The following is a list of notable people who practice or practiced vegetarianism.

Historical and present vegetarians

Musicians and composers

• Bryan Adams, singer
• Paula Abdul, singer
• Damon Albarn (of the band Blur)
• Quinn Allman, member of the band The Used
• Fiona Apple, singer
• Billie Joe Armstrong, musician
• Zach Addikt, drummer (Fiat Lux)
• Erykah Badu
• Victoria Beckham
• Andre Benjamin, member of the band Outkast a.k.a. Andre 3000
• Michael Bolton, singer
• Brandy, singer
• Hunter Burgan, member of the band AFI
• Kate Bush, singer
• Belinda Carlisle, singer
• Adam Carson, member of the band AFI)
• Elvis Costello, singer
• Common, rapper
• Dave Davies, singer
• Cathy Dennis, singer
• Des'ree, singer
• Dre, rapper, Outkast
• Stacy DuPree, member of the band Eisley
• Bob Dylan, musician
• Dead Prez, rappers
• Kevin Eubanks, jazz guitarist, leader of the Tonight Show Band
• Perry Farrell, member of the band Jane's Addiction
• J.D. Fortune, musician, lead singer of INXS
• Frenzal Rhomb, band
• Fugazi, band
• Ghostface Killah, rapper and member of the Wu Tang Clan
• Chris Geddes, member of the band Belle & Sebastian
• Boy George, musician
• Ben Gibbard, lead singer of Death Cab For Cutie
• Alexander Greenwald, member of the band Phantom Planet
• Ian Grushka, musician, member of the band New Found Glory
• Nina Hagen, singer
• Kirk Hammett, guitarist of the band Metallica
• George Harrison, musician The Beatles
• Davey Havok, member of the band AFI
• Jeph Howard, member of the bend The Used
• Chrissie Hynde The Pretenders
• Billy Idol, musician
• Natalie Imbruglia, singer
• Chris Item, member of the band Denim and Diamonds
• Cindy Jackson, singer
• Eddie Jackson, bassist, Queensryche
• Michael Jackson, musician
• Joan Jett, musician
• Daniel Johns Singer, songwriter and guitarist of Silverchair
• Ben Kenney, bass player
• Anthony Kiedis, musician, lead singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers
• B. B. King, musician
• Gladys Knight, singer
• Lenny Kravitz, singer
• KRS One, rapper
• k.d. lang, singer
• Avril Lavigne, musician
• Julian Lennon, singer, son of John Lennon
• Annie Lennox, lead singer of the Eurythmics
• Little Richard, musician
• Kenny Loggins, singer
• Ian MacKaye, singer Fugazi
• Benji Madden, member of the band Good Charlotte
• Joel Madden, member of the band Good Charlotte
• Masta Killa, rapper and member of the Wu Tang Clan
• Bob Marley, musician
• Ziggy Marley, musician
• Billy Martin, member of the band Good Charlotte
• Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay
• Ricky Martin, singer
• William Dean Martin, member of the band Good Charlotte
• Brian May, guitarist of the band Queen
• Paul McCartney, musician and composer The Beatles
• Prince, musician
• Brandii McCoy, The Honeybees
• Nellie McKay, singer
• Natalie Merchant, singer
• Nelly, rapper
• Moby, musician
• Tom Morello, guitarist of the band Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
• Morrissey, singer
• Mos Def, rapper
• Larry Mullen
  
  
  
