- Sailor Jerry
Norman "Sailor Jerry" Collins (born 1911, died 1973) is considered the foremost American tattoo artist of his time. He expanded the array of colors available by developing his own safe pigments. He created needle formations that embedded pigment with much less trauma to the skin, and he was one of the first to utilize single-use needles and hospital-quality sterilization.
- Paul Booth
Paul Booth is a world-famous tattoo artist working in his shop called Last Rites in New York City.
- Seen
Seen is one of the most famous pioneering graffiti artists. He started to paint at 11 on New York's subway in 1973. After the mid-1980s, Seen became known mostly as a tattoo artist, though he has somewhat retired from this profession. His trans-continental crew "United Artists" (or simply UA) has gained great reputation around the world.
- Chris Garver
Chris Garver, (born September 11, 1970), is a tattoo artist featured on the TLC reality television show Miami Ink. Garver was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he attended The Pittsburgh High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. Garver received his first professional tattoo at age 15. He got his start in tattooing at age 17 when he sold his bass guitar in order to purchase tattoo equipment.
- Don Ed Hardy
Don Ed Hardy is an American tattoo artist born in Iowa in 1945. He moved to Costa Mesa, California before he was one year old. Hardy was the first Western tattoo artist to incorporate Japanese tattoo aesthetic and technique into his work and is an accomplished fine artist, as well.
- Ami James
Ami James, is an Israeli tattoo artist. He is the co-owner (with Chris Nuñez) of the Miami, Florida tattoo parlor known as Miami Ink from the TLC reality television program. James also co-owns DeVille USA, a clothing design company, with Nuñez and Jesse Fleet, and the Miami nightclub Love/Hate, with Nuñez and two other close friends. He has also created designs for Motorola's RAZR V3 mobile phones. He served in the Israeli Special Forces.
- Mister Cartoon
Mark Machado, better known as Mister Cartoon, is a Mexican American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California. Machado designed the logo for Cypress Hill. He has tattooed the bodies of Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, Eminem, Method Man, Travis Barker, Scott Raynor, Justin Timberlake, and Beyoncé Knowles. In addition to tattoos, Machado's work has been used by Nike, Toyota, T-Mobile and in Grand Theft Auto.
- Lyle Tuttle
Lyle Tuttle (born 1931) is a well-known American tattoo artist and historian of the medium, who has been tattooing since 1949.
- Mario Barth
Celebrity tattoo artist Mario Barth is the owner and chief tattoo artist at Starlight Tattoo, the international tattoo organization with four high-end tattoo studios and the online tattoo supply company called, The Tattoo Super Store. Starlight Tattoo, the only OSHA approved tattoo studios in the nation, sells merchandise in 28 countries on six continents. Barth's celebrity clientele include: Lenny Kravitz, Jason Kidd, Fieldy of Korn, members of the Wu-Tang Clan, …
- Dr Lakra
Dr Lakra (Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez, born 1972, Mexico) is an artist and tattooist based in Oaxaca, Mexico. Apart from tattooing, his art involves embellishing images and other found objects - for instance, dolls, old medical illustrations, and pictures in 1950s Mexican magazines - with macabre or tattoo-style designs. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including "Stolen Bike" at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, …
- The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000
- Darren Brass
Darren Brass is an American tattoo artist. He currently stars on The Learning Channel reality television show Miami Ink. He has a background in graffiti style design work. He is currently divorced. Darren is 5' tall, and has Type I diabetes.
- Samuel O'Reilly
Samuel O'Reilly was a tattoo artist and the inventor of the modern rotary tattoo gun, which he patented in 1891. O'Reilly's machine was based on the rotary technology of Thomas Edison's autographic printer, the first practical application of an electric motor. Modern tattoo machines use electromagnetic coils. He subsequently built up a business selling the machines. He was at the time a tattoo artist working in New York. In 2005, a Tattoo shop opened in Santa Cruz, …
- Vince Ray
Vince Ray is a British artist, musician and tattooist.
- Henk Schiffmacher
Hendrikus ("Henk") Johannes Everhardus Schiffmacher (born March 22, 1952 in Harderwijk, Gelderland) is a Dutch tattoo artist who is also considered an expert within the field of body decoration, having curated exhibitions, written books and presented television shows on the subject. He is also known as 'Hanky Panky'. Schiffmacher has claimed members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam, as well as Kurt Cobain, to be amongst his clients.
- Vyvyn Lazonga
Vyvyn Lazonga is a tattoo artist who began her career in Seattle in the early 1970s. She was one of the first women to work for herself in the industry, not her husband or another male shop owner. She worked in San Francisco and was affiliated with Lyle Tuttle, Ed Hardy, and Horiyoshi III for several years, before returning in 1989 to open her current studio in Seattle.
- Greg Irons
Greg Irons (September 29, 1947 - November 14, 1984) was a poster artist, underground cartoonist, animator and tattoo artist. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he moved to San Francisco, California in 1967 where he soon found work doing posters for Bill Graham at the Fillmore Auditorium.
