This is a list of well-known people who have been pied without consent. Consensual pieing is excluded on this list.
Victim | Notoriety | Date [† 1] | Details | Location | Perpetrator(s) | Source |
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Jimmie Åkesson | Leader of Sweden Democrats | November 5, 2013 | Book signing | Nytorget, Stockholm, Sweden | Irene Matkowitzc, who was later pied by supporters of Åkesson | [1] [2] [3] |
Yolanda Barcina | President of the Chartered Community of Navarre | October 27, 2011 | Working Community of the Pyrenees [4] plenary Council [5] | Toulouse, France | Mugitu! movement [6] against High Speed Rail Line | [7] |
Abraham Beame | New York City Mayor | August 30, 1977 | Mayoralty-campaign primary debate | Cooper Union, New York City, United States | Aron Kay | [8] |
Kim Beazley | Australian Opposition Leader | June 18, 1999 | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation lecture | Melbourne, Australia | Biotic Baking Brigade | [9] [10] |
Medea Benjamin | United States Green Party activist | July 1, 2007 | United States Social Forum | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | Bakers Without Borders | [11] |
James Bonk | Chemistry professor | Spring 1975 | During a university chemistry lecture | Duke University | A member of a student organization called Pie Die | [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] |
John Boscawen | New Zealand ACT Party MP | May 25, 2009 | Mount Albert by-election debate | Auckland, New Zealand | Malcolm France | [17] [18] [19] |
Georges-Louis Bouchez | Leader of Reformist Movement | September 2, 2023 | Book signing | Liège, Belgium | [20] | |
Pierre Bourque | Montreal Mayor | January 18, 1999 | Montreal news conference | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Les Entartistes | [21] [22] |
Steve Bracks | Victorian Premier | September 11, 2000 | World Economic Forum annual meeting | Melbourne, Australia | Marcus Brumer | [23] |
Robert Bresson | Film director | 1969 | Noël Godin | [24] | ||
Dave Bronconnier | Calgary Mayor | June 2007 | Calgary Stampede | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Donna McPhee | [25] |
Willie Brown | San Francisco Mayor | November 11, 1998 | During speech | San Francisco, California, United States | Biotic Baking Brigade | [26] |
Anita Bryant | Singer and anti-gay rights activist | October 14, 1977 [27] | Press conference | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | Thom Higgins | [28] |
Richard Byyny | former University of Colorado Chancellor | May 4, 2000 | Public speech | Boulder, Colorado, United States | Sara Toombs representing the Biotic Baking Brigade | [29] [30] |
William F. Buckley Jr. | Conservative political commentator | April 12, 1976 | New York University | Aron Kay | [8] | |
Melky Cabrera | Center fielder, New York Yankees | April 22, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | [31] [32] |
May 24, 2009 | After walk-off hit | [31] [33] | ||||
Michel Camdessus | International Monetary Fund Director | February 12, 2000 | Bangkok, Thailand | [34] | ||
Robinson Canó | Second baseman, New York Yankees | August 28, 2009 | After walk-off home run (he has been pied twice) | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | [31] [32] |
Prince Charles, later King Charles III | Member of the UK's Royal Family, since acceded to the throne | December 1983 | While opening a community centre | Manchester, England | Katie Slater, a 15-year-old schoolgirl | [35] |
Jean Chrétien | Prime Minister of Canada | August 16, 2000 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | Evan Brown | [36] [37] | |
Jeremy Clarkson | Journalist and TV personality | September 12, 2005 | Before receiving an honorary degree in engineering from Oxford Brookes University | Oxford | Environmentalists | [38] |
Charles Colson | Watergate conspirator, Christian crusader | February 10, 1978 | Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco | Jayson Wechter | [39] | |
Ann Coulter | Conservative columnist (missed) | Lecture | The University of Arizona | Les Entartistes | [40] [41] | |
Johnny Damon | Left fielder, New York Yankees | May 17, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | [31] [32] |
Gábor Demszky | Mayor of Budapest | February 9, 2006 | Tamás "Tomcat" Polgár | [42] | ||
Stéphane Dion | Canadian politician | May 7, 1999 | Montreal, Quebec | Patrick Robert | [37] | |
Jean Doré | Former mayor of Montreal | October 28, 1998 | Montreal, Quebec; the incident happened when Doré was doing a TV interview | Les Entartistes | [43] [44] | |
Philippe Douste-Blazy | French politician | Noël Godin | [24] | |||
Jacques Duchesneau | Canadian politician | Les Entartistes | [45] | |||
Marguerite Duras | French novelist | c. 1969 | Noël Godin | [46] | ||
James Ehnes | Violin soloist | February 15, 2004 | After a performance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, to celebrate that feat, and his friendship with Nathan Frantz | Dallas Westin City Center | Ben Guthrie | [47] |
Pim Fortuyn | Dutch politician | March 14, 2002 | Book presentation | The Hague, Netherlands | Biotic Baking Brigade | [48] |
