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Famous Vegetarians/Vegans Throughout
History adapted from The Vegetarian Society (UK)
The following is a list of famous vegetarians, past and present.
Quick index:
[ Actors & Filmstars | Popstars & Musicians | TV
Personalities | Radio Personalities | Sports
Personalities | Writers, Philosophers,
Scientists | Historical Vegetarians & Advocates
of Vegetarianism | Models | Politicians,
Statespersons and Activists | Not Vegetarian
- despite reports ]
Actors & Filmstars
- Apu (vegan) (on The Simpsons)
- Debbie Arnold
- Rosanna Arquette
- Richard & Leslie Bach ( Jonathan Livingston Seagull ,
she was actress in the old Star Trek series [I think].) Source:
Any of Bach's latest books.
- Anette Badland
- Angus Barnett (Square Deal)
- Kim Basinger
- Alexandra Bastedo
- Meredith Baxter Source: Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Maureen Beattie
- Dirk Benedict ("A" Team)
- Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown)
- Sandra Berkin
- Christopher Blake
- Gillian & Gayle Blakeney (Neighbours)
- Peter Bogdanovich (director) (vegan) (source: NEXP)
- Lisa Bonet (The Cosby Show)
- Blueberry Borovnisa
- Tracy Brabin
- Cathryn Bradshaw
- "Downtown" Julie Brown (former MTV 'veejay'; now hosts
her own TV talk show and has roles in Hollywood movies)
Source: Vegetarian Times, Issue 232
- Faith Brown
- Nicola Bryant
- Kirk Cameron (Star of WB show "Kirk") Source: Teen's
Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Dan Castellaneta (voice of Homer Simpson)
- Claudia Christian (Babylon 5)
- Julie Christie
- Margi Clarke -- Margi's Christmas
- Bo Corre (Eldorado)
- James Cromwell (starred in the movie "Babe") Source:
article in my local newspaper
- Sara Crowe
- Peter Cushing
- Ted Danson (Sam in Cheers)
- Amanda Dickinson
- Madhuri Dixit (Indian Actress)
- Jenny Donnison
- Betty Driver
- Christine Elise (Emily Valentine from BH90210, and
currently on ER.) Source: I interviewed her in May, 1995.
- Pam Ferris
- Jerome Flynn (Soldier, Soldier)
- Michael J. Fox (Movie & T.V. Star) Source: Animal
Rights and You (Ingrid Newkirk narrated cassette
tape)
- Fiona Fullerton
- Jennie Garth ("Kelly Taylor" on Beverly Hills, 90210)
(vegan) Source: PETA's animal times (Spring '96)
- Richard Gere
- Sara Gilbert (vegan)
- Sheila Gish
- Deborah Grant
- Jane Grayson
- Jill Greenacre
- Bob Gunter (screenwriter, Sandlot) (vegan) Source:
personal friend
- Louise Milwood Haigh (Jodie in The Lodge)
- Daryl Hannah
- Woody Harrelson (Vegan) (Bartender on "Cheers!", Star
of "Natural Born Killers") Source: Details Magazine
- Nigel Hawthorne
- Mariel Hemmingway (played in the t.v. series "Civil
Wars") (vegan) Source: Veronica Gids
- Sherrie Hewson (Maureen in "Coronation Street")
- Dustin Hoffman (actor)
- Penny Horner
- Reina James
- Louise Jameson
- Jean Kasem (actress, and wife of Casey)
- Cheryl Kennedy
- Lindy Lawton
- Jarrett Lennon (young actor, in "Social Studies", UPN;
formerly on "Cheers" as "Ludlow" etc.) (vegan)
- Jennie Linden
- Rachel Lindsay (Sammy in Brookside)
- Joanna Lumley
- Cal Macaninch (The Advocates)
- Charlotte Martin (Susan Carter in The Archers)
- Bill Maynard
- Paul McGann (8th Doctor of "Doctor Who" series) (vegan)
- Glenda McKay (Emmerdale)
- Ian McKellen
- Virginia McKenna
- Rue McLanahan (Golden Girls)
- Amanda Mealing
- Spike Milligan
- Hayley Mills
- Derin Moore
- Jessica Muschamp (Sharon in Neighbours)
- Stephen North
- Simon O'Brien
- Hazel O'Connor
- Maureen O'Farrell
- Shaunna O'Grady (Bev in Neighbours)
- Kate O'Mara
- Catherine Oxenberg
- Anne Parillaud
- Alexandra Paul (Baywatch)
- Anthony Perkins
- Polly Perkins (Trish in Eldorado)
- Rhea Perlman
- Mandy Perryment
- Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira: Mistress of the Dark)
Source: Vegetarian Times , October 1996
- River Phoenix (vegan, deceased)
- Brad Pitt (Interview With a Vampire, Legends of the
Fall)
- Tracey Pollen (Family Ties)
- Pamela Power (Bread, UK TV)
- Jacqueline Reddin
- Joe Regalbuto (Frank Fontana on Murphy Brown) Source: Vegetarian
Times , several years ago; also personal knowledge
- Linda Regan
- Eric Richard (The Bill, UK TV)
- Linus Roache (Actor, has appeared in West End (London),
Films (eg. Priest) and on BBC tv.) Source: Vegetarian
Society of the UK, Vegetarian Living magazine
(no longer in print), BBC Vegetarian Good Food magazine.
