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Louise Abbéma (1858-1927), French painter¨Bernice Abbott (1898-1991), U.S. photographerJ.R. Ackerly (Joe Randolph Ackerly, 1896-1967), British writer¨Gloria Anzaldua (1942-2004) U.S. writer and Chicana/lesbian activist¨Mercedes de Acosta (1893-1967), U.S. writerJane Addams (1866-1935), U.S. social reformer¨ Edward Albee (1928- ), U.S. playwright¨ Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.), Macedonian general and ruler¨Vincente Aleixandre (1898-1984), Spanish poet¨Horatio Alger (1832-1899), U.S. writer¨ Nestor Almendros (1930- ), Spanish-born filmmaker¨Pedro Almodovar (1949- ), Spanish filmmaker¨Manuel Altolaguirre (1904-1959), Spanish poet and printer¨ Emily Anderson (1956- ), British photographer¨Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), Danish writer¨ Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), U.S. social reformer¨ Pavel Grigorievich Antolkolsky (1896-1978), Russian poet, critic, stage director, publisher¨Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), French poet and critic¨Virginia M. Apuzzo (1940- ), U.S. activist¨Louis Aragon (1897-1982), French writer¨Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), Cuban-born U.S. writer¨ Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher¨Dorothy Arzner (1900-1979), U.S. filmmaker¨John Ash (1948- ), British poet and literary critic¨Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942), British architect, designer, and writer¨John Ashbery (1927- ), U.S. poet and critic¨ W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), British poet, critic, and scholar¨ R.S.S. Baden-Powell (1857-1941), British soldier (and founder of the Boy Scouts) ¨ Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), British scientist, writer, statesman¨Francis Bacon (1910-1992), Irish-born British painter¨Joan Baez (1941- ), U.S. singer¨ James Baldwin (1924-1988), U.S. writer¨Ann Bancroft (1955- ), U.S. explorer and teacher¨Herman Bang (1857-1912), Danish novelist¨Tallulah Bankhead (1902-1968), U.S. actress¨Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), U.S. scientist¨John Banting (1902-1972), British artist¨

Samuel Barber (1910-1981), U.S. composer¨Dame Lillian Charlotte Barker (1874-1955), British educator and prison administrator¨Djuna Barnes (1892-1982), U.S. writer¨Natalie Clifford Barney (1877-1972), U.S. writer, arts patron¨Sir James M. Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish writer¨Paul Bartel (1938- ), U.S. filmmaker¨Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French writer, critic, philosopher¨ Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet¨ Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), U.S. arts patron, publisher¨Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), British illustrator and writer¨Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), British designer, photographer, writer¨ Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), German composer¨Brendan Behan (1923-1964), Irish playwright and poet¨Arthur Bell (1939-1984), U.S. writer, activist¨ Jacinto Benavente y Martínez (1866-1954), Spanish playwright¨ Michael Bennett (1943-1987), U.S. choreographer¨ Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), French actress¨Leonard Bernstein (1918-1991), U.S. composer, conductor¨ Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet¨Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950), U.S. activist and feminist¨ Emily Blackwell (1826-1910), U.S. physician¨Marie-Claire Blais (1939- ), Canadian novelist¨ William Blake (1757-1827), British poet, artist¨ Dirk Bogarde (Dirk Niven van de Bogaerde, 1921- ), British actor¨ Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), French artist¨ Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans (1895-1952), Dutch pianist and composer¨Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510), Italian artist¨Antonio Botto (1902-1959), Portuguese poet¨ Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973), Irish writer¨David Bowie (David Robert Jones, 1947- ), British singer, actor¨Jane Bowles (1917-1973), U.S. writer¨Paul Bowles (1910-) U.S. writer¨

