One of the problems with the military, the police force and other institutions of power today, is the lack of moustaches. If there are too few moustaches in an environment of people, it is at least ten times less civilized, twelve times less responsible and a hundred times less respectable.

Famed musician and Moustache Man Joe Zawinul has died at age 75.

R.I.P.

A popular rock band who understands the Importance of having a Moustache. The name of this song is I Got A Feeling (Just Nineteen). Thanks to Furnes for bringing this to our attention.

Carlos Slim Helú

Moustache/Composer/Conductor: Igor Stravinsky

Participants in a private moustache contest in March 2006:

John Kaare Hoversholm
Nils Johan Nesse
Finn-Erik Rognan
Magnus Sveen
Terje Aavatsmark

MEN OF HONOR:

Mahmoud Abbas
Clement Ader
Isaias Afworki
Peter Agre
Bashar al-Assad
Sholom Aleichem
Vicente Aleixandre
Ilham Aliyev
Alois Alzheimer
Jorge Amado
Guillaume Apollinaire
Sergio Aragones
Svante August Arrhenius
Chester A. Arthur
Sholom Asch
Tobias Asser
Francis William Aston
Kemal Atatürk
Clement Attlee
José María Aznar
Dan Bahat
Arthur Balfour
Honoré de Balzac
Charles Glover Barkla
J. M. Barrie
Count Basie
L. Frank Baum
Greg Bear
J. Georg Bednorz
Georg von Békésy
(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
Walter Benjamin
Karl Benz
Henri Bergson
Antonio Bibalo
Ambrose Bierce
Robert Bindschadler
Jon Bing
Paul Biya
Jimmy Carl Black
Louis Bleriot
Franz Boas
Arrigo Boito
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah
John Bolton
John Bonham
Thomas Yayi Boni
Sonny Bono
Salih Booker
John Wilkes Booth
Jules Bordet
Alexander Borodin
Carl Bosch
Walther Bothe
Abdelaziz Bouteflika
François Bozizé
William Henry Bragg
Aristide Briand
Heiner Brand
Karl Hjalmar Branting
Georges Brassens
Walter Houser Brattain
Ole Karsten Brekkan
Aristide Briand
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Bertram N. Brockhouse
Max Brod
Louis-Victor de Broglie
Charles Bronson
Dick Bruna
Giordano Bruno
James M. Buchanan jr.
Richard Myrle Buckley (Lord Buckley)
Nicholas Murray Butler
Elias Canetti
Cab Calloway
John Carpenter
Howard Carter
Raúl Castro
Ernst Boris Chain
Neville Chamberlain
Charlie Chaplin
G. K. Chesterton
Kong Christian IX av Danmark
André Citroën
John Cleese
Grover Cleveland
Edgar F. Codd
Arthur Holly Compton
Paul Henri Benjamin Balluet d’Estournelles de Constant
Constantine I av Grekenland
William Randal Cremer
David Crosby
George Armstrong Custer
Pierre de Coubertin
George Crumb
Nils Gustaf Dalén
Salvador Dalí
Peter Debye
John Dewey
Sergei Diaghilev
Otto Paul Hermann Diels
Rudolf Diesel
John Dillinger
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
Walt Disney
Engelbert Dollfuss
Gerhard Domagk
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Élie Ducommun
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Alexandre Dumas, père
Henry Dunant
Dale Earnhardt
Wyatt Earp
Friedrich Ebert
Bulent Ecevit
Christiaan Eijkman
Albert Einstein
José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (*)
Mohammed El-Baradei
Edward Elgar
James Ellroy
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Odd Eriksen
Pablo Escobar
Ulf von Euler
Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin
Giovanni Falcone
Lee Falk
Howard Fast
William Faulkner
Gabriel Fauré
Dennis Farina
Niels Ryberg Finsen
Hans Fischer
Gustave Flaubert
Errol Flynn
Kjartan Fløgstad
Henri La Fontaine
E. M. Forster
Leon Foucault
Vincente Fox
James Franck
Francisco Franco
Erkehertug Franz Ferdinand
Carlos Fuentes
