I'm looking for a list of famous MEN who never married. These men
can be living or dead, but it's crucial that they've been contributors
to society in a positive manner.

Please make this list MUCH longer than the one being compiled on
famous women. See 320630.

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 26 Mar 2004 07:52 PST

Hey, Bryan

What about Leonardo?

Who? Never heard of him.

PB

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Mar 2004 08:05 PST

I was just curious about your requirements for a "MUCH longer" $2 list
than the one that was compiled for you for $50. See 320630. Am I
missing something?

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 26 Mar 2004 08:17 PST

Hi, Tutuzdad

Sorry but, unusually, you are missing something.

As you should know, it's very, very hard to find any famous women in
the first place and it's almost unknown to find any famous woman who
has not been helped to achieve her destiny by a husband.

Ergo, a woman's list is at least 100 times more difficult to compile.

QED

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 26 Mar 2004 10:21 PST

Of course ... It's a conspiracy!

Most of the Researchers and Commentators belong to the fair sex and,
obviously, they are not going to help some poor male in his quest for
the truth.

So, Pinkfreud, Kriswrite, Answerfinder, Journalist, Leli, Cynthia,
Politicalguru, Pafalafa, Googlenut, Stressedmum, Asteryx ... and the
rest are being unusually quiet.

Whilst Easterangel, Scriptor, thx1138, Sublime1, Feilong, Aht, Fp-Ga,
Bowler, Justaskscott ... are obviously under instructions from ...
(Well) ... from Someone.

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 26 Mar 2004 10:22 PST

Sorry, Apteryx ...

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Mar 2004 10:42 PST

"a woman's list is at least 100 times more difficult to compile."

I beg to differ. I managed to put together 24 more unmarried women
similar to those in your $50 list that had not previously been
mentioned in this short span of time just to see prove easily it can
be done.

tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 26 Mar 2004 11:35 PST

Hi, Tutuzdad

Many thanks for your RQC but, in all your endeavours, have you managed
to come up with anyone to compare with Jesus?

(Many thanks, Feilong, but for you I would have abdicated.)

Bryan

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Mar 2004 11:54 PST

Mother Teresa and Mary Magdalene (presumably) never married   :)

How close is that?

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 26 Mar 2004 12:10 PST

Now, really, Tutuzdad

Mother Theresa was only a saint and I am certainly not going to be
drawn into any controversy about Mary M.

I think it's time for you to admit that, for sheer quality, this list has it all.

PB

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Mar 2004 12:18 PST

Perhaps now it scratches the surface. 24 more names have since been
added to it and I suspect more will follow.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=320630

Just FYI - Some people like catsup with their crow.  :)

Dad

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 26 Mar 2004 12:55 PST

Hi, Pops

Wow!

Get a load of Luciaphile's list ...

'Nuff said!

Your Favourite Son

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 27 Mar 2004 00:49 PST

Of course, mere QUANTITY should not be the criterion.

Sorry about that.

So, Feilong, please post an answer based on QUALITY and if you can
focus in on just one outstanding individual so much the better.

Please don't be distracted by tales that maybe your nominee got
secretly married in Las Vegas or wherever. Until someone can produce a
Marriage Certificate, or photos of the Wedding Reception, or even the
name of his bride, most folk will be properly sceptical.

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Clarification of Question by probonopublico-ga on 01 Apr 2004 22:18 PST

Nope ... Not a peep from Feilong!

So, Bring Down the Curtains!

Google search results:
"famous women" + "never married" = 299
"famous men" + "never married" = 132
"famous bachelors" = 109
"famous bachelor" = 399

Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Magazine, pops to the top of the last list.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Leonardo? Never heard of the famous turtle?

"and the rest" . . . hmph! ;)

Sincerely,
Boquinha

Hugh Hefner may pop to the top of the list as a "famous bachelor" but
he's been married twice. His lifestyle certainly has not been impacted
by his marital status.

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/h/hu/hugh_hefner.html
Hugh Hefner

Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9th, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA)
was the founder of Playboy magazine and became its leading archetype
-- the sexually open and financially well-off swinger, the "man's
man." He reportedly has an IQ of 150, and he has certainly been very
adept at human management skills. He is also a charismatic and highly
persuasive individual.
Hefner has been married twice. His 1959 breakup of his first marriage
to Millie Williams, whom he married in 1949, is believed linked to his
commencing his Playboy empire. His daughter Christie, born in 1954, is
from this marriage. Christie joined her father's editorial staff, and
now holds the title of Chairman of Playboy.

