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List of vegetarians
The following is a list of people who practise or practised vegetarianism.
Historical and present vegetarians
- Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
- André 3000, member of OutKast
- Apollonius of Tyana
- Billie Joe Armstrong
- Brigitte Bardot
- Basil the Great
- William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army cofounders)
- John Chrysostom
- Alan Clark, British Conservative MP, historian and diarist
- Clement of Alexandria
- Common, rapper
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Saint David (whose symbol is the leek)
- Savitri Devi
- David Duchovny
- Thomas Edison-[1]
- Albert Einstein (late in life)
- Benjamin Franklin (temporarily)
- David Frum, author/Presidential speechwriter
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Matthew Hale, neo-Fascist leader
- Steve Jobs
- Franz Kafka
- Andy Kaufman
- Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002
- Anna Kingsford
- Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author
- Dennis Kucinich, Democratic presidential candidate
- Carl Lewis - Olympic athlete, 9 gold medals
- Sabrina Lloyd (for a total of six years which ended at some time between 1997 and 2002)
- Tobey Maguire
- Paul McCartney and wife:
- Linda McCartney
- Francisco Madero
- Khaled Mardam-Bey (MIRC programmer [2]
- Moby - musician
- Morrissey, singer
- Andre Noble, Canadian actor
- Origen
- Pythagoras
- Plutarch
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Natalie Portman, actress
- Albert Schweitzer
- George Bernard Shaw
- Percy Bysshe Shelley and wife:
- Mary Shelley
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Peter Singer philosopher, Princeton University ethics professor and animal rights activist
- Gregory R. Smith, 14 year-old PHd candidate, child prodigy and Nobel Peace Prize nominee
- Graham Spencer , founder of Excite search engine, Reference: Triumph of the Nerds documentary on PBS, he stated he is a vegetarian
- Michael Stipe
- Tertullian
- Nikola Tesla, pesco-vegetarian
- Henry David Thoreau
- Leo Tolstoy (late in life)
- Shania Twain
- Eddie Vedder
- Richard Wagner
- Bernard Weatherill, fmr Speaker of the British House of Commons
- H. G. Wells
- John Wesley founder of Methodism
- Betty White
- Ellen G. White (founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which advocates vegetarianism)
- Patricia Wrede ( fantasy author )
- Thom Yorke (lead singer/song writer of Radiohead)
- Cedric Bixler-Zavala (Lead singer of The Mars Volta)
- Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (Lead guitarist of The Mars Volta)
In Dispute
The following is a list of people whose alleged vegetarianism is controversial. The following people may or may not be vegetarian.
- Adolf Hitler - Most of the biographies of Hitler, including those by Joachim Fest and Ian Kershaw, state that Hitler became a steadfast vegetarian after the death of his niece Geli Raubal in 1931. However, biographer Robert Payne claims Hitler was not a vegetarian. Payne argues that Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) invented this myth to give Hitler the aura of an ascetic. Author Bee Wilson also casts doubt on Hitler's vegetarianism. Wilson claims that Hitler's dietician, Marlene von Exner, added animal products to Hitler's diet without Hitler's approval.[3]
Fictional Characters
Film
Television
See Also: List of vegans
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