One of our 2001 San Diego Pride themes is
We would like information on well known or influencial individuals who have publically identified as bisexual. If you are able to substantiate the identity of such individuals, please email .


The following is a list of famous individuals who have either come out as bisexual at some point in their lives, or have been generally known to have enjoyed sexual relationships with both men and women.

If you know of a famous person who should be on this list, or if you notice any errors, typos, ommisions, or duplicate entries, please email .

  • Josephine Baker - Singer, actress, French resistance member in WWII and very beautiful as well :^)
  • Stephen Donaldson (Donny the Punk) - Stop Prisoner Rape activist, punk, one time presidential candidate. Died of AIDS July 1996
  • Sappho - Ancient greek poet
  • k.d. lang - Singer "... I have always felt inclined towards women. I have felt inclined towards men - not as deeply or sexually as towards women - but I'm definitely attracted to men." (Marie Claire, January 1997)
  • Janis Joplin - Singer, songwriter, poet
  • Anaïs Nin - Author
  • David Bowie - Singer, actor (The Hunger, etc.)
  • Angela Bowie
  • Claudia Christian - Actress (Ivanova on Babylon 5), singer
  • Lou Reed - At one point lived with a transvestite named "Rachel"
  • Ani DiFranco - Folk/rock singer and songwriter
  • Stephen Fry - Author, comedian, all-round brainiac
  • Skin - Singer (Skunk Anansie) in a British band
  • Brett Anderson - Lead singer of British group Suede. "I'm a bisexual who's never had a homosexual experience..." ("Bit of a twat, actually...." - T.L in the U.K.)
  • Dave Navarro - guitarist for Red Hot Chilli Peppers
  • Marlene Dietrich - Actress
  • Greta Garbo - Actress
  • James Dean - Actor
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Lawrence Olivier - Actor
  • Errol Flynn - Actor
  • Danny Kaye - Entertainer
  • Frida Kahlo - Artist
  • Robert Taylor
  • Cary Grant - Actor
  • Mick Jagger - Singer
  • Madonna - Singer
  • Greg Araki - Film maker (Nowhere, The Living End, Totally F***ed Up)
  • Maria Maggenti - Film maker (The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls In Love)
  • Elaine Holliman - Film maker (Chicks In White Satin)
  • Tom Ford - Gucci designer
  • Michael Stipe - REM
  • Kurt Cobain - Nirvana
  • Me'shelle Ndegeochello - Singer / songwriter
  • Sophie B. Hawkins - Singer / songwriter
  • Michael Feinstein - Pianist / singer
  • Patricia Ireland - President of NOW
  • Nan Goldin - Photographer
  • Anne Heche - Actress
  • Alexander the Great
  • Saint Augustine - Theologian
  • Joan Baez - Singer
  • Tallulah Bankhead - Actress
  • Djuna Barnes - Novelist
  • Leonard Berstein - Conducter
  • Paul Bowles - Writer, composer
  • Colette - Novelist, actress
  • Thomas Mann - Novelist
  • Margaret Mead - Anthropologist
  • Julius Caesar - Emperor
  • Socrates - Philosopher
  • James I - King of England
  • Shakespeare - Writer
  • Marie Antoinette - Wife of Louis XVI
  • Julie Ann Park - Singer (Fem 2 Fem)
  • Sandra Bernhard - Comedian, entertainer
  • Sarah Bernhardt
  • Oscar Wilde - Author
  • Marlon Brando - Actor
  • Laurence Olivier - Actor
  • Georgia O'Keefe - Painter
  • D. H. Lawrence - Author
  • Gertrude "Ma" Rainey - Singer
  • Countee Cullen - Poet
  • Langston Hughes - Poet
  • Wallace Thurman - Writer
  • Bessie Smith - Singer
  • Pietro Aretino
  • John Maynard Keynes
  • Baba Ram Dass (Richard Alpert)
  • Louis XIII
  • Robin Maugham
  • W. Somerset Maugham
  • Kate Millett
  • Francis Bacon
  • Harold Nicolson
  • Charles Reich
  • Catullus
  • Vita Sackville-West
  • Maria Schneider - Actress
  • Philip, Duke of Orleans
  • Ted Shawn
  • Edward II
  • Andre' Gide
  • Henry III
  • Dorothy Thompson
  • Horace
  • Paul Verlaine
  • Janis Ian
  • Gore Vidal
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Elton John
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Drew Barrymore - Actress
  • Jill Sobule - Singer / songwriter
  • Courtney Love - Actress / singer
  • Tom Robinson - Activist / musician
  • More to come...


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