Moustache

A moustache (sometimes spelt mustache in the United States) is an outgrowth of hair above the upper lip.

Famous men known to have moustaches

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• Clement Atlee, British Prime Minister
• John R. Bolton, American diplomat
• Charlie Chaplin Comic actor from silent movie era
• Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
• John Cleese, Actor
• Georges Clemenceau, French politician
• Jim Croce, singer and songwriter
• Salvador Dalí, artist, whose moustache was influenced by that of Diego Velázquez
• Dennis DeYoung, Styx vocalist and keyboardist. Shaved off in mid-1982.
• Thomas E. Dewey, politician
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of detective stories
• Albert Einstein, scientist
• Edward Elgar, composer
• Sam Elliott, film and television actor
• Wyatt Earp, 19th Century law officer
• Gabriel Fauré, French classical composer
• Rollie Fingers, baseball player
• Ned Flanders, cartoon character from The Simpsons
• Errol Flynn, actor, known for his Pencil moustache
• Clark Gable, film star
• Samuel Gompers, labor union leader
• George Harrison, member of the Beatles, ca. from 1967 on
• James Hetfield, Metallica vocalist and rhythm guitarist
• Adolf Hitler, Dictator
• Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler
• Mervyn Hughes, Australian cricketer. A handlebar moustache is part of his trademark.
• Saddam Hussein, Dictator
• Jamie Hyneman, TV personality
• Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal
• Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese TV personality and member of Japanese musical group Rats & Star
• David Lloyd George, British prime minister
• G. Gordon Liddy, radio talk-show host, and former Watergate figure
• Martin Luther King, American black civil rights campaigner
• Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
• Mario, a famous video game fictional character owned by Nintendo. Moustache class is unknown.
• Groucho Marx for many years wore a fake moustache of greasepaint on stage and film, then grew a real one later in life
• Nick Mason, Pink Floyd drummer. He shaved it off in 1975.
• Guy de Maupassant, writer
• Gerald McRaney, TV actor
• Adolphe Menjou, actor
• Freddie Mercury, lead singer of famous British rock group Queen. Had moustache from 1980 to 1987
• Friedrich Nietzsche, famous for his Walrus moustache
• John Oates, musician
• Józef Piłsudski Dictator
• Hercule Poirot, a character in books written by Agatha Christie.
• Geraldo Rivera, TV journalist
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Habsburg throne.
• Theodore Roosevelt, American president
• Eugen Sandow, bodybuilder
• Tom Selleck, TV actor
• Joseph Stalin, Dictator
• Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (lead singer of Rats & Star)
• William Howard Taft, U.S. President and Chief Justice of the United States
• Masashi Tashiro, former Japanese TV personality and member of Rats & Star
• Danny Trejo, Actor
• Mark Twain, Author
• Veerappan, an Indian bandit
• Lech Wałęsa, founder of Solidarity, Nobel Peace Prize winner, President of Poland
• John Waters film director
• Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor of Germany
• Frank Zappa, Rock star
• Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary
• "Weird Al" Yankovic, musician known for his parodies of popular music. He had it shaved off in 1998.

A gallery of pictures is at Pictures of famous men with moustaches.

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