Europe: early 20th Century

A collection of articles:
Note - these are not just lists of 'famous vegetarians' - they are people with a view on the subject, the articles explain whether they put those veiws into practice.

• General William Booth - Salvation Army (1829-1912)
• Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926)
• Rev. John Todd Ferrier (1855-1943)
• George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  • Español - George Bernard Shaw
• Cecil Sharp (1859-1924)
• Lous Andreas-Salome (1861-1937)
• Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
• Romain Rolland (1866-1944)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
• Dr Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
  • Italian - Dott . Albert Schweitzer
• Isadora Duncan (1878-1927)
• A Reason for Celebration: 90 Healthy Vegetarian Years Kathleen Keleny (EVU)
• TEVA - The Esperantist Vegetarian Movement celebrates its 90th year (EVU)
• Vegetarian Experiment - with a Population of 3 million- The effect of Food Restriction on Mortality in Copenhagen during War (1917) (EVU)
  • Français - Expérimentation Végétarienne - sur une Population de 3 millions
  • Româna - Experiment vegetarian asupra unei populatii de 3 milioane
• Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
• Emrich Rath (1883 - 1962)
• Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888-1970)
• Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952)
• Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
  • Italiano - Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
• Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950)
• Español - Los Animales, Mis Hermanos
• The Vegan Society UK (founded 1944 and invented the word 'vegan') - a brief history

IVU Manager's blogs:
Henry Salt - the father of animal rights
Why Dresden? The origins of IVU
Gandhi - and the launching of veganism
The Invention of the Vegans - the first Vegan Society
Vegans are Vegetarians too - early years of the Vegan Society 
Vegan Goes Global - the first ten years, 1944-54

Complete Old Books:

A great Russian tone-poet, Scriabin (link to archive.org) by A.E. Hull, London 1916. Refers to Scriabin's theosophy, from about 1904, which led to his vegetarianism.

The Food of the Future (PDF 10mb) a summary of arguments in favour of a non-flesh diet, by Charles W. Forward, London, 1904.

See also:
IVU 1908-2008 - for archives of World Vegetarian Congresses since 1908 (1908-1955 were all in Europe) - and all international veg events.