Notable nonbinary people

Notable nonbinary people include celebrities, activists, and historical figures who identify outside of the Western gender binary, regardless of whether they have used the word "nonbinary" for themselves. They may call themselves genderqueer, use an indigenous word for their identity, or they may simply describe their identity with words like "I'm not a man or a woman," "I'm some percentage of both," or "I often change back and forth." They were not necessarily born physically intersex, and they do not necessarily transition. This article is about a few such people who are well-known. Due to the nature of how people beocme well-known, people who are musicians, actors, or activists tend to be overrepresented in this list. (There many more nonbinary people all over the world who are not famous, and who have a other types of careers.) The entries in the below table are sorted alphabetically by surname. You can click on the headings to change it to sort by birthdate, nationality, or gender identity instead.

Name	Birth year	Nationality	Gender identity	Occupation, accomplishments
Courtney Act	1982	Australian	Genderqueer	Drag queen, singer, television personality
Aja	1994	American	Genderfluid	Drag queen, rapper, television personality
Travis Alabanza	1996	British	Gender non-conforming	Performance artist, poet, writer, LGBTQ rights activist
Kaitlyn Alexander	1992	Canadian	Nonbinary	Actor, writer, web series creator and YouTube personality
Olly Alexander	1990	English	Nonbinary. Alexander said, "I feel very nonbinary, and you know, I identify as gay and queer and nonbinary[...]"	Singer, songwriter, actor, and activist
Ser Anzoategui	1979	American	nonbinary	Actor. Best known for portraying the butch widow Eddy on the drama Vida (2018-2020), and the masculine of center character Daysi Cantu on East Los High (2015-2016). Anzoategui was nominated for “Best Supporting Actor” for their Vida performance at the 2019 Imagen Awards.
Qween Amor	1989	American		Dancer
Arca	1989	Venezuelan	Nonbinary	Record producer, singer
Ruth Baldacchino	1979	Maltese	Nonbinary	Activist
Meg-John Barker	1974	British	Plural / nonbinary	Author, speaker, consultant, activist
Thomas Baty	1869	British	Nonbinary	Lawyer, writer, editor of the feminist gender studies journal Urania
B-Complex	1984	Slovakian	Bigender. "I happen to be transgendered person as well, bi-gender in particular." Prefers the name Maťo when presenting as a man and the name Matia when presenting as a woman.	Music producer and DJ. The artist's first major label release was "Beautiful Lies", which appeared on the compilation Sick Music from Hospital Records. The compilation went on to reach the top 30 on the iTunes UK Download Chart, and was in the top 5 on the Beatport Drum and Bass Chart.
Marjorie Beaucage	1947	Canadian	Two-spirit	Filmmaker and teacher
Mal Blum	1988	American	Nonbinary	Musician, Singer
Justin Vivian Bond	1963	American	Bond said, "for me to claim to be either a man or a woman, feels like a lie. My identity falls somewhere in the middle and is constantly shifting."	Singer-songwriter, author, painter, performance artist, actor. Most famous for v's cabaret character Kiki DuRane. Bond is a Tony-nominated (2007) performer who has received GLAAD (2000), Obie (2001), Bessie (2004), Ethyl (2007), and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists (2012) awards.
Kate Bornstein	1948	American	Nonbinary. Currently (as of 2019), Bornstein's site says they identify as nonbinary. Bornstein has said, "I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man." Their transition included gender affirmation surgery.	Author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
Tony Briffa	1969	Australian	Nonbinary, which Briffa says reflects the intersex condition with which she was born. She obtained a birth certificate with a blank sex designation. "My natural female and male biology also reflected how I felt as a person. I'm more than just a woman or a man - I'm both."	Politician and intersex advocate. The world's first openly intersex person elected into public office.
