- Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick (born January 1 1967) is an American artist. Tunick was born in Middletown, New York, USA. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Emerson College in 1988. He is best known for his installations that feature large numbers of nude people posed in artistic formations. In these images the nude form becomes abstract due to the sheer number so closely placed together. Known as installations, they are often situated in urban locations throughout the world.
- Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates (born on July 16, 1963) is an American film actress known for her roles in several teen films, most notably "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins". In 1984, at the height of her popularity, "Harper's Bazaar" named her as one of America's 10 Most Beautiful Women.
- William Hung
William Shih-Chich Hung is a famous international painter. He currently lives in San Francisco Bay Area in the United States with his wife and family, since their immigration from China in 1980. Hung devoted his life to his craft for over fifty years. He is a certified member of the American Portrait Society and is best known for his portraits, most of which contain nudity. Mr. Hung's work has been published in numerous art galleries, …
- Ron Harris
Ron Harris (born 1940) is an American erotic photographer and television director. In 1982 Harris created and directed "Aerobicise" and ":20 Minute Workout", both aerobics-based television programs. His nudes are photographed in a rather classical, glamorous style. Hugh Hefner called him "The King of Erotica" and "Playboy Magazine" called his "The Granddaddy of Soft-core".
- Amy Polumbo
Amy Polumbo is Miss New Jersey 2007. Palumbo is from Howell, NJ and attends Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. She left college for sometime to star in The Voyage of The Little Mermaid in MGM Studios at Walt Disney World as Ariel.
- Jock Sturges
Jock Sturges (born 1947) is an American photographer, best known for his images of adolescents, usually taken nude. His work, often taken on the nude beaches of California and France, has been the subject of controversy.
- Lady Godiva
Godiva (or Godgifu) (c. 990?-September 10, 1067) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in England in order to gain a remission of the oppressive toll imposed by her husband on his tenants. The name "peeping Tom" for a voyeur comes from later versions of this legend in which a man named Tom watched her ride and was stricken blind.
- David Hamilton
David Hamilton (born April 15, 1933) is a photographer from Britain.
- Sally Mann
Sally Mann (born May 1, 1951) is an American photographer. Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She attended The Putney School, Bennington College and Friends World College, and earned a B.A., "summa cum laude", from Hollins College (now Hollins University) and an M.A. in writing.
- Audra Lynn
Audra Lynn (born January 31, 1980) is an American model and actress. She was Miss October 2003 in "Playboy" magazine. Born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, Lynn appeared nude in a photo spread in an Italian edition of "Vogue" with fellow playmates, Pamela Anderson, Tishara Cousino and Karen McDougal in 2004. It was a tennis themed men's fashion spread shot in Las Vegas by photographer David LaChapelle.
- Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts (born December 12, 1964 in Liverpool, England) is a famous British streaker who has run naked during several international events. A father of three, Roberts' saga began when he saw a female streaker run down a Rugby Sevens game naked in Hong Kong. After a bet in a bar, he went naked in front of the crowd himself the next day, and the day after. This was during the 1993 Hong Kong Sevens. Roberts has done this, as of 2005, a total of 380 times, …
- Mark Storey
Mark Storey is a board member of the Naturist Action Committee and has testified at anti-nudity legislation hearings all over the United States. As editor-at-large for Nude & Natural, The Naturist Society's magazine, he has written interesting and informative narratives of all the naturist events he has participated in or helped organize.
- Andrew Martinez
Andrew Martinez achieved fame at the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States, as The Naked Guy.
