List of bald people
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This list only lists people who maintained the appearance for extended periods of time and became closely associated with it.NOT INCLUDED are people who briefly had a bald head for A) a fashion statement B) a movie role C) cancer treatment.
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Actors/Actresses
- Jason Alexander
- John Amos
- Ed Asner
- Daniel Benzali
- Michael Berryman
- Yul Brynner
- Dave Chappelle
- Dominic Chianese
- Michael Chiklis
- Sean Connery
- Jackie Cooper
- David Cross
- Scatman Crothers
- Larry David
- Danny DeVito
- Michael Clarke Duncan
- Vin Diesel
- Hal Douglas
- Bill Duke
- Robert Duvall
- Anthony Edwards
- Miguel Ferrer
- Sidney Fields
- Dann Florek
- Dennis Franz
- Paul Giamatti
- Tyrese Gibson
- Louis Gossett, Jr.
- Jon Gries
- Laurence Fishburne
- Sid Haig
- Ed Harris
- Michael Hogan
- Jon Hollis
- Clint Howard
- Ron Howard
- Michael Ironside
- Tor Johnson
- Ben Kingsley
- Samuel L. Jackson
- LL Cool J
- Don LaFontaine
- Joey Lawrence - Ditched his tradmark long flowing brown hair for the bald look recently seen in a commercial for Orbitz gum.
- Tom Lister, Jr.
- John Lithgow
- Faizon Love
- Matt Lucas
- John Malkovich
- Matthew McConaughey - talked on the David Letterman show about using hairloss treatment drugs when he started going bald
- Howie Mandel - the Canadian comedian often disguises his bald head with various wigs for the filming of his hidden camera pranks.
- Cheech Marin
- Colin Mochrie
- Craig T. Nelson
- Terry O'Quinn
- Joe Pantoliano
- Donald Pleasence
- Christopher Reeve - had alopecia, which surfaced from time to time during his life causing his hair to fall out
- Carl Reiner
- Rob Reiner
- Ving Rhames
- Telly Savalas
- Kurtwood Smith
- Kevin Spacey
- Jason Statham
- Rod Steiger
- Patrick Stewart
- Erich von Stroheim
- David Suchet
- Kat Surth - Model and actress
- Jeffrey Tambor
- Lawrence Tierney
- Mario Van Peebles
- Montel Williams
- Bruce Willis
- Arnold Vosloo
- Billy Zane - Shaved head after he started going bald.
Artists
Athletes/Sports Personalities
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - NBA legend
- Andre Agassi - Once equally noted for his long mullet in the early 1990s but has kept a shaved head ever since.
- Nicolas Anelka - French footballer
- Kurt Angle - Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wres tling turned professional wrestler, had his head shaved in a match and has kept shaving it since
- Stone Cold Steve Austin - Professional wrestler
- Charles Barkley - U.S. basketball player
- Clint Barmes - US Baseball player currently for the Colorado Rockies
- Fabien Barthez - French footballer
- Scott Bigelow - 1990s pro wrestler whose bald head is decorated with a distinctive "flames" tattoo
- Chauncey Billups - U.S. basketball player
- Barry Bonds - Prolific and controversial baseball slugger
- Jay Buhner - former Seattle Mariners star whose shaved head inspired the annual "Buhner Buzz Night" promotions, where Mariners fans shaved their heads f or free admittance to the ball game
- Vince Carter - U.S. basketball player
- Sam Cassell - U.S. basketball player
- Derrick Coleman - U.S. basketball player
- Pierluigi Collina - Italian football referee
- Christopher Daniels - Professional wrestler
- Pavol Demitra - National Hockey League player - currently for the Los Angeles Kings
- Aleksandar Djordjevic - Serbian basketball player
- Clyde Drexler - U.S. basketball player
- George Foreman - U.S. boxing world champion
- Julio Franco - born in 1958, he is currently the oldest active player in Major League Baseball
- William Gallas - French footballer
- Kevin Garnett, U.S. basketball player
- Duncan Goodhew, British olympic swimmer.
- Eddie George - NFL running back
- Bill Goldberg - NFL player turned pro wrestler
- George Gregan - Australian Rugby Union captain. His caps total (as of 28 November 2005) now stands at 118.
