Singers, actors, and athletes are going vegan in growing numbers. For some, the decision is rooted in concern for animals or the environment; for others, it’s about improving their health. But whatever their individual motivations, the impact is undeniable.
Below, we’ve highlighted some of the stars who proudly follow a vegan lifestyle.
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1 Billie Eilish
Raised vegetarian, Billie Eilish has been vegan since the age of 12. Throughout her career in the public eye, she has used her platform to raise awareness of the lifestyle and has spoken out about the climate crisis and animal rights on multiple occasions. Eilish has turned entire arenas vegan for her concerts, advocated for a federal vegan school lunch program, and even convinced Oscar de la Renta to ditch fur for good.
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2Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton, now in a relationship with vegan-curious Kim Kardashian, has been vocal about the benefits of veganism since he moved away from animal products after watching the documentary What the Health in 2017. The Formula One champion says he has more energy since ditching animal products and also feels more productive.
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3 Christie Brinkley
Model Christie Brinkley has long followed a vegetarian diet, but in 2026, she revealed that she had taken the next step and gone vegan. In an Instagram post, she explained that she had been following a vegan diet for two years and had found the transition surprisingly easy. “People seem to think [that it’s] hard to do, but it’s really not,” she said, adding: “The world has caught up with us.”
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4Ariana Grande
Singer and actor Ariana Grande is known not only for her impressive vocals but also for her compassionate lifestyle. She follows a vegan diet, has adopted several companion animals (nine dogs and one pig), and even helped open an animal sanctuary in Los Angeles called Orange Twins Rescue in 2020. Plus, both her makeup and fragrance lines are vegan and cruelty-free.
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5 Cynthia Erivo
Just like Wicked co-star Grande, Cynthia Erivo also follows a plant-based diet. “When I was vegan, my body was really happy,” she said on the Dish podcast. “When I wasn’t, it was very sluggish and couldn’t really function.”
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6Alan Cumming
In 2012, actor Alan Cumming decided to ditch animal products for good. And since then, he has used his platform to progress the movement. In 2021, he joined PETA in urging COP26 to only serve vegan food. In a letter to Alok Sharma, the president of COP26, he wrote: “Given that animal agriculture contributes to many of the serious environmental problems the planet is facing, I hope you’ll agree that serving meat while trying to fight climate change is like serving beer at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.”
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7 Ricky Gervais
British comedian Ricky Gervais used to be a longtime vegetarian, but after feeling hypocritical for eating dairy while supporting animal charities, he decided to make the switch to veganism. Gervais explained on The Overlap podcast in 2024 that the change was gradual. “I just sort of generally phased it out over my life, I suppose,” he said. In 2025, he donated more than $3.2 million in profits from his Mortality tour to more than 20 animal charities.
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8Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson has long been a passionate advocate for animal rights and the various benefits of veganism. She has worked with PETA on multiple campaigns, released a vegan cookbook, collaborated with designers to launch luxury leather-free handbags, and even launched her own vegan, cruelty-free skincare line, Sonsie.
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9Nikki Glaser
Comedian Nikki Glaser has long been open about her vegan lifestyle. It was her parakeet, named Kiwi, who helped her give up animal products for good. “I convinced myself that egg-laying chickens and dairy cows had great lives,” she said. “Deep down, I knew that wasn’t the case … I Googled what I needed to, and that was that.” In 2025, she narrated a short film produced by the Open Wing Alliance that sheds light on egg-farming practices.
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10Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson has been vegan for decades. The actor first gave up dairy in his early 20s after realizing he might be lactose intolerant, and soon gave up the rest of the animal products in his diet. Now, he is a passionate plant-based advocate. He has worked on animal-rights campaigns, backed vegan brands financially, and lent his voice to the 2020 documentary Kiss the Ground.
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11Sadie Sink
Actor Sadie Sink, best known for her role on Stranger Things, worked with Harrelson on a film in 2014. He influenced her to give up animal products after she realized how easy it could be. Now, she’s a committed advocate for veganism and has even worked with vegetarian designer Stella McCartney to promote ethical fashion.
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12Joaquin Phoenix
Academy Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix has been vegan for most of his life. Throughout his career, he has lent his voice to vegan documentaries and animal-rights protests, and even used high-profile award ceremonies to raise awareness of the cause. “We feel entitled to artificially inseminate a cow and steal her baby, even though her cries of anguish are unmistakable. Then we take her milk that’s intended for her calf, and we put it in our coffee and our cereal,” he said during his acceptance speech for Best Actor at the 2020 Oscar ceremony. In 2025, he helped launch Warren Underground, an art collective built to question mainstream systems, including factory farming.
