List of vegetarians
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The following is a list of people who practise or practised vegetarianism.
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Historical and present vegetarians
- Bryan Adams, singer
- Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
- Casey Affleck, actor
- Damon Albarn (of the band Blur)
- Pamela Anderson, actress
- André 3000, member of OutKast
- Fiona Apple, singer
- Apollonius of Tyana
- India Arie, singer
- Billie Joe Armstrong, musician
- Erykah Badu, singer
- Alec Baldwin, actor
- Billy Baldwin, actor
- Christian Bale, actor
- Brigitte Bardot, actress
- Basil the Great
- Kim Basinger, actress
- Angela Bassett, actress
- Kylie Bax, model
- Ed Begley, Jr., actor
- Thora Birch, actress
- Linda Blair, actress
- Michael Bolton, singer
- William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army cofounders)
- Boy George, singer
- Lauren Bush, model
- Sarah Chalke, actress
- John Chrysostom
- Alan Clark, British Conservative MP, historian and diarist
- John Cleese, actor
- Clement of Alexandria
- Chelsea Clinton
- Toni Collette, actress
- Common, rapper
- Rachel Leigh Cook, actress
- James Cromwell, actor
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Saint David (whose symbol is the leek)
- Savitri Devi
- David Duchovny, actor
- Thomas Edison-[1] (http://www.ivu.org/history/northam20a/edison.html)
- Albert Einstein (late in life)
- Shannon Elizabeth, actress
- Omar Epps, actor
- Perry Farrell, member of the band Jane's Addiction
- Corey Feldman, actor
- Jorja Fox, actress
- Benjamin Franklin (temporarily)
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Jennie Garth, actress
- Richard Gere, actor
- Dick Gregory
- Ghostface Killah, rapper and member of the Wu Tang Clan
- Sara Gilbert, actress
- Alexander Greenwald (member of the band Phantom Planet)
- Nina Hagen, singer
- Matthew F. Hale, neo-Fascist leader
- Darryl Hannah, actor
- Shalom Harlow, model/actress
- Woody Harrelson, actor
- George Harrison, musician
- Josh Hartnett, actor
- Marilu Henner, actress
- Dustin Hoffman, actor
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Natalie Imbruglia, singer
- Don Imus, radio personality
- Samuel L. Jackson, actor
- Joan Jett, musician
- Steve Jobs
- Franz Kafka, writer
- Casey Kasem, radio personality
- Andy Kaufman, comedian/actor
- Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002
- Anthony Kiedis, musician, lead singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Anna Kingsford
- Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author
- Lenny Kravitz, singer
- KRS One, rapper
- Dennis Kucinich, Democratic presidential candidate
- k.d. lang, singer
- T.E. Lawrence, author
- Avril Lavigne, musician
- Julian Lennon, singer, son of John Lennon
- Annie Lennox, lead singer of the Eurythmics
- Carl Lewis
- G. Gordon Liddy
- Little Richard, musician
- Kenny Loggins, singer
- Alison Lohman
- Sabrina Lloyd (for a total of six years which ended at some time between 1997 and 2002)
- Joanna Lumley, British actress
- Benji Madden (member of the band Good Charlotte)
- Joel Madden (member of the band Good Charlotte)
- Bill Maher, television personality
- Tobey Maguire, actor
- Wendie Malick, actress
- Julianna Margulies, actress
- Ziggy Marley, musician
- Chris Martin (lead singer of Coldplay, married to Gwyneth Paltrow
- Paul McCartney and wife:
- Linda McCartney and daughter:
- Stella McCartney, fashion designer
- Nellie McKay, singer
- Sir Ian McKellen, actor
- Francisco Madero
- Khaled Mardam-Bey (MIRC programmer [2] (http://www.mirc.com/khaled/vegetarian.html)
- Robert Millar, Tour de France cyclist
- Moby - musician
- Mos Def, actor/poet
- Mary Tyler Moore, actress
- Larry Mullen Jr., (U2)
- Esai Morales, actor
- Morrissey, singer
- Ralph Nader, 2000 US Presidential Candidate for the Greens/Green Party USA
- Kevin Nealon, comedian/actor
