List of bow tie wearers

Those who write about bow ties often mention famous people who wear or have worn them. These writers often make the point that the image conveyed to others by a bow tie can be affected by associations with celebrities and famous people in the past.

A common fashion accessory in the 19th century, the bow tie had positive associations by mid-20th century, bolstered by real-world personalities, including President Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill, as well as "devil-may-care" characters portrayed in films by actors, including Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra.{{cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/style/style-guy/accessories/200309/bow-ties|title=Why a bow tie's not just for schmucks|last=O'Brien|first=Glenn|date=September 2003|work=GQ.com|publisher=Conde Naste Digital|access-date=1 March 2010|quote=O'Brien noted that a bow tie "can be a badge of courage," as personified by the World War II "bow-tie alliance of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill," or the "mark of the urbane, independent, devil-may-care or rakish personality" such as characters portrayed by Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra.}} By the 1970s, however, the bow tie became associated with nerds and geeks, such as the slapstick characters played by Jerry Lewis, and Mayberry's fictional deputy sheriff, Barney Fife. This perception was reinforced by the bow tie's association with Pee-wee Herman and U.S. Senator Paul Simon.{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3D61339F93AA15754C0A967958260|title=Chronicle|last=Anderson|first=Susan Heller|date=1991-07-29|work=New York Times|access-date=19 March 2010}}

The perceptions associated with bow ties started to take another turn in the 1980s, when Success Magazine{{'s}} founder, W. Clement Stone, spoke out in support of the neck wear after the publication by fashion author John Molloy which observed, "Wear a bow tie and nobody will take you seriously."Quoted in {{cite book|last = Welters|first = Linda|title = Twentieth-century American Fashion|publisher = Berg Publisher|year = 2005|isbn=1-84520-073-X}}

Stone associated bow-tie wearing with virility, aggressiveness, and salesmanship.{{cite news|last=Conroy|first=Sarah Booth|date=1986-01-26|newspaper=The Washington Post|quote=Stone believed bow-tie wearers to be "full of vim and vigour, aggressive and full of drive. They are the best salesmen and entrepreneurs."}}{{cite book|title=The Secret of the Secret|last=Kelly|first=Karen|pages=[https://archive.org/details/secretofsecretun00kell/page/189 189]|publisher=Macmillan|year=2007|isbn=978-0-312-37790-8|url=https://archive.org/details/secretofsecretun00kell/page/189}} In further defense of the bow tie, its use by figures such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Saul Bellow has been cited.{{cite news |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=95000421|title=Fit To Be Tied: The enemies of civilization find a new target, just below the chin |last=Epstein |first=Joseph |date=2001-05-04 |work=Opinion Journal |access-date=17 March 2010 |quote=First, though, let me organize a lineup of bow tie wearers to establish a variety. The most distinguished of all, of course, was Winston Churchill, whose favorite was a fine floppy blue job with white polka dots. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a tall man, often adds a giant butterfly to his getup, which gives his appearance a light and rakish air. Saul Bellow has taken to wearing bow ties late in life. Former Sen. Paul Simon is a habitual bow tie wearer, though, oddly, he seems never to have learned to tie them properly, for the right side of his ties never quite make it to full bow form. For diversity's sake, it would be good to have an NFL linebacker instead of Louis Farrakhan to round off this roster, but Churchill, Moynihan, Bellow, Simon and Farrakhan (a clip-on man, I surmise) perhaps provide sufficient diversity in themselves.}}

File:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 1961.jpg wore a bow tie in the early 1960s, when he worked for U.S. President John F. Kennedy.]]

When a celebrity is noticed wearing a bow tie, it can affect bow tie sales; sales see an improvement when the accessory is associated with younger celebrities such as Tucker Carlson. When Raj Bhakta wore one during his stint on The Apprentice, haberdashers reported customers asking for a bow tie which looked like his. Similarly, after Matt Smith made his debut as the bow tie-wearing Eleventh Doctor in Doctor Who, Topman reported a significant increase in demand for bow ties (from 3% of all tie sales to 14%).{{cite news |title=Doctor Who prompts surge in popularity of bow ties |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/7656389/Doctor-Who-prompts-surge-in-popularity-of-bow-ties.html |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=30 April 2010 |access-date=1 May 2010}}

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote about his decision as a college student to start wearing bow ties in his memoir A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950. Schlesinger remarked that he made his decision in part because a number of famous men he admired had a penchant for the neck wear. In addition, he noted that they prevent dinner mishaps, saying, "It is impossible, or at least it requires extreme agility, to spill anything on a bow tie."{{cite book|last=Schlesinger|first=Arthur M.|title=A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Books|year=2002|page=109|isbn=978-0-618-21925-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLyNX6hMDCIC&q=%22bow+tie%22&pg=PA109}}

Bow tie sellers often cite famous people who have worn the neckwear as a way of encouraging more customers. Jack Cutone, co-founder of Boston Bow Tie, noted that there is ample evidence to support the uniqueness and stature of those who wear bow ties, including Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud.{{cite web|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Dec_30/ai_58416003 |title=Boston Bow Tie Launches Web Site to Market Distinctive and Stylish Bow Ties with a Traditional Flair | Business Wire | Find Articles at BNET.com |access-date=2007-01-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304141445/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1999_Dec_30/ai_58416003 |archive-date=2008-03-04 }}"Boston Bow Tie Launches Web Site to Market Distinctive and Stylish Bow Ties With a Traditional Flair" news release posted on Business Wire, December 30, 1999, according to the LookSmart FindArticles Web site, accessed January 17, 2007 Beau Ties Ltd., an online bow tie seller, has featured a "C. Everett Koop bow tie," complete with an endorsement by Koop, who was Surgeon General of the United States during the Reagan administration.http://www.beautiesltd.com/NewsItem.aspx?pn_deptid=6352 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304084648/http://www.beautiesltd.com/NewsItem.aspx?pn_deptid=6352 |date=2008-03-04 }} News release from Beau Ties Ltd., dated October 3, 2006 and titled "Dr. C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General, and Beau Ties Ltd. Create Birthday Bow Tie" Carrot & Gibbs, another bow tie seller, lists several famous wearers on its bow tie web page.http://www.greatbows.com/store/index.asp?pageid=2 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223034639/http://www.greatbows.com/store/index.asp?pageid=2 |date=2007-02-23 }} Web page titled "The Definitive Bow" at the Carrot & Gibbs Web site, accessed January 17, 2007

Bow ties were conventional attire in the nineteenth century. Portraits of U.S. presidents from Van Buren through McKinley commonly show them in bow ties. Wearing of a bow tie was seldom commented upon and did not form part of the public perception of figures such as American inventor Thomas Edison .http://men.style.com/gq/fashion/styleguy/accessories/96 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314174747/http://men.style.com/gq/fashion/styleguy/accessories/96 |date=2007-03-14 }} Style Guy column at MensStyle.com Web site (associated with GQ magazine), dated September 2003, accessed January 17, 2006

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• Le Corbusier (1887–1965), architect who wore "his trademark bow tie"

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• Peter Eisenman (born 1932), architect and academicEisenman is shown wearing a yellow bow tie in the photo illustrating the article in Archinect, July 27, 2004 [http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=4618_0_23_0_M]

{{cite web |url=http://www.kmpfurniture.com/designer-news/peter-eisenman_and-architect-shrouded-him-controversy__113.html |title=Peter Eisenman |access-date= 23 November 2008 |publisher=KMP Furniture |quote=Known as an eccentric, Eisenman is often seen in a bowtie and a sweater with a small hole.}}Kester Rattenbury, Robert Bevan, and Kieran Long, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LmFooNzPaN0C&pg=RA2-PA1988 Architects Today, Volume 2004], page 1988. Describes Eisenman as "the consummate intellectual New Yorker (big specs, big bow tie, big hair)..."John Taylor, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LuUCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46 Mr. In-Between: Deconstructing Peter Eisenman], New York Magazine, October 17, 1988, pages 46–52. "Eisenman wears bow ties and suspenders and those owlish glasses that for some reason are so popular among architects."

• Walter Gropius (1883–1969), architect, six of whose bow ties are kept by Harvardhttp://www.iceandcoal.org/nfa/harvardephemera.html While not absolutely clear, this Web page indicates Gropius was known for his bow ties: Web page titled "Stories from 'The Chronicle': Cataloguing Harvard's Ephemera", article by Lawrence Biemiller at Biemiller's Web site, the Web page indicates the article is from "The Chronicle of Higher Education. Published January 23, 2004." accessed January 18, 2007: "After three years of work, Ms. Norris not only knows how many of Walter Gropius's bow ties Harvard has (six), but also where they are (the Graduate School of Design)"
• Louis Kahn (1901/1902–1974), architect and academic{{Cite book |last1=McNeil |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dKXZYia7eXgC&dq=louis%20kahn%20The%20Men's%20Fashion%20Reader%20By%20Peter%20McNeil,%20Vicki%20Karaminas&pg=PA113 |title=The Men's Fashion Reader |last2=Karaminas |first2=Vicki |date=2009 |publisher=Berg Publishers |isbn=978-1-84520-786-1 |language=en}}
• Owen Luder (1928–2021), architect{{cite web |url=http://www.bdonline.co.uk/taking-a-bow/3117556.article |title=A Reign of Harmony |access-date= 23 November 2008 |publisher=Tennessee Valley Authority}}

