Most Recognized Pipe Smoker?

[dispatch]

Who would you say is the most recognized pipe smoker of all time? ::

 

[brian64]

Gotta be Sherlock. Unless it's limited to real people...then it's really hard to say anymore, but I'd probably choose Tolkien.

 

[teamhavoc28]

I'd go with Douglas MacArthur. Almost always photographed with a cob.

 

[puffy]

I think it could be different people depending on who was famous at a particular point in time.Three that come to mind.Mark Twain,Bing Crosby,and Hugh Hefner.There are many more.Some I can't remember,some I can remember but I can't spell their names.Those of us who lived in Michigan some time back remember Jerry Ford

 

[collin]

In order:
Santa Claus

Frosty the Snowman

General MacArthur

Bing Crosby

Hugh Hefner

Mark Twain

 

[cortezattic]

Ditto Tommy, and I'd add Einstein.
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But lots of notables have smoked a pipe in the past; we just don't realize how common it was.

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See close-up pics of the pipe.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Fictional definitely Holmes, real I'd probably say Mark Twain or General MacArthur.

 

[pstlpkr]

Professor Peabody:

 

[nabottle]

Holmes. Sherlock, NOT John.

 

[mlaug]

 

[nemrod]

Among the "young" generations I think Hans Landa in Inglorious Bastards is a familiar face as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcCacgMtCw

 

[jankomatic]

MacArthur and Holmes would be my guess.

 

[kf5eqv]

Didn't the pictures of Santa Claus always used to have him smoking a pipe?
Also, while they may not be widely known for being pipe smokers, John Adams and Robert E. Lee always come to my mind when I think of pipe smokers. I know there are several pipe smokers in our nations history, I'm not really sure why those two specifically stand out.

 

[yuri66]

You guys forgot Lawrence's favorite Lee Van Cleef, there is hardly a movie in which he is not smoking a pipe...

 

[punkpiper]

Going a little more left field, I'd have to say Subcomandante Marcos. well known in the right circles. or left, as the case may be.

 

[julesholling]

Fictional has probably got to be Sherlock Holmes, real life i'm not sure. There are quite a few famous people often pictured with pipes but the most famous that popped into my head would have to be Einstein.

 

[kaos968]

Albert Einstein?

 

[kf5eqv]

"Going a little more left field..."

I see what you did there. lol
Che was also a pipe smoker, and IIRC Stalin as well.

 

[schmitzbitz]

Well, with Einstein on the list, Robert Oppenheimer should probably get notable mention; he did have a pipe in just about every photograph taken of him. I would say Hef is probably the celeb most known for his pipe; it (in combination with his trademark slippers and smoking jacket) have become as much of a symbol for Playboy as the bunny.
Edit to add: King George - he's pretty famous!

 

[collin]

Poor old Oppenheimer was a chain-smoker deluxe! At least according to a great bio-film I watched the other night.