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Revision as of 14:45, 20 June 2004 by 216.78.30.10 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The following is a list of people who practise or practised vegetarianism.
- Pythagoras
- Plutarch
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Benjamin Franklin (temporarily)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley and his wife Mary Shelley
- Leo Tolstoy
- Richard Wagner
- Henry David Thoreau
- Nikola Tesla (Tesla today would be considered a pesco-vegetarian, as he substituted boiled fish for meat in his diet, but nearly eliminated fish by the end of his life)
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam - President of India from 2002
- George Bernard Shaw
- H. G. Wells
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Albert Einstein (for the last year of his life)
- Adolf Hitler - according to several sources who had close personal contact with him, including the architect Albert Speer, his personal secretary Traudl Junge, and both of his cooks, Constanze Manziarly and Marlene von Exner. All of the respected biographies of Hitler, including those by Joachim Fest and Ian Kershaw, state that Hitler became a steadfast vegetarian after the death of his niece Geli Raubal in 1931. There is an urban legend that he occasionally engaged in the consumption of pork, but no member of his personal circle has confirmed this.
- Betty White
- Michael Jackson
- Paul McCartney - Paul and his wife Linda became outspoken vegetarians and animal-rights activists after owning cattle and watching them outside the window as they cooked and ate meat; in 1991, Linda introduced her own line of vegetarian meals to the general market.
- Brigitte Bardot
- Peter Singer philosopher, Princeton University ethics professor and animal rights activist
- Dennis Kucinich
- Natalie Portman, actress
- Gregory R. Smith, 10-year-old high school graduate and Nobel Peace Prize nominee
- Lisa Simpson, cartoon character
- Basil the Great
- Saint David (whose symbol is the leek)
- John Chrysostom
- Tertullian
- Origen
- Clement of Alexandria
- John Wesley (Methodism's founder)
- Ellen G. White (founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church) (many 7th day adventists are vegetarian or vegan, though not all of them)
- William and Catherine Booth (Salvation Army cofounders)
- Albert Schweitzer
- Bernard Weatherill, former Speaker of the British House of Commons
- Francisco Madero
- Steve Jobs
See Also: List_of_vegans
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