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"The world might, perhaps, be considerably poorer if the great writers had exchanged their books for children of flesh and blood." --Virginia Woolf

The Long List of

Childfree (and Childless)

in History: Part 1 [People A-M] / [People N-Z] Herbert Samuel Adams

Sculptor Scott Adams

Cartoonist, Dilbert Charles Addams

Cartoonist, The New Yorker Nancy Addison

Soap Opera Actress Louisa May Alcott

Author of Little Women Cynthia May Westover Alden

Author, Philanthropist Grover Cleveland Alexander

Baseball Player Suzy Allegra

Author Marty Allen

Comedian John Murray Anderson

Musical Theatre Producer Laurie Anderson

Performance Artist Marian Anderson

Concert Singer Louis Andriessen

Composer "Andriessen lives with his wife Jeanette Yanikian, a guitar player whom he met while studying in the Hague 40 years ago, in a vast fourth floor apartment in Amsterdam by the Keizersgracht, looking out over the canals. Having decided not to have children they are devoted to their two cats and to work..." Susan B. Anthony

Womans' Suffragist Samuel Appleton

Politician/ Philanthropist "When he reached the age of sixty, Appleton retired from business with the avowed purpose of spending his income upon philanthropies. He became a benefactor and trustee of the Massachusetts General Hospital; he gave to the Boston Female Asylum, New Ipswich Academy, and Dartmouth College; he was a patron of the Boston Athen'um and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Besides providing for his widow, her nieces, and her sister, for the descendants of his four brothers and two sisters, for his servants, and for his friend, Rev. Ephraim Peabody, his will allotted industrial stocks worth about $200,000--nearly a fifth of his fortune--to scientific, literary, religious, and philanthropic endeavors. Knowing his wishes, his executors distributed most of these stocks among the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston Athen'um, Sailors' Snug Harbor, Massachusetts General Hospital, New Ipswich Academy, and Amherst, Dartmouth, and Harvard Colleges. With its share, Harvard built Appleton Chapel in honor of the benefactor." Louis Armstrong

Musician Boris Artzybasheff

Artist Dorothy Arzner

Film Director Dr. Robert C. Atkins

Diet Doctor, Author, Creator of the Atkins Diet V.C. Andrews

Author Jane Austen

Author of Sense and Sensibility Max Baer Jr.

Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies Francis Bacon

Politician, Philosopher, Scientist Florence Bailey

Author, Naturalist, Ornithologist Tallulah Bankhead

Actress Abdullah al-Baradouni

Yemeni Poet Bob Barker

Former Game Show Host: The Price is Right/ Philanthropist Joe Barr

Canadian Politician Lynda Barry

Cartoonist Kathy Bates

Actress Jaya Battacharya

Actress "I lead a hectic life, with too much to do and too little time. I feel I simply would not be able to give my child the kind of time that I would like to. And I don’t want to be pressured into having a kid just because it’s the done thing.” King Baudouin

King of Belgium

Samuel Beckett

Author, Playwright, Poet Ludwig Van Beethoven

Composer Joe Besser

Actor, Replaced Shemp Howard as the Third Stooge Isabella Bird

Author Jacqueline Bisset

Actress Lewis Black

Comedian Eubie Blake

Musician/ Composer "Eubie Blake died five days after his 100th birthday...." William Blake

Artist "At 25 Blake married Catherine Boucher. He taught her to read and write and to help him in his work. They had no children. They worked together to produce an edition of Blake's poems and drawings, called Songs of Innocence. Blake engraved both words and pictures on copper printing plates. Catherine made the printing impressions, hand-colored the pictures, and bound the books." Brenda Blethyn

Actress Marc Blitzstein

Composer, Dramatist Baroness Karen Blixen

Author, "Out of Africa" Rosa Bonheur

French Painter and Sculptor Pierre Bonnard

Artist William Edgar Borah

Politician Lara Flynn Boyle

Actress Nathaniel Branden

Author/ Psychologist

(Has Step-Grandchildren From His Last Marriage) "I cannot regret not having children of my own because I am so work-focused; I always knew that it would be a major achievement to integrate and do right by my career and my marriage, and that children would spread me too thin and I did not want to be the father who wasn't there." Georges Brassens

