List of intersex people

Notable intersex people

A

• Carlett Brown Angianlee, Naval officer, considered likely to be the first African American to undergo SRS.
• Kitty Anderson, Icelandic intersex activist who regularly engages in advocacy/policy work and is the co-chair of OII Europe.
• Shou Arai, manga artist and author
• Eden Atwood, U.S. jazz musician, actor, and an advocate for the civil rights of people born with intersex traits.

B

• Karl M. Baer, German-Israeli author, social worker, suffragette and Zionist.
• Nubia Barahona, a ten-year-old American girl murdered in 2011.
• Herculine Barbin, the 19th century memoirs of this French intersex person were published by Michel Foucault in 1980. Barbin's birthday, November 8, is now observed as Intersex Day of Remembrance.
• Janik Bastien-Charlebois, Quebecois sociologist, researcher and activist.
• Max Beck, U.S. activist and participant in the demonstration on October 26, 1996, that led to the establishment of Intersex Awareness Day.
• Aleksander Berezkin, Russian intersex immigrants activist with Klinefelter syndrome.
• Maddie Blaustein, American voice actor and comic creator known for her roles as Meowth in Pokémon and E-123 Omega in the Sonic the Hedgehog series, content creator for Second Life.
• Tony Briffa, Australian intersex and human rights activist; world's first out intersex Mayor and first publicly elected out intersex person. Current co-executive director of Intersex Human Rights Australia, and Vice-President and former President of the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia.
• Alec Butler, Canadian playwright and filmmaker.

C

• Mauro Cabral, Argentinian intersex activist, writer, co-director of GATE
• Jeff Cagandahan, a Filipino intersex human rights activist at Intersex Asia who successful appealed for a change of name and gender on his birth certificate.
• Lady Colin Campbell, UK author and socialite.
• Morgan Carpenter, Australian intersex activist who created the modern intersex flag which features a purple circle and yellow background, he is the co-executive director of Intersex Human Rights Australia.
• Eleno de Céspedes, a 16th-century intersex person in Spain.
• Dutee Chand, Indian athlete who successfully challenged IAAF regulations preventing her from running.
• Cheryl Chase, also known as Bo Laurent, U.S. intersex activist and founder of the Intersex Society of North America.
• Hiker Chiu, founder of Oii-Chinese.
• Caroline Cossey, English model.
• Cary Gabriel Costello, U.S. associate professor of sociology and advocate for transgender and intersex rights.
• Roberta Cowell, British racing driver and pilot.
• Roberta Close, a Brazilian fashion model, actress and television personality.
• Obioma Chukwuike, a Nigerian intersex human-rights activist.

D

• Lisa Lee Dark, Welsh opera singer and voice actress.
• Georgiann Davis, U.S. sociology scholar and researcher on intersex issues.
• Vaginal Davis, U.S. genderqueer performing artist, painter, composer and writer.
• Fiore de Henriquez, Italian-British sculptor.
• Tiger Devore, U.S. clinical psychologist, educator on intersex issues since 1984, appears in the short film XXXY.
• Foekje Dillema, Dutch track and field athlete.
• Arisleyda Dilone, U.S. Latina film director and actor.
• Raven van Dorst, Dutch singer, musician and tv presenter
• Betsy Driver, Mayor of Flemington, New Jersey; intersex activist and first intersex elected official in the United States.
• Karl Dürrge, Prussian intersex man and human subject in medical research.

E

• Lili Elbe, Danish painter; she was a transgender and intersex woman, and one of the earliest transgender women to receive sex reassignment surgery.

F

• Florian-Ayala Fauna, American artist, musician, and music producer.
• Favorinus of Arelate, a Roman sophist and philosopher who flourished during the reign of Hadrian.
• Fernanda Fernández, Spanish intersex person.
• Sir Ewan Forbes, UK noble, formerly Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill and 11th Baronet of Craigievar.
• Sara Forsberg, Finnish singer, songwriter, and television presenter
• Crystal Frasier, American artist and game designer, and also a trans woman.

G

• River Gallo, Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, model, and intersex rights activist.
• Dan Christian Ghattas, German activist, historian and author of Human Rights between the Sexes, a first international comparative study of the human rights of intersex people and executive director of OII Europe.
• Gottlieb Göttlich, German medical research subject.
• Seven Graham, activist, comedian, filmmaker and playwright, and drug addiction counsellor.
• Sarah Gronert, German tennis player.
• Sally Gross, South African intersex, anti-apartheid and Israel/Palestine human rights activist; secured first mention of intersex in anti-discrimination law.

H

• Thomas(ine) Hall, a person of indeterminate gender in 17th-century colonial Virginia.
• Bonnie Hart, Australian multi-disciplinary artist and president of the Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome Support Group Australia.
• Phoebe Hart, Australian filmmaker and director of Orchids, My Intersex Adventure, a 2010 auto-biographical documentary.
• Miriam van der Have, Dutch activist, co-chair of OII Europe and director of Nederlands Netwerk intersekse/DSD.
• Francis Heaulme, a French serial killer with Klinefelter syndrome.
• Morgan Holmes, Canadian activist, professor of sociology and author of several books on intersex including Critical Intersex.
• Juliana Huxtable. U.S. artist and writer.

J

• Natasha Jiménez, Costa Rican and Latin American intersex and trans activist.
• Alex Jürgen, Austrian intersex activist.

