List of virgins

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The first part of this list is of notable people who may have been virgins their whole life, while the second is of people who were famous for their virginity at one point or another.

Contents

1 Virgin saints and religious figures

2 Other lifelong virgins

3 Late virgins and others famous for virginity at some time in life

4 Reference

5 See also

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Virgin saints and religious figures

Saint Agnes
Aloysius Gonzaga
Anthony the Great
Saint Apollonia
Artemis *
Astraea *
Athena *
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Catherine of Alexandria *
Maria Goretti
Hestia *
Hildegard of Bingen
Joan of Arc
Margaret of Antioch *
Mary, the mother of Jesus (according to many, see also Blessed Virgin Mary) *
Philomena
Blessed Mother Teresa
Saint Teresa of �vila
Saint Th�r�se of Lisieux
The Vestal Virgins
Saint Wenceslas

* probably mythical

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Other lifelong virgins

Hans Christian Andersen, author
J.M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan
Boleslaus V of Poland
Lewis Carroll, author and logician
Emily Dickinson, poet
Elizabeth I The Virgin Queen, queen of England (disputed)
J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director (disputed, possibly homosexual)
Immanuel Kant
S�ren Kierkegaard
Isaac Newton (disputed) [1] (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_208.html)
John Ruskin, art critic
Nikola_Tesla, inventor
Ed Gein, serial killer

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Late virgins and others famous for virginity at some time in life

I am thinking she is a virgin. Or at least, she used to be

-- Ben Jabituya, Short Circuit

Isadora Duncan, dancer, to age 25
Havelock Ellis, to 1891 marriage at age 25
Sigmund Freud, probably until his marriage at age 30
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, author, to age 39
Kim Hill (singer / songwriter)
Adolf Hitler (until late in life, it is thought by some; Hitler's sexuality is a subject of considerable debate)
Katie Holmes
Lisa Kudrow (until her marriage to Michel Stern)
Paul of Tarsus
Denise Pfeiffer, model, writer and chastity advocate. Assistant National Director of the Silver Ring Thing UK.
George Bernard Shaw, to age 29
Brooke Shields
Jessica Simpson (until marriage to Nick Lachey)
Britney Spears (who was famously known for being a virgin even after many believed that she had already lost her virginity, ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake admitted to taking her virginity. Her response: 'I thought he was the one.')
Ruth St. Denis, dancer, to age 36
Marie Stopes, birth control advocate, to her second marriage at age 36
Mark Twain, author, to marriage at age 34
The Amazing Race competitors Millie Smith and Chuck Shankles
Mary Wollstonecraft, author, to age 33
Virginia Woolf, author, to age 30

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Reference

"The Secret Sex Lives of Famous People," by Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Sylvia Wallace, 1981.

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List of virgins

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Virgin saints and religious figures

Other lifelong virgins

Late virgins and others famous for virginity at some time in life

Reference

See also

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