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Revision as of 13:57, 31 August 2005 by Pitchka (talk | contribs) (no proof outside of unsubstantiated rumor.)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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.
- Christina Aguilera (born 1980), American pop singer
- Louis Aragon (1897–1982), French poet
- Gregg Araki, filmmaker
- Denys Arcand (born 1941), Canadian director, actor and screenwriter
- Billie Joe Armstrong (born 1972), American rock star, Green Day
- Akira Asada (born 1957), Japanese philosopher
- Joan Baez (born 1941), American singer, activist
- Josephine Baker (1906–1974), Singer, actress, French resistance member during WWII
- Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968), American stage and film actress
- Jillian Barberie (born 1966), TV hostess, actress
- Drew Barrymore (born 1975), American actress
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), French philosopher
- Chester Bennington (born 1976), Lead singer of american band Linkin Park
- Sandra Bernhard (born 1955), American comedian, singer, author and actor
- Jane Bowles (1918–1973), American writer and playwright
- Paul Bowles (1910–1999), American expatriate author and once composer
- Susie Bright (born 1958)
- Melanie Brown (born 1975), Scary Spice of the Spice Girls
- Carrie Brownstein, guitarist for Sleater-Kinney
- William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), American writer
- Lord Byron (1788–1824)
- Jim Carroll (born 1950)), Poet/Author of The Basketball Diaries
- Margaret Cho (born 1968), American comedian
- Montgomery Clift (1920–1965), American actor
- Colette, novelist, actress
- Cyril Collard, French writer who died of AIDS
- Richard Cromwell, American actor, first husband of Angela Lansbury, star of 30s classic films: Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Jezebel, and Young Mr. Lincoln.
- Alan Cumming (born 1965), Scottish actor
- Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish painter
- Joe Dallesandro, American actor (see http://gayinfo.tripod.com/A-Z-D.html)
- Dave Davies (born 1947), British rock musician (see http://www.davedavies.com/articles/mojo_0596.htm)
- James Dean (1931-1955), American actor
- Drea de Matteo, actress
- Andy Dick, comedian
- Marlene Dietrich (1905–1997)
- Ani DiFranco (born 1970), American folk singer
- Pete Doherty, lead singer and guitarist for the Libertines, used to work as a rentboy.
- H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886–1961), American poet
- Diane Duane, author
- Brenda Fassie (1964-2004), South African pop singer
- Greta Garbo, actress of "Queen Christina"
- Janet Gaynor, American actress
- Paul Goodman, anarchist author
- Devin Grayson, comic book writer
- Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre
- Nina Hartley, one of the few pornstars who identifies as bi, outside of her career.
- Sophie B. Hawkins, musician
- Anne Heche (born 1969), American actress
- Nona Hendryx, singer with LaBelle
- Paris Hilton (born 1981), American socialite, model, and actress
- Billie Holiday, legendary jazz singer
- Dave Holland, former drummer of Judas Priest
- Judy Holliday, American actress
- John Holmes (1944–1988), American porn actor
- Magdalen Hsu-Li, Singer-songwriter
- Michael Huffington (born 1947), California Republican politician
- Janis Ian, folk singer
- Patricia Ireland (born 1945), American feminist, former president of NOW
- Jenna Jameson (born 1974), American porn star that admitted to being a bisexual in autobiography, How to Make Love Like A Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
- Angelina Jolie (born 1975), American actress
- Janis Joplin, American singer
- June Jordan, author of "Technical Difficulties" and a Berkeley professor
- Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Mexican painter
- Billie Jean King, tennis player
- Debra Kolodny, bisexual activist
- Nancy Kulp, Miss Hathaway on the Beverly Hillbillies
- Jesse Liberty (born 1955), Author, programmer
- Kristanna Loken (born 1979), actress, model
- Courtney Love (born 1964), widow of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Hole
- Madonna (born 1958), American singer, actress
- Marilyn Manson (born 1969), American rock star
- Josie Maran (born 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
- Kate Millett (born 1934), writer and activist
- Sal Mineo, American actor
- Moby, musician, has called himself bisexual, then heterosexual, then "experimental."
