Expectations are everything, especially when it comes to leaders’ facial hair. Here are 18 figures with the facial hair we know them for—and then when it all went wrong.
Most of these pictures show leaders in their youth, before they’d settled into prominence. But even some of history’s most influential people kept experimenting with their look years after they found fame.
1. Joseph Stalin: With and without his mustache
2. Adolph Hitler: With his short mustache and a longer one
3. Winston Churchill: Clean shaven and with a debonaire mustache
4. Benito Mussolini: Clean shaven and with a mustache
5. Abraham Lincoln: With and without his beard
6. Nelson Mandela: Clean shaven and with a mustache
7. Woodrow Wilson: Clean shaven and with a giant mustache
8. Mark Twain: With and without his mustache
9. Frederick Douglas: With his mustache and with just a goatee
10. Che Guevara: With facial hair and clean shaven
11. Ulysses S. Grant: With a beard and a really long beard
12. Bill Clinton: Clean shaven and with a shaggy beard
13. Robert E. Lee: With a beard and with just a mustache
14. Teddy Roosevelt: With a mustache and with just muttonchops
15. Rutherford B. Hayes: With his giant beard and clean shaven
16. Nikola Tesla: With his mustache and clean shaven
17. Vladimir Lenin: With goatee and mustache and clean shaven
18. Fidel Castro: With beard and with just a mustache
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