- Abigail Rokison (Darling Buds Of May)
- Carol Royle
- Jenny Seagrove
- Martin Shaw
- Brooke Shields
- Cathy Shipton (Casualty)
- John Gordon Sinclair
- Marina Sirtis (Star Trek)
- Rob Spendlove
- Terence Stamp
- Imelda Staunton
- Eric Stolz
- David Thewlis
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas (Randy on Home Improvement)
Source: TeenBeat Magazines, interviews
- Niels 'polleke' Tijssen (the Dutch equivalent of Corky
(the mentally challenged actor)) (vegan) Source: the
dutch tv-show Showtime
- Rita Tushingham
- Matthew Vaughan (Emmerdale)
- Tim Vincent (Children's Ward)
- Kristina Wagner (Felicia on General Hospital) Source: Health
Magazine
- Lindsay Wagner (vegan)
- Clint Walker
- Sophie Ward (vegan)
- Tom Watt
- Dennis Weaver
- Tico Wells
- Ruth Whitehead (Emmerdale Farm)
- Spice Williams (vegan)
- Emma Wray
- Gretchen Wyler (Broadway and Television Actress)
Popstars & Musicians
- Abnegation (punk rock band out of Penn.) (vegan)
- Bryan Adams
- Rose Alba
- Rick Allen (Def Leppard)
- Dee Anderson
- Joan Armatrading
- Joan Baez (folk singer) Source: A Teen's Guide to Becoming
a Vegetarian
- Gary Barlow (Take That) Source: internet
- Shirley Bassey
- Jeff Beck
- The Beloved
- Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub)
- Blur
- Michael Bolton
- Elkie Brooks
- Peter Buck (REM guitarist)
- Kate Bush
- Terry "Geezer" Butler (Ozzy Osbourne Band)
- B52s
- BOYAA T.R.I.B.E (Samoan L.A Rap Act) Source: WOM Music Magazin
1995
- Montserrat Caballe (Opera singer) Source: Magazines and TV
interwievs
- Vivian Campbell (Def Leppard) Source: Kerrang!, not sure
about the issue
- Carcass Source: Aarschok Magazine and Carcass lyrics
- The Captain & Tennille
- Belinda Carlisle
- Gary Clail
- Jessica Cody (vocalist for Brunswick Spirit) Source: The
Daily Gleaner
- Leonard Cohen (Canadian poet and musician) Source: Toronto
Vegetarian Assoc. 1996 pamphlet
- Phil Collen (Def Leppard) (vegan)
- Consolidated
- Julian Cope (British singer/songwriter/neo-Druid w/ cult
following)
- Source: artist's LPs "Peggy Suicide" and "Jehovahkill"
- Elvis Costello
- Sarah Cracknell (St Etienne)
- Beverley Craven
- Peter Cunnah (Ream)
- Dick Dale (King of Surf) Source: Watt July issue '96
- John Dankworth
- Dave Davies (Kinks)
- Carol Decker
- Cathy Dennis
- Des'ree (British pop singer) Source: VH1 television
- Corinne Drewery (Swing Out Sister)
- Earth Crisis (Hardcore Band) (vegan) Source: Lyrics
- Earth Crisis (vegan)
- Melissa Etheridge Source: interview on VH-1 Naked Cafe
- Julie Felix
- Fini Tribe
- Peter Frame (music historian-rock)
- Michael Franks (jazz singer)
- Justine Frischman (lead singer of Elastica) Source:
Seventeen magazine
- Fugazi (straightedge as well)
- Peter Gabriel
- Jerry Garcia (lead guitarist/vocalist for Grateful
Dead, deceased) Source: A Teen's Guide to Becoming a
Vegetarian
- David Gedge (Wedding Present)
- Boy George
- Dizzie Gillespie
- Gary Glitter
- Kevin Godley
- Eddie Grant
- Martin Gore (Depeche Mode)
- Kirk Hammet (guitarist with metallica) Source: mtv
- Vijay Hariharan (drummer for Puritan) (vegan) Source:
personal acquaintance
- George Harrison (musician, Beatles/solo)
- Polly Jean Harvey (Rid of Me; To Bring You My Love)
- Julianna Hatfield Source: Seventeen magazine, Dec 1993
- Kirsty Hawkshaw (Opus III)
- Tony Hicks (Hollies)
