List of notable eccentrics

Persons famous or notorious for their eccentric habits, appearance, or beliefs.

• David Belasco[?], writer, producer, wandered New York dressed as the Bishop of Broadway
• Breatharian
• Caligula, insane Roman Emperor
• Hector Camacho world champion boxer
• Alex Chiu, discoverer of immortality rings
• Aleister Crowley, occultist
• Ivor Cutler[?], Scottish poet, musician and thinker
• Salvador Dali, visionary artist
• John DuPont[?], murderous wrestling fan
• Elagabalus, dissolute Roman Emperor
• Hermann Göring, jovial buffoon and ice-blooded murderer
• Hetty Green[?], famed for her stinginess, her estate was more than $100,000,000.
• Naseem Hamed world champion boxer, famous for his ring entrances
• Heinrich Himmler, who tried to apply principles of chicken breeding to the human race
• Farouk, the last King of Egypt[?] and an accomplished pickpocket
• Howard Hughes, recluse, germaphobe
• Jean-Bedel Bokassa, African dictator who crowned himself Emperor in a lavish ceremony
• Michael Jackson very successful pop singer, likes to be like a child and be with children; had many facial operations to enhance beauty
• Alfred Lawson ballplayer, economic theorist, founder of Lawsonomy
• Bernarr McFadden[?], fanatical fitness[?] proponent
• Patrick Moore, astronomer
• Norton I, self proclaimed "Emperor of America"
• Ol' Dirty Bastard, rapper famous for a series of bizarre public actions and legal trouble
• Archimedes Plutonium "The King of Science"
• Dr William Price, who refused to treat smokers and carried out an impromptu cremation of his baby son
• Prince, American singer, changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol
• William Askew Sothern[?], famous prankster[?]
• Viv Stanshall, notable English eccentric
• Cyrus Teed, proponent of a Hollow Earth theory[?]
• Nikola Tesla, obsessive-compulsive who feared pearl earrings
• Stanley Unwin, comedian and wordsmith