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13Rooney Mara
Actor Rooney Mara, who is married to Phoenix, is passionate about animal rights. Like her husband, she has lent her voice to the cause by narrating the animal-rights documentary With My Own Eyes in 2019, and she is also a founding member of Warren Underground. Mara even has her own vegan fashion brand called Hiraeth Collective.
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14Kate Mara
Veganism runs in the Mara family, because like her sister, Kate Mara is also totally plant-based. “My love of animals and animal activism has grown over the years, so it was a no-brainer for me to become a vegan. It took me a little while to fully give up cheese; otherwise, it was easy,” the actor told Animal Equality in 2018. Mara, another founding member of Warren Collective, produced a vegan documentary called The Smell of Money and is a proud supporter and representative of Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue and Protection.
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15 Natalie Portman
Actor Natalie Portman first gave up meat when she was just nine years old, before going vegan in 2011. She credits the book Eating Animals with helping her ditch animal products completely, which is why she narrated the novel’s follow-up documentary in 2017. In the past, Portman has linked her passion for animal rights and women’s rights together. “We’re exploiting female bodies and abusing the magic of female animals to create eggs and milk,” she said in a 2019 speech.
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16 Travis Barker
Travis Barker hasn’t eaten meat since his teens, aside from a brief spell in the hospital while he was recovering from a plane crash. He went vegan shortly after the incident and has proudly backed animal-rights causes and plant-based businesses since, including the Los Angeles plant-based restaurant Crossroads Kitchen and the vegan fast-food chain Mr. Charlie’s. In 2022, he also launched his own line of vegan CBD skincare, called Barker Wellness.
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17Elaine Hendrix
Actor Elaine Hendrix, known for movies like The Parent Trap and Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion—and for competing in Dancing With the Stars—hasn’t eaten meat since 1995 and has been vegan since 2006. In 2022, she was awarded the Celebrity Activist Award by the international animal-rights organization Last Chance for Animals for her advocacy on behalf of animals.
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18Nathalie Emmanuel
Actress Nathalie Emmanuel, best known for her role in Game of Thrones, has been vegan since 2012. She told Women’s Health that she tried going plant-based for a week at first, but after noticing so many improvements, like better sleep and higher energy, she decided to stick with it.
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19Will.i.am
After learning he had high blood pressure and cholesterol in 2017, rapper Will.i.am decided to make a big lifestyle change and went vegan. Since then, he has been a huge advocate for plant-based living and says his sleep has improved, his energy is higher, and he has lost weight. “It changed my life, and I would encourage everybody to have a plant-based regimen,” he once told The Mirror.
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20Madelaine Petsch
Riverdale star Madelaine Petsch has never eaten meat, but at 14 she decided to make the leap from vegetarian to vegan, and now she’s an advocate for making the lifestyle seem fun, easy, and approachable. “People make it seem like it’s so difficult. I want to teach people how positive and easy it is to be vegan—I don’t want to make it seem like it’s this big feat,” she told Elle in 2020.
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21Tabitha Brown
In 2017, Tabitha Brown became an overnight social media sensation after uploading a video of herself raving about a vegan BLT she found at Whole Foods. Now, she’s an Emmy-winning host, has a partnership with Target, and previously had her own line of seasonings in partnership with McCormick.
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22 Paul Wesley
Actor Paul Wesley, best known for his role in The Vampire Diaries, has become an animal-rights activist and often uses his platform to advocate for animals and the planet. “I’ve signed the Plant Based Treaty because animal farming has obliterated our beautiful forests and animals beyond recognition. We need to shift to vegan diets to protect our rivers, oceans, air, and soils,” he said in 2022.
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23Leona Lewis
Singer Leona Lewis is a huge animal lover, and that’s the main reason she decided to drop all animal products from her diet in 2012. Before that, she was a long-term vegetarian. She is one of five trustees of the UK animal sanctuary Hopefield, and in 2018, both she and the sanctuary teamed up with the Humane Society International (HSI) to promote plant-based living. She also owns a vegan café called Coffee and Plants in Pasadena, CA.
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24Mya
Singer Mya has made veganism a key part of her brand. Her website once even offered a Free Vegan Starter Guide, and she has her own line of vegan wine called Planet 9. In 2020, she ran a series of plant-based challenges in which she helped people go vegan, raw vegan, or alkaline vegan, or take up juicing.
