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Even nature appreciates 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) |
If you like to poke your nose into another's affairs, you'd enjoy the snozzlers below. The nose is, after all, how the human bloodline shows the best of the breed. 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.
If looking for someone specific (rather than just settling in for an appreciative perv), the owners of the magnificent profiles below are loosely listed by name, in alphabetical order.
Many more pretty proboscises from
human profiler Radhika Sanghani's #sideprofileselfie campaign on Twitter; fellow nose nerd T
herése Melby's posts on
Instagram,
as well as on Nose for Beauty, and
the original afficianado on Tumbler, FuckYeahBigNoses.
A is for all the awesome noses below
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Adela Banášová, Slovakian TV presenter |
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Adbulrashid Sadulaev, champion wrestler from Russia. |
A Czech-Jewish woman, Adéla Skutecká, married Richard Skutecky, both murdered at Auschwitz in 1944.
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Akin Omotoso, Nigerian film maker and actor.
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Alex Chung, founder of the search engine that finds your giffs. |
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Alice Weidel, German politician.
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Alan Rickman, actor |
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Alexandre Brongniart. French gentleman scholar. |
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Anna Fry, a Quaker who lived her faith when England lost theirs during the Boer War in South Africa. Her book Victories without Violence is still a good read. |
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Andreas Bourani, German singer, song writer. |
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Antonio Conte, Italian professional football manager and former player. |
B is for beautiful
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Baco |
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Barbara Streisand |
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Brian and Michael, sibling singers in the band Lemon Twigs. |
Two greats, IMF head Christene Lagarde and Greek Finiance minister, Professor Yanis Varoufakis.
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Dr Clara Sousa-Silva, quantum astrochemist at MIT who can tell you all the latest we think we know about ETs. |
D is for Dyy-ang!
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Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull rider |
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Darryn Binder, Moto3 GP racer, from Potchefstroom, same as his brother, Brad. |
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David Tennant, actor who excels in anything by the Bard. |
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Douglas Adams, wrangler of British humour and bits of code. |
E is for elegant
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Eben Etzebeth, international rugby player. |
Edward Morgan Forster OM CH, an English author whose examined class difference and hypocrisy.
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Model and former basketballer, Ekaterina Lisina, better known for being very tall. |
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Emily van Kamp, actress |
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Eugene Hlophe, artist. |
Eugene Marais, so far ahead of his time, he had to wait for history to catch up with him.
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Eva Wiseman, author, columnist and sporting as elegant an Hungarian profile as exists. |
F is for fabulous
Fallon Sherrock, world championship darts player.
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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. |
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François-Marie Arouet, aka Voltaire, French historian, philosopher and wit. |
Frank Zappa, (back) with The Mothers of Invention, touring Europe in 1968, not a snubby nose in sight, praise be.
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Frederick Douglass, social reformer, abolitionist and a fine orator, 1880-1895. |
G is for gorgeous
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Gareth Southgate, England Football coach |
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Gavin Wood, founder of Etherium and owner of the nose Stephen Fry really wanted. |
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German nose |
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Polish race driver, Gosia Rdest. |
H is for all hail
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Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia 1954. |
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Mathematician and his master's voice Bloomberg presenter, Professor Hanna Fry. |
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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.
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Henrikh Mkhitarya, footballer. |
I is for inspiring
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Ivana Cetinich, SA kart racer |
J is for jislaakit
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Jennifer Fox, producer of hard-hitting documentaries. |
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Jack Diesel and Regina Spector, singers. |
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Ms Birdsall knows almost all there is to know about hydrogen cars. |
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.
