Famous mustachioed personalities (24 photos)

As you know, facial hair gives a man a brutal appearance and beautifies his appearance. Perhaps that is why many legendary figures grew mustaches, which later became their calling card. Let's look at the top famous mustaches.

Hulk Hogan

Wrestler Hulk Hogan is one of the most famous fans of the Fu Manchu mustache. In the photo, he proudly shows them off along with his impressive biceps during the presentation of his book, My Life Outside the Ring, at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2009.

Albert Einstein

Besides the fact that Einstein was a mathematical genius and the father of modern physics, he also had a beautiful mustache. Along with his thick, wild hair, the mustache completed the image of the brilliant but absent-minded professor.

Freddie Mercury

“We'll shake you,” sang the last Queen singer, who always wore a mustache. Born on the island of Zanzibar, this powerful vocalist died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 45.

Charlie Chaplin

The mustache adorned one of the most famous faces of the 20th century - the face of the king of silent films, Charlie Chaplin. A neat mustache complemented the image of the “little tramp.” In his autobiography, Chaplin wrote that he added a mustache to his appearance "to look older without changing his expression."

Jason Lee

The mustache was a key part of the character in My Name Is Earl, played by former professional skateboarder Jason Lee. But for his next role in the film Heat in Memphis, Jason had to shave his mustache.

Sacha Baron Cohen

British actor Sacha Baron Cohen played the role of Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiev - an ignoramus, misogynist and anti-Semite with obsessive thoughts about Pamela Anderson in the mockumentary film Borat. His thick mustache was considered fashionable among the residents of a fictional Kazakh village.

Brad Pitt as Aldo Ryan

The star had to grow a dapper mustache in the style of Errol Flynn. They perfectly complemented the image of the lieutenant who led the Jewish resistance in Quentin Tarantino's World War II drama Inglourious Basterds.

Clark Gable

Recognized by the American Film Institute as the greatest actor of all time, Clark Gable could argue more than anyone that a mustache was necessary to create a popular image of a masculine man. Gable wore a mustache in most of his films, including Gone with the Wind, but Mutiny on the Bounty was an exception. Perhaps these are the rules among military sailors.

Joseph Stalin

In official portraits, the formidable Soviet dictator was always depicted as massive and domineering. In fact, the mustache made it possible to hide his height of 1.5 m, his pockmarked face and the absence of most of his teeth.

Salvador Dali

Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali's upturned mustache was an integral part of his extraordinary personality. “When I wake up every morning, I experience incredible pleasure from the fact that Salvador Dali exists,” the artist himself once said.

Mikhail Boyarsky

A hat and a mustache are two things that make the famous actor stand out from the crowd. But even with such a great mustache, incidents happen. “Before the start of filming the film “D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers,” I spent a long time and painfully growing my mustache, but on the very first day, curling it, the make-up artist burned the musketeer’s pride. I had to glue artificial ones until my own ones grew back,” says Mikhail Sergeevich.

Nikita Mikhalkov

One gets the impression that the director and actor wore a mustache all his life, because even his own daughter cannot imagine him without it. “I would be upset if he shaved it off. I used to not like the thing that prickles when dad kisses me. And now I like my dad so much that I can’t imagine him without a mustache,” said Nadya Mikhalkova.

Saddam Hussein

The “trademark” mustache of the former leader of the Iraqi Republic and deposed tyrant gave him away so much that, while hiding from the Americans, he even shaved it off, leaving only a beard.

Che Guevara

The insurgency in Cuba led to a surge in fashion for mustaches and beards in the army. But the most “iconic” mustache and beard among Cuban barbudos (Spanish for “bearded men”) belong to Che Guevara, canonized around the world in millions of postcards, T-shirts and posters reprinted annually since the day of his death.

Alexander Lukashenko

The mustache of the President of Belarus is known throughout the world. And they even managed to take part in the scandal that recently unfolded in Lithuania. Oppositionists protested against Lukashenko’s visit to Lithuania and unfurled a banner with the inscription “Usatiy is prohibited from entering.”

Semyon Budyonny

Until his death, Budyonny's mustache was an integral part of his image. He treated them very jealously. During the Civil War, Semyon’s brother also served in the First Cavalry Army, and grew the same mustache. Budyonny did not like this very much. Once, having invited him to visit him, he contrived to cut off the ends of his mustache, saying: “Budyenny should be alone.”

Leonid Yakubovich

Leonid Yakubovich has become a symbol of modern television, a brand of Channel One, largely thanks to his mustache. And fans’ love for them sometimes knows no bounds. On one of the programs, a participant from Novosibirsk, an insurance agent by profession, insured the presenter’s mustache for a large sum, citing the fact that since Yakubovich smokes a pipe, this poses an increased risk for the fate of the mustache.

Valery Gazzaev

The Russian coach's mustache has become a symbol and talisman for many football fans. That is why, having once promised to shave his mustache if his club reached the UEFA Cup final, Gazzaev was inundated with letters from fans, begging him not to shave his legendary good-luck mustache when CSKA defeated their opponents in the semi-final match.

Adolf Gitler

Until now, most historians believed that Adolf Hitler wore a mustache with a brush, simply following fashion. However, in the notes of the writer Alexander Frei, who served with the future Fuhrer, a description was found of how, in fact, Hitler acquired his characteristic “mustache.” It turned out, like all other soldiers of the German army, Hitler was ordered to trim his mustache so that it would not interfere with putting on gas masks. But until that moment, the future Fuhrer was the owner of a magnificent Prussian mustache.

Alexander Druz

Master of the game “What? Where? When?" invariably appears on television with a luxurious mustache. Perhaps it's just a habit, or maybe it's even a talisman. One thing is for sure, the huge number of jokes about his mustache is proof of their popularity.

Vasily Chapaev

Vasily Ivanovich was famous for his lush sergeant-major mustache. It was with such a dashingly curled mustache that he was depicted in portraits and in films. In the city of Cheboksary, his mustache is kept in a museum, though not real, but fake - that of the actor Babochkin, who played the main role in the famous film about the division commander.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The “dense” mustache of the German philosopher attracted people so much that they began to imitate him and grow the same ones. For example, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky acquired the same lush facial hair.

Peter I the Great

Peter I introduced the Western fashion of shaving in Russia, but in order not to quarrel with the church and the army, he left the wearing of beards and mustaches for clergy, and mustaches for officers. Peter the Great administered the tax and even issued a passport for beard and mustache in the form of a copper medallion with the image of these male virtues. It is characteristic that he himself wore a mustache, which was some deviation from Western European norms of that time.

Frank Zappa

The rock musician was so recognizable thanks to his signature mustache that Zappa's family, after his death in 1993, bought the rights to this photo.