8 of History’s Most Famous Vegetarians: Media
These historical figures were vegetarians before it was cool.
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Pythagoras
Pythagoras demonstrating his Pythagorean theorem in the sand using a stick.
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Puyi
Puyi , c. 1915–20.
George Grantham Bain Collection/ Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ggbain-21677)
“Saint Anthony”
“Saint Anthony,” right panel of the “Isenheim Altarpiece” (closed view), by Matthias...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Leonardo da Vinci
A self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci shows how he looked in 1512. The chalk drawing...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English Romantic novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, oil on canvas by Richard Rothwell,...
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John Harvey Kellogg, undated photograph.
George Grantham Bain Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (digital file no. 15047u)
Leo Tolstoy
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest novelists....
The Bettmann Archive