- Doug Hoekstra (Singer/Songwriter)
- Susannah Hoffs (ex Bangles)
- Whitney Houston
- Chrissie Hynde
- Billy Idol
- Indigo Girls
- Eddie Jackson (Bassist with Queensryche) Source: Rip,
April '92 issue
- Eddie Jackson (bassist for Queensryche)
- Joe Jackson
- LaToya Jackson
- Michael Jackson
- Wendy James (Transvision Vamp)
- Howard Jones (British singer/songwriter)
- Martin & Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet)
- Nik Kershaw
- Gladys Knight
- Kraftwerk
- Lenny Kravitz
- K D Lang (vegan)
- Annie Lennox (singer, Eurythmics/solo)
- Living Colour
- Lisa Loeb (singer) Source: Metro Cafe - T.V.
- Lene Lovich
- Willy M (London Beat)
- Marilyn
- Johnny Marr
- Sarah McLachlan (singer/songwriter) Source - -- Nettwerk's
WWW site
- Paul & Linda McCartney -- The Vox Pop of Vegetarianism
and -- Linda's New Factory Source: VegSocUK - the McCartneys
are VegSocUK's patrons
- Meatloaf
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Natalie Merchant (ex- 10,000 Maniacs)
- Moby (vegan)
- Morrissey (singer, also The Smiths)
- Mutabaruka
- Dave Navarro (Guitar player with Red Hot Chili Peppers,
formerly of Janes Addiction) (vegan)
- Olivia Newton John
- Chris Novoselic (Nirvana)
- Jason Orange (Take That)
- Mark Owen (Take That)
- Sinead O'Connor (vegan)
- Ozzy Osborne
- Doris Pearson (Five Star)
- Linda Perry (4 Non Blondes)
- Steve Perry (Lead singer Journey) Source: S.P.I.N.
Steve Perry Info Network
- Prince
- Jackie Quinn
- Rebel MC
- Marisa Robles
- Rikki Rocket (rock group Poison) (vegan)
- Henry Rollins (Singer, writer, actor, publisher) Source:
An interview with Rollins somewhere on the Net
- Doug Savor (singer for Puritan) Source: personal acquaintance
- Tom Scholz (Mastermind behind the rock-n-roll band
Boston) (vegan)
- Dave Scott (bassist w/ Reach) (vegan)
- Sandi Shaw
- Shelter (krsna-core band) Source: numerous interviews
and the song "civilized man" from the Mantra album
- Seal
- Captain Sensible
- The Shamen
- Sinitta
- Siouxsie Sioux
- Grace Slick (Singer with Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson
Starship) Source: Grace talked about it during her workshop
for The Learning Annex, San Francisco.
- Heather Small (M-people, vegan)
- Robert Smith (The Cure)
- Jimmy Somerville
- Ringo Starr (and his wife, Barbara Bach)
- Keni St George
- Sting (singer/bassist, Police/solo)
- Michael Stipe (REM)
- Geoff Tate (Vocalist for Queensryche) (vegan)
- Richard Thompson (singer/songwriter) Source: August/September
Dirty Linen Magazine
- Tanita Tikaram
- Steve Vai (guitarist (David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Frank
Zappa)) Source:
- Personal knowledge/Guitarist magazines
- Sarah Washington
- Charlie Watts (Stones)
- Jane Weidlin (ex Go-Go's)
- Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode)
- Vanessa Williams (pop singer) Source: Teen's Guide
to Going Vegetarian Womack & Womack
- "Weird" Al Yankovic (vegan) Source: John "Bermuda" Schwartz,
drummer of Al's band
- Yazz (vegan)
- Dweezil, Moon, Ahmet, Diva Zappa (Children of Frank
Zappa. Dweezil and Ahmet have rock band "Z". Moon is
an actress. Diva hasn't chosen a career yet. All are
drug and alcohol free as well.) Source: April 1993 Playboy
Interview with Frank Zappa. Liner notes from "Confessions" (1991
Dweezil Zappa). Personal Conversations with Dweezil.
