Name some renowned gay people

Answer 1

There are many thousands of gay people of note. Here is a short list:

• Elton John
• kd lang
• Ellen Degeneres
• Ian McKellon
• Jake Shears
• Rosie O'Donnell
• Jodie Foster
• Rupert Everett
• Leslie Jordan
• David Geffen
• Alan Poul
• Martina Navritalova
• Melissa Etheridge
• Lily Tomlin
• Greg Louganis
• Billy Bean
• Barney Frank
• Margarethe Cammermeyer
• (and about a thousand other celebrities)

Historically speaking, these famous people are known to have been gay/bisexual:

• Alexander the great
• Socrates
• Plato
• Richard the Lionhearted
• Lord Byron
• Walt Whitman
• Oscar Wilde
• Willa Cather
• Alice B. Toklas
• Gertrude Stein
• Cole Porter
• Virginia Woolf
• Leonard Bernstein
• Jean Cocteau
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• James Baldwin
• Michelangelo
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Herman Melville
• Piotr Tchaikovsky
• Camille Saint-Saens
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Bessie Smith
• Noel Coward
• Christopher Isherwood
• Yukio Mashima
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• James I
• Pope Benedict IX
• Dag Hammerskjøld
• Edna Ferber
• Peter the Great
• Langston Hughes
• Hans Christian Andersen
• Suleiman the Magnificent
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
• Rudolf Nuryev
• Aristotle
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Montgomery Clift
• Edward II
• Horatio Alger
• (and many, many more)

Answer 2

First two that come to mind are Oscar Wilde (sentenced to two years' hard labor for homosexuality) and Alan Turing who was given a choice between imprisonment and hormone treatments. He chose neither -- he committed suicide.

Answer 3

Alexander the Great *Macedonian Ruler, 300 B.C.
Socrates *Greek Philosopher, 400 B.C.
Sappho *Greek Woman Poet, 600 B.C.
Hadrian *Roman Emperor, 1st-2nd c.
Richard the Lionhearted *English King, 12th c.
Saladin *Sultan of Egypt and Syria
Desiderius Erasmus *Dutch Monk, Philosopher
Francis Bacon *English statesman, author
Frederick the Great *King of Prussia
Lord Byron *English poet, 18th c.
Walt Whitman *U.S. poet, author, 19th c.
Oscar Wilde *Irish author, 19th c.
Marcel Proust *French author, 20th c.
Colette *French author, 20th c.
Gertrude Stein *U.S. poet, author, 20th c.
Alice B. Toklas *U.S. author, 20th c.
Federico Garcia Lorca *Spanish author, 20th c.
Cole Porter *U.S. composer, 20th c.
Virginia Woolf *English author, 20th c.
Leonard Bernstein *U.S. composer, 20th c.
Pope Julius III *1550-1555
T.E. Lawrence *English soldier, author, 20th c.
Jean Cocteau *French writer, director, 20th c.
Charles Laughton *English actor, 20th c.
Marguerite Yourcenar *Belgian author, 20th c.
Tennessee Williams *U.S. Playwright, 20th c.
James Baldwin *U.S. author, 20th c.
Andy Warhol *U.S. artist, 20th c.
Michelangelo *Italian artist, 15th c.
Leonardo Da Vinci *Ital. Artist, scientist, 15th c.
Christopher Marlowe *Eng. Playwright, 16th c.
Herman Melville *U.S. author, 19th c.
Horatio Alger, Jr. *U.S. author, 19th c.
Tchaikovsky *Russian composer, 19th c.
Willa Cather *U.S. author, 19th c.
Amy Lowell *U.S. author, 19th & 20th c.
E.M. Forster *English author, 20th c.
John M. Keynes *English economist, 20th c.
Ludwig Wittgenstein *Australian mathematician, 20th c.
Bessie Smith *U.S. singer, 20th c.
Noel Coward *English playwright, 20th c.
Christopher Isherwood *English author, 20th c.
Pier Paolo Pasolini *Italian film director, 20th c.
Yukio Mishima *Japanese author, 20th c.
Eleanor Roosevelt *U.S. stateswoman, 20th c.
Julius Caesar *Roman Emperor, 100-44 B.C.
Augustus Caesar *Roman Emperor
Harvey Milk *U.S. politician, 20th c.
Bayard Rustin *U.S. Civil Rights activist, 20th c.
James I *English King, 16th-17th c.
Queen Anne *English Queen, 18th c.
Marie Antoinette *French Empress, 18th c.
Melissa Etheridge *U.S. Rock Star, 20th c.
Pope Benedict IX *1032-1044
May Sarton *U.S. author, (1912 - 1995)
Edna Ferber *U.S. author, 20th c.
Elton John *English Rock Star, 20th c.
Margaret Fuller *U.S. writer, educator, 20th c.
Montezuma II *Aztec ruler, 16th c.
Peter the Great *Russian Czar, 17th-18th c.
Langston Hughes *U.S. author, 20th c.
Pope John XII *955-964
Madame de Stael *French writer, 17th-18th c.
Martina Navratilova *U.S. tennis star, 20th c.
Greg Louganis *U.S. Olympic swimmer, 20th c.
Billie Jean King *U.S. tennis star, 20th c.
Roberta Achtenburg *U.S. politician, 20th c.
Barney Frank *U.S. Congressman, 20th c.
Gerry Studds *U.S. Congressman, 20th c.
Hans Christian Andersen *Danish author, 19th c.
Tom Dooley *U.S. M.D. missionary, 20th c.
J. Edgar Hoover *U.S. director of the FBI., 20th c.
Frida Kahlo *Mexican artist, 20th c.
Suleiman the Magnificent *Ottoman ruler, 15th c.
Rock Hudson *U.S. actor, 20th c.
Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz *Mexican author, 16th c.
Ralph Waldo Emerson *U.S. author, 19th c.
Candace Gingrich *Gay Rights activist, 20th c.
Margarethe Cammermeyer *U.S. Army Colonel, 20th c.
Zoe Dunning *U.S. Military Reservist, 20th c.
Tom Waddel *U.S. M.D., Olympic star, 20th c.
Kate Millet *U.S. author, 20th c.
Janis Joplin *U.S. singer, 20th c.
Rudolf Nuryev *Russian dancer, 20th c.
Waslaw Nijinsky *Russian dancer, 20th c.
Ernst Röhm *German Nazi leader, 20th c.
Dag Hammerskjold *Swedish UN Secretary, 209th c.
Aristotle *Greek philosopher, 384-322 B.C.
Paula Gunn Allen *Native American author, 20th c.
Angela Davis *U.S. political activist, 20th c.
June Jordan *U.S. author, activist, 20th c.
Rainer Maria Rilke *German poet, 20th c.
James Dean *U.S. actor, 20th c.
Montgomery Clift *U.S. actor, 20th c.
Baron VonSteuben *German General, Valley Forge
Edward II *English King, 14th c.

Answer 4

Elton John is most proberbly the most famous

Answer 5

One gay famous person i know of is Adam Lambert, one of the famous singers that stared on famous t.v. show, American Idol.

Answer 6

Lance Bass