Milton Friedman | Economist | October 9, 1998 | At a corporate conference | San Francisco, California | Al Decker | [49] |
Thomas Friedman | Op-ed contributor to The New York Times | April 22, 2008 | Lecture at Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island | Student Margaree Little and an unidentified male | [50] [51] |
Courtney Friel | Journalist, news anchor and reporter | April 6, 2008 | News report at Ringling Bros. Circus for Fox News | Ringling Bros Circus, Madison Square Garden, New York City | Tom Dougherty | [52] |
Bill Gates | Founder and CEO of Microsoft | February 4, 1998 | Meeting of the European Union | Brussels, Belgium | Four tarts by Brian Keegan and Remy Belvaux | [53] [54] |
Dan Glickman | United States Secretary of Agriculture | May 31, 2000 | National Nutrition Summit | Washington, D.C. | Arathi Jayaram | [55] |
Jean-Luc Godard | Film director | May 10, 1985 | Shaving cream pie; in protest against his film Hail Mary during the Cannes Film Festival | Cannes, France | Noël Godin | [56] |
Carl XVI Gustaf | King of Sweden | September 5, 2001 | During a visit to Varberg | Varberg, Halland | A 16-year-old boy | [57] |
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | German politician of the Christian Social Union | February 2012 | Berlin, Germany | Hedonist International | [58] | |
Göran Hägglund | Leader of Christian Democrats, Minister for Health and Social Affairs | August 18, 2014 | Party rally | Kungsportsplatsen, Gothenburg, Sweden | Member of the Fag Army | [59] [60] |
Jerry Hairston Jr. | Pinch hitter, New York Yankees | October 18, 2009 | walk-off error | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | [61] |
David Horowitz | Conservative pundit | [62] | ||||
E. Howard Hunt | Operative of White House Plumbers | March 23, 1977 | Lobby of the RCA building, New York City | Aron Kay | [8] | |
Charles Hurwitz | CEO of MAXXAM Corporation, parent company of Pacific Lumber | Biotic Baking Brigade | [63] | |||
David Icke | Conspiracy theorist | 2000 | During a book signing | At the Granville Book Company bookstore | Members of the Green Party of Canada | [64] |
Guru Maharaj Ji | Spiritual leader of the Divine Light Mission | August 8, 1973 | Detroit Common Council | Detroit, Michigan | Fifth Estate reporter Pat Halley, who was later beaten by followers of Ji | [65] [66] |
Alan Joyce | CEO of Qantas | May 9, 2017 | While speaking at a business conference. | Perth, Australia | Tony Overheu | [67] |
Hilmar Kabas | Politician of far-right Freedom Party of Austria | April 18, 2000 | Viktor-Adler-Platz, Vienna, Austria | Chocolate cake thrown in face during a televised interview | ||
Lierre Keith | Author and radical environmentalist | March 13, 2010 | 15th annual Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair | San Francisco | Three anonymous vegan activists | [68] [69] |
Clark Kerr | At UC Berkeley, Kerr was the first university president to call police to campus to mass arrest student protesters | October 14, 1969 | During Kerr's lecture series to college administrators on how to divert and defeat the student movement | Indiana University School of Business lecture hall | James Retherford, former underground newspaper editor and Jerry Rubin ghost-writer | [70] |
Calvin Klein | Clothing designer (accidental hit) | June 2001 | On the red carpet of a New York fashion awards ceremony | [71] | ||
Ralph Klein | Premier of Alberta | July 7, 2003 | Premier's Stampede Breakfast | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Banana-Cream Three | [72] |
William Kristol | Pundit, columnist, and editor of The Weekly Standard | March 29, 2005 | Convocation at Earlham College | Richmond, Indiana | A student | [73] |
Sarah Kustok | Television sports sideline reporter | August 3, 2012 | During a post-game interview with Chicago White Sox outfielder Alex Ríos | U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago, Illinois | A.J. Pierzynski | [74] |
Bernard Landry | Former Cabinet Minister and Quebec Premier | April 7, 2000 | Escaped most of the pie, which hit two other speakers beside Landry | Marriott Château Champlain, Montreal, Quebec | Internationale des Anarchos Pâtissiers | [75] |
Roger D. Landry | Former President of La Presse newspaper | March 21, 1999 | During Les Oliviers awards | Montreal | Les Entartistes | [76] |
Karl Lagerfeld | Clothing designer (target missed) | [71] | ||||
Otto N. Larsen | Commission Chairman | May 13, 1970 | President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography | Tom Forçade | [77] | |
André-Joseph Léonard | Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels | April 6, 2011 | A public speech | Université catholique de Louvain | "The Glooper", to protest the Catholic Church's stands on abortion and homosexuality | [78] |
Carl Levin | US Senator | August 16, 2010 | Armed Services Committee chairman's meeting | Big Rapids, Michigan | Ahlam M. Mohsen | [79] |
Bernard-Henri Lévy | French philosopher | On at least eight occasions, between 1985 and 2015 | Brussels (1985), Namur (2015) | Noël Godin | [46] [80] [81] | |
Lucy Liu | Actress | January 29, 2013 | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | NBC Studios, Midtown Manhattan, New York City | Jimmy Fallon and herself | [82] |