- Benjamin Zephaniah (vegan)
TV Personalities
- Pamela Armstrong (News reader)
- Andrea Arnold (Children's TV)
- Bob Barker (host of The Price is Right) Source: Teen's Guide
to Going Vegetarian
- Marian Chanter (Krypton Factor Winner)
- Billy Connolly
- Phil Cool
- David Duchovny (star of the X-Files) Source: Entertainment
Weekly, Sept/Oct 95
- Barbara Edwards (BBC TV first woman weather forecaster)
- Philippa Forrester (Children's TV) Source: Vegetarian Society
of the UK and 'BBC Vegetarian Good Food' magazine.
- Larry Hagman
- Antoinette Hertsenberg (Host consumer programme at TROS TV
Netherlands Magazine DIER,Dutch Society Protection Animals)
Source: Magazine Dier January 1996
- Simon Hickson (Live & Kicking)
- Sean Hughes (Irish comic)
- Hennie Huisman (Holland's most popular showmaster.)
- Gareth Jones (Children's TV)
- Diane Louise Jordan (Former presenter BBC tv's 'Blue Peter',
now producing own programmes for the BBC.) Source: Vegetarian
Society of the UK and 'Vegetarian Living' magazine (now out
of publication).
- Penny Junor
- Diane Kemp (Gardeners World, Britain)
- Ricki Lake (Talkshow host and acctress) Source: Mr Showbizz
WWW-pages
- Joe Longthorne (?)
- Don McLean (singer, songwriter)
- Kevin Nealon (US TV)
- Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers on PBS's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood")
Source: Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- John Simpson (TV journalist)
- Lisa Simpson (Homer's daughter on "The Simpsons") :-) Source:
Lisa became vegetarian on the Oct. 15, 1995 episode
- Sy Sperling (President of the Hair Club for Men -- he can
be seen in his company's TV commercials) Source: A Teen's Guide
to Going Vegetarian
- Jonathan Taylor Thomas ("Randy Taylor" Home Improvement)
Source: magazines
- Maitland Ward (The Bold & The Beautiful, US soap)
- Vanessa Warwick (MTV VJ)
- Trevor Williams (British, Going Live)
- Victoria Wood (British comedian)
- William Woollard (British actor)
Radio Personalities
- Tony Blackburn
- Jackie Brambles
- Fat Tony
- Meg Griffin Source: New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance
- Casey Kasem (also on TV)
- Chris Mitchell (DJ on KGVM-FM in Nevada, USA; Assistant Sysop,
CompuServe Vegetarian Forum;20+ years as vegetarian.)
- John Peel
- Janice Long
- Dianne Oxberry (Radio One Weather Girl)
- Peter Simon (Children's BBC)
- Judi Spiers (Pebble Mill)
- Claire Sturgess
- Dave Lee Travis ("A Jolly Good Show", BBC Worldservice) Source:
He said it during his programme.