- Leonard Nimoy, actor
- Andre Noble, Canadian actor
- Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer
- Todd Oldham, designer
- Tatum O'Neal, actress
- Origen
- Carre Otis, model
- Pythagoras
- Plutarch
- Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
- Anna Paquin, actress
- Lori Petty, actress
- Natalie Portman, actress
- Chynna Phillips, singer
- Joaquin Phoenix, Rain Phoenix and Summer Phoenix, and their late brother:
- River Phoenix, actor, environmentalist and Animal Rights activist
- Prince, musician
- Richard Pryor, actor and comedian
- Q-Tip, rapper
- RZA, rapper, founding member of the Wu Tang Clan
- Ja Rule, rapper
- Albert Schweitzer
- Steven Seagal, actor
- Jerry Seinfeld, actor/comedian
- William Shakespeare, playwright
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright
- Percy Bysshe Shelley and wife:
- Mary Shelley
- Jane Siberry, singer
- Siouxsie Sioux, British punk musician
- Alicia Silverstone, actress
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Peter Singer philosopher, Princeton University ethics professor and animal rights activist
- Grace Slick, musician
- 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
- William Shatner, actor
- Rider Strong, actor
- Heather Small, lead singer of M People
- Britney Spears, singer
- Michael Stipe, singer
- Terence Stamp, British actor
- Eric Stoltz, actor
- Rider Strong, actor
- Hilary Swank, Academy Award winning actress
- Gloria Swanson, actress
- Ben Taylor, musician
- Tertullian
- Nikola Tesla, pesco-vegetarian
- Tiffani Thiessen, actress
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor
- Henry David Thoreau
- Leo Tolstoy (late in life)
- Shania Twain, singer
- Liv Tyler, actress
- Carrie Underwood, singer
- Amber Valletta, actress and supermodel
- Eddie Vedder, musician
- Veruschka, model
- Lindsay Wagner, actress
- Richard Wagner
- Keenan Ivory Wayans, actor
- Bernard Weatherill, fmr Speaker of the British House of Commons
- H. G. Wells
- John Wesley founder of Methodism
- Betty White, actress
- Ellen G. White (founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which advocates vegetarianism)
- Montel Williams, television personality
- Vanessa Lynn Williams, singer and actress
- Patricia Wrede ( fantasy author )
- Noah Wyle, actor
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, singer/song-parodist
- Thom Yorke (lead singer/song writer of Radiohead)
- Ahmet Zappa, Diva Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa, musicians
- Stephanie Zimbalist, actress
- Nick Zinner (member of the band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
- Davey Havok, Adam Carson, Hunter Burgan, Jade Puget (Members of the band AFI)
Disputed
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, but Hitler may have continued to eat sausages, liver, pigeon (squab), caviar, and ham. In any case, the definition of vegetarianism was well established by this time, as the 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica defined Vegetarianism as, "...a comparatively modern word, which came into use about the year 1847, as applied to the use of foods from which fish, flesh, and fowl are excluded." Biographer John Toland quotes Hitler's close friend Frau Hess as stating that after Raubal's death, "Hitler never ate another piece of meat except for liver dumplings." Biographer Robert Payne argues that Joseph Goebbels (Hitler's propaganda minister) invented the myth of vegetarianism 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] (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4406_v127/ai_21238666)
Fictional characters
Film
Television
- Beast Boy, Teen Titans
- Dr. Harrison Blackwood, War of the Worlds
- Phoebe Buffay, Friends
- Chakotay, Star Trek: Voyager
- Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons
- Spock, Star Trek
- T'Pol, Star Trek: Enterprise
- Wade Welles, Sliders
- Samantha "Sam" Manson, Danny Phantom