World Famous Vegetarians List

It is commonly heard that being vegetarian is getting fashionable these days. People turn to a vegetarian lifestyle out of curiosity, for health benefits, on adoption of a new religious belief or out of mere compassion towards animals. Historical facts however, show that being vegetarian or vegan has always been a mode of lifestyle for some communities around the world. Some well known communities that have always followed vegetarian lifestyle hail from India. There have also been some inspiring and famous die hard vegans all around the world who have always sworn by their natural green diet. Here is a compilation of names of world famous people who prefer a green diet.

Some Famous Vegetarians

    * Leonardo da Vinci: This world famous artist from Italy was known for his vegetarian lifestyle. So profound was his love for animals that he would rescue animals from meat markets and let them free. He is famously supposed to have said "As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other."
    * Paul McCartney: He is an ex-member of 1960s hit band Beatles. He turned vegetarian along with his wife Linda McCartney who was an animal rights activist. He propagates vegetarian lifestyle and supports charities that work for animal rights. He has previously confessed that he finds the aroma of bacon tempting but then he has vowed to stay vegetarian for the rest of his life.
      He one said in an interview, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian!"
    * Tiruvalluvar: He was a famous saint from southern part of India. He is famous for his quote which states, "How can one, who eats flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?"
    * Pamela Anderson: A popular Canadian actress and showgirl, Pamela Andersen promotes vegetarianism. She has been an advocate on animal rights and one of the foremost members of PETA. She is said to have turned a vegan ever since her teenage.
    * Tobey Maguire: The spiderman of hollywood is a staunch believer in a vegetarian lifestyle. He has altered his diet to a great extent and abstains from eggs and dairy products. He has even altered his lifestyle and made his home free from any leather products.
    * Mike Tyson:A retired American boxer, Mike Tyson is the undisputed world champion in the heavyweight list. He won his first title at the age of 20 years and successfully defended the title nine times. The heavyweight start vouches for a completely vegan diet. He regrets that he was not a born vegan.
    * Amitabh Bachchan: Known as the biggest bollywood star, Amitabh Bachchan is known for his extraordinary screen persona. He has a popularity rating much higher than actors like Marlon Brando or Robert de Nero. This iconic actor supports PETA and rigorously promotes the 'go green' campaign. He himself has been a strict vegetarian for quite a substantial part of his life.

World Famous Vegetarian Actors

Name of Actor     Country
Pamela Anderson     Canada
Jim Carrey     USA
Amitabh Bachchan     India
John Abraham     India
Casey Affleck     USA
Gillian Andersen     USA
Alec Baldwin     USA
James Cromwel     USA
Tobey Maguire     USA
Lisa Edelstein     USA
Joanquin Phoenix     USA
Brad Pitt     USA
Alicia Silverstone     USA
Billy West     USA
Cristian Bale     UK
Julie Cristie     UK
Sadie Frost     UK
Anne Hathaway     USA
Natalie Portman     USA

World Famous Vegetarian Athletes

Name of Athlete     Sport     Country
Adam Myerson     Cycling     USA
Greg Chappel     Cricket     Australia
Martina Navratilova     Tennis     Czech Republic
Sachin Tendulkar     Cricket     India
Mike Tyson     Boxing     USA

Other Famous Personalities (Past and Present)

Name of Personality     Profession
Leonardo da Vinci     Artist
Amos Bronson Alcott     Transcendentalist
Confucius     Chinese Philosopher
14th Dalai Lama     Religious Leader
Albert Einstein     Physicist
Adolf Hitler     Nazi Leader
Aristotle     Thinker
Plato     Thinker
Pythagoras     Mathematician
Socrates     Thinker
Mahatma Gandhi     Indian Leader
Swami Vivekanand     Philosopher
George Bernard Shaw     Playwright
Issac Newton     Scientist
Leo Tolstoy     Writer/Author
Mark Twain     Writer/Author
Michael Jackson     Singer
Benjamin Franklin     American Political Leader
Henry Ford     Entrepreneur
Louisa May Alcott     Writer/Author
H G Wells     Writer/Author
Ringo Starr     Singer
George Harrison     Singer
Charlotte Bronte     Writer/Author
Charles Darwin     Naturalist
Bryan Adams     Singer
Gulu Lavani     Entrepreneur
Heather Mills     Social Activist
Mac Danzig     Martial Arts Fighter
Prince     Singer
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam     Scientist
Rabindranath Tagore     Poet and Painter
Paul McCartney     Singer
Chelsea Clinton     Bills Clinton's daughter

The lists given above may be long but they shall always be incomplete. So much has been said and done to propagate a vegan diet, that many famous personalities and commoners are turning towards vegetarian diet permanently. It helps make your life healthy and animal friendly. So what are you waiting for? This is the right time to start a vegetarian journey of life!

