List of famous vegetarians

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