- George Burchett
George 'Professor' Burchett (also styled the 'King of Tattooists') was born George Burchett-Davis on August 23, 1872, in the English seaside town of Brighton, East Sussex and became one of the most famous tattoo artists in the world. Having been expelled from school at 12 for tattooing his classmates, he joined the Royal Navy at 13, developing his skills while travelling overseas as a deckhand on the HMS Vincent. After absconding from the Navy, he returned to England, …
- Opie Ortiz
Opie Ortiz is an artist specializing in tattoos, pop art and murals. Ortiz is most well known for his art featured on Sublime album covers. Murals painted by Ortiz can be found in and around Long Beach as well as Sunset Beach, which is the location of American Beauty Tattoo Parlor, which Opie owns. Ortiz was also responsible for the "Sublime" tattoo across Bradley Nowell's upper back, which appeared on the cover of the multi-platinum self titled album "Sublime", …
- Leslie Mah
Leslie Mah is an American musician and performer. Leslie first began performing with Anti-Scrunti Faction, a hardcore punk band based in Boulder, Colorado which she co-founded with Tracy Thomas. The group first appeared on the Flipside fanzine compilation, "Flipside Vinyl Fanzine Vol.1" in 1984 and, in 1985, released one single and an album, "Damsels In Distress", on Flipside. The two lead performers and songwriters, Leslie and Tracy, …
- Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye (Wervik, 1965) is a Belgian conceptual artist known for a number of unconventional projects:
- Jason Jones
Jason "Gong" Jones, originally a tattoo artist from Los Angeles, California, was the frontman and vocalist of metal band Drowning Pool from 2002 to 2005, including their album "Desensitized" (2004).
- Phil Andros
Samuel Morris Steward (1909-December 31, 1993), also known by the pen name Phil Andros, was a novelist and tattoo artist based in Oakland, California. He was born in Woodsfield, Ohio and attended the Ohio State University. He began teaching English at OSU as a university fellow in 1932 during the final year of his PhD and was given his first post as a university professor at Washington State University at Pullman in 1934.
- Eric Pele
Eric Pele (born 1969) is a mixed martial artist who currently holds the King Of the Cage (KOTC) superheavywight championship. He is also an accomplished tattoo artist who appears on the Reality television show "Inked" with nickname Big E. His current record is 10-3-0 with 4 KOs, 4 Submissions, and 2 decisions. His 2 losses came by knockout and Decision. His last fight was a KO loss to Aleksander Emelianenko at Bodog Fight - Clash of the Nations on April 14, 2007.
- Chris Núñez
Chris Núñez born April 11, 1972, is an American tattoo artist. He is the co-owner of Miami Ink, a tattoo shop located in Miami, Florida and the subject of the eponymous TLC reality television program. Núñez, who is of French and Cuban descent, received his first tattoo at age 17. He has travelled Brazil and Europe. In addition to his career as a tattoo artist, Núñez co-owns a Miami-based clothing design company, DeVille USA, along with James and Jesse Fleet, …
- Butch Bautista
Jose "Butch" Bautista, Jr., is a Multi-awarded Professional Filipino tattoo artist. Butch, as he is most commonly known by his friends and clients, is part of the 3rd batch of the Philippine Tattoo Artists Guild (PHILTAG) and is certified by the Department of Health of the Philippines.
- Katzen
Katzen the tiger lady is the name of a heavily modified female performance artist and tattoo artist, whose full body tattoo theme is that of a tiger. ("Katzen" is the German plural for cats.) She received extensive tattooing on all parts of her body and wears tiger whiskers attached via piercings on her face. She was at one time married to a male performer named "The Enigma", with whom she collaborated in a musical show team called "The Human Marvels", …
- Yuya Uchida
Yuya Uchida is a Japanese rock and roll singer and actor, best known for his music and his appearance in the Ridley Scott film Black Rain. His first acting role was in the play "Western carnival" in 1959. His first movie was "Subarashiki Akujyo" in 1963. In 1964 he released his first rock and roll album "Rock surfing hot rod". He is legendary in the Japanese music scene for his "Rock and Roll" spirit and for putting his heart and soul into everything he does.
- Jason Cruz
Jason Alexander Cruz (born in 1973) is the lead singer and lyricist of punk band, Strung Out. He is also an artist, responsible for all of the artwork and design of Strung Out's album covers. His personal website showcases his various forms of original artwork (paintings as well as digital photography).
- Mark Bodé
Mark Bodé is an American comic book author and artist. Bodé is best known for his work on "Cobalt-60", "Miami Mice" and "The Lizard of Oz". Bodé has also worked on "Heavy Metal" Magazine, and on "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles". Bodé is also a tattoo artist, spending many years working around Northampton, Massachusetts, although he now lives in California. He is the son of the cartoonist Vaughn Bodé.
- Billy Kidd
Well, I am currently slinging ink for Elite Piercing And Tattoo shop. Its pretty sick, come check it out and I'll hook you up with a bad ass tattoo. Ma Lady and I just had a beautiful baby girl. Her name is Kaitlynn Jane. And she is
- Freddy Negrete
- Carlos Bueno
Digital Janitor (Emeritus) at Spock.
- Gary Kordan
- Ralph Siciliano
- Bruce Tart
MY NAME IS BRUCE TART. I HAVE BEEN HAPPLY MARRIED FOR 22 YEARS.I HAVE ONE SON JOSH HE IS 14. I ENJOY SPENDING TIME WITH MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS. I LIKE 4-WHELLING HUNTING AND FISHING AND OF COURSE TATTOOING.
- Gill Montie
- Ben Crossman
- Rick Stratton
Rick made the life-masks for the Pink Floyd concert tour "The Wall" in 1979. Their new live CD "Is There Anybody Out There?"(2000)features the masks on the cover.
- Mark Herlehy