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famous vegetarians
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (elsiedee@MIT.EDU)
Mon May 1 05:18:53 1995
From: elsiedee@MIT.EDU
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 04:38:13 EDT
FAMOUS VEGETARIANS LIST (as of August 1993)
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Where you see a '?' means the person's occupation is not known for sure.
If you can help out with the '?' or if there are *any* corrections, additions,
or subtractions you have, please send them to <ATAN@cc.weber.edu>.
Thank you.
NON-VEGETARIANS WHO ADVOCATED VEGETARIANISM (hey, this was the only
fair way that we could resolve the Hitler debate)
Henry David Thoreau (philosopher)
Adolf Hitler (well, you know)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (philosopher)
SUSPECTED VEGETARIANS
Keanu Reeves (actor)
Kate Bush (musician)
Francis Moore Lappe ("Diet for a Small Planet")
Ben Cohen (founder, Ben and Jerry's)
Elie Wiesel (Holocaust archivist, author)
Mary McDougall
Paul R. Ehrlich (population biologist, author)
Anne H. Ehrlich
Noah (sailor :-)
Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist monk)
Jean Jacques Rousseau (philosopher)
Michael Stipe (R.E.M.)
Emma Goldman (anarchist)
Sharon Stone (actress)
Enya (musician)
Sinead O'Connor (musician)
C.S. Lewis (author)
Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters)
Marilou Henner
some members of Def Leppard
Stan Freberg (guerrilla satirist)
Charles Wesley (hymnist)
John Wesley (founder, Methodist Church)
Audre Lordes (spellilng?; poet, author)
Ziggy Marley (musician)
Shel Silverstein (author)
Isaac Asimov (author)
Ursula Kroeber Leguin (author)
Dorothy Day (social activist)
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (author)
John Lennon (musician, Beatles)
William Penn (Quaker, settler of Pennsylvania)
Dr. John McDougall (author)
Dr. Walden Bello (executive director, Food First)
CONFIRMED OVO-LACTO-VEGETARIANS
Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs)
Twiggy (model, actress, now a homemaker?)
Charles Darwin (scientist)
Thomas Alva Edison (inventor)
Roger Ebert (movie critic)
Phil Collins (musician)
Peter Gabriel (musician)
Kevin Nealon (actor, "Saturday Night Live")
George Harrison (musician, Beatles)
Albert Einstein (scientist)
Yoko Ono
John Lennon (The Beatles)
Howard Jones (musician)
Cyndi Lauper (musician)
Tom Bailey (Thompson Twins)
Alannah Currie (Thompson Twins)
Joe Leeway (Thompson Twins)
Cesar Chavez (labour activist)
Susan Saint James (?)
Marty Feldman (?)
Helen Nearing (?)
Scott Nearing (?)
Elvira (actress)
Doris Day (actress)
Paul McCartney (musician, Beatles)
Linda McCartney (chef)
Jerry Garcia (?)
Isadora Duncan (dancer)
Boy George (musician)
Christie Brinkley (model)
Leonard Nimoy (actor)
Bob Dylan (musician)
John Denver (musician)
Murray Rose (world athlete)
Peter Burwash (world athlete)
Chip Oliver (world athlete)
the Princess of Wales
Kate Pierson (B-52's)
Fred Schneider (B-52's)
Lily Tomlin (actress)
Alec Baldwin (actor)
Ivan Lendl (tennis star)
Chris Evert Lloyd (tennis star)
Martina Navratilova (tennis star)
Kim Basinger (actress)
Robert Parrish (basketball star)
Tony LaRussa (Oakland A's manager)
Phil Lesh (?)