- Ron de Rijk (Dutch sportscaster)
Sports Personalities
- Hank Aaron (home run champion in major league baseball) Source:
A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- B J Armstrong (US Basketball star)
- Al Beckles (body builder)
- Sorya Bonali (ice skater)
- Les Brown (veteran runner)
- Peter Burwash (tennis)
- Andreas Cahling (body builder)
- Chris Campbell (1980 world champion wrestler)
- Joanna Conway (ice skater)
- Sylvia Cranston (triathlete)
- Sally Eastall (Marathon runner - UK No 2, vegan)
- Di Edwards (runner, Olympic semi-finalist)
- Cory Everson (bodybuilder, Ms Olympia 6 times)
- Katie Fitzgibbon (marathon runner)
- Clare Francis (sailer)
- Louis Freitas (body builder)
- Carol Gould (marathon runner)
- Estelle Gray (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Sammy Green (runner)
- Ruth Heidrich (3-time Ironman finisher, marathoner, age-group
record holder, Pres. Vegetarian Society of Honolulu) (vegan)
Source: personal acquaintance, also...her book--A Race for
Life
- Sally Hibberd (British Women's Mountain Bike Champion)
- Sharon Hounsell (Miss Wales Bodybuilding Champion)
- Desmond Howard (formerly w/Washington Redskins, now w/Jacksonville
Jaguars) Source: PETA mailer
- Roger Hughes (Welsh National Ski Champion)
- David Johnson (BAA coach)
- Kathy Johnson (Olympic Gymnast)
- Billie Jean King (tennis champion) Source: A Teen's Guide
to Going Vegetarian
- Killer Kowalski (wrestler) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going
Vegetarian
- Jack LaLaine (Fitness guru) (vegan)
- Donnie LaLonde (Former Light Heavyweight Champion of the
World. (Lost title to Sugar Ray Leonard)) Source: Article in
San Jose Mercury News
- Tony LaRussa (Manager of St. Louis Cardinals - US team) Source:
PETA, Animals Agenda, Animals Voice, Veg Times, others
- Silken Laumann (Olympic rower) Source: Cooking Television
Show
- Judy Leden (British, European & World Hang Gliding champion)
- Marv Levey (Buffalo Bills Coach)
- Jutta Müller (multiple Windsurfing World Cup Champion)
Source: Flutlicht 95/6/18 on Südwest 3 (German TV program)
- Jack Maitland (triathlete and fell runner)
- Cheryl Marek (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Leslie Marx (fencer;1996 woman's epee national champion)
- Kirsty McDermott (runner)
- Lindford McFarquar (body builder)
- Robert Millar (cyclist)
- Monika Montsho (weightlifter, 2 x runnerup GB Championships
60kg, NW woman weightlifter of the year 1991)
- Edwin Moses
- Martina Navratilova (Retired Tennis Champion) Source: Magazine
Interviews/Genesis Awards
- Paavo Nurmi
- Bill Pearl (Bodybuilder, Mr America) Source: Getting Stronger
by Bill Pearl
- Bill Pearl (Mr. Universe and bodybuilder) Source: A Teen's
Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Dennis Rodman (Basketball for Bulls) Source: Oprah, episode
sometime in May, 1996
- Dave Scott (five time winner of the Ironman Triathlon) (vegan) "The
New Laurel's Kitchen" cookbook
- Debbie Spaeth-Herring (Georgia State power-lifter) Source:
A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Jonathon Speelman (chess)
- Lucy Stephens (triathlete - vegan)
- Kirsty Wade (runner)
- Bill Walton (basketball player) Source: A Teen's Guide to
Going Vegetarian
Writers, Philosophers, Scientists
- Scott Adams (writer/artist of comic strip "Dilbert") Source:
Vegetarian Times
- Louisa May Alcott (author of the novel Little Women) Source:
A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Clive Barker (Author of Hellraiser series, Weaveworld, etc.)
Source: Appearance on Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher
- Jeremy Bentham (Philosopher) Source: Animal Liberation, by
Peter Singer
- William Blake
- Berke Breathed (US Cartoonist -- writes and draws Bloom County
and Outland comic strips) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Charlotte Bronte
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Charles Darwin (British naturalist in 1800s) Source: A Teen's
Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Thomas Edison
- Albert Einstein
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson (American lecturer, essayist, and poet)
- Henry Heimlich M.D. (created Heimlich maneuver) Source: A
Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Krishnamurti Jiddu (Spiritual teacher) Source: Krishnamurtis
Notebook, His biography written by Mary Lutyens.
- Steven Jobs (founded Apple computer company) Source: A Teen's
Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Franz Kafka (Writer) Source: Vegetariana Cookbook
- Carla Lane (Writer & TV scipt writer & animal welfare
)
- Milton
- Sir Isaac Newton (English scientist, astronomer, and mathematician)
Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Plato
- Sir C. V. Raman (Nobel prize-winning physicist - 1930s?)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (Probably the greatest Indian mathematician
in the last 1000 yrs.) Source: The man who knew Infinity by
Kanigel
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (French writer and political philosophers)
Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Albert Schweitzer (German philosopher, physician, musician,
clergyman, missionary, writer on theology) Source: A Teen's
Guide to Going Vegetarian
- George Bernard Shaw (writer)
- Shelley
- Upton Sinclair (American writer) Source: A Teen's Guide to
Going Vegetarian
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (Writer - Nobel Prize winner in Literature)
- Peter Singer (Philosopher. Author of Animal Liberation) Source:
His book Animal Liberation
- Socrates
- Chandrashekar Subrahmanyam (Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist
- 1983)
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
- Nikola Tesla (Inventor; too many to list, including AC Current)
Source: Any decent biography of Nickola Tesla
- Henry David Thoreau
- Tolstoy
- Mark Twain
- Alan Watts (philosophical writing)
- H.G. Wells (British author) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going
Vegetarian
- William Wordsworth
- Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere (Universal Great Brotherhood
Founder) Source: U.G.B. in Mexico.