• Leon Botstein (born 1946), president of Bard College{{Cite news |last=Depalma |first=Anthony |date=1992-10-04 |title=The Most Happy College President: Leon Botstein of Bard |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/04/magazine/the-most-happy-college-president-leon-botstein-of-bard.html |access-date=2022-10-16 |issn=0362-4331}}Jacob M. Appel, [http://www.educationupdate.com/archives/2004/jan 04/issue/col_botstein.html Leon Botstein: The Maestro of Annandale], Education Update, January 2004. Refers to his "trademark bowtie."
• George S. Bridges, former Whitman College and current Evergreen State College president{{Citation |url=https://www.whitman.edu/content/president |title=Office of the President |publisher=Whitman College website |access-date=2011-06-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110530044941/http://www.whitman.edu/content/president/ |archive-date=2011-05-30 }}[https://bookstore.whitman.edu/bookstore/product.php?pid=97Bridges' Bow Tie]{{Dead link|date=December 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Whitman College Bookstore, accessed June 2, 2011. "Our Whitman College president proudly wears a bow tie every day. Maybe you should too..."{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/blogs/tweed/presidents-who-wear-bow-ties/21937 |title=Presidents Who Wear Bow Ties |date=March 19, 2010 |last= Troop |first= Don |work=Chronicle of Higher Education}}
• George Campbell Jr. (born 1945), president of Cooper Union{{cite web| url=http://www.prism-magazine.org/sept00/html/campbell.cfm |title=Man on a Mission |work=ASEE Prism |date=September 2000 |publisher=American Society for Engineering Education |quote=the bespectacled, bow-tied Campbell...}}Clem Richardson, [http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/05/03/2010-05-03_cooper_union_prez_to_exit_on_own_terms.html Cooper Union president George Cambell to exit -- on own terms], NY Daily News, May 3, 2010
• James E. Cofer, Fulbright Scholar and President of Missouri State University and the University of Louisiana at Monroe.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Donald J. Cram, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-20-me-12668-story.html |title=Donald Cram; Creative UCLA Chemist, Nobel Prize Winner. |author=Maugh II, Thomas H. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=June 20, 2001 |quote=Many UCLA students have fond memories of Cram, wearing his trademark bow tie, playing his guitar and singing folk tunes in class as the semester end neared.}}
• Angus Deaton, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Economics Department at Princeton University, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences laureate{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/bbf54b3e-c5f3-11e6-9043-7e34c07b46ef|title=Nobel economist Angus Deaton on a year of political earthquakes|date=December 22, 2016 |newspaper=Financial Times}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2015/deaton-facts.html|title=Angus Deaton - Facts|website=The Nobel Prizes |access-date=2017-02-16}}
• William Durden, president of Dickinson College{{cite news |title=Haute Stuff |url=http://www.dickinson.edu/magazine/summer04/feature1h.html |work=Dickinson Magazine |publisher=Dickinson College |date=Summer 2004 |access-date=23 November 2008 |quote=President William G. Durden '71 is known around campus for his strong personal fashion sense—his penchant for wearing bow ties as well as his different colors of glasses frames .... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309130031/http://www.dickinson.edu/magazine/summer04/feature1h.html |archive-date=2009-03-09 }}
• E. Gordon Gee (born 1944), president of West Virginia University and former president of Vanderbilt University, Brown University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Ohio State University: "When E. Gordon Gee was fifteen years old, he made a defining sartorial decision. He began wearing a bow tie."http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=1113 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061113101617/http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=1113 |date=2006-11-13 }} Boucher, Norman, "E. Gordon Gee: Introducing the seventeenth president", Brown Alumni Magazine, September/October 1997
• Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990612,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016213052/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990612,00.html |title=Bacteriologist Alexander Fleming |last=Ho |first=David |newspaper=Time |date=March 29, 1999 |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |quote=He was a short man, usually clad in a bow tie, who even in his celebrity never mastered the conventions of polite society.}} [http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/~ajs/Academia_Militar/PMI/Temas/A_Fleming.pdf Alt URL]
• Jerry Herron, dean of the Irvin D. Reid Honors College at Wayne State University{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
• Richard Hofstadter, American historian{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Eric R. Kandel (born 1929), neurobiology professor and Nobel Prize laureate with a "trademark bow tie"http://www.nyas.org/snc/update.asp?UpdateID=21 Burke, Adrienne, "Gazing at Science Stars: An Ansel Adams protégée captures the nature of brilliance", article in Science and the City webzine of the New York Academy of Sciences, September 16, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007
• Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.{{cite journal|title=Sailing to Byzantium|journal=Annual Review of Biochemistry|volume=61|pages=1–28|author=Kennedy, Eugene P.|year=1992|quote=With abundant hair just becoming a little gray, and usually wearing a soft bow tie, Lipmann presented a figure closer to the stereotype of the artist than of the scientist.|doi=10.1146/annurev.bi.61.070192.000245|pmid=1497305|doi-access=free}}
• William Lipscomb, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.{{cite web|url=http://www.harvard.edu/nobel-laureates|title=Nobel Laureates|access-date=2013-01-08|quote=The scientist, known for his clarinet playing and Western-style bow ties, describes his mode of reasoning: "I am inclined to make large intuitive jumps and then set about to test the conclusions."}}
• R. Bowen Loftin (born 1949), chancellor of the University of Missouri. Quoted as saying "The similarity between Bowen and Bowtie tends to help people remember my name."{{Cite web |url=http://news.tamus.edu/2006/12/02/spotlight-texas-am-university-at-galveston/ |title=Spotlight: Texas A&M University at Galveston |access-date=2013-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811065744/http://news.tamus.edu/2006/12/02/spotlight-texas-am-university-at-galveston/ |archive-date=2014-08-11 }}{{cite news|title=Texas A&M President Website |url=http://www.tamu.edu/president/ |work=Texas A&M University |date=18 June 2009 |access-date=23 November 2008 |quote=The similarity between Bowen and Bowtie tends to help people remember my name. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209010953/http://www.tamu.edu/president/ |archive-date=9 December 2008 }}
• Bohumil Makovsky, Director of Bands at Oklahoma A&M College{{citation needed|date=August 2013}}
• Santa Ono (born 1962), President & Vice-Chancellor of The University of British Columbia, President Emeritus of University of Cincinnati, President of University of Michigan. Immunologist and vision researcher.
• Paul C. Pribbenow, president of Augsburg University.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Paul Samuelson (1915–2009), professor emeritus of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Nobel Prize winner.{{cite news |title=The End of Globalization? |author=Gabor Steingart |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,522628,00.html |work=Spiegel Online |date=December 11, 2007 |access-date=December 13, 2009 |quote=The hallway eventually leads to an office where a 92-year-old man [Samuelson] wearing a bowtie is sitting at his desk eating sushi. |author-link=Gabor Steingart }}{{cite magazine |title=Postscript: Paul Samuelson |last=Cassidy |first=John |url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2009/12/postscript-paul-samuelson.html |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast Digital |date=December 14, 2009 |access-date=December 17, 2009 |quote=Then [Samuelson] bounced in on the soles of his feet, a diminutive man dressed in a light gray suit, a red-and-white-striped shirt, and a snazzy bow tie. }}
• Erwin Schrödinger, father of quantum physics{{citation |title=Remarkable Physicists |page=301 |isbn=0-521-01706-8 |last=James |first=Ioan |year=2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |quote=Professors were expected to dress formally; Schrodinger usually wore a sweater and bow tie in winter}}{{citation |title=Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution |page=1920 |isbn=978-1-118-33188-0 |last=Gribbin |first=John |year=2013 |quote=Schrodinger addressed his students wearing a sweater and a jaunty bow tie ...}}
• Eugene H. Spafford, cybersecurity pioneer, professor at Purdue University, and founder of the CERIAS research institute.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWyWDO3TM2c |title=Dr. Gene Spafford talks CERIAS-ly about bow ties |website=YouTube |access-date=7 December 2014 |date=April 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://spaf.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/charity-auction-some-of-spafs-bow-ties/ |title=Charity Auction — Some of Spaf's Bow Ties |access-date=7 December 2014 |date=July 2014}}
• Edward C. Taylor, Princeton University [https://www.princeton.edu/~chemdept/ECT/index.html Professor of Chemistry] and inventor of certain chemotherapeutic pharmaceuticals.{{cite news|title=His Find Became Tumors' Nemesis|url=http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2010/05/his_find_became_tumors_nemesis.html|access-date=1 June 2016|agency=The Trenton Times|date=May 9, 2010}}
• William E. Troutt, 19th president of Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Celâl Şengör Turkish Geologist{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}

File:Daniel Boorstin.jpg Daniel J. Boorstin wore a bow tie in this official photograph.]]

• Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004), U.S. historian, professor, attorney, writer, U.S. Librarian of Congress 1975-1987{{Cite web |title=Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress -- LIBRARIANS OF CONGRESS |url=https://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/librs.html |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=www.loc.gov}}
• Bill Nye (born 1955), television science program host, is a "gangly guy in the blue lab coat and bow tie".{{cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/101199/news_pf/Floridian/Bill_Nye__the_success.shtml |title=Floridian: Bill Nye, the successful guy |access-date=2008-01-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080305115010/http://www.sptimes.com/News/101199/news_pf/Floridian/Bill_Nye__the_success.shtml |archive-date=2008-03-05 }} Davis, Pamela, "Bill Nye, the successful guy", article in The St. Petersburg Times, October 11, 1999, accessed January 18, 2007 On why he wears bow ties: "If you're working with liquid nitrogen and your tie falls into it, it's funny in a way to the audience but it's also — pun intended — a little bit of a pain in the neck."Humor is a part of his program, so the bow tie may spoof academics and associate him with comedians.[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/television/2002252736_nye26.html] Rahner, Mark, "Eye to eye with Bill Nye the Science Guy", article in The Seattle Times, April 26, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007
• Alexander Oparin (1894–1980), Soviet biochemist notable for his contributions to the theory of the origin of lifeA. L. Kursanov, [http://www.inbi.ras.ru/history/oparin/sketches%20to%20a%20portrait%20of%20oparin%20-%20100.pdf Sketches to a Portrait of A.I. Oparin] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722134429/http://www.inbi.ras.ru/history/oparin/sketches%20to%20a%20portrait%20of%20oparin%20-%20100.pdf |date=2011-07-22 }}, Lecture presented at the Opening of the International Symposium "Biochemistry of the 21st Century: Problems and Frontiers", devoted to The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of A. I. Oparin, Moscow, May 13—18, 1995. "The bow tie ... was an immutable detail of ... Oparin's attire for his whole life. This tie ... was almost a part of his personality, one that added some aura of self-confidence and authority to his whole demeanor."
• Murray Rothbard (1926–1995), libertarian economist and historian who "always wore a conservative suit and bow tie."http://www.libertystory.net/LSTHINKROTHBARDLIFE.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219094045/http://www.libertystory.net/LSTHINKROTHBARDLIFE.htm |date=2007-02-19 }} Web page titled "The Life and Times of Murray N. Rothbard [...]" at Libertystory.net Web site, accessed January 18, 2006File:Murray Rothbard.jpg author of For a New Liberty]]
• Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007), "famed for his trademark bow ties"{{Cite web |title=Anecdotage |url=https://anecdotage.com/ |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=anecdotage.com}}{{Cite web |title=40 Years After Missile Crisis, Players Swap Stories in Cuba |url=http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/cold-war/stories.htm |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=www.latinamericanstudies.org}}
• Chris Whittle (born 1947), founder of Channel One News and Edison Schools[https://www.npr.org/programs/npc/2000/000628.cwhittle.html National Public Radio profile: Christopher Whittle], June 28, 2000: "Whittle is a bow-tie wearing entrepreneur determined to reform education, while making a profit."Pope Brock, [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20108663,00.html Christopher Whittle; This Man Wants to Teach Your Children Well—and for Profit], People 38(12), September 21, 1992: "He's a man of disarming charm, his signature bow tie and his grin both a little lopsided."
• Peter Morici (born 1948) economist, political commentator and Professor of International Business at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, College Park.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

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• Fred Allen, American radio and TV comedian {{Cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/rhofsection.php?page=159|title=Photo at Museum of Broadcasting website shows him in a bowtie|access-date=6 May 2023|archive-date=13 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813131844/http://www.museum.tv/rhofsection.php?page=159|url-status=dead}}
• Charlie Chaplin, renowned comic actor of the silent film era
• Fyvush Finkel, comedic actor best known for roles on TV series produced by David E. Kelley, sometimes nicknamed "Bowtie Finkel"{{Cite web |date=2004-07-16 |title=A Mega Bar Mitzvah for Actor Fyvush Finkel |url=https://forward.com/culture/5031/a-mega-bar-mitzvah-for-actor-fyvush-finkel/ |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=The Forward |language=en}}
• Pee-wee Herman, played by Paul Reubens:Image:Pee-Wee Herman (1988).jpg shows the character in typical neckwear
• Marc Evan Jackson, American comedian and actor, who "has played Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars wearing a bow tie invariably during every performance"{{cite web |url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tah/thrilling-adventure-hour-the-graphic-novel-and-bey |title=Thrilling Adventure Hour: The Graphic Novel... and Beyond! |access-date=2014-03-10}} as well as wearing them when he is out of character{{cite web |url=http://www.stylebistro.com/lookbook/Marc+Evan+Jackson/mdA2ZjdaUMa/men |title=Marc Evan Jackson |date=2013-05-27 |access-date=2014-03-10}}
• Stan Laurel, comedian, typically wore a bow tie when in characterhttp://www.frankelcostume.com/proddetail.php?prod=Stan_Laurel {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019012414/http://www.frankelcostume.com/proddetail.php?prod=Stan_Laurel |date=2006-10-19 }} Web site for Frankel's Costume, describes its ventriloquist dummy resembling Laurel as "This Stan Laurel Doll has been faithfully reproduced with his blue overalls, a long-sleeved white shirt, and a red, polka-dotted bow tie.", accessed January 18, 2007
• Jerry Lewis ("in nutty character")
• Groucho Marx, American comedian{{cite news |first= David|last= Soibelman|title=What Poets, Presidents and Groucho Shared Bow ties: Only a few men can master these sartorial butterflies. |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60269498.html?dids=60269498:60269498&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+03%2C+1993&author=DAVID+SOIBELMAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=What+Poets%2C+Presidents+and+Groucho+Shared+Bow+ties%3A+Only+a+few+men+can+master+these+sartorial+butterflies.&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304134049/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/60269498.html?dids=60269498:60269498&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+03%2C+1993&author=DAVID+SOIBELMAN&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=What+Poets%2C+Presidents+and+Groucho+Shared+Bow+ties%3A+Only+a+few+men+can+master+these+sartorial+butterflies.&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 4, 2009 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=1993-12-03 |access-date=2008-11-14}}
• David Mitchell, actor, comedian, and raconteur of Mitchell and Webb fame. David's bow ties were known as a source of amusement during his early career.{{Citation |title=Bow Ties extract from David Mitchell's autobiography, Back Story. Read by author [audiobook extract] |url=https://soundcloud.com/harpercollins-publishers/extract5-bowties-davidmitchell |language=en |access-date=2022-10-16}}
• Garry Moore, comedian who hosted game and variety shows, was known for his crew cut and bow ties{{cite news |title=Garry Moore, 78, the Cheery Host Of Long-Running TV Series, Dies |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE7D81039F93AA15752C1A965958260 |work= The New York Times |date=1993-11-29 |access-date=2008-07-11 }}[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/391506/Garry-Moore Garry Moore], Britannica Online{{Cite web |date=2008-12-22 |title=Moore for Housewives - TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,817877,00.html |access-date=2022-10-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222115440/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,817877,00.html |archive-date=2008-12-22 }}
• Frank Muir, British comedy writer and broadcast personality "famous for his pink bow tie and mispronunciation", according to the BBC{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} UK {{!}} Comedy writer Frank Muir dead at 77 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/44182.stm |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=news.bbc.co.uk}}
• Mo Rocca, identified by the New York Times as one of several comedians who have worn bow ties "ironically"
• Mark Russell, American political comedian, pianist, and parody song author. "Mr. Russell knows from bow ties. They have been his signature for years, along with a star-spangled piano that he plinks every few minutes ..."{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0DE5DB1339F933A05750C0A961958260&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/T/Television | work=The New York Times | title=Mark Russell's High-Wire Act With No Net | first=Clyde | last=Haberman | date=March 30, 1997 | access-date=May 8, 2010}}
• Paul F. Tompkins, American comedian known for his dapper appearance on stage{{cite web |url=http://austinist.com/2012/05/23/paul_f_tompkins_a_fancy_man.php |title=An Interview with Paul F. Tompkins: A Very Fancy Man |first=Arian |last=Brumby |date=2012-05-23 |access-date=2014-03-10}} including a penchant for bow ties{{cite web |url=http://putthison.com/post/11412386026/the-brilliantly-hilarious-paul-f-tompkins-was |title=A Web Series about Dressing Like a Grownup |date=2011-10-13 |access-date=2014-03-10}}

