To kick off Movember, the month-long mustache growing contest for charity, we’ve put together this list of the manliest mustaches in history. Enjoy!
Tom Selleck
When pre-pubescent mustaches grow up, they want to be Tom Selleck’s mustache. It’s a modern mustache masterpiece. Magnum P.I. wouldn’t have been the same with some dude with a naked upper lip.
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite’s mustache was the most trustworthy mustache in all of news history. And that’s the way it is…
Eddie Murphy
During the 1980s and early 90s, no mustache was funnier than Eddie Murphy’s. We won’t hold Eddie Murphy’s mustache responsible for Daddy Day Care or Norbit.
Alex Trebek
I’ll take game show host who lost major manliness points when he shaved his mustache for $800, Alex.
Daniel Plainview
Daniel Plainview’s mustache will drink your milkshake. And then bludgeon you to death with a bowling pin.
Hussein bin Talal
The King of Jordan’s mustache had an uber-manly lineage; it can be be traced all the way back to the Prophet Muhammad. Today, his son Abdullah II carries on his father’s peaceful policies and the manly mustache.
Errol Flynn
Australian film star Errol Flynn had a swashbuckling mustache that could make even tights look manly.
Rollie Fingers
Rollie Fingers brought back the waxed handlebar mustaches rocked by the baseball players of yore. Diamondbacks relief pitcher Clay Zavada carries that torch today.
Steve Prefontaine
Scientists have proven that the secret to Steve Prefontaine’s record-setting running times was the aerodynamics of his mustache.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp is a Western legend. Some sources say he killed up to 30 men during his time as a lawman in the American frontier. He didn’t even have to use bullets; his mustache knocked em’ over cold.
Ron Burgundy
Ron Burgundy is the manliest fictional news anchor to ever live. He loves scotch (scotchy, scotch, scotch), leather-bound books, and the smell of rich mahogany. And of course, he had a kick ass mustache that injected the news with testosterone.
Clark Gable
Clark Gable’s mustache doesn’t give a damn.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche’s mustache can provide meaning to the life of even the most strident nihilist. Look at that thing. Awe inspiring.
Genghis Khan
Not only did Genghis Khan grow a manly mustache and rule over the largest empire in history, he also rocked the flavor saver way before it was cool. Wait, was the flavor saver ever cool?
Mark Twain
Mark Twain had some strong words to say about beards: “It performs no useful function; it is a nuisance and a discomfort; all nations hate it; all nations persecute it with the razor.” Guess that’s why he decided to go with an awesome mustache instead.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream, a dream that all men will grow a mustache as magnificent as MLK’s.
Mark Spitz
Michael Phelps may now have more medals, but Spitz’s mustache could beat Phelp’s any day of the week.
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I protest against Ron Burgundy! For one, he’s fictional, for two he took a headlong-diving leap across the line between Manly and Chauvinistic. For three, I really don’t find Will Ferrel the least bit funny. If you want a moustachioed Ron on the list, I’d consider Ron Jeremy, otherwise no. Just no
More seriously though, I love the list. I’ve had some reservations about growing my own stache out for Movember, but seeing this has filled me with confidence. Also, I am pleased to see at least one arab up there with a mighty stache!
Also, I must echo a previous commentor’s words in saying that I would love to see a list of the most Manliest beards!
That dude from Mythbusters has a pretty good one.
Samuel de Champlain!
Charles Bronson. Both the actor and prisoner rocked the a fine ’stache
How could you leave out Freddie Mercury?
What? Where are Australian cricketers from the ’70’s? What about Dennis Lillee? The greatest man of all time. David Boon, Merv Hughes? Leaving out John Newcombe is just sloppy work. These are the absolute shortlist of manliest moustaches in the history of the world.
Classic. I would be joining the AoM Movember team except I already organized one in my office. We of the Liberty Street Hooligans wish you success!
I know he’s not that famous but Will Oldham’s stache is sublime.
Good to see Tom Selleck in his rightful place at number one.
Emiliano Zapata!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What about Vincent Price, he always had some kind of awesome ’stache.
What about Lando Calrissian? His mustache helped destroy the second Death Star over the forest moon of Endor.
What about Charlie Chaplin? The power of understatement is perfectly exhibited in that ’stache.
No John Stossel?
lemmy kilmister has an extemely manly mustache
joseph stalin’s mustache is extremely manly regardless of his dictatorship
I cry foul for putting Daniel Day-Lewis on the list twice. His representation here suggests he is the equal in mustachery to Tom Selleck and TR combined, which we all know is impossible. You absolutely should have combined his characters into one spot. Mustaches everywhere are weeping at this travesty.
Hulk Hogan always had a great ’stash.
Let’s not forget Don Mattingly (of the NY Yankees) who had a great mustache. And I’d throw Borat in there too just for fun.
Lanny McDonald never scored 98 goals. The record is 92, set by Gretzky. McDonald got 98 points once, but that’s not the same thing at all. I love this website anyways.
Mike Hammer http://www.serienoldies.de/images7/mike_hammer_2.jpg
uh.. Freddie Mercury?
http://celebritydeath.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/freddie-mercury.jpg
oh and Dick Dastardly
http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/dick9we.jpg
i think you should add jamie hyneman from mythbusters
Top marks for including Sam Elliott. My all-time favorite Hollywood ’stache.
David Crosby?
vincent price.
This list is great. I’ve been trying to convince my sister that mustaches are the business, but she refuses point blanc to believe me and keeps claiming they’re old-fashioned. I am of the opinion that mustaches just WIN. Something about them seems to add great character and self-confidence to the face of a man; a slightly ironic but winsome charm. On a different note, I couldn’t agree more with a poster below me- where is Freddie Mercury? His was truly awsome! And what about David Niven? You can’t beat that witty rake. Add David Niven!
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:qO1BfcpudOdWGM:http://www.kaposnet.hu/kata/movie/faces/niven_david.jpg
The moustache is the epitimy of manliness. Mainly because, and not to sound sexist, we can do it and girls can’t
Not only that but it is just a unique and bold statement. Mine is well on its way, I think i want to go for something like Tom Sellek, neat but bold. I deffinitly couldn’t pull off the handlebar look. There is nothing like a clean shaven face with a nice moustache at the center of it all.
I completely agree. You absolutely need Jamie Hyneman. The guy has an epic walrus-stache and when he isn’t blowing things up or smashing things, he’s setting them on fire. How could you have missed him?
Love the list. If anyone is a Rollie Fingers fan I created a museum of baseball players with excellent facial hair. Lo and behold… the Jeffrey James Reardon Beard & Moustache Museum. Enjoy: http://www.erikwallace.com/misc/museum/
Art Of Manliness, keep up the stellar work.
I love this list, for you mustache challenged folks scope out some mustache bandanas at http://www.InstaFace.com
I’ve been rocking mine biking in the cold, but soon my own handle bar will be ready!!! I’m working on a curled handlebar with a communist Lenin style waxed beard, If it turns out as good as I hope I could be on this list……just gotta get famous first.
OKAY Freddie Mercury was gay (not that there is anything wrong with that) Ergo, not Manly!!
I agree with the Hulk Hogan comments and/or the father from Orange County Choppers
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