K

• Julius Kaggwa, award-winning Ugandan activist.
• John Kenley, pioneering U.S. theatrical producer.
• Stefan Kiszko, British man falsely imprisoned for the murder of Lesley Molseed.
• Ewa Kłobukowska, Polish sprinter.
• Emi Koyama, Japanese-American internist at Intersex Society of North America, co-founder of Intersex Awareness Day, and sex worker and trans feminist activist.
• Anton Kryzhanovsky, Russian intersex rights activist and sound designer, open about living with ovotestis.
• Irene Kuzemko, Russian-Ukrainian intersex activist.

L

• Lê Văn Duyệt, Nguyen dynasty general and high-ranking mandarin in Vietnam.
• Bobby Joe Long, a U.S. serial killer with Klinefelter syndrome.
• Ricardo López, a Uruguayan-American with Klinefelter syndrome who stalked and attempted to murder Icelandic singer Björk in 1996.
• Small Luk, intersex activist living in Hong Kong, founder of ''Beyond the Boundary – Knowing and Concerns Intersex''

M

• Gopi Shankar Madurai, Indian, one of the founding members of Srishti Madurai and Intersex Asia, also the first openly intersex and genderqueer person appointed in the public office with a position in par with Under Secretary to Government of India. Ex-Hindu Monk.
• Aprilio Manganang, an Indonesian volleyball player, reassigned male after retirement.
• Alex MacFarlane, first known holder of an Australian passport with an 'X' sex descriptor.
• Gabriel J. Martín, Spanish gay and intersex psychologist and author.
• Maria José Martínez-Patiño, a Spanish hurdler who was dismissed from competition in 1986 for failing a sex test.
• Santiago Mbanda Lima, the first publicly visible intersex activist in Portugal.
• Sheena Metal, U.S. talk-show host.
• Mani Mitchell, New Zealand intersex activist, researcher/presenter of the movie Intersexion.
• Nthabiseng Mokoena, South African intersex activist.
• Iain Morland, British author and music technologist.
• Esther Morris Leidolf, U.S. activist and founder of MRKH Organization, and author of The Missing Vagina Monologue.

N

• Nancy Navalta, Filipino track and field athlete.
• Annet Negesa, Ugandan middle-distance runner.
• Maria Nikiforova, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.
• Francine Niyonsaba, Burundian 800 metres runner.

O

• AJ Odasso, American author, editor, and poet.
• Hanne Gaby Odiele, Belgian model.
• Sogto Ochirov, Russian intersex activist, archer and shepherd.

P

• Pidgeon Pagonis, U.S. intersex artist and activist, nominated as a 2015 Whitehouse LGBT Champion of Change.
• Dee Palmer, formerly David Palmer, English composer and keyboardist, best known for membership in Jethro Tull.
• Pinki Pramanik, Indian track athlete.
• Casimir Pulaski, Polish-American military commander thought to have an intersex trait.

R

• Kristian Ranđelović, Serbian and Balkan intersex and transgender activist.
• Heinrich Ratjen, German athlete.
• Jemma Redmond, Irish biotechnologist and innovator.
• Esan Regmi, Nepali intersex human rights activist.
• Veronique Renard, Dutch author and visual artist.
• Ana Roxanne, American musician and singer.
• Eliana Rubashkyn, Colombian, New Zealand pharmacist, activist and gender refugee.
• Mark Errin Rust, Australian serial sex murderer.

S

• Sa Bangji, Korean intersex person.
• Erik Schinegger, alpine skier.
• Scout Schultz, a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, U.S., who was shot dead by police on September 16, 2017.
• Caster Semenya, South African 800 m Olympic gold medalist.
• Edinanci Silva, Brazilian judoka and gold medalist in the woman's half-heavyweight division at the Pan-American games.
• Dawn Langley Simmons, English author and biographer.
• Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist.
• Witold Smętek, Polish athlete and record holder.
• Salvador Sobral, Portuguese singer, who won the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 for Portugal.
• Georgina Somerset, first openly intersex person in the UK; active in the media from the mid-1960s.
• Anick Soni, award-winning British Asian intersex activist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
• Santhi Soundarajan, Indian athlete.
• Pedro Spajari, Brazilian swimmer.
• Levi Suydam, 19th century U.S. intersex person.

T

• Bogi Takács, Hungarian poet and writer.
• Alexander Thornton, U.S./Italian marine scientist, educator, and activist founder of Pride in Polar Research.

V

• Hida Viloria, American queer, gender-fluid intersex writer, activist, and author of Born Both: An Intersex Life ; founding director of Intersex Campaign for Equality; appears in the films Gendernauts and Intersexion.
• Del LaGrace Volcano, U.S./Sweden, visual artist and speaker on queer and intersex issues.
• Christiane Völling, Germany, thought to be the first person to successfully sue in a case of medical treatment without consent.

W

• Stanisława Walasiewicz, also known as Stella Walsh, a Polish Olympic athlete and medal winner in the 1930s.
• Sean Saifa Wall, African American intersex and anti-racist activist.
• Margaret Wambui, Kenyan middle-distance runner.
• Mark Weston, UK field athlete.
• Gigi Raven Wilbur, U.S. bisexuality rights activist.
• Gina Wilson, activist and founder president of Intersex Human Rights Australia.

X

• Xie Jianshun, Taiwanese soldier.

Z

• Reuben Zellman, U.S. intersex and transgender rabbi and musician.
• Kimberly Zieselman, U.S. advocate, attorney, and executive director of interACT.
• Dana Zzyym, U.S. non-binary intersex activist and Associate Director of Intersex Campaign for Equality. Zzyym is suing the U.S. State Department for a gender-neutral passport in Zzyym v. Pompeo.