| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Margaret Anderson |
Author |
24-Nov-1886 |
18-Oct-1973 |
Founder of the Little Review |
| Nobuyoshi Araki |
Photographer |
25-May-1940 |
|
Tokyo Lucky Hole |
| J. G. Ballard |
Author |
18-Nov-1930 |
19-Apr-2009 |
Empire of the Sun, Crash |
| Annie Besant |
Activist |
1-Oct-1847 |
20-Sep-1933 |
Theosophist & Social Activist |
| Jello Biafra |
Singer |
17-Jun-1958 |
|
Dead Kennedys |
| Charles Bradlaugh |
Activist |
26-Sep-1833 |
30-Jan-1891 |
Atheistic Iconoclast |
| Lenny Bruce |
Comic |
13-Oct-1925 |
3-Aug-1966 |
Multiply obscene comic |
| Seymore Butts |
Pornstar |
18-Mar-1964 |
|
Family Business |
| Luther Campbell |
Rapper |
22-Dec-1960 |
|
2 Live Crew, Luke Records founder |
| George Carlin |
Comic |
12-May-1937 |
22-Jun-2008 |
Seven Dirty Words |
| Cicciolina |
Pornstar |
26-Nov-1951 |
|
Italian pornstar elected to parliament |
| John Cleland |
Novelist |
24-Sep-1709 |
23-Jan-1789 |
Fanny Hill |
| David Allan Coe |
Country Musician |
6-Sep-1939 |
|
Take This Job and Shove It |
| Edmund Curll |
Publisher |
1683 |
11-Dec-1747 |
Notorious London bookseller |
| Mike Diana |
Artist |
5-Jun-1969 |
|
Boiled Angel |
| Joel Dorius |
Educator |
4-Jan-1919 |
14-Feb-2006 |
Professor fired for gay porn arrest |
| Larry Flynt |
Business |
1-Nov-1942 |
|
Publisher of HUSTLER |
| Richard Gere |
Actor |
31-Aug-1949 |
|
American Gigolo |
| Al Goldstein |
Business |
10-Jan-1936 |
|
Founder of Screw magazine |
| Stuart Gordon |
Film Director |
11-Aug-1947 |
|
Re-Animator |
| Max Hardcore |
Pornstar |
10-Aug-1956 |
|
Extremist pornographist |
| Robert Harrison |
Publisher |
14-Apr-1904 |
17-Feb-1978 |
Publisher of tabloid Confidential |
| Hugh Hefner |
Publisher |
9-Apr-1926 |
|
Founder, Playboy magazine |
| Abbie Hoffman |
Activist |
30-Nov-1936 |
12-Apr-1989 |
Steal This Book |
| Janis Joplin |
Singer |
19-Jan-1943 |
4-Oct-1970 |
Ball and Chain (Piece of My Heart) |
| Charles Knowlton |
Doctor |
10-May-1800 |
20-Feb-1850 |
Early advocate of birth control |
| Luka Magnotta |
Criminal Defendant |
24-Jul-1982 |
|
Allegedly dismembered a Chinese student |
| Marilyn Manson |
Singer |
5-Jan-1969 |
|
Goth shock rocker |
| Guy de Maupassant |
Author |
5-Aug-1850 |
6-Jul-1893 |
French short story writer |
| Russ Meyer |
Film Director |
21-Mar-1922 |
18-Sep-2004 |
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls |
| Artie Mitchell |
Film Director |
12-Dec-1945 |
27-Feb-1991 |
Pornographer; shot and killed by brother Jim |
| Jim Mitchell |
Film Director |
30-Nov-1943 |
12-Jul-2007 |
Pornographer; shot and killed brother Artie |
| Chesty Morgan |
Pornstar |
1928 |
|
Double Agent 73, Deadly Weapons |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini |
Film Director |
5-Mar-1922 |
2-Nov-1975 |
Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom |
| Moana Pozzi |
Pornstar |
27-Apr-1961 |
15-Sep-1994 |
Backdoor Summer 2 |
| Basil Rathbone |
Actor |
13-Jun-1892 |
21-Jul-1967 |
Played original Sherlock Holmes |
| Pauline Réage |
Author |
23-Sep-1907 |
27-Apr-1998 |
Histoire d'O |
| Harry Reems |
Pornstar |
27-Aug-1947 |
19-Mar-2013 |
Deep Throat |
| Ivan Reitman |
Film Director |
27-Oct-1946 |
|
Ghost Busters |
| Paul Reubens |
Actor |
27-Aug-1952 |
|
Pee-wee Herman |
| Margaret Sanger |
Activist |
14-Sep-1879 |
6-Sep-1966 |
Birth control advocate |
| Egon Schiele |
Painter |
12-Jun-1890 |
31-Oct-1918 |
Painted many nudes |
| Shilpa Shetty |
Actor |
8-Jun-1975 |
|
Bollywood star |
| Michelle Shocked |
Musician |
24-Feb-1962 |
|
Short Sharp Shocked |
| Sir Philip Sidney |
Author |
30-Nov-1554 |
17-Oct-1586 |
The Defence of Poesie |
| Peter Sotos |
Author |
c. 1960 |
|
Transgressive author, Pure |
| John Stagliano |
Pornstar |
29-Nov-1950 |
|
Adventures of Buttman |
| Blaze Starr |
Performance Artist |
1-Jan-1932 |
|
Stripper |
| Steve-O |
Daredevil |
13-Jun-1974 |
|
Jackass |
| Jock Sturges |
Photographer |
1947 |
|
Art photographer charged with obscenity |
| Mae West |
Actor |
17-Aug-1893 |
22-Nov-1980 |
Go up and see her sometime |
| Wendy O. Williams |
Singer |
28-May-1949 |
6-Apr-1998 |
Singer for The Plasmatics |
| John Wilmot |
Poet |
1-Apr-1647 |
26-Jul-1680 |
Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery |
| Victoria Woodhull |
Activist |
23-Sep-1838 |
9-Jun-1927 |
First woman candidate for US President |
