The crazy 88′s – or – Eight-eight people you may not have known were vegetarian (and some, for sure, will surprise you)


Vegetarians come in all walks of life; scientists, actors, singers, physicians, philosophers, athletes, and so on.

Curious as to who some vegetarians are? I was. So I compiled a list. Some of the names might just surprise you.

Some sure surprised me!

The crazy eight-eight’s: Vegetarians, all

  1. Albert Einstein
  2. Alicia Silverstone
  3. Annie Lennox
  4. B52s
  5. Belinda Carlisle
  6. Benjamin Spock
  7. Billy Idol
  8. Bob Barker
  9. Bob Dylan
  10. Boy George
  11. Brad Pitt
  12. Brigitte Bardot
  13. Brooke Shields
  14. Bryan Adams
  15. Candice Bergen
  16. Charles Darwin
  17. Charlotte Bronte
  18. Daryl Hannah
  19. David Duchovny
  20. Dizzie Gillespie
  21. Downtown Julie Brown
  22. Drew Barrymore
  23. Dustin Hoffman
  24. Elvis Costello
  25. Franz Kafka
  26. George Harrison
  27. George Bernard Shaw
  28. Gladys Knight
  29. Grace Slick
  30. Hank Aaron
  31. H.G. Wells
  32. Henry Ford
  33. Henry David Thoreau
  34. Isaac Bashevis Singer
  35. Jerry Seinfeld
  36. Joan Baez
  37. Joan Armatrading
  38. John Lennon
  39. K D Lang
  40. Kim Basinger
  41. Kirk Cameron
  42. Lenny Kravitz
  43. Leonard Nimoy
  44. Lisa Loeb
  45. Liv Tyler
  46. Louisa May Alcott
  47. Marina Sirtis
  48. Mark Twain
  49. Mary Tyler Moore
  50. Meatloaf
  51. Melissa Etheridge
  52. Meredith Baxter
  53. Michael J Fox
  54. Moby
  55. Natalie Portman
  56. Olivia Newton John
  57. Ozzy Osborne
  58. Paul McCartney
  59. Percy Shelley
  60. Peter Gabriel
  61. Plato
  62. Prince
  63. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  64. Richard Gere
  65. Ringo Starr
  66. Rue McLanahan
  67. Sarah McLachlan
  68. Schopenhauer
  69. Seal
  70. Seneca
  71. Shania Twain
  72. Shirley Bassey
  73. Sinead O’Connor
  74. Sir Isaac Newton
  75. Socrates
  76. Steven Jobs
  77. Ted Danson
  78. Terence Stamp
  79. Thomas Edison
  80. Tolstoy
  81. Upton Sinclair
  82. Virginia Madsen
  83. Voltaire
  84. Weird Al Yankovic
  85. William Blake
  86. William Wordsworth
  87. Woody Harrelson
  88. Yehudi Menuhin

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5 Responses to “The crazy 88′s – or – Eight-eight people you may not have known were vegetarian (and some, for sure, will surprise you)”

  1. bazu

    Weird Al Yancovic surprised me most of all! I have a whole new respect for the man now =)

  2. Almost Vegetarian

    Actually, you know who surprised me the most? Mark Twain. Cigar-chomping, fast-talking, suit-wearing Mark Twain. What fun.

  3. Freddie Sirmans

    Just browsing the internet. You have a very, very interesting blog. I’m sure I will visit again.

  4. Freddie Sirmans

    Just browsing the internet. You have a very, very interesting blog. I’m sure I will visit again.

  5. Veganmatt

    Maybe you need to just qualify the term vegetarian here to mean “Was likely to have been or possibly has been vegetarian for at least some period of their life”.
    e.g. John Lennon was macrobiotic when living with Yoko Ono, which meant eating fish.
    (see http://www.ivu.org/people/music/lennon.html)
    And there’s no evidence that Bob Dylan was ever vegetarian, so he shouldn’t be on the list.
    (http://www.ivu.org/people/music/dylan.html)
    Even Brad Pitt is dodgy:
    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_Brad_Pitt_a_vegetarian
    Seems harder than you think to get through the rumours and find hard facts.

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