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Courtney Love
American rock musician and actress (born 1964)
Dave Grohl
American rock musician

Patti Smith
Patricia Lee Smith is an American singer, songwriter, poet, painter, author, and photographer. Her 1975 debut album Horses made her an influential member of the New York City–based punk rock movement. Smith has fused rock and poetry in her work. In 1978, her most widely known song, "Because the Night," co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number five on the UK Singles Chart.

Iggy Pop
American musician (born 1947)

Billie Joe Armstrong
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician and actor. He is best known for being the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder, and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs, the Network, the Longshot and the Coverups. Armstrong has been considered by critics as one of the greatest punk rock guitarists of all time, as well as one of the greatest punk rock singers of all time.

Hayley Williams
Hayley Nichole Williams is an American singer and songwriter. She is the lead vocalist and a founding member of the rock band Paramore and has released several solo albums.
John Lydon
British-born Irish-American singer and songwriter
Debbie Harry
American singer, songwriter and actress, frontwoman of Blondie (born 1945)

Joan Jett
American rock musician
Tom DeLonge
American rock musician

Ice-T
Tracy Lauren Marrow (born February 16, 1958), known professionally as Ice-T (or Ice T), is an American rapper and actor. He is active in both hip-hop and heavy metal. Ice-T began his career as an underground rapper in the 1980s and was signed to Sire Records in 1987, when he released his debut album Rhyme Pays. The following year, he founded the record label Records (named after his collective of fellow hip-hop artists called the "") and released another album, Power (1988), which is Ice-T's only album to be certified platinum by the RIAA. His next three albums, The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech..

Belinda Carlisle
American singer

Regina Spektor
American musician

Henry Rollins
American musician
Machine Gun Kelly
Colson Baker (born April 22, 1990), known professionally as MGK (stylized in all lowercase) and formerly Machine Gun Kelly, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer and actor. The stage name "Machine Gun Kelly" is derived from the nickname of Prohibition-era gangster George Kelly Barnes.

Jello Biafra
American singer and activist (born 1958)
Zack de la Rocha
American singer, rapper and activist (born 1970)

Amanda Palmer
American musician and songwriter (born 1976)

Mark Hoppus
American musician and record producer

Joey Ramone
American punk rock singer (1951–2001)
Lita
American professional wrestler
Chrissie Hynde
American rock musician, founder of The Pretenders

Shane West
American actor, musician and songwriter

Kim Gordon
American musician and artist, most known as co-founding member of Sonic Youth (born 1953)

Phil Anselmo
American heavy metal vocalist

Pauley Perrette
American actress and musician

Shawnee Smith
American actress
Kathleen Hanna
American musician and feminist activist

Dexter Holland
American rock musician
Steve Albini
American record engineer and musician (1962–2024)

GG Allin
American punk rock musician (1956-1993)

Cherie Currie
American rock musician, actress, and woodcarver, former member of The Runaways
Joel Madden
American singer, musician and songwriter
Carrie Brownstein
American musician and actress

Jim Carroll
American author, poet, and punk musician (1949–2009)
Tim McIlrath
American rock musician
Glenn Danzig
American rock musician and record producer
Karen O
American singer and musician
Ian MacKaye
American singer and record label owner
Tom Verlaine
American singer and guitarist (1949–2023)
Greg Graffin
American singer
Lydia Lunch
American singer, author and actress
Richard Hell
American musician (born 1949)
Harley Quinn Smith
American actress and musician
Mike Watt
American musician (born 1957)
Mark Mothersbaugh
American musician and composer

Tim Armstrong
American musician
Mike Ness
American musician
Johnny Thunders
American guitarist and singer (1952–1991)
Davey Havok
American singer
Wendy O. Williams
American singer (1949–1998)
Buzz Osborne
American musician
Fat Mike
American musician
Mia Zapata
American singer (1965–1993)
Edith Massey
actress, singer (1918-1984)
Matt Skiba
American musician (born 1976)
David Johansen
American singer (1950–2025)
Brett Gurewitz
American guitarist and record producer

Mike Vallely
American skateboarder and punk rock singer
Laura Jane Grace
American musician