Pandora Boxx	1972	American	Genderfluid	Drag queen, television personality
Rhea Butcher	1982	American	Nonbinary	Actor, comedian
Alec Butler	1959	Canadian	Two-spirit	Playwright and filmmaker
Judith Butler	1956	American	Nonbinary	Philosopher, gender theorist
Claude Cahun	1894	French	neuter. In their autobiography, Disavowals, they explained, “Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.”	Artist in the surrealist movement. Writing, photography, and theatre. Most remembered for highly staged self-portraits and tableaux. Cahun and their life partner Marcel Moore were both Jewish, adopted gender-neutral names, and often collaborated together in art. In WWII, the couple engaged in resistance work and activism against the Nazis during the German occupation of France.
Anna-Varney Cantodea	Unknown, 20th century	German	Genderqueer	Musician, singer-songwriter
Nicky Case	Unknown, 20th century	Canadian	Genderqueer and nonbinary	Independent video game developer
Cassils	Unknown, 20th century	Canadian	Gender non-conforming	Performance artist, body builder, personal trainer
Violet Chachki	1992	American	Genderfluid	Drag queen, model, television personality
Parinya Charoenphol	1981	Thai	Kathoey	Boxer (Muay Thai boxer)
Chrystos	1946	American	Two-spirit	Poet and activist
Jonatahn Rachel Clynch	1971	Irish	Genderfluid. "One of Irish broadcaster RTE’s best-known journalists just [in 2015] came out as 'gender fluid,' and the response so far seems wholly positive."	Journalist
Shea Couleé	1989	American	Nonbinary	Drag queen, musician, television personality
Edward Cowley	Unknown, 20th century	New Zealand	Fa'afafine	Entertainer
Ivan E. Coyote	1969	Canadian	Butch: "Nobody taught me how to be butch; I didn't even hear the word until I was twenty years old. I first became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was". Coyote describes themself as "a trans person who doesn't fit neatly into the gender binary," and has said "I don't want to be a man but don’t feel like a woman either, and that's a difficult place to be in, yet that is my authentic self and there is nothing harder than spending an entire lifetime trying to cover up your authentic self."	Writer. Coyote has made significant contributions to the representation of queerness in Canadian literature. They have won the ReLit Award for Best Fiction (2007), and the Stonewall Honor Book Award (2017).
Miley Cyrus	1992	American	Cyrus said in a 2015 interview, “I didn’t want to be a boy, ... I kind of wanted to be nothing. I don’t relate to what people would say defines a girl or a boy, and I think that’s what I had to understand: Being a girl isn’t what I hate, it’s the box that I get put into.”	Singer, songwriter, and actor. Cyrus was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in both 2008 and 2014.
Adore Delano	1989	American	Nonbinary	Singer, songwriter, drag queen, television personality
Sam de Leve	Unknown, 20th century	American	half-boy, as said in their Twitter bio.	Actor, dancer, writer. Plays non-binary characters for the Geek & Sundry [2] and Saving Throw multimedia networks.
Cara Delevingne	1992	British	Genderfluid	Model and actor
Asia Kate Dillon	1984	American	Non-binary	Actor
Tommy Dorfman	1992	American	Nonbinary	Actor
Rain Dove	1989	American	zero gender, all gender. Dove said, "in all reality... I am nothing. Neither a man nor woman. I am a human. I just have specific anatomical capacities that I am satiated with and do not want to change." "I don’t identify as 'male' or 'female' but rather as I am I.". Often tweets with the #genderqueer hashtag.	Model, actor, and activist. Dove uses their naturally androgynous look to model for both men's and women's lines of clothing.