Malcolm Boyd (1923- ), U.S. minister, activist, writer¨ Benjamin Britten (1913-1977), British composer¨ Romaine Brooks (Beatrice Romaine Goddard, 1874-1970), Italian-born U.S. painter who lived in France¨ Rita Mae Brown (1944- ), U.S. writer¨ William Burroughs (1914- ), U.S. writer¨Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890), British explorer and scholar¨John Cage (1942- ), U.S. composer and music theorist¨ Emma Calvé (1858-1942), French opera singer¨ Roy Campbell (1901-1957), South African poet¨Renaud Camus (1946- ), French novelist¨Antonio Canova (1757-1822), Italian sculptor¨Truman Capote (1924-1984), U.S. writer¨ Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1569-1609), Italian artist¨ Willa Cather (1873-1947), U.S. writer¨ Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), Italian sculptor, writer¨ John Cheever (1912-1982), U.S. writer¨ Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849), French composer born in Poland¨ Craig Claiborne (1920- ), U.S. writer, gourmet¨ Montgomery Clift (1920-1966), U.S. actor¨ Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French writer, artist, filmmaker¨Roy Cohn (1927-1986), U.S. attorney¨Jack Cole (1911-1974), U.S. dancer and choreographer¨Colette (Sidonie-Gabrille Colette Goudeket, 1873-1954), French writer¨ Cyril Connolly (1903-1974), British editor, critic¨Aaron Copland (1900-1991), U.S. composer¨ Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713), Italian composer¨ Alfred Corn (1943- ), U.S. poet¨Katharine Cornell (1893-1974), U.S. actress¨ Sir Noel Coward (1899-1973), British playwright, actor, composer

¨ Hart Crane (1899-1932), U.S. poet¨Stephen Crane (1871-1900), U.S. writer¨ Quentin Crisp (1908- ), British writer and critic¨Aleister Crowley (Edward Alexander Crowley, 1875-1947), British adventurer, occultist, and writer¨George Cukor (1899-1983), U.S. film director¨ Merce Cunningham (1919- ), U.S. dancer and choreographer¨John Curry (1949- ), British athlete¨Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Italian poet and politician¨ Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), French artist¨ James Dean (1931-1955), U.S. actor¨Claude Debussy (1862-1918), French composer¨Eugéne Delacroix (1799-1863), French artist¨Frederick Delius (1862-1934), British composer¨Elsie De Wolfe (Lady Elsie De Wolfe Mendl, 1865-1950), U.S. interior designer¨Serge de Diaghilev (1872-1918), Russian ballet impresario¨ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), U.S. poet¨Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862-1932), British historian and humanist¨Marlene Dietrich (Maria Magdalene von Losch, 1901-1992), German-born actress¨Jim Dine (1935- ), U.S. artist¨Christian Dior (1905-1957)), French fashion designer¨Hilda Doolittle ("H.D.," 1886-1961), U.S. poet and scholar¨Lord Alfred Douglas (1870-1945), British writer¨Isadora Duncan (1877-1927), U.S. choreographer and dancer¨ Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), German artist¨ Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), Russian film director

¨ Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), British psychologist¨Perry Ellis (1940-1986), U.S. fashion designer¨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. philosopher and writer¨ Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch scholar and theologian¨Sergei Esenin (1895-1925), Russian poet¨Angel Estrada (1958-1989), Spanish fashion designer living in the U.S. ¨ Euripides (480-406 B.C.E.), Athenian playwright¨Frederick William Faber (1814-1863), British hymn-writer and theologian¨ Manuel de Falla y Mattheu (1876-1946), Spanish composer¨Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1946-1982), German film director, actor, writer¨ Leonor Fini (b. 1908), Italian painter¨Janet Flanner ("Genet," 1892-1978), U.S. journalist¨Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), French writer¨ Errol Flynn (1909-1959), U.S. actor¨ Stephen Foster (1826-1864), U.S. composer¨Michel Foucault (1926-1984), French philosopher and scholar¨Barney Frank (1940- ), U.S. politician¨ Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), U.S. journalist and reformer¨Greta Garbo (1905-1990), Swedish actress¨Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), Spanish writer¨Jedd Garet (1955- ), U.S. artist¨ Jean Genet (1910-1986), French writer¨ Rudi Gernreich (1922-1985), U.S. fashion designer¨George Gershwin (1898-1937), U.S. composer¨André Gide (1869-1951), French writer¨Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud (1904- ), British actor, director¨ Laura Gilpin (1891-1979), U.S. photographer¨Allen Ginsberg (1926- ), U.S. poet¨ Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), Russian writer¨Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Lithuanian-born U.S. revolutionary, lecturer, journalist¨Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), Polish writer¨ Edward Gorey (1925- ), U.S. artist and illustrator¨ Edmund Goulding (1891-1959), British-born filmmaker¨Juan Goytisolo Gay (1931- ), Spanish writer¨ Eileen Gray (Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray, 1878-1976), Irish architect, designer¨ Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), Norwegian composer¨Barbara Grier ("Gene Damon," 1933- ), U.S. writer and publisher¨ Radclyffe Hall (Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, 1880-1943), British writer¨ Halston (Roy Halston Frowick, 1932-1990), U.S. fashion designer¨ Edith Hamilton (1867-1963), U.S. classicist

