{"article":{"id":267284,"heading":"Famous Vegetarians, Vegans, Fruitarians","author":"Scribe","created":"2015-02-07 14:23:48","modified":"2015-02-07 14:23:48","last_modified":"Sat, 07 Feb 2015 21:23:48","article":"

(Picture is of Olympic champion Carl Lewis)

ARTISTS

Leonardo Da Vinci a fruitarian

Vincent Van Gogh

Rodin

Peter Max

Elizabeth Hoare

G MacCrae

SCIENTISTS

Leonardo Da Vinci

Nikola Tesla

Thomas Alva Edison

Albert Einstein

Jane Goodall, PhD

Sylvester Graham, inventor of Graham crackers

Alex Hershaft, PhD concentration camp survivor

Pythagoras

Ramanujan

(only 1 of the above scientists

inflicted pain on animals)

WRITERS

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Mark Braunstein, author of Radical Vegetarian

Dudley Giehl author of Vegetarianism A Way Of Life

Franz Kafka

Colman McCarthy, former syndicated columnist for Wash Post and teacher of Peace and Nonviolence

Ovid

Plutarch

Alexander Pope

Porphyry

Mary Shelley

Upton Sinclair

George Bernard Shaw

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel prize winner

Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Vic Sussman author of the Vegetarian Altenrative

Leo Tolstoy

Alice Walker

Irving Wallace

David Wallechinsky

BROADCASTERS

Bill Gordon KSDO

Paul Harvey

Father Ron Lengwin KDKA Radio

Robin Quivers Howard Stern's sidekick

Jeff Rense http:\/\/rense.com<\/a>

Ace Young KMET

ENTERTAINERS

Pamela Anderson

Alec Baldwin

Brigitte Bardot

Kim Basinger

Candace Bergen

Milton Berle

David Carradine star of Kung Fu

Linda Carter Wonder Woman

Johnny Cash

James Cromwell star of Babe

Ellen DeGeneres

Danny DeVito

David Duchovny.. X files

Semantha Eggar star of Dr Dolittle with Rex Harrison

Woody Harrelson raw food vegan

George Harrison Beatle

Marilu Henner star of Taxi

Dustin Hoffman

Ashley Judd

Casey Kasem

Paul McCartney

Bill Maher

Leonard Nimoy of Star Trek

Ozzy Osbourne

Joaquin Phoenix

River Phoenix

Prince

Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood)

Peter Sellers

Alicia Sllverstone

Marlo Thomas

Cicely Tyson

Lindsay Wagner

Dennis Weaver McCloud, Gunsmoke

Efrem Zimbalist

PHYSICIANS AND NURSES

Dr Don Barnes whose refusal to irradiate primates at Brooks Air Force Base was made into the movie Project X

Neal Barnard founder of PCRM a group with thousands of vegan physician members http:\/\/pcrm.org<\/a>

Clara Barton

Steve Kaufman, MD founder of the Christian Veg. Assn http:\/\/www.all-creatures.org\/cva\/default.htm<\/a>

John Harvey Kellogg, MD whose family founded Kellogg Cereals

Michael Klaper MD http:\/\/doctorklaper.com\/<\/a>

\/> Leonard Rack, MD

Sam Sandweiss, MD author of The Holy

Man And The Psychiatrist

POLITICAL LEADERS OR ACTIVISTS

Senator James Abourezk US Senator, South Dakota

Lyman Beecher, abolitionist, father of Harriet Beecher Stowe,

fruitarian community

Russell Brand anarchist and comic

Fidel Castro

Cesar Chavez

William Clinton

Angela Davis

Moraji Desai, PM of India and many other Indian PM's

Dr. Janez Drnovsek, Vegan President of Slovenia

http:\/\/www.euroveg.eu\/lang\/en\/news\/magazine\/2006-1-j-drnovsek.php?print=<\/a>

Benjamin Franklin

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Dick Gregory http:\/\/dickgregory.com<\/a>

Andrew Jacobs former congressman from Indiana

Abdul Kalam, Dr president of India and space scientist

Coretta Scott King

Dennis Kucinich

Former Governor Lamm Colorado

Molotov (born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Skryabin.

