List of transgender people

List of transgender people

Living individuals

• Courtney Act (aka Shane Janek), drag queen
• Calpernia Addams (née Scott Addams), actress, author, autobiographer, entrepreneur, activist, fiddle player
• Janice Allen, motion picture preservationist, transsexual
• Paul J. Allen, gay porn star
• Nadia Almada (née Jorge Leodoro), Big Brother UK 2004 winner, transsexual
• Adèle Anderson, cabaret singer, actress, member of Fascinating Aida
• Enza "Supermodel" Anderson, drag performer
• Buck Angel, world's first FTM transsexual porn star
• Arcipello a British digital artist
• April Ashley (née George Jamieson), model
• Brianna Austin, writer and gender columnist
• Mianne Bagger (née Michael Bagger), golfer, transsexual woman
• Dana Baitz, musician (pianist, producer, songwriter)
• Shirley Temple Bar, drag performer
• Georgina Beyer (née George Bertrand), New Zealand's (and the world's) first transsexual mayor (1995) and member of parliament (2002)
• Joan Jett Blakk, drag performer
• Sister Boom-Boom, drag queen
• Kate Bornstein (née Albert Bornstein), transsexual author, playwright, performance artist and gender theorist
• Sara Davis Buechner (née David Buechner), concert pianist
• Charles Busch, drag performer
• Mauro Cabral, transman, educator
• Meryn Cadell, writer and singer-songwriter
• Patrick Califia, a writer
• Loren Cameron, transman, photographer
• Endry Cardeño, Colombian transsexual actor
• Wendy Carlos (née Walter Carlos), American transsexual composer and electronic musician
• Parinaya Charoemphol aka Nong Toom, transsexual Thai actress and former kickboxer
• Roberta Close (née Luíz Roberto Gambine Moreira), Brasilian transsexual model
• Coccinelle, French transsexual performer
• Lynn Conway, transsexual computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender advocate
• Caroline Cossey, also Tula (née Barry Kenneth Cossey), British transsexual model, author, and Bond girl
• Jayne County, US rock singer (previously famous as 'Wayne County')
• Jennifer Cross (née Carl J Cross), Australian economics computer programmer from Perth
• Katherine Fiona Cummings (née John Cummings), Sydney librarian (born 1935)
• Graham Dean (née Deanna Graham), UK gamer from Bedford
• Delia Death, model and singer
• Morty Diamond, transman filmmaker and performance artist
• Dreuxilla Divine, drag queen
• Colin Kennedy Donovan, genderqueer/trans disability writer and anti-racist activist
• Aaron H. Dover, writer and educator
• Qwo-Li Driskill, writer, activist, and educator
• Michelle Dumaresq, transsexual professional mountain bicyclist
• Monet Dupree, drag performer
• Amanda Jane Dusting, Sydney archaeologist
• Julian Eltinge, drag performer
• Jaime Elturk, drag computer manager
• Paul Erik (née Paula Erik), Canadian musician
• Jackie Enx, transsexual drummer for the heavy metal band Rhino Bucket
• Bulent Ersoy, Turkish transsexual singer
• Leslie Feinberg, transgender activist and author
• Jamie Faye Fenton, computer game designer
• Bibiana Fernández, Spanish transsexual actress, model, performer
• Harvey Fierstein, drag performer, Hairspray
• Jacqualine Elizabeth Gaynor, female illusionist, show promoter
• James Green, transman, writer & educator
• Stasha Goliaszewski, corporate activist, minister, radio host & producer TransPhillyRadio
• Jenni Gorman, transsexual parole officer from Lismore, Australia
• Rachael Goss a computer programmer and founder of TACT (Transgender Activists of Central Texas) and political activist
• Rachel Grant (née Richard Grant), West Australian goat farmer, involved in the failed WATSUP group
• Aidy Griffin (née Aidan Griffin), Sydney transvestite taxi driver
• Jacob Hale, transman, philosopher
• Lauren Harries, famous as child prodigy 'James Harries'
• David Harrison, performer
• Harisu, transsexual model, singer and actress
• Antony Hegarty, singer-songwriter
• Mike Hernandez, writer and activist
• Blaine Paxton Hill, transman, psychic
• Jenny Hiloudaki, Greek transsexual model
• Clover Honey, drag queen
• Mary Ann Horton, (also Mark Horton), transgendered (bi-gendered) Internetpioneer
• House of Diabolique, drag queen
• Dana International, Israeli pop singer
• Eddie Izzard, comedian who cross-dresses and calls himself an "executive transvestite"
• Andrea James, transwoman, entrepreneur, film producer, screenwriter, actress, and activist
• Michelle Josef, Canadian musician
• Kamikawa Aya, or Aya KAMIKAWA Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)
• Frances Margan Keeling, Sydney archaeologist
• Mara Keisling, transsexual, founder of the National Center for Transgender Equality. Key leader in passing several laws protecting transgender people. www,nctequality.org
