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Note: this list is presented in good faith - we cannot guarantee that any of these people still are, or ever were vegetarian. If you have further information please fill in the form below.
Where a name is in lighter type followed by ?? it is understood that they are no longer, or possibly never were, vegetarian.

Confucius China (551-479 BCE)
Plato Greece (428-348 BCE)
Thiruvalluvar India (c.100BCE-600CE)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italy
- Español - Leonardo da Vinci
- Italiano - Leonardo da Vinci
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) France
Thomas Tryon (1634-1703) UK
Bernard de Mandeville?? (1670-1733) France
Voltaire ?? (1694-1778) France
Jean-Jacques Rousseau?? (1712 - 1778) France
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) UK
Louisa May Alcott USA (1832-1888)
Jeremy Bentham?? (1748-1832) UK
- Español - Jeremy Bentham
Joseph Ritson (1761-1830) UK
John Frank Newton (1770-?1827) UK
Robert Southey ?? (1774-1843) UK
Lord (George Gordon) Byron?? (1788-1824) UK
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) UK
Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) UK
Thomas Hood (1799-1845) UK
Charlotte Bronte UK (1816-1855)
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) USA

Español - Henry David Thorea

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russia
- Español - Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) UK
Wilhelm Bush (1832 - 1908) Germany
Henry Salt (1851-1939) UK
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) UK
- Español - George Bernard Shaw
- Italiano - George Bernard Shaw
Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Germany
Malcolm Muggeridge UK (1903-1990)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) USA
Spike Spike (1918-2002) UK
Ruth Harrison UK (1920-2000)
Seshendra Sarma India (1927-2007)
Ted Hughs (1930-1998) UK

still with us, as far as we know:
Mary Midgley UK (1919 - )
Jon Wynne-Tyson UK (1924 - )
Ruth Rendell UK (1930 - )
V. S. Naipaul India (1932 - )
Colin Spencer UK (1933 - )
Piers Anthony UK (1934 - )
Richard Schwartz USA (1934 - )
Jules Bass USA (1935 - )
Gene Brewer USA (1937 - )
Carla Lane UK (1937 - )
Regan, Tom USA (1938 - )
- Italiano Tom Regan
J. M. Coetzee South Africa (1940 - )
Alice Walker (1944- )
Stephen R. L. Clark UK (1945 - )
Peter Singer Australia (1946 - )
- Italiano Professor Peter Singer
Gary Gach USA (1947 - )
John Robbins USA (1947 - )
James Redfield USA (1950 - )
Sue Coe UK (1951 - )
Clive Barker UK (1952 - )
Eve Ensler USA (1953 - )
Rev. Dr. Donald Thomas (1953- )
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar India (1956 - )
Scott Adams USA (1957 - )
Berke Breathed USA (1957 - )
Benjamin Zephaniah UK (1958 - )
Scott Westerfeld USA (1963 - )
Skyla Dawn Cameron Canada (1982 - )

dates unkown (not famous enough for wikipedia..)
Abu 'L-ala Ahmad bin Abdallah al-Ma'arri Syria
Rynn Berry USA
Boris Borges
Todd Conant
Rose Elliot UK
Karen Gross-Foster
Alberto Chavez Guatemala
Peter Ha Vietnam
Valerie Hardin
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Mutaka Ihomocl
Tonya Kay USA
Helmut F. Kaplan Austria
John Mayson
Coli McGinn
Alka Mehta India
Victoria Moran
Jeremy Rifkin UK
- Italiano - Jeremy Rifkin
Alexandra Romanov Russia
Geneen Roth
Bino Sanminiatelli Italy
Donald Schnell
Joanne Shaw Canada
Hubert Schirneck
Dilip Thomas

probably not veg, despite rumours
Marilyn Diamond USA
Paul Theroux USA (1941 - )
Frances Moore Lappe USA (1944 - )
Anthony Robbins USA (1960 - )

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