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25Daniella Monet
In addition to being an actor, Nickelodeon child star Daniella Monet is an entrepreneur, influencer, mom, and proud vegan. “I live a transparent plant-based lifestyle and share it with my social following, friends, and family,” she told VegNews. Monet has backed several plant-based businesses, including Outstanding Foods and Sugar Taco, and is the founder of Daniella’s Digest, a blog about non-toxic, sustainable living.
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26Kevin Smith
After actor and filmmaker Kevin Smith suffered a heart attack, he decided to follow his daughter Harley Quinn Smith’s advice and go vegan. He has stuck with the lifestyle and has even hosted a vegan podcast with Harley, called Vegan Abattoir. In 2018, he worked with Farm Sanctuary to help change people’s attitudes around eating turkeys on Thanksgiving.
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27 Alicia Silverstone
Best known for her iconic role in the 1995 hit Clueless, Alicia Silverstone is a long-term vegan and animal advocate. She has even written two books on the subject: The Kind Diet and The Kind Mama. She has longstanding relationships with many animal-rights organizations, and has teamed up with Farm Sanctuary to raise awareness of factory farm cruelty.
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28Colin Kaepernick
In 2016, the same year that he famously took a knee in protest ahead of a match, football player and activist Colin Kaepernick switched to a vegan diet. He did so for health reasons, along with his girlfriend, Nessa Diab. Ben & Jerry’s honored the athlete’s social justice work with a new vegan flavor called Change the Whirled and a 90-foot mural in Florida.
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29Ruby Rose
Actor Ruby Rose went vegan in 2014 after learning about the cruelty behind the Chinese delicacy shark fin soup. “I used to get something called ‘shark fin soup,’ and I didn’t know. I said to my mom, ‘Wait, is this made out of an actual shark’s fin?’ and she was like, ‘Oh no, darling, of course not.’ I later found out that it was, and ended up being so sad that I cried for three weeks,” she said on an episode of Discovery’s Shark After Dark.
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30Richa Moorjani
Richa Moorjani, who starred in Netflix’s coming-of-age comedy Never Have I Ever, has been vegan since she watched Cowspiracy in 2019. “From the day I turned vegan, I felt my eyes were opened to not just the horrors of the animal-industrial complex—which was beyond anything I even imagined—but also to the impact on the environment,” she told VegNews. “It fueled my activism and in a way gave me a sense of purpose I had long been searching for.”
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31Moby
Moby has been vegan since the 1980s. According to the musician, his family’s pets led to an epiphany about the animals on his plate. Now, he regularly supports animal rights through sizable donations. All of the profits from his 2020 memoir and 2018 album, for example, went to animal-rights organizations, and in 2026, he gave away his Coachella fee to four vegan and climate-crisis organizations: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Mercy For Animals, The Humane League, and Direct Action Everywhere. Moby once owned a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles called Little Pine, and has a tattoo on his neck that reads “Vegan for life.”
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32Jessica Chastain
Actor Jessica Chastain accidentally went vegan after trying out a friend’s plant-based food delivery program. She immediately noticed that her energy level had improved, and she generally just felt better. “Being vegan was not anything I ever wanted to be. I just really was listening to what my body was telling me,” she told W in 2017.
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33 Elliot Page
Actor Elliot Page has been vegan for many years. He’s not hugely vocal about it, but in 2011, he posted online: “Why are vegans made fun of while the inhumane factory farming process regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit?”
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34Sara Pascoe
Comedian Sara Pascoe stopped eating meat after she visited a farm at the age of 7. Now, she’s vegan, and she says it inspires her comedy. “All my former boyfriends have become vegan, and it’s really annoying. I plan to write a stand-up about it because they’re never vegan when I’m with them. I feel they think about it more after breaking up,” she told The Guardian.
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35 James Cromwell
Actor James Cromwell was inspired to go vegan after filming 1995’s Babe, a movie that follows the life of an orphaned pig. Since then, he has become a passionate animal-rights activist and has consistently used his platform to advocate for vegan causes. He once even superglued himself to a Starbucks counter in protest against the coffee giant’s vegan milk charge.
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36Heather Rae El Moussa
Former Selling Sunset cast member Heather Rae El Moussa is a strong advocate for the positive impact that going plant-based can have on your health, but she’s also a big animal lover. So going vegan was an easy decision for her. She told VegNews that, alongside her husband Tarek El Moussa, she tries to teach her family about how important nutrition is. “We explain that food can heal us, and we don’t just eat food for taste—we eat food to live,” she said. “We tell them how important it is to eat healthy, as we only have one body.” In 2025, she starred in a PETA campaign with her toddler son Tristan Jay, encouraging people to choose plant-based cheese over dairy.
