Holly Woodlawn

Holly Woodlawn was a transgender Puerto Rican actress and Warhol superstar who appeared in his movies Trash and Women in Revolt . She was probably best known as the he who was a she in Lou Reeds hit pop song Walk on the Wild Side.

Woodlawn was born as Haroldo Santiago Franceschi Rodriguez Danhakl in Juana Daz, Puerto Rico, to an American soldier of German descent, and Aminta Rodriguez, a native Puerto Rican, and grew up in Miami Beach, where she came out at a young age. She adopted the name Holly from the heroine of Breakfast at Tiffanys, and in 1969 added the surname from a sign she saw on an episode of I Love Lucy. After changing her name she began to falsely tell people she was the heiress to Woodlawn Cemetery.

Source: Wikipedia