• Tucker Carlson, conservative American commentatorhttp://www.styledash.com/2006/11/02/never-trust-a-man-in-a-bow-tie/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927084416/http://www.styledash.com/2006/11/02/never-trust-a-man-in-a-bow-tie/ |date=2007-09-27 }} Metz, Ann, "Never trust a man in a bow tie" posted at StyleDash Web site November 2, 2006 at 12:43 p.m., accessed January 17, 2007 In 2005 he told the New York Times he had consistently worn bow ties since childhood, but he acknowledged that bow ties often provoke negative reactions, "like a middle finger protruding from your neck."{{cite journal|last=St. John|first=Warren|date=2005-06-26|title=A Red Flag That Comes in Many Colors|journal=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/fashion/sundaystyles/26BOWTIE.html|access-date=2010-03-18}} Following his tenure on CNN's Crossfire (Jon Stewart famously knocked the bow tie during his infamous 2004 appearance on the show), he has switched primarily to long neckties or no ties at all.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• John Daly, journalist and host of What's My Line?, was often photographed in a bow tie;{{Cite web|url=http://rockermouse.com/whatsmyline.html|title=RockerMouse (tm): What's My Line?|website=rockermouse.com|access-date=6 May 2023}} evening dress (which included bow ties) was worn by the host and panelists on that game showTerry Teachout, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CEFD81731F93BA15753C1A9679C8B63 The Games People Played in a Simpler Time], The New York Times, October 28, 2001
• Sir Robin Day (1923–2000), British television commentator and interviewer; his BBC News obituary said "With his thick horn-rimmed spectacles and trade mark polka-dot bow tie, he was the great inquisitor"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/870103.stm "Sir Robin Day: 1923–2000" article at BBC News website, August 7, 2000, accessed January 18, 2007
• Troy Dungan, retired chief weather anchor for WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas-Fort Worth, owns approximately 220 bow tieshttp://www.wfaa.com/tdungan/ Troy Dungan career retrospective, retrieved on 29 July 2007.
• Dave Garroway (1913–1982), American broadcaster, first host of the Today showGamarekian, Barbara. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D71731F93BA35753C1A96E948260 " Rummaging in Broadcasting's Attic"], The New York Times, October 8, 1988. Accessed November 17, 2008. "There is Jimmy Durante's battered hat, Rudy Vallee's megaphone and Dave Garroway's trademark glasses and bow tie."{{Cite web|url=http://www.richsamuels.com/nbcmm/davegarrowayobit.html|title=Dave Garroway New York Times Obituary|website=www.richsamuels.com|access-date=6 May 2023}}
• Tom Keene, host of Bloomberg Surveillance on Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Roger Kimball (born 1953), no longer a bow-tie wearer, U.S. art critic and social commentator, co-editor and co-publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter BooksBernard Chapin, [http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1018688/Roger-Kimball-Interview The Highest Criterion: An interview with Roger Kimball], History News Network, March 17, 2003. "Here before us, bespectacled and sporting a bowtie, is one of our greatest enforcers."
• Irving R. Levine (1922–2009), the first foreign correspondent accredited in the Soviet Union.,[http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/HOWTO/HelpfulHints.asp?Params=category=679-820 |level=2–3|pageid=3905-1386]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Levenger Web site, Web page titled "How They Work: Gifts of a Journal" by Steve Leveen: "With his serious reporting on NBC and ubiquitous bow tie, Irving R. Levine became a television icon to a generation of Americans.", accessed January 17, 2007http://www.newsbios.com/newslum/levine.htm The Business News Luminaries Web site, Web page titled "Irving R. Levine" One sentence states: "The economics assignment gave Mr. Levine a mild-mannered persona, and his trademark bow tie did little to subtract from a Mr. Peepers image." accessed January 17, 2007 the former economics reporter for NBC television, known for his "trademark bow tie", appeared for the first time in public wearing a necktie for the Brown University commencement in 1994. "I needed help in tying it," he later said.http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/november/december_2000/journalism.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304212303/http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/november/december_2000/journalism.html |date=2008-03-04 }}Brown Alumni Magazine Web page titled "Journalism", section titled "Irving R. Levine '44", dated November/December 2000, accessed February 2, 2008
• Russell Lynes (1910–1991), American art historian, photographer, author and editor of Harper's Magazine[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE5DC103EF935A2575AC0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1 Russell Lynes, 80, an Editor and Arbiter of Taste] (obituary) by Richard Severo, September 16, 1991, The New York Times, retrieved February 18, 2008: "He was tweedy, bow-tied, pipe-smoking, buttoned-down and urbane, an aficionado of things like Bugatti cars and Downing cottages."
• Tom Oliphant, writer for the Boston Globe{{cite web|url=https://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/198809/dweebs-on-bus-alessandra-stanley-maureen-dowd-political-reporters |title=The Dweebs on the Bus |work=GQ |author=Alessandra Stanley and Maureen Dowd |date=September 1988 |quote=The bow-tied and whimsical Boston Globe reporter Tom Oliphant...}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MFOst-0XPkgC&pg=PA323 |title=Troublemaker: A Political Memoir of the Sixties |last= Zimmerman |first= William |page=323 |quote=Tom wore his signature business suit, bow tie, and beat-up running shoes. |publisher=Random House Digital |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-385-53348-5}}
• Charles Osgood (1933–2024), American broadcast journalist, described as having a "trademark bow tie"[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CEEDD1331F937A15757C0A962958260 New Jersey Q & A: Charles Osgood; A New Face at CBS 'Sunday Morning'], by Albert J. Parisi, The New York Times, April 24, 1994[https://web.archive.org/web/20060213084900/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/sunday/bios/main13584.shtml Charles Osgood] biography, CBS News Sunday Morning website
• Gene Shalit (born 1926), U.S. film critic and regular commentator on the Today showPhotos of him always include a bow tie, for example the photo illustrating "[http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid24133.asp Gene Shalit on his gay son]," The Advocate website (accessed May 23, 2008)Biography Research Guide: "He is known for frequent use of puns, oversized handlebar moustache, and for wearing colorful bowties."[http://www.123exp-biographies.com/t/00031044661/][http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2006/10/05/columnists/offbeat/c9dabbab07e9541b862571fd006900fd.txt A 2006 news story about Shalit's daughter] referred to "his trademark horned-rimmed glasses, handlebar mustache and bow tie."
• Harry Smith (born 1951), TV journalist, wore a "trademark" bow tie during his early career at a Denver station, but stopped wearing them when he joined CBS in 1987, when a network official told him that Charles Osgood was CBS' bow-tie-wearing personality and "We can't have two guys wearing bow ties."[http://westword.com/2002-10-17/news/off-limits/full Off Limits: Holy Moses!], Denver WestWord, October 17, 2002
• Jeffrey Tucker, editorial director of the American Institute for Economic Research{{cite web| url=http://www.goldmadesimplenews.com/gold/cobden-centre's-tony-baxendale-talks-uk-monetary-reform-with-jeff-tucker-of-the-mises-institute-4004/ | title=Cobden Centre's Toby Baxendale talks UK monetary reform with Jeff Tucker of the Mises Institute |quote=Jeff Tucker (he of bow-tie fame) |date=June 3, 2011 |work=Gold News}}
• Timothy White (1952–2002), rock journalist and "debonair dandy who "always wore his bow tie in public"{{citation |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/01/arts/timothy-white-50-billboard-editor-in-chief.html|title=Timothy White, 50, Billboard Editor in Chief|last=Pareles |first=Jon |newspaper=New York Times | date= July 1, 2002}} and prided himself in his jaunty bow tie and white buckskin shoes.".Obituary in The Independent, accessed January 18, 2007
• Tim Wonnacott, English antiques expert and television presenter best known for presenting Bargain Hunt.{{cite news| last=Knight | first=Gordon Kanki | title=Meet Bargain Hunt's Tim Wonnacott | website=adelaidenow | date=5 August 2016 | url=https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle/sa-weekend/meet-bargain-hunts-tim-wonnacott/news-story/c0dbff981b8dbd1e2c0fe0499efbb870 | access-date=6 May 2023}}
• George Will (born 1941), American conservative syndicated columnist and regular on the This Week Sunday morning program on ABC television. He sometimes appears with a bow tie, sometimes with a long tie, as can be seen on the covers of his books. In 2005, he told the New York Times that whenever he wore a regular necktie, people commented on the absence of his bow tie.
• Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chef emeritus of Bloomberg News.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

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• Fred Astaire
• Raj Bhakta, 2005 contestant on The Apprentice television program, later ran for Congress and lost
• Bud Collyer, American television game show host in the 1950s and early 1960s, typically wore a bow tiehttp://www.440.com/twtd/archives/dec18.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070124000737/http://www.440.com/twtd/archives/dec18.html |date=2007-01-24 }} Web page titled "Those Were the Days: December 18" at the 440 International Web site, accessed January 18, 2007, from the Web page: "1956 – One of America's great panel shows debuted on CBS-TV. Bud Collyer, bow tie and all, hosted To Tell the Truth."Ray Broadus Browne and Pat Browne, [https://books.google.com/books?id=U3rJxPYT32MC&dq=%22bud+collyer%22+%22to+tell+the+truth%22+%22bow+tie%22&pg=PA308 The Guide to United States Popular Culture], 2001, Popular Press, {{ISBN|0-87972-821-3}}, {{ISBN|978-0-87972-821-2}}, page 308: "[Collyer] always wore a bow tie."
• Keith Floyd, bon viveur, restaurateur and TV chef{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article6834951.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314061918/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article6834951.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 14, 2010 |date=September 15, 2009 |title=Flamboyant TV chef Keith Floyd dies of heart attack |newspaper=The Times | location=London | first=Jenny | last=Booth | access-date=May 8, 2010 }}: "Each [of his shows] featured the bow tie-wearing chef raising plentiful glasses of red wine while sloshing ingredients into a pan and barking orders at his cameraman."
• John Houseman (1902–1988), actor
• Vladimir Horowitz (1903–1989), pianist, wore a "trademark bow tie."{{Cite news |last=Tommasini |first=Anthony |date=1988-09-25 |title=HOROWITZ AT 85: STILL PLAYING FREE |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/25/arts/horowitz-at-85-still-playing-free.html |access-date=2022-10-16 |issn=0362-4331}}http://www.concertonet.com/scripts/edito.php?ID_edito=63 Kirshnit, Frederick L., "Instruments of Mass Seduction III" article at "Concerto.net" Web site dated June 2, 2004, accessed January 18, 2007
• Christopher Kimball, cooking writer and TV hostStephen Metcalf, [http://slate.com/id/2089461/ Sexy Food Nerds: Cooking geeks get hot on America's Test Kitchen], Slate.com, October 13, 2003: "As host of ATK, [Kimball] sports the standard-issue ATK apron, granny glasses, a doofy bow tie, and helmet hair."http://www.cooksillustrated.com/magazine/ About Cook's Magazine at Cook's Illustrated
• Matthew Lesko, American author and late-night television personality whose customary garish outfits include bow ties [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/14/AR2007071401118.html Marked Man], by Peter Carlson, The Washington Post, Sunday, July 15, 2007
• Magician James Randi frequently wore a bow tie in his public appearances.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19810124&id=lRUiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CXUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1753,4320807 |title=Dispelling the Myth of Mysteries |date= January 24, 1981|newspaper=The Day |last=Montgomery |first=Roger }}
• Stromae (Paul Van Haver), Belgian singer-songwriter{{cite web|url=http://radarmagazine.se/music/interview/stromae/ |title=Stromae |work=Radar Magazine |last= Nettelbladt |first= Sonja |date=October 29, 2013}} In addition to his music, Stromae is also known for his artistic videos and sharp style, often dressed in colourful, clean-cut clothes and his trademark bow tie.
• Brendon Urie of Panic! At The Disco is often seen wearing a bow tie to correspond with the historic element in their music.{{cite web|url=http://style.mtv.com/2011/05/05/panic-at-the-disco-brendon-urie/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110507093902/http://style.mtv.com/2011/05/05/panic-at-the-disco-brendon-urie/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 7, 2011 |title=Hot Dude Of The Day: Panic! At The Disco's Brendon Urie Makes Us Force Our Boyfriends To Dress Like Him |work=MTV Style |last= Mahlmeister |first= Chrissy |date=May 5, 2011}}