Du Blonde	1990	English	[Nonbinary]] and queer. "I've always known I’m non-binary, I just didn't always have the words to describe it."	Musician, artist, animator
Dorian Electra	1992	American	Genderfluid	Singer, songwriter, video and performance artist
Laganja Estranja	1988	American	GenderfluidTemplate:Failed verification "Styling is so important to me as a genderfluid person, to be able to say “I’m a very flaming flammable guy”... it’s just very satisfying, ’cause that’s how I see myself, but I know it’s not necessarily how other people see me – they still call me ‘ma’am’ and stuff like that."	Drag queen, television personality
Miss Fame	1985	American	Genderfluid	Drag queen, makeup artist, model, television personality
Florian-Ayala Fauna	Unknown, 20th century	American	Androgyne	Artist, musician, and music producer
Waawaate Fobister	Unknown, 20th century	Canada	Two-spirit	Playwright and actor
Tyler Ford	1990	American	Agender	Writer, public speaker
Wikipedia:Public Universal Friend	1752	American	Genderless. The Friend's transition started with a religious vision as part of a near-death experience at age 26, followed by a name change to the Public Universal Friend, wearing androgynous clothing, and asking that others use no pronouns for this person.	Preacher. The Friend traveled the early USA on horseback, preaching a theology similar to that of orthodox Quakers, attracting many followers who became the Society of Universal Friends. The Friend persuaded followers who owned slaves to free them. The followers included people who were black, and many unmarried women who took on prominent roles in their communities usually reserved for men.
Ketty Gabriele	1981	Italy	Femminiello	Mafia figure
Sarah Gailey	Unknown, 20th century	American	Nonbinary	Writer
River Gallo	1990/1991?	Salvadoran-American	Genderqueer	Filmmaker, actor, model, activist. Gallo wrote, directed, and acted in the 2019 short film Ponyboi, which is the first film to feature an openly intersex actor playing an intersex person.
Melanie Gillman	Unknown, 20th century	American	Nonbinary	Cartoonist
Gigi Goode	1997/1998	American	Genderfluid	Drag queen, television personality
Grimes	1988	Canadian	Gender neutral	Musician
Grey Gritt	Unknown, 20th century	Canadian	Nonbinary	Musician
Raeen Roes, stage name Angel Haze	1991	American	Agender. They announced on Twitter that they were agender.	Rapper, lyricist, singer. They have been nominated for awards with MTV, O Music Awards, BET Awards, and GLAAD Music Awards.
Johanna Hedva	1982	Korean American	Genderqueer	Artist and author in disability studies
Féi Hernandez	1993	Mexican-American	Nonbinary	Artist, writer, and reiki healer. Their writing has been featured in NPR’s Code Switch, Immigrant Review, Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity (Columbia University Press, 2019), Good Mood, LiveWire Issue 7, Hayden's Ferry Issue 64, BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNEXT and the March issue of POETRY Magazine. Hernandez’s art work has been showcased at Galería de La Raza and Residency Gallery as part of Inglewood Studios.
Liv Hewson	1995	Australian	Nonbinary	Actor and playwright. Hewson starred in Santa Clarita Diet, Before I Fall, and Dramaworld. In 2020, they received the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award for their LGBT+ advocacy.
Lann Hornscheidt	1965	German	Nonbinary	Academic
Jana Hunter	Unknown, 20th century	American	Genderfluid	Songwriter and musician
Eddie Izzard	1962	British	Izzard identifies primarily as a transvestite, but also uses the word transgender, and has stated "I am 100% boy, plus extra girl." "I am a transgender guy. [...] I identify somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish. I identify both but I fancy women."	Comedian, actor and writer. Izzard has won numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award.
Andre J.	1979	American	Genderless	Party promoter
Elly Jackson	1988	British	Jackson said, "I don't feel like I'm female or male."	Singer-songwriter and the lead singer of the electropop duo La Roux.
Jennie June	1874	American	Androgyne, invert, urning, bisexual (in the sense of being both male and female), and fairie, which were contemporary terms for gender and sexual variance. June wrote of feeling like a combination of male and female, and of alternating between these two gender expressions.	Law clerk, and activist for the human rights of inverts. June was one of the earliest trans people to publish an autobiography in the USA. June's goal in writing these books was to help create an accepting environment for young adults who don't conform to gender and sexual norms, and to prevent them from committing suicide. June formed an androgyne rights group, the Cercle Hermaphroditos, along with other androgynes in New York, "to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution," and to show that it was natural to be gender and sex variant.
