50 Famous Vegetarians

Vegetarian CelebritiesIn this resource, vegetarians are considered people who have refrained from eating red meat, poultry, and fish for about a year or more of their lives. Some of the people listed are or were vegan, avoiding the use of all animal products, including eggs and dairy.

Athletes Entertainers

  1. Mac Danzig
  2. Walter “Killer” Kowalski
  3. Andy Lally
  4. Carl Lewis
  5. Martina Navratilova
  6. Bill Pearl
  7. Rich Roll
  8. Hannah Teter
  9. Mike Tyson
  10. Ricky Williams
  1. Pamela Anderson
  2. Russell Brand
  3. Ellen DeGeneres
  4. Paul McCartney
  5. Morrissey
  6. Ozzy Osbourne
  7. Natalie Portman
  8. Prince
  9. Fred Rogers (“Mister Rogers”)
  10. Alicia Silverstone

Leaders & Activists Scholars & Inventors Writers & Artists

  1. Brigitte Bardot
  2. Cesar Chávez
  3. Bill Clinton
  4. Benjamin Franklin
  5. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  6. Coretta Scott King
  7. Dennis Kucinich
  8. Christine Lagarde
  9. Rosa Parks
  10. Russell Simmons
  1. Thomas Alva Edison
  2. Albert Einstein
  3. Jane Goodall, PhD
  4. Sylvester Graham
  5. Brian Greene, PhD
  6. Henry J. Heimlich, MD
  7. Steve Jobs
  8. John Harvey Kellogg, MD
  9. Peter Singer, BPhil
  10. Paul Wenner
  1. Jonathan Safran Foer
  2. Franz Kafka
  3. Richard Linklater
  4. Plutarch of Chaeronea in Boeotia
  5. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  6. Upton Sinclair
  7. George Bernard Shaw
  8. Leo Tolstoy
  9. Leonardo da Vinci
  10. Diane Warren


Falsely identified as vegetarians: Desmond Howard, Johnny Cash, Pythagoras of Samos, Mark Twain Disputed vegetarian:  Adolf Hitler