In the 1960s TV cartoon Underdog, the show's damsel in distress Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by Norma MacMillan) has this hairstyle as her trademark look.
In John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars, narrator and main character Hazel Grace Lancaster sports a pageboy haircut.
The most prominent women to wear pageboys in the 1970s and 1980s were actress Joanna Lumley as the character Purdey in television's The New Avengers, and Diana, Princess of Wales.
The pageboy returned to male fashion in the 1960s for grown men with straight hair after getting popularized by British rock bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.
Although it is currently a hairstyle worn far more by women, many men have worn it, including characters such as Mowgli in Disney's 1967 version of The Jungle Book, Luke Skywalker in 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope, He-Man in his 1980s incarnation, Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men,[3] and the eponymous star of the American comic strip Prince Valiant.
The character of Willy Wonka as played by Johnny Depp in the film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wore this hairstyle.
English musician, Liam Gallagher during the later days of Oasis’s career in the 2000s, and later in the early 2010s, during his stint with Beady Eye sported this hairstyle.