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Intersex people are born with sex characteristics, such as
genitals ,
gonads and chromosome patterns that, according to the UN
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , "do not fit the typical definitions for
male or
female bodies".
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Intersex people have many different
gender identities ,
[2] and so there is no presumption that people on this list have any particular sex assigned at birth, nor any particular gender identity.
This list consists of well-known intersex people. The individual listings note the subject's main occupation or source of notability.
Notable intersex people
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Carlett Brown Angianlee , Naval officer, considered likely to be the first African American to undergo SRS.
Eden Atwood , U.S. jazz musician, actor, and an advocate for the civil rights of people born with intersex traits.
Kitty Anderson , Icelandic intersex activist who regularly engages in advocacy/policy work and is the co-chair of
OII Europe .
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Karl M. Baer (1885–1956), German-Israeli author, social worker, suffragette and Zionist.
[5]
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.
[6] Barbin's birthday, November 8, is now observed as
Intersex Day of Remembrance .
Janik Bastien-Charlebois , Quebecois sociologist, researcher and activist.
[7]
[8]
Max Beck , U.S. activist and participant in the demonstration on October 26, 1996, that led to the establishment of
Intersex Awareness Day .
[9]
Aleksander Berezkin (
Russian : Александр Берёзкин ), 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 .
[10]
Tony Briffa , Australian intersex and human rights activist; world's first out intersex Mayor and first publicly elected out intersex person.
[11] 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.
[12]
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 .
[13]
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 .
[14]
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.
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 (1921–2004), Italian-British sculptor.
Tiger Devore , U.S. clinical psychologist, educator on intersex issues since 1984, appears in the short film
XXXY (2000).
Foekje Dillema (1926–2007), Dutch track and field athlete.
Arisleyda Dilone , U.S. Latina film director and actor.
Betsy Driver , Mayor of Flemington, New Jersey; intersex activist and first intersex elected official in the United States.
[15]
Karl Dürrge (also known as Maria Dorothea Derrier: 1780–1835), Prussian intersex man and human subject in medical research.
E
Lili Elbe (1882–1931), 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.
[16]
Favorinus of Arelate (c. 80 – c. 160 AD), a Roman
sophist and
philosopher who flourished during the reign of
Hadrian .
Fernanda Fernández (1755–unknown), Spanish intersex person.
Sir Ewan Forbes (1912–1991), UK noble, formerly Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill and 11th Baronet of Craigievar.
Sara Forsberg (born 1994), Finnish singer, songwriter, and television presenter
[17]
Crystal Frasier , American artist and game designer, and also a
trans woman .
[19]
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 (1798–unknown), German medical research subject.
Seven Graham (born 1969), activist, comedian, filmmaker and playwright, and drug addiction counsellor.
[20]
Sarah Gronert , German tennis player.
Sally Gross (1953–2014), 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.
[21]
[22]
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 .
[23]
Juliana Huxtable . U.S. artist and writer.
J
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 : Антон Крыжановский ), Russian intersex rights activist and sound designer, open about living with
ovotestis .
Irene Kuzemko (
Russian : Ирина Куземко ), Russian-Ukrainian intersex activist.
L
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.
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[29] Ex-Hindu Monk.
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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.
[32]
Mani Mitchell ,
New Zealand intersex activist, researcher/presenter of the movie
Intersexion .
[33]
Nthabiseng Mokoena , South African intersex activist.
Iain Morland , British author and music technologist.
Esther Morris Leidolf , U.S. activist and founder of MRKH Organization,
[34] and author of The Missing Vagina Monologue .
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Pidgeon Pagonis , U.S. intersex artist and activist, nominated as a 2015 Whitehouse LGBT Champion of Change.
[40]
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.
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Kristian Ranđelović , Serbian and Balkan intersex and transgender activist.
Heinrich Ratjen (also known as Dora Ratjen ) (1918–2008), German athlete.
Jemma Redmond (1978–2016), 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.
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Caster Semenya , South African
800 m Olympic gold medalist.
[42]
Edinanci Silva , Brazilian judoka and gold medalist in the woman's half-heavyweight division at the Pan-American games.
[43]
Dawn Langley Simmons (1937 or 1922 to 2000), English author and biographer.
Jim Sinclair , autism rights activist.
[44]
Witold Smętek , Polish athlete and record holder.
Georgina Somerset (née Turtle) (1923-2013), first openly intersex person in the UK; active in the media from the mid-1960s.
[45]
Anick Soni , award-winning
British Asian intersex activist and
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts .
Santhi Soundarajan , Indian athlete.
[46]
Pedro Spajari , Brazilian swimmer.
Levi Suydam , 19th century U.S. intersex person.
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Bogi Takács , Hungarian poet and writer.
Alexander (Alex) Thornton, U.S./Italian marine scientist, educator, and activist founder of Pride in Polar Research (PiPR).
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