M.A.JOY	Unknown	Japan	X-gender	Cartoonist
Yuhki Kamatani	1983	Japan	X-gender	Cartoonist
Jesse James Keitel	Unknown, 20th century	American	Nonbinary	Actor
Shigeyuki Kihara	1975	Samoa	Fa'afafine	Artist
Maia Kobabe	Unknown, 20th century	American	Genderqueer. Kobabe created a graphic novel called Gender Queer: A memoir.	Cartoonist
Janae Kroc	1972	American	Genderfluid	Author, bodybuilder, Marine, model, pharmacist, powerlifter
Richard LaFortune	1960	American	Two-Spirit	Author, activist
Jiz Lee	1980	American	Agender	Actor in adult films
R.B. Lemberg	1976	American; born in Ukraine	Bigender. "I am bigender and I align both with masculinity and femininity."	Writer, poet, editor, professor. Lemberg's speculative fiction has been published in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Sisters of the Revolution, and Uncanny Magazine.
CN Lester	1984	British	Genderqueer	Singer-songwriter
Brigette Lundy-Paine	1994	American	Nonbinary "I'm non-binary, always felt a lil bit boy, lil bit girl, lil bit neither."	Actor. Known for acting in Atypical and The Glass Castle.
Alex MacFarlane	Unknown, 20th century	Australian	Androgynous	Notable as first person known with an 'X' sex marker on passport
Gopi Shankar Madurai	1991	Indian	Genderqueer	Writer, speaker, politician, equal rights activist, recipient of The Commonwealth Award
Marion Malena	Unknown, 20th century	American Samoa	Fa'afafine	Beauty pageant
Kelly Mantle	1976	American	Genderfluid	Actor, television personality, drag queen
Jeffrey Marsh	1977	American	Genderqueer	Social media activist
Shabnam Mausi	Unknown, 20th century	India	Hijra	Politician. First hijra in India elected to public office.
Rose McGowan	1973	American	Nonbinary	Actor, model, singer and author
Foz Meadows	Unknown, 20th century	Australian	Genderqueer. "[A]t the age of twenty-nine, I realised I was genderqueer."	Writer. Meadows is a Hugo Award winning novelist and blogger.
Bethany C. Meyers	1990	American	Genderfluid/nonbinary. "When I get comments about not being 'gay enough' it hurts. Aside from the way my marriage may look to others, I'm pretty gay. I'm attracted to women, I date women, I sleep with women, my friends are queer, I feel/think queer, I identity as gender fluid / non-binary, my partner the same."	Fitness entrepreneur and LGBTQ activist. Bethany C. Meyers launched the fitness app for be.come, specializing in body-positive workouts. They also gave a TED talk on empowerment and body neutrality.
Ezra Miller	1992	American	Miller said in 2018, "I don't identify as a man. I don't identify as a woman. I barely identify as a human."	Actor and singer
sj Miller	1970	American	Agender	Academic and social justice activist
Casey Mongillo	1987	American	Nonbinary. "I'm like this weird non binary alien nerd and I think I'm okay with that."	Voice actor. Mongillo has played many roles in animation and video games, best known for portraying lead character Shinji Ikari in the Netflix English dub of Neon Genesis Evangelion. Carol Grant, in an opinion piece for Vice, wrote that Shinji being played by a trans actor made the series feel more queer, saying that "Mongillo's delivery captures the delicate interplay between the masculine and feminine aspects of Shinji's voice and personality, bringing his bodily and gendered anxieties to life".
Kent Monkman	1965	Canadian	Two-Spirit	Artist
Jack Monroe	1988	British	Nonbinary transgender	Journalist
Jinkx Monsoon	1987	American	Genderless. In a Facebook post about transphobia and the drag scene, Monsoon said, "I, myself do not identify as cis-gendered. I am genderless."	Actor, singer and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 5.
Indya Moore	1994/1995	American	Nonbinary	Actor, model
Richard O'Brien	1942	Britain and New Zealand	Transgender. In a 2009 interview O'Brien spoke about an ongoing struggle to reconcile cultural gender roles and self-described as being transgender or possible third sex. O'Brien stated, "There is a continuum between male and female. Some are hard-wired one way or another, I’m in between." O'Brien expounded on this in a 2013 interview which covered using oestrogen for the previous decade, and identifying as 70% male 30% female.	Writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. O'Brien wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, which became an international success and has remained in continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay of the film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show, released in 1975, appearing in the film as Riff Raff.