¨ Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961), Swedish diplomat¨Barbara Hammer (1939- ), U.S. filmmaker¨Harmony Lynn Hammond (1944- ), U.S. artist¨Christopher Hampton (1946- ), British playwright¨George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), German composer¨ Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), U.S. playwright¨Keith Haring (1958-1990), U.S. artist¨ Lorenz Hart (1895-1943), U.S. songwriter¨Lorena Hickok (1892-1968), U.S. journalist, writer¨ David Hockney (1937- ), British artist¨ Winslow Homer (1836-1910), U.S. artist¨J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), U.S. criminologist¨Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet¨ Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989), Russian-born U.S. pianist¨ A.E. Housman (1859-1936), British poet, teacher, scholar¨Rock Hudson (Roy Scherer, 1925-1985), U.S. actor¨Langston Hughes (1902-1967), U.S. writer¨ Alberta Hunter (1895-1984), U.S. singer¨David Hutter (1935- ), British painter¨ Janis Ian (1951- ), U.S. singer and songwriter¨ Robert Indiana (1928- ), U.S. artist¨William Inge (1913-1973), U.S. playwright¨ Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), U.S. writer born in England¨ George Cecil Ives (1867-1950), British writer born in Germany¨ Max Jacob (1876-1944), French poet, artist¨ Henry James (1843-1916), British writer¨ Elton John (1947- ), British singer¨ Jasper Johns (1930- ), U.S. artist¨ Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Mexican painter¨ Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), U.S. writer¨ Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1955), Danish philosopher, theologian¨Billie Jean King (1943- ), U.S. athlete, sports commentator¨Larry Kramer (1935- ), U.S. writer and activist¨Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), Swedish novelist¨ Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), Polish musician and composer¨lang, k.d. (Kathy Dawn Lang, 1961- ), Canadian singer¨ Charles Laughton (1899-1962), British actor¨Marie Laurencin (1885-1956), French painter¨ D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British writer¨ Edward Lear (1812-1888), British writer and illustrator¨ Violette Leduc (1907-1972), French writer

¨ Ursula Kroeber LeGuin (1929- ), U.S. novelist¨ Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian artist, scientist, inventor¨ Liberace (Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 1919-1987), U.S. entertainer¨ Beatrice Lillie (1898-1989), Canadian-born U.S. actress¨José Lezama Lima (1910-1976), Cuban novelist and poet¨Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931), U.S. poet¨ Jack London (1876-1916), U.S. writer¨Audre Lorde (1934-1992), U.S. writer¨ Amy Lowell (1874-1925), U.S. poet¨ Paul Lynde (1926-1982), U.S. actor¨George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), U.S. photographer¨Phyllis Lyon (1924- ), U.S. writer¨Carson McCullers (1917-1967), U.S. writer¨ Ian McKellen (1939- ), British actor¨ Rod McKuen (1933- ), U.S. poet¨Niccolň Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian statesman, philosopher¨Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German writer¨ Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), New Zealand writer¨Robert Mapplethorpe (1947-1989), U.S. photographer¨ Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), British playwright¨ W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), British writer¨Armistead Maupin (1944- ), U.S. writer¨Francois Mauriac (1885-1970), French writer ¨Elsa Maxwell (1883-1963), U.S. journalist, socialite¨ Margaret Mead (1901-1978), U.S. anthropologist¨ Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. writer¨Elsie De Wolfe Mendl (1865-1950), U.S. interior designer¨ Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- ), U.S. composer¨ James Ingram Merrill (1926- ), U.S. poet¨Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Italian artist¨ Harvey Milk (1930-1978), U.S. politician, political activist¨Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1915), U.S. poet, playwright¨ Kate Millet (1934- ), U.S. writer, feminist¨ Sal Mineo (1939-1976), U.S. actor¨ Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka, 1925-1970), Japanese writer¨ Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moličre (1622-1673), French playwright

