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.

Philosophers, Writers, Poets and Artists

Akiko Aoyagi, author and soy authority

Alan Moore, writer, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Marvelmen

Alan Watts, philosophical writing

Alberto Chavez Guatemala, science fiction novelist

Aldous Huxley (1864-1963), novelist, essayist, poet, writer of short stories, film stories and scripts

Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet

Alexandra Day (Sandra Darling), children’s author/illustrator

Allen Ginsberg, poet

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), French writer, poet and politician

Amanda Feilen, writer, poet (vegan)

Ambrogio Vittadini, Italian writer

Andrei Codrescu, poet and radio personality

Andrew Lindsay, Ph.D, DD, member of the Faculty of Theology, University of Oxford, author of numerous books on Christianity and the

rights of animals, board member of christianveg.com

Ann Wigmore (1909-1994), author and wheatgrass authority

Anna Thomas, director, writer, editor, producer, author, The Vegetarian Epicure

Annie Besant (1847-1933), British Theosophist, writer, political reformer in England and India

Anthony Grayling, a.k.a. AC Grayling, writer and columnist

Apollonius of Tyana (2-98?), Greek philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher

Beatrice Wood (1893-1998), artist, (lived her creative life to the age of 105)

Benjamin Zephaniah, dub poet (vegan)

Berkeley Breathed, cartoonist, Bloom County, Outland

Bill Shurtleff, author and tofu authority

Bino Sanminiatelli, Italian author

Bob Gunter, screenwriter, Sandlot (vegan)

Boris Borges, Cuban painter

Brigid Brophy, author

Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), American teacher, philospher and writer

Cankya Pandit, Indian philosopher and Prime-Minister of King Chandragupta (300 BC)

Carla Lane, writer, TV scriptwriter

Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author, This Is the Place

Cathy Guisewaite, writes the comic Cathy

César Chavez, United Farm Workers

Charles Darwin, naturalist, author, Theory of the Species

Charles Patterson, animal rights author, Animal Rights, Earth Reblinka

Charlotte Bronté (1816-1855), English novelist

Cleveland Amory, author

Clive Barker, author, Hellraiser series

Colin McGuinn, philosopher

Colman McCarthy, syndicated columnist

D.C. Simpson, webcomic author, Ozy and Millie, I Drew This; musician (unconfirmed)

Dan Piraro, painter/artist, internationally syndicated award-winning cartoonist, author of Bizarro (vegan)

Daniel Dombrowski, professor of Philosophy, Seattle University, board member of christianveg.com

Dav Pilkey, chidren’s author/artist (vegan)

Dave Coverly, cartoonist, Speed Bump

Dave Wallechinsky, author (son of Irving Wallace)

David and Nikki Goldbeck, authors

Debra Wasserman, writer

Deirdre Imus, environmentalist, author (wife of Don Imus)

Dennis Cooper, author

Diane Fairechild, author

Diane Pfeifer, author

Dilip Thomas, writer

Diogenes (412-323), Greek philosopher

Doctah B Sirius, producer, artist, natural health researcher

Donald “Spiderman” Thomas, author, mind/body fitness expert, Guinness world-record breaker (public speaking), ordained minister

Douglas Hofstadter, Pulitzer Prize winning author

Dr. Owen Parrett, writer, Diseases of Animal Flesh

Elizabeth Farians, Ph. D, theologian, femenist, founder of the NOW Task Force on Woman and Religion, founder of APE (Animals,People and the Earth), theology teacher at Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, board member of christianveg.com

Epicurus (341 BC-270 BC), Greek philosopher

Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972), author

Eve Ensler, playwright, Vagina Monologues

Fr. John Dear, former Executive Director of FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation), author of 17 books on peace and justice, board member

of christianveg.com

Frances Moore Lappé, author and world-hunger activist

Franz Kafka (1883-1924), Austrian-Czech novelist, The Castle, The Trial, The Great Wall of China

Friederich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher and writer

Gary Gach, author, poet

Gene Brewer, author, K-Pax trilogy

Geneen Roth, writer

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), writer, Nobel Laureate (Literature, 1925)

George Meyer, writer and producer (greatest contributer to The Simpsons)

Gloria Steinem, actress, producer, author, Ms magazine founder

Gordon Newman, dramatist, playwright, novelist (vegan)

