Short List of Transgendered Famous People.

· Kim Coco Iwamoto, transgendered woman elected to the Hawaii Board of Education; the highest transgender elected office holder in the United States as of November 2006, according to the media http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=5676068

· Eddie Izzard, comedian who cross-dresses and calls himself an "executive transvestite"

· Andrea James, transwoman, entrepreneur, film producer, screenwriter, actress, and activist

· Michelle Josef, Canadian musician

· Kamikawa Aya, or Aya KAMIKAWA Tokyo municipal official (first transgendered person to seek elected office in Japan)

· Rocco Kayiatos, or Katastrophe, San Francisco FTM hip hop artist, activist, musician and performer

· Mara Keisling, transsexual, founder of the National Center for Transgender Equality, key leader in passing several laws protecting transgender people

· Parinya Kiatbusaba, also known as Parinya Charoenphol and Nong Thoom, kathoey (transwoman), Muay Thai (kickboxing) champion, model and actress.

· Andreas Krieger, transman, athlete

· Mado Lamotte, drag performer

· Danny La Rue, drag performer

· Lisa Lawrence, actress

· Jennifer Jane Leitham, transsexual jazz bassist

· Amanda Lepore, transexual icon and model

· Hedda Lettuce, drag performer

· Miss Shangay Lily, drag performer

· Shirley Q Liquor, drag queen

· Olivia Love, actress

· Vladimir Luxuria, member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, first transgender member of Parliament in Europe

· Lypsinka (John Epperson), drag queen

· Christine Mancini, drag performer

· Roslyn Manley, transsexual advocate/activist, first openly out transsexual to hold elected office in the United States, elected June 2004 to Democratic Central Committee in California

· Mimi Marks, Chicago transgender entertainer

· Brini Maxwell, drag performer

· Deirdre McCloskey, noted American Economist, argued The McCloskey critique

· Siobhan Meow, member of Howard Stern's entourage, The Wack Pack

· Annah Moore, Musician, Artist, Author

· Billy More, drag queen

· Angela Morley, (née Wally Stott), composer and conductor

· Shannon Minter, transsexual man, attorney, legal director of National Center for Lesbian Rights

· Jan Morris, transsexual author, winner of English Golden Pen Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature

· Sally Mursi, first legally accepted Egyptian MTF-transsexual, see http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=1737 and

· Nancy Nangeroni, trans activist, GenderTalk Radio founder/producer/host, writer, musician, engineer

· Richard J. Novic, crossdresser (as Alice Novic), psychiatrist, author

· Dr. NapéWastéWiñ, Clinical therapist, museum lecturer, horse breeder/trainer, farrier, boat builder and parent!

· Terri O'Connell, stock car racer, previously participated in NASCAR under the name J.T. Hayes

· Kathy Padilla, transsexual, aka Kathleen Padilla, the first openly transgender official in Pennsylvania, Democratic delegate to the 2004 Democratic Presidential Convention in Boston, Commissioner Philadelphia Police Advisory Commission

· Larry Paciotti, porn movie director, transvestite

· Dee Palmer, (née David Palmer), transsexual musician

· Pauline Pantsdown, Australian drag queen and musician

· Roberta Perkins (née Robert Perkins), anthropologist

· 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, model, musician, artist formerly known as Delia Death

· Rachel Pollack, transsexual author

· Genesis P-Orridge, androgynous musician, performer, artist

· Fay Presto, magician

· Mark Rees, activist

· Jennifer Diane Reitz, computer programmer, cartoonist and gender rights advocate

· Kymberleigh Richards, former publisher of Cross-Talk magazine, public transportation advocate and transit official

· Dr. Renee Richards, transsexual, professional tennis player

· Eva Robbins, Italian model and actress.

· Martine Rothblatt, a transhumanist author.

· Joan Roughgarden, professor of biology; evolution and ecology expert

· RuPaul, AKA RuPaul Andre Charles, American drag queen

· Ruvic Rea Filipina, first transsexual politician in the Philippines

· Ali Saleem, Pakistani TV personality better known as Begum Nawazish Ali, drag artist

· Antonia San Juan, Spaniard actress.

· José Sarria, drag performer, first LGBT person to run for elective office in the USA, activist, noted fund raiser for AIDS services

· Lily Savage, drag performer

· Erik Schinegger, 1966 women's world champion downhill skier for Austria

· Scott Turner Schofield, writer, performer

· Kemal Shahin, UK celebrity, Big Brother contestant and former esctoday.com news editor

· Melissa Sklarz, the first openly transgender public official in New York State, Democratic county judicial delegate in Manhattan

· Dean Spade, transman, attorney, and founder Sylvia Rivera Law Project

· Adrya Stembridge, musician, motocross rider

· Sandy Stone, transgender activist and author

· Susan Stryker, author and editor

· Ethan St. Pierre, transsexual man, transgender activist, hate crimes survivor, radio host transfm.org

· Margaret Stumpp, transsexual co-manager of Quantitative Management department at Prudential Financial Inc.