Historical Vegetarians & Advocates
of Vegetarianism
- Clara Barton (founded American Red Cross) Source: A Teen's
Guide to Going Vegetarian
- Annie Besant
- General William Booth
- Fenner Brockway
- Rupert Brooke
- Cesar Chavez (involved with United Farm Workers union in
1960s.) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian
- St John Chrysostom
- Clement of Alexandria
- Sir Stafford Cripps
- Diogenes
- Goldsmith
- Dr John Harvey Kellog (brother of W K Kellog who founded
the Kellog Company) (vegan)
- Lamartine
- Martin Luther
- Mahavira
- Eustace Miles
- Montaigne
- Barbara Moore
- Sir Isaac Pitman
- Origen
- Ovid
- Plotinus
- Plutarch
- Pope
- Porphyry
- H.H A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (He brought Krishna
consciousness to America. Famous spiritualist.) Source: Back
to Godhead Magazine July/August 96
- Pythagorus
- Anthony Robbins (Success Motivational Coach) (vegan)
- Richard St Barbe Baker
- Henry Salt
- Schopenhauer
- Seneca
- Voltaire
- Dr Barnes Wallis
- Mary Webb
- John Wesley
- Ellen G. White (Founder Seventh Day Adventists Church) Source:
Review and Herald 1-1996
- Zoroaster
Models
- Jenny Blyth
- Pamela Bordes
- Christie Brinkley
- Victoria Cooper
- Rachael Garley
- Angie Hill
- Yasmin Le Bon
- Kathy Lloyd
- Gail McKenna
- Carre Otis
- Laetizia Scherrer (model & designer)
- Christine Stone
Politicians, Statespersons and
Activists
- James G. Abourezk (Former U.S. Senator and Congressman)
- Susan B. Anthony (leader of Woman's Suffrage movement) Source:
Animal Liberation, 2nd edition (hardcover), p. 221 - Peter
Singer
- Tony Banks (MP, UK)
- Tony Benn (MP, UK)
- Anne Campbell (MP Lab Cambridge, UK)
- Harry Cohen (MP Lab Leyton, UK)
- Viscount Craigavon (UK)
- Willem Drees (Dutch P.M. from 1948 till 1958)
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Anne Gilman (Mayor of Islington, UK)
- Kamel Junblatt (Lebanese political thinker and member of
Parliament)
- Moritz Leuenberger (Minister of energy and transport of Switzerland)
Source: several newspaper articles of Switzerland (among them
L'illustré, mai 1996)
- Vos Marijke (Dutch MP for GroenLinks)
- Piers Merchant (MP Con, Beckenham, UK)
- Albert Mokhiber (Arab-American human rights activist)
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (First Home Minister of India) (vegan)
- P.V. Narasimha Rao (Prime Minister of India (1991-1996))
Source: Common knowledge in India
- Bernard Weatherall (ex speaker of the House of Commons, UK)
Not Vegetarian - Despite Reports
- Buddha: Many sources say Buddha died from eating bad mushrooms, not pork.
It is understood that the Buddha taught his monks against killing animals,
but, since they were to live on alms, to accept meat given to them so long
as the animal had not been killed specifically for their benefit.
- Kevin Eubanks: (bandleader/guitar player of the tonight show
band) Source: Conversation between Jay Leno and Kevin on the
The Tonight Show. On a recent show, he said he loves seafood.
- Benjamin Franklin: Vegetarian early in life. Later thought
'better' of it.
- Bill Gates: (Microsoft chief) Claimed to be a vegetarian,
later discovered false.
- Adolf Hitler
- Carl Lewis: (sprinter) Vegan only when training.
- Madonna: (singer/actor) Her baby's father, Carlos, makes
the "best turkey burgers" (Oprah special, TV show)
- Steve Martin: (actor, comedian) His publicist refutes the
vicious rumours. :-)
- Demi Moore: (lead actress in "Indecent Proposal") Ate chicken
during Vogue interview, Summer 1996. A Demi-vegetarian? ;-)
- Claudia Schiffer: (model) Another found with a fowl mouth.
:)
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