontman Jane’s Addiction, created Lollapalooza (out)
75. Michael Feinstein - pianist/singer (out)
76. Errol Flynn - actor*
77. Tom Ford - designer (has publicly dated males and females)
78. Jodie Foster - actress/director (bio by brother Buddy Foster)
79. Margaret Fuller - early feminist*
80. Mary Gaitskill - author: Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To, Secretary
81. Judy Garland - actress/singer (bio by Clarke)
82. Greta Garbo - actress (multi-bio The Girls by McLellan, bio by Swenson)
83. President James Garfield (maybe, Sex Lives of the Presidents by Cawthorne)
84. Nan Goldin - photographer (out)
85. Emma Goldman - author, feminist, activist (The Girls by Diana McLellan)
86. Cary Grant - actor (bio by Higham and Mosely)
87. Merv Griffin - talk show host, owner many TV game shows (most likely, NY Times article 5/29/05: “I tell everybody I’m a quarter-sexual. I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.”)
88. William Haines - silent film star/interior designer (bio by William J. Mann)
89. Wallace Hamilton - writer/playwright (memoir Christopher and Gay)
90. Mildred Harris - actress, wife of Charlie Chaplin (The Girls by McLellan)
91. Moss Hart - writer/director
92. Sophie B. Hawkins - singer/songwriter (out)
93. Anne Heche - actress, Ellen Degeneres' ex-girlfriend (autobio, out)
94. Nona Hendryx - singer LaBelle (out)
95. Katherine Hepburn - actress (most likely, bio Katherine Hepburn: The Untold Story)
96. Elaine Holliman - film maker (Chicks In White Satin, out)
97. Laurel Holloman - actress (The L Word, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love, Angel, out)
98. Billie Holliday - singer (bio by John Chilton)
99. Brenda Howard - bi & gay rights activist who co-organized first marches commemorating Stonewall in 1969 & 1970 and countless marches and demonstrations thereafter for LGBT rights as well as other causes, one of the original founders of New York Area Bisexual Network in 1987 she continued to help run NYABN until her death from cancer June 2005. (out)
100. Michael Huffington - oil millionaire, US Congressman, ex-husband of Arianna Huffington (came out in Esquire Jan 99 article by David Brock, later qualified he is bisexual-not gay)
101. Langston Hughes - poet*
102. Simon Hughes - President of Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party (out, Britain’s The Sun newspaper 1/26/06, widely reported in all UK press after)
103. Loraine Hutchins - bi activist, author, sexuality educator, recipient of 2005 award from The Task Force
104. Patricia Ireland - former President of NOW (out)
105. Mick Jagger - singer (autobio by Angela Bowie wife of lover David Bowie)
106. James I - King of England*
107. Angelina Jolie - actress (out)
108. Grace Jones - singer (out)
109. Janis Joplin - singer*
110. June Jordan - writer, activist (out)
111. Ashley Judd - actress (maybe, said on The View 9/13/05 that she has a crush on k.d. lang and would like to kiss her)
112. Lani Ka’ahumanu - bi activist, author, safer sex program director Grand Marshall of San Francisco 1994 Pride March
113. Frida Kahlo - artist (bio by Hayden Herera, movie Frida)
114. Danny Kaye - entertainer (bio of lover Lawrence Olivier by Spoto)
115. Jack Kerouac - beat writer (out)
116. John Maynard Keynes - economist*
117. Billie Jean King -- tennis pro*
118. Dr. Alfred Kinsey - sex researcher (film Kinsey, 2004)
119. Dr. Fritz Klein - psychiatrist, author, inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid, bi activist
120. Eva La Gallienne - actress (multibio The Girls by Diana McLellan)
121. Heddy Lamarr - actress (memoir Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman)
122. D. H. Lawrence - author
123. Lotte Lenya - actress/singer, wife of Kurt Weill (bio by Donald Spoto)
124. President Abraham Lincoln - (The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln by C. A. Tripp *see Introduction, Sex Lives of the Presidents by Nigel Cawthorne))
125. Lindsay Lohan - actress, maybe (At a 2005 movie premiere when asked about her stated crush on Brad Pitt she said "Well, he's beautiful. But I've got more of a crush on Angelina (Jolie), though, than Brad," Lindsay laughed. "I'm infatuated with Angelina…And she's sexy as hell.")