He later married Playmate Kimberley Conrad in 1988. Conrad later
became Playmate of the Year in 1989. This marriage broke up in 1998.
Two sons were issue of this marriage -- Marston, born 1990 and Cooper,
born 1991. During this period, Hefner lived monogamously.

It's worth opening a new question to find out how there's conclusive
evidence of Hugh Hefner doing the following:
"During this period, Hefner lived monogamously."

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Some related links I found:

Most famous male celibate
http://www.world-sex-records.com/sex-100.htm

I don't know about you Bryan but for me, Jesus is the most famous celibate.

who are the celebrity celibates?
http://www.glandscape.com/celibate.html#p8

:-) and thousands more.... :-)

famous celibate
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=famous+celibate&btnG=Google+Search

Sorry, Boquinha ...

There are very many others who truly deserved mentioning but, having
boobed before, I now try extra hard ...

PB

Having unintentionally given offence to Boquinha, here are a few more
very respected 'names' ....

kemlo
vinsvixen2
sublime1
j_philipp
digsalot
mikomoro
googel
politicalguru
stressedmum
ravuri
justaskscott
apteryx
bowler
pafalafa
leep
pinkfreud
sergeantshultz
googlenut
answerfinder
philthefluter
techtor
missy
angely
hailstorm
smutzer
snapanswer
liner
omnivorous
shivreddy
tisme
flashv
hammer
farzin
mvguy
journalist
knowledge_seeker
megagaga
carpediem
aceresearcher
thx1138
knowitall22
voila
scriptor
cobrien
jem
intotravel
tutuzdad
tehuti
johnfrommelbourne
cmaury
jeremymiles
crocokoala
filian
trueparent
darrenw
easterangel
claudietta
serenata
bobbie7
nelson
victoriac
bobthedispatcher
academy589
seizer
steph53
anlon
robertskelton
angy
andrewxmp
acorn
websearcher
turkeyvanfan
andywall
uzzz
cerebro
cardinal22
byrd
uniace
domfreedom
bio
gitana
chromedome
sycophant
nellie_bly
phi
morris
ragingacademic
ryan222
mathtalk
luciaphile
lonelyone
willie
skinnamarink
toecutter
jbf777
duncan2
igabe
howtodoeverything
helpandrersearch
tan
guillermo
tlspiegel
omniscientbeing
gan
flajason
ericynot
efn
jumpingjoe

Please, have I missed anyone else?

Oops, I've just noticed that one of my daughters is on the list.

(Hope that she doesn't see my question ... But I will soon know if she does.)

Henry James
E.F. Benson (okay, not terribly famous, but I like him)

Regards,
luciaphile-ga

James Buchanan:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jb15.html

Beethoven, Charles Lamb, Isaac Newton, Alexander Pope, Cecil Rhodes,
Arthur Schopenhauer, Adam Smith, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire

http://hinduwebsite.com/general/theunmarried.htm

George Cukor, James Whale, Robert Herrick, Jesus

I'm sure I'll think of more.

Regards,
luciaphile-ga

My smart-alec side wants to answer:

My father


(even though it isn't true).

Kriswrite

More than one researcher has mentioned Jesus, but of course Dan
Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code," has been on the NY Times bestseller
list for 52 weeks now.

And he's not alone in positing that Jesus was married:
"Was Jesus Married?"
http://www.grailchurch.org/marriedjesus.htm

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

Although not all of them refrained from intimate relationships (see:
Borgia*), all of the Popes were not married, and so were also many
priests and monks.

But: 

- Was it not an occupational requirement? Had they been famous had
they not been Popes? Who remembers scores of Bishops, who could have
all been, theoretically, the next Pope?

- How could they sustain the system, without all of those hard-working
women (and married men) serving the Church and contributing their
hard-earned money to it?

* And don't forget Popess Joan!

Wow, Politicalguru ...

You've done it again ... YES ... All those Popes & Roman Catholic clergymen ...

The List is never ending!

Well done!

Bryan

I must say, Bryan, I'm honoured to make your list, given that I
haven't contributed to the site since about last May! Just passing
through, and glad to see you're still around.

BTW - I'm not married!

Richard A. Clarke, 53, never married.

hlabadie-ga

jumpingjoe-ga...

The list is from Bryan's " More than 1000 comments please " question
from last year....LOL
He is very sneeky.....heheheh

Hi, Jumpingjoe & Steph53

Many thanks for your Comments ...

Joe you've jumped onto the list yourself. Well done!

Nice to see you both again ...

I've got some more (I think) but haven't checked:

WH Auden; Christopher Isherwood; Guy Burgess; William Wordsworth; Lord
Alfred Douglas.

All the Best

Bryan

AND ...

Let's not forget Liberace and Rock Hudson.