TEACHERS

Hippocrates

BUSINESS LEADERS

Michael Eisner of Disney

Bill Ford, chairman of Ford Motors

Steve Jobs, for a while a fruitarian

Elon Musk founder of Paypal

Gary Pruitt CEO of McClatchy Newspapers

Biz Stone cofounder of Twitter

Paul Wenner, inventor of Gardenburger

Steve Wyn casinos

Mort Zuckerman real estate magazines

(Sergei Brin of Google and Bill Gates are investing in vegan businesses)

PSYCHICS

Peggy Mason of the UK

Uri Geller

WOMEN'S RIGHTS

Susan B Anthony

Gloria Steinem

Constantina Salamone

MILITARY

Captain Alan Jones, USMC 17,003 consecutive pushups

Captain Rick Corbin

SPIRITUAL LEADERS

Buddha

The Druse of Lebanon

Francis of Assisi

Essene community of which Jesus a member

Father John Dear, Jesuit priest and board of War Resisters

Father Mario Mazzoleni, formerly of Vatican Radio

General John Booth Salvation Army founder

General Bramwell Booth Salvation Army

Mahavira, founder of the Jains

Thomas Merton

Origen

Peace Pilgrim

Rastafarians

Saint Paul (took the Nazarite vow)

Sufis many

Swami Prabhupada founder of Hare Krishnas of Iskcon

John Wesley founder of Methodists

Ellen White founder of 7th Day Adventists

Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a

Yogi

tens of thousands of yogis and Catholic saints

ATHLETES

Roger Bannister first man to break 4 minute mile

Brendan Brazier Canadian triathlete

Goose Gossage San Diego Padres

Dustin Hinton vegan ironman

Killer Kowalski wrestler

John Landy 2nd man to break 4 minute mile

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jP_NzZP_LK0<\/a>

Carl Lewis

Martina Navratilova

Dave Scott, 6 times Ironman champion vegan http:\/\/www.davescottinc.com\/<\/a>

Mike Tyson Boxer

Bill Walton Portland Trailblazers

Johnny Weissmuller played Tarzan broke 6 world swimming records as a vegetarian

Serena Williams, tennis star

The first Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, broke 6 swimming records as a vegetarian. Roger Bannister, vegetarian, first man to run a mile under 4 minutes.

Dave Scott, 6 time Ironman winner, vegan

http:\/\/sportinc.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/21\/an-inspiration-dave-scott-6-tim<\/a>...

Brendan Brazier, vegan ironman triathlete

Carl Lewis, 10 times gold medal winner in track and field

Hank Aaron (home run champion in major league baseball) Source: A Teen's Guide to

Going Vegetarian

Lizzie Armitstead Olympic cyclist http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/wordofmouth\/2012\/jul\/30\/lizzie-ar<\/a>

B J Armstrong (US Basketball star)

Anthony Aurelius martial arts

Al Beckles (body builder)

Sorya Bonali (ice skater)

Les Brown (veteran runner)

Peter Burwash (tennis) lost a tennis match once because he refused to step on a column of ants on the court

Andreas Cahling Swedish body builder was on cover of Vegetarian Times

Chris Campbell (1980 world champion wrestler)

Austin Carr Cleveland Cavaliers basketball

Joanna Conway (ice skater)

Sylvia Cranston (triathlete)

Alexander Dargatz body builder

Sally Eastall (Marathon runner - UK No 2, vegan)

Di Edwards (runner, Olympic semi-finalist)

Cory Everson (bodybuilder, Ms Olympia 6 times)

Prince Fielder

Katie Fitzgibbon (marathon runner)

Clare Francis (sailer)

Louis Freitas (body builder)

Carol Gould (marathon runner)

Estelle Gray (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

Sammy Green (runner)

Ruth Heidrich (3-time Ironman finisher, marathoner, age-group record holder, Pres.

Vegetarian Society of Honolulu) (vegan) Source: personal acquaintance, also...her

book--A Race for Life

Sally Hibberd (British Women's Mountain Bike Champion)

Sharon Hounsell (Miss Wales Bodybuilding Champion)

Desmond Howard (formerly w\/Washington Redskins, now w\/Jacksonville Jaguars)

Source: PETA mailer

Roger Hughes (Welsh National Ski Champion)

Anton Innauer Olympic skier http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LDYrMbDk3PI<\/a>

\/> David Johnson (BAA coach)

Kathy Johnson (Olympic Gymnast)

Alan Jones (British ski jumper)

Billie Jean King (tennis champion) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

