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This is a list specifically of famous or notable bisexuals. See List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people for a similar list that also includes gay men and lesbians. People on this list should have Wikipedia articles, and should have some information about their sexuality in their Wikipedia article.
- Christina Aguilera (b. 1980), American pop singer
- Louis Aragon (1897-1982), French poet
- Denys Arcand (b. june 25, 1941), Canadian director, actor and screenwriter
- Joan Baez (b. 1941), American singer, activist
- Josephine Baker (1906-1974), Singer, actress, French resistance member during WWII
- Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968)
- Jillian Barberie (b. 1966), tv hostess, actress
- Drew Barrymore (b. 1975), American actress
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), French philosopher
- Sandra Bernhard (b. 1955), American comedian, singer, author and actor
- Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), U.S. composer and conductor
- Jane Bowles (1918-1973), American writer and playwright
- Paul Bowles (1910-1999), American expatriate author and once composer
- Marlon Brando (1924-2004), American actor
- Susie Bright (b. 1958)
- William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), American writer
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- Margaret Cho (b. 1968), American comedian
- Montgomery Clift (1920-1965), American actor
- Colette, novelist, actress
- Cyril Collard, French writer who died of AIDS
- Alan Cumming (b. 1965), Scottish actor
- Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) Spanish painter
- Joe Dallesandro, American actor (see http://gayinfo.tripod.com/A-Z-D.html)
- Marlene Dietrich (1905-1997)
- Ani DiFranco (b. 1970), American folk singer
- Diane Duane, author
- Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000), British actor most famous for playing Obi Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars trilogy.
- Sophie B. Hawkins, musician
- Anne Heche (b. 1969), American actress
- Dave Holland, former drummer of Judas Priest
- John Holmes (1944-1988), American porn actor
- Michael Huffington (b. 1947), California Republican politician
- Patricia Ireland (b. 1945), American feminist, former president of NOW
- Angelina Jolie (b. 1975), American actress
- Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter
- Jesse Liberty (b. 1955), Author, programmer
- Kristanna Loken (b. 1979), actress, model
- Courtney Love (b. 1964), widow of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Hole
- Madonna (b. 1958), American singer, actress
- Marilyn Manson, American rock star
- Josie Maran (b. 1978), US model
- Herman Melville (1819-1891), American writer
- George Melly, Jazz musician. (Noted to have had only heterosexual relationships later in life)
- Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), singer of rock band Queen
- Michelangelo (1475 - 1564), painter, sculptor, poet, architect
- Brian Molko singer of rock band Placebo
- John Forbes Nash (b. 1928), Nobel Prize winning American mathematician
- Anais Nin (1903-1977), French author
- Sinéad O'Connor (b. 1966), Irish singer
- Laurence Olivier (1907-1989), English actor/director of stage and film
- Camille Paglia (b. 1947), American author and social critic
- Anthony Perkins (1932-1992), American actor
- Pink (b. 1979), American pop singer
- Queen Pen, rap singer
- Michael Portillo (b. 1953), British politician, Conservative member of parliament
- Dack Rambo, American actor
- Rio Reiser, German musician ("Ton Steine Scherben")
- Little Richard (b. 1932), American rock innovator
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962). Wife of U.S. President Roosevelt
- Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), 18th century author and philosopher
- Susan Sontag (1933-2004), American writer and activist
- Michael Stipe (b. 1960), American singer (R.E.M. (band))
- Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918-September 21, 1974), American actress, playwriter and writer
- Pete Townshend (b. 1945), guitarist and songwriter of The Who
- Gore Vidal (b. 1925), American writer
- Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet
- Oscar Wilde (1844-1900), Irish writer
Disputed
See articles for details.
- David Bowie (b. 1945) "came out" as bisexual in the 1970s, renounced his bisexuality in the '80s.
- Dean Cain (b. 31 July 1966), American actor, long-rumored bisexual (this rumor was started on Internet message boards)
- Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), rumours of his bisexuality started after an interview in a gay magazine in which he stated: "I could be bisexual... If I wouldn't have found Courtney (Love), I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle."
- King David, King of ancient Israel, bisexual, lover of Jonathan, see 2 Samuel 1:26
- James Dean (1931-1955), American actor
- Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver and Olympic winner, rumored bisexual (this rumor was started on Internet message boards)
- Cary Grant, American actor, bisexual (see http://comingout.free.fr/gpanac09.htm)
- Hugh Hefner, publicly acknowledged to having gay relationships during the 1970s
- Paris Hilton, rumors have swirled of a video featuring her having lesbian sex.
- Adolf Hitler
- Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003): according to biographer Anne Edwards
- Jonathan, prince of ancient Israel, bisexual, lover of King David, see 2 Samuel 1:26
- Brian Jones - according to interview with Dave Davies in UNCUT magazine
- Alfred Kinsey (according to biographer James Jones)
- Abraham Lincoln (see Abraham Lincoln's Sexuality)
- John Lennon (according to separate biographies by Geoffrey Giuliano and Albert Goldman)
- Ricky Martin, Latino singer and soap opera actor (General Hospital)
- Ronn Moss, soap opera actor (The Bold and the Beautiful), long-rumored bisexual (this rumor was started on Internet message boards)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (according to biographer Joachim Kohler's "Zarathustra's Secret")
- Nicholas Ray
- Lou Reed - "came out" as bisexual in 1970s, renounced his bisexuality in the early 1980s (according to biographer Victor Bockris)
- Keanu Reeves Canadian actor, long-rumored bisexual (this rumor was started on Internet message boards and magazines)
- Sappho (married a man, and gave birth, but wrote love poems to women)
- William Shakespeare wrote love poems that some believe were to both men and women.
- Doug Stanhope, former host of The Man Show
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