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.
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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 Ávila
- Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
- The Vestal Virgins
- Saint Wenceslas
- * probably mythical
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
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Isaac Newton (disputed) [1] (http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_208.html)
- John Ruskin, art critic
- Nikola_Tesla, inventor
- Ed Gein, serial killer
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
Reference
"The Secret Sex Lives of Famous People," by Irving Wallace, Amy Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Sylvia Wallace, 1981.