Killer Kowalski (wrestler) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

Jack LaLanne (Fitness guru) (vegan)

Donnie LaLonde (Former Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. (Lost title to

Sugar Ray Leonard)) Source: Article in San Jose Mercury News

Tony LaRussa (Manager of St. Louis Cardinals - US team) Source: PETA, Animals

Agenda, Animals Voice, Veg Times, others

Silken Laumann (Olympic rower) Source: Cooking Television Show

Judy Leden (British, European & World Hang Gliding champion)

Avi Lehyani vegan bodybuilder http:\/\/www.veganbodybuilding.com\/?page=bio_avi<\/a>

Marv Levey (Buffalo Bills Coach)

Carl Lewis

Jutta Müller (multiple Windsurfing World Cup Champion) Source: Flutlicht 95\/6\/18 on

Südwest 3 (German TV program)

Jack Maitland (triathlete and fell runner)

Cheryl Marek (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

Leslie Marx (fencer;1996 woman's epee national champion)

Kirsty McDermott (runner)

Lindford McFarquar (body builder)

Robert Millar (cyclist)

Monika Montsho (weightlifter, 2 x runnerup GB Championships 60kg, NW woman

weightlifter of the year 1991)

Edwin Moses

Adam Myerson cyclist

Joe Namath football player

Martina Navratilova (Retired Tennis Champion) Source: Magazine Interviews\/Genesis

Awards

Paavo Nurmi

Robert Parish basketball player

Bill Pearl (Bodybuilder, Mr America) Source: Getting Stronger by Bill Pearl, pg 399

Bill Pearl (Mr. Universe and bodybuilder) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

Dennis Rodman (Basketball for Bulls) Source: Oprah, episode sometime in May, 1996

Murray Rose champion Australian swimmer

Debbie Spaeth-Herring (Georgia State power-lifter) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going

Vegetarian

Jonathon Speelman (chess)

Lucy Stephens (triathlete - vegan)

Kirsty Wade (runner)

Bill Walton (basketball player) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

17,003 Consecutive Pushups: World Record Held By Vegetarian

US Marine Corps Captain Alan Jones of Quantico, Virginia was struck by polio when he was five years old. Now a vegetarian, Alan could be the fittest man on Earth by amassing a record of physical accomplishments unmatched by any human that ever lived. He holds the world record for continuous sit-ups (17,003 times). In a 15-months period, he accomplished possibly the most remarkable array of physical achievements ever attained by a human being:

Lifted a 75-pound barbell over his head 1,600 times in 19 hours.

Made 3,800 basketball free throws in 12 hours, with 96 pc hit rate.*

Swam 500 miles in 11 days, down a river to the ocean.*

Skipped rope 43,000 times in 5 hours.*

Skipped rope 100,000 times in 23 hours*

Swam 68 miles in a swimming pool without a sleeping break.*

Swam half a mile in zero degree Celsius water without a wet suit.*

Performed 51,000 sit-ups in 76 hours.

http:\/\/members.tripod.com\/anatta0\/L1-Geen-Diet.htm<\/a>

Lone Gunman

Sports Personalities veggie.org Vegetarian Sports Personalities

* Hank Aaron (home run champion in major league baseball) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* B J Armstrong (US Basketball star)

* Al Beckles (body builder)

* Sorya Bonali (ice skater)

* Les Brown (veteran runner)

* Chris Campbell (1980 world champion wrestler)

* Joanna Conway (ice skater)

* Sylvia Cranston (triathlete)

* Sally Eastall (Marathon runner - UK No 2, vegan)

* Di Edwards (runner, Olympic semi-finalist)

* Katie Fitzgibbon (marathon runner)

* Clare Francis (sailer)

* Louis Freitas (body builder)

* Carol Gould (marathon runner)

* Estelle Gray (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* Sammy Green (runner)

* Ruth Heidrich (3-time Ironman finisher, marathoner, age-group record holder, Pres. Vegetarian Society of Honolulu) (vegan) Source: personal acquaintance, also...her book--A Race for Life

* Sally Hibberd (British Women's Mountain Bike Champion)

* Sharon Hounsell (Miss Wales Bodybuilding Champion)

* Desmond Howard (formerly w\/Washington Redskins, now w\/Jacksonville Jaguars) Source: PETA mailer

* Roger Hughes (Welsh National Ski Champion)