• Manolo Blahnik, shoe designer, sports a "signature bow tie"http://www.footwearaheadspain.com/index.php?sid=709&pressrelease=60 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202220849/http://www.footwearaheadspain.com/index.php?sid=709&pressrelease=60 |date=2007-02-02 }} Anniss, Elisa, "Manolo Blahnik's interview", FN Footwear News, "Vol. 62 NO 22", dated May 29, 2006{{cite news |last=Higgins |first=Natasha |title=The Aesthete Manolo Blahnik |date=November 16, 2010 |newspaper=Financial Times |url=http://www.howtospendit.com/#/articles/3093-the-aesthete-manolo-blahnik-part-one |quote=I almost always wear a bow tie|access-date=November 24, 2010}}
• Alber Elbaz (1961–2021), Israeli fashion designer{{Cite web|url=https://fashionweekdaily.com/alber-elbaz-bow-ties-lesportsac/|title=Alber Elbaz Finally Explains Those Colorful Bow Ties|first=Charles|last=Manning|date=7 September 2018|access-date=6 May 2023}}

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• Archibald Cox (1912–2004), the Watergate special prosecutor, constantly wore "his trademark bow tie, neatly knotted as always"http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=471532 Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Web page titled "NBC Evening News for Monday, Jul 20, 1973", accessed January 17, 2007, "Abstract: (Studio) NBC's Irving R. Levine known for bow tie ... John Dunlop, Archibald Cox and George Shultz dogmatically disregard faddish widths".https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/05/30/AR2005040302499_pf.html Barnes, Bart, "Watergate Prosecutor Faced Down the President", The Washington Post, front-page obituary, May 30, 2004, accessed January 18, 2007
• Edward H. Levi (1911–2000), United States Attorney General, described by The New York Times as looking unready for political combat in "his signature bow tie and thick glasses"Taubman, Philip. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E0DA1E38F93AA35750C0A9669C8B63 "Editorial Observer; An Attorney General Who Trusted the Law"], The New York Times, March 9, 2000. Accessed November 16, 2008. "With his signature bow tie and thick glasses, he hardly looked ready for political combat."
• Louis Lowenstein (1925–2009), professor at Columbia University School of Law[http://www.columbialawreview.org/assets/pdfs/In_Memoriam_Louis_Lowenstein.pdf In Memoriam: Louis Lowenstein] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727145417/http://www.columbialawreview.org/assets/pdfs/In_Memoriam_Louis_Lowenstein.pdf |date=2011-07-27 }}, Columbia Law Review, v. 109, no. 6, October 2009; pages 1263–1277
• John Paul Stevens (1920–2019), U.S. Supreme Court Justice who "rarely, if ever, wears any other neckwear on the bench"https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE7D61139F934A25752C0A960948260 Clarity, James F., and Weaver, Warren Jr., "Briefing: Bow Ties and Skullcaps", The New York Times, January 17, 1986, accessed January 18, 2007 (both years are correct)
• Joseph N. Welch (1890–1960), head attorney for the U.S. Army in the Army–McCarthy hearings of the 1950sWelch wore a bow tie in a photo that appeared on the cover of the July 16, 1954 issue of Life [http://img.timeinc.net/Life/covers/1954/cv072654.jpg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071128124102/http://img.timeinc.net/Life/covers/1954/cv072654.jpg|date=2007-11-28}}Nathan Rabin, in [https://www.avclub.com/content/node/42883 Point Of Order & Punishment Park] (avclub.com, November 23, 2005), a review of a documentary on the Army-McCarthy hearings, describes Welch as "the special counsel for the U.S. Army whose bow-tie-clad folksiness masks a brilliant mind and devastating wit."

The regular wearing of bow ties by a politician is often the subject of comment — from friends, foes and journalists:

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• Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., former U.S. Representative from VirginiaBrett Lieberman, [http://www.virginiabusiness.com/edit/magazine/yr2000/nov00/congress.html Virginia's high-tech bloc] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309091113/http://www.virginiabusiness.com/edit/magazine/yr2000/nov00/congress.html |date=2009-03-09 }}, Virginia Business, November 2000. Article says of Bliley, "his trademark is a bow tie."
• Earl Blumenauer, U.S. Representative from Oregon, wears "his trademark bow tie"http://www.walksacramento.org/blum.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317014113/http://www.walksacramento.org/blum.html |date=2007-03-17 }} Pierce, Neal R., columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group, "Smart Growth's Johnny Appleseed", column, February 21, 1999, accessed January 18, 2007
• Winston Churchill, British statesman, prime minister, Nobel Literature Prize laureate
• Tom Connally, U.S. Senator from Texas{{cite book|author=Robert J. Donovan|title=Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948|url=https://archive.org/details/conflictcrisispr00dono|url-access=registration|year=1977|page=[https://archive.org/details/conflictcrisispr00dono/page/257 257]|publisher=WW Norton & Co|quote=Senator Tom Connally, reared on a Texas farm, affected broad-rimmed black hats, full-cut black coats, gold studs, and black bow tie, and let his silverly lockscurl down over his stiff white collar.|author-link=Robert J. Donovan}}
• Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican politician and president.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Lawrence Coughlin, former U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Mo Cowan, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts{{cite news|last=Schoenberg|first=Shira|title=William 'Mo' Cowan is sworn in as U.S. senator from Massachusetts|url=http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/02/mo_cowan_is_sworn_in_as_us_sen.html|access-date=March 3, 2013|newspaper=MassLive.com|date=February 7, 2013 |quote= Cowan wore a suit and his trademark bow tie.}}{{cite news|title=Gov. picks William 'Mo' Cowan as John Kerry's replacement in Senate|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gov-picks-mo-kerry-replacement-senate-article-1.1251041|access-date=March 3, 2013|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=January 30, 2013}}
• Elio Di Rupo, former Belgian prime minister, once described by a reporter as "the bow tie wearing Socialist"http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/foreign/davidrennie/may06/constitution.htm {{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Blog (unnamed?) of David Rennie, Brussels foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph at the newspaper's Web site, in a post dated May 29, 2006, 17:04, describes Rupo as "the bow tie wearing Socialist" (accessed January 17, 2007)
• Peter Dunne, former New Zealand politician.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir, Malaysian politician and former Member of Parliament.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Tom Fink, former Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives and mayor of Anchorage, Alaska.{{Cite news|title=All the Fink's Men|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10209276|access-date=July 24, 2017|work=Fairbanks Daily News-Miner|agency=Associated Press|date=April 4, 1973|via=Newspapers.com|quote=House coalition members bedecked in Speaker Tom Fink outfits--regulation bow ties and corncob pipes--pose with the Anchorage Republican, top center, last weekend.}}
• Christian Herter, Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Secretary of State{{cite web|url=http://aliciapatterson.org/stories/americas-trade-warriors%E2%80%93still-searching-right-weapon|title= America's Trade Warriors–Still Searching for the Right Weapon |author=Stephen J. Dryden |year=1991|access-date=2013-01-09|quote=Herter's tweeds, bow ties, and towering height give him the air of an aloof patrician, but he was attuned to political realities, having served as a Massachusetts state legislator, congressman and governor.}}
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia, "well-known for always sporting his trademark bow tie"; has even been "dubbed an 'American in a bow tie' by his opponents"http://www.jbanc.org/ilves2006.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207132645/http://www.jbanc.org/ilves2006.html |date=2007-02-07 }} Web page titled "Ilves wins Estonian presidency", dated September 23, 2006, at Web site of JBANC, the Joint Baltic American National Committee, Inc., accessed January 18, 2007

