List of teetotalers
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List of well-known teetotalers; practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Note that some have abstained their entire lives, but others have only abstained after prolonged alcohol use.
- John Ashcroft, former U.S. Attorney General and fundamentalist Christian
- William Jennings Bryan, American politician of the Democratic Party
- George W. Bush, current President of the United States, recovering alcoholic
- Jerry Falwell, fundamentalist Baptist pastor
- Mahatma Gandhi, nonviolent activist for Indian independence
- Lucy Hayes, U.S. First Lady
- Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader, head of the SS
- Adolf Hitler, German Nazi leader
- Thomas Stonewall Jackson
- Ken Jennings, Mormon Jeopardy! contestant
- Penn Jillette, magician and member of Penn and Teller
- Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
- Franz Kafka, Czech-Jewish novelist
- Abdul Kalam, President of India
- Aga Khan, International jet-set
- Osama bin Laden, figurehead of al-Qaeda, an Islamist movement
- Arnold Leese
- David Letterman, talk show host and comedian
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Francisco Madero, President of Mexico
- T.E. Lawrence, Poet, scholar, and mighty warrior.
- Carrie Nation
- Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor
- Vladimir Putin, current President of Russia
- Bosse Ringholm, Swedish Finance Minister
- Fred Rogers, children's television host
- Thomas Sankara, President of Burkina Faso
- George Bernard Shaw
- Alan Smith, English footballer
- Phillip Snowden
- Hal Sparks, American actor on Queer as Folk
- Lucy Stone
- Morgan Tsvangirai
- Henry David Thoreau, Transcendentalist philosopher
- Donald Trump, American businessman
- Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
- Frances Willard, Woman's Christian Temperance Union
- All musicians of straight edge -genre and other straight edge -people: