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A number of noted individuals are or were transgendered. The word transgender, for the purposes of this article, is an umbrella term that can include transmen" and transwomen, who may identify themselves as transgender, transsexual, genderqueer, Androgyny|androgynous, cross-dressers, transvestites, drag queens, drag kings or those intersexual (some prefer hermaphroditic) people whose gender identity differs from the gender they were assigned; or people who use similar terms to describe themselves. See those pages for an explanation of these terms. People on the list have been described according to their self-identification. This article is not sorted by transgender behaviour. Regarding historical persons, please also note that for individuals at least until the beginning of the 20th century, there were no names for transgender behaviour, and therefore we have no statements that are a clear documentation for their reasons to behave the way they did; most of the time, we have no statements by themselves at all. All we can say is that by today's standards, these people or their behaviour would be considered transgender. The people on this list have been selected because their fame or notoriety was in some way due or connected to their transgender behaviour.

Living individuals

• Mortakai "Morty" Diamond,transman filmmaker,and performance artist
• Blaine Paxton Hill, transman, psychic
• Kamikawa Aya, or Aya KAMIKAWA Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)
• Mara Keisling, transsexual, founder of the National Center for Transgender Equality. Key leader in passing several several laws protecting transgender people. www.nctequality.org
• Taff al-Khalifa, transsexual man, member of Bahrain's royal family, now exiled
• Andreas Krieger, transman, athlete
• Jennifer Jane Leitham, transsexual jazz bassist
• Lypsinka (John Epperson), Drag queen
• Christine Mancini, drag performer
• Brini Maxwell, drag performer
• Billy More, Drag queen
• Angela Morley, (née Wally Stott), composer and conductor
• Mado Lamotte, drag performer
• Danny La Rue, drag performer
• Hedda Lettuce, drag performer
• Miss Shangay Lily, drag performer
• Charles Ludlam
• Shannon Minter, transsexual man, attorney, legal director of National Center for Lesbian Rights. A Ford Foundation 2005 Leadership for a Changing World Award Recipient
• Jan Morris, transsexual author, English Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature
• Terri O'Connell, stock car racer, previously paricipated in NASCAR under the name T.J. Hayes
• Kathy Padilla, transsexual, aka Kathleen Padilla, the first openly transgender official in Pennsylvania, United States Democratic Party| Delegate to the 2004 Democratic Presidential Convention in Boston, Commissioner Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission
• David Palmer (musician)|Dee Palmer, (née David Palmer), transsexual musician
• Larry Paciotti, Pornography|porn movie director, transvestite
• Pauline Pantsdown, Australian drag queen and musician
• 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, a model
• Mark Rees, activist
• Renee Richards|Dr. Renee Richards, transsexual, professional tennis player
• Joan Roughgarden, professor of biology; evolution and ecology expert
• RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen
• José Sarria, first lgbt person to run for elective office in the USA, activist, noted fund raiser for aids services, drag performer
• Lily Savage, drag performer
• Melissa Sklarz, the first openly transgender public official in New York State, United States Democratic Party|Democratic county judicial delegate in Manhattan
• Fonda Shepards, Drag queen
• Dean Spade, transman, attorney, and founder Sylvia Rivera Law Project
• Sandy Stone, transgender activist and author
• Ethan St. Pierre, transsexual man, hate crimes survivor, radio host transfm.org
• Margaret Stumpp, transsexual co-manager of Quantitative Management department at Prudential Financial Inc.
• Jolene Sugarbaker, Drag queen
• Terre Thaemlitz, musician
• Stephen Thorne, transman, police officer
• Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer
• Pieter Dirk Uys, drag performer
• Vaginal Creme Davis , Drag queen
• Daniel Van Oosterwijck, transman, lawyer
• Max Valerio, performer
• Del Lagrace Volcano, transman, performer and photographer
• Stephen Whittle, transman, lawyer, writer and educator
• Holly Woodlawn, movie actress, drag queen, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and featured in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"
• Misplaced Pages editor Susan Larson (SusanLarson), the operator of Susan's Place Transgender Resources which contains a Misplaced Pages fork.

20th century|20th and 21st century individuals

• Gwen Araujo, US pre-operative transsexual girl, murdered 2002
• Danielle Bunten Berry, US software developer, formerly Dan Bunten, author of several titles for Electronic Arts in the 1980s, died of cancer
• Jackie Curtis, US drag queen who had a friendship with the famous pop artist, Andy Warhol
• Lili Elbe, Denmark|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, US transsexual woman, died 1995
• Marsha P Johnson, transgender activist, involved in Stonewall (UK), co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
• Christine Jorgensen, one of the first Americans to have sexual reassignment surgery in 1952
• Pepper LaBeija, Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem, New York drag queen, subject of the documentary Paris Is Burning
• 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 (filmmaker)|John Waters films
• Sylvia Rivera, transgender activist, resisted police at Stonewall riots|Stonewall on June 27, 1969
• Brandon Teena, US transsexual boy who was murder|murdered, subject of the film Boys Don't Cry (movie)|Boys Don't Cry
• Billy Tipton, woman who lived as a male jazz musician
• Ed Wood, Jr., film-maker with transvestite tendencies

Earlier historical or mythology|mythological 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. Therefore, see also List of famous gay, lesbian, or bisexual people.

• Achilles, dressed in women's clothing at the court of Lycomedes
• Alfhild, beautiful maiden in Norse mythology who dressed as a man to avoid marrying Alf (mythology)|King Alf
• Herculine Barbin, 19th Century French hermaphrodite
• James Barry (surgeon)|James Barry, surgeon who masqueraded as a man throughout her life in order to be able to practice medicine
• Chevalier d'Eon
• Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
• 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
• Deborah Sampson, 18th century Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a male to serve in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War
• Hannah Snell, 18th century woman who used a male uniform and fought alongside British Royal Marines|marines
• 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

Fictional individuals

• Azure C., a transsexual model on the United States|American soap opera The City (TV series)|The City. The first transsexual portrayed on American soaps, she was played by Carlotta Chang from 1995 to 1996.
• Myra Breckinridge, transsexual character in two best-selling novels by Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge and Myron, and a well-known film.
• Mrs. Cartman, Mother?/Father? of Eric Cartman and local hermaphrodite in the fictional town of South Park
• Herbert Garrison, schoolteacher in the fictional town of South Park, who, in the Season 8 premeire, underwent sexual reassignment surgery.
• Hayley Cropper, transsexual character in the popular Britain|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.
• Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger, of M*A*S*H, a hirsute transvestite seeking a discharge from the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Although a transvestite, he loudly denied any charges of homosexuality.
• Mrs. Anna Madrigal, transexual landlady in the Tales of the City novels, and TV mini-series. Her name is a scramble of "a man and a girl." Portrayed by Olympia Dukakis in the mini-series.
• Dorothy Michaels, a male actor posing as an actress in the film Tootsie. Portrayed by Dustin Hoffman.
• Ava Moore, transsexual character in the United States|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 of the same name.
• Hedwig Robinson, "internationally ignored song stylist" and lead role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• 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.
• 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.

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