Grant Morrison, Scottish comic book writer

Gregory Crosby, poet, editor (vegan, and wife Spice Williams and son)

H.G. Wells, socialist, author, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine

Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875), Danish author and poet

Hans Holzer (1920-), parapsychologist, author of 148 books

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), abolitionist, writer, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harvey Diamond, health and cookbook author

Helmut F. Kaplan, philosopher, writer

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), author, development critic, naturalist, pacifist, abolitionist

Henry Salt (1851-1939), English writer, social reformer, author of nearly 40 books, literary critic, biographer, classical scholar and naturalist

Horace Greeley (1811-1872), founder of the Republican party, reformer, politician, editor

Howard Lyman, former cattle rancher and author of The Mad Cowboy (vegan)

Howard Rosenberg, syndicated columnist

Hubert Schirneck, writer

Immanuel Kant, philosopher

Ingrid Newkirk, author (vegan)

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991), writer, Yentl, Nobel Laureate (Literature, 1978)

Isaac Lieb Peretz (1852-1915), Yiddish author

J.D. Salinger, novelist, The Catcher in the Rye

J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Laureate (Literature, 2003)

J. Regina Hyland (1933 – 2007), nonfiction/philosophical writer, pioneer in Animals & Religion

Jack Bishop, writer, executive director, Cook’s Illustrated magazine

James Elroy, novelist, L.A. Confidential

James Rachels (1941 – 2003), philosopher

James Redfield, author, The Celestine Prophecy

Janet Barkas, writer, editor of Grove Press

Jean Jacques Rosseau (1712-1778), French writer and political philosopher

Jean Ure, children’s author

Jeannine Kadow, author, Burnout, Blues Justice

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), British philosopher

Jill Johnson, author

Jim Mason, author

Joan Beth Clair, author, poet, Unitarian minister

Joann Farb, author (vegan, along with husband and children)

John Mayson, writer, Monitoring Times magazine

John Milton (1608-1674), English poet, Paradise Lost

Jonathan Safran Foer, novelist, winner of National Jewish Book Award for fiction

Jord Kelder, chief editor of Quote (Dutch Magazine)

Joseph W.A. Pace, Canadian author and researcher

Juli Crockett, playwright, theater director, professional boxer (retired), singer, The Evangenitals (vegan)

Karen Moran, author, psychologist

Kari Byron, artist, appearances on MythBuster

Keith Akers, author of various books about vegetarianism and Christianity

Kerrie Saunders, Ph.D/author (vegan)

Kim Sturla, author, protector of animals

Larry L. Miller, writer

Laura Huxley, author

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Russian novelist, philosopher, pacifist, social reformer (vegan)

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian painter, Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Sistine Chapel, sculptor, David, thinker, inventor

Linda Goodman (1925-1995), vegetarian activist, astrologist, poet, best-selling author, Linda Goodman’s Sun Signs, Linda Goodman’s

Love Signs, Linda Goodman’s Star Signs

Lord (George Gordon) Byron (1788-1824), British romantic poet — it is unsure if Byron was vegetarian or not

Louisa May Alcott, author, Little Women

Luigi Cornaro, writer

Malcom Muggeridge (1903-1990), author, journalist, television host

Marie Oser, vegan cookbook author, VegTV, columnist

Mark Millar, Scottish comic book writer

Mark Twain, American writer, satirist

Markos Moulitsas, “Kos”, columnist, Newsweek contributing columnist

Martha Grimes, author

Martin Kaufman, author, Dust to Dust

Mary Midgley, philosopher, lecturer at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, author, Beast and Man, Animals and Why They Matter

Mary Webb (1881-1927), English romantic novelist

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851), poet, author, Frankenstein

Matthew Scully, conservative political speechwriter, presidential advisor

Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), Belgian poet, playwright, essayist, Nobel Laureate (1911, Literature)

Michael Ausiello, TV Guide writer

Michael Kalper, M.D., author and nutritional advocate (vegan)

Michael Medved, author and film critic

Michael W. Fox, author

Michel Eyquem de Montaingne (1533-1592), French Renaissance writer

Millie Katzen, cookbook author and artist

Mutaka Ihomocl, writer

Niels Tijssen, Dutch author (Vegan)

Norman Cousins (1915-1990), American editor, journalist, professor, world peace advocate and author

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Irish poet, dramatist and novelist

