American athlete, television star and public figure Caitlin Jenner was BOTD in 1949. Born Bruce Jenner in Mount Kisco, New York, she studied at Graceland College in Iowa on an athletic scholarship and became a decathlete. After competing in the 1972 Munich Olympics, she became a star of the 1976 Montreal Olympics, winning a gold medal in the men’s decathlon, setting a new world record and becoming a national hero. Post-Olympics, she became a successful TV sports commentator, and appeared in police TV drama CHiPs and a series of game shows. Married and divorced three times while identifying as male, Jenner fathered six children. In 2007, Jenner, his third wife Kris Kardashian and their children found a modern form of celebrity in the reality TV series Keeping Up with the Kardashians, chronicling their life of outrageous privilege. The series developed unexpected depth and social relevance in 2014 when Jenner began presenting as a woman, changing her name to Caitlin and publicly chronicling her gender transition. Widely hailed as a role model for trans visibility, her status as an LGBTQ icon has been controversial. Second-wave feminists including Germaine Greer critiqued Jenner’s identification as a woman, while many trans activists argued that her wealth and privilege insulated her from the problems experienced by most trans people. Her support for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign also baffled her LGBTQ fans, though she later opposed Trump’s ban on trans school students using bathrooms corresponding with their gender identity. In 2021, she ran an unsuccessful campaign to be Governor of California. Her memoir, The Secrets of My Life, was published in 2017. Jenner and Kardashian divorced in 2014 though remain on friendly terms; her current relationship status is unknown.