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The following is a list of notable people who practice or practiced vegetarianism.
Historical and present vegetarians
Musicians and composers
- Bryan Adams, singer
- Paula Abdul, singer
- Damon Albarn (of the band Blur)
- Billie Joe Armstrong, musician
- Erykah Badu
- Victoria Beckham
- Andre Benjamin, member of the band Outkast a.k.a. Andre 3000
- Michael Bolton, singer
- Brandy, singer
- Hunter Burgan, member of the band AFI
- Bush, Kate, singer
- Belinda Carlisle, singer
- Adam Carson, member of the band AFI
- Elvis Costello, singer
- Common, rapper
- Crystal Ballroom, musicians
- Dave Davies, singer
- Cathy Dennis, singer
- Des'ree, singer
- Dre, rapper, Outkast
- Bob Dylan, musician
- Dead Prez, rappers
- Perry Farrell, member of the band Jane's Addiction
- J.D. Fortune, musician, lead singer of INXS
- Frenzal Rhomb, band
- Fugazi, band
- Ghostface Killah, rapper and member of the Wu Tang Clan
- Chris Geddes, member of the band Belle & Sebastian
- Boy George, musician
- Alexander Greenwald, member of the band Phantom Planet
- Nina Hagen, singer
- Kirk Hammett, guitarist of the band Metallica
- George Harrison, musician The Beatles
- Davey Havok, member of the band AFI
- Chrissie Hynde The Pretenders
- Billy Idol, musician
- Natalie Imbruglia, singer
- Chris Item, member of the band Denim and Diamonds
- Cindy Jackson, singer
- Eddie Jackson, bassist, Queensryche
- Michael Jackson, musician
- Joan Jett, musician
- Daniel Johns, musician
- Ben Kenney, bass player
- Anthony Kiedis, musician, lead singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers
- B. B. King, musician
- Glady's Night, singer
- Lenny Kravitz, singer
- KRS One, rapper
- k.d. lang, singer
- Avril Lavigne, musician
- Julian Lennon, singer, son of John Lennon
- Annie Lennox, lead singer of the Eurythmics
- Little Richard, musician
- Kenny Loggins, singer
- Ian MacKaye, singer Fugazi
- Benji Madden, member of the band Good Charlotte
- Joel Madden, member of the band Good Charlotte
- Bob Marley, musician
- Ziggy Marley, musician
- Billy Martin, member of the band Good Charlotte
- Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay
- Ricky Martin, singer
- William Dean Martin, member of the band Good Charlotte
- Brian May, guitarist of the band Queen
- Paul McCartney, musician and composer The Beatles
- Brandii McCoy, The Honeybees
- Nellie McKay, singer
- Nelly, rapper
- Moby, musician
- Tom Morello, guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
- Morrissey, singer
- Mos Def, rapper
- Larry Mullen Jr., member of the band U2
- Stuart Murdoch, founder of the band Belle & Sebastian
- Conor Oberst, singer
- Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer
- Douglas Pearce, of the band Death In June
- Chynna Phillips, singer
- Prince, musician
- Jade Puget, member of the band AFI
- Q-Tip, rapper
- Amy Ray ,musician
- Ja Rule, rapper
- Bree Sharp, singer
- Jane Siberry, singer
- Siouxsie Sioux, British punk musician
- Matt Skiba, lead singer of Alkaline Trio
- Grace Slick, musician
- Adalita Srsen, vocalist, Magic Dirt
- Heather Small, lead singer of M People
- Ringo Starr, musician
- Michael Stipe, singer
- Goeff Tate, Queensryche
- Ben Taylor, musician
- Peter Tork, member of the band The Monkees
- Shania Twain, singer
- Carrie Underwood, singer
- Eddie Vedder, musician, Pearl Jam
- Charlie Watts, drummer
- Vanessa Lynn Williams, singer and actress
- "Weird Al" Yankovic, singer/song-parodist
- Thom Yorke, lead singer/song writer of Radiohead
- Ahmet Zappa, Diva Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa,
- Nick Zinner, member of the band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Movie, radio & television personalities
- Casey Affleck, actor
- Pamela Anderson, actress
- Rosanna Arquette, actress
- Sean Astin, actor
- Alec Baldwin, actor
- Billy Baldwin, actor
- Christian Bale, actor
- Brigitte Bardot, actress
- Bob Barker, host of The Price is Right
- Kim Basinger, actress
