Robert Atkins

male, deceased (2003)
Robert Coleman Atkins, MD (October 17, 1930 - April 17, 2003) was an American doctor and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Nutritional...
William Banting

William Banting

male, deceased (1878)
William Banting, was an English undertaker and dietician, and one of the first people to manage his weight by going on a formal low-carbohydrate...
Jean Nidetch

Jean Nidetch

female, 86 years old
Jean Nidetch (b. 1923, Brooklyn, New York), is the founder of the Weight Watchers organization. An overweight housewife with a self-confessed...
Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy

male, 53 years old
Kevin Wagner Murphy (born November 3, 1956 in River Forest, Illinois) is a United States actor and puppeteer. For eleven years he was a writer for...
Nikki Haskell

Nikki Haskell

female
Nikki Haskell is a diet advisor best known for her StarCaps diet pills. Haskell has won many celebrity friends and endorsements for her products....
Patrick Deuel

Patrick Deuel

male, 47 years old
Patrick D. "Chubby" Deuel (born 28 March 1962), also known as the Half Ton Man, is an obese man from Nebraska. Deuel is a former restaurant...
Luigi Cornaro

Luigi Cornaro

male, deceased (1566)
Luigi Cornaro (b. 1457?, 1468?; d. 1566) was a Venetian nobleman who wrote treatises on dieting, including "Discorsi della Vita Sobria" (Discourses...
Jon Brower Minnoch

Jon Brower Minnoch

male, deceased (1983)
Jon Brower Minnoch (1941-1983) was the heaviest man recorded in history. At his peak weight, he was approximately 1400 lbs. (635 kg), still 200...

John Stamatopoulos

male, 38 years old
John (Yanni) Stamatopoulos (born January 26, 1971) is a bodybuilding expert. John Stamatopoulos was born to Dimitri and Helen Stamatopoulos in...

Stephan Rössner

male
Stephan Rössner is a Swedish physician and world renowned expert on dieting. He is Professor in Health Related Behavioral Science at Karolinska I...