Hulk Hogan and other famous moustaches

August 11 celebrates the birthday of Hulk Hogan — the famous American wrestler and actor. The invariable and most noticeable part of the Hulk's image is his luxurious mustache, so today we decided to gather a company of famous mustaches to match him.

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1. Hulk Hogan

Wrestler Hulk Hogan is one of the most famous fans of Fu Manchu mustache. In 2009, he even released an autobiography.

2. Albert Einstein

Besides the fact that Einstein was a genius of mathematics and the father of modern physics, he also wore a beautiful mustache. Together with thick and disheveled hair, the mustache complemented the image of a brilliant but absent-minded professor.

3. Freddie Mercury

"We'll shake you up," sang the lead singer of the band Queen, who wore a mustache for a long time. This powerful vocalist, born on the island of Zanzibar, died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 45.

4. Charlie Chaplin

Moustache decorated one of the most famous faces of the XX century — the face of the king of silent films Charlie Chaplin. Neat mustache complemented the image of a "little tramp". In his autobiography, Chaplin wrote that he added a mustache to his appearance "to look older without changing expressiveness."

5. Jason Lee

The mustache was a key moment in the image of the hero of the movie "My name is Earl", played by former professional skateboarder Jason Lee. But for the next role in the movie "Heat in Memphis" Jason had to shave off his mustache.

6. Sasha Baron Cohen

British actor Sacha Baron Cohen played the role of Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev — an ignoramus, misogynist and anti—Semite with obsessive thoughts about Pamela Anderson - in the pseudo-documentary film "Borat". His thick mustache was considered the height of fashion among the residents of a fictional Kazakh village.

7. Ron Jeremy

For those who have never seen "Charlie Chaplin porn movies" in action, the mustache will be the most recognizable feature. In an interview with the American Moustache Institute, Jeremy confessed why he wears a mustache: "They make my nose seem smaller."

8. Brad Pitt as Aldo Ryan

The star had to grow a dapper mustache in the style of Errol Flynn. They perfectly complemented the image of the lieutenant who led the Jewish resistance in Quentin Tarantino's World War II drama Inglourious Bastards.

9. Clark Gable

Recognized by the American Film Institute as the greatest actor of all time, Clark Gable could claim like no one else that a mustache is needed to create a popular image of a courageous man. In most films, Gable starred with a mustache, including "Gone with the Wind", but "Mutiny on the Bounty" was an exception. Perhaps these are the rules of the navy.

10. Joseph Stalin

In official portraits, the formidable Soviet dictator has always been portrayed as massive and domineering. In fact, the moustache made it possible to hide a short stature, a pockmarked face and the absence of most teeth.

11. Frank Zappa

The rock musician was so recognizable thanks to his trademark mustache that Zappa's family bought the rights to this picture after his death in 1993.

12. Salvador Dali

The upturned moustache of the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali was an integral part of his extraordinary personality. "Waking up, every morning I feel incredible pleasure from the fact that Salvador Dali is there," the artist himself once said.

13. Mikhail Boyarsky

A hat and a mustache are two things that distinguish the famous actor from the crowd. But even with such a great mustache, accidents happen. "Before the filming of the film "D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers", I grew a mustache for a long time and painfully, but on the first day, curling them, the makeup artist burned the pride of the Musketeer. I had to glue artificial ones until my own ones grew out," says Mikhail Sergeyevich.

14. Nikita Mikhalkov

It seems that the director and actor wore a mustache all his life, because even his own daughter can't imagine him without them. "I would be upset if he shaved them off. I used to dislike things that prickle when Dad kisses. And now I like Dad so much that I can't imagine him without a mustache," Nadia Mikhalkova said.

15. Saddam Hussein

The "branded" mustache of the former leader of the Iraqi Republic and the deposed tyrant gave him away so much that, hiding from the Americans, he even shaved them off, leaving one beard.

16. Che Guevara

The insurgency in Cuba has become a surge in the fashion for moustaches and beards in the army. But the most iconic mustache and beard among the Cuban barbudos (from Spanish — "beards") belong to Che Guevara. They were canonized all over the world in millions of postcards, T-shirts and posters, reprinted annually since the day of his death.

17. Alexander Lukashenko

The moustache of the President of Belarus is known all over the world. And they even managed to participate in the scandal that recently unfolded in Lithuania. The oppositionists protested against Lukashenka's visit to Lithuania and unfurled a poster with the inscription "No entry for the Mustachioed."

18. Semyon Budyonny

Until his death, Budyonny's mustache was an integral part of his image. He was very jealous of them. During the Civil War, Semyon's brother also served in the First Cavalry Army, who grew the same mustache. Budyonny didn't like it very much. One day, inviting him to visit him, he contrived and cut off the ends of his mustache, saying: "Budyonny should be alone."

19. Leonid Yakubovich

Leonid Yakubovich has become a symbol of modern television and the brand of Channel One largely thanks to his mustache. And the fans' love for them sometimes knows no bounds. On one of the programs, a participant from Novosibirsk, an insurance agent by profession, insured the host's mustache for a large sum, referring to the fact that Yakubovich smokes a pipe and this poses an increased risk for the fate of the mustache.

20. Valery Gazzaev

The moustache of the Russian coach has become a symbol and mascot for many football fans. Gazzaev once promised to shave off his mustache if his club reached the UEFA Cup final. And when CSKA defeated the opponent in the semifinal match, the coach was inundated with letters from fans who begged not to shave off the legendary lucky mustache.

21. Adolf Hitler

Until now, most historians believed that Adolf Hitler wore a mustache with a "brush", just following the fashion. However, in the notes of the writer Alexander Fry, who served with the future Fuhrer, there is a description of how Hitler actually acquired his characteristic mustache. It turned out that, like all the other soldiers of the German army, Hitler was ordered to trim his mustache so that they would not interfere with putting on gas masks. And until that moment, the future Fuhrer was the owner of a magnificent Prussian mustache.

22. Alexander Druz

Master of the game "What? Where? When?" invariably appears on TV screens with a luxurious mustache. Maybe it's just a habit, or maybe it's even a talisman. One thing is for sure: a huge number of jokes about his mustache is proof of their popularity.

23. Vasily Chapaev

Vasily Ivanovich was famous for his magnificent sergeant's mustache. It was with such a famously twisted mustache that he was depicted in portraits and in films. In the city of Cheboksary, his mustache is kept in the museum, however, not real, but fake — the actor Babochkin, who played the main role in the famous film about the commander.

24. Friedrich Nietzsche

The "dense" moustache of the German philosopher attracted people so much that they began to imitate him and grow the same ones. For example, the Russian writer Maxim Gorky got the same lush facial hair.

25. Peter the Great

Peter I introduced the Western fashion for shaving in Russia, but in order not to quarrel with the church and the army, he allowed clergymen to wear a beard and mustache, and officers to wear mustaches. Peter the Great collected taxes and even issued a passport for a beard and mustache in the form of a copper medallion depicting these masculine virtues. It is characteristic that he himself wore a mustache, which was some deviation from the Western European norms of that time.