Famous Historical Pipe Smokers

[slavman68]

Title edited for caps. Your location?

I'm a history buff and was researching famous historical pipe smokers. I'll start with an obscure controversial one.

General Draža Mihailjovic. Commander of the Serbian Chetniks during WWII.

 

[VDL_Piper]

This is going to be a long thread, so many.
Tom Crean, polar explorer, sailor, survivor

 

[kcghost]

Literally a whole bunch of people qualify. Seems like Admiral Chester Nimitz was a pipe smoker if I recall correctly.

 

[OzPiper]

I'm a history buff and was researching famous historical pipe smokers. Ill start with a obscure controversial one.

General Draža Mihailjovic. Commander of the Serbian Chetniks during WWII.View attachment 326164

Interesting choice

I would think that “famous” and “obscure” were diametrical opposites

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Jefferson Davis

I can't find a picture of him smoking, but here is one of his pipes.

 

[Uguccione]

Lisa del Giocondo, better known as Mona Lisa (among other things, she also had a drinking habit).

 

[slavman68]

Interesting choice

I would think that “famous” and “obscure” were diametrical opposites

Ya its a bit of an oxymoron. I just never seen him mentioned in these types of discussions. Hes more regionally famous I would say.

 

[Flatfish]

This is going to be a long thread, so many.
Tom Crean, polar explorer, sailor, survivor
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A very tough man. Read about him recently.

 

[condorlover1]

I own a couple of historical ones I have posted on here over the years. I think Jim Inks has a couple of famous dead persons pipes.

 

[BingBong]

A couple I've discovered recently, Alan Watts, "philosophical entertainer" and one-time UK Pipeman of the Year, Warren Mitchell (who actually declined the award, but accepted it on behalf of his alter-ego Alf Garnett, a solid billiard and St Bruno man).

 

[johnnyflake]

A few that I can recall are of course Albert Einstein, Douglas Mac Arthur, Mark Twain
Gerald Ford, Bing Crosby & Van Gogh!

There must many hundreds of them!

 

[jbfrady]

I've been reading through Caro's 5 part series on LBJ and came across this fella. Former TX governor Coke Stevenson was well-known for his pipe smoking. He spoke little, giving his thoughts only after listening intently to all discussions while he smoked his pipe. It was considered the trademark of his character.

 

[Hillcrest]

Millicent Fenwick Smoking in Congressional hearing -

 

[greysmoke]

Famous and a veteran pipe smoker: Chesty Puller - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesty_Puller

He’s depicted in the streaming series “The Pacific” with pipe.

In his biography I recall reading a note he wrote to his family from Korea, advising them that, should they get him a pipe for Christmas, it should be no larger than the picture he’d drawn in the letter.

Subtle.