• Taff al-Khalifa, transsexual man, member of Bahrain's royal family, now exiled
• Shigeyuki Kihara, Samoan-Japanese fa'afafine artist
• Theresa Knott, (née Terry Knott) London teacher
• Andreas Krieger, transman, athlete
• Mado Lamotte, drag performer
• Jennifer Jane Leitham, transsexual jazz bassist
• Amanda Lepore, transexual icon and model
• Hedda Lettuce, drag performer
• Miss Shangay Lily, drag performer
• Shirley Q Liquor, drag queen
• Charles Ludlam
• Lypsinka (John Epperson), drag queen
• Deirdre McCloskey, noted American Economist, argued The McCloskey critique
• Christine Mancini, drag performer
• Roslyn Manley, transsexual advocate/activist. First openly out transsexual to hold elected office in the United States. Elected June 2004 to Democratic Central Committee in California.
• Brini Maxwell, drag performer
• Dana Moran, NASCAR driver 1970, sprint car champion, super modified champion, advocate
• Billy More, drag queen
• Angela Morley, (née Wally Stott), composer and conductor
• Shannon Minter, transsexual man, attorney, legal director of National Center for Lesbian Rights
• Jan Morris, transsexual author, winner of English Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature
• Nancy Nangeroni, trans activist, GenderTalk Radio founder/producer/host, writer, musician, engineer
• Terri O'Connell, stock car racer, previously paricipated in NASCAR under the name J.T. Hayes
• Kathy Padilla, transsexual, aka Kathleen Padilla, the first openly transgender official in Pennsylvania, Democratic delegate to the 2004 Democratic Presidential Convention in Boston, Commissioner Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission
• Dee Palmer, (née David Palmer), transsexual musician
• Larry Paciotti, porn movie director, transvestite
• Pauline Pantsdown, Australian drag queen and musician
• Roberta Perkins (née Robert A. Perkins), Sydney anthropologist
• Grayson Perry, artist whose work sometimes features his female alter ego, Claire. Winner of the 2003 Turner Prize for art
• Charles Pierce, drag performer
• Angela Piland, model
• Lee-Anne Purcell, Perth transvestite sex worker, and celebrity stalker
• Mark Rees, activist
• Madame Regina, transgender author
• Rebecca Richards, (née Richard Windsor), Sydney website programmer and ice hockey player
• Dr. Renee Richards, transsexual, professional tennis player
• Jennifer Diane Reitz, computer programmer, cartoonist and gender rights advocate
• Joan Roughgarden, professor of biology; evolution and ecology expert
• RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen
• Cindy Ryan, Perth sex worker, involved in the failed WATSUP group
• Fulvia Celica Siguas Sandoval the person with the most Gender Reassignment Surgeries in the world and perhaps the first transsexual in Peru
• José Sarria, drag performer, first LGBT person to run for elective office in the USA, activist, noted fund raiser for AIDS services
• Lily Savage, drag performer
• Erik Schinegger, 1968 women's world champion downhill skier for Austria
• Karen Leonie Taylor (aka Rodney Taylor), West Australian drag queen
• Scott Turner Schofield, writer, performer
• Caster Semenya, South African 800m runner
• Melissa Sklarz, the first openly transgender public official in New York State, Democratic county judicial delegate in Manhattan
• Fonda Shepards, drag queen
• Dean Spade, transman, attorney, and founder Sylvia Rivera Law Project
• Sandy Stone (née Zelig Ben-Natan), transgender activist and author
• Ethan St. Pierre, transsexual man, hate crimes survivor, radio host transfm.org
• Sharon Stolzenberg, transsexual ex-treasurer at the Gender Centre
• Margaret Stumpp, transsexual co-manager of Quantitative Management department at Prudential Financial Inc.
• Jolene Sugarbaker, drag queen
• Karen Leonie Taylor (aka Rodney Taylor), West Australian drag queen
• Tina Dee Taylor, transgendered actor, artist and writer in Hollywood
• Terre Thaemlitz, musician
• Nicole Thomas, scientist
• Stephen Thorne, transman, police officer
• Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer
• Miss Understood, drag performer and entrepreneur
• Pieter Dirk Uys, drag performer
• Daniel Van Oosterwijck, transman, lawyer
• Max Valerio, performer
• Kelly Van Der Veer, transsexual Big Brother Holland contestant
• Del Lagrace Volcano, transman, performer and photographer
• Megan Lee Webb (née Lee Webb), Queensland-born Sydney cyclist
• Norrie May Welby (née Norrie Welby)
• Stephen Whittle, transman, lawyer, writer and educator
• Holly Woodlawn, U.S. drag queen, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and featured in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"
• Jin Xing, transsexual Chinese dancer