¨ Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French writer¨Marianne Moore (1887-1972), U.S. poet¨Cherríe Moraga (1952- ), U.S. writer¨ Julia Morgan (1872-1957), U.S. architect¨ Mark Morris (1957- ), U.S. dancer and choreographer¨ Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), composer¨ Martina Navratilova (1956- ), U.S. athlete¨Alla Nazimova (1879-1945), Russian actress¨ Joan Nestle (1940- ), U.S. writer¨ Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British scientist¨ Vaslav Fomitch Nijinski (1890?-1950), Russian dancer¨ Anaďs Nin (1903-1977), U.S. writer¨ Ramon Novarro (Ramon Samaniegos, 1899-1968), Mexican-American actor¨Himilce Novas (1944-) U.S. writer¨ Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), Russian dancer¨Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), U.S. painter¨Seiko Okuhara (1837-1913), Japanese poet¨ Miguel Ángel Osirio [Benitez] ("Porfirio Barba Jacob" and "Ricardo Arenales," 1883-1942), Colombian poet¨ Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), British poet¨Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), Italian film director¨James Mills Peirce (1834-1906), U.S. mathematician¨Sandro Penna (1906-1977), Italian poet and prose writer¨ Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Portuguese poet¨ Gerard Philipe (1922-1959), French actor¨ Pindar (522?-443 B.C.E.), Theban poet¨ Plato (427-347 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher¨ William (Charles Franklyn) Plomer (1903-1973), South African writer¨ Cole Porter (1891-1964), U.S. songwriter¨Jill Posner (1953- ), British photographer¨ Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), French composer¨ Tyrone Power (1914-1958), U.S. actor¨ Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French writer

¨ Manuel Puig (1932-1990), Argentine writer¨ Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), U.S. actress, writer, scholar¨ Raphael (Raphael Santi, 1483-1520), Italian artist¨ Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), French composer¨Johnnie Ray (1927-1990), U.S. singer¨ Michael Redgrave (1908-1985), British actor¨ Mary Renault (Mary Challans, 1905-1983), British novelist¨Cecil John Rhodes (1853-1902), British statesman, capitalist¨ Adrienne Rich (1929- ), U.S. poet, critic¨ Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), Austrian poet¨Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), French poet¨N.A. Rimski-Korsakov (1844-1908), Russian composer¨Larry Rivers (1923- ), U.S. painter and sculptor¨ Paul Robeson (1898-1976), U.S. singer, actor, political activist¨ Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), French artist¨ Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), U.S. diplomat and reformer¨ Jane Rule (1931- ), Canadian writer¨ Vito Russo (1946-1990), U.S. film critic, film historian, and activist¨ Vita Sackville-West (Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 1892-1962), British writer¨ Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), French composer¨Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870-1916), British writer¨George Santayana (1863-1952), U.S. philosopher¨ Sappho (6th century B.C.E.), Greek poet¨John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), U.S. painter¨May Sarton (1912-1995), U.S. writer¨Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher¨Franz Schubert (1797-1828), German composer¨ Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet¨Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), British poet¨ Bessie Smith (1894-1937), U.S. singer¨Jerry Smith (1943-1986), U.S. athlete¨Willi Smith (1948-1987), U.S. fashion designer¨ Socrates (469?-339 B.C.E.), Athenian philosopher¨ Sophocles (496?-406 B.C.E.), Athenian dramatist and soldier¨ Madame de Stael (1766-1817), French writer¨ Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S.-born writer and arts patron¨ Lucy Stone (1818-1893), U.S. reformer, feminist¨ Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian-born composer¨ August Strindberg (1849-1912), Swedish writer¨Gerry E. Studds (1937- ), U.S. politician¨ May Swenson (1913-1989), U.S. poet¨Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), British poet¨Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer¨ Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), U.S. poet¨Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), German composer

¨Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet¨Edna Lewis Thomas (1886-1974), U.S. actress¨ Virgil Thompson (1896-1989), U.S. composer and music critic¨Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. writer¨Alice B. Toklas (1880-1967), U.S. writer¨ Peter Townshend (1945- ), British composer, musician, writer¨ Lady Una Troubridge (1887-1963), British writer, singer, sculptor¨ Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926), Italian-American actor¨ Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Italian composer¨Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), French poet¨Jules Verne (1828-1905), French writer¨ Gore Vidal (1925- ), U.S. writer¨ Luchino Visconti (1906-1976), Italian filmmaker¨ Richard Wagner (1813-1883), German composer¨ Ethel Walker (1861-1951), British painter¨ Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola, II, 1928-1987), U.S. artist and filmmaker¨Ethel Waters (1900-1977), U.S. singer¨Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966), British writer¨Bruce Webber (1951- ), U.S. photographer¨ Walt Whitman (1819-1892), U.S. poet¨ Oscar Wilde (1856-1900), Irish writer¨Thronton Wilder (1897-1975), U.S. writer¨ Tennessee Williams (1911-1985), U.S. playwright¨Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher¨Monique Wittig (1935- ), French novelist¨ Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), British writer¨Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British writer¨Stark Young (1881-1963), U.S. writer and educator¨Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), French writer, critic, scholar.
                                           

 

       

 

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