  Jr., member of the band U2
• Stuart Murdoch, founder of the band Belle & Sebastian
• Conor Oberst, singer
• Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer
• Douglas Pearce, of the band Death In June
• Chynna Phillips, singer
• Prince, musician
• Jade Puget, member of the band AFI
• Q-Tip, rapper
• Amy Ray ,musician
• Nick Rhodes, keyboardist and co-founder of Duran Duran
• Ja Rule, rapper
• John K. Samson, member of the band the Weakerthans
• Bree Sharp, singer
• Jane Siberry, singer
• Siouxsie Sioux, British punk musician
• Matt Skiba, lead singer of Alkaline Trio
• Grace Slick, musician
• Adalita Srsen, vocalist, Magic Dirt
• Heather Small, lead singer of M People
• Ringo Starr, musician
• Michael Stipe, singer
• Serj Tankian, System of a Down
• Goeff Tate, Queensryche
• Ben Taylor, musician
• Peter Tork, member of the band The Monkees
• Shania Twain, singer
• Carrie Underwood, singer
• Eddie Vedder, musician, Pearl Jam
• Charlie Watts, drummer
• Gerard Way, vocalist My Chemical Romance
• Mikey Way, bassist My Chemical Romance
• Vanessa Lynn Williams, singer and actress
• "Weird Al" Yankovic, singer/song-parodist
• Thom Yorke, lead singer/song writer of Radiohead
• Ahmet Zappa, Diva Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, Moon Unit Zappa,
• Nick Zinner, member of the band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movie, radio & television personalities

• Casey Affleck, actor
• Pamela Anderson, actress
• Hideaki Anno, director
• Rosanna Arquette, actress
• Sean Astin, actor
• Alec Baldwin, actor
• Billy Baldwin, actor
• Christian Bale, actor
• Brigitte Bardot, actress
• Bob Barker, host of The Price is Right
• Kim Basinger, actress
• Angela Bassett, actress
• Ed Begley, Jr., actor
• Candice Bergen, actress
• Elizabeth Berkley, actress
• Thora Birch, actress
• Linda Blair, actress
• Orlando Bloom, actor
• Kirk Cameron, actor
• Dan Castellaneta, actor
• Sarah Chalke, actress
• John Cleese, actor
• Toni Collette, actress
• Rachel Leigh Cook, actress
• John Corbett, actor
• James Cromwell, actor
• Rivers Cuomo, actor
• Willem Dafoe, actor
• Danny DeVito, actor
• Doris Day, actress and singer
• Mos Def, actor, poet and rapper
• David Duchovny, actor
• Shannon Elizabeth, actress
• Omar Epps, actor
• Kevin Eubanks, bandleader on the Tonight Show
• Corey Feldman, actor
• Jorja Fox, actress
• Michael J Fox, actor
• Edward Furlong, actor
• Jennie Garth, actress
• Uri Geller, actor
• Richard Gere, actor
• Sara Gilbert, actress
• Crispin Glover, actor
• Darryl Hannah, actor
• Shalom Harlow, model/actress
• Woody Harrelson, actor
• Josh Hartnett, actor
• Marilu Henner, actress
• Don Imus, radio personality
• Samuel L. Jackson, actor
• Jim Jarmusch, director
• Orlando Jones, actor
• Casey Kasem, radio personality
• Andy Kaufman, comedian/actor
• Jude Law, actor
• Michael Lawlor, actor
• Alison Lohman, actress
• Joanna Lumley, British actress
• Kathy Najimy, actress
• Tobey Maguire, actor
• Wendie Malick, actress
• Julianna Margulies, actress
• Steve Martin, actor
• Scott Maslen, actor
• Sir Ian McKellen, actor
• Mary Tyler Moore, actress
• Esai Morales, actor
• Cillian Murphy, actor
• Kevin Nealon, comedian/actor
• Leonard Nimoy, actor
• Andre Noble, Canadian actor
• Tatum O'Neal, actress
• Gwyneth Paltrow, actress
• Anna Paquin, actress
• Kal Penn, actor
• Lori Petty, actress
• Joaquin Phoenix, Rain Phoenix and Summer Phoenix, and their late brother:
  • River Phoenix, actor, environmentalist and Animal Rights activist
• Brad Pitt, actor
• Natalie Portman, actress
• Richard Pryor, actor and comedian
• Steven Seagal, actor
• Jerry Seinfeld, actor/comedian
• Peter Sellers, actor
• Andy Serkis, actor
• William Shakespeare, playwright
• William Shatner, actor
• George Bernard Shaw, playwright
• Martin Shaw, British actor
• Alicia Silverstone, actress
• Terence Stamp, British actor
• Eric Stoltz, actor
• Rider Strong, actor
• Hilary Swank,
  
