It's all in the nose

Even nature appreciates the profile of a magnificent nose and a hint of a smile, as seen in this arial shot of a lake shore north of Tulsa, USA. (Photo @Cogitorium)

Officially, the magnificent profiles below serves to inspire anyone ashamed of their big noses. The nose is, after all, where the human bloodline shows the best of the breed. 

Unofficially, this list is a safe place for those of us looking at the world from behind mere snubby noses and who have cultivated that fine feeling that is a nose fetish. 

However, anyone else who like to poke their noses into another's affairs, will also enjoy the snozzlers below. If looking for someone specific (rather than just settling in for an appreciative perv), the owners of the noses shown here are loosely listed by name, in alphabetical order. 

Still so insecure about your nose that you don't believe me? Google any of the names below, and you'll find past and present achievers in all fields, from architecture to zoology.

Further prove that the nose is the best feature on anyone can also be seen in the (no longer updated) listings by fellow admirers of pretty proboscises, like human profiler Radhika Sanghani, whose #sideprofileselfie campaign trended for a while on the X-Twitter; fellow nose nerd Therése Melby, who has over 370 absolutely stunning noses on Instagram; the anonymous nose fan who filled 192 pages on Tumblr under Nose for Beauty; and the original nose afficianado, also on Tumblr, under FuckYeahBigNoses.

A is for all the awesomeness

Aaron Jeffery, pro MMA fighter and the man who has done more for the mullet in the 21st century than any other.

Actor Adrian Brody.

Sir General Adrian Carton de Wiart, "the unkillable soldier".

Adela Banášová, Slovakian TV presenter

Adbulrashid Sadulaev, champion wrestler from Russia.

A Czech-Jewish woman, Adéla Skutecká, married Richard Skutecky, both murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.

Akin Omotoso, Nigerian film maker and actor.

Alex Chung, founder of the search engine that finds your giffs.

Alice Weidel, German politician.

Alan Rickman, actor

Alexandre Brongniart, the epitomy of a French gentleman scholar.

Anna Fry, a Quaker who lived the principles of her faith when England lost theirs during the Boer War in South Africa. Her book Victories without Violence is still a good read.

Andreas Bourani, German singer, song writer.

Anna Heringer, mud architect.

Andrea Pirlo, soccer player.

Angelique Kerber, tennis champ.

Annie Leibovitz, photographer.

Anuk Aïta, singer.

Antonio Conte, Italian professional football manager and former player.

B is for beautiful

Baco shows why nose lovers like looking at Persian profiles.

Barbara Streisand, that bump sets the benchmark. 

Brian and Michael, sibling singers in the band Lemon Twigs.

Astronomer Dr Beatriz Villarroel, identifier of reflective objects that came and went high in our night skies.

This sheila shows not all hope is lost Down Under.

C is for Cutest

Chelsea Peretti, stand-up comedian, actress and writer.

Chris Bertish, one hell of a stand-up guy with a paddle, as this movie shows.

The original head of the snake, Christene Lagarde with Greece's former Finiance minister, Professor Yanis Varoufakis, coiner of "techno-feuadlism". 

Dr Clara Sousa-Silva, quantum astrochemist at MIT who can tell you all the latest we think we know about ETs.

Constantin-François Chassebœuf, Comte de Volney (1757–1820) whose Voyage en Égypte et en Syrie is still a good read.   

D is for Dyy-ang!

Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull rider

Dan Stein, Professor and Chair, Dept of Psychiatry at University of Cape Town

Danielle "Cashmi ahtsaait" trailer trash starlett.

Darryn Binder, Moto3 GP racer, from Potchefstroom, same as his brother, Brad.

David Tennant, actor who excels in anything by the Bard.

Diego Peretti, Argentinean psychiatrist turned actor.

Douglas Adams, wrangler of British humour and bits of code.    

E is for elegant

Eben Etzebeth, international rugby player.

Edward Morgan Forster OM CH, an English author whose examined class difference and hypocrisy.

Model and former basketballer, Ekaterina Lisina, better known for being very tall.  

Elena Tonra, lead singer of Daughter

Emily van Kamp, actress

Eugene Hlophe, artist.

Eugene Marais, proudly Afrikaans so far ahead of his time, he had to wait for history to catch up with him.

Eva Wiseman, author, columnist and sporting as elegant an Hungarian profile as exists. 

F is for fabulous

Fallon Sherrock, world championship darts player.

Fernando Pessoa, one of the most prolific and significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.

François-Marie Arouet, aka Voltaire, French historian, philosopher and wit.

Franz Lizst, whose Hungarian Rhapsody Nr 2 still rocks. 

Franzi Mueller, model

Frank Zappa, (back) with The Mothers of Invention, touring Europe in 1968, not a snubby nose in sight, praise be. 