- Angela Bassett, actress
- Ed Begley, Jr., actor
- Candice Bergen, actress
- Elizabeth Berkley, actress
- Thora Birch, actress
- Linda Blair, actress
- Kirk Cameron, actor
- Dan Castellaneta, actor
- Sarah Chalke, actress
- John Cleese, actor
- Toni Collette, actress
- Rachel Leigh Cook, actress
- John Corbett, actor
- James Cromwell, actor
- Rivers Cuomo, actor
- Willem Dafoe, actor
- Danny DeVito, actor
- Doris Day, actress and singer
- Mos Def, actor, poet and rapper
- David Duchovny, actor
- Shannon Elizabeth, actress
- Omar Epps, actor
- Kevin Eubanks, bandleader on the Tonight Show
- Corey Feldman, actor
- Jorja Fox, actress
- Michael J Fox, actor
- Edward Furlong, actor
- Jennie Garth, actress
- Uri Geller, actor
- Richard Gere, actor
- Sara Gilbert, actress
- Crispin Glover, actor
- Darryl Hannah, actor
- Shalom Harlow, model/actress
- Josh Hartnett, actor
- Marilu Henner, actress
- Don Imus, radio personality
- Samuel L. Jackson, actor
- Jim Jarmusch, director
- Orlando Jones, actor
- Casey Kasem, radio personality
- Andy Kaufman, comedian/actor
- Jude Law, actor
- Michael Lawlor, actor
- Alison Lohman, actress
- Joanna Lumley, British actress
- Kathy Najimy, actress
- Tobey Maguire, actor
- Wendie Malick, actress
- Julianna Margulies, actress
- Steve Martin, actor
- Scott Maslen, actor
- Sir Ian McKellen, actor
- Mary Tyler Moore, actress
- Esai Morales, actor
- Cillian Murphy, actor
- Kevin Nealon, comedian/actor
- Leonard Nimoy, actor
- Andre Noble, Canadian actor
- Tatum O'Neal, actress
- Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
- Anna Paquin, actress
- Kal Penn, actor
- Lori Petty, actress
- Joaquin Phoenix, Rain Phoenix and Summer Phoenix, and their late brother:
- River Phoenix, actor, environmentalist and Animal Rights activist
- Brad Pitt, actor
- Natalie Portman, actress
- Richard Pryor, actor and comedian
- Peter Sellers, actor
- Andy Serkis, actor
- William Shatner, actor
- Terence Stamp, British actor
- Steven Seagal, actor
- Jerry Seinfeld, actor/comedian
- William Shakespeare, playwright
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright
- Eric Stoltz, actor
- Rider Strong, actor
- Hilary Swank, Academy Award winning actress
- Gloria Swanson, actress
- Alicia Silverstone, actress
- William Shatner, actor
- Tiffani Thiessen, actress
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor
- Liv Tyler, actress
- Paul Usher, actor
- Milo Ventimiglia, actor
- Lindsay Wagner, actress
- Keenan Ivory Wayans, actor
- Forest Whitaker, actor/director/producer
- Betty White, actress
- Montel Williams, television personality
- Noah Wyle, actor
- Stephanie Zimbalist, actress
Cartoonists
- Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
- Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro
Authors
- Piers Anthony, fantasy/sci-fi author
- Dennis Cooper
- Ammon Hennacy
- Franz Kafka, writer
- Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author
- T.E. Lawrence, author
- Alan Moore, comic book writer
- Dean Ornish
- Plutarch, historian and biographer
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature
- Henry David Thoreau
- Leo Tolstoy
- H. G. Wells
- Patricia Wrede, fantasy author
- John Oswald (d. 1793), author and revolutionary
- Porphyry (philosopher), philosopher
Artists
Sports
- Sam Cassell, NBA basketball player
- Billie-Jean King, tennis star
- Carl Lewis, track and field champion
- Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
- Gunn Rita Dahle, mountain bike cyclist
- Robert Millar, Tour de France cyclist
- Ricky Williams
- Martina Navratilova, tennis star
- Muhammad Ali, boxing great
Models
- Kylie Bax, model
- Lauren Bush, model
- Kate Moss, model
- Carre Otis, model
- Amber Valletta, actress and supermodel
- Veruschka, model
Business
- Jack Bishop, writer, executive editor of Cook's Illustrated magazine
- Chelsea Clinton
- Thomas Edison-
- Steve Jobs, computer entrepenuer
- John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market grocery chain.
