Notable nonbinary people

Sorting alphabetically by surname until we've got enough to start categorising by profession, with a fair use or creative commons photo if possible.

Olly Alexander

Alexander, the lead singer and songwriter for electropop band Years and Years, has said, "I feel very nonbinary, and you know, I identify as gay and queer and nonbinary[...]"

Olly Alexander

• Born: July 15, 1990 (age 25)
• Nationality: English
• Pronouns: he/him (assumed)
• Profession: singer, songwriter, actor, and activist.
• Wikipedia entry

Justin Vivian Bond

Justin Vivian Bond

• Born: May 9, 1963 (age 50)
• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: v/v's
• Profession: Cabaret performer; most famous for v's cabaret character Kiki DuRane.
• Nonbinary.org wiki entry / Wikipedia entry

Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein.

• Born: March 15, 1948 (age 67)
• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: ze/hir
• Profession: author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist.
• Wikipedia entry / Kate's Blog

Jonathan Rachel Clynch

"One of Irish broadcaster RTE’s best-known journalists just came out as 'gender fluid,' and the response so far seems wholly positive. ... The 44-year-old, who has yet to make a public statement, told his bosses that he wishes to now be known as Jonathan Rachel and would sometimes dress as a female. ... Clynch has worked with RTE for 16 years, often filling in on Radio One’s flagship 'News at One.' ... 'He has been open about it for a while now and his friends and family were all aware of his situation. He is going through a process at the moment and will speak about it in his own time and he hopes everyone will be respectful of that.'"

• Nationality: Irish
• Pronouns: he
• Profession: broadcast journalist

Ivan E. Coyote

• Nationality: Canadian
• Pronouns: They/their
• Profession: Writer
• Wikipedia entry Their Website nonbinary wiki entry

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus 38th People's Choice Awards (cropped)

“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.”

• Born: 23 November 1992 (age 22)
• Nationality: USA
• Pronouns: No preference expressed; journalists assume "she/her"
• Profession: Singer, songwriter, actress
• Wikipedia entry

Rain Dove

Rain uses her naturally androgynous look to model for both men's and women's lines of clothing & identifies as genderqueer or gender variant.

• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: Primarily she/her but accepts they/their or he/him depending on presentation
• Profession: Model, actor
• Rain's blog Rain Dove on Facebook

Raeen Roes (Angel Haze)

Angel Haze live at Øyafestivalen 2013

Raeen Roes, better known by their stage name Angel Haze, is a well known agender rapper, as they announced via twitter.

• Nationality American
• Pronouns They/them
• Profession Rapper, lyricist, singer
• Their Wikipedia entry Their official site

Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard identifies primarily as a transvestite but also uses the word transgender and has stated "I am 100% boy, plus extra girl."

• Born: 7 February 1962 (age 52)
• Nationality: English
• Pronouns: he/him
• Profession: Stand up comedian, actor, writer
• Wikipedia entry

Elly Jackson

Elly Jackson of La Roux performing on 11 September 2010

"I don't feel like I'm female or male."

• Born: 12th March 1988 (age 26)
• Nationality: English
• Pronouns: She/her
• Profession: Singer-songwriter and the lead singer of the electropop duo La Roux.
• Wikipedia entry

Jinkx Monsoon

Jinkx Monsoon at the DC Capital Pride street festival in 2013.

In a Facebook post about transphobia and the drag scene, Monsoon stated "I, myself do not identify as cis-gendered. I am genderless."

• Born: September 18, 1987 (age 27)
• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: They/them, she/her while in drag
• Profession: Actor, singer and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 5
• Wikipedia entry Official website

Richard O'Brien

Richard O'Brien

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.

• Born: 25 March 1942 (age 71)
• Nationality: British
• Pronouns: He/his
• Profession: Writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. O'Brien is known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze.
• Nonbinary.org wiki entry / Wikipedia entry

Tom Phelan

Tom Phelan playing Cole in The Fosters

Phelan plays a binary-trans teen on TV but identifies as non-binary themself.

• Born: 1997 (Age 17)
• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: He/him [citation needed]
• Profession: Actor; noted for playing transgender teen Cole on ABC's The Fosters
• Tumblr / IMDB

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

After marrying Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge in 1993, Genesis and Lady Jaye began "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.

• Born: 22 February 1950 (age 64)
• Nationality: British
• Pronouns: s/he, h/er
• Profession: singer-songwriter, musician, poet, writer, occultist and performance artist
• Wikipedia entry h/er own website

Ruby Rose

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Ruby Rose

"On 22 July 2014, Rose came out as genderfluid, saying, "I am very gender fluid and feel more like I wake up every day sort of gender neutral.". This announcement came approximately a week after she released a short film called "Break Free," in which she visually transitions from a very feminine woman to a heavily tattooed man."[3]

• Born: March 20, 1986 (age 28)
• Nationality: Australian
• Pronouns: She/Her [4]
• Profession: Model, actress, musician, and television presenter.

JD Samson

JD Samson

JD Samson is a musician with the bands Le Tigre and MEN. She identifies as 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.

• Born: 4 August 1978 (age 35)
• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: She/her
• Profession: Musician
• Nonbinary.org wiki entry / Wikipedia entry

Rae Spoon

Rae Spoon.

• Nationality: Canadian
• Pronouns: They/their
• Profession: Singer-songwriter
• Wikipedia entry

Amandla Stenberg

Writing about organising a workshop, Hunger Games actor Amandla Stenberg wrote, "Basically, we’re trying to understand the duality of being a non-binary person and a feminist. How do you claim a movement for women when you don’t always feel like one?".

In a later Tumblr exchange about having conflicted thoughts about preferred pronouns, Stenberg wrote "Damn you right. They/them it is." As of June 2016, Stenberg's Tumblr profile reads "17 / non-binary / she/her or they/them / bisexual".

• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: They/them or she/her
• Profession: Actor
• Personal Tumblr
• Wikipedia entry

Kieran Strange

Kieran identifies as genderqueer and gender-fluid."

• Born: August 8th
• Nationality: English & Canadian
• Pronouns: He/him
• Profession: Singer, songwriter, actor
• Personal Website

Eliot Sumner

Eliot Sumner performing at the Milkboy Cafe Phila PA in 2015.

Musician Eliot Sumner, Sting's child. "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.)

• Born: July 30, 1990
• Pronouns: not stated
• Profession: musician
• Personal website

Tilda Swinton

Swinton at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival

"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."

• Born: 5 November 1960 (age 53)
• Nationality: British
• Pronouns: She/her
• Profession: Actor; noted in the nonbinary community for her work in Orlando and as genderless angel Gabriel in Constantine.
• Nonbinary.org wiki entry / Wikipedia entry

Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend during a book signing in Toronto.

"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."

• Born: 19 May 1945 (age 69)
• Nationality: British
• Pronouns: He/his
• Profession: Guitarist in The Who.
• Nonbinary.org wiki entry / Wikipedia entry

Steven Tyler

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Steven Tyler

"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')."

• Born: March 26, 1948 (age 65)
• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: He/his (assumed; citation needed)
• Profession: Musician; frontman of Aerosmith
• Nonbinary.org wiki entry / Wikipedia entry

Gerard Way

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Gerard Way

"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.""

• Born: April 9, 1977 (age 37)
• Nationality: American
• Pronouns: he/his or they/their
• Profession: Musician, former lead singer of My Chemical Romance
• Wikipedia entry

See also

• Celebrity pronoun project