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• Stjepan Kljuić, Bosnian politician, former member of tripartite President Council.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Polish liberal conservative publisher and politicianhttp://korwin-mikke.blog.onet.pl {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126013840/http://korwin-mikke.blog.onet.pl/ |date=2016-01-26 }} Janusz Korwin-Mikke's official blog clearly showing him with a bowtie.
• Patrick McHenry, U.S. representative from North Carolina, acting speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives{{cite news |last1=Maloy |first1=Ashley Fetters |title=Patrick McHenry is part of a long, bipartisan history of bow ties in politics |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashion/2023/10/06/bow-tie-patrick-mchenry/ |access-date=13 January 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=6 October 2023}}
• Farzad Mostashari, the former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/farzad_md|title=Farzad Mostashari (@Farzad_MD) {{!}} Twitter|website=twitter.com|access-date=2016-08-01}}
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York, whom Hillary Clinton remembered in a speech as having had "three signature items: his horn rimmed glasses, a bow tie, and a great idea"http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=106&subid=122&contentid=251430 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926225245/http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=106&subid=122&contentid=251430 |date=2007-09-26 }} Clinton, Hillary Rodham, speech reprinted at the Democratic Leadership Forum Web site, Web page titled "Statement of Senator Clinton in Tribute to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan", March 26, 2003
• Donald Payne Jr., U.S. Representative from New Jersey{{cite news|last=Goodin|first=Emily|title=Congressional style|url=https://thehill.com/capital-living/cover-stories/144410-congressional-style/|access-date=March 18, 2013| newspaper=thehill.com|date=March 11, 2013 |quote=Freshman Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-N.J.) is often spotted sporting a bow tie. "I predominantly am a bow tie wearer," he told The Hill.}}
• Lester B. Pearson, Canadian prime minister, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, "with his trademark blue polka dot blue" bow tie{{cite book|title=Scrum Wars|url=https://archive.org/details/scrumwarsprimemi0000levi|url-access=registration|author=Allan Gerald Levine|publisher=Dundurn Press|year=1993|pages=[https://archive.org/details/scrumwarsprimemi0000levi/page/246 246]}}
• Otis G. Pike, U.S. Representative from New York{{cite news|last=Kleinfeld|first=N.R.|title=Otis G. Pike, 92, Dies; Long Island Congressman Took On C.I.A.|newspaper=nytimes.com|quote=A tall, wavy-haired man who wore bow ties exclusively [...]}}
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
• Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
• Wolfgang Schüssel, Austrian Chancellor from 2000 to 2007{{Cite news|title = Wolfgang Schüssel, an Austrian abroad|url = http://www.economist.com/node/216535|newspaper = The Economist|access-date = 2015-12-05|issn = 0013-0613}}
• Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech politician, foreign minister{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-czech-election-idUKBRE90B0GZ20130112|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126013841/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-czech-election-idUKBRE90B0GZ20130112|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 26, 2016|title=Former PM to square off with prince for Czech presidency|last=Lopatka |first=Jan |date=2013-01-12|access-date=2013-01-13|quote=Currently foreign minister in the centre-right cabinet, the bow-tied, pipe-smoking Schwarzenberg is personally untainted by graft scandals.|work=Reuters}}
• Ardalan Shekarabi, Swedish politician and minister for public administration.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• George P. Shultz, U.S. Secretary of Labor, the Treasury, and State, consistently wore bow ties in the early 1970s
• Paul Simon, U.S. senator from Illinois{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506EEDB163CF934A35750C0A96F958260|title=Dark Horse in a Bow Tie|last=Wright|first=Michael|date=1999-03-07|work=The New York Times|access-date=2008-11-15}}
• Otto Suhr, Governing Mayor of Berlin (mayor of West Berlin) from 1955 to 1957 {{Cite news|title = Otto Suhr|last=Lietzmann|first=Sabine|date=1954-12-30|url = http://www.zeit.de/1954/52/otto-suhr|newspaper = Die Zeit Online|access-date = 2016-12-13}}
• Albert Thomas, former U.S. Representative from Texas{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong — "The bow tie is such an integral part of Tsang's identity that he is nicknamed "bow tie Tsang," according to an Associated Press storyhttp://www.theage.com.au/news/fashion/tsang-loves-his-bow-ties/2005/07/12/1120934222121.html No byline, "Tsang loves his bow ties", article attributed to the Associated Press appearing in The Age, July 15, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007
• Julio César Turbay Ayala, president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1498336/Julio-Cesar-Turbay.html Julio César Turbay] (obituary), The Telegraph, 14 September 2005: "Turbay was a large, burly man who usually sported a bow tie."
• Daniel Turp, Canadian Parti Québécois politician, formerly known for wearing bow ties.A 2003 Le Devoir article reads: "The bow that serves him as a tie has become the trademark of the péquiste (Parti Québécois member or politician) candidate in Mercier (electoral riding), Daniel Turp." [http://www.danielturp.org/main.php?p=media/2003/21-03-03.htm&PHPSESSID=25cf836de2bebb93cad41511bdecc69e] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308031131/http://www.danielturp.org/main.php?p=media%2F2003%2F21-03-03.htm&PHPSESSID=25cf836de2bebb93cad41511bdecc69e|date=2012-03-08}}
• Charlie Vanik, Congressman from Ohio, often wore a bow tie through his tenure in the House{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian statesman{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Anthony A. Williams, former mayor of Washington, D.C. and nicknamed "Mr. Bow Tie"https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/library/dcelections/candidates/williams0807.htm Powell, Michael, "'Mr. Bow Tie' Becomes the Bull's-Eye", The Washington Post, August 7, 1998, Page A01
• G. Mennen Williams, former governor of the State of Michigan.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Woodrow Wyatt, a British Labour politician, published author, journalist and broadcaster[http://newswww.bbc.net.uk/1/low/obituaries/37774.stm BBC News | Obituaries | "Voice of Reason" Lord Wyatt dies aged 79]
• Andrew Muir, member of the Northern Ireland assembly and minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs.{{Cite web |last=Davenport |first=Mark |date=28 April 2024 |title=Andrew Muir: Out and proud Stormont Minister in charge of Northern Ireland's farming |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/04/28/andrew-muir-out-and-proud-stormont-minister-in-charge-of-northern-irelands-farming/ |access-date=6 June 2024 |website=Irish Times |quote="When Muir was appointed to his Agriculture and Environment job there was some joking he might not be able to maintain his penchant for bow ties and natty dressing down on the farm."}}

• Aaron T. Beck, the psychiatrist known as "the father of cognitive therapy" dresses in "his signature bow tie"http://www.apa.org/monitor/oct00/meeting.html Chamberlin, Jamie, "An historic meeting of the minds: The fathers of cognitive therapy and rational-emotive behavior therapy exchanged banter at APA's 2000 Annual Convention", article in the Monitor on Psychology, Volume 31, No. October 9, 2000, American Psychological Association Web site, accessed January 18, 2007
• Alfred Kinsey, the influential sex researcher, wore a "trademark bow tie"[http://www.theage.com.au/news/Film/A-prude-awakening/2005/01/07/1104832289449.html Gostin, Nikki, "A prude awakening"] article in The Age, January 5, 2005, accessed January 18, 2007
• Theodore Millon (1928–2014), psychologist and expert on personality disorders.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

• Richard Sherman, Defensive Back of the 2014 Super Bowl Champions Seattle Seahawks is frequently seen wearing a bow tie, and has a YouTube video on how to tie a bow tie.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5d3josgOpI|title=How to Tie a Bow Tie With Richard Sherman|website=YouTube|date=18 October 2013 }}
• Bruce Bowen, longtime National Basketball Association player for the San Antonio Spurs{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/spurs/bruce-bowen-talks-bow-ties|title=Bruce Bowen Talks Bow Ties|website=NBA.com|access-date=2013-01-08|quote=Stacey Mitch from Spurs.com caught up with former Spur and ESPN Analyst Bruce Bowen to talk about his famous Bow Ties and life after basketball}}
• Frank Cashen, longtime Major League Baseball executive with the Baltimore Orioles and New York MetsWeber, Bruce, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE1DF1338F931A15752C1A964958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print "Conversations/Frank Cashen; Mr. Mets Takes a Swing At the Baseball He Misses"], article, The New York Times, November 22, 1992. Retrieved February 22, 2007. "[...]Mr. Cashen appears his familiar teddy bear-shaped self, down to his trademark bow tie."
• Mike Hawthorn, racing driver, co-winner of the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, and 1958 Formula One World Driver's Champion{{cite book |last=Daley |first=Robert |title=The Cruel Sport: Grand Prix Racing 1959-1967 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5GU8eo601hsC |access-date=2013-02-04 |date=2005-04-15 |publisher=MotorBooks International |location=St. Paul, MN USA |isbn=978-0-76032-100-3 |page=xv |quote=The world champion that year was the Ferrari driver Mike Hawthorn, a tall, blond young man who always wore a bow tie when racing. Always. He considered this important. It was his style. }}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book |last= Salmon|first= Dick|title=Brm: A Mechanic's Tale |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=61KT85wL6RgC |access-date=2013-02-04 |date=2007-05-01 |publisher=Veloce Publishing |location=Dorchester, UK |isbn=978-1-84584-082-2 |page= 58|quote= Invariably he would greet his friend Peter Collins with the words 'mon ami, mate' and was famous for his bow tie, which earned him the nickname 'Le Pappilon' (sic), meaning the butterfly.}}
• Dhani Jones, professional football player, has long worn bow ties and has created a line of bow ties for sale{{citation |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-nov-29-la-ig-diary29-2009nov29-story.html |title=Dhani Jones is leading a bow-tie revolution: The NFL linebacker hopes others will join his league of well-dressed gentlemen |date=November 29, 2009| last=Magsaysay | first=Melissa |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}
• Tim Lincecum, pitcher for baseball's San Francisco Giants{{Cite web|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news/|title=MLB Major League Baseball News, Expert Analysis, Rumors, Live Updates, & more|website=Yahoo Sports|access-date=6 May 2023}}
• Jim Phelan, basketball coach for Mount St. Mary's University. Numerous fans and fellow coaches honored his retirement by wearing bow ties.{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/mensbasketball/2003-03-01-phelans-goodbye_x.htm|date=1 March 2003|title=Phelan and his bow tie say 'bye' after 49 years|last=Dishneau|first=David|newspaper=USA Today}}
• Ken Rosenthal, Lead field reporter for Major League Baseball on Fox is known for wearing a wide variety of bow ties.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Bill Torrey (1934–2018), General manager who built the New York Islanders into a dynasty that won four consecutive Stanley Cups, known as "Bow-Tie" Bill, after the signature bow tie he always wore.Nobles, Charlie. [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6D81039F930A15756C0A960958260 "NHL PLAYOFFS;Torrey Turns Florida Into Hot Hockey Property"], The New York Times, May 23, 1996. Accessed November 16, 2008. "Bill Torrey sat back in his chair at the Florida Panthers' practice arena, trademark bow tie neatly in place, and let out a hearty laugh."
• Lee Tressel, college football coach at Baldwin–Wallace College and a hall-of-fame member; described as "a cerebral coach who always wore a bow tie and a buzzcut,"[http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/oct/07/tressel-reveals-little-about-himself/ Jim Tressel reveals little about himself], Evansville Courier-Press, October 7, 2010