Frederick Douglass, social reformer, abolitionist and a fine orator, 1880-1895.

G is for gorgeous

Gareth Southgate, England Football coach

Gavin Wood, founder of Etherium and owner of the nose Stephen Fry really wanted. 

Gino Bartalli, champion cyclist and war hero, shown here in 1953. 

Giselda Volodi, Italian actress

A good German nose of a mechanic working on an assembly line.

Metacommunicator Gregory Bateson was as far out there as scientists got in the 1960s.

Gusto Gallego Martinez, the Spanish monk who spent his life building the Cathedral of Jesus, seen in the background, outside Madrid, mostly by himself.

H is for all hail

Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia 1954.

Mathematician and his master's voice Bloomberg presenter, Professor Hanna Fry. 

Harold Strachan, who packed being a fighter pilot, fine arts painter, anti-apartheid fighter and fisherman into living from 1925 to 2020.

Hamilton Morris, the West's fearlessly pioneering psychonaut.

Henrikh Mkhitarya, footballer.

I is for inspiring

"The mad genius", Sir Isaac Newton, 1642-1727. His secret society plan to hasten Christ's return shaped America and its vassal, Israel. 

Ivana Cetinich, for a while there a champion kart racer.

J is for jislaakit

Jennifer Fox, producer of hard-hitting documentaries.

Jack Diesel and Regina Spector, singers.

Ms Birdsall knows almost all there is to know about hydrogen cars.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jan Viljoen, big game hunter, baTswana diplomat, rebel, infamous for sjambokking a domini, cursing a slaver with thunder (the slaver was blown to bits), losing a battle to Paul Kruger, being the first white to marvel at Mosi-oa-Tunja (which jingoist Livingstone later went and named after a lass called Vicky). Incidentally, Viljoen is also ancestral to this blogger.

    

Gifted botanist Jan Smuts, who was also a statesman and general in his spare time.

A wax statue of English author Jane Austen, whose family reportedly all sported the long British nose.

Jari Mäenpää, musician.

Jarrod Di Blasi, master chef .

Javier Bardem, Spanish actor.

Dr Joseph Medicine Crow: last War Chief of the Crow nation and WWII hero.

John James Audubon, American ornithologist and painter.

John-Edmeston. MD of Cartrack South Africa.

Justin Johnson, listen how he plays them thar strings.

Justin Trudeau, once Canada's most hated prime minister. 

K is for kinematic

Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress.

Karina Robinson.

Kate Dreyer, just a lady proud of her Roman nose.

Kathryn Hess Bellwald, professor of mathematics. 

Kelly Turner, a very productive planner, as she explains on her channel.  

L is for Lekker

Emma Lazrus, American poet who composed the sonnet, "Bring me your poor..." on the Statue of Liberty.

Lauren Oliver, youth author and deep thinker, flanked by two merely snubby nosed fans. 

Research fellow Dr Lesley Uttley, BsC, Phd Psychology.

C Louis Leipoldt, a beautifully brilliant mind grown in South Africa. 

Belgium kings Leopold I and II, did what they had to do, some bad but mostly good, and always true. 

Croatia's 2018 football captain, Luka Modric.

Lukasz Urban. the hero trucker who fought to his death to try and
stop the Berlin attack on 12 December 2016.

Luke Charteris, rugby player.

 Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper who killed 309 fascist invaders in Russia.

M is for magnificent

Madeleine Stowe, actress.

Manuel Pellegrini, soccer coach.

Marcelle Whiteman, who enlisted as specialist pigeon trainer in the U.S. Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in 1945.   

Marin Čilić is a Croatian professional tennis player.

Marielle Penwarden is an Environmental consultant at Chand Environmental Consultants.

Maryam Zaringhalam, molecular biologist.

Martin, Rees, Baron of Ludlow and the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995.

Michael Kummer, host of the Primal Shift podcast and the principal writer for the healthy living/biohacking blog MichaelKummer.com.

Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo a Spanish philosopher and professor of Greek and Classics.

Mitch Evans, Formula E race driver.

His body was mummified and his name forgotten for 2000 years, but this Roman-period Egyptian's genes still can be seen in cities around the world to this day. 

N is for Neo-Classical

Nafissatou Thiam, Olympic heptathlon champion.

Neale Donald Walsch, author of 'Communications with God'.

Bowls guru, Nick Brett, who shot to fame with this impossible curve shot. 

Nigel Goldenfeld, professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Swanlund  

O is for Oh my...

Owen Wilson, actor.

P is for proud

Paul Ŕosolie, author and Spider monkey speaker.

Pliny the Elder, born Gaius Plenus Secundus, author of the World's first (often inaccurate) encyclopaedia. 

Petra Hoffman, Sales and Marketing director of Volkswagen South Africa.