Clark Gable
Dennis Gabor
Benito Pérez Galdós
Mahatma Gandhi
Arne Garborg
David Lloyd George
Izzat al-Ghazzawi
Khalil Gibran
Dizzy Gillespie
Charles Albert Gobat
Robert Goddard
Nikolai Gogol
Camillo Golgi
Maxim Gorky
Elliott Gould
Jono El Grande
Günther Grass
Edvard Grieg
Victor Grignard
Abdullah Gül
Allvar Gullstrand
Kong Haakon VII
Fritz Haber
Jürgen Habermas
Otto von Habsburg
Otto Hahn
Johan Halvorsen
Kong Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah av Bahrain
Dashiell Hammett
Bjørn Hamre
Václav Havel
Friedrich August von Hayek
Martin Heidegger
Verner von Heidenstam
Ernest Hemingway
Arthur Henderson
Jimi Hendrix
Frode Henriksen
O. Henry
Tormod Hermansen
Alfred D. Hershey
George de Hevesy
Corneille Jean François Heymans
Archibald Vivian Hill
Graham Hill
Heinrich Himmler
Gregory Hines
Emperor Hirohito
George H. Hitchings
Adolf Hitler
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Herman Hollerith
Evander Holyfield
Gerardus t’ Hooft
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Godfrey N. Hounsfield
Bernardo Alberto Houssay
Ragnar Hovland
Howard Hughes
Langston Hughes
Saddam Hussein
Sigurd Ibsen
Louis J. Ignarro
Jesse Jackson
Leoš Janáček
Alfred Jarry
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Knut Harald Jensen
Quincy Jones
James Joyce
Carl Jung
John Erik Kaada
Frida Kahlo
Chiang Kai-Shek
Allan Kardec
Karl I of Austria
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Paul Karrer
John Maynard Keynes
Alexander Kielland
Martin Luther King jr.
Rudyard Kipling
Václav Klaus
Albrecht Kossel
Vilhelm Krag
Professor Kristian Kristiansen
Stan Kroenke
Schack August Steenberg Krogh
Calvin Krogh
Don LaFontaine
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
Karl Landsteiner
John Paul Larkin (Scatman John)
Emanuel Lasker
Max von Laue
Pierre Laval
Haldór Laxness
Stan Lee
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Odd F. Lindberg
Nicholas J. O. Liverpool
David Livingstone
Otto Loewi
Adolf Loos
Percival Lowell
Erich Ludendorff
Aleksandr Lukashenko
Harald Are Lund
Per Ståle Lønning
Ramsay MacDonald
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Alistair MacLean
John James Richard Macleod
Harold Macmillan
Conroy Maddox
Adam Malysz
Heinrich Mann
Thomas Mann
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Christopher Marlowe
Groucho Marx
Gabriel García Márquez
Archer John Porter Martin
Groucho Marx
Jules Massenet
William Somerset Maugham
Guy de Maupassant
François Mauriac
Karl May
Phil McGraw
Edwin Mattison McMillan
Freddie Mercury
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Jon Michelet
Albert Abraham Michelson
Nikita Mikhalkov
Steven Millhauser
Frédéric Mistral (*)
Vyacheslav Molotov
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (*)
George Mraz
Edvard Munch
Eddie Murphy
Pervez Musharraf
James Naismith
Fridtjof Nansen
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Walther Nernst
Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Charles Jules Henri Nicolle
Friedrich Nietzsche
David Niven
Paul Nipkow
Pierre Nkurunziza
Sune Nordgren
Ronald George Wreyford Norrish
John Howard Northrop
Arild Nyquist
Hermann Oberth
Sigbjørn Obstfelder
El Hadj Omar Bongo Odimba
Bruno Oldani
Eugene O’Neill
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
George Orwell
Turgut Ozal
Tassos Papadopoulos
Robert Peary
Christoffer Pedersen
Thorleif Pedersen
Richard Wayne Penniman (Little Richard)
Amir Peretz
Óscar Berger Perdomo
Saint-John Perse (Alexis Léger)
Fernando Pessoa
Philippe Pétain
Ástor Piazolla
Auguste Piccard