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• Saul Bellow, novelist, often wore one late in life.
• Finn M. W. Caspersen, financier, philanthropist, often wore bow ties.{{cite news|title=Former N.J. power broker, philanthropist Finn Caspersen dies in apparent suicide |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/finn_caspersens_death_ruled_a.html|first=Rohan |last=Mascarenhas |newspaper=The Star-Ledger |date=September 9, 2009 |quote=Friends in New Jersey, who remembered Caspersen for his trademark bow tie and courtly demeanor...}}
• Brian P. Cleary, award-winning author of more than 50 children's books.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Aleister Crowley, English occultist, often wore extravagant bow ties.Punch Magazine, vol. 229, 1955, Jul–Dec, p.266. "The mage [...] received me in a suit of green checked plus fours and a huge tartan bow tie."
• Robert Denning, interior designer, wore bow ties exclusively the last fourteen years of his life.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/style/tmagazine/08texcess.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/W/Wood%20and%20Wood%20Products&pagewanted=all| title= The Sweet Smell of Excess|last=Volk| first= Patricia| work= New York Times| date= October 8, 2006| access-date= 2008-11-19}}
• Louis Farrakhan, noted anti-Semite and leader of the Nation of Islam organization
• Ace Greenberg, former CEO and chairman of Bear Stearns[https://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/05/ace_greenberg_did_magic_tricks.html Bear Stearns: Like 'Titantic,' But Without Kate Winslet], New York magazine, May 28, 2008. Refers to his "trademark bow tie."
• C. Everett Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General known for his "omnipresent red bow tie"http://www.beautiesltd.com/NewsItem.aspx?pn_deptid=6352 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304084648/http://www.beautiesltd.com/NewsItem.aspx?pn_deptid=6352 |date=2008-03-04 }} News release from Beau Ties Ltd., dated October 3, 2006 and titled "Dr. C. Everett Koop, Former U.S. Surgeon General, and Beau Ties Ltd. Create Birthday Bow Tie"; from the news release: "Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. Surgeon General easily recognized by his omnipresent red bow tie, served from 1982 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan [...]"
• Howard Phillips, former spokesman for Nintendo as well as first editor of Nintendo Power magazine from the early 1980s until 1991{{cite web| url=http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Howard_Philips| title=Howard Philips| access-date= 2008-11-18}} "He appeared as a blond-haired bowtie-clad know-it-all in the "Howard & Nester" comics series".
• Orville Redenbacher (1907–1995), owner of an American popcorn business who appeared in commercials for it and had his image on the boxes — always wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a bow tie.{{citation |title=Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food |page=227 |author=Andrew F. Smith |year=2006 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-0-313-33527-3}}
• Jim Rogers (born 1942), authorIs pictured wearing a pink bow tie on the cover of his book Hot Commodities : How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market (2004; {{ISBN|1-4000-6337-X}})
• Albert Schweitzer, German physician, humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate{{cite web|url=http://www.peacecorpswriters.org/pages/1999/9911/911wriwrisurt2.html|title=With Albert Schweitzer in Gabon|date=1964–1965|access-date=2013-01-08|quote=His dress is unvarying: white sun helmet on top, a neat black bow-tie, short sleeved white shirt, shapeless, often patched gray trousers and big brown shoes, which still get plenty of use.}}
• W. Clement Stone (1902–2002), businessman and philanthropist, had a collection of 250 bow ties.
• James Strong, Australian businessman who was CEO of Qantas from 1993 to 2001.{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Fiona|title=How James Strong got his bow tie|url=http://www.brw.com.au/p/leadership/how_james_strong_got_his_bow_tie_Sop1BSIpltN1IZVP6u2agN|work=Business Review Weekly|publisher=Fairfax Media|access-date=4 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126013840/http://www.brw.com.au/p/leadership/how_james_strong_got_his_bow_tie_Sop1BSIpltN1IZVP6u2agN|archive-date=26 January 2016}}
• Colonel Sanders (1890–1980), American businessman who founded KFC {{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/12/17/archives/col-harland-sanders-founder-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-dies-cooked.html|title=Colonel Sanders Obituary|last=Asbury|first=Edith|date=December 17, 1980|website=NY Times}}

Bow ties are a consistent element in the depiction of some fictional characters.

Film and television characters portrayed by human actors as consistently wearing bow ties have included:

• Blaine Anderson, a character in Glee, can frequently be seen wearing a bow tie.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}
• Chuck Bass, a character in Gossip Girl known for his dandy sense of style, is often seen sporting a bow tie with a matching pocket square.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
• Buckaroo Banzai, titular neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, sports a bow tie throughout the film.
• Billy Bunter, a character in the works of Charles Hamilton{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}
• Gil Chesterton, a character on Frasier, was never seen without a bow tie.{{citation needed|date=April 2012}}
• Bertram Cooper, a character in the drama series Mad Men who is never seen without a bow tie.[http://www.amctv.com/shows/mad-men/cast/bertram-cooper Bertram Cooper], Mad Men, AMC Networks website, accessed 15 October 2011. "A nattily bow-tied iconoclast, Bertram Cooper is a Founding Partner in the newly formed Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency."
• The Doctor, central character of Doctor Who, in his second, third and eleventh incarnations; and during his sixth one undercover, and during his tenth and thirteenth ones with their tuxedos.{{citation |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23817727-dickie-bow-fever---the-latest-nerdy-fashion-trend-for-men.do |title=Dickie bow fever - the latest nerdy fashion trend for men |author=Mark Walton-Cook |date=22 March 2010 |journal=Evening Standard |access-date=2010-04-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325094520/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23817727-dickie-bow-fever---the-latest-nerdy-fashion-trend-for-men.do |archive-date=2010-03-25 }}{{citation |journal=Doctor Who Magazine |issue=418 |date=3 February 2010}} Actor Matt Smith pressed for the bow tie in his characterisation who regularly declares that "bow ties are cool".{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S89yHFl57uQC&pg=PA104 |title=TARDISbound: Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who |author=Piers D. Britton |page=104 |isbn=978-1-84511-925-6 |year=2011|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}
• Richard Gilmore, the patriarch of the Gilmore family on the TV series Gilmore Girls, played by actor Edward Herrmann, was always seen wearing a bow tie.{{citation |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20039039,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518044309/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20039039,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 18, 2007 |title=Stars Hollow Ending |last=Valby |first=Karen | date=May 16, 2007 |quote=Richard [Gilmore] ... is turning into one giant-size, bow-tied teddy bear. |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}{{citation |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/05/15/7-things-ill-miss-about-gilmore-girls-after-7-seasons/ | title=7 things I'll miss about 'Gilmore Girls' after 7 seasons |date=May 15, 2007| last=Ryan | first=Maureen |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |quote=Richard [Gilmore] could have been a bow-tie wearing stuffed shirt.}}
• Mr. Hooper, Sesame Street character played by Will Lee{{cite web |url=http://origin-www.comedycentral.co.uk/daily-fix/feature-page/sesame-street-will-lee-aka-mr-hooper |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712193039/http://origin-www.comedycentral.co.uk/daily-fix/feature-page/sesame-street-will-lee-aka-mr-hooper |archive-date=July 12, 2012 |title=Where Are They Now Special: The Cast of Sesame Street...: Will Lee aka Mr. Hooper |publisher=Comedy Central UK |access-date=May 9, 2012 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.amypurcell.com/blog/?p=707 |title=Where's Mr. Hooper When You Need Him? |date=March 27, 2009 |last=Purcell |first=Amy |work=The Grist Mill |format=blog |access-date=2012-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401062721/http://www.amypurcell.com/blog/?p=707 |archive-date=2009-04-01 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/theshow/cast/additional_cast |title=Additional Cast |publisher=SesameStreet.org |access-date=May 9, 2012 |archive-date=March 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315174948/http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/theshow/cast/additional_cast |url-status=dead }}
• Indiana Jones of the Indiana Jones (franchise) is frequently seen wearing a bow tie with his suit.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard, M.D., M.E. the Chief Medical Examiner in NCIS is always seen wearing a bow tie of various colors.Mullaney, Andrea. [http://living.scotsman.com/tvradio/Dysfunctional-detectives-will-get-the.3588654.jp "Dysfunctional detectives will get the job done"], The Scotsman, December 10, 2007. Accessed November 19, 2008. "During all this entertaining tosh, up popped dear old David McCallum as Dr Donald 'Ducky' Mallard, sporting a huge bow tie and red braces as his contribution to the general quirkiness."
• Michael, the "architect" in The Good Place, played by Ted Danson, usually wears a bow tie except when relevant to the story line to have him without one.{{Cite news |last=Ferrier |first=Morwenna |date=2020-12-07 |title=TV style icons of 2020: Ted Danson as The Good Place's dapper demon |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/dec/07/tv-style-icons-of-2020-ted-danson-good-place-netflix-style-icon |access-date=2023-02-25 |issn=0261-3077}}
• Brother Mouzone, the enforcer who appears in The Wire television series, wears a "trademark suit and bowtie" and glasses, consistent with his image of being "more like a banker or entrepreneur or scholar" than a hitman.[http://www.hbo.com/thewire/cast/characters/brother_mouzone.shtml Brother Mouzone; Played By Michael Potts], The Wire Cast and Crew, HBO website, accessed November 30, 2008
• Les Nessman, character in WKRP in Cincinnati television sitcom Jerry Buck, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19810727&id=YsQsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WxMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6816,6325026 Nessman Grew to Silver Sow], Associated Press story published in Wilmington Morning Star, July 27, 1981
• Hercule Poirot, fictional detectiveAt least as portrayed in Murder on the Orient Express film and by actor David Suchet on television, Poirot wears a bow tie, whether or not he typically wears one in the original Agatha Christie novels
• Sidney Reilly as played by Sam Neill in the BBC television mini-series Reilly, Ace of Spies.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Baxter Stockman wears a bow tie in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.{{cite web|url=https://www.cbr.com/ninja-turtles-supporting-characters/|title=8 Ninja Turtles Supporting Characters Who Ruled (And 7 Who Sucked)|publisher=CBR|language=en|last=Kahler|first=Jason|date=9 August 2017|access-date=26 November 2017}}
• Uncle Wally, Sesame Street character played by Bill McCutcheon
• Sheldon Cooper, character in Young Sheldon{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Bow ties are a consistent part of the depiction of many characters created by artists for entertainment media including comics, cartoons, and anime.