- Marvin Hagler - U.S. boxing world champion
- Scott Hamilton - Olympic gold-medalist figure skater and television commentator
- Tim Hardaway - U.S. basketball player
- Matt Hasselbeck - NFL quarterback
- Hulk Hogan - professional wrestler, reality television star.
- Evander Holyfield - U.S. boxing world champion
- Tim Hudson - U.S. baseball pitcher
- Mike James - NBA point guard
- Richard Jefferson - U.S. basketball player
- Ahmed Johnson - professional wrestling legend and politician.
- Ben Johnson - disgraced Canadian sprinter
- Reed Johnson - US Baseball player
- Michael Jordan - Though other basketballers had sported bald heads before him, Jordan is credited with popularizing the look among African American men in the 1980s. The silhouette of his bald head was us ed as the logo for his brand of cologne.
- Kane - professional wrestler
- Mike Kinrade - Mountain Bike rider
- Jason Kidd - New Jersey Nets basketball player
- Mills Lane - boxing referee
- Sam Langford - boxer
- Frank Leboeuf - French soccer player
- Claude Makélélé - French footballer
- Kevin Mench - U.S. baseball player
- Stephon Marbury - NBA basketball player
- Mark Messier - National Hockey League Hall of Famer
- Dustan Mohr - US Baseball player
- Anthony Mundine - Australian, all round athlete, Rugby League star, boxer and basketballer
- Mattias Norstrom - National Hockey League player - currently for the Los Angeles Kings
- Shaquille O'Neal - U.S. basketball player - not balding, just sports a shaved head/bald look
- Gary Payton - U.S. basketball player
- Terry Porter - U.S. basketball player
- Fabrizio Ravanelli - Italian footballer
- Roberto Carlos - Brazilian footballer
- Ronaldo - Brazilian footballer
- Wendell Sailor - Australian dual-code rugby international. Forme rly played Rugby League for the Brisbane Broncos.
- Kelly Slater - Professional Surfer. 7 Times World Champion
- Bob Samuelson - American Olympic and beach volleyballer. Suffers from alopecia. His entire mens volleyball team at the 1992 Summer Olympics shaved their heads in support of him and were nicknamed "The Volley-Balds."
- John Smoltz - U.S. baseball pitcher
- Jaap Stam - Dutch footballer
- Staciana Stitts - U.S. swimmer
- Lawrence Taylor - former NFL linebacker
- Frank Thomas - U.S. baseball player.
- Lilian Thuram - French footballer
- Tyson Tomko - Professional wrestler
- Patrick Vieira - French footballer
- Charlie Villanueva - U.S. basketball player, suffers from alopecia areata
- Antoine Walker - U.S. basketball player
- Matt Williams - U.S. baseball player. Shaved head since 1998.
- George Weah - Liberian footballer
- David Wells - US Baseball player
- Zinedine Zidane - French footballer
Authors
- Aeschylus
- Raymond Aron - French sociologist, essayist
- William Burroughs - U.S. novelist
- Bartolomé de las Casas - Spanish priest and polemicist
- Arthur C. Clarke - British author, inventor
- Aleister Crowley - British occultist, author, poet
- Mircea Eliade - Romanian novelist, historian, and philosopher
- Michel Foucault - French philosopher
- Thomas Hardy
- Jerry Holkins - U.S. writer
- Jean Genet - French playwright, novelist
- Allen Ginsberg - U.S. poet
- Eugène Ionesco - Romanian-born French playwright, novelist
- Rudyard Kipling - British novelist, poet
- Janusz Korczak - Polish pediatrician, children's author and child pedagogist
- Alfred North Whitehead - British philosopher, mathematician
- Walter Pater - British essayist
- Jean-François Revel - French essayist
- Shel Si lverstein - U.S. poet
- Peter Straub - U.S. novelist
- Neil Strauss
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Richard Wollheim - British philosopher
Film Directors
- Richard Attenborough
- Joe Carnahan
- Rob Cohen
- George Cukor
- Michael Curtiz
- Frank Darabont
- John Ford
- Paul Haggis
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Ron Howard
- Stanley Kubrick
- Richard Lester
- Terrence Malick
- Otto Preminger
- Jean Renoir
- John Schlesinger
- John Singleton
Musicians
- Philip Anselmo - vocalist of Pantera, Down and Superjoint Ritual
- Michael Balzary - musician in Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Errol Brown - Br itish soul/disco singer. Shaved his head in the 1970s as a counterpoint to the large Afros popular at the time. Still maintains the look today.
