David Bowie
Dapper and pansexual, Bowie is an ever-evolving music icon. His wife is Iman.
David Robert Jones changed his name to Bowie in the 1960s so as not to be confused with the late Davy Jones of The Monkees. After a myriad of club gigs, Bowie's first hit came in 1969 with Space Oddity, released around the time of the moon landing. He hit the big time, however, when he created alter ego Ziggy Stardust and the accompanying 1972 album of the same name, which launched the gaunt troubadour into stardom. Continually morphing with the times, his discography is checkered with hits and misses, but the commercial apex of his career was in the early '80s, when he released singles like "Modern Love" and reinvented himself as a shoulder-padded yuppie. Since then, his output's been scant, but he habitually pops up in performances like for The Concert For New York City.
Bowie boasts a healthy film career, when he chooses to indulge it. He appeared in the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth, the 1983 vampire flick The Hunger, and as a spandex-panted warlock in the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. More recently, he starred as Andy Warhol in Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic Basquiat, and as inventor Nikola Testa in 2006's The Prestige. In the past few years he's popped up on TV, too, making a cameo on Ricky Gervais's Extras in 2006 and voicing the character "Lord Royal Highness" on SpongeBob SquarePants.
Bowie's been married to supermodel Iman Abdulmajid since 1992. The couple has a daughter, Alexandria, who goes by Lexi. Bowie also has a son, Duncan (who used to be known by his middle name, Zowie), from his first marriage to Angie Bowie. [Image via Getty]