Eureka O'Hara	1990	American	Genderfluid, gender-neutral	Drag queen, television personality
Osh-Tisch (Finds Them And Kills Them)	1854	Crow Nation	Badé	Warrior, artisan, medicine person
Pidgeon Pagonis	1986	American	Nonbinary	Activist for intersex human rights
A. W. Peet	Unknown, 20th century	New Zealand, Canada	Nonbinary	Physicist, string theory and quantum gravity
Planningtorock		British	Genderqueer	Musician
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge	1950	British	Pandrogyne. After marrying Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge in 1993, Genesis and Lady Jaye began the performance art piece "project Pandrogeny" to become Breyer P-Orridge, an entity described as an "amalgam" of their two selves. Genesis Breyer P-Orridge continued this project after the death of Lady Jaye in 2007.	Singer-songwriter, musician, poet, writer, performance artist
King Princess	1998	American	Genderqueer	Musician, singer-songwriter
Fuimaono Karl Pulotu-Endemann	Unknown, 20th century	Samoan Islands	Fa'afafine	Medical professional
Chris Pureka	1979	American	Genderqueer	Singer-songwriter
Amy Ray	1964	American	Ray said, "I am half and half and whatever you call me is fine. [...] I work every day to be comfortable in my body and in rare transcendent moments, I am, but it’s the job of my lifetime to appreciate my physicality and always project what is inside me so I can celebrate this life I’ve been given."	Singer-songwriter. Ray is a member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released six albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemon Records.
A. Revathi	Unknown, 20th century	India	Hijra	Writer and actor
Raquel Salas Rivera	1985	Puerto Rican	Nonbinary.	Poet. Rivera won the Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.
L.J. Roberts	1980	American	Genderqueer	Artist (textile artist)
Megan Rohrer	1980	American		Pastor and activist
Ruby Rose	1986	Australian	Genderfluid	Singer, actor, model, and television presenter. Rose has won the ASTRA Awards, GQ Australia, GLAAD Media Awards, and the Australian LGBTI Awards.
Jaiyah Saelua	1988	American Samoa	Fa'afafine	Association football player
Justin Saint	1987	Canadian; born in the Philippines.	Plural (mixed), according to Facebook bio.	Writer, makeup artist, cosplayer, queer advocate.
JD Samson	1978	American	Genderqueer and a gender outlaw. "I do mostly go by she and her and I consider myself a woman in most senses of the word. I sometimes consider myself part of the trans community and I don't mind at all when people call me he if that's how they see me.	Musician, with the bands Le Tigre and MEN.
Shamir	1994	American	Non-binary	Singer-songwriter
Victoria Sin	1991	Canadian	Nonbinary	Artist, drag performer
SMITH	1985	French		Artist and film-maker
Sam Smith	1992	British	Nonbinary and genderqueer "When asked if they feel like a cisgender man, they [Smith] replied: ‘No. I mean, I’ve got these tattoos on my fingers.’ They pointed to small tattoos of the gender symbols and smiled: ‘I don’t know what the title would be but I feel just as much woman as I am man.’"	Singer. Smith is a top-charting singer and songwriter.
Joey Soloway	1965	American	Nonbinary, gender non-conforming	Writer, director, producer
Rae Spoon	1982	Canadian	After a decade of living as a trans man, Spoon noted a preference for the pronoun "they" in 2012 during an interview with cartoonist Elisha Lim, a fellow advocate for the gender-neutral pronoun. They explained to Now Magazine, "after years of fighting to be called 'he,' the idea of coming out again made me tired. But now I feel kind of rejuvenated, ready to fight on some more. I think the 'they' pronoun is a pretty cool thing. It's letting a lot of people not have to identify as a man or a woman. Whatever it means to them."	Musician and writer. Spoon was awarded an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014.