- Brian Molko singer of rock band Placebo
- Megan Mullally, American actress, best known as Karen on Will & Grace
- Kathy Najimy, American Actress
- Dave Navarro, American rock musician
- Me'Shell NdegeOcello, funk musician and bassist
- Holly Near, singer-songwriter and political activist
- Anais Nin (1903–1977), French author
- Sinéad O'Connor (born 1966), Irish singer
- Conor Oberst (born 1980), singer-songwriter, Bright Eyes
- Laurence Olivier (1907–1989), English actor/director of stage and film
- Camille Paglia (born 1947), American author and social critic
- Johan Paulik (born 1975), gay pornstar; has been quoted as saying "There's no problem in having sex with boys for me, it can be very nice, but I also like to have sex with girls"
- Anthony Perkins (1932–1992), American actor
- Pink (born 1979), American pop singer
- Queen Pen, rapper
- River Phoenix, actor
- Michael Portillo (born 1953), British politician, Conservative member of parliament
- Dack Rambo, American actor
- Anthony Rapp, American actor
- Rio Reiser, German musician ("Ton Steine Scherben")
- Little Richard (born 1932), American rock innovator
- Julian Rios, male porn star, mostly straight, but has performed some solo films and one bi film under the name "Jordan Rivers."
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962). Wife of U.S. President Roosevelt
- Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), 18th century author and philosopher
- Ione Skye (born 1971), actress, daughter of Donovan
- Valerie Solanas, writer of SCUM Manifesto, shot Andy Warhol
- Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American writer and activist
- Robert Stadlober (born 1982), German actor
- Michael Stipe (born 1960), American singer (R.E.M. (band))
- Jeff Stryker male porn star, has starred in some bi but mostly gay movies
- Jacqueline Susann (1918-08-20–1974-09-21), American actress, playwriter and writer
- Pete Townshend (born 1945), guitarist and songwriter of The Who
- Corin Tucker, lead singer and guitarist for the band Sleater-Kinney
- Gore Vidal (born 1925), American writer
- Ville Valo (born 1976), Finnish musician, frontman of HIM
- Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan fashion model
- Alice Walker, author of "The Color Purple"
- Rebecca Walker, author and activist
- Walt Whitman (1819–1892), American poet
- Jane Wiedlin, guitarist for the Go-Go's
- Oscar Wilde (1844–1900), Irish writer
- Aileen Wuornos, serial killer
- Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925), Russian poet
- Eglantina Zingg, Latin American MTV VJ
- King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861-1948), German aristocrat
Disputed
See articles for details.
- David Bowie (born 1947) "came out" as bisexual in the 1970s, renounced his bisexuality in the 1980s.
- Dean Cain (born 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
- Alexandre Despatie, French-Canadian diver and Olympic winner, rumored bisexual (this rumor was started on Internet message boards)
- Leonardo Dicaprio, American Actor
- Missy Elliot - denied bisexuality and relationship with model Eva Pigford.
- Brandon Flowers, lead singer of the Killers
- Hugh Hefner, publicly acknowledged to having gay relationships during the 1970s
- Adolf Hitler
- Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003): according to biographer Anne Edwards
- Jonathan, prince of ancient Israel, bisexual, lover of King David
- Brian Jones, original lead guitarist for the Rolling Stones - according to interview with Dave Davies in UNCUT magazine
- Alfred Kinsey (according to biographer James Jones)
- Abraham Lincoln (see The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln)
- John Lennon (according to separate biographies by Geoffrey Giuliano and Albert Goldman), implied in interview in Rolling Stone magazine
- Ricky Martin, Latino singer and soap opera actor (General Hospital)
- Jim Morrison, American rock singer, according to biographer Stephen Davis
- 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")
- Peter North, a porn star rumored to be bisexual because he has performed in numerous gay porn movies at the beginning of his career. Also many of his former girlfriends have made the accusations that he is bisexual also.
- 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)
- Simon Rex - actor, former MTV personality, publicly only dates women, but has appeared in gay-themed pornography. Brad Posey, the director of the gay-themed films that Rex appeared in, claims that he performed oral sex on Rex.
- Sappho (married a man, and gave birth, but wrote love poems to women)
- Randolph Scott - actor primarily in Westerns of the 1930s-60s, according to Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon 2
- William Shakespeare wrote love poems that some believe were to both men and women.
- Russell Simmons, co-founder of hip-hop label Def Jam, has been romored to throw gay parties (this rumor was started on Internet message boards)
- Sisqó, lead singer of Dru Hill
- Anna Nicole Smith, model, has been rumored to have had affairs with women.
- Doug Stanhope, former host of The Man Show
- Malcolm X, African-American political activist, see ]