* David Johnson (BAA coach)

* Kathy Johnson (Olympic Gymnast)

* Alan Jones (British ski jumper)

* Billie Jean King (tennis champion) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* Killer Kowalski (wrestler) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* Jack LaLanne (Fitness guru) (vegan)

* Donnie LaLonde (Former Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. (Lost title to Sugar Ray Leonard)) Source: Article in San Jose Mercury News

* Tony LaRussa (Manager of St. Louis Cardinals - US team) Source: PETA, Animals Agenda, Animals Voice, Veg Times, others

* Silken Laumann (Olympic rower) Source: Cooking Television Show

* Judy Leden (British, European & World Hang Gliding champion)

* Marv Levey (Buffalo Bills Coach)

* Jutta Müller (multiple Windsurfing World Cup Champion) Source: Flutlicht 95\/6\/18 on Südwest 3 (German TV program)

* Jack Maitland (triathlete and fell runner)

* Cheryl Marek (cyclist) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* Leslie Marx (fencer;1996 woman's epee national champion)

* Kirsty McDermott (runner)

* Lindford McFarquar (body builder)

* Robert Millar (cyclist)

* Katherine Monbiot (world champion arm wrestler and nutritionist) (vegan) Source: The Vegan Society UK

* Monika Montsho (weightlifter, 2 x runnerup GB Championships 60kg, NW woman weightlifter of the year 1991)

* Edwin Moses

* Martina Navratilova (Retired Tennis Champion) Source: Magazine Interviews\/Genesis Awards

* Julie Ann Niewiek (Basketball commentator) Source: Grand Rapids press\/ Image Magazine

* Paavo Nurmi

* Robert Parish (Center - Warriors, Celtics, Hornets, Bulls) Source: Hearsay

* Bill Pearl (Bodybuilder, Mr America) Source: Getting Stronger by Bill Pearl, pg 399

* Bill Pearl (Mr. Universe and bodybuilder) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* Anthony Peeler (NBA Grizzlies basketball player) Source: NBA web site profiles

* Dave Scott (five time winner of the Ironman Triathlon) (vegan) \"The New Laurel's Kitchen\" cookbook

* Debbie Spaeth-Herring (Georgia State power-lifter) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

* Jonathon Speelman (chess)

* Lucy Stephens (triathlete - vegan)

* Jacques Vaughn (All American point guard, #1-ranked Univ of KS Jayhawks) Source: Lawrence (KS) Journal World (numerous editions)

* Kirsty Wade (runner)

* Bill Walton (basketball player) Source: A Teen's Guide to Going Vegetarian

VEGSPORTS this list is from http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/cleveland<\/a>

\/> (and has not been checked against above lists to eliminate

duplication)

Austin Carr of the Cleveland Cavaliers.. one of 3 vegetarians on that

team

Johnny Weissmuller.. broke 6 world swimming records as vegetarian..

played Tarzan in the movies

Ruth Heidrich Six-time Ironwoman, USA track and field Master's champion http:\/\/www.pcrm.org<\/a>

Carl Lewis, Olympic long jump twice http:\/\/www.meatout.org<\/a>

Nicky Cole

First woman to walk to the North Pole http:\/\/www.mccruelty.com<\/a>

Bill Walton.. Portland Trailblazers.. went to press conferences

with LOVE ANIMALS DON'T EAT THEM t shirts http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/recipes<\/a>

\/>

Cheryl Marek and Estelle Gray

World record holders, cross-country tandem cycling http:\/\/www.sierraclub.org<\/a> http:\/\/www.egroups.com\/messages\/nomow108\/1<\/a>

\/>

Dick Gregory trained at the Univ of Il ran 3000 miles

across the USA on a fruitarian diet http:\/\/www.dickgregory.com<\/a> http:\/\/spot.acorn.net\/fruitarian<\/a>

\/>

Surya Bonaly Olympic figure skating champion http:\/\/www.vegweb.com\/food<\/a>

\/>

Andreas Cahling.. world class weight lifter..