- Bill Macy
Bill Macy (born Wolf Marvin Garber, May 18 1922, Revere, Massachusetts) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of Walter Findlay, Bea Arthur's long-suffering husband on the 1970s television sitcom "Maude". Macy, before his success in "Maude", was something of an entertainment journeyman, performing in comedy clubs, playing bit parts in movies as well as television shows, …
- Garo Aida
Garo Aida (born November 4, 1949) is a Japanese photographer known widely for his erotic work. He has also worked in advertising, contributing his photographs to various Japanese companies' commercial ads. Aida's nude photographs of adult women were featured in the November 1983 issue of the French photography magazine "Photo Reporter", including on the cover. The June 1986 issue of the French edition of "Photo" magazine, which had a special focus on Japan, …
- Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft (Genoa, Italy, 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist living in New York City.
- Gilda Texter
Gilda Texter (born 26 November, 1946) is an American costume designer, wardrobe supervisor and actress. While Gilda Texter is quite accomplished for her work in the Costume and Wardrobe Department of over 40 movies and television productions, …
- Nyotaimori
Nyotaimori, often referred to as "body sushi", is the practice of eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a woman, typically naked. As a result of being served on a human body, the temperature of the sushi or sashimi comes closer to body temperature, which some may see as a disadvantage or a benefit.
- Will McBride
Will McBride (born 1931, St. Louis, Missouri) is a photographer in reportage, art photography and book illustration. He is also known as a painter and sculptor. McBride grew up in Chicago, attended the University of Vermont, then the Art Institute of Chicago, and finally graduated from Syracuse University in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. He has lived in Germany since 1955. In 2004 McBride received the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize, …
- Dawn Dunlap
Dawn Dunlap (born 1962 in Austin, Texas) is an American actress best known for her appearance as Laura in David Hamilton's "Laura". The role required her to do full frontal and rear nudity, including a sex scene, although she was only sixteen at the time. She quit the film industry in 1985 and moved back to her home state of Texas.
- Charles MacFarland
Charles MacFarland is an Australian videographer, photographer, and producer who makes films (available on DVD and VHS video formats) through his company Synetech Video featuring naked people in social settings. Locations include naturist resorts and beaches all over the world, including France, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Synetech also has videos about yoga, recreation, family nudity at home, body painting, and naked parties.
- Antonio Canova
Antonio Canova (November 1, 1757 - October 13, 1822) was an Italian sculptor who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh. The epitome of the neoclassical sculptor, his work marked a return to classical refinement after the theatrical excesses of Baroque art.
- Shirley Mills
Shirley Mills (born April 8, 1926, Tacoma, Washington) is an American actress. Starting her career as a dancer, she later starred in such films as "The Grapes of Wrath", "Child Bride", and the Shirley Temple film "Young People". She stopped making films in her early twenties, and went on to be a singer and a data processing salesperson. Mills, a devout Christian, lives in California.
- Debee Ashby
Debee Ashby (born July 2nd 1967) is a former British adult model. Debee grew up in Coventry, England. Noted locally for her 5'6" 37DD-24-35 figure, she attended King Henry VIII School (known affectionately as 'Big Debs'), but was expelled at age 16 on December 16th 1983 when the school discovered that she had posed topless in her school uniform for a men's magazine Men Only. Her case attracted media attention and, three days later, …
- Dede Lind
DeDe Lind (born Diane Lind on April 15, 1947 in Los Angeles, California) is a glamour model famous for her 1960s nude appearances in "Playboy" magazine. She now lives in Boca Raton, Florida
- Kurt Barthel
Kurt Barthel could be called the father of the American Nudist Club. He began the American League for Physical Culture in 1929 with an ad in the newspaper requesting like-minded folks to join him. Some people say this organization was the evolutionary beginning of the American nudist movement in general and the American Sunbathing Association (now called the American Association for Nude Recreation or (AANR).
- Jessamyn West
Jessamyn Charity West (born September 5, 1968) is a librarian and a former member of the American Library Association Council. Her father is Tom West. She is a self-described "anti-capitalist" who as of 2006 operates the blog librarian.net. She also operates the websites jessamyn.com and jessamyn.info and is a moderator on MetaFilter.
