Beards are a sign of active testosterone in the body, and with that, the potential for more aggression. Men with beards are often seen as angrier, more aggressive, and dominant, regardless of their inherent personality traits. A 2013 study found that both men and women find that the longer the facial hair, the more masculine the face looks. Take a look at some of the most influential facial hair in history.
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher, Henry David Thoreau was a New England Transcendentalist and author of the book Walden. Biography
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Australian outlaw Ned Kelly (1855-1880) was the leader of the Kelly gang, notorious for robberies and police shootings in the 19th century. Biography
German mechanical engineer Karl Benz designed and built the first practical automobile powered by an internal-combustion engine. Biography
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German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx published The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, anticapitalist works that form the basis of Marxism. Biography
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Henry Highland Garnet was an African-American best known as an abolitionist whose Call to Rebellion speech in 1843 encouraged slaves to rebel against their owners. Biography
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Horace Greeley was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Buzzfeed
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Peter Cooper was an American industrialist and inventor, best known for designing and building the first steam locomotive in the United States. Biography
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Russian author Leo Tolstoy wrote the acclaimed novels War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Death of Ivan Ilyich, and still ranks among the world’s top writers. Biography
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Union General Ambrose Burnsides. His facial hairstyle is where the term ‘sideburns’ originated. Biography
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Venustiano Carranza was a revolutionary during Mexico’s civil war and became the Mexican Republic’s first president in 1917. Biography
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Friedrich Engles was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman Engels founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in Manchester. Wikipedia
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Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz was a German Großadmiral (grand admiral), Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the German Imperial Navy from 1897 until 1916. Wikipedia
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Carolus-Duran was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France. Wikipedia
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Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. Buzzfeed
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Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. Biography.
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Colonel Sanders was an American businessman, best known for founding fast-food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (now known as KFC) and later acting as the company’s brand ambassador and symbol
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Donald Grant Mitchell was an American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel. Wikipedia
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General Adelbert Ames was an American sailor, soldier, and politician who served with distinction as a Union Army general during the American Civil War. Wikipedia
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Grigori Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia. Wikipedia
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Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history. Wikimedia
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Salvador Dali was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist of Catalonian ethnicity. Buzzfeed
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Edward Stanely, former prime minister of the UK. Buzzfeed
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Franz Ferdinand was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia and, from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Wikipedia
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George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936. Wikipedia
