List of people who have been pied facts for kids
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This is a list of well-known people who have been pied without consent. Consensual pieing is excluded on this list.
List
| Victim | Notoriety | Date | Details | Location | Perpetrator(s) | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmie Åkesson | Leader of Sweden Democrats | November 5, 2013 | Book signing | Nytorget, Stockholm, Sweden | Irene Matkowitzc, who was later pied by supporters of Åkesson | |
| Yolanda Barcina | President of the Chartered Community of Navarre | October 27, 2011 | Working Community of the Pyrenees plenary Council | Toulouse, France | Mugitu! movement against High Speed Rail Line | |
| Abraham Beame | New York City Mayor | August 30, 1977 | Mayoralty-campaign primary debate | Cooper Union, New York City, United States | Aron Kay | |
| Kim Beazley | Australian Opposition Leader | June 18, 1999 | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation lecture | Melbourne, Australia | Biotic Baking Brigade | |
| Medea Benjamin | United States Green Party activist | July 1, 2007 | United States Social Forum | Atlanta, Georgia, United States | Bakers Without Borders | |
| James Bonk | Chemistry professor | Spring 1975 | During a university chemistry lecture | Duke University | A member of a student organization called Pie Die | |
| John Boscawen | New Zealand ACT Party MP | May 25, 2009 | Mount Albert by-election debate | Auckland, New Zealand | Malcolm France | |
| Georges-Louis Bouchez | Leader of Reformist Movement | September 2, 2023 | Book signing | Liège, Belgium | ||
| Pierre Bourque | Montreal Mayor | January 18, 1999 | Montreal news conference | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Les Entartistes | |
| Steve Bracks | Victorian Premier | September 11, 2000 | World Economic Forum annual meeting | Melbourne, Australia | Marcus Brumer | |
| Robert Bresson | Film director | 1969 | Noël Godin | |||
| Dave Bronconnier | Calgary Mayor | June 2007 | Calgary Stampede | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Donna McPhee | |
| Willie Brown | San Francisco Mayor | November 11, 1998 | During speech | San Francisco, California, United States | Biotic Baking Brigade | |
| Anita Bryant | Singer and anti-gay rights activist | October 14, 1977 | Press conference | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | Thom Higgins | |
| Richard Byyny | former University of Colorado Chancellor | May 4, 2000 | Public speech | Boulder, Colorado, United States | Sara Toombs representing the Biotic Baking Brigade | |
| William F. Buckley Jr. | Conservative political commentator | April 12, 1976 | New York University | Aron Kay | ||
| Melky Cabrera | Center fielder, New York Yankees | April 22, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | |
| May 24, 2009 | After walk-off hit | |||||
| Michel Camdessus | International Monetary Fund Director | February 12, 2000 | Bangkok, Thailand | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Jean Chrétien | Prime Minister of Canada | August 16, 2000 | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | Evan Brown | ||
| Jeremy Clarkson | Journalist and TV personality | September 12, 2005 | Before receiving an honorary degree in engineering from Oxford Brookes University | Oxford | Environmentalists | |
| Charles Colson | Watergate conspirator, Christian crusader | February 10, 1978 | Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco | Jayson Wechter | ||
| Ann Coulter | Conservative columnist (missed) | Lecture | The University of Arizona | Les Entartistes | ||
| Johnny Damon | Left fielder, New York Yankees | May 17, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | |
| Gábor Demszky | Mayor of Budapest | February 9, 2006 | Tamás "Tomcat" Polgár | |||
| Stéphane Dion | Canadian politician | May 7, 1999 | Montreal, Quebec | Patrick Robert | ||
| Jean Doré | Former mayor of Montreal | October 28, 1998 | Montreal, Quebec; the incident happened when Doré was doing a TV interview | Les Entartistes | ||
| Philippe Douste-Blazy | French politician | Noël Godin | ||||
| Jacques Duchesneau | Canadian politician | Les Entartistes | ||||
| Marguerite Duras | French novelist | c. 1969 | Noël Godin | |||
| 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 | |
| Pim Fortuyn | Dutch politician | March 14, 2002 | Book presentation | The Hague, Netherlands | Biotic Baking Brigade | |
| Milton Friedman | Economist | October 9, 1998 | At a corporate conference | San Francisco, California | Al Decker | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Dan Glickman | United States Secretary of Agriculture | May 31, 2000 | National Nutrition Summit | Washington, D.C. | Arathi Jayaram | |
| 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 | |
| Carl XVI Gustaf | King of Sweden | September 5, 2001 | During a visit to Varberg | Varberg, Halland | A 16-year-old boy | |
| Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | German politician of the Christian Social Union | February 2012 | Berlin, Germany | Hedonist International | ||
| Göran Hägglund | Leader of Christian Democrats, Minister for Health and Social Affairs | August 18, 2014 | Party rally | Kungsportsplatsen, Gothenburg, Sweden | Member of a left-wing LGBTQ rights organization | |
| Jerry Hairston Jr. | Pinch hitter, New York Yankees | October 18, 2009 | walk-off error | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | |
| David Horowitz | Conservative pundit | |||||
| E. Howard Hunt | Operative of White House Plumbers | March 23, 1977 | Lobby of the RCA building, New York City | Aron Kay | ||
| Charles Hurwitz | CEO of MAXXAM Corporation, parent company of Pacific Lumber | Biotic Baking Brigade | ||||
| David Icke | Conspiracy theorist | 2000 | During a book signing | At the Granville Book Company bookstore | Members of the Green Party of Canada | |
| 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 | |
| Alan Joyce | CEO of Qantas | May 9, 2017 | While speaking at a business conference. | Perth, Australia | Tony Overheu | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Calvin Klein | Clothing designer (accidental hit) | June 2001 | On the red carpet of a New York fashion awards ceremony | |||
| Ralph Klein | Premier of Alberta | July 7, 2003 | Premier's Stampede Breakfast | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | Banana-Cream Three | |
| William Kristol | Pundit, columnist, and editor of The Weekly Standard | March 29, 2005 | Convocation at Earlham College | Richmond, Indiana | A student | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Roger D. Landry | Former President of La Presse newspaper | March 21, 1999 | During Les Oliviers awards | Montreal | Les Entartistes | |
| Karl Lagerfeld | Clothing designer (target missed) | |||||
| 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 homosexuality | |
| Carl Levin | US Senator | August 16, 2010 | Armed Services Committee chairman's meeting | Big Rapids, Michigan | Ahlam M. Mohsen | |
| Bernard-Henri Lévy | French philosopher | On at least eight occasions, between 1985 and 2015 | Brussels (1985), Namur (2015) | Noël Godin | ||
| Lucy Liu | Actress | January 29, 2013 | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | NBC Studios, Midtown Manhattan, New York City | Jimmy Fallon and herself | |
| Blairo Maggi | Brazilian plantation farmer | September 7, 2003 | Cuiabá, Brazil | Confeiteiros sem Fronteiras | ||
| Peter Mandelson | British politician | March 6, 2009 | London | |||
| Hideki Matsui | Designated hitter, New York Yankees | July 20, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | American politician | September 5, 1976 