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Note - it is not claimed that everyone one this page was a strict vegetarian! But they often had interesting views that are relevant to the wider issues.
- Omnivorous or Vegetarian? - What famous naturalists think about it. by Professor Luis Vallejo Rodríguez (EVU News 1996)
- Vegetarianism and Archaeology by Derek Wall, B.Sc (The Vegetarian, UK, 1988)
- What Did Our Ancestors Eat?
(personal file 1994)
 Hebrew Religion of Israel (World Congress 1957)
- Judaism and Vegetarianism Ted Altar (c.1994)
- Is there a basis in Jewish Ethics for Mandatory Veganism or a Humane Farm Animal Diet - Phineas Leahy 2003
- The Vision of Eden: Animal Welfare and Vegetarianism in Jewish Law and Mysticism (book review 2003)
- Vegetarianism 8th century BC to 5th century AD - Hesiod, Pythagoras, Cyrus the Great, Herodotus, Empedokles, Plato, Ovid, Cicero, Seneca, Plutarch, Tertullian, St. Clement of Alexandria, Porphyry, St. Basil the Great, St. Jerome. St. Augustine, Chrysostum (IVU World Vegetarian Congress, India, 1957)
- Animal Minds and Human Morals - book review dealing with early Greek and Christian philosophies.
- Native Americans and Vegetarianism (Vegetarian Journal 1994)
- 800BC - Hesiod (c. 8th century BC)
Greece
- 628BC - Zoroaster / Zarathustra (628?-551?BC) Persia
-- Español - Zoroastro
- Zoroastrianism - Dastur Khurshed. D. Dabu, M.A . - F.T.S. High Priest Wadiaj AtashBeheram Bombay (IVU World Vegetarian Congress, India, 1957)
- 604BC - China & Vegetarianism - a personal view by Ting Jen, Indonesia (c.2001)
- 599BC - Mahavira (599-527 BC) India, founder of Jainism
- Dietary code of practice amongst Jains (WVC 2000)
 -- Italiano Il canone alimentare dei Jainisti
- Glimpse of the Fabulous Jains (World Forum 1956)
- Jainism (World Congress 1957)
- Teaching of Jainism (World Congress 1957)
- 563BC - Buddha (?563-483 BC) - vegetarian?
 -- Italiano Budda (?563-483 a.C.) - vegetariano?
-- Español - Buda
-- Magyar - Buddha (?563-483 BC) - vegetarianus?
- Did Lord Buddha Countenance Meat Eating? (IVU World Vegetarian Congress, India, 1957)
- Buddha and Vegetarianism - the path to non-violence - as above
- A Buddhist Perspective on Vegetarianism (personal view, 1995)
-- Español - Una Perspectiva Budista sobre el Vegetarianismo
-- Italiano Una prospettiva buddista del vegetarismo
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A Buddhist View of Vegetarianism (personal view, c.2001)
- Jon Wynne-Tyson on Buddha/Buddhism (Food for a Future, 1975)
 
- 540BC - Orphic Communities (c540 BC - ?) Greece
- Italiano Comunità orfiche
- 580BC - Pythagoras (?580-?500 BC) Greece
- 520BC - Cyrus the Great (c.520BC) Persia
- 484BC - Herodotus (484-425BC) Greece
- 480BC - Empedokles (?480-430BC)
Greece
 470BC - Socrates (?470-399 BC) Greece
- Español - Socrates
- Português - Sócrates
- 445BC - Antisthenes (?445-365 BC)
Greece
- 427BC - Plato (?427-?347 BC)
Greece
- 412BC - Diogenes (?412-?323 BC) Greece
- Italiano - Diogene
- 384BC - Aristotle (384-322BC)
Greece
- Español - Aristóteles
- 372BC - Theophrastus (?372-?287BC)
Greece
 341BC - Epicurus (341-270BC) Greece
- Español - Epicurus
- 300BC - The Vegetarian Movement in Sri Lanka (IVU World Vegetarian Congress, 1999)
- Vegetarianism and Vegetarians in Japan (IVU News, 1998)
- Español - El Vegetarianismo y los Vegetarianos en Japón
- Français - Végétarisme et Végétariens au Japon
- Indonesia - Vegetarianisme dan Vegetarian di Jepang
- Magyar - Vegetarianizmus es a vegetarianusok Japanban
- 273BC - King Asoka of India (273?-232 BC)
- 200BC - Hinduism - "Hinduism has prehistoric roots . . . Classical Hinduism emerges with the decline of Buddhism in India from the 2nd century BC "
- Hinduism (IVU World Vegetarian Congress, India, 1957)
- The Hindu Attitude Towards Vegetarianism (as above)
- Hinduism and Vegetarianism (IVU News, 2000)
- Why Hindus Don't Eat Meat (Himalayan Academy 1993)
- 106BC - Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Rome
- 43BC - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (43 BC - AD 17) Rome
- Español - Ovidio
- 5BC - Seneca (c.5 BC - AD 65)
Rome
- - Was Christ a Vegetarian? (Ted Altar c.1995)
- Christianity : Jesus was a Vegetarian (World Congress 1957)
- Does meat consumption corrupt the Eucharist? (c.2003)
 - Ethics, Christianity and Vegetarianism (European Congress 1997)
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- Italiano Etica, cristianesimo e vegetarismo
- Religion & Vegetarianism / Are Christians Vegetarians? (IVU News 1996)
- - Español - Religión y vegetarianismo / ¿Son los cristianos vegetarianos?