  
  
  Academy Award winning actress
• Gloria Swanson, actress
• Tiffani Thiessen, actress
• Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor
• Liv Tyler, actress
• Paul Usher, actor
• Milo Ventimiglia, actor
• Lindsay Wagner, actress
• Naomi Watts, actress
• Keenan Ivory Wayans, actor
• Forest Whitaker, actor/director/producer
• Betty White, actress
• Montel Williams, television personality
• Noah Wyle, actor
• Stephanie Zimbalist, actress

Cartoonists

• Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert
• Dan Piraro, creator of Bizarro

Authors

• Piers Anthony, fantasy/sci-fi author
• Dennis Cooper
• Ammon Hennacy
• Franz Kafka, writer
• Henry Valentine Knaggs, physician and author
• T.E. Lawrence, author
• Alan Moore, comic book writer
• Dean Ornish
• Plutarch, historian and biographer
• Matthew Scully, author, editor, and speechwriter (former speechwriter for President George W. Bush)
• Mary Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize for Literature
• Henry David Thoreau
• Leo Tolstoy
• H. G. Wells
• Patricia Wrede, fantasy author
• John Oswald (d. 1793), author and revolutionary
• Porphyry (philosopher), philosopher

Artists

• Leonardo da Vinci
• Ellen G. White

Sports

• Sam Cassell, NBA basketball player
• Billie-Jean King, tennis star
• Carl Lewis, track and field champion
• Bill Goldberg, professional wrestler
• Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
• Gunn Rita Dahle, mountain bike cyclist
• Robert Millar, Tour de France cyclist
• Ricky Williams
• Martina Navratilova, tennis star
• Muhammad Ali, boxing great
• Bill Pearl, body builder, Mr. Universe 1971

Models

• Kylie Bax, model
• Lauren Bush, model
• Kate Moss, model
• Carre Otis, model
• Amber Valletta, actress and supermodel
• Veruschka, model

Business

• Jack Bishop, writer, executive editor of Cook's Illustrated magazine
• Chelsea Clinton
• Thomas Edison-
• Steve Jobs, computer entrepenuer
• John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market grocery chain.
• Linda McCartney, packaged vegetarian food guru
• Stella McCartney, fashion designer
• Todd Oldham, designer
• Graham Spencer, founder of Excite search engine, Reference: Triumph of the Nerds documentary on PBS, he stated he is a vegetarian

Scientists and Physicians

• Apollonius of Tyana
• Albert Einstein (late in life)
• Jane Goodall, primatologist
• Dick Gregory, entrepreneur
• John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inventor of the corn flake
• Anna Kingsford, physician
• Khaled Mardam-Bey, (MIRC programmer)
• Pythagoras
• Peter Singer, philosopher, Princeton University ethics professor and animal rights activist
• Albert Schweitzer
• Nikola Tesla, pesco-vegetarian
• Monrovia Van Hoose, experimental social worker
• Plato
• Colin McGinn, philosopher, Rutgers University
• Neal Barnard, M.D.
• Nathaniel Borenstein
• T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
• Thomas Edison, (1847-1937)
• Pierre Gassendi, (l592-1655)
• David Hartley (philosopher) (1705-1757)
• Henry Heimlich, M.D.
• Anna Kingsford, M.D. (1846-1888)
• George Louis Leclerc, (1707-1788)
• Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840)
• John Ray (1628-1704)
• Benjamin Spock (1903-1998)