Jozef Pilzudski
Augusto Pinochet
Harold Pinter
Pedro Pires
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Edgar Allan Poe
Elyas Poorgholam
Ferdinand Porsche
William Powell
Fritz Pregl
Marcel Proust
Richard Pryor
Giacomo Puccini
Salvatore Quasimodo
Rainier III
Django Reinhardt
Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna
Burt Reynolds
Cecil Rhodes
Theodore William Richards
Charles Robert Richet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ernst Rohm
Romain Rolland
Theodore Roosevelt
Elihu Root
Julius Rosenburg
Ronald Ross
Ernest Rutherford
Leopold Ruzicka
Paul Sabatier
Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
Emilio Salgari
Ed Sanders
Carlos Santana
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Pablo de Sarasate
Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha
Martin Schanche
Max Scheler
Heinrich Schliemann
Samuel Schmid
Albert Schweitzer
Aleksandr Scriabin
David Seaman
Tom Selleck
Nikolay Nikolaevich Semenov
Ignaz Semmelweis
Sun Yat Sen
Zahir Shah
Moshe Sharett
Omar Sharif
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
Yuan Shikai
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
Jean Sibelius
Werner von Siemens
Christian Sinding
George D. Snell
Tom Spanbauer
Hans Spemann
Oswald Spengler
Joseph Stalin
Henry Morton Stanley
Johannes Stark
Hermann Staudinger
John Steinbeck
Iver Stensrud
Otto Stern
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jerry Stiller
Lee Strasberg
Johann Strauss II
Igor Stravinsky
Gustav Stresemann
August Strindberg
Øystein Sunde
Johan Svendsen
Italo Svevo
Albert Schweitzer
William Howard Taft
Andrei Tarkovsky
Masashi Tashiro
Ibrahim Tatlises
Henry Taube
Frederick Winslow Taylor
Joseph John Thomson
Arturo Toscanini
Marcel Tournier
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Ted Turner
Ben Turpin
Mark Twain
Nobuo Uematsu
Lars Amund Vaage
Paul Valéry
Harold E. Varmus
Diego Velázquez
Vercingetorix
Vincent du Vigneaud
Vernor Vinge
Don van Vliet (Captain Beefheart)
Bernard Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut jr.
Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov
Selman Abraham Waksman
Derek Walcott
Lech Wałęsa
Robert Walser
Bill Watterson
Paul Weeden
H. G. Wells
Alfred Werner
George Westinghouse
Wilhelm Wien
Eric F. Wieschaus
Simon Wiesenthal
Wilhelm II of Germany
Tennessee Williams
Charles Thomson Rees Wilson
Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus
Terje Winther
Girma Woldegiorgis
Hugo Wolf
Stevie Wonder
Lu Xun
Emiliano Zapata
Francis Vincent Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa
Pieter Zeeman
Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
Ahmed H. Zewail
Karl Ziegler
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Stefan Zweig
Finn Øglænd
Arnulf Øverland

In Sweden, an organization called Cancerfonden and the newspaper Aftonbladet have started a campaign to raise money for research on prostate cancer. “Mustasch-Kampen” asks people to vote (via SMS) on which of the pre-selected celebrities will enter the moustache-growing contest on Thursday. The next step is to have people vote the participants out, one each day, all through the month of May.

They also encourage people who are not celebrities to participate in the battle, by registering up with a (presumably un-moustached) face for other people to vote for and against.

This campaign confirms our belief in the moustache as a symbol of good health, social awareness, responsibility, humour and fighting spirit. Good luck to “Mustach-Kampen”.