Singer Joe Bob Briggs / aka John Bloom

Author, Movie Critic Raymond Briggs

Children's Book Author Poppy Z. Brite

Author Anne Bronte

Author Louise Brooks

Actress Helen Gurley Brown

Feminist, Editor "My sister, Mary, had polio and was in a wheelchair all her life," Brown says. "I know what it is to care for somebody. I didn't want the responsibility for any other little creatures. I have never regretted that decision." Reno Browne

Actress, Equestrian Delta Burke

Actress James Buchanan

15th U.S. President Pat Buchanan

Politician/ Presidential Candidate Sandra Bullock

Actress James Burke

Creator of the PBS Series "Connections"/ Scientific American columnist Raymond Burr

Actor Caryl Lee Burroughs

Hollywood Animal Trainer Leo Buscaglia

Author "I think we have to make choices in life, and the choice for me was to embrace all person-kind rather than concentrate on one single individual...the universal is what I've selected." Brett Butler

Actress, Comedian "I knew there was some place inside myself that I was running like hell to avoid, and drugs and drink helped me keep running. I dislike talking about feeling pain in my childhood, but I think that’s why I never had children. I just wouldn’t want to give birth to anything that could hurt that much, and then wait to see someone I loved so much have to wait so long to find the key to healing." Maria Callas

Opera Singer Julia Cameron

Director Phyllis Carlyle

Film Producer, Se7en, The Accidental Tourist Dora Carrington

Bloomsbury Artist Laura Carroll

Author, Families of Two Mary Casatt

Artist Roger Casement

Irish Patriot Nina Cassian

Poet Barbara Castle

British Politician Kim Catrall

Actress Mary Chapin Carpenter

Singer / Songwriter Rosamond Halsey Carr

Founder of Rwanda's Imbabazi Orphanage, Author, Fashion Designer Richard Chamberlain

Actor, Star of Shogun "...the idea of being married, etcetera and having kids, never appealed to me at all. Not at all." Coco Chanel

Fashion Designer, Dancer, Spy Stockard Channing

Actress, Star of Smoke Judy Chicago

Artist "You don't have to experience something to show it (in art), and you'd lose a lot if you did. Crucifixions, for instance." Margaret Cho

Comedian "I do not want children. When I see children, I feel nothing. I have no maternal instinct. I am barren. I ovulate sand...I look at children and feel no pull toward them, no desire whatsoever. Actually, my fiance‚ and I have seen some very interesting personal ads of 50-year-olds that like to wear diapers. So we're thinking of adopting one of these guys. A baby by choice." Julia Child

Professional Chef, Cookbook Author Helen Clark

New Zealand Prime Minister "I actually have great faith in the common sense of Kiwis and I think these days most people are going to say 'For God's sake, people are entitled to choice about their life, Helen's made her choice, that's fine with us'. "So what are they getting at? Am I supposed to not be a real woman because I haven't had children? It's all bizarre and I don't think most people relate to it." Patricia Clarkson

Actress, Far From Heaven Dorothy Clewes

Childrens' Book Author George Clooney

Actor, Star of Ocean's Eleven "Where is it written that you have to have kids? You can easily borrow other people's and give them back later." Imogene Coca

Actress "A lover of pets, she formed the Imogene Coca Charitable Foundation, which donates proceeds to the Humane Society and human and civil rights groups." Claudette Colbert

Actress Billy Collins

U.S. Poet Laureate C. Collodi

Author of Pinocchio William Conrad

Actor Frances Conroy

Actress Storm Constantine

Fantasy Writer "I don't like dogs very much, but I do like individual dogs. There are certain dogs I meet and I think 'Yeah, you're okay, I get on with you.'. It's the same with children for me. There are some children I'm very fond of, children of friends, I love them, but I don't like them as a whole and I certainly wouldn't want any of my own. But I'm a very good auntie and best friend." Jill Ker Conway