Famous Sports Couples

Famous sportsmen and sportswomen from all around the world have long held our fascination for living glamorous lives and getting paid tons of money for playing our favorite games. But behind all the glamor and flashlights are long hours of struggle, loneliness and personal failures that are known only to them. This side is never shown to the public eye, and the only people who can truly understand the pressures involved are fellow sports personalities. As a result of this, hook ups and marriages between sports personalities are inevitable, and they always end up capturing the watching world's imagination like nothing else.

Celebrity couples have always held a very special place in the minds of people, and when both members of such couples are famous sports stars, things get even more interesting. Everyone wants more details about how the couple met, where they go, how they feel about each other and how their entanglement is affecting their performances. Newspapers and journalists build up these couples with the most romantic notions only to watch most of them crumble under the pressure, because ultimately, the stress gets to them all. Nonetheless, there are some famous sports couples that manage to work at it and see themselves through the rocky patches and the intense spotlight and lead a happy life together.

Famous Couples in Sports

These couples are listed in no particular order. Their involvement with each other has been the source of much entertainment and controversy for many parties, and how they have managed this stress is commendable. Moreover, the couples here also include pairs with one member a famous sports personality and the other a famous celebrity.

Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf
When it comes to famous tennis couples none can match this high profile sports couple. They met on the winners ball in the French Open in 1999 and started dating. They married in 2001 and are now the proud parents of a son and a daughter. They currently reside in Las Vegas and are rarely seen out together. This is undoubtedly the first couple that pops to mind when one wonders about couples in the sporting world.

Iker Casillas and Sara Carbonero
Casillas is the captain of Real Madrid FC and is also the captain of the successful Spanish football team that won Euro 2008 and the last edition of the World Cup. He is also the most capped goalkeeper in the UEFA Champions League, so his love life will definitely create headlines everywhere. Carbonero is a famous sports journalist in Spain and was recently voted the 'The Sexiest Reporter in the World'. They are dating each other and their public appearances cause many a stir around the world today.

Shelden Williams and Candace Parker
It is very rare to find a couple that plays in the NBA and the WNBA, and this couple achieves just that. Williams is a retired basketball player who played for the New York Knicks, and he was famously known as 'The Landlord'. Candace Parker plays for the Los Angeles Sparks and is one of the most recognizable stars of the WNBA. Along the way she has broken several rookie records and she also happens to be the younger sister of Tony Parker. They were married in 2008, have one daughter and are leading a healthy married life away from the spotlight.

Sasha Vujacic and Maria Sharapova
This couple has been together since 2009 and recently got engaged as well. Sharapova was the heir to Anna Kournikova's title of most attractive Russian female tennis player, and she actually won titles to back this up as well. She was the world number 1 for a long time, and she is still only 24 years old, so her tennis career is still wide open. Vujacic is a professional Slovenian NBA player and he plays his trade for the New Jersey Nets.

Nomar Garciaparra and Mia Hamm
When it comes to athletic couples, it truly does not get better than this. Garciaparra is a former baseball player famous for his time with the Boston Red Sox. He was also on the Olympic team for his sport, and so was his wife, Hamm, for soccer. She is one of the most popular women soccer players in the world, and she also happens to be a world champion and an Olympic champion. The couple regularly stays away from the spotlight. They were married in 2003 and had twin girls in 2007.

Ronaldo and Milene Domingues
The Brazilian Ronaldo was a true phenomenon in his time as a soccer player, and if not for his serious knee injuries, he would have surely been known as the greatest player ever. Apart from his dazzling skills on the field, he was also famous for scoring off the field. His flamboyant lifestyle led to several hook ups, and none could perhaps match up to his marriage with Domingues, the most expensive female soccer player in Spain. Their marriage lasted 4 years, and in that time they played for Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid respectively, and the flashbulbs and paparazzi literally followed their every move.

Some more famous sports couples are listed below as well.

    * Soccer star David Beckham and Spice Girl Victoria Beckham
    * Pop singer Enrique Iglesias and tennis player Anna Kournikova
    * NBA player Carmelo Anthony and VJ turned actress Lala Vasquez
    * Cricketer Michael Clarke and model Lara Bingle
    * American footballer Tom Brady and model Gisele Bundchen
    * Footballer Reggie Bush and reality TV star Kim Kardashian (not involved anymore)
    * Basketball player Tony Parker and actress Eva Longoria (not involved anymore)
    * Soccer player Ashley Cole and singer Cheryl Cole (not involved anymore)
    * Baseball player Alex Rodriguez and actress Kate Hudson (not involved anymore)
    * Tennis stars Jimmy Connors and Christine Evert (called off their wedding and split up)
    * Tennis stars Lleyton Hewitt and Kim Clijsters (not involved anymore)
    * Soccer star Sol Campbell and tennis player Martina Hingis (not involved anymore)

These were just a few of the celebrity couples that were involved in the sports world and as you can see, most of them could not work it out for various reasons. This just goes to show how hard it is for such couples to actually be together, and this is what feeds the newspaper columns and the gossip magazines from all corners of the world.