More on Rock Hudson.

http://www.filmbug.com/db/279183

Hudson married studio employee Phyllis Gates in 1955, and the news was
made known by all the major gossip magazines. The couple divorced in
1958. The truth of the matter is, though, that the studio was using
this sham marriage in order to cover Hudson's homosexuality, which
would have made him box office poison at the time if it were made
known. Hudson continued to have a hidden gay life for the rest of his
life, until his homosexuality became known.

Hi, czh, Many thanks for correcting my misconception about Rock Hudson.

I now wonder how 'sham marriages' should be categorised?

And there's Cecil Beaton.

They're coming thick and fast now.

Thanks to all!

Hugh Grant isn't/wasn't married was he? He married Julia Roberts and
didn't marry Andie McDowell or Toni Collette and he offered to marry
oh crikey I can't remember her name -- y'now the one who had the baby
by the cad. Yeah, Hugh baby king of the available (unused) hubbies.

Doh! I hit post instead of cancel and my ramblings went to air. Oh
well, keepa dancin' Maria! as Paul Hogan (Croc. Dundee) used to say in
the days when he was funny ...

It was  Liz Hurley who dear foppy Hugh offered to marry when she got
knocked up but got knocked back (he and she). And I meant to clarify
that when I said that he married Julia Roberts, I meant in the movie,
Notting Hill, not 'really' married. But you knew that.

And while I'm rambling, the other Hugh, as in Hefner, I look at him
with his bevy of beautiful women and shake my head and think "how?" as
in "how could they"?!He looks like such an actuary. Not even an
accountant-type, just a real nit picking, clerical type -- not a sex
god at all! (A whole new movie coming up, "Love Actuary")

See ya
Stressy mummy

Hi, Stressed Mum

It's always good to hear from you but ...

Believe it or not, I am an accountant as lots of happy clients can
testify. So, please tread very carefully when referring to us bean
counters. We are a sensitive lot.

But, I love the sound of that upcoming movie 'Love Actuary' ...

With its inevitable sequel 'Love Mortuary'.

Warmest regards

Bryan

Hi there Probo,  mea culpa, mea culpa. I promise in future I shall
open my mouth only to remove my foot which inevitably finds its way in
there. British bean counters must be far more funky than their Aussie
counterparts ('counter' parts ... get it?! ho, ho) and had I suspected
for even a nanosecond that your good self was one, I should never have
presumed to be so judgemental and narrow minded. Forgive me :(

But hang on a tick, I thought you were Pierce Brosnan. Speaking of
which, James Bond never married did he? Does he count? (Oops,
unintentional pun. Can't help myself!)

Hi, Stressedmum

Even though I am an accountant, my excuse is that I'm not a very good accountant.

Regarding James Bond, I seem to recall that he did get married in one
of the early movies when Sean Connery was doing his stuff.

His bride was either Japanese or Chinese but she soon got bumped off.

All the Very Best (and keep an eye open for the new gang of English
fast bowlers ... they're having all sorts of fun on their tour of the
West Indies).

Bryan

James Bond married Tracy (played by Diana Rigg) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Hi, Luciaphile

Many thanks for the info about 007.

So, it wasn't even Sean Connery!

Bryan

George Gershwin!

Why has he been forgotten?

(He was the composer who wrote Bossy & Pest, the much loved American folk opera.)

One of the world?s most famous bachelors, the Apostle Paul, said there
is a plan. ?Wives,? he wrote, ?submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Husbands,love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her to make her holy.?

http://davidsisler.com/01-19-2004.htm



The Bachelor Home Companion
A practical guide to keeping house like a pig
Pocket Books/Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986

"It has a list of famous bachelors, one that only half-jokingly
includes "almost all the Popes."

http://132.235.238.184/archives/040496/wit.htm

Hi, Bowler & Very Many Thanks.

Unfortunately, your second link didn't work ...

Not even as a copy & paste job!

Bryan

Sorry about that.  Try this:

http://132.235.238.184/archives/040496/wit.html

Thanks for mentioning me above, Bryan.

If I know Feilong, he's probably busy fiddling with something else
right now. But he'll be back soon.

Hi, Bowler

Many thanks for the link that did work. It makes a L of a difference.

Hi, Techtor

Many thanks for your assurance but ... How long's Feilong goin' to be
gone? (This should be sung to the tune written by Bert Kalmar & Harry
Ruby.)

LOL or is it LOLL.

Hello Bryan,
Hard to tell. I know he's got some other projects here and there. Last
I heard from him, he had a lot, so he may not check in for quite a
while. But don't worry, I don't think he'll let this question expire
on you. :)