Author, first woman President of Smith College Anne Cool

Canadian Senator Pat Coombs

Actress Copernicus

Scientist John Corbett

Actor “I’m 41-years-old, I’m single, I own my own house, I don’t have any kids. I can make decisions other people might not have the freedom to make.” Joseph Cornell

Artist and Creator of the Cornell Box Ann Coulter Political Commentator

Simon Cowell

Actor "I don't want children; I'd like a puppy. My brother's having a baby so I'll be an uncle - that will do me." Alec Sadler Craig

Australian Politician / Philanthropist "Although Alec Sadler Craig and his wife Grace were active in Bendigo civic life from the 1950s until the late 1970s, having served as mayor and mayoress three times, they left their biggest contribution to the city until last. Yesterday the Bendigo Art Gallery announced that it was the beneficiary of a $2.7 million bequest from Mrs Craig, who died in March last year, four years after her husband. The couple, who lived into their 80s, had no children. Their bequest will give the gallery about $130,000 a year, which, according to the terms of the trust fund, must be used to buy paintings and drawings of "considerable merit". Quentin Crisp

Author / Actor Tim Curry

Actor Charlotte Curtis

First woman on the masthead of The New York Times Patrika Darbo

Actress Simone de Beauvoir

Author of The Second Sex De Beauvoir dismissed motherhood as, "...'a strange mixture of narcissism, altruism, idle daydreaming, sincerity, bad faith, devotion and cynicism." Mahmoud Darwish

Palestinian Poet "The centre of my life is my poetry. What helps my poetry I do; what damages it I avoid." Leonardo Da Vinci

Artist Gray Davis

Governor of California "The couple, who have no children, enjoy playing golf and renting movies in their free time." Kristin Davis

Actress Ellen Degeneres

Comedian "Listen, I love kids. But i also like being able to do whatever I want when I want." Bessie and Sadie Delaney

Authors, "Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years" Jeffery Deaver

Author Eugene Victor Debs

Activist Dana Delany

Actress "I think it's pretty evident that my parent's divorce had a profound effect on me. Between that and growing up in the 70's, marriage has never been that important to me. But love is." Don DeLillo

Author, White Noise Del Rubio Triplets

1950's Musical Group "They [husbands] want a home and children and so forth," Elena Del Rubio once said, "and we really don't want that. We want our music really to come first, until we feel we've had enough." Bo Derek

Actress, Star of 10 "I thought I really didn't necessarily have that drive and that desire to have a child that I think you should have. I wasn't ready to make the commitment." Rene Descartes

Philosopher Loretta Devine

Actress Portia De Rossi

Actress "As for reports the new couple (Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi) are planning for a baby, a source says, "Portia has said many times she does not want to have a baby. She's only interested in her career right now and doesn't really even want kids in the long run. Francesca wanted a baby badly, and that was a huge issue for them." Emily Dickinson

Poet Benjamin Disraeli

Politician, Author Steve Ditko

Cartoonist/ co-creator with Writer Stan Lee, of the Spider-Man Comics Dorothea Dix

Educator, writer, philanthropist Hannah Dobryn

Author of the Katy Green Mysteries Tamara Dobson

Actress: Cleopatra Jones Movies / Guinness Book of World Records-Tallest Leading Lady in Film Elizabeth Dole

Reagan's Secretary of Transportation Richard Donner

Film Director "I was lucky because I never had kids. I never wanted kids. I wanted dogs." Lizzie Douglas

Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Environmentalist Maureen Dowd

Columnist Sir George Downing

Founder of Downing College/ Cambridge, England Gabriel Dumont

Native American Tribal Leader Francis Drake

Explorer Fran Dresher

Actress Esther Dyson

Author, Internet Expert Amelia Earhart

Aviator Deborah Eisenberg

Author "I don't have children, I don't understand them, I don't remember my childhood..." Liubov Egorova

