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A moustache (sometimes spelt mustache in the United States) is an outgrowth of hair above the upper lip.

Most men with a normal or strong beard growth must tend it daily, by shaving the hair of the chin and cheeks, to prevent it from soon reverting to a full beard. This necessity has engendered the invention of quite a wide variety of accoutrements designed for the care of a gentleman's moustache, including moustache wax, moustache nets (snoods), moustache brushes, moustache combs and moustache scissors.

Historically, moustaches have been worn by military men and the number of nations, regiments and ranks were equalled only by the number of styles and variations. Generally, the younger men and lower ranks wore the smaller and less elaborate moustaches. As a man advanced in rank, so did his moustache become thicker and bushier, until he ultimately was permitted to wear an ever fuller beard. For a glimpse into this colourful and noble past, refer to the works of famous military artists.

An English moustache was formerly used in melodramas, movies and comic books as a shorthand indication of villainy. Snidely Whiplash, for example, was characterized by his moustache, his cape, and his habit of kidnapping women and then tying them to train tracks, in order to foreclose on their mortgages.

Famous men known to have moustaches

• Clement Atlee, British Prime Minister
• John R. Bolton, American diplomat
• Sonny Bono, singer-turned-politician
• Charlie Chaplin Comic actor from silent movie era
• Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister
• John Cleese, Actor
• Georges Clemenceau, French politician
• Jim Croce, singer and songwriter
• Salvador Dalí, artist, whose moustache was influenced by that of Diego Velázquez
• Dennis DeYoung, Styx vocalist and keyboardist. Shaved off in mid-1982.
• Thomas E. Dewey, politician
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of detective stories
• Albert Einstein, scientist
• Edward Elgar, composer
• Sam Elliott, film and television actor
• Wyatt Earp, 19th Century law officer
• Gabriel Fauré, French classical composer
• Rollie Fingers, baseball player
• Ned Flanders, cartoon character from The Simpsons
• Errol Flynn, actor, known for his Pencil moustache
• Clark Gable, film star
• Samuel Gompers, labor union leader
• Harold II, King of England
• George Harrison, member of the Beatles, ca. from 1967 on
• Ome Henk, Dutch comedy singer
• James Hetfield, Metallica vocalist and rhythm guitarist
• Adolf Hitler, Dictator
• Hulk Hogan, professional wrestler
• Mervyn Hughes, Australian cricketer. A handlebar moustache is part of his trademark.
• Saddam Hussein, Dictator
• Jamie Hyneman, TV personality
• Horatio Kitchener, British field marshal
• Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese TV personality and member of Japanese musical group Rats & Star
• David Lloyd George, British prime minister
• G. Gordon Liddy, radio talk-show host, and former Watergate figure
• Martin Luther King, American black civil rights campaigner
• Harold Macmillan, British prime minister
• Mario, a famous video game fictional character owned by Nintendo. Moustache class is unknown.
• Groucho Marx for many years wore a fake moustache of greasepaint on stage and film, then grew a real one later in life
• Nick Mason, Pink Floyd drummer. He shaved it off in 1975.
• Guy de Maupassant, writer
• Gerald McRaney, TV actor
• Adolphe Menjou, actor
• Freddie Mercury, lead singer of famous British rock group Queen. Had moustache from 1980 to 1987
• Friedrich Nietzsche, famous for his Walrus moustache
• John Oates, musician. He shaved it off in 1997.
• Józef PiÅ‚sudski Dictator
• Hercule Poirot, a character in books written by Agatha Christie.
• Geraldo Rivera, TV journalist
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Habsburg throne.
• Theodore Roosevelt, American president
• Eugen Sandow, bodybuilder
• Tom Selleck, TV actor
• Joseph Stalin, Dictator
• Masayuki Suzuki, Japanese singer (lead singer of Rats & Star)
• William Howard Taft, U.S. President and Chief Justice of the United States
• Masashi Tashiro, former Japanese TV personality and member of Rats & Star
• Danny Trejo, Actor
• Mark Twain, Author
• Veerappan, an Indian bandit
• Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa, founder of Solidarity, Nobel Peace Prize winner, President of Poland
• John Waters film director
• Wilhelm II of Germany, Emperor of Germany
• Frank Zappa, Rock star
• Emiliano Zapata, a Mexican revolutionary
• "Weird Al" Yankovic, musician known for his parodies of popular music. He had it shaved off in 1998.

A gallery of pictures is at Pictures of famous men with moustaches.

Moustache styles

• Dali - narrow, with long, steeply upward pointing ends
• English - narrow, with long, slightly curled, sideward pointing ends, stiffly waxed and tightly twirled, like feline whiskers
• Fu Manchu - long, downward pointing ends, generally beyond the chin
• Handlebar - bushy, with small upward pointing ends
• Imperial - whiskers growing from both the upper lip and cheeks, curled upward (distinct from the royale, or impériale)
• Pencil- narrow, closely clipped, outlining the upper lip, with a wide shaven gap between the nose and moustache
• Toothbrush - thick, but shaved except for about an inch in the center; associated with Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin.
• Trash - thin trashy mustache most famously found on John Waters and Ted Turner
• Walrus - bushy, hanging down over the lips, often entirely covering the mouth

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