20th and 21st century individuals

• Gwen Araujo, U.S. pre-operative transsexual girl, murdered 2002
• Danielle Bunten Berry, U.S. software developer, formerly Dan Bunten, author of several titles for Electronic Artsin the 1980s, died of cancer
• Jackie Curtis, U.S. drag queen who had a friendship with the famous pop artist, Andy Warhol
• Candy Darling, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and subject of The Velvet Underground song "Candy Says", and Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"
• Ethyl Eichelberger drag performer, actor, performance artist
• Lili Elbe, Danish transsexual, one of the first women to undergo a crude form of sexual reassignment surgery, through five operations which were completed by 1930. Fifteen months after her final surgery, she either died from complications or faked her own death to avoid the media attention. She is the subject of the 1933 book Man Into Woman, although it is likely she was never biologically male, but rather born intersexual, supposedy with rudimentary ovaries which would conflict with the speculative diagnosis of Klinefelter's Syndrome
• Bella Evangelista, also known as Elvys Perez, drag performer who was murdered in Washington, D.C.
• Tyra Hunter, U.S. transsexual woman, died 1995
• Marsha P. Johnson, transgender activist, involved in Stonewall (UK), co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
• Frankie 'Halfpint' Jaxon, American singer and entertainer who has often sung with a female voice
• Christine Jorgensen, one of the first Americans to have sexual reassignment surgery in 1952
• Dawn Kereluik, hate crime survivor in Columbus, Ohio. Legally married in a Same-Sex Marriage to Katheryn Kereluik.
• Pepper LaBeija, Harlem, New York drag queen, subject of the documentary Paris Is Burning
• Danny La Rue (née Daniel Patrick Carroll), drag performer, died 2009
• Cam Lyman millionaire transman, disappeared in 1987, found murdered in 1997.
• Glen Milstead, actor and drag performer also known popularly as Divine, star of many John Waters films
• Sylvia Rivera, transgender activist, resisted police at Stonewall on June 27, 1969
• Craig Russell, Canadian actor and female impersonator Outrageous
• Jeanette Schmid, World famous whistler
• Brandon Teena, U.S. transsexual boy who was murdered, subject of the film Boys Don't Cry
• Billy Tipton, woman who lived as a male jazz musician
• Ed Wood, Jr., film-maker with transvestite tendencies

Earlier historical individuals

It is often difficult to construe the gender and sexual identity of pre-modern individuals. In many societies, those whom Western society might consider homosexual or bisexual are or were considered transgendered.

Many of these persons cross-dressed during wartime for various purposes.

• Herculine Barbin, 19th Century French hermaphrodite
• James Barry, female bodied surgeon who lived as a man throughout his/her life, according to some accounts in order to be able to practice medicine.
• Christina of Sweden, Queen of Sweden from 1632 to 1654 who went by the name of "Count Dohna" at one point, dressing in male attire as part of the role. Despite speculation, modern medical examinations of her remains have not uncovered any evidence of intersexuality, although such examinations might not be conclusive.
• Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
• Joan of Arc, martyr accused of cross-dressing and was forced to wear a dress during her imprisonment. Later tried and executed.
• Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat (1728–1810) who claimed that he had been born a girl and later adopted a female persona.
• Venerable Onuphrius, in Eastern Orthodoxy, is supposed to had been a virtuous young girl who, in order not to lose her virginity to a persistent suitor, had her wish to become a man granted by divine intervention.