Dancer Anita Ekberg

Actress T.S. Eliot

Poet Havelock Ellis

Psychologist, Author Harlan Ellison

Author Elizabeth I

Queen of England Joan Elm

Canadian Politician/ Commiunity Activist Bonnie Erbe

PBS Commentator and Columnist "My husband and I affirmatively chose not to have children, so we could devote ourselves to our beloved work, extensive worldwide travel, our favorite pastimes, friends and family. We have a lifestyle most of our married-with-children friends can only dream about. And it's one we could only have dreamed about, too, if we had had children." (Dame) Edith Evans

British Film and Stage Actress, Star of A Passage to India Linda Evans

Actress, Star of Dallas Rupert Everett

Actor Anne Ewers

CEO of the Utah Symphony & Opera "I really don't regret it. There would be no time to raise children properly. It would be a disservice to them," says Ewers, 50. "Besides, I get so much fulfillment from what I'm doing now." Chow Yun-Fat

Actor "It was never a question for us because my wife has her hands full taking care of me. Look at my life. I'm always on the go. If it isn't the United States, it's Canada. When a movie gets released, we have to go all over the place to promote it. When would we find time to have kids. Raising children under these conditions, no matter how well they were treated, would be unfair to them. My biggest worry is that I would have no time for them. I've still got a long way to go in Hollywood so I'll be even more busy later on. Besides it's not in her nature or my nature. We have to focus all our energy into one direction. If we had kids, we wouldn't know what to take care of first, the kids or the career! So, we decided not to have children." Barbara Feldon

Actress, Agent 99 on the TV Series, Get Smart "She clearly likes candles in silver holders, and books, lots of books, the kind that look as if they've been avidly read. (Edith Wharton seems to be a particular favorite.) During her talk Feldon cited the example of Thoreau, quoted Montaigne and recited a poem by Apollinaire, leaving her guests slightly stunned. To meet Feldon in person is to wonder why you ever thought Agent 99 with her doltish spouse and two squalling infants was cool; the real thing's so much more awesome." Pamelyn Ferdin

Actress Ralph Fiennes

Actor, Star of The English Patient "Children? Ewww!" Lynn Fontanne

Actress Margot Fonteyn

British Ballerina Juliana Rieser Force

Whitney Museum Director Richard Ford

Author of The Sportswriter/ Editor of Granta Margaretta Forten

Abolitionist Dian Fossey

Anthropologist Janet Frame

Poet Felix Frankfurter

Supreme Court Justice Tanya Franks

Actress "The most challenging storyline thing for me at the moment is the surrogacy story. I personally don't want children but my character really does, so surrogacy as an issue is not really something I can relate to." William Frawley

Actor, Star of I Love Lucy Frank Frazetta

Artist Stephen Frears

Film Director Alice Freeman

First woman to be president of a liberal arts college, (Wellesley)/ Helped establish the University of Chicago. Elsie Freund

Artist, Jewelry Designer Louis Freund

Artist Robert Fripp

Composer/ Musician Eva Gabor

Actress Magda Gabor

Actress Maxwell Gage

Noted New Zealand Geologist Diamanda Galas

Singer Tess Gallagher

Author "Children? I think there was a period where I might have had some regrets. Feeling that the war had cheated me out of having children, because I didn’t feel it was a time to be having them. That there was something morally wrong with me being unwilling to have them because they were being destroyed in that country called Vietnam. It was very present to me and painfully clear from photographs and film coverage at the time that we were bombing the children of another country and I really couldn’t conscience being able to carry a child of my own, knowing this, that I was a part of why this was happening, and that my own husband was over there, asked to perform this cruel act by our government. He was a pilot. And he was a considered and wonderful person--but throughout the war and afterwards, we both carried such a deep sadness about the whole thing--it was very difficult to go forward. It was such a brutal thing in our young lives." Paul William Gallico

Author Janeane Garafalo

Actress, Comedian "I thought that I did. Now I realize that I don't. People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don't want to have children." Greta Garbo