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Jari Mäenpää, musician. |
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Jarrod Di Blasi, master chef . |
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Javier Bardem, Spanish actor. |
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John James Audubon, American ornithologist and painter. |
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John-Edmeston. MD of Cartrack South Africa. |
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Justin Trudeau, Canadian vaccine despot Prime Minister as a lad, before anyone with half a brain in Quebec started calling him Turd-eau. |
K is for kinematic
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Kareena Kapoor, Bollywood actress. |
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Kate Dreyer, just a lady proud of her Roman nose. |
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Kathryn Hess Bellwald, professor of mathematics. |
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Kelly Turner, a very productive planner, as she explains on her channel. |
L is for Lekker
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Emma Lazrus, American poet who composed the sonnet, "Bring me your poor..." on the Statue of Liberty. |
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Croatia's 2018 football captain, Luka Modric. |
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Luke Charteris, rugby player. |
M is for magnificent
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Madeleine Stowe, actress. |
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Manuel Pellegrini, soccer coach. |
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Marcelle Whiteman, who enlisted as specialist pigeon trainer in the U.S. Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in 1945. |
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Nigel Goldenfeld, professor of Physics at
University of Illinois Swanlund |
O is for Oh my...
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Raquel Peyraube, endocannabinologist, who helped legalise cannabis in Urugay. |
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Rebecca Brachman neuro scientist. |
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Dr Renee Young, naturopathic doctor from Los Gatos, California. |
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Rietha Viviers, life partner of this blog's creator. |
Ricardo Basoalto, aka Pablo Neruda, a Chilean poet-diplomat and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.
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Rhizlane Siba, Africa high jump champion. |
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Robert Kubica, F1 racing driver. |
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Rossy de Palma, the only model like her. |
S is where things gets steamy
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Saks and Suzie Afridi shows Muslim and Greek Orthodox can love together |
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Sara's selfie. |
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Segolene Royal, French politician. |
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Sebastian Buemi, race driver. |
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Sejai Desai, PRO at University of University of KZN. |
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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 |
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Shruti Hasan, actress. |
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Siphiwe Ngcobo and Lifa Bekwa, IT engineers providing free WiFi. |
Siyanda Xulu, top goalie in SA's premier football league.
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Soha Ali Khan, Bollywood actress. |
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Sofia Carmina Coppola, an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actress. |
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Steffi Graf, former world No. 1 tennis player. |
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Steve Basra, VP of Innovation and Tech at Toyota |
Sylvia Talaja, like Steffi above, a retired professional tennis player
T is for terrific
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Tendai 'The Beast" Mtawirara, Zimbabwean-born Springbok prop for South Africa. |
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Tinashe Nyamudoka, from to waiter to winemaker. |
Tom MacDonald. Rapper. Don't be a snowflake, go lend him your ears.
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Tracey Curtis-Taulor, long distance aviator |
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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.
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A very young Uziel Gal, designer of the Uzzi. |
V is for vixeny
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Viktor Vekselberg, Russian tycoon. |
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Vineet Kumar Singh, Bollywood star |
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Virginia Woolf, writer |
W is for winner
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Richard Wagner, whose marathon operas were best parodied by Terry Pratchett in Fifth Elephant. |
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Neale Donald Walsch, author of 'Communications with God'. |
X is for that factor
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Xavier Laurent, French actor. |
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Xavier Bertoni, French free style ski champion. |
Y is to yodel for
Professor Yanis Varoufakis, the embodiment of all things great from Greece.
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Goalkeeper Yassine Bounou. |
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'YD' Asmall, a man who exemplified all that is kind in the Quran in South Africa. |
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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
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Zach Braff, actor. |
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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 who is the old biddy next to Zara Tindall, Olympian equestrian, it is her grandmother.
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Zelim Imadaev, Russian mixed martial artist. |
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Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer of note. |
Greek politician, Zoe Konstantopoulou.
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Zoe Kazan, American actress. |
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Zoe Schlueter, syntax wrangler and bilingual linguist at Maryland. |
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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 incognito.
The 'Abba und Death metal' lady.
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Testa Rossa
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Gaelic elf, going all the way with plastic ear add-ons.
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Classic Teutonic |
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English Rose |
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Viking Queen |
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European beaut. |