- Ayane Miura
Ayane Miura is a Japanese model and actress. As a model her pictures often show full-frontal nudity. As an actress she portrayed Sadako Yamamura in the 1995 Japanese TV movie "Ring: Kanzenban".
- George Monty Davis
George Monty Davis, also known as "Naked Yoga Guy", has been given many citations for practicing naked yoga in San Francisco. He claims to be promoting his book and lifestyle to the masses. He has received many complaints in regard to his public nudity. He went to court on charges of public nudity; however, in San Francisco, this is not illegal unless there was a lewd act accompanying this nudity. Davis has said he might not return to the shorefront with his naked yoga.
- Barry Cryer
Barry Charles Cryer OBE (born 23 March 1935 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England) was educated in Leeds Grammar School and is a writer and comedian. He started at the Windmill Theatre in London, a club which showed comedy acts in between nude tableau shows. Cryer has written for a long list of people, including: :Dave Allen, Stanley Baxter, Jack Benny, Rory Bremner, George Burns, Jasper Carrott, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson, Dick Emery, Kenny Everett, Bruce Forsyth, David Frost, …
- Svetlana Pesotskaya
Svetlana Pesotskaya (born 9 January 1975) is a television reporter in Moscow who gained international attention for her practice of stripping during newscasts. Before becoming a television journalist, Pesotskaya was an actress and model. After Communism, Russian television channels struggled to gain viewers because of low budgets and lack of programming.
- Arianna Starr
Arianna Starr is a Stripper and model.
- Carla van de Puttelaar
Carla van de Puttelaar (born November 1, 1967) is a Dutch photographer.
- Gwen Jacob
Gwen Jacob (born c.1972) is a female Canadian activist who in 1991 was arrested for walking down a street in Guelph, Ontario while topless. The results of her trial led to a change of Ontario laws so that they agree (at least in principle) with topfree equality.
- Liu Ling
Liu Ling, born 221 and died 300, was a Chinese poet and scholar. Little information survives about his family background, though he is described in historical sources as short and unattractive, with a dissipated appearance. One of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Liu Ling was a Taoist who retreated to the countryside in order to pursue a spontaneous and natural existence that would have been impossible under the tight constraints of the Imperial court.
- William Price
Dr. William Price (4 March 1800 - 23 January 1893) of Pontypridd, South Wales, was a physician and a famous eccentric, best known for introducing cremation to the United Kingdom. He was a prominent Welsh Chartist and was forced to flee to Paris, France, after his part in the Newport Rising of 1839. He was an equally prominent Druid and exponent of 19th-century Druidic traditions, appointing himself as archdruid.
- Eliana Guercio
Eliana Guercio is an Argentine model. She is currently working in shows hosted by Gerardo Sofovich in Buenos Aires' Corrientes Avenue. She came into attention when performed a full nudity in one of those shows.
- Arne Mattsson
Arne Mattsson was a Swedish film director, born in Uppsala. His early movies were mostly comedies. His biggest success was "Hon dansade en sommar" (1951, aka. "One Summer of Happiness"), which earned him a nomination for the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952 and caused some controversy at the time because it containined nudity. In 1958 he directed "Mannekäng i rött", the first in a series of murder mysteries, …
- Christopher Leach
Christopher Leach is a transvestite English artist whose erotic work is, at times, reminiscent in style of that of Aubrey Beardsley’s art nouveau sketches and in theme to that of H. R. Giger. Many of his pen-and-ink drawings are black and white, but his work includes color sketches and some oil paintings as well. He describes his early output as including “softer, …
- Gail Miller
Gail Miller (died January 31, 1969) was a 20-year old Canadian nursing assistant, who was murdered and raped on January 31, 1969 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, by Larry Fisher. Her partially nude body was found that morning in an alley snow bank, with her throat slashed and stabbed 27 times. David Milgaard had been wrongfully convicted of the crime and served 23 years in prison before he was exonerated by DNA evidence analyzed in the United Kingdom.