Actress Ava Gardner

Actress Greer Garson

Actress Gloria Gaynor

Singer Gaynor works with numerous charities, including The United Cerebral Palsy Organization, the Rita Hayworth Gala for Alzheimer's, Revlon's Annual Walk For Life, and The Michael Bolton Foundation. Anthony Geary

Soap Opera Actor "Those of us who don't have children, we either have to live without a legacy, or find something else. I'm really much more interested in living than I am in leaving anything behind." William Schwenck Gilbert

Composer for Gilbert & Sullivan Althea Gibson

Tennis Pioneer who broke the color line on the Grand Slam tennis circuit and won consecutive women's singles titles at Wimbledon and at the U.S. national championships, Dorothy Gish

Actress Lillian Gish

Actress Katharine Bruce Glasier

Author Susan Glaspell

Playwright Sharon Gless

Actress Crispin Glover

Actor Christoph Willibald Gluck

Composer Paulette Goddard

Actress At her death at 79 in 1990, since Paulette Goddard did not have any immediate family (she was an only child), she left $20 million dollars to NYU. Robert Hutchings Goddard

Physicist Kurt Godel

Author Alexander Godunov

Actor/ Dancer Stephen Goldin

Author "...our books are our children. They make no demands on us, don't eat, wear clothes, or have problems with members of the opposite sex. They also leave home very early and begin supporting us, which children seldom do." Jeff Goldblum

Actor, Star of Jurassic Park Emma Goldman

Activist, Feminist "The woman, instead of being the household queen, told about in story books, is the servant, the mistress, and the slave of both husband and children. She loses her own individuality entirely, even her name she is not allowed to keep. She is the mistress of John Brown or the mistress of Tom Jones; she is that and nothing else. That is the way I think of her." Valeria Golino

Actress Jan Goodwin

Author, Travel Writer Edward Gorey

Artist Lotte Goslar

Dancer Martha Graham

Choreographer Hugh Grant

Actor, Star of About a Boy “I have so many friends who live in small houses in south London with all these babies underfoot and it’s just not attractive. I’m selfish and I can’t bear mess and ugliness and those things come hand-in- hand with children." Cecil Green

Former CEO of Texas Instruments, Philanthropist “Cecil and Ida Green were two of the most extraordinary philanthropists in the world. They created facilities and endowed programs in education, science, medicine, social services and the arts at universities and medical centers throughout this country, England, Canada and Chile. Their contributions to MIT were vitally important in many fields. They were especially supportive of women graduate students and faculty.” Johnny Green

Musician His young bride Carol (to whom he dedicated "Out of Nowhere") encouraged him to leave Wall Street and cultivate his many musical talents. She remarked, "We didn't have children, we had songs" Gael Greene

Food Critic, Author (Baroness) Susan Greenfield

Director of the Royal Institution/ Professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Oxford University, Neurologist "You don’t wake up and say: “Right, today I’ve decided I’ll never have children.” Obviously it doesn’t work like that. What happens, I suppose, is sometimes people actively want children, and I know some women get extremely broody. That never happened to me, partly because I have this horrible brother who’s 13 years younger than me." John Robert Gregg

Inventor of the Gregg Shorthand Method/ Publisher Joyce Grenfell

British Actress Nanci Griffith

Singer / Songwriter Martha Griffiths

First Female Michigan Lieutenant Governor. Terry Gross

NPR Host, Fresh Air "I always felt like I couldn't imagine doing the show and having children. I think people who have children and have complicated jobs are amazing. I don't know how they do it." James Grout

Actor Mabel Dole Haden

Former President of NABWA Catherine Hakim

British Sociologist Although she says she wrote six books in 10 years precisely because her energies were not diverted by childrearing, she is sympathetic to parents. Daryl Hall

Singer, Musician Celia Hammond

Former Model and PBS Reality Show Regency House Star, Owner of 100 Cats "People say to me that obviously you've become what you are because you've never had children. But that's not fair at all. All sorts of people have an emotional attachment to their animals, not just childless people. Some people think I'm mad or that the cats are a child substitute, but is there anything so wrong with getting emotional feedback from an animal?" Lionel Hampton