126. Rebecca Loos - british TV personality and former girlfriend of David Beckham (out, New Magazine, LOGO TV)
127. Phillip of Macedon - King*
128. Madonna - singer (is she more than a “media bisexual?” who cares! she certainly has gotten bisexuality media attention.)
129. Maria Maggenti - film maker (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love, Puccini for Beginners, out)
130. Thomas Mann - novelist*
131. Evelyn Mantilla - Connecticut State Representative (out)
132. Princess Margaret - (British ITV documentary reported her 2 yr. affair w/American socialite Sharman Douglass who confirmed relationship, see ezresult.com)
133. Ricky Martin - singer (semi-out, see Barbara Walters interview)
134. W. Somerset Maugham - novelist*
135. Carson McCullers - author*
136. Rep. Stuart McKinney (Conn.)*
137. Rod McKuen - poet*
138. Margaret Mead - anthropologist (Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, by Lapsley)
139. Herman Melville - writer (bio by Laurie Robertson-Lorant/BB)
140. Freddy Mercury - lead singer Queen (memoir by lover Tim Hutton)
141. Edna St. Vincent Millay-poet (bio by Nancy Milford)
142. Kate Millet-writer/feminist*
143. June Miller - (novelized autobio Crazy Cock by ex-husband Henry Miller, diaries Henry and June by lover Anais Niin)
144. Anchee Min - author (autobio Red Azalea)
145. Sal Mineo - actor (out, co-starred w/James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause)
146. Vincent Minneli - director, Judy Garland’s husband/Liza’s dad
147. Megan Mullally - actress, “Karen” on Will & Grace (out)
148. Iris Murdock - author (bio by Peter J. Conradi, movie Iris)
149. (Kathy Najimi) - actress (possibly, at GLAAD awards speculating jokingly on why she hasn’t received an award “because I’m not fully gay. Maybe I kissed a few girls along the way...”)
150. John Nash - Nobel laureate in Mathematics (bio A Beautiful Mind)
151. Dave Navarro - guitarist Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane’s Addiction and star of MTV reality series Til Death Do Us Part w/wife Carmen Electra & co-host of Rock Star INXS on CBS (Alex)
152. Alla Nazimova - (bio by Gavin Lambert)
153. Me'shelle Ndegeochello - singer/songwriter (out)
154. Holly Near - singer/songwriter (autobio)
155. Sir Harold Nicolson - writer and diplomat, husband of bi writer Vita Sackville-West (bio by Nigel Nicolson, his son)
156. Vaslav Nijinsky - dancer*
157. Anaïs Nin - author, married and had affairs w/Henry Miller, his wife June and Gore Vidal (diaries Henry and June)
158. Cynthia Nixon - actress (Miranda on Sex and the City, was in 15 yr relationship w/father of her 2 kids, now has a girlfriend)
159. Laura Nyro - singer/songwriter (OUT Sept. 1997)
160. Robyn Ochs - bi activist, author, teaches university course on bisexuality (out)
161. Rosie O’Donnell - entertainer (see p. 73 of memoir Find Me re: love relationship w/man at age 29, note also Tom Cruise crush)
162. Georgia O'Keefe - painter (maybe)
163. Lawrence Olivier - actor (bio by Donald Spoto)
164. Camille Paglia - writer (out)
165. Anthony Perkins - actor (out)
166. Pink - singer (out, 11/21/2003 HX, 12/2003 Out, QTN World News reports UK interview Pink says she had “lesbian lover” at 13 but her brother stole her girlfriend)
167. Tyrone Power - actor*
168. Prince - singer/songwriter/producer (most likely: see lyrics to Controversy, Sexuality, and Jack U Off)
169. Carol Queen - erotic author/editor (out)
170. Gertrude "Ma" Rainey - singer*
171. Lou Reed - songwriter/musician (out)
172. Little Richard - singer/musician (out, autobio)
173. Richard The Lionhearted - King of England (relationship with Philip of France see movie Lion In Winter)
174. Lord Rochester (John Wilmot) - poet (most likely, see poems:The Disabled Debauchee, Upon His Drinking a Bowl)
175. Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady/wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, writer (bio by Blanche Wiesen Cook)
176. Vita Sackville-West - writer (bio by Nigel Nickelson, her son, which includes her diary of her affair w/Violet Trefusis)
177. Rachel Sage - singer-songwriter (out)
178. George Sand - writer (BB)
179. Sappho - ancient greek poet*
180. May Sarton - author (multiple journals/BB)
181. Joel Schumacher - director (lover Liz Smith’s autobio and her 12/5/00 Advocate interview), Guardian Review article: “I’m not hiding anything. But I am totally and completely against labels.”)
