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List of famous prostitutes and courtesans
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This is a list of famous prostitutes and courtesans:
- Brenda Allen, 1940s Los Angeles madam
- Aspasia, hetaera companion of Pericles
- Laura Bell, the "Queen of London whoredom"
- Theresa Berkeley, 19th-century dominatrix
- Divine Brown (American prostitute)|Divine Brown, caught in a compromising situation with Hugh Grant
- Sydney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower Madam
- Annie Chapman, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- Claudia Drexelius, Germany|German prostitute exposed through national TV
- Andrea Dworkin, American feminist author. Her time as a prostitute may have fueled her activism against pornography.
- Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam
- Nell Gwynne, courtesan to Charles II of England
- Janie Jones, entertainer and madam
- Christine Keeler, involved in the Profumo Affair
- Mary Jane Kelly, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- Margaret MacDonald (madam)|Margaret MacDonald
- Madame Alex, the Beverly Hills Madam
- Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle)
- Gerda Munsinger, Soviet spy
- Natalia!, Rubber and PVC fetishism|rubber Sexual fetishism|fetishist
- 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
- Victoria Price, alleged victim, perjurer in the Scottsboro Boys case
- Gris??lidis R??al, Switzerland|Swiss prostitute and writer
- Valerie Solanas, street prostitute turned attempted assassin
- Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious, murder victim
- Lindi St. Claire, also known as Miss Whiplash.
- Elizabeth Stride, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- 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
- Saint Thais, repentant Egyptian courtesan
- Theodora (6th century)|Theodora, Empress of Byzantium
- Aileen Wuornos, serial killer executed in Florida in 2002, subject of the movie Monster (movie)|Monster
- Belle Watling, Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Darla, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (series)|Angel
- Elisabeth Rouset, Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
- Fanny Hill, Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (more of a kept woman than a prostitute proper)
- Inara Serra, from Firefly (television series)|Firefly
- Lozana, Portrait of Lozana by Francisco Delicado
- Nana (novel)|Nana, Nana by Emile Zola
- Juliette, in the Marquis de Sade's "Juliette"
- Tra La La, Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
- Tamara Sperling in Robert A. Heinlein's Time Enough For Love.
- Sonya Marmeladova, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Mrs. Rosemary Palm, head of the Guild of Seamstresses in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Rahab, Biblical prostitute who assisted the Hebrews in capturing Jericho
- Tamar (biblical figure)|Tamar (Bible, Genesis 38) posed as a prostitute
- Tristessa, Tristessa by Jack Kerouac
- Talanta, Talanta by Pietro Aretino
- Nately's Whore, from Catch-22
- Eccentrica Gallumbits, the Triple-Breasted Whore Of Eroticon Six from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Belle de jour (author) - an anonymous British author who claims to be a high-class call girl
- Bonnie Lee Bakley - Robert Blake (actor)|Robert Blake's murdered wife allegedly also worked as a prostitute, while posing as an escort and a nude model.
- Louise Brooks- silent film star, who may have joined the profession when she couldn't do talkies.
- Catherine Eddowes, one of the "canonical five" victims of Jack the Ripper
- Billie Holiday, allegedly, when out of work early in her career
- Yoko Ono, according to Albert Goldman's book The Lives of John Lennon
- Elizabeth Short, the victim of the Black Dahlia murder
- The prostitute in The Harlot's Progress by William Hogarth
- Herbert Huncke, male prostitute, Beat Generation figure
- Jobriath, rock singer, male prostitute prior to launching his musical career
- Pete Doherty, former Libertines frontman, male prostitute prior to launching his musical career
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- Dee Dee Ramone, rumored to have been a former rent boy
- Jeff Gannon, allegedly worked as a male prostitute
- Laurence Harvey, allegedly worked as a male prostitute before acting career
- Malcolm X, allegedly worked as a male prostitute before his conversion to the Nation of Islam while in prison
- Nick Adams, allegedly worked as a male prostitute before acting career
- Hooker with a heart of gold
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