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This is a list of notable and historic figures who are polyamorous. Polyamory is the desire, practice or acceptance of more than one loving, intimate relationship at a time, with the full knowledge and consent of all involved.
Criteria
Many notable and historic figures have conducted multiple simultaneous relationships that nevertheless would not be considered "polyamorous" because of the absence of "full knowledge and consent." In Victorian England, for instance, the difficulty and stigma of divorce often left a rich man's wife little choice but to tolerate his mistresses, who themselves might be dependent on him for financial support. Such relationships are not included in this list.
Because of the difficulty in distinguishing between romantic historic relationships and sexual relationships between friends, this list takes a broad construction of "polyamory" that includes the latter. For more specific information, see individual pages and the external references.
List
- Natalie Barney (1876-1972), writer and poet
- Simone de Beauvoir, author, Jean-Paul Sartre, screenwriter and novelist, and Olga Kosakiewicz, actress
- Warren Buffett, investor
- CT Butler, a founder of Food Not Bombs
- Paxus Calta, activist
- Dora Carrington, painter
- Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky, cartoonists
- Amelia Earhart, aviator
- Hugh Hefner, founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine
- Robert A. Heinlein, author
- Patricia Ireland, activist, feminist, author, former president of NOW
- Penn Jillette, illusionist and entertainer
- Augustus John, artist
- Alfred Kinsey, researcher
- William Moulton Marston, Elizabeth Marston, and Olive Byrne (Marston's character Wonder Woman was also developed by his wife, Elizabeth; both Elizabeth and Olive served as the models for the character)
- Kevin C Mason, painter
- Alan Moore, writer
- E. Nesbit, author and activist
- Anais Nin, author
- Eric S. Raymond, technologist
- Theresa "Darklady" Reed, writer, internet personality, eroticist
- David Rovics, activist and singer/songwriter
- Vita Sackville-West (author), Harold Nicolson (politician), and various other members of the Bloomsbury Group
- Erwin Schrödinger, physicist
- Percy Shelley, English romantic poet
- Lytton Strachey, writer and critic
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, lyrical poet and playwright
- Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer
- Robyn Trask, Managing Director and Editor of Loving More
- Vincent M. Wales, novelist and founder of Polyamory Awareness & Acceptance Ribbon Campaign
- Dieter Wedel, movie director Template:En icon
- H.G. Wells, novelist, science-fiction author.
- Nan Wise, poly therapist and author
- Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart and Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, cofounders of Church of All Worlds, publishers of Green Egg magazine, Neopagan authors and speakers
- Tilda Swinton, actress, and John Byrne, painter, director and writer
- Margaret Cho, Actor, Comedian
Notes
- See NY Times article: Buffet, Business section, 2006-09-01.
- See RAYMOND, Eric S, Sex Tips: Introduction.
- See ROVICS, David MySpace webpage.
- See Bloomsboory, Mantex.
- See RANDLE, Denise, Bloomsbury.
- See the Love More website.
- See Biographie, Stern Magazin.
- See also Interview to Passauer Neue Presse, January 4th, 2006.
- See London Daily Mail article: Narnia star Tilda, December 29th, 2007.