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List of vegetarians
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The following is a list of people who practise or practised vegetarianism.
- Apollonius of Tyana
- Brigitte Bardot
- Basil the Great
- William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army cofounders)
- John Chrysostom
- Clement of Alexandria
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Saint David (whose symbol is the leek)
- Savitri Devi
- Albert Einstein (for the last year of his life)
- Benjamin Franklin (temporarily)
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Matthew Hale, neo-Fascist leader
- Adolf Hitler - All of the respected 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.
- Michael Jackson
- Steve Jobs
- Franz Kafka
- Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002
- Dennis Kucinich
- Paul McCartney - Paul and his wife Linda became outspoken vegetarians and animal-rights activists after owning cattle and watching them outside the window as they cooked and ate meat; in 1991, Linda introduced her own line of vegetarian meals to the general market.
- Francisco Madero
- Morrissey, rock singer
- Andre Noble, Canadian actor
- Origen
- Pythagoras
- Plutarch
- Natalie Portman, actress
- Albert Schweitzer
- George Bernard Shaw
- Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley
- Lisa Simpson, cartoon character
- 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
- Tertullian
- Nikola Tesla (Tesla today would be considered a pesco-vegetarian, as he substituted boiled fish for meat in his diet, but nearly eliminated fish by the end of his life)
- Henry David Thoreau
- Leo Tolstoy
- Richard Wagner
- Bernard Weatherill, former Speaker of the British House of Commons
- H. G. Wells
- John Wesley (Methodism's founder)
- Betty White
- Ellen G. White (founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church) (many 7th day adventists are vegetarian or vegan, though not all of them)
See Also: List of vegans
Last updated: 10-24-2004 05:10:45