Mickey Hart (Grateful Dead)
Darryl Hannah (actress)
Michael Jackson (musician)
Sylvester Graham (nutritionist, inventor of graham crackers)
Henry Salt (A.R. activist)
Alcott Bronson (founder, first vegetarian commune)
Michael Bolton (musician)
Bob Marley (musician)
Annie Lennox (Eurythmics)
Fred "Mister" Rogers (actor)
Carlos Santana (guitarist)
Haley Mills (actress)
Peter Singer (author, professor of Philosophy)
Alice Walker (feminist, author, poet)
Ruth Harrison (author)
Right Reverend John Austin Baker (Bishop of Salisbury)
Percy Shelley (philosopher)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (philosopher)
Bernard de Mandeville (author)
Plutarch (philosopher)
Socrates (philosopher)
Plato (philosopher)
Nietzsche (philosopher)
Seneca (Greek dramatist ?, philosopher and author ?)
Rabindranath Tagore (Hindu poet)
Porphyry (philosopher)
Clement of Alexandria (?)
Alexander Pope (poet, author)
Benjamin Franklin
Richard Wagner (composer)
Isaac Newton (scientist)
Carol Adams (feminist, author)
Ovid (philosopher)
Marina Sirtis (spelling?; actress)
Nina Hagen (musician)
Sy Sperling (spelling?; founder, Hairclub for Men, *Strange but True*)
(Steven) Morrisey (musician, formerly with the Smiths)
George Bernard Shaw (philosopher)
Leo Tolstoy (author)
H.G. Wells (author)
Pythagoras (mathematician)
Leonardo da Vinci (artist and more)
Francois Voltaire (philosopher)
John Milton (philosopher)
Albert Schweitzer (political dissident)
Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz (Holocaust survivor)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (author)
Keith Akers (author)
Cicely Tyson (actress)
Leslie Ann Warren (actress)
Franz Kafka (author)
Upton Sinclair (author)
Paul Harvey (radio personality/commentator)
Carl Weathers (actor)
Dennis Weaver (actor)
Paul Winter (New Age musician)
Tom Scholz (?)
Todd Rundgren (musician)
Donna Mills (actress)
Edwin Moses (Olympic Gold Medalist, hurdles)
Bess Motta (?)
Sara Gilbert (actress)
Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)
Pete Maravich (basketball star)
Pamela Sue Martin (actress)
Mike Love (Beach Boys)
Connie Hawkins (?)
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi (leader of non-violent Indian independence movement)
Doug Henning (magician)
Steve Howe (Yes)
Cloris Leachman (actress)
Brigitte Bardot (former actress/sexpot, now A.R. activist)
Jeff Beck (musician)
Andreas Cahling (?)
David Cassidy (actor, "The Partridge Family")
Julie Christie (actress)
Ray Davies (The Kinks)
Dave Davies (The Kinks)
Sandy Dennis (actress)
Jeff Juliano (actor, formerly Ronald McDonald)
Jeremy Rifkin (author, president of Beyond Beef)
Dr. T. Colin Campbell (biochemist)
Dr. Dean Ornish (cardiologist)
Dr. William C. Roberts (cardiologist)
Dr. M.E. Ensminger (president, Consultants-Agriservices)
Dr. J.H. Kellogg (cornflakes)
Dr. Linus Pauling
Dr. George Wald (Nobel laureate)
CONFIRMED VEGANS OR FRUITARIANS
River Phoenix (actor)
John Robbins (author, president of Earthsave Foundation)
C.T. Lawrence Butler (founder, Food Not Bombs)
Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
k.d. lang (musician)
Madonna (musician)
Yazz (musician)
Patti Davis (writer and Reagan's daughter)
Casey Kasem (voice)
Marilyn Diamond (Fit for Life)
Harvey Diamond (Fit for Life)
Sally Eastall (marathon runner)
Uri Geller (psychic)
Dick Gregory (comedian, social activist)
Debra Wasserman (author)
Carl Lewis (Olympic Gold Medalist, current world record holder for 100m run)
Danni Minogue (Australian actress)
Gordon Newman (playwright)
Benjamin Zephaniah (poet)
William Shatner (actor)
Dave Scott (6-time winner, Ironman Triathlon)
Rue McClanahan (actress)
Amy Ray (Indigo Girls)
Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)
Dr. Michael Klapper (author)
Dr. Neal Barnard (president, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine)
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