20th-century American LGBTQ people

German and American actress and singer (1901–1992)

American artist, film director, and producer (1928–1987)

Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Films in which she has appeared have grossed over $6.9 billion worldwide. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.

Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential performers in the history of cinema, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTAs, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.

American actress and activist

American author (1924-1984)

American actress (born 1975)

American singer (1943–1970)

American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering the Tate–LaBianca murders, where his followers murdered nine people around Los Angeles in 1969.

American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

American author and activist (born 1944)

American comedian, television host, actress, and writer (born 1958)

Kevin Spacey Fowler is an American actor. Known for his work on stage and screen, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for twelve Emmy Awards.

French novelist and essayist (1903-1987)

American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)

American jazz singer (1915–1959)

Carlos Irwin Estévez, known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He is known as a leading man in film and television. Sheen has received numerous accolades including a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards and three Actor Awards. In 1994, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

American conductor and composer (1918–1990)

American businessman and magazine publisher (1926–2017)

American rock musician (1942–2013)

American writer (1924–1987)

American tennis player (born 1943)

American singer, rapper and actress

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer (1914–1997)

American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)

American actor (born 1973)

American pornographic actress

American actor, author and activist (born 1937)

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician and actor. He is best known for being the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder, and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs, the Network, the Longshot and the Coverups. Armstrong has been considered by critics as one of the greatest punk rock guitarists of all time, as well as one of the greatest punk rock singers of all time.

American actor (born 1973)

American novelist, essayist

American actor (1920–1966)

American actor (1925–1985)

American rapper, singer and actress

American film director and producer (1899–1983)

British-American actor (1899–1962)

American architect (1906–2005)

American musician (1932–2020)

American politician and gay rights activist (1930–1978)

American actor (1911–1993)

American anthropologist and folklorologist (1887-1948)

Anthony Perkins was an American actor. Born in Manhattan, he began his acting career as a teenager in summer stock theatre, and appeared in films prior to his Broadway debut. His first film role was in The Actress (1953). That same year, he debuted on Broadway in Tea and Sympathy, a performance for which he received critical acclaim.

American actor

American actor (1942–2018)

American actress (1893-1952)

American playwright (1928–2016)

American actor (1907–1994)

American actress, comedian and writer

American author and activist (1952–2021)

Russian and American pianist (1903–1989)

American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor (1900-1990)

German writer (1906–1949)

American media personality and retired decathlete

American sexologist (1894–1956)

American artist and social activist (1958-1990)

American politician (born 1982)

American poet (1892–1950)

American poet (1911–1979)