- Jimmy Buffett - singer/song writer
- Ed Cassidy - drummer of the band Spirit
- Cee-Lo - founding member of The Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley
- Kenny Chesney - shirtless pop star.
- Phil Collins - drummer, then lead singer of Genesis
- Billy Corgan - Has kept his head shaved since 1995
- Chris Daughtry - American Idol contestant
- The Edge, guitarist with U2
- Brian Eno - member of Roxy Music, then solo artist.
- Ahmet Ertegun - music producer, co-founder of Atlantic Records
- Fat Joe - rapper
- Peter Frampton
- Peter Furler - Lead vocalist of the Newsboys
- Peter Gabriel - Former lead vocalist of Genesis
- Peter Garrett - Lead vocalist of Midnight Oil
- Rob Halford - vocalist of Judas Priest
- Isaac Hayes - Has shaved his head since the late 1960s. A close-up photo of the top of his head appeared as the cover photo of his groundbreaking 1969 album Hot Buttered Soul.
- Robert Hecker - guitarist for Redd Kross
- Jimi Hendrix - According to Sy Sperling, Hendrix was the first celebrity client of the Hair Club for Men
- Karl Hyde - Lead vocalist of Underworld
- Scott Ian - member of the band Anthrax
- Alan Jackson - country singer known for wearing many hats.
- Jamey Jasta - Singer of the band Hatebreed
- Maynard James Keenan - lead singer for Tool and A Perfect Circle
- Elton John
- David Draiman - lead vocalist of Disturbed
- Kerry King - guitarist for Slayer
- Ed Kowalczyk - Lead Singer for Live
- Tony Levin - bassist and chapman stick player for Peter Gabriel and King Crimson.
- DMX - rap artist
- Steve Marker, guitarist, music producer
- John McFarlane - guitarist/vocalist for Sluts Of Trust
- Moby - techno musician/producer
- Me'shell Ndegeocello, musician
- Robbie Neville- Bass Player For The Radioactive Kids
- Krist Novoselic,started showing signs of baldness during his band, Nirvana's final years.
- Sinéad O'Connor - Irish singer/songwriter who had a bald head in the early-1990s, at the peak of her career and notoriety. Has since regrown hair
- Shavo Odadjian - basist of System of a Down
- Nick Oliveri
- Les Paul
- Right Said Fred
- Henry Rollins - lead singer of Black Flag during early to mid 80's, now a spoken word artist and lead singer of The Rollins Band.
- Jordan Rudess - Progressive rock keyboardist of Dream Theater.
- Joe Satriani - Guitar Virtuoso
- Arnold Schoenberg - Austrian composer, pioneering exponent of atonality and serialism
- Seal - British soul music singer
- Phil Selway - drummer for Radiohead
- Paul Shaffer - composer/bandleader/multi-instrumentalist, bald since the early-1990's
- Tupac Shakur - rap artist, actor, entrepreneur, activist
- Skin (singer) - singer, was the lea d vocalist of Skunk Anansie
- Georg Solti - orchestral conductor
- Chad Smith - drummer for widely known rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
- Michael Stipe - leader of R.E.M.
- James Taylor - singer-songwriter
- Slavi Trifonov - Bulgarian showman, singer and musician
- Scooter Ward - singer of the band Cold
- Kurt Weill - German composer
- Hank Williams, Sr. - Country Singer. Wore Cowboy Hat To Hide Fact He Was Balding.
- John Williams - Composer of Harry Potter movies, Indiana Jones movies, Star Wars movies, Jaws movies, Jurassic Park movies, and more.
- Ahmet Zappa - son of the legendary Frank Zappa and husband of Selma Blair.
