List of LiveJournal users
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Some users of LiveJournal, or the journals themselves have become famous throughout the years for their especially interesting content, including political commentary and anecdotal advice on subjects ranging from household care to aquariums, or because they belong to otherwise famous or accomplished people, including many well-known writers, graphic artists, mass media personalities, and programmers.
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[edit] Notable LiveJournal users
- Emilie Autumn, username bonnytymepyrate, singer and violinist in the victoriandustrial musical genre.
- Big Poppa E, username poetryslam, poetry slam performer.
- Bill Bradley, username senbillbradley, ex-NBA player, ex-US Senator, one-time presidential candidate, author.
- Neil Cicierega, username trapezzoid, Internet personality, musician and artist. He is the creator of a genre of Flash animation known as "Animutation" and the band Lemon Demon. Created Potter Puppet Pals.
- Lucia Cifarelli, username luciacifarelli, an American singer and musician, currently a member of KMFDM.
- Bram Cohen, username bramcohen, creator of BitTorrent.
- Charlotte Cooper, username charlottecooper, writer, fat acceptance and gay rights activist.
- Billy Corgan, username billycorgan, founder of the band The Smashing Pumpkins.
- Kimya Dawson, username kimya_dawson_, musician and member of the band The Moldy Peaches.
- Paul Dini, username kingofbreakfast, Hollywood producer, co-creator of the DC Animated Universe, which includes seven television series, and is now a writer on Lost.
- Selina Enriquez, username selinaenriquez, model, graphic designer and humanitarian.
- David Eppstein, username 11011110, computer scientist, Wikipedia admin.
- Tom Hull, username tomster0, mathematician and mathematical origami expert.
- Wei-Hwa Huang, username onigame, four-time world puzzle championship winner.
- Rhodri Marsden, username rhodri, musician and journalist.
- MC Chris, username fourzeronine, nerdcore rapper and former employee of Cartoon Network.
- Vic Mignogna, username vivhingolino, popular anime voice actor and musician.
- Jeff Minter, username stinkygoat, veteran game programmer, creator of Space Giraffe.
- Momus, username imomus, British avant-garde musician and performance artist in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
- Michael Muhney, username thewizrd, actor on the television series Veronica Mars.
- Elyse Sewell, username elysesewell, American fashion model, placed third in America's Next Top Model Cycle 1.
- Jeffree Star, username surgeryscars, American fashion and alternative model, musician, and internet personality
- Tim Steele, username culturedgoat, former bassist of British rock band Handbags at Dawn.
- Ben Templesmith, username ben_templesmith, comics artist.
- James Urbaniak, username urbaniak, actor known for his performances in American Splendor, Henry Fool, and Thom Pain (based on nothing), as well as in GEICO commercials.
- Jamie Zawinski, username jwz, programmer of xscreensaver and founder of mozilla.org.
[edit] Professional wrestlers
- CM Punk, username cmpunk, professional wrestler.
- Steve Corino, username corino, professional wrestler.
- Allison Danger, username allisondanger, professional wrestler.
- Chris Hero, username chrishero, professional wrestler.
- Jimmy Jacobs, username jimmyjacobs, professional wrestler.
- Sterling James Keenan, username sterlingjk, professional wrestler.
- Jimmy Rave, username xxxjimmyravexxx, professional wrestler.
- Samoa Joe, username xsweatpeax, professional wrestler.
- Alex Shelley, username alexshelley, professional wrestler.
[edit] Writers
- Elizabeth Bear, username matociquala, author of The Jenny Casey Trilogy, Carnival, Undertow and other books and short stories.
- Marty Beckerman, username martybeckerman, young adult author.
- Libba Bray, username libba-bray, author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels.
- Poppy Z. Brite, username docbrite, New Orleans-based author of novels and short stories including "Lost Souls", "Exquisite Corpse", "The Value of X", "Liquor", and "Prime".
- Steven Brust, username skzbrust, author of fantasy and science fiction, including the Vlad Taltos series of novels.
- Emma Bull, username coffeeem_, fantasy writer.
- Svetlana Chmakova, username svetlania, artist and writer, author of Dramacon, The Adventures of CG, and other sequential arts works.
- Joey Comeau, username untoward, one of the creators of the webcomic A Softer World and author of the novella Lockpick Pornography as well as many published short stories.
- Cassandra Clare, username cassandraclare and thegraybook, science fiction and fantasy writer, creator of young adult urban fantasy trilogy called The Mortal Instruments.
- John Crowley, username crowley crow, fantasy writer.
- Pamela Dean, username pameladean, fantasy and young adult fiction writer.
- Sarah Dessen, username writergrl, fiction writer.
- Roman Dirge, username taxidermied, creator of the comic book Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl.
- Thomas Disch username tomsdisch, science fiction writer and poet.
- Cory Doctorow username doctorow, science fiction writer.
- Diane Duane, username dduane, fantasy, science fiction, television series, and young adult fiction writer.
- Doris Egan, a.k.a. Jane Emerson, username tightropegirl, fantasy novelist and television writer (House, NUMB3RS, Smallville, others).
- Suzette Haden Elgin, username ozarque, science fiction writer and linguist.
- Warren Ellis, username warren_ellis, British author of comics, novels, and television, including Transmetropolitan and Planetary. Has temporarily suspended posting, in response to recent mass account deletions.
- Erastes, username erastes, Best selling gay historical fiction, historical fiction, and short story writer.
