List of prostitutes and courtesans
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This is a list of famous persons who have engaged in prostitution, as well as pimping and courtesan work.
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- Air Force Amy legal prostitute in Nevada, pornographic actress, and adult model, considered one of the top earners in Nevada's legalized brothel business,and known as the star of the HBO television documentary series Cathouse: The Series. MSNBC has called her "a living legend in the world of sex."
- Polly Adler New York Madam, 1920s -1940s
- Aspasia, hetaera companion of Pericles
- Laura Bell, the "Queen of London whoredom"
- Theresa Berkeley, 19th-century dominatrix
- Griselda Blanco, child prostitute who became the late 1970s to early 1980s Miami cocaine "Godmother".
- Lisa Crystal Carver, sex columnist
- Alice Chambers, 19th century Dodge City prostitute
- Annie Chapman, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- Veronica Franco, Venetian courtesan and poet
- Jean Genet, French writer and political activist
- Raymond Gravel, Canadian member of Parliament
- Nell Gwynne, courtesan to Charles II of England
- Xaviera Hollander, former callgirl and madam, Author of "The Happy Hooker"
- Mary Jane Kelly, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle)
- Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay, daughter of a Michigan lumberman who spent most of her life in Europe
- Carol Leigh, a.k.a. Scarlot Harlot, coined the term "sex worker"
- Gerda Munsinger, Soviet spy
- Mary Ann Nichols, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- Barbara Payton, 1940s film starlet who turned to prostitution in the late 1950s after the end of her career and collapse of her marriage
- Cora Pearl, 19th century French courtesan
- Phryne, Greek hetaera
- Madame de Pompadour, courtesan to Louis XV of France.
- Grisélidis Réal, Swiss prostitute and writer
- Shady Sadie (Josephine Marcus) Courtesan who had an affair with Wyatt Earp
- Sally Stanford, Dean of San Francisco Madams, Restaurauter and Mayor of Sausalito, California
- Valerie Solanas, street prostitute turned attempted assassin
- Elizabeth Stride, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- Michelle Tea, author, has written extensively about her experiences as a prostitute <ref>see, inter alia, Chelsea Whistle: A Memoir, by Michelle Tea, pp. 315-6. Seal Press, New York, 2002.</ref>
- Libby Thompson, "Squirrel Tooth Alice," madam of a brothel in Sweetwater, Texas
- Vasantsenaa, Courtesan of 3rd Century Magadh Empire, Indore, India.
- Su Xiaoxiao, Chinese courtesan of 5th century
- Martha Tabram, a possible victim of Jack the Ripper
- Thais, Greek hetaera who lived during the time of Alexander the Great
- Theodora
- Chris Beeman
See also
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