Blairo Maggi | Brazilian plantation farmer | September 7, 2003 | Cuiabá, Brazil | Confeiteiros sem Fronteiras | [83] | |
Peter Mandelson | British politician | March 6, 2009 | London | [84] | ||
Hideki Matsui | Designated hitter, New York Yankees | July 20, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | [31] [32] |
Daniel Patrick Moynihan | American politician | September 5, 1976 | Intersection of Delancey and Orchard Streets, New York City | Aron Kay | [8] | |
Rupert Murdoch | Australian-American media mogul | July 19, 2011 | Giving evidence before a Parliament select committee | Portcullis House, London | Jonnie Marbles [85] | [86] |
Ralph Nader | American attorney, political activist and presidential candidate | September 12, 2003 | News conference endorsing Peter Camejo for recall governor | San Francisco | Unidentified male | [87] [88] |
Michael O'Leary | Irish businessman and CEO of Ryanair | September 7, 2023 | Press conference | Brussels, Belgium | Unidentified climate activists | [89] [90] |
Jacques Parizeau | Former premier of Quebec | November 1998 | Ahuntsic College, Montreal | Bruno Caron | [91] | |
Pierre Karl Péladeau | President and CEO of Quebecor Media Inc. | October 19, 2004 | Montreal, Quebec (UQAM) | Les Entartistes | [92] | |
Pierre Pettigrew | Canadian Human Resources Minister | January 18, 1999 | News conference | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Entartistes | [93] |
Fred Phelps | Religious activist | May 31, 2003 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | [94] | ||
Jim Rhodes | Governor of Ohio | August 17, 1977 | Opening ceremony of the 124th annual Ohio State Fair | Columbus, Ohio | Demonstrator protesting the building of a gym at Kent State University | [95] |
Bosse Ringholm | Sweden's Minister for Finance | April 17, 2001 | During a ceremonial procession on his way to a presentation of Sweden's state budget | Drottninggatan, Stockholm | Stockholm Pie Brigade | [96] |
Allan Rock | Canadian ambassador to the United Nations | January 24, 2000 | Montreal, Quebec | [97] | ||
Alex Rodriguez | Third baseman, New York Yankees | May 16, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | [31] [32] |
August 7, 2009 | ||||||
Ségolène Royal | French politician | June 16, 2006 | La Rochelle, France | Jonathan Joly, student | [98] | |
Renato Ruggiero | Former WTO director | [99] | ||||
George Ryan | Governor of Illinois | May 1, 2000 | Carbondale, Illinois | Dawn Roberts | [100] | |
Phyllis Schlafly | Lawyer and conservative activist | April 16, 1977 | Women's Republic Club luncheon | The Waldorf-Astoria, New York City | Aron Kay | [8] |
David Shayler | British spy | [101] | ||||
Gail Shea | Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans | January 25, 2010 | Canada Centre for Inland Waters speech | Burlington, Ontario | Emily McCoy, PETA activist | [102] [103] |
Clare Short | British politician | [104] | ||||
Jeffrey Skilling | CEO of Enron | June 21, 2001 | Commonwealth Club of California | Francine Cavanaugh representing the Biotic Baking Brigade | [105] [106] | |
Sylvester Stallone | Action movie star | July 28, 1998 | During the grand opening of a Planet Hollywood restaurant in Montreal | Montreal | Les Entartistes | [107] |
Nick Swisher | Right fielder, New York Yankees | September 8, 2009 | After walk-off home run (he has been pied twice) | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | [31] [32] |
Gerry Thompson | Magic: The Gathering professional player | During an interview with Mana Nation | Patrick Chapin | [108] | ||
Gérald Tremblay | Mayor of Montreal | June 18, 2002 | Meeting to discuss the future of the city | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Les Entartistes | [109] |
Beatrix von Storch | MEP deputy chairperson of German right wing party AfD | February 28, 2016 | Protest against her demand to lethally use fire arms against refugees as a last resort to protect the German borders [110] [111] | Local party meeting in a hotel, Kassel, Germany | Peng Collective | [112] |
Claude Vorilhon | Leader of the Raëlian Movement | December 24, 1998 | Les Entartistes | [43] [113] | ||
Sahra Wagenknecht | German MP and deputy chairperson of The Left | May 28, 2016 | Party conference of The Left | Magdeburg | Initiative Torten für Menschenfeinde (The Pies for Enemies of Humanity Initiative) | [114] |
Ann Widdecombe | British Shadow Home Secretary | April 20, 2000 | Book signing for The Clematis Tree | Oxford University, England | Biotic Baking Brigade | [115] |
James Wolfensohn | Former president of the World Bank Group | October 29, 2001 | Helsinki, Finland | Anti-World Bank protester | [116] | |
Tommy Yune | Comic artist and anime director | July 1, 2007 | Anime Expo 2007 | Long Beach, California | Mr. Schiller | [117] |
Gerrit Zalm | Dutch politician | January 4, 1999 | During the first day of trading in euros | Amsterdam Stock Exchange, the Netherlands | Biotic Baking Brigade / T.A.A.R.T. | [118] [119] |
Bjørn Lomborg | Danish author | September 5 2001 | At a book event for The Skeptical Environmentalist | Oxford, England | Mark Lynas | [120] [121] |
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