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Alan Turing
English computer scientist (1912–1954)
Peter Abelard
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician (c.1079-1142)
eunuch
thumb|upright=1.2|The Ottoman Court positions|Harem Ağası, head of the black eunuchs of the [[Ottoman Imperial Harem]] A eunuch ( , ) is a boy or man who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BC. Over the millennia since, they performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures: courtiers or equivalent domestics, for espionage or clandestine operations, castrato singers, concubines or sexual partner
Mohammad Najibullah
4th General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
Magnus IV of Norway
Norwegian monarch
David Reimer
Canadian boy raised as girl following botched surgery (1965–2004)
Jaromír
Duke of Bohemia
Marshall Applewhite
American cult leader (1931–1997)
Boston Corbett
Union Army sergeant
Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb
boy killed in 2011 while detained by the Syrian regime
Florentino Asensio Barroso
Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop (1877-1936)
torture and castration of a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia
2022 Russo-Ukrainian War incident
Carlos Castro
Portuguese journalist (1945–2011)
Jorge Cuesta
Mexican chemist and writer (1903–1942)
Alex Jürgen
Austrian intersex activist
Henk Heithuis
Dutch victim of sexual abuse by the Catholic Church (1935–1958)
Martinus
Byzantine emperor
Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
British politician (1893-1961)
Guðrøðr Rǫgnvaldsson
King of the Isles
Bernard Coyne
American giant (1897–1921)
Uhtred of Galloway
Scottish noble
Wimund
Wimund was a bishop who became a seafaring warlord adventurer in the years after 1147. His story is passed down to us by 12th-century English historian William of Newburgh in his Historia rerum anglicarum, Book I, Chapter 24 entitled "Of bishop Wimund, his life unbecoming a bishop, and how he was deprived of his sight".