Politicians/Military Figures
- Yuri Andropov - Soviet leader
- Clement Atlee - British Prime Minister
- Menachem Begin - Israeli Prime Minister
- David Ben-Gurion - Israeli Prime Minister
- Lavrenty Beria - Soviet politician
- Silvio Berlusconi - Italian former Prime Minister (recently have made a hair implant)
- Deve Gowda - Indian former Prime Minister
- James Carville - American Democratic Party consultant and strategist
- Dick Cheney - current U.S. Vice President and former Secretary of Defense
- Charles the Bald - King of France
- Michael Chertoff - Secretary for the US Department of Homeland Security
- Chiang Kai-Shek - Taiwanese military and political leader
- Bettino Craxi - Italian politician
- Sir Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister
- Moshe Dayan - Israeli general and politician
- Benjamin Disraeli - British Prime Minister
- Dwight D. Eisenhower - American president and Army General
- Pim Fortuyn - Assassinated Dutch prime minister
- John Howard - Australian politician
- Mahatma Gandhi - Indian political leader
- Liaquat Ali Khan - Pakistani Prime Minister
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - former President of France
- William Ewart Gladstone - British Prime Minister
- John Glenn - American Senator and Astronaut
- Mikhail Gorbachev - Soviet leader
- Joe Hoeffel - former Democratic Pennsylvania Congressman
- Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish leaser
- Alain Juppé - Prime Minister of France
- Nikita Khrushchev - Soviet leader
- Neil Kinnock - British Labour Party leader
- Mitch Landrieu - Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana
- Lyndon LaRouche - American far left politician
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier - Prime Minister of Canada
- Jack Layton - Canadian social democrat leader
- Vladimir Lenin - Soviet leader
- G. Gordon Liddy - FBI agent and Nixon White House operative
- Mao Zedong - Chinese political leader
- Tom Metzger - American white supremacist
- François Mitterrand - former President of France
- Benito Mussolini - Italian fascist leader
- Ray Nagin - Current Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
- Mátyás Rákosi - Hungarian Communist leader
- Adlai E. Stevenson - American politician
- Glen H. Taylor - former member of the United States Senate from Idaho who constructed toupees
- Pierre Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada
- Jesse Ventura - former Governor of Minnesota
- Abdoul aye Wade - Senegalese President
- Kurt Waldheim - Austrian politician
- Bill White - Mayor of Houston, Texas
Other Personalities
- Anton LaVey - founder of the Church of Satan
- Elisha - Biblical prophet
- Suge Knight - feared entrepreneur
- Steve Wilkos - Head of security on the Jerry Springer Show
- Kimbo Slice - undefeated bearded street fighter.
Fictional Characters
- 47 from the Hitman video game series
- Ram Bhardwaj, Stick Pony rodeo clown
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the James Bond franchise
- Charlie Brown - Has a small tuft of hair above his forehead, but is otherwise bald
- Montgomery Burns from The Simpsons
- Mr. Clean - muscular advertising mascot for a line of household cleaning products
- Darth Vader from Star Wars - Noticeable in Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith
- Dhalsim - a video game character from the Street Fighter series of fighting games
- Dobby from Harry Potter
- Dr. Evil as well as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers franchise
- Hubert Farnsworth on Futurama
- Elmer Fudd - Looney Tunes character
- Herbert Garrison - fourth grade teacher on South Park
- Ikkaku Madarame from the anime/manga Bleach
- Gollum from Lord of the Rings
- Kamesennin/Master Roshi - from Dragon Ball/Z/GT
- Kingpin - Marvel villain from the Daredevil and Spider-man universe.
- Kojak from Kojak the series/film
- Koko the Clown from Betty Boop and other Max Fleischer cartoons
- John Locke from the tv program Lost
- Lex Luthor - usually illustrated as bald, even as a young man¨
- Dr. Manhattan
- Fred Mertz, from I Love Lucy
- Moondragon Marvel Comics superhero, once a member of The Avengers
- Morpheus from The Matrix
- The Nameless Metabaron
- Noi
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Popeye - Rarely shown without his sailor's cap, but usually portrayed with a bald head when his cap is removed. Some 1940s comic strips showed him with red spiky hair, however.
- Professor X
- Mr. Rumbold from Are You Being Served?
- Homer Simpson from The Simpsons
- Imhotep - The handsome High Priest of Osiris from The Mummy and The Mummy Returns
- Daddy Warbucks - Tycoon who adopted Little Orphan Annie
- Yoda from the Star Wars franchise
- Ziggy - Comic Strip character from American Greetings
- Kevin Kuhl
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