Diane Sawyer, news reporter
Mickey Rourke, actor
Mary Cassatt, Impressionist painter
Annie Oakley
Arthur C. Clark (step-father, but none of his own)
Baroness Karen Blixen, author (Out of Africa)
Oprah Winfrey, talk show host
Amelia Earhart, adventurer
Ann Bancroft (the polar explorer, not the actress)
Simone de Beauvoir, writer
Gloria Steinem, feminist activist/writer
Helen Keller, author
Annie Sullivan, H. Keller's teacher
Jessye Norman, opera singer
Mother Teresa, nun
George Washington (step-father but none of his own)
Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter
Immanuel Kant, philosopher
Jesus Christ
Lawrence of Arabia
William Lyon MacKenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister
Joan of Arc
Florence Nightingale
Susan B. Anthony, nineteenth-century suffragist
Lorena Hickok, AP political reporter
Harriet Tubman, underground Railroad
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the US
Carrie Chapman Catt, US suffrage leader
M. Carey Thomas, President of Bryn Mawr College
Ella Fitzgerald, jazz vocalist
Emily Dickinson, poet
Jeanette Rankin, first female US Representative
Margaret Bourke-White, photographer
Julia Child, French cook
Ayn Rand, philosopher/author
Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, computer pioneer
Billy Jean King, tennis player
Marian Anderson, opera singer
Scott Adams, creator, Dilbert
Brett Butler, comedienne
Stockard Channing, actress
George Clooney, actor
Mary Crosby, actress
Linda Evans, actress
Reginald VelJohnson, actor
Nanci Griffith, singer
Katherine Hepburn, actress
Bonnie Raitt, singer
Rita Rudner, comedienne
Dr. Seuss, author
Christopher Walken, actor
Bill Watterson, creator, Calvin and Hobbes
Yanni, composer/musician
Larry Kahn, listed in Guinness Book of World Records
Jay Leno, host, Tonight Show
David Letterman, host, Late Show
Christine McVie, singer/songwriter
Bill Maher, host, Politically Incorrect
George Michael, singer
Helen Mirren, actress
Stevie Nicks, singer
Georgia O'Keefe, artist
Dorothy Parker, writer
Sara Teasdale, poet
NOTE: In the forum several people have commented that some of these famous individuals apparently wanted children, but could not have any. Therefore, I have changed this list to famous people without children. Mainly I would like people to realize that individuals can live very productive lives without reproducing, and this widens the category of who would be appropriate on this list. Of the living people listed, their status may change if they adopt or reproduce, so please let me know if you have news of this happening to any on the above list.
Special thanks to Childfree By Choice website for some of these names. If you know of other childfree celebrities or historical figures, please add them in the forum below.
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