List of famous people who wore the neckbeard

This is a comprehensive list of all the notable people who wore the neckbeard at one time or another. In some cases, they are more well-known for other beard styles, but for all people on this list photos or pictures exist of them with a neckbeard.

Absalom Austin Townsend (1810-1888)

Albert Southworth (1811-1894)

Alexander Bain (1818-1903)

Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924-2016)

Alfred O. P. Nicholson (1808-1876)

Alpheus Felch (1804-1896)

Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910)

Brigham Young (1801-1877)

Byron Kilbourn (1801-1870)

Calvin Ellis Stowe (1802-1886)

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861)

César Franck (1822-1890)

Charles Knapp (1797-1880)

Charles N. Lamison (1826-1896)

Chauncey L. Knapp (1809-1898)

Clement L. Vallandigham (1820-1871)

Cyrus West Field (1819-1892)

Daniel Ullman (1810-1892)

David K. Lewis (1941-2001)

Ebenezer Brigham (1789-1861)

Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799-1868)

Edward Sorin (1814-1893)

Erastus Fairbanks (1792-1864)

Francisco Morazán (1792-1842)

Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (1817-1885)

George Alexander Macfarren (1813-1887)

George Henry Lewes (1817-1878)

Georges-Eugène Haussmann (1809-1891)

Gustav Kirchoff (1824-1887)

Hannibal Day (1804-1891)

Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Henry A. Wise (1806-1876)

Henry Beresford, 3rd Marquess of Waterford (1811-1859)

Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (1815-1895)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry James Sr. (1811-1882)

Horace Greeley (1811-1872)

Horatio Seymour (1810-1886)

Isaac Green Mitchell (1810-1881)

Ivar Aasen (1813-1896)

Jack Black, rat catcher (c. 1800s)

James Clyman (1792-1881)

James D. Williams (1808-1880)

James Skivring Smith (1825-1892)

James Young Simpson (1811-1870)

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)

John Adams Dix (1798-1879)

John Braxton Hicks (1823-1897)

John Byington (1798-1887)

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)

John Couch Adams (1819-1892)

John Taylor (1808-1887)

John Thomas Peele (1822-1897)

John Tyndall (1820-1893)

John Veitch (1829-1894)

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)

Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894)

Joseph Emerson Worchester (1784-1865)

Julius von Mayer (1814-1878)

Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876)

Lajos Kossuth (1802-1894)

Lucius Robinson (1810-1891)

Marshall S. Howe (c.1810-1878)

Martin Harris (1783-1875)

Michael Costa (1808-1884)

Michael Phelan (1819-1871)

Moondyne Joe (1826-1900)

Moses Lard (1818-1880)

Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786)

Nero (37-68)

Ormsby M. Mitchell (1810-1862)

Owen Thomas (1812-1891)

Owen Wynne Jones (1828-1870)

Paul Kruger (1825-1904)

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-1885)

Peter Cooper (1791-1883)

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Robert Bunsen (1811-1899)

Robert King Stone (1822-1872)

Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871)

Scott Spillane (d.o.b. unknown, c. mid-1900s)

Sergey Askakov (1791-1859)

Stephen Mallory (1812-1873)

Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863)

Ulrich Varnbüler (1432-1496)

Thomas Jessop (1804-1887)

Thomas Mercer (1813-1898)

Walter Booth (1791-1870)

William Clayton (1814-1879)

William Dennison Jr. (1815-1882)

William Empson (1906-1984)

William Gladstone (1809-1898)

William H. Eddy (1818-1859)

William Notman (1826-1891)

William P. Fessenden (1806-1869)

William Rees a.k.a. Gwilyn Hiraethog (1802-1883)

William Sterndale Bennett (1816-1875)

William Willis (1794-1870)