Famous fat people in history

[NovaKart]

Who are some famous fat people in history? The only two I can think of off the top of my head are Henry VIII and Howard Taft, the fattest US president from what I've heard. Who are some others?

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, a pretty obvious one would be:



Not sure if you were merely looking for political figures though.

 

[Cynovolans]

The mummy that has been identified as Hatshepsut was obese.

 

[Yui108]

Aquinas, King Amalric I of Jerusalem, Napoleon I was a little chubby.

 

[aronnax]

Theodore Roosevelt looks chunky too.
Many King Louis' of France.

Oh. Look what I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_known_as_the_Fat

 

[NovaKart]

The mummy that has been identified as Hatshepsut was obese.

That's interesting, I never knew Hatshepsut was fat, let alone obese.

 

[Cynovolans]

That's interesting, I never knew Hatshepsut was fat, let alone obese.

She was in her fifties when she died, and she was suffering from arthritis(and possibly bone cancer). It was probably painful for her to move.

 

[EnglishCrusader]

Winston Churchill had a bit of fat on him.

 

[RedRalph]

Nikita Khrushchev

 

[Miles Teg]

William the Conqueror got ridiculously fat in his old age.

Grover Cleveland wasn't exactly thin.

Queens in general had a tendency to run fat. Victoria, Anne of England, Catherine the Great, etc.

 

[Verbose]

Gustavus II Adolphus. It a famous line in one of the defining Swedish national histories, about the king in time becoming "reasonably fat". But then again, it was the 17th c. so fat was the thing to be. King Charles X on Sweden was a hefty guy as well

 

[ParkCungHee]

Before someone mentions Henry VIII, he was pretty thin until later in life.

 

[madviking]

President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Howard Taft.

 

[bombshoo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_known_as_the_Fat

Also Elvis and Boss Tweed.

 

[Abaddon]

Damnit, beat me to Elvis.

 

[sydhe]

And Fats Domino and Fats Waller.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Queen Victoria wasn't too thin in her later years.

 

[LightSpectra]

Hermann Göring.

 

[jtb1127]

Taft is notoriously fat. The whole bathtub story, I'm sure we have all heard about it.

 

[Ramius75]

Henry the viii ?

Late in life, Henry became obese (with a waist measurement of 54 inches/137 cm) and had to be moved about with the help of mechanical inventions.

NVM...