List of hairdressers

This is a list of notable hairdressers. "Hairdresser" is a term referring to anyone whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques. Most hairdressers are professionally licensed as either a barber or a cosmetologist.

A caricature of the *Académie de Coiffure* founded by Legros de Rumigny

Pre-20th century

Monsieur Champagne (fl. 1663) — French hairdresser, subject of the comic play Champagne le coiffeur.^[1]^[2]
Madame Martin (fl. 1671) — hairdresser to the court of Louis XIV.^[1]^[3]
Legros de Rumigny (1710–1770) — French court hairdresser
Léonard (c. 1751–1820) — hairdresser to the French court.^[1]^[4]
Marcel Grateau (1852–1936) — inventor of the Marcel wave in the 1870s, although it was most popular in the 1920s.^[1]
Franz Ströher (1854–1936) — German hairdresser, company founder of Wella

Salon hairdressers

1900–1960

Alexandre de Paris (1922–2008) — clients included the Duchess of Windsor and Daisy Fellowes^[1]
Antoine de Paris (1884–1976) — Polish, began in Paris, then in New York from 1924. Introduced a short bob cut in 1909, then the shingle cut in the 1920s.^[1]^[5]
Kenneth (1927–2013) — American, one of the foremost New York hairdressers since the 1950s,^[6] and sometimes described as the world's first celebrity hairdresser.^[7]
Karl Nessler (1872–1951) — German-born, worked around Europe before moving to the United States. Patented the permanent wave.
Teasy Weasy Raymond OBE (1911–1992) — considered Britain's first celebrity hairdresser. His clients included Diana Dors^[1]^[8]

From 1960 – present

Franca Afegbua — Nigerian hairdresser and senator.^[9]
James Brown — best known for his work with Kate Moss^[10]
Lino Carbosiero MBE London — clients include David Cameron, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Adele Adkins and Melania Trump.^[11]
Nicky Clarke OBE London — clients include David Bowie, Elizabeth Hurley, and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Anthony Dickey — American celebrity hairstylist known for his expertise in natural hair textures^[12]
Errol Douglas MBE London — clients include Diana Ross, Naomi Campbell, Melanie Griffith.^[13]^[14]^[15]
Frédéric Fekkai — French hairstylist, particularly famous during the 1990s for his notoriously high prices.^[16]
Daniel Galvin OBE — London Twiggy
Joshua Galvin — London Judy Garland
Ted Gibson — New York ^{[citation needed]}
Leonard of Mayfair — leading London hairdresser from the 1960s to 1980s, training many other cutters.^[17]
Denise McAdam RVM — hairdresser to the current British royal family.^[18]
Denis McFadden — Sydney — Founder/CEO "Just Cuts"
Michel Mercier — French-Israeli hairdresser, his clients include Brigitte Bardot and Isabel Adjani. ^{[citation needed]}
Benoît Poirier d'Ambreville (born 1970) — salon owner and television consultant^[19]^[20]^[21]
Vidal Sassoon CBE (1928–2012) — London and later Los Angeles — clients included Mia Farrow^[1]
Trevor Sorbie MBE — London ^[22]
Lee Stafford — leading British hairdresser from 1998, his clients include Victoria Beckham.^[23]
Nicolas Jurnjack (1994–present) — Leading session stylist, hairdresser in the Fashion & Beauty Industry ^[24]^[25]^[26]^[27]^[28]
Tabatha Coffey — Australian hairdresser and television personality
Steven Jastrabek — American hairdresser known for Olympic Athlete clientele Kerry Weiland, Erika Lawler, Clarissa Chun, Caitlin Cahow, Gigi Marvin, Julie Chu and Ben Askren.

Film and television stylists

Deborah Holmes Dobson — Emmy Award-winning hairstylist (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman)^[29]
Sydney Guilaroff — worked for MGM on numerous movies and his clients included Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly and Joan Crawford.^[30]
Gail Ryan, American. Won Academy Award in 2011 for How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Clients include Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, and Dustin Hoffman.^[31]

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