Dr Priyanka Wali, ketonic diet specialist.

Q is for quintessential

Quim Gutiérrez, Spanish actor.

R is for really, really nice

Radhika Sanhani, who encouraged more large nose love with her #sideprofileselfie campaign.

Raquel Peyraube, endocannabinologist, who helped legalise cannabis in Urugay. 

Rebecca Cliff, the sloth zoologist

Rebecca Brachman neuro scientist.

Dr Renee Young, naturopathic doctor from Los Gatos, California.

Rietha Viviers, life partner of this blog's compilor.  

Ricardo Basoalto, aka Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet-diplomat and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

Richard Wagner, whose marathon operas were best parodied by Terry Pratchett in Fifth Elephant.

Rhizlane Siba, Africa high jump champion. 

Robert Kubica, F1 racing driver.

Rossy de Palma, the only model like her.

S is where things gets steamy

Saks and Suzie Afridi shows Muslim and Greek Orthodox can love together

Sadia Chand is an environmental specialist and director of Chand Environmental Consultants.

Sara Bareilles, American songwriter.

Segolene Royal, a politician in France, which used to be democratic country. 

Sebastian Buemi, race driver.

Sejai Desai, PRO at University of University of KZN. 

Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American social media executive, author, and billionaire. She is the chief operating officer of Facebook and founder of Leanin.org

Shruti Hasan, actress.

Siphiwe Ngcobo and Lifa Bekwa, IT engineers providing free WiFi. 

Siyanda Xulu, top goalie in SA's premier football league.

Soha Ali Khan, Bollywood actress.

Sofia Carmina Coppola, an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actress.

Spike Mulligan, WWII gunner, comedian and author.

Steffi Graf, former world No. 1 tennis player.

Steve Basra, VP of Innovation and Tech at Toyota

Sylvia Talaja, like Steffi above, a retired professional tennis player.

T is for terrific

Tendai 'The Beast" Mtawirara, Zimbabwean-born Springbok prop for South Africa. 

Terry Pratchett, the author other authors most love to quote in their writings and a reader's best friend. Seriously, if you don't know Sir Terry, go read and / or listen.

Normally, a freckled-ginger-with-nose combo will tick all my "likum" boxes, but human hater Thomas Malthus is the exception. Still, his story made our history, which proves the point of this blog.

Tinashe Nyamudoka, from to waiter to winemaker.

Tom Krell, singer

Tony Capra, geneticist

Tom MacDonald. Rapper. Don't be a snowflake, go lend him your ears. 

Tracey Curtis-Taulor, long distance aviator

U is for unique

Usher Raymond IV is an American singer, songwriter, actor, businessman, and dancer.

Úrsula Corberó Delgado, Spanish actress.

Utkarsh Ambudkar, also known by his stage name UTK the INC, is an American actor, rapper and singer.

 

A very young Uziel Gal, designer of the Uzzi. 

V is for vixeny

Vespasian, last of the Roman emperors.

Viktor Vekselberg, Russian tycoon.

Vineet Kumar Singh, Bollywood star

Virginia Woolf, writer

W is for winner

William Dampier, the pirate whose navigation books inspired Cook and whose nature observations inspired Darwin.   

X is for that factor

Xavier Laurent, French actor.

Xavier Bertoni, French free style ski champion.

Y is to yodel for

Professor Yanis Varoufakis, once a Greek finance minister who also taught economics to the Ozzies and the world about technofeudalism.

Goalkeeper Yassine Bounou. 

'YD' Asmall, a South African who exemplifies all that is kind in the Quran. 

Yehudi Menhin, who could stroke a dead cat's guts with hair from a horse' tail fit to make you weep.

Yvonne McGuinnes, visual artist.

Yukio Mashimia, pen name of Japanese author, Kimitake Hiraoka, a tragic achiever as only Japan can.

Z is for zest

Zach Braff, actor.

Zachary Taylor, aka 'Old Rough and Ready', the 12th American president

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Zakes Mda, South African writer and artist.

If you have to ask ther name of the old lady next to Olympian equestrian Zara Tindall, it is her (now late) grandmother who ruled England.

Zelim Imadaev, Russian mixed martial artist.

Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer of note.

Greek politician, Zoe Konstantopoulou.

Zoe Kazan, American actress.

Zoe Schlueter, syntax wrangler and bilingual linguist at Maryland.

Attorney Zoe Savitsky

Zog, king of Albania, 1928 to 1939.

And a few of the compiler's faves for last, all red of hair and prominent of profile, but alas... also all incognito.

The 'Abba und Death metal' lady.

Hitting the trifecta: freckles, noses and red hair.

Sara's selfie.

Gaelic elf, going all the way with plastic ear add-ons.

Classic Teutonic

English Rose

Viking Queen

European beaut.