| Famous Vegetarians |
| Name |
Information |
| Fiona Apple |
vegan |
| Alec Baldwin | actor, vegetarian |
| Kim Basinger | actress, Academy Award winner, vegetarian |
| Michael Bolton | Singer, vegetarian |
| Boy George | Singer, Culture Club, vegetarian |
| Carol Burnett |
famous comedienne, actress, vegetarian |
| Andreas Cahling | Mr. International 1980 (other titles: runner up Mr World and Mr International), famous for being vegetarian as a bodybuilder (believed to be vegan) |
| Paula Cole | singer, vegan |
| Darwin | Discovered Evolution, Natural Selection, Survival of the Fittest, vegetarian |
| Leonardo DaVinci |
Inventor, Artist, Futurist Visionary, Vegetarian (wrote in his notebook: "I have from an early age adjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men") |
| Diogenes | Greek Philosopher, vegetarian |
| Thomas Edison | inventor, lightbulb, phonograph, many other important inventions, vegetarian |
| Albert Einstein |
Theory of Relativity (much of modern science is based on his theories) and other important theories, Vegetarian |
| Epicurus | Greek Philosopher, vegetarian |
| Melissa Etheridge | Singer, vegetarian |
| Cory Everson | 6 times Ms. Olympia (bodybuilding) - essentially vegetarian since college, except for occasional sushi or chicken (according to August 1997 issue of Muscle and Fitness) |
| Jennie Garth |
Beverly Hills 90210 |
| Mohandas Ghandi | advocate of peaceful resistence, leader of India, vegetarian |
| Sara Gilbert | vegetarian, actor on "Roseanne" |
| Robbie Grey | member of musical group "Modern English", wrote, "I Melt with You" |
| Dustin Hoffman | actor, vegetarian |
| Chrissy Hynde | vegetarian, singer, The Pretenders |
| Billy Jean King | one of the greatest female tennis players in history, vegetarian |
| Nastassja Kinski | actor, model |
| K.D. Lang | singer, vegan |
| Chris Evert-Lloyd | one of the greatest female tennis players in history, vegetarian |
| Madonna |
vegetarian, although known to eat caviar, etc. |
| Linda McCartney | musician (Wings), photographer, activist, vegetarian |
| Paul McCartney | musician, Beatles, vegetarian |
| Mary Tyler Moore |
Actress, Producer, vegetarian |
| Alanis Morissette |
singer, vegetarian |
| Morrissey | singer, vegetarian |
| Navratalova, Martina |
Greatest woman tennis player in history, vegan |
| Sir Isaac Newton | inventor of Calculus, Laws of Gravity, vegetarian |
| Ovid | Roman Poet, vegetarian |
| Catherine Oxenberg | actress, vegetarian |
| Bill Pearl | Mr Universe, Mr. America, very famous in the bodybuilding world, especially as a trainer, vegetarian |
| Plato | Greek Philosopher, vegetarian |
| Plutarch | Greek Philosopher, vegetarian |
| Prince | singer, vegan |
| Pythagoras | Greek Mathematician, Discovered Pythagorean Theorem, vegetarian (Vegetarians were called Pythagoreans until the 19th century) |
| Mr. Rogers (, Fred) | children show host, vegetarian |
| Dr. Albert Schweitzer | famous humanitarian, vegetarian |
| Seneca | Roman Philosopher, vegetarian |
| William Shatner |
vegetarian |
| George Bernard Shaw | writer, vegetarian |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | writer, vegetarian |
| Alicia Silverstone |
vegetarian |
| Socrates |
Greek Philosopher, vegetarian |
| Michael Stipe | vegetarian, REM |
| Nikolai Tesla |
Inventor, related to electricity, vegetarian |
| Leo Tolstoy | Famous Russian novelist, vegetarian |
| Eddie Vedder | vegetarian, singer, Pearl Jam |
| Spice Williams | Bodybuilder, Vegan |
Note:
Hitler was a meat eater.
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