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List of famous prostitutes and courtesans
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This is a list of famous prostitutes:
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Real-life and historical
- Aspasia, hetaera companion of Pericles
- Laura Bell , the "Queen of London whoredom"
- Theresa Berkeley, 19th-century dominatrix
- Divine Brown , caught in a compromising situation with Hugh Grant
- Sydney Biddle Barrows, the Mayflower Madam
- Claudia Drexelius, German prostitute exposed through national TV
- Heidi Fleiss, the Hollywood Madam
- Nell Gwynne, courtesan to Charles II of England
- Christine Keeler, involved in the Profumo Affair
- Margaret MacDonald
- Madame Alex , the Beverly Hills Madam
- Madame Claude
- Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertruida Zelle)
- Gerda Munsinger, Soviet spy
- Cynthia Payne
- Cora Pearl
- Phryne, Greek hetaera
- Rahab, Biblical prostitute who assisted the Hebrews in capturing Jericho
- Tamar (Bible, Genesis 38) posed as a prostitute
- Thais, Greek hetaera who lived during the time of Alexander the Great
- Thaïs, Greek hetaera who became a saint
Fictional
- Belle Watling , Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Fanny Hill, Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (more of a kept woman than a prostitute proper)
- Tra La La , Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
- Tamara Sperling in Robert A. Heinlein's Time Enough For Love.
- Sonya Marmeladova , "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Mrs Rosemary Palm, head of the Guild of Seamstresses in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
- Tilt, from The Monolith
See also Hooker with a heart of gold.
Alleged prostitutes
- Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia)
- Mary Magdalene
- Yoko Ono - according to Albert Goldman 's "The Lives of John Lennon"
Symbolic or allegorical prostitutes
- The Whore of Babylon
- Oholah and Oholibah
- The prostitute in The Harlot's Progress by William Hogarth
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45