- - Português - Religião & Vegetarianismo / São os Cristãos Vegetarianos?
- The Cruelty and Wastefulness of Meat Eating - a Quaker view (IVU News 1998)
- The Golden Age Must Return - A Catholic's Views on Vegetarianism (IVU World Vegetarian Congress 1965)
- The Mass of Christ (Poem 1957)
- The Misrepresentation of Jesus' Directives (Food for a Future, 1975)
- - Español - La Tergiversación de los Mandatos de Jesús
- - Indonesia - Kesalahpahaman atas Ajaran yang Diberikan Yesus
- The Essenes (IVU News 1996)
- - Español - Los Esenios
- - Português - Os Essênios
- The Way of Jesus the Nazirene or "The Way vs. The Church" - Essenes (IVU World Vegetarian Congress 1996)
- 46AD - Plutarch (c.AD 46-c.120)
Greece
- 150 - St.Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215)
Christian
- 160 - Tertullian (?160-?220) Christian
- 205 - Plotinus (?205-?270) Rome
- Italiano - Plotino
- 233 - Porphyry (233 - 304) Greece
- 250 - Iamblichus(c.250-c.325) Greece
- 330 - St.Basil (Bishop of Caesarea) (330-379)
- 340 - St. Jerome (340-320)
- 347 - St.John Chrysostom (c.347-407)
- 354 - St. Augustine (354-430)
- 570 - Islam (World Congress 1957)
- Islamic duty of compassion towards animals (IVU News, 1996)
- Sufism (World Congress 1957)
- 1000-1300 - The Cathars (11th - 13th Centuries)
-- Français - Les Cathars
- 1066 - Food in England Since 1066 -- A Vegetarian Evolution? (compiled 1992)
- 1135 - Maimonedes (Rabbi Moses ben Maimon) (1135-1204)
- Español - Maimónides
 1181 - St.Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)
- Deutsch - St. Franziskus von Assisi
- Italiano - San Francesco d'Assisi
- Magyar - Assisi Szent Ferenc
- 1440 - Kabir's Call to Compassion (World Congress 1957)
- 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- 1478 - Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)
- 1533 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592)
- 1592 - Pierre Gassendi (l592-1655)
- 1596 - Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
- 1628 - John Ray (1628-1704)
- Español - John Ray
- 1634 - Thomas Tryon (1634-1703)
- 1642 - Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Español Sir Isaac Newton
- Français Sir Isaac Newton
- 1670 - Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733)
- 1671 - George Cheyne (1671-1743)
- 1688 - Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
- 1694 - Voltaire (1694-1778)
- 1705 - David Hartley (1705-1757)
- 1706 - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
- 1707 - George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
- 1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
- 1737 - Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
- 1743 - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
- 1748 - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- Español - Jeremy Bentham
- Italiano - Jeremy Bentham
- 1750 - Lord (Thomas) Erskine (1750-1823)
- 1761 - Joseph Ritson (1761-1803)
- 1763 - Rev. William Cowherd (1763-1816) - founded the Bible Christian Church in 1809
- 1767 - Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1840)
- 1770 - John Frank Newton (1770-?1827)
- 1774 - Robert Southey (1774-1843)
- Johnny Appleseed (1774-1845)
- 1779 - Lewis Gompertz (1779-1865)
- 1783 - Joseph Brotherton - (1783-1857), became a Bible Christian, Salford's first M.P. (1832), and chaired the first meeting of the first Vegetarian Society (1847)
- 1788 - William Metcalfe (1788-1862) - founded the Bible Christian Church in America in 1817
- Lord (George Gordon) Byron (1788-1824)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) Germany
- 1789 - William Harvey (1789-1870) - became the second President of the Vegetarian Society in 1859
- 1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) - his writings had a significant influence on later vegetarian organisers
- 1795 - Sylvester Graham (1795-1851) - co-founder of the American Vegetarian Society (1850)
- Español - Sylvester Graham
- 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)
- 1798 - William Andrus Alcott (1798-1859) - co-founder of the American Vegetarian Society in 1850
 1799 - Thomas Hood (1799-1845)
- Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)
- The next Vegetarian Timeline : The Nineteenth Century to 1888
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