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*[[George Sand]] is the [[pseudonym]] of Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, an early [[19th century]] French [[novelist]] who preferred to wear men's [[clothing]] exclusively. In her [[autobiography]], she explains in length the various aspects of how she experienced cross-dressing.

*[[Dorothy Lawrence]] was an [[England|English]] [[War correspondent|war reporter]] who [[disguise]]d herself as a man so she could become a [[soldier]] in [[World War I]].

*[[Rrose Sélavy]] was, the feminine alter-ego of the late French artist, [[Marcel Duchamp]], remains one of the most complex and pervasive pieces in the enigmatic puzzle of the artist's oeuvre. She first emerged in portraits made by the photographer [[Man Ray]] in New York in the early 1920s, when Duchamp and Man Ray were collaborating on a number of conceptual photographic works. Rrose Sélavy lived on as the person to whom Duchamp attributed specific works of art, [[Readymade|Readymades]], puns, and writings throughout his career. By creating for himself this female persona whose attributes are beauty and eroticism, he deliberately and characteristically complicated the understanding of his ideas and motives.

*[[Billy Tipton]] was a notable jazz pianist and saxaphonist in the United States. He was born Dorothy Lucille Tipton in [[1914]]. Tipton changed gender role and became a "male" musician during the [[Great Depression]] in order to be hired with a band. He was married five times to women, and adopted three boys. He led a full career as a musician and, in later life, as an entertainment agent. Other than his birth family, no one knew of his birth sex or cross-living until after his death in [[1989]].

*[[Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax]] was a lead singer in several important [[gospel]] quartets, most famously the [[Spirit of Memphis Quartet]]. When he died in 1994, it was discovered that he was female bodied.