· Jolene Sugarbaker, drag queen

· Karen Taylor (aka Rodney Taylor), Australian drag queen

· Tina Dee Taylor, transgendered actor, artist and writer in Hollywood

· Terre Thaemlitz, musician

· Stephen Thorne, transman, police officer

· Pussy Tourette, drag performer and singer

· Miss Understood, drag performer and entrepreneur

· Pieter Dirk Uys, drag performer

· Kelly Van Der Veer, transsexual Big Brother Holland contestant

· Del LaGrace Volcano, transman, performer and photographer

· Stephen Whittle, British trans man, lawyer, writer and educator

· Cristan Williams, transsexual, founder of the CATS TG Homeless Shelter, activist and program manager for the Houston Area Community Services' Transgender Program

· Holly Woodlawn, U.S. drag queen, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and featured in Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"

· Jin Xing, transsexual Chinese dancer

20th and 21st century individuals

· Gwen Araujo, U.S. pre-operative transsexual girl, murdered 2002 http://www.gender.org/remember/people/gwenaraujo.html

· Valerie Arkell-Smith, British soldier http://www.aceart.org/archives/cd/cd96/CD_96_collins.html

· Danielle Bunten Berry, U.S. software developer, formerly Dan Bunten, author of several titles for Electronic Arts in the 1980s, died of lung cancer

· Fulvia Celica Siguas Sandoval the person with the most Gender Reassignment Surgeries in the world and perhaps the first transsexual in Peru

· Coccinelle, French transsexual performer

· Jackie Curtis, U.S. drag queen who had a friendship with the famous pop artist, Andy Warhol

· Candy Darling, part of Andy Warhol's Factory and subject of The Velvet Underground song "Candy Says", and Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"

· Ethyl Eichelberger drag performer, actor, performance artist

· Lili Elbe, 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. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18168-2003Aug20.html

· Dee Farmer, transgender prison inmate http://www.mindspring.com/~karen.anne.taylor/tgprison.html http://www.aegis.com/law/sct/decisions/1994/1994SCT3801.html

· Tyra Hunter, U.S. transsexual woman, died 1995

· Marsha P. Johnson, transgender activist, involved in Stonewall (UK), co-founder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

· Frankie 'Halfpint' Jaxon, American singer and entertainer who has often sung with a female voice

· Christine Jorgensen, one of the first Americans to have sexual reassignment surgery in 1952

· Dawn Kereluik, hate crime survivor in Columbus, Ohio. Legally married in a Same-Sex Marriage to Katheryn Kereluik (currently divorcing).

· Pepper LaBeija, 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 films

· Sylvia Rivera, transgender activist, resisted police at Stonewall on June 27, 1969

· Craig Russell, Canadian actor and female impersonator Outrageous

· Rainee, the first ever pre-operative transsexual to appear on a TV game Show (Lingo)

· Jeanette Schmid, World famous whistler

· Shabnam Mausi, Eunuch politician from Madhya Pradesh, India

· Jade Hines Toronto trans-woman, personal story featured in several publications.

· Brandon Teena, U.S. transsexual boy who was murdered, subject of the film Boys Don't Cry http://www.gender.org/remember/people/brandon.html

· Billy Tipton, a physically female jazz musician who lived as a man.

· Susanna Valenti, a self-identified heterosexual transvestite who wrote columns for Virginia Prince's underground magazine, Transvestia, from 1960 to 1970. Valenti transitioned from a life of periodic cross-dressing to full time living as a woman during a time when the categories of transgender were in flux and the subject of much contestation.

· Ed Wood, Jr., film-maker, transvestite

Earlier historical 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.

Many of these persons cross-dressed during wartime for various purposes. Such people are covered under the article Crossdressing During Wartime.

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· Herculine Barbin, 19th Century French hermaphrodite

· James Barry, female bodied surgeon who lived as a man throughout his/her life, according to some accounts in order to be able to practice medicine.

· Elagabalus, Roman Emperor

· Chevalier d'Eon, French diplomat (1728-1810) who claimed to have been born a girl and later adopted a female persona.

Fictional individuals

· Azure C., a transsexual model on the American soap opera The City. The first transsexual portrayed on American soaps, she was played by Carlotta Chang from 1995 to 1996.

· Bel Thorne from the Vorkosigan Saga of books, one of a genetically engineered human race called "herms", who are true hermaphrodites, featuring both male and female sexual anatomy, as well as functioning breasts.

· 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.

· Patrick "Pussy" Braden, the heroine of Patrick McCabe's Breakfast on Pluto, which takes place in Ireland during the height of the IRA. Made into a film in 2005 starring Cillian Murphy.

· Bree, a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual played by Felicity Huffman in the 2005 film Transamerica.

· Myra Breckinridge, transsexual character in two best-selling novels by Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge and Myron, and a well-known film.

· Bridget, biologically male but raised and dresses as a girl. Appears in the Guilty Gear series of fighting games.

· Liane Cartman, parent of Eric Cartman and local hermaphrodite in the fictional town of South Park

· Chloe, pre-operative transsexual nightclub singer from the comic book How Loathsome by Ted Naifeh and Tristan Crane.

· Hayley Cropper, transsexual character in the popular 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.