LGBTQ Inventors
From QueerBio.com
Brazil
- Alberto Santos-Dumont, airplanes
Colombia
- Mauricio Andres Toro Orjuela, Innovation Award recipient
France
- Christian Dior, creator of the licensing agreement
Germany
- Hannah Hoch, photomontage
Great Britain
- Captain Robert Jones, ice skating
- Bunny Roger, inventor of Capri pants
- Alan Turing, computer
- Sophie Wilson, the Acorn Micro-Computer (video architecture)
Italy
United States
- Jack Andraka, creator of a process to detect cancer
- John Burnside, inventor of the kaleidoscope
- Lynn Conway, computer chip design and operation
- Allan Cox, plate tectonics measurement
- George Washington Carver, peanut butter
- John 'Maddog' Hall, open source software
- Mary Ann Horton, inventor of uuencode (used for email attachments)
- Cleve Jones, creator of the AIDS memorial quilt
- Bruce Lehman, patent lawyer
- Dan Pallotta, creator of the multi-day, mass participation fundraising event
- Ted Shawn, dance film
- Andy Warhol, creator of Pop Art
See Also
- LGBTQ Engineers
- LGBTQ Physicists
- LGBTQ Biologists and Chemists
- The Fascinating World of LGBTQ Astronomers, Astrophysicists, and Cosmologists
- LGBTQ Mathematicians