182. Randolf Scott - actor (lover Cary Grant’s bio by Higham and Mosely)
183. William Shakespeare - playwrite, poet (see Sonnets)
184. Roy Simmons - pro football player (out, Out Jan 2006, autobio)
185. Skin - Singer (Skunk Anansie) in a British band (Alex)
186. Bessie Smith - singer (bio by Chris Albertson)
187. Liz Smith - gossip columnist (out, Advocate Dec 5 2000, autobio)
188. Socrates - philosopher*
189. Susan Sontag - writer/critic (out)
190. Dusty Springfield - singer (out)
191. Annie Sprinkle - sex educator/performance artist/porn star (out)
192. Starhawk - author/activist (out)
193. Michael Stipe - singer/songwriter REM (out)
194. Jacqueline Susann - writer (Vanity Fair Jan 2000)
195. Tristan Taormino - editor/writer/sexpert (out)
196. Robert Taylor - actor, (bio of wife Barbara Stanwyck by Madsen)
197. Peter Tchaikovsky - composer*
198. Wallace Thurman - writer*
199. Pete Townshend - guitarist, The Who (out/BB)
200. Violet Trefusis- novelist (bio of lover Vita Sackville-West by Nicolson)
201. Tommy Tune - dancer/choreographer/actor (autobio Footnotes)
202. Rudolph Valentino - actor* (Wisecracker by Mann)
203. Paul Verlaine - poet*
204. Gore Vidal - writer, actor (memoir Palimpsest)
205. Salka Viertel - actress, friend of Garbo (The Girls by McLellan)
206. Voltaire - writer*
207. Alice Walker - writer/activist (out)
208. Rebecca Walker - writer, daughter of Alice Walker (out)
209. Walt Whitman - poet (read his poems)
210. Oscar Wilde - author/playwright*
211. Mary Woolstonecraft - writer*
212. Virginia Woolfe - writer(bio of lover Vita Sackville-West by Nicolson)
List compiled by Sheela Lambert. This list has been in existence since 1997. Listings taken from Lavender Lists by Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher and Adrien Saks, published by Alyson are marked with an asterisk*. Listings from Wikipedia are marked W. Listings marked Alex were contributions from Alex Hajnal. For those listed as “out”, google them (type their name in on Google.com) and look up magazine articles/interviews especially in Advocate or Out (this is easier if you also type Advocate or OUT in the search box.) Song lyrics can also be found by googling the artist’s name w/the word “lyrics” or “song lyrics.” All books listed as a source were personally read by Sheela unless marked BB (to order books mentioned try BRC or amazon.com.) Listings marked BB were taken from the Bisexual Biography section of the Bisexual Resource Center (BRC) website/bookstore (check out the site for huge list of bisexual books.) Also thanks to queertheory.com and ezresults.com for leading me to additional sources.
Is there someone who should be on this list but isn't? Let me know but please include a source.