Europe: early 20th Century
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)
- 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
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.
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