Ovid (43BC-17AD), Roman poet

Patricia Wrede, fantasy author

Patrick O'Donald, cartoonist, Mutts

Patti Davis, author (daughter of former president Ronald Reagan)

Paul Chamberlain, professor of apologetics, ethics and philosophy

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), poet and writer

Peter Cox, author

Peter Ha, writer, religious scientist

Peter Max, artist

Peter Singer, philosopher, author, Animal Liberation

Piers Anthony, author

Plato (427-347), Greek philosopher, student of Socrates

Plotinus (205-270), Greek philosopher

Porphyry (232-305), philosopher

Plato (427-347), Greek philosopher, student of Socrates

Plotinus (205-270), Greek philosopher

Porphyry (232-305), philosopher

Rabindranath Tagore, Eastern Indian philosopher, Nobel Laureate (Literature, 1913)

R.D. Laing, author and physician

Plato (427-347), Greek philosopher, student of Socrates

Plotinus (205-270), Greek philosopher

Porphyry (232-305), philosopher

Rabindranath Tagore, Eastern Indian philosopher, Nobel Laureate (Literature, 1913)

Rainer Maria Rilke, writer

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), writer and poet

Reed Mangels, Ph.D/writer (vegan)

Richard Alan Young, Ph.D, professor of New Testament Studies, Temple Baptist Seminary, founder of EarthCare, author, board member of christianveg.com

Richard Bach, author

Robert Burns (1759-1796), poet and songwriter, regarded as the national poet of Scotland

Robert James Waller, author

Rod Preece, professor of Political Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University, author, board member of christianveg.com

Roger Ebert, author and film critic (vegan)

Romain Rolland (1866-1944), French writer, Nobel Laureate (1915, Literature)

Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005), civil rights activist

Rosalind Warren, author

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet

Ruth Harrison (1920-2000), activist, author, Animal Machines

Ruth Rendell, author

Sal Amendola, cartoonist

Scott Adams, writer/artist, Dilbert

Scott Westerfeld, bestselling science fiction/young adult author

Seneca the Younger (5 BC-65 AD), Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist, tutor to Nero

Sh’muel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970), Hebrew fictionist, Nobel Prize for Literature (1966)

Sharon Athanasiou, editor, Natural Glow Magazine

Simon Chau Sui-Cheong, Hong Kong social and environmental activist

Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904), poet

Socrates (470 BC?-399 BC), Greek philsopher

Stan Freberg, satirist

Stephen Clark, D. Phil., chief editor, Journal of Applied Philosophy, editor, Philosophy at Large, author of books on enthics and theology,

Animals and Their Moral Standing, God, Religion and Reality, Biology and Christian Ethics, board member of christianveg.com,

professor of philosophy, University of Liverpool

Stephen R. Kaufman, M.D., assistant professor, Case School of Medicine, co-chair, Medical Research Modernization Committee, co-

author, Good News for All Creation, editor, Perspectives on Medical Research, board member of christianveg.com

Stephen Webb, Ph.D, associate professor of Religion and Philosophy, Wabash College, author of six books, board member of

christianveg.com

Steven Gaskin, author, founder of The Farm

Sue Coe, artist, illustrator, visual journalist

Suzanne Havala, writer

T.E. Lawrence, a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia, author

Ted Hughes, poet, former poet Laureate in England

Ted Pandeva Zagar, writer

Thiruvalluvar (110-300? 600?), Tamil poet

Thomas Hood (1799-1845), British poet and humorist

Thomas Merton (1915-1968), American Trappist monk and prolific author and poet

Todd Conant, writer, poet

Tom Raber, writer

Tom Regan, professor of Philosophy (North Carolina State University), author, The Case for Animal Rights

Upton Sinclair (1878-1968), writer

V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Laureate (Literature, 2001)

Valerie Hardin, goth poet/writer, children’s ebook writer, Two Turtles, Crimson Kisses

Vesanto Melina, writer (vegan)

Vic Sussman (1939-2004), journalist, author, The Vegetarian Alternative

Victoria Moran, author

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), painter

Virginia Messina, writer

Wilhelm Bush (1832-1908), German poet and drawer

William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, printmaker

William Greenway, Ph. D, assistant professor of Philosophical Theology, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, board member of

christianveg.com

William Wordsworth (1770-1850), English romantic poet

Yoko Ono, artist (wife of Beatle John Lennon)