Musician "Hampton used part of his fortune to build affordable housing in Harlem and to encourage musical studies at a jazz festival that bears his name in Moscow, Idaho. He made his last public appearance at the festival, this year." Georg Friedrich Handel

Composer Howard Harold Hanson

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Composer "The Hansons had no children and enjoyed spending vacations on Bold Island (off the Maine coast), which they owned." Setsuko Hara

Japanese Actress Warren Gamaliel Harding

29th U.S. President E Chambré Hardman

Photographer Debbie Harry

Singer, Blondie Alex Heard

Author Susan Helms

Astronaut Adrian Henri

Poet/ Painter Marguerite Henry

Children's Book Author ""Henry's husband, Sidney Crocker Henry, died in 1987. They had been happily married for 64 years. They had no children, but shared numerous pets like a pony, a horse, a burro, three fox pups, a dachshund, and a mom cat who never stopped having kittens." Katherine Hepburn

Actress, Star of The Lion in Winter Milton S. Hershey

Founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company "Sometime before 1909, Milton and Kitty realized their money was accumulating faster than they could spend it. Kitty suggested that they provide a home for boys who were unfortunate. Milton seized on the idea eagerly. Childhood security and good schooling he could never recover for himself, but this was an opportunity to secure them for other boys. On November 15, 1909, Milton and Catherine signed the document that deeded 486 acres of farm land to Hershey Trust Company as trustee “with the purpose of founding and endowing in perpetuity an institution to be known as Hershey Industrial School (later renamed Milton Hershey School) to be located in Derry Township for the benefit of orphan boys.” On November 13, 1918, Milton Hershey gifted Hershey Chocolate Company stock (valued at $60 million) to the trust. In addition to the Milton Hershey School Trust, Mr. Hershey also established two other trusts - one for the benefit of the Derry Township School District (a public school system) and another to the M.S. Hershey Foundation."

--The Hershey Heritage Lorena Hickok

AP Political Reporter Taiko Hirabayashi

Author Nicole Hollander

Cartoonist Thelma Holt

Actress, Theatre Producer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Justice "Though he and his wife Fanny had no children, he acted as mentor to many young intellectuals, liberals and progressives such as economist Richard Ely, political theorist Harold Laski, philosopher Morris Cohen, and lawyers Felix Frankfurter and Learned Hand." Grace Murray Hopper

Often referred to as the "mother of the computer'. Hopper was arguably the world's most famous programmer and the most influential woman in the history of computing. She also was a Rear Admiral in the Navy. Soad Hosni

Egyptian Actress Lila Kedrova Howard

Actress Mick Hucknall

Singer Bonnie Hunt

Actress Kristin Hunter

Childrens' Author "It has often seemed to me that I have hundreds of children--thousands, if I count the young readers of my books, especially The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou, who have formed intense personal bonds with my characters, and then with me through their letters. This responsive audience, the fans and the critics alike, is one of the greatest rewards I have gained from writing for children." Lauren Hutton

Actress / Model Patricia Ireland

President of the National Organization for Women/ NOW "I think you have to make choices. And my mother really made us the center of her life. I always felt that if I was going to have kids, I would want to do it right, to take three or four years off from my career. And that was something I wasn't ready to do." George J. Irbe

Creator of the Great Lakes water temperature climatology "We decided not to have children. I particularly doubted my abilities to be a good father...We don't regret our decision, seeing how much effort it takes to make a child fly straight nowadays." John A. "Jack" Jackson

Philanthropist/ Oilman "Jackson and his wife made a joint decision to leave their entire estate, conservatively valued at more than $150 million, to the University of Texas, Austin." Tove Jansson

Childrens' Book Author Randall Jarrell

Poet Joan of Arc

Christian Saint Elton John

Singer "We are not going to adopt a child." Jack Johnson

First African American to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Margaret Johnston

Actress Martin and Osa Johnson

Authors, Photographers, explorers, and naturalists. Best remembered for their numerous movies and books about the wildlife and people of Africa, Borneo, and the South Seas. Richard Mentor Johnson

