Linda McCartney

Linda McCartney is one of those people history has been genuinely unfair to, and I find that kind of maddening. Most folks still file her away as "Paul's wife" and move on, but she was a serious photographer long before she ever met a Beatle — she shot Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and The Doors at their rawest, and her images ended up on the covers of major albums. She then spent years onstage with Wings as keyboardist and backing vocalist, which took real courage when critics were lining up to dismiss her. Throw in her work as an animal rights activist and a cookbook author who genuinely moved the needle on vegetarianism, and you've got a woman who was building something meaningful on every front. She died at only 57 in 1998, and that loss still stings.

Name (English)

Linda McCartney

Name (Japanese)

リンダ・マッカートニー

Reading

りんだ・まっかーとにー

Born

September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Snake

Origin

Manhattan, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / photographer / keyboardist / recording artist / songwriter

High school

Scarsdale High School

University

University of Arizona

Awards & achievements

• Ellis Island Medal of Honor

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.lindamccartney.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lindamccartney/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC

Tags

• New York
• singer
• photographer
• keyboardist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.