Amandla Stenberg	1998	American	Nonbinary	Actor and singer. Stenberg has won the BET Awards for YoungStar Award. Stenberg acted in feature films such as The Hunger Games. Stenberg was included in Time's list of Most Influential Teens in both 2015 and 2016. In 2016, she was included in Oprah Winfrey's SuperSoul 100 list of visionaries and influential leaders.
Noelle Stevenson	1991	United States	Nonbinary	Cartoonist. Creator of the rebooted animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, and the graphic novel Nimona.
Ciarán Strange]	Unknown, 20th century.	English and Canadian	genderqueer and genderfluid.	Singer, songwriter, actor
Rebecca Sugar	1987	American	Nonbinary woman	Animator, director, screenwriter, producer, and songwriter
Tanwarin Sukkhapisit		Thai	Nonbinary	Filmmaker, politician
Emma Sulkowicz	1992	American	Nonbinary	Performance artist, activist
Eliot Sumner	1990	British	"Asked if she had come out to her friends and family, she [Eliot Sumner] said that she hadn’t because 'no one had ever asked'. 'They knew already,' she added. 'So I didn’t need to. I’ve never come out to anyone. My friends always knew and I always knew'. [...] She said she did not believe in gender “labels” and preferred to dress down, shunning the glamour attached to some singers. Asked whether she identified with a particular gender, she replied 'no', saying she defined herself simply as a 'musician'. 'I don’t believe in any specifications,' she said." (Note that this article uses "she" pronouns for Sumner, but Sumner's pronoun preference hasn't been stated.)	Musician, singer-songwriter. Sumner is also well-known due to being the child of Sting.
Tilda Swinton	1960	British	"I don’t know if I could ever really say that I was a girl – I was kind of a boy for a long time. I don’t know, who knows? It changes."	Actor. Swinton has won numerous awards for her career as an actor, including an Academy Award, the BAFTA Scotland Award, the Volpi Cup, the European Film Award, and the Richard Harris Award. Swinton has played gender-variant characters, such as the lead in Orlando, and the genderless angel Gabriel in Constantine.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore	1973	American	Genderqueer	Author and activist
Bogi Takács	1983	American; born in Hungary	Agender, according to Twitter bio.	Writer, psycholinguist, editor, translator. They are Jewish, and have written Torah-inspired work. They won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction.
Bex Taylor-Klaus	1994	American	Nonbinary	Actor
Kae Tempest	1985	British	Nonbinary	Poet
T. Thomason	1994	Canadian	Nonbinary	Singer-songwriter
Caldwell Tiducue, stage name Bob the Drag Queen	1986	American	Nonbinary	Drag queen, comedian, Black activist. Tidicue is known for winning the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. In June 2019, New York magazine published the results from their panel of judges and writers which ranked her in the top twenty Drag Race superstars. She was also nominated for the WOWIE Awards for best podcast.
JayR Tinaco	1989	Australian	Nonbinary	Actor
Jacob Tobia	1991	American	Gender neutral, according to Facebook bio.. They have also used the labels genderqueer and gender non-conforming.	Writer, actor, performer, producer, artist activist. In 2019, they published their memoir, Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. They are the voice actor for a nonbinary character in the Dreamworks animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Double Trouble.
Jes Tom	Unknown, 20th century	Nationality	Nonbinary[citation needed]	Actor, writer, and stand up comic. They have appeared in the Amazon short film Soojung Dreams of Fiji (AAIFF “Audience Award”) and played the lead in Anatomy of an Orchid. Their writing has been published by Reductress, By Shondaland, and Condé Nast's Them. In collaboration with fellow comedian Chewy May, Jes Tom wrote, co-directed, and starred in the viral video Ghost In The Shell PSA, which received praise on platforms such as Buzzfeed, Upworthy, Nextshark, iO9, and Perez Hilton. Jes has been featured in GO Magazine, Splitsider, and the Fader, and were named one of TimeOut New York's "LGBTQ POC Comedians We're Obsessed With." Jes was a 2018 StandUp NBC semifinalist. Their self-produced half hour comedy special, "COLD BREW".