U.S. Vice-president in Early 1800s Samuel Johnson

Author, Editor William Hugh Johnston

Labor Leader Carolyn Jones

Actress, Morticia from the Addams Family Renee Jones

Soap Actress: Days of Our Lives Spike Jonze

Film Director Madeline Kahn

Actress, Star of Blazing Saddles Immanuel Kant

Philosopher Julie Kavner

Actress Nikos Kazantzakis

Author Odette Keene

Musician Helen Keller

Author Joyce Kennard

Judge Joe Kernan

Politician Maynard Keynes

Bloomsbury Economist. Also founded the Vic-Wells Ballet and financed the establishment of the Arts Theatre in Cambridge, England King Louis XVI

King of France William Lyon MacKenzie King

Former Canadian Prime Minister William Rufus King

U.S. Vice-President in the early 1800s Robert Kiyosaki

Author Caroline Knapp

Author Aleksandra Kollontai

Author Dean Koontz

Author Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Polish Patriot Jerzy Kosinski

Author "As I have no children, no family, no relatives, no business or estate to speak of, my books are my only spiritual accomplishment, my life's most private frame of reference, and I would gladly pay all I earn to make it my best." Jonathan Kozol

Author, Activist "This hasn't been any kind of a sacrifice." Lee Krasner

Artist, Wife of Jackson Pollock Albert Kroc

Co-Developer of McDonald's Fast Food Chain "He celebrated his seventieth birthday by giving more than $7 million to such Chicago institutions as Children's Memorial Hospital, the Lincoln Park Zoo, and the Harvard Congregational Church in Oak Park, which he had attended as a child...In 1976 Kroc established the Kroc Foundation in Santa Ynez to support research in diabetes, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis." Henry Richardson Labouisse

Diplomat/ Former Head of Unicef Princess Lakshmi

Indian Princess Elsa Lanchester

Actress "I held a baby once. It felt like a bag of hot snakes." Philip Larkin

Author, Poet "Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself." Charles Laughton

Actor, Director Dan Lauria

Actor Frank John Lausche

Politician Linda Lavin

Actress Tom Lehrer

Singer/ Musician "Tom still happily splits his time between Massachusetts and California, spending summer and fall in the former and winter and spring in the latter. He is very content in doing what he does, which is teaching half the year and goofing off the other half." Jay Leno

TV Host Richard Lewis

Comedian Lyn Lifshin

Poet "I think my decision to not have children came from seeing my mother, who was a vibrant woman, fun loving, a free spirit. She went to college and then lived in New York City. She went to lectures, danced all night, enjoyed life. She wanted to marry someone other than my father. She did what was expected, rather than what she wanted to do...Because of my mother's history, I decided I wanted to follow my own desires, and that did not include children." Queen Liliuokalani

Queen of Hawaii Laura Linney

Actress Sian Lloyd

Weather Broadcaster "My mother was a militant, independent woman. "She raised me to believe that marriage and children were not everything for women. I've never wanted children. I was not brought up to aspire to that. I work hard and see my friends and walk a lot in Wales, so I don't feel a gaping hole in my life." Carole Lombard

Actress Jack Lord

Actor, Hawaii Five-O Pauline Lord

Actress Patty Loveless

Singer Alfred Lunt

Actor John Lyon

Philanthropist, Regarded as the Founder Of The Great Public School Of Harrow "In 1572 he obtained a royal charter from Elizabeth I for the pre-Reformation school at Harrow, which he supported with endowments to guarantee its continuation. In 1590 he drew up statutes and a course of Classical education for the school." Rose McClendon

Actress Robert McCormick

Former Owner of the Chicago Tribune Mary Jackson McCrorey

Politician, Activist Hattie McDaniel

Actress, Star of Gone With the Wind Roddy McDowall

Actor, Photographer Odd McIntyre

Newspaper Columnist Ian McKellen

Actor, Star of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy "...having no one dependent on me has meant I've been able to pursue my career in the way I've wanted...I used to be rather relieved that kids weren't a possibility. Being a parent means keeping a tight rein on your selfishness. Though I don't suppose many parents do. Why isn't parenting taught? Why is it assumed that just because you can procreate you can be a good parent? Anyway, I'm too frail to be changing nappies." Kristy McNichol