Fictional individuals

• Azure C., a transsexual model on the American soap opera The City. The first transsexual portrayed on American soaps, she was played by Carlotta Chang from 1995 to 1996.
• Bree, a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual played by Felicity Huffman in the 2005 film Transamerica.
• Myra Breckinridge, transsexual character in two best-selling novels by Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge and Myron, and a well-known film.
• Nuriko (born Chou Ryuuen), biologically male but living as and referred to as a woman throughout the course of the anime and manga series Fushigi Yūgi. Expresses a wish to be reincarnated as a woman.
• Chloe, pre-operative transsexual nightclub singer from the comic book How Loathsome by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane.
• Hayley Cropper, transsexual character in the popular British soap opera Coronation Street. First transsexual portrayed on British soaps, since 1998.
• Henry "Hildegarde" Desmond, a hetero male who dresses as a woman to live in a budget "women's hotel" in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. Portrayed by Peter Scolari.
• Frank N. Furter, the transvestite antagonist of the cult musical Rocky Horror Show and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
• Emily Howard, the "unconvincing transvestite" character in the BBC sketch show Little Britain.
• Dorothy Michaels, a male actor posing as an actress in the film Tootsie. Portrayed by Dustin Hoffman.
• Josephine Monaghan, the protagonist of "The Ballad of Little Jo", dresses as a man to escape the bourgeois East and survive in the rugged West as a single person. Played by Suzy Amis.
• Ava Moore, transsexual character in the American drama Nip/Tuck, played by Famke Janssen from 2004.
• Roberta Muldoon, a large muscular transexual woman (former male football player) in The World According to Garp. Portrayed by John Lithgow in the film version.
• Orlando, An Elizabethan era immortal from the novel of the same name by Virginia Woolf. After 200 years, Orlando changes from a man to a woman. Also a 1993 film.
• Princess Ozma of the Land of Oz, temporarily changed into a boy, later restored to girlhood.
• Hedwig Robinson, "internationally ignored song stylist" and lead role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Nao Tsurumoto, a 15-year-old female from season 6 of the Japanese dorama 3 Nen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei who despises her female body and knows she is male inside. The season focuses heavily on Nao's trials and peer reactions throughout the 22 episode span. Played by Aya Ueto.
• Kip "Buffy" Wilson, a hetero male who dresses as a woman to live in a budget "women's hotel" in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies. Portrayed by Tom Hanks.
• Sadako Yamamura, the genetically male psychic villain of the Ring series of novels. Victim of a birth disorder causing "her" to have a vagina and breasts. Her physical appearance was that of a very beautiful young woman. (Note: There is no evidence that the version of Sadako portrayed in the Ringu movie series, and it is even less likely that Samara Morgan of the American remake has the same condition)
• Stephen - female character in The Well of Loneliness, a novel by Radclyffe Hall. Commonly thought of as a lesbian, modern reading of the text identifies Stephen as transgendered rather than a lesbian.
• Angel, an AIDS-infected street performer in the broadway musical Rent.
• Birdo, Nintendo's Super Mario Bros 2 character who, according to the original manual, "...thinks he is a girl...He'd rather be called 'Birdetta.'" Eventually sticking with Birdo, she is currently accepted as female and is rumoured to be dating Yoshi.

Mythological figures

• Alfhild, beautiful maiden in Norse mythology who dressed as a man to avoid marrying King Alf
• Guan Yin, Bodhisattva of Compassion, who has both been depicted as male and female, and, according to the Lotus Sutra, has the ability to change form in order to help people.
• Heracles, was dressed as a woman when enslaved by Omphale
• The Norse god Thor put on the wedding gown and veil of his enemy's bride, married his enemy, and then slew him at the end of the ceremony.
• Tiresias, soothsayer to Oedipus from Greek mythology changed into a woman and back in an unrelated tale
• Pope Joan, who according to legend was a cross-dressing woman elected Catholic Pope (given the name "John VIII"), whose reign was variously attributed to several periods of history. She allegedly died or was murdered in childbirth during a papal procession. There is no evidence for her existence, and the story originates from a much later date than the purported events.

List adapted from Wikipedia.