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BGM, on 30 July 2012 - 13:10, said:

Winston Churchill, he had a tattoo of an anchor i think..

i'd he was a pretty ****ing important person

i seem to recall a lot of the Kennedys having tats also... yes, even the women.

Yeah, a lot of people has pointed me to Churchill, but of course there are no pics of his tats

Quapps, on 30 July 2012 - 13:14, said:

Sarah Palin has a tattoo on her ankle!

I dont thnink we would like to have Palin in that list, but thanks

Lovell, on 30 July 2012 - 13:17, said:

http://www.forbes.co...and-his-tattoo/

Exactly what we're looking for, thanks!

[+Xenosion]

I don't know any specifically but I'd venture to guess many Presidents or other leaders that were also in military would have tattoos.

[+Lovell]

Royal tattoo
King Harold II of England had a number of tattoos. After his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, his tattoos were used to identify his body.
Many other royals throughout history have been tattooed. In 1862 the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, had a Jerusalem Cross tattooed on his arm on a visit to the Holy Land. When his sons, the Duke of Clarence and the Duke of York (later King George V) visited Japan in 1882 they both had dragons tattooed on their arms. Amongst the Russian royal family, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas II all bore tattoos. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination sparked the First World War, was also tattooed. Today royal tattoos are less common.


Fashionable tattoos
Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, had a snake tattooed on her wrist.
It became fashionable in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for aristocrats, including women, to be tattooed. At the time, tattooing was very expensive and people paid large sums for their designs. Later, as the costs were reduced, tattooing was adopted by the lower classes and the practice fell out of favour with the social elite.
The strategic positioning of Lady Churchill's tattoo meant that she could choose not to display it by wearing a bracelet to cover it.

http://www.rmg.co.uk...s-about-tattoos

[Quapps]

http://mag.rankmytat...ty-tattoos.html

Scrolling down reveals people such as George Schultz,JFK,Kings and even Thomas Edison!

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Xenosion, on 30 July 2012 - 13:34, said:

I don't know any specifically but I'd venture to guess many Presidents or other leaders that were also in military would have tattoos.

We hope to uncover some, but with photographic evidence. The main point of the project is against tattoo discrimination.

Lovell, on 30 July 2012 - 13:36, said:

Royal tattoo
King Harold II of England had a number of tattoos. After his death at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, his tattoos were used to identify his body.
Many other royals throughout history have been tattooed. In 1862 the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, had a Jerusalem Cross tattooed on his arm on a visit to the Holy Land. When his sons, the Duke of Clarence and the Duke of York (later King George V) visited Japan in 1882 they both had dragons tattooed on their arms. Amongst the Russian royal family, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas II all bore tattoos. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination sparked the First World War, was also tattooed. Today royal tattoos are less common.


Fashionable tattoos
Winston Churchill's mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, had a snake tattooed on her wrist.
It became fashionable in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for aristocrats, including women, to be tattooed. At the time, tattooing was very expensive and people paid large sums for their designs. Later, as the costs were reduced, tattooing was adopted by the lower classes and the practice fell out of favour with the social elite.
The strategic positioning of Lady Churchill's tattoo meant that she could choose not to display it by wearing a bracelet to cover it.

http://www.rmg.co.uk...s-about-tattoos

Awesome man!

Keep them coming guys

[sanctified]

BTW, this is the project's website: http://gracefultats.tumblr.com

[ahhell]

Andrew Lyle, on 29 July 2012 - 01:56, said:

Kat Von D?
Pretty much anyone in a rock band.

How is Kat in any way an "important person"??

[TheReasonIFailed]

Off topic but I feel that the tagline of your site "tattoos are not only for thugs" could be reworded to express the same feeling without projecting the archetype of what people associate tattoo wearers being or looking like.

[Marshall]

Winston Chruchill

Theodore Roosevelt

Caroline Kennedy

Barry Goldwater

John Fetterman

[Charisma]

Ask Neobond if he has any?

[Hum]

Tattoos are a big turn-off for me.

I'll never really understand why people want to mutilate themselves this way.

[Tom]

SiCKX, on 29 July 2012 - 04:08, said:

Joe Rogan
Katie Price
Adriana Lima
Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson
Johnny Depp
Charlize Theron
Brad Pitt
Sly Stallone
Steve-O
50 Cent
Eminem
Mike Tyson
Jaime Foxx

It saddens me that this is what our society calls 'important' people.

[+scumdogmillionaire]

Hum, on 30 July 2012 - 17:01, said:

I'll never really understand why people want to mutilate themselves this way.

Tattoos are just putting the awesomeness from your insides on your outsides

[ThunderBuddy]

Hum, on 30 July 2012 - 17:01, said:

Tattoos are a big turn-off for me.

I'll never really understand why people want to mutilate themselves this way.

Good for you, if you were turned on by me I'd be extremely worried

[ShareShiz]

13. Geraldo Rivera

This news reporter has two tattoos: a Star of David between his left thumb and forefinger, and an unidentified design on his right bicep. Geraldo sure does a good job keeping this art hidden.

20. George Orwell

Famous author, George Orwell, was known by family and friends as a paranoid rebel. Although he was incorrect about Catholics and Communists spying on him, his fear was somewhat founded, since at points in his life he had the Soviet secret police watching him. Maybe it was all the stress and paranoia that caused him to get a strange tattoo while in Burma. He had all of the knuckles on one had tattooed with blue spots.

21. Thomas Edison

This prolific inventor had a mysterious arm tattoo on his left forearm. No one but maybe himself knew, or will ever know, the meaning of the five dots positioned as they would be on dice.

http://mag.rankmytat...ty-tattoos.html