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 page lists some of those people who are well-known. Due to the nature of how people become 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 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, occupation, or gender identity instead.
| Name | Birth year | Nationality | Gender identity | Occupation, accomplishments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Cameron Mitchell | 1963 | American | Non-binary[1] | Actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. |
| Stephen Trask | 1966 | American | Non-binary[2] | Musician, and composer |
| Janelle Monáe | 1985 | American | Non-binary[3] | Singer, songwriter, rapper, and actress. |
| Courtney Act | 1982 | Australian | Genderqueer[4] | Drag queen, singer, television personality |
| Travis Alabanza | 1996 | British | Gender non-conforming[5] | Performance artist, poet, writer, LGBTQ rights activist |
| K Alexander | 1992 | Canadian | Nonbinary[6] | 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[...]"[7] | Singer, songwriter, actor, and activist |
| Jens Andersson | 1760 (circa) | Norwegian | Both. Andersson was assigned female at birth and presented as male. Andersson was subjected to a criminal trial for marrying a woman. In the trial, Andersson was asked: "Are you a man or a woman?" It was recorded that the answer was that "he believes he could be both."[8][9][10] | Unknown |
| Qween Amor | 1989 | American | "I like to identify with both genders."[11] | Dancer |
| Ser Anzoategui | 1979 | American | Nonbinary[12] | 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).[13] Anzoategui was nominated for “Best Supporting Actor” for their Vida performance at the 2019 Imagen Awards.[14] |
| Arca | 1989 | Venezuelan | Nonbinary trans woman[15][16] | Record producer, singer |
| Uzoma Asagwara | 1985/1986 | Canadian | Genderqueer[17] | Politician |
| Bilal Baig | Canadian | Genderfluid[18] | Playwright, actor | |
| Leo Baker | 1991 | American | Nonbinary and genderqueer[19][20] | Professional skateboarder |
| Ruth Baldacchino | 1979 | Maltese | Nonbinary[21] | Activist |
| Meg-John Barker | 1974 | British | Plural / nonbinary[22] | Author, speaker, consultant, activist |
| Thomas Baty | 1869 | British | Nonbinary[23] | 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."[24] Prefers the name Maťo when presenting as a man and the name Matia when presenting as a woman.[25] | 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.[26][27] |
| Marjorie Beaucage | 1947 | Canadian | Two-spirit[28] | Filmmaker and teacher |
| Mal Blum | 1988 | American | Nonbinary[29] | Musician, Singer |
| 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."[30][31][32][31][33] | 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.[34] Bornstein has said, "I don't call myself a woman, and I know I'm not a man." Their transition included gender affirmation surgery.[35] | Author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist |
| Tony Briffa | 1969 | Australian | Nonbinary, which Briffa says reflects the intersex condition with which she[36] was born. She obtained a birth certificate with a blank sex designation.[37] "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."[38][39][40] | Politician and intersex advocate. The world's first openly intersex person elected into public office.[41] |
| Pandora Boxx | 1972 | American | Genderfluid[42] | Drag queen, television personality |
| River Butcher | 1982 | American | Nonbinary[43] | Actor, comedian |
| Alec Butler | 1959 | Canadian | Two-spirit[44] | Playwright and filmmaker |
| Judith Butler | 1956 | American | Nonbinary[45] | 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.”[46] | 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.[47] |
| Anna-Varney Cantodea | Unknown, 20th century | German | Genderqueer[48] | Musician, singer-songwriter |
| Nicky Case | Unknown, 20th century | Canadian | Genderqueer and nonbinary[49] | Independent video game developer |
| Cassils | Unknown, 20th century | Canadian | Gender non-conforming[50] | Performance artist, body builder, personal trainer |
| Violet Chachki | 1992 | American | Genderfluid[51] | Drag queen, model, television personality |
| 1981 | Thai | Kathoey[52] | Boxer (Muay Thai boxer) | |
| 1946 | American | Two-spirit[53] | Poet and activist | |
| Jonathan 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."[54] | Journalist |
| Estefania Cortes-Vargas | 1991 | Canadian | Nonbinary[55] | Politician |
| Shea Couleé | 1989 | American | Nonbinary[56] | Drag queen, musician, television personality |
| Edward Cowley | Unknown, 20th century | New Zealander | Fa'afafine[57] | 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".[58] Coyote describes themself as "a trans person who doesn't fit neatly into the gender binary,"[59] 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."[60] | 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). |
| Cara Cunningham | 1987 | American | Transgender, genderfluid[61] | Musician, songwriter, actor |
| 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.”[62] | 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[63] | Singer, songwriter, drag queen, television personality |
| Sam de Leve | Unknown, 20th century | American | half-boy, as said in their Twitter bio.[64] | Actor, dancer, writer. Plays nonbinary characters for the Geek & Sundry |