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37Mayim Bialik
Like Portman, actor Mayim Bialik was inspired by the book Eating Animals to go vegan. The host of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown podcast has her own plant-based cookbook, Mayim’s Vegan Table, and even opened a vegan restaurant called Bodhi Bowl in Los Angeles (which has since closed).
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38 Bryan Adams
Musician Bryan Adams decided to go vegan when he was 28 and hasn’t touched animal products since. “If you love animals, you shouldn’t eat them,” he told This Is Vegan. After becoming a founding member of the now-defunct dairy alternative startup Bettermoo(d), he said, “Fostering responsible eating habits, such as choosing plant-based dairy alternatives, is something that we can all do to help lessen animal cruelty and help our environment.”
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39Jermaine Dupri
Musician Jermaine Dupri has been vegan for nearly 20 years, and in 2021, he celebrated his commitment to the lifestyle by launching his own dairy-free ice cream brand. “JD’s Vegan ice creams taste as good as, or better than, the real thing,” he said in a statement at the time. “You don’t have to lose anything going vegan. JD’s Vegan ice cream proves you can gain nothing but quality foods with out-of-this-world flavor and taste.”
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40Tig Notaro
Stand-up comedian Tig Notaro transitioned to a vegan diet after undergoing a double mastectomy to remove breast cancer in 2012. “I am a firm believer in the healing powers of food. I noticed an immediate difference in my day-to-day pain levels after changing my diet,” she told VegOut. “Not everything is magically cured, but my life looks vastly different than before.”
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41Emily Deschanel
Bones star Emily Deschanel has been vegan since she was 17 and remains a committed animal-rights advocate. In 2021, she told Vegetarian Times that her “main concern” is the treatment of farm animals in the food industry. “People don’t even know what they are supporting by what they eat,” she said. “So I do what I can to get awareness out about that. I host events, give money and time, and write letters of support.”
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42Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire, aka Spider-Man, hasn’t eaten meat since the early 1990s. In 2009, he gave up dairy and eggs and officially adopted a vegan lifestyle. He reportedly made the switch out of love for animals and respect and concern for the environment.
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43Sara Gilbert
Roseanne actor Sara Gilbert went vegetarian as a teenager, before eventually deciding to go vegan more than a decade ago. She once said, “I’m totally self-centered. I would make everyone vegan [if I were president].”
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44 Stevie Wonder
Iconic musician Stevie Wonder has been vegan since 2013, but he stopped eating pork and beef in his mid-20s. He has spoken about the diet’s sustainability and health benefits in the past. In one red carpet interview, he said, “People have to make their choices in life, and for me, it feels good to not eat meat. I think you have to do what is going to be healthy for your body.”
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45 RZA
RZA is a hip-hop legend, but he’s also a proud animal-rights advocate. In fact, he’s been vegan for more than two decades. He once said on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, “No animals need to die for me to live, okay?”
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46Lucy Watson
English reality TV star, entrepreneur, and influencer Lucy Watson has long been a champion of animal-rights issues and the vegan lifestyle. She became a vegetarian at age 6, then transitioned to veganism around 2016 after watching Cowspiracy. “Becoming vegan has drastically changed my life,” she told Marie Claire in 2019. “I now have so much energy; I feel hyper, and it’s dawned on me how sluggish I felt before when I consumed too much dairy.”
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47 Thandiwe Newton
Like Sadie Sink, Thandiwe Newton is also vegan because of Harrelson. During the filming of 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story, she says the actor successfully convinced her to rethink her intake of animal products. “I think it’s good to have a vegan in the mix … a vegan in a position of power,” she told the Associated Press. “I have been vegan since working with Woody.”
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48Daisy Ridley
Daisy Ridley initially decided to go vegan for ethical reasons after watching the 2017 movie Carnage. Soon after, she discovered the health benefits of the lifestyle, too. In 2024, she said that even though she is 100 percent plant-based, she still cooks meat for other people. “There is pleasure in cooking something for people that you’re not able to eat,” she said.
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49Maggie Q
Actor and environmental activist Maggie Q is part of the longtime vegan community. In fact, she has followed the lifestyle for more than 25 years. “When I [gave up meat], my convictions were rooted in animal cruelty and environmental impact,” she told The Beet. “That’s why I gave up meat. Because it wasn’t about me and vanity and health, my convictions were very strong—so I never fell off the wagon.”