Religious leaders

• A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Founder of modern Hare Krishna movement).
• Basil of Caesarea
• Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha)
• Clement of Alexandria
• Ellen G. White (founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, which advocates vegetarianism)
• Emanuel Swedenborg, pesco-vegetarian
• James, Brother of Jesus
• John Chrysostom
• John Wesley founder of Methodism
• Mahavira
• Origen
• Saint David (whose symbol is the leek)
• Saint Francis of Assisi
• Savitri Devi
• Tertullian
• Tiruvalluvar
• William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army cofounders)

Political Figures

• Wouter Bos, leader of Dutch Labour Party
• Alan Clark, British Conservative MP, historian and diarist
• Janez Drnovšek, president of Slovenia, former prime minister of Slovenia and president of presidency of Yugoslavia
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Matthew F. Hale, neo-Fascist leader
• Heinrich Himmler, commander of Nazi SS
• Andy Hoover, ARC Improv Club - PRO
• Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, President of India from 2002
• Dennis Kucinich, U.S. politician
• Greling Jackson, student activist, author, and entrepreneur.
• G. Gordon Liddy, conservative talk show host
• Francisco Madero, President of Mexico
• Michael Medved, conservative talk show host, movie critic
• Ralph Nader, 2000 U.S. Presidential Candidate for the Greens/Green Party USA
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, First Home Minister of India
• Ture Nerman, early Swedish Communist leader.
• Gregory R. Smith, 16 year-old Ph.D. candidate, child prodigy, political activist
• Marijke Vos, Dutch parliamentarian for the Greens
• Bernard Weatherill, fmr Speaker of the British House of Commons
• Paul Watson, founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
• Queen Sofia, Queen of Spain

Serial killers

• John Allen Muhammad, "The Beltway Sniper"

Disputed

• Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany 1933-1945, leader of Nazi Party and the Third Reich (see Vegetarianism of Adolf Hitler)
• Dustin Hoffman, actor

• Bill Maher, comedian/host
• Charles Manson and the "Manson Family." Disputed because Manson's eating preferences are not respected by his prison warden, and he is served meat daily.
• Richard Wagner, composer, sources claim he enjoyed steak

Fictional characters

Film

• Lex Murphy, Jurassic Park
• Daisy, Super Mario Bros.
• Sookie Sapperstein, Igby Goes Down
• Morris Weissman, Gosford Park
• Count Duckula, Count Duckula
• Sonia, Sink or Swim
• Karen Sillas, Bad Money
• Megan Bloomfield, But I'm a Cheerleader
• The Vulcans
• Stephanie of Short Circuit
• The Were-Rabbit from the Wallace and Gromit film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• Liesel Hanson, "El Tigre Diablo and the Curse of the Golden Skull"
• Dr. John Dolittle, Doctor Dolittle

Television

• Beast Boy, Teen Titans
• Chelsea Daniels, That's So Raven
• Dr. Harrison Blackwood, War of the Worlds
• Phoebe Buffay, Friends
• Chakotay, Star Trek: Voyager
• Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons
• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, The Simpsons
• Spock, Star Trek
• T'Pol, Star Trek: Enterprise
• Wade Welles, Sliders
• Samantha "Sam" Manson, Danny Phantom
• Libby Folfax, Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius
• Sara Sidle, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• The Doctor (at times) and Peri Brown, Doctor Who
• Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Nadia, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
• Darlene Conner, Roseanne (in later episodes)
• Aang, Avatar: The Last Airbender
• A.J, The Fairly Odd Parents
• Bobobo, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo (Mentioned in one episode)

Book

• Beren of J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion
• HRH Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo, more commonly known as Mia Thermopolis of Meg Cabot's The Princess Diaries series
• Hap, "First Warning" by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough Says he refused to eat meat.

Internet

• Marzipan, Homestar Runner

See also

• Vegetarianism
• List of vegans Liste bekannter Vegetarier und Veganer

Liste de végétariens célèbres et citations Híres vegetáriánusok listája Lista de vegetarianos famosos Известные вегетарианцы