Famous bachelors:

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• Johannes Brahms
• Plato
• Lewis Carroll
• Sir John Gielgud
• J. Edgar Hoover
• Henry James
• Bill Maher
• Isaac Newton
• Al Pacino
• Blaise Pascal
• Alexander Pope
• Cecil Rhodes
• Arthur Schopenhauer
• Adam Smith
• Nikola Tesla
• Luther Vandross
• Voltaire
• King William II of England
• Ludwig Wittgenstein