Swedish champion bodybuilder, Olympic gold medallist in the ski jump

http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/toxicatkins\/1.msnw<\/a>

\/>

http:\/\/groups.msn.com\/ar9\/madcowlinks1.msnw<\/a> 10,000 Mad Cow Mad Pig Mad Chicken mad Fish links

Debbie Lawrence World record holder, women's 5K racewalk

Alan Jones when captain in USMC did 17,003 consecutive

situps as a vegetarian.. at that time a world record

Ingra Manecki

World champion discus thrower

Johnny Weissmuller.. Tarzan movie star.. broke 6 world

swimming records as a vegetarian

Martina Navratilova

Champion tennis player

Dr Irving Fisher at Yale found that randomly selected

vegetarians could hold their arms at length 9 times

longer than Yale football players* http:\/\/www.neavs.org<\/a>

Jane Wetzel

U.S. National marathon champion

Ridgely Abele Winner of eight national championships in karate

Charlene Wong Williams

Olympic champion figure skater

Peter Burwash Davis Cup winner and professional tennis star

(once lost a tournament because he would not step on a column of ants

which had entered the courtyard)

Peace Pilgrim vowed to walk til humankind found peace.. not to

eat less offered food.. for the next four decades she

walked 8 times across the USA as a vegan http:\/\/www.nonviolence.org<\/a>

Chris Campbell

Olympic wrestling champion

Keith Holmes

World-champion middleweight boxer

Desmond Howard

Professional football star, Heisman trophy winner

Peter Hussing

European super heavy-weight boxing champion

Sixto Linares

World record holder, 24-hour triathlon

Bill Manetti

Power-lifting champion

Ben Matthews

U.S. Master's marathon champion

Dan Millman

World champion gymnast

Martina Navratilova

Champion tennis player

Paavo Nurmi

Long-distance runner, winner of nine Olympic medals and 20 world records

Bill Pearl

Four-time Mr. Universe

Bill Pickering

World record-holding swimmer

Stan Price

World weightlifting record holder, bench press

Murray Rose

Swimmer, winner of many Olympic gold medals and world records

Art Still

Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs MVP defensive end, Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame

Goose Gossage of San Diego Padres.. was in past suspended

for saying McDonald's cheeseburgers poisoned the world

Part excerpted from The Food Revolution, by John Robbins, published by Camaro Press. John Robbins, vegan Baskin Robbins heir

*not an endorsement of Yale endowment invested in earth

abusers, nor of their primate and other animal abuse

Austrian vegetarian

http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/history\/europe20a\/rath.html<\/a>

http:\/\/ivu.org<\/a>

http:\/\/famousveggie.com\/<\/a>

\/>

Body builders:

Albert Beckles

Andreas Cahling

famous athletes

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Pw5K3rBNjc<\/a>

\/> \/> http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/famous_vegetarians.html<\/a>

\/> \/> http:\/\/vegetarian.procon.org\/view.resource.php?resourceID=004527<\/a>

\/> http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_vegetarians<\/a>

\/> http:\/\/www.happycow.net\/famous_vegetarians.html<\/a>

\/> \/> http:\/\/www.greatveganathletes.com\/vegan_athlete_brendan-brazier-vegan-tr<\/a>

http:\/\/www.peta.org\/features\/2014-celebrity-vegetarian-nominees\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/01\/24\/vegan-angela-davis-connects-human\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.naturade.com\/articles\/naturade-news\/vegan-ironman-triathlete-\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.famousveggie.com\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/people\/<\/a>

http:\/\/davescottinc.com<\/a>

http:\/\/www.veganwolf.com\/famous_vegetarians.htm<\/a>

http:\/\/veggietestimonial.peta.org\/index.aspx<\/a>

http:\/\/www.soystache.com\/famousad.htm<\/a>

http:\/\/engforum.pravda.ru\/index.php?\/topic\/103166-famous-vegetarians-veg\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.kheper.net\/topics\/vegan\/famous.html<\/a>

http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/lists\/782\/000064590\/<\/a>

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nzP0ausBvQ4<\/a>

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_vegetarians<\/a>

http:\/\/al.godsdirectcontact.org.tw\/vg-vip\/query\/index.php?Page=2&nation==<\/a>

http:\/\/vegetarianstar.com\/tag\/howard-stern\/<\/a>

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_vegans<\/a>

VEGETARIAN FRIENDLY AIRLINE

Air India

Piscatarians avoiding mammal and bird flesh

Yasser Arafat

18824

many Youtube interviews

thousands of Catholic and Orthodox saints

See also:

http:\/\/www.ivu.org\/people\/<\/a>

(Placement of categories is not meant as a value judgment)

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