Actress Janet McTeer

Actress Christine McVie

Singer / Songwriter, Fleetwood Mac Dora Maar

Photographer, Lover of Picasso René Magritte

Artist "The Magrittes had no children, but were devoted to their little Pomeranian dog, Loulou." Bill Maher

Former Host of Politically Incorrect "When I was 28 years old and a girl said to me, 'Do you like children?' I'd go, 'Well, you know, not right now, but I think someday.' That was a complete lie. I never liked children. I never wanted children, and I was just saying that because I didn't want to lose the fish that was on the end of my hook."

[More quotes from Bill Maher on children] Katherine Mansfield

Author Shirley Manson

Singer “What I find incredibly funny is people who say, ‘Oh you must have children otherwise you’re being incredibly selfish.’ As if having children stops selfishness. I know hundreds of parents and they’re the most selfish people I have ever met. As wonderful as I think child-rearing is for some, it’s not for everybody." Francesca Marciano

Actress Miriam Margoyles

Actress "I never wanted children and I don't terribly like them. I don't wish them any harm but I don't want them around me. I was never domestic." Mary Ellen Mark

Award-Winning Photographer "I didn't want to have them if I couldn't provide a great, nurturing home life. So I put all the energy of raising a child into my work." Not surprisingly, Mark has devoted much of her career to photographing children who have had bad breaks in life-the autistic, the blind, the poor, the cancer-ridden, and the drug-addicted. Steve Martin

Comedian, Actor, Star of Housesitter "...you don't want one of those things." Vito Anthony Marcantonio

Politician Wink Martindale

Game Show Host Bobbie Ann Mason

Childrens' Book Author "She was such a wonderful mother and so maternal, and yet we saw her sacrifice and slaving and suffering and that didn't give me a good image of having children and neither did the culture in general." Mari Matsunaga

Creator of i-mode, Named One of the Top 25 Tech Women of the Web Giuseppe Mazzini

Italian Patriot Fradique de Menezes

President of Sao Tome and Principe Melina Mercouri

Greek Actress Freddie Mercury

Musician Angela Merkel

German Chancellor George Michael

Musician Oscar Micheaux

Film Director/ Producer, Authror Alyssa Milano

Actress Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poet Alley Mills

Actress Brenda Milner

Renowned Professor of Neuro-Psychology: Mcgill's Faculty Of Medicine And At The Montreal Neurological Institute "I never wanted children," says the British-born academic. "I knew I wanted a career." Helen Mirren

Actress, Star of Gosford Park "It's just that I never wanted children. I don't know why, I've never been shrunk so I've never gone into it. I was never drawn to babies. The only dolls I played with as a child were grown up dolls. I would have loved a Barbie if they'd been around when I was a little girl. And my skin still crawls when I see a little girl hauling around a big baby doll. You see this little five-year-olds with huge, great, monstrous, disgusting baby dolls. I want to go up and rip them out of their hands...." Margaret Mitchell

Author Eugenio Montale

Nobel Prize Winner, Poet, Author, Editor, Translator Vicki Moore

Spanish Animal Rights Philanthropist Esai Morales

Actor, Star of La Bamba John Morgan

Founder of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and Medical Director of the Continental Army Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson)

Author Morrissey

Musician Rob Morse

Columnist/ San Francisco Chronicle "This year, I'm celebrating Non-Father's Day with a vengeance. I have no regrets about not having children, and I'm very happy not to be getting any Father's Day presents." Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam

Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Diana Muldaur

Actress Ona Munson

Actress, Gone With the Wind Haruki Murakami

Author, Former Tokyo Jazz Club Owner Iris Murdoch

Author Mikayil Mushfig

Poet Modest Mussorgsky

Composer Kanagarajah Muthiah

Tamil Activist Mike Myers

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