Please Note: this list is presented in good faith — while the majority have been confirmed, there is no guarantee that any of these people still are, or ever were, vegetarian.

Scientists, Scholars, Physicians, Healthcare Professionals and Businessmen

Abdul Kalam, Indian scientist

Albert Einstein, physicist (1879-1937), Nobel laureate (Physics, 1921), Theory of Relativity (E=MC²)

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), German philosopher, physician, musician, clergyman, missionary, writer on theology, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1952)

Alex Hershaft, Ph.D, president of FARM, founder of the Great American Meatout

Andrew Babcock, forensic psychologist

Anna Kingsford (1846-1888), one of the first female British physicians, established Theosophy in England, activist for women’s rights, animal rights and vegetarianism

Arturo Alvarez Bravo, writer and pioneer of alternative and vegetarian medicine in America, founder of varous associations

Atal Bihari Vajpayi, Prime Minister of India

Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1991)

Barnes Wallis (1887-1979), scientist, engineer, inventor

Benjamin Carson, M.D., world-renown pediatrician neurosurgeon

Benjamin Spock (1903-1998), world-renown pediatrician & author on childrearing (vegan)

Bill Ford, Jr., CEO, Ford Motor Cars

Bjørn Lomborg, scholar, author, The Skeptical, Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Time Magazine’s one of the world’s most influential people

Brian Greene, physicist, string theorist, author, The Elegant Universe (vegan)

Carl Jung (1875-1961), Swiss psychiatrist, founder of analytical psychology

Charles Attwood, M.D. (1932-1998), pediatrician and researcher

Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001), South African cardiac surgeon, performed world’s first open heart transplant

David Hartley (1705-1757), English philosopher and physician, introduced theory of psychological association

David Ryde, Fellow of the Royal College of General Practice and 15 years medical adviser to the British Olympics team

Dean Ornish, M.D., cardiologist, author and world-renown physician

Donald Coxeter, mathematician, greatest classical geometer of his generation

Dr. Louis Tartaglis, psychiatrist, Toledo, OH

Dr. M.E. Ensminger, president, Consultants-Agriservices

Dr. Murry Cohen, psychiatrist

Dr. Samuel Sandweiss, psychiatrist, San Diego

Dr. Vernon Coleman (vegan)

Dr. William C. Roberts, cardiologist, editor of The American Journal of Cardiology

Dumrong Chiewsilp, M.D., M.P.H., Vegetarianism and Lifestyle for AIDS Treatment

Edward Witten, physician, physicist, string theorist

Elie Wiesel, Holocaust archivist, Nobel Laureate (Peace, 1986)

Frances Meehan Latterell, plant pathologist

George Louis Leclerc (1707-1788), Compte de Buffon, French Encycloedist of natural history

George Wald, Nobel Laureate (Medicine, 1967)

Henry Ford (1863-1947), inventor, automobile, assembly line manufacturing

Henry Heimlich, M.D., creator of Heimlich Maneuver

Henry Valentine Knaggs (1859-1954), physician, author

Hollind Kevo, Morningside co-President

Houman Younessi, Educator, Scientist (computer science), Persian Language poet and essayist

Irving Fisher (1867-1947), legendary American Economist, health campaigner, Yale University professor. Demonstrated that randomly-selected vegetarians could hold their arms at length 9 times longer than Yale football players

James Barry (1795-1865), British Army surgeon

Jane Goodall, primatologist, writer, activist

John Hart Ely (1938-2003), scholar, professor, Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, dean, Stratford Law School

John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943), doctor, over 2,000 inventions, world-renown Battle Creek Sanitarium (vegan)

John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods Market

Dr. Jonathan Lief, psychiatrist, Brookline, MA

John McDougall, M.D., author, radio and TV show host

John Oswald (c. 1760-1793), Scottish philosopher, author, poet, social critic, revolutionaryAbdul

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, President of India, Space Scientist

John Ray (1628-1704), English naturalist, originated matural botanical classification and the division of flowering plants into monocotyledons and dicolyledons

Kalpana Chawla, NASA Space Shuttle astronaut