- K. Sandra Fuhr, username saunteringdown, creator of webcomics including Boy Meets Boy and Friendly Hostility.
- Barry Graham, username barrygraham, novelist, poet, journalist, screenwriter and Zen Buddhist monk.
- Javier Grillo-Marxuach, username chaodai, television writer and producer.
- Jim C. Hines, username jimhines, fantasy writer.
- Emily Horne, username thisisfurious, one of the creators of the webcomic A Softer World and a photographer.
- Tanya Huff, username andpuff, fantasy author, most notably the Blood Books on which the television series Blood Ties is based.
- Matthew Tyler Jones, username bafflermeal, suspense writer.
- Caitlin R. Kiernan, username greygirlbeast, author of science fiction and dark fantasy.
- Ellen Kushner username ellenkushner, fantasy writer and radio personality.
- George R. R. Martin, username grrm, science fiction and television writer, creator of the "Wild Cards" shared world book series.
- Christopher McCulloch, username jacksonpublick, creator of the adventure/comedy cartoon television series The Venture Bros..
- Ian McDonald username ianmcdonald, science fiction writer.
- R. K. Milholland, username kobold, creator of the webcomic strips Something Positive [1], S*P 1937 [2], Midnight Macabre [3], and New Gold Dreams [4].
- Sarah Monette, username truepenny, fantasy writer.
- Tamora Pierce, username tammy212, best-selling author of young adult fantasy novels.
- Cherie Priest, username cmpriest, author of the horror/fantasy novels Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Dreadful Skin.
- Karen Traviss, username karentraviss, science fiction writer.
- Emma Maree Urquhart, username srsbizniz, Scottish fantasy author whose first book was published at 13.
- Jhonen Vasquez, username chancrescolex creator of such comic books as Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, as well as the Nickelodeon television show Invader Zim.
- Ursula Vernon, username ursulav professional artist and writer of the Digger (webcomic).
- Ned Vizzini username ned_vizzini author of three young adult books.
- Jo Walton username papersky, science fiction and fantasy writer.
- Liz Williams, username mevennen, science fiction and fantasy writer.
- David Willis, username shortpacked, creator of the webcomic Shortpacked!.
[edit] Notable people in Russian LiveJournal community
A comprehensive list can be found in Russian wikipedia: ru:Список известных пользователей Живого журнала
[edit] Politicians
- Boris Berezovsky, username platon-elenin[citation needed], a.k.a. Platon Elenin, exiled Russian-Jewish billionaire.
- Alexander Lebedev, username alex-lebedev, a Russian billionaire, member of the State Duma, former KGB agent, and owns a third of Aeroflot, and is part owner of Novaya Gazeta.
- Valeria Novodvorskaya, username vnovodvorskaia[citation needed], prominent dissident and critic of both the Soviet and succeeding Russian governments.
[edit] Writers
- Sergey Lukyanenko, username doctor-livsy, sci-fi writer.
- Alexander Gromov, username lemming_drover, sci-fi writer.
- Kirill Yeskov, username afranius, multi-genre writer and paleontologist.
[edit] Infamous LiveJournals
Other LiveJournals have instead gained notoriety for the infamy of their owners. These include:
- Taylor Behl, username tiabliaj, a seventeen-year-old Virginia college student found murdered
- Ben Fawley, username skulz67, Behl's killer. On August 9, 2006, Fawley was convicted by a judge of second degree murder and sentenced to thirty years in prison, after Fawley entered an Alford plea.
- Jason Fortuny, username rfjason, a Seattle-area graphic designer responsible for "The Craigslist Experiment".
- John Dallas Lockhart, username ohbutyouwillpet, a 38-year-old Akron lawyer who was found to possess pictures of himself raping a four-month-old infant on his computer. After a profile on America's Most Wanted, he was arrested by the LAPD and U.S. Marshals Service in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles and extradited to Ohio, where he gave a plea of guilty and was sentenced to life in prison in 2005; he will be eligible for parole beginning in 2015.[5]
- Russell Tavares, username pyrodice, got a leave of absence from his assignment with the U. S. Navy working with missiles and fire control, drove from Virginia to Waco, Texas, and set fire to the house of a man with whom he had engaged in an Internet flame war, completely destroying the house. On July 23, 2007 he pleaded guilty to felony arson and was sentenced to seven years in state prison. (He has been discharged by the Navy; his journal has been deleted and the user name purged from the LiveJournal servers.) [6][7]
- Jeff Weise, username weise, a high school student in Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the Red Lake High School massacre.
[edit] LiveJournals that have had an impact on the offline world
Some instances of LiveJournal having a wider impact on the outside world. These include:
- homeless_at_nyu. In 2004, homeless New York University (NYU) student Steve Stanzak gained nationwide attention. Stanzak had lived in the NYU library for eight months, being unable to afford the expensive cost of housing, and chronicled his plight in his LiveJournal. His weblog ultimately caught the attention of the media and school administration, who provided him with temporary free housing and increased his financial aid.[1] The journal has since been deleted by the owner.
- interdictor. Michael Barnett, an internet company's crisis manager who witnessed Hurricane Katrina firsthand from a datacenter in the Central Business District of New Orleans and documented it in his blog, becoming famous virtually overnight.
- ea_spouse. In 2004, Erin Hoffman,[2] the spouse of an employee who worked at Electronic Arts wrote an article entitled "EA: The Human Story" revealed the terrible working conditions at EA. It sparked a lawsuit which the employees won for $15.6 million for unpaid overtime.[3]
