It’s a bad idea to fetishize intelligence, or to think that vegetarianism is going to make you a genius, but I found this list of famous vegetarian geniuses interesting:

1. Sir Isaac Newton
2. Leonardo Da Vinci
3. Srinivasa Ramanujan
4. Nikola Tesla
5. Thomas Edison
6. Albert Einstein
7. Edward Witten
8. Brian Greene
9. Alan Calverd

Elephant Journal: The World’s Greatest Geniuses are Vegetarians!

See also: Vegetarianism all the rage in MMA

And, because it’s bound to come up, here’s the Wikipedia entry on Hitler’s vegetarianism. Some question whether he was really a strict vegetarian, despite contemporaneous accounts.

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