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50Evanna Lynch
Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch has been a vegan advocate since she stopped playing Luna Lovegood in 2007. She used to host the plant-based podcast The Chickpeeps and also co-founded the cruelty-free beauty box called Kinder Beauty. In 2026, she wore a vintage gown and vegan shoes to wed Denis Skinner in a London ceremony, with plenty of vegan cake, of course.
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51 Chris Packham
British TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham was a longtime vegetarian before he decided to go vegan in 2019, after trying Veganuary for the first time. Since then, he’s never looked back. “I continue to have concerns about animal welfare and transportation,” he said before embarking on the challenge in 2018. “I don’t see any difference between the way I should treat my dog, who I love and whose well-being I’m preoccupied with, and a pig, who is just as intelligent and important as Scratchy, but is kept in a concrete pen where it can’t turn around.”
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52 Oli Skyes
Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oli Sykes went vegetarian at the age of 16, after taking a PETA flyer outside a pub. Then, 15 years later, he switched to veganism. “It was a mixture of realizing the dairy industry isn’t good at all either, and also reading this book, called Skinny Bitch, which is a terrible name but a great book,” he told Form Nutrition. “It explained in layman’s terms how gross it all is.”
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53 Jon Stewart
The Daily Show host Jon Stewart is vegan, an animal advocate, and a friend to animals through his 45-acre animal sanctuary, which he has run with his wife, Tracey Stewart, since 2015. “It became untenable for me to make that decision, you know. That decision of ‘I think you’ll be better off if I kill you,’” he once said about his decision to go vegan.
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54Romesh Ranganathan
British comedian Romesh Ranganathan hasn’t eaten meat since the age of 12, but it wasn’t until adulthood that he went fully plant-based. Now, like Pascoe, he says the lifestyle even makes him better at his job. “To be a good comedian, in my opinion, you have to look at the world in an unusual way. You really analyze everything. If you look at veganism, and question how we do things, and how we should be living, veganism, to me, seems like the logical way,” he told Vegan Life magazine.
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55Sam Ryder
British singer Sam Ryder is vegan primarily because of his love for animals—he once even ran a vegan café—but he’s also experienced notable health benefits, including improved vocal health. Ryder has said that cutting out dairy has been particularly beneficial for his vocal cords.
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56 Kate Nash
Actor and singer Kate Nash, best known for her indie-pop hits and her role in the Netflix series GLOW, stopped eating meat as a child due to anxiety and her bond with a pet rabbit. But it was after watching Okja, a satire and critique of the factory farming industry, that she decided to go vegan. She told Viva! in 2025: “After that, I just thought, ‘I don’t want to be part of this destruction.’”
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57Ian Machado Garry
UFC star Ian Machado Garry went vegan in 2021 and has never looked back. Not only has the diet improved his health and fitness, but it has also made him more aware of the environmental and ethical impacts of our food choices. “Our decisions affect the animals, it affects the birds, it affects the bees, it affects all humans across the world, it affects sea life,” he told BBC Sport. “So we need to be more conscious of the decisions we make day in and day out.”
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58Spencer Strider
Much like Garry, Atlanta Braves pitcher Spencer Strider says adopting a plant-based diet in 2019 helped improve his fitness and recovery time. But he’s also passionate about the ethical benefits of plant-based eating. “I think factory farming is certainly problematic and not exactly what we’re supposed to be doing to the planet,” he told The Guardian.
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59Pinky Cole
Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole has firmly crossed into celebrity territory since she started appearing on The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2026. In an interview with VegNews, Cole said she hopes her time on the show will inspire more people to try the vegan lifestyle. “The vegan movement has had its challenges—like with some vegan restaurants closing in recent years—but I believe that being on the show is just another opportunity for me to reignite the momentum,” she said. “There are still people who want to eat vegan and don’t want to eat the flesh of an animal.”
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60 Diane Morgan
British comedian Diane Morgan was vegetarian for years but hesitated to go vegan because she thought she couldn’t give up cheese. In 2026, however, the animal lover revealed that she had finally taken the plunge, and it was a success. “I couldn’t find a decent vegan cheese that I liked—it all tasted like glue sticks—so I just went cold turkey on it,” she told The Independent. “Then, after four weeks, my brain just went, ‘Oh, I don’t like cheese anymore; it smells like socks.’ So now I don’t crave it at all.”
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61Lucas Bravo
Lucas Bravo, who plays Chef Gabriel on Emily in Paris, has been vegan since birth and remains passionate about the lifestyle. In fact, he spent years trying to convince showrunner Darren Star to make his character’s restaurant vegan—and it seems his efforts paid off. In season five, Gabriel sets about removing meat and cheese from the menu, declaring that “plant-based cooking is the future.”
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