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.

Nearly Vegetarian Celebrities

Arlo Guthrie, folk singer and songwriter

Bill Maher, TV personality (Note: says he’s “pretty close” to being vegetarian, although not as close as he’d like to be)

Charlize Theron, actress, The Cider House Rules, Aeon Flux, is semi-vegetarian, only occasionally eating chicken

Colin Spencer, writer (Note: is mainly vegetarian but stated in a BBC Radio 4 interview in 2000 that he is not very strict about it and occasionaly eats fish or game)

Don Dokken, rock vocalist

Graham Russell, rock musician, Air Supply

Jennifer Batten, rock guitarist, formerly with Michael Jackson

Keith Strickland, musician, B-52’s does not consider himself vegetarian because he eats fish

Kenny G, jazz musician

Kevin Cronin, rock vocalist, R.E.O.

Matt Osman, rock bassist in Suede

Paige O’Hara, Broadway singer and actress

Pamela Des Barres, author

Pete Seeger, folk singer, composer

Phil Yeh, cartoonist

Ralph Nader, consumer advocate and author, 2000 presidential candidate for the Green Party

Sally Kirkland, actress

Sidney Poitier, actor (daughters Sydney and Anika are vegetarian)

Simon Gilbert, rock drummer in Suede

Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor, Silence of the Lambs (Note: eats fish, may eat chicken—hardly a vegetarian, but someone who eats “mostly” vegetarian. His father was vegetarian, revolutionary for his time)

Ted Kirkpatrick, rock drummer in Tourniquet

Tommy Shaw, rock musician in Damn Yankees