Nico Tortorella	1988	American	Nonbinary and gender nonconforming Tortorella announced that they identify as genderfluid.Genderfluid	Actor, writer, and model. Tortorella is known for roles in films including Scream 4, the Fox crime drama series The Following, and the TV Land comedy-drama series Younger.
Pete Townshend	1945	British	"I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman," Townshend said in an interview with White that ran on White's radio show in September 1989. "And I won't be classified as just a man."	Musician. Townshend is the guitarist, backing and secondary lead vocalist, principal songwriter, co-founder and leader of the rock band The Who. His career with the Who spans over 50 years, during which time the band grew to be one of the most important and influential rock bands of the 20th century.
Laxmi Narayan Tripathi	1979	India	Hijra	Actor, dancer, and transgender rights activist
Steven Tyler	1948	American	"I've been misquoted as saying that I'm more female than male. Let me set the record straight -- it's more half and half, and I love the fact that my feelings are akin to puella eternis (Latin for 'the eternal girl')."	Musician. Tyler is best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith. Tyler is included among Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers. He was ranked third on Hit Parader's Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Aerosmith and in 2013, Tyler and his songwriting partner Joe Perry received the ASCAP Founders Award and were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Alok Vaid-Menon	1991	American (Indian-American)	Genderfluid, according to Instagram bio.	Writer, performance artist, and activist. They are internationally renowned for their creative work which they have presented in over 40 countries. They were featured in the NBC Pride 50 alongside James Baldwin and Audre Lorde, and the OUT Magazine 100.
Jonathan Van Ness	1987	American	Nonbinary, genderqueer "The older I get, the more I think that I’m nonbinary — I’m gender nonconforming. Like, some days I feel like a man, but then other days I feel like a woman. I don’t really — I think my energies are really all over the place. Any opportunity I have to break down stereotypes of the binary, I am down for it, I’m here for it. I think that a lot of times gender is used to separate and divide. It’s this social construct that I don’t really feel like I fit into the way I used to."	Hairdresser, podcaster, television personality. One of Queer Eye's "Fab Five".
Joanne Vannicola	1968	Canadian	Nonbinary	Actor, writer
Sasha Velour	1987	American	Nonbinary	Drag queen, television personality
Hida Viloria	1968	American	Genderfluid	Author, and LGBT and intersex human rights activist
Yuu Watase	1970	Japan	X-gender	Cartoonist
Lachlan Watson	2001	American	Genderqueer	Actor
Gerard Way	1977	Nationality	"I have always identified a fair amount with the female gender..... Masculinity to me has always made me feel like it wasn't right for me."	Musician. Way is best known as the lead vocalist and co-founder of the rock band My Chemical Romance. He also wrote the Eisner Award-winning comic book series The Umbrella Academy.
We'wha	1849	Zuni nation in the USA	Lhamana
Joshua Whitehead	Unknown, 20th century	Oji-Cree member of the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba, Canada	Two-Spirit	Author
Massey Whiteknife	Unknown, 20th century	Cree member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation; Canada	Two-spirit	Businessman and entertainer
Gigi Raven Wilbur	1955	American	Gigi was born intersex, and underwent nonconsensual surgery after birth to appear "male". Some of the words Gigi has used to identify are "hermaphrodite", "third gender", and "ladyboy". "[S]ociety does not allow my true gender to exist [...] I am neither female nor male, and I am both female and male." "Spiritually, I have never been comfortable with a male body, nor would I have been with a female body. I am hermaphrodite. That is my true gender."	Writer and activist. Wilbur is one of the people who created Celebrate Bisexuality Day (September 23, which is Gigi's birthday).
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu	Unknown, 20th century	Hawaii	Māhū	Dance teacher
Karekin Yarian	Unknown, 20th century	American	Nonbinary	Author and activist
Reuben Zellman	1979	American	Nonbinary	Rabbi and musician
Nevo Zisin	1996	Australian	Nonbinary	Writer and activist
Dana Zzyym	1958	American	Nonbinary	Activist for intersex human rights

See also

• See Category:Nonbinary people and Category:Genderqueer people for other notable people who might not be listed in this article yet.