Among these are many Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters:

• Boo-Boo Bear[http://www2.warnerbros.com/web/hannabarbera/index.jsp Hanna-Barbera website] "Yogi Bear's bow-tie wearing best buddy ..."; retrieved November 17, 2008
• The mouse Pixie and the cat Mr. Jinks in the cartoon Pixie and Dixie and Mr. JinksThe bow ties are evident in images of [https://archive.today/20120629182653/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/G-J/The_Huckleberry_Hound_Show/Pixie_and_Dixie/index.html Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks] at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Magilla GorillaThe Cartoon-O-Rama website picture gallery for the Magilla Gorilla cartoon shows the character wearing his typical bow tie [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016180756/http://members.aol.com/PaulEC3/magilla.html]
• Huckleberry HoundHanna, Bill, with Tom Ito (2000), [https://books.google.com/books?id=pHhw_ZgO6WoC A Cast of Friends]{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, p 101. (Hanna describes the character this way: "The blue canine with the red bow tie, sleepy eyes and Southern drawl had made good. Huckleberry Hound was on his way to becoming television's first cartoon superstar.") Da Capo Press, {{ISBN|978-0-306-80917-0}}. Retrieved August 7, 2009
• Jerry Mouse in Tom and Jerry (1975–1977)Wikipedia article for Tom and Jerry shows the title card (:Image:Tom Jerry Show.jpg) for the "Tom and Jerry Show" in 1975 with red bow tie on Jerry and cites three overall sources in the References section of the article: Adams, T.R. (1991); Tom and Jerry: Fifty Years of Cat and Mouse Crescent Books; Barrier, Michael (1999) Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Maltin, Leonard (1980, updated 1987). Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons. New York: Penguin Books. {{ISBN|0-452-25993-2}}.
• Snagglepuss, Hanna-Barbera cartoon character created in 1959, a pink anthropomorphic mountain lion.Skalman, Adam. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929052019/http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/archives/id/16384/ "Cartoons paved the way for gays on TV"], Daily Bruin, October 9, 2001. Accessed November 19, 2008. "Snagglepuss: I don't know how many of you remember this guy.... Imagine the Wildean urbanity of Rupert Everett in the wardrobe of a Chippendale's dancer: starchy white cuffs and collar and a perfectly knotted bow tie."

Other artist-created characters consistently or frequently depicted in bow ties include:

• In spin-off animated film series My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Twilight Sparkle wears a pink mini bow tie as a human.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Bernard Bernoulli of the Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle computer games.{{cite web|url=http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/MANIAC_MANSION.doc |title=Maniac Mansion |access-date=2008-11-19 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}"He wears a white shirt, a black bow-tie and black pants".
• Siblings Caliborn{{cite web |url=https://www.homestuck.com/story/5443 |title=[A6I4] ==> |access-date=2020-09-12}} and Calliope{{cite web |url=https://www.homestuck.com/story/5098 |title===> |access-date=2020-09-12}} from Homestuck who used to share a body and thus wear the same bow tie between them.
• Dagwood Bumstead, character in Blondie comic stripIn discussing the early days of the strip, [http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/SPEC/exhibits/Blondie.pdf 75 Years of Blondie] (University of Florida Special Collections, 2005) states (on page 2) that Hiho Hennepin, Dagwood's rival for Blondie's affections, "was a shorter prototype of Dagwood right down to the trademark bow tie they both sport."This "logo" or publicity image :File:Blondie Logo 2007.png shows Bumstead in typical red bow tie; an image at the King Features Web site describing Bumstead [http://www.blondie.com/page.asp?page=autobiography_text] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080215055723/http://www.blondie.com/page.asp?page=autobiography_text|date=2008-02-15}} also uses an image with him in the same red bow tie; Google Image search of "Dagwood Bumstead" on January 17, 2007 shows the comic character as well as television character wearing bow ties
• The Cat in the Hat:File:Seuss-cat-hat.gif
• Donald Duck, Disney cartoon characterhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070108.FACTS08/TPStory/Facts%20&%20Arguments Saunders, Allan, "The Mistress and the Bow-tie Boys", The Toronto Globe and Mail, undated article, although the Web address indicates it likely appeared on January 8, 2007 and not August 1 because it was accessed January 18, 2007: "Consider the fact that some of history's most famous men wore bow ties – Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman, Abraham Lincoln – even our own Lester Pearson with his trademark polka dot blue. Don't forget Donald Duck who dared to be different from other ducks with his red bow."This comic book cover :File:Donald Duck - Lost in the Andes Coverart.png and this still :File:Donald duck debut.PNG from an early cartoon "The Wise Little Hen", show what clearly looks like a bow tie, although it may be another kind of tie worn with the character's typical sailor suit
• Count Duckula always wore a red bow tie as part of his ensemble.{{cite web| url=http://www.kidsera.com/links/0024.htm| title= Plush Count Duckula| access-date=2008-11-19}}
• Conan Edogawa, alias of character Jimmy Kudo in "Detective Conan" manga and anime comicsThese two Web pages, one for Conan Edogawa, the other for Jimmy Kudo, both show the character wearing a bow tie; since the tie is shown on the character on the main page for that character, it seems extremely likely that the bow tie is typical wear for that character (accessed January 17, 2007): [http://www.caseclosed.com/index2_cc.cfm?page=jimmy Case Closed Jimmy Kudo page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100105020120/http://www.caseclosed.com/index2_cc.cfm?page=jimmy |date=2010-01-05 }}; [http://www.caseclosed.com/index2_cc.cfm?page=conan Case Closed Conan Edogawa page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090707010708/http://www.caseclosed.com/index2_cc.cfm?page=conan |date=2009-07-07 }}
• Harvey, in the play and film of the same name, the invisible, bow-tied, 6-foot rabbit whose portrait was shown in the play and film with him wearing a bow tiehttp://www.schulsonautographs.com/enter.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218112643/http://www.schulsonautographs.com/enter.htm |date=2007-02-18 }} David Shulman Autographs Catalog Web site, Web page titled "Entertainment: Including Cinema & Theatre", accessed January 18, 2007. The store was selling an autograph of Jimmy Stewart; part of the description: "In black marker, he has drawn the rabbit's elongated face, under which he has also drawn Harvey's signature striped bow tie"
• Carl Fredricksen, the main character in the 2009 Pixar film, Up.Press Association, [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/14/birdman-competition-worthing Is it a bird? Is it a plane? … No, it's the 2011 International Birdman competition], The Guardian, 14 August 2011. Description of a contestant whose costume was "inspired by movie character Carl Fredricksen from the 2009 CGI film Up," states: "She wore a grey wig, a suit and a bow-tie bought from a charity shop." Prior to that, he wore neckties from the 1950s through the 1990s.
• Hoppity Hooper, cartoon character in Jay Ward Productions{{citation needed|date=May 2012}}
• Krusty the Clown, cartoon character in The Simpsons{{Cite web |url=http://www.die-simpsons.de/subs/krusty/pics.htm |title=Most promotional images show him with a blue bow tie |access-date=2008-05-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209004440/http://www.die-simpsons.de/subs/krusty/pics.htm |archive-date=2009-02-09 }}
• Leopold the Cat, the namesake of a Russian cartoon series, wears a bow tie, even when he goes swimming.{{cite book| last= Balina| first= Marina| title= Russian Children's Literature and Culture| publisher= Routledge| year= 2008| isbn=978-0-415-97864-4| page= 165}} "The gentleman cat sports a bow tie".
• Mickey Mouse{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TWu1AAAAIAAJ|isbn=978-1-85973-964-8|title=Consuming Fashion|author=Anne Brydon, S. A. Niessen|publisher=Berg|year=1998|page=769}}
• Mister Peabody, the main character of Peabody's Improbable History.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Porky Pig, Looney Tunes cartoon character.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Franklin "Foggy" Nelson. In the Marvel Daredevil comics, Nelson is a lawyer, best friend and longtime business partner of blind lawyer Matthew M. Murdock (a.k.a. the masked vigilante Daredevil). Even though Foggy Nelson occasionally wears standard neckties, he is partial to bow ties.{{cite web| url=http://wizarduniverse.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=6221| title= marvel legends matched with build a figure| access-date= 2008-11-19 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080607111033/http://wizarduniverse.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=6221 |archive-date = 2008-06-07}} "Franklin "Foggy" Nelson: also from Guardian Devil; comes with removable suit jacket, big-ass bow-tie".
• Jimmy Olsen often was depicted wearing a bow tie in the comic titles Superman and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen{{cite web |url=http://www.supermansupersite.com/jimmy.html| title= The Superman Super Site – Jimmy Olsen| access-date= 2008-11-19}}"Jimmy is usually depicted as a bow tie-wearing young red-haired man".
• Opus the Penguin, character in Bloom County comic striphttp://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/favorite_strips.asp {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070117151013/http://www.berkeleybreathed.com/pages/favorite_strips.asp |date=2007-01-17 }} Berkeley Breathed Web site, Web page titled "Favorite Strips", Opus is wearing a red bow tie in each; according to Wikipedia article Opus the Penguin he has been known to switch to a regular tie when running for public office
• The Penguin, in the Batman franchise, though some versions of him wear cravats instead such as Batman Returns, Justice League Action, Gotham, and Harley Quinn.See any of the pictures in the Wikipedia article Penguin (comics) where he sports a bow tie, except in the 1992 movie, as the article notes
• Jack Point, character in Judge Dredd comic books.[http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/simpdetective.htm Jack Point], International Catalogue of Superheroes website The bow tie is part of his clown-like clothing.
• Waylon Smithers, cartoon character in The Simpsons:File:Waylon Smithers 1.png portrays Smithers in his typical bow tie
• Moe Szyslak, cartoon character in The Simpsons:File:Moe Szyslak.png Moe usually wears a bow tie while he's working at Moe's Tavern and often even when he's not
• Rich Uncle Pennybags, aka Mr. Monopoly, from the board game Monopoly is frequently shown wearing a bow tie.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}
• Zatanna, the virtuous sorceress from the DC Universe{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Professor Porter, the father-in-law for the title character of Tarzan.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• The Master on the Doctor Who episodes Survival and Spyfall.{{Citation needed|date=December 2023}}
• Rock Bottom from Felix the Cat.

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