- Linda McCartney, packaged vegetarian food guru
- Stella McCartney, fashion designer
- Todd Oldham, designer
- Graham Spencer, founder of Excite search engine, Reference: Triumph of the Nerds documentary on PBS, he stated he is a vegetarian
Scientists
- Apollonius of Tyana
- Albert Einstein (late in life)
- Jane Goodall, primatologist
- Dick Gregory, entrepreneur
- John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inventor of the corn flake
- Anna Kingsford, physician
- Khaled Mardam-Bey (MIRC programmer)
- Pythagoras
- Peter Singer philosopher, Princeton University ethics professor and animal rights activist
- Albert Schweitzer
- Nikola Tesla, pesco-vegetarian
- Monrovia Van Hoose, experimental social worker
- Plato
Religious leaders
- James, Brother of Jesus
- Basil of Caesarea
- Tiruvalluvar
- Siddhartha Gotama (Buddha)
- Mahavira
- William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army cofounders)
- John Chrysostom
- Clement of Alexandria
- Saint David (whose symbol is the leek)
- Savitri Devi
- Origen
- Emanuel Swedenborg, pesco-vegetarian
- Tertullian
- John Wesley founder of Methodism
- Ellen G. White (founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which advocates vegetarianism)
Political Figures
- Wouter Bos, leader of Dutch Labour Party
- Alan Clark, British Conservative MP, historian and diarist
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Matthew F. Hale, neo-Fascist leader
- Heinrich Himmler, commander of Nazi SS
- Andy Hoover, ARC Improv Club - PRO
- Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002
- Greling Jackson, student activist, author, and entrepreneur.
- Dennis Kucinich, Democratic presidential candidate
- G. Gordon Liddy, conservative talk show host
- Francisco Madero, President of Mexico
- Michael Medved, conservative talk show host, movie critic
- Ralph Nader, 2000 U.S. Presidential Candidate for the Greens/Green Party USA
- Ture Nerman, early Swedish Communist leader.
- Gregory R. Smith, 16 year-old Ph.D. candidate, child prodigy, political activist
- Marijke Vos, Dutch parliamentarian for the Greens
- Bernard Weatherill, fmr Speaker of the British House of Commons
- Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
- Queen Sofia, Queen of Spain
Serial killers
- John Allen Muhammad, "The Beltway Sniper"
Disputed
- Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany 1933-1945, leader of Nazi Party and the Third Reich (see Vegetarianism of Adolf Hitler)
- Dustin Hoffman, actor
- Jesus of Nazareth, 1st century Rabbi, although he served fish to his followers, it is unclear if he ate fish
- Bill Maher, comedian/host
- Charles Manson and the "Manson Family." Disputed because Manson's eating preferences are not respected by his prison warden, and he is served meat daily.
- Richard Wagner, composer, sources claim he enjoyed steak
Fictional characters
Film
- Lex Murphy, Jurassic Park
- Daisy, Super Mario Bros.
- Sookie Sapperstein, Igby Goes Down
- Morris Weissman, Gosford Park
- Count Duckula, Count Duckula
- Sonia, Sink or Swim
- Karen Sillas, Bad Money
- Megan Bloomfield, But I'm a Cheerleader
- The Vulcans
- Stephanie of Short Circuit
- The Were-Rabbit from the Wallace and Gromit film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
- Liesel Hanson, "El Tigre Diablo and the Curse of the Golden Skull"
- Dr. John Dolittle, Doctor Dolittle
Television
- Beast Boy, Teen Titans
- Chelsea Daniels, That's So Raven
- Dr. Harrison Blackwood, War of the Worlds
- Phoebe Buffay, Friends
- Chakotay, Star Trek: Voyager
- Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons
- Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, The Simpsons
- Spock, Star Trek
- T'Pol, Star Trek: Enterprise
- Wade Welles, Sliders
- Samantha "Sam" Manson, Danny Phantom
- Libby Folfax, Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius
- Sara Sidle, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- The Doctor (at times) and Peri Brown, Doctor Who
- Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Darlene Conner, Roseanne (in later episodes)
Book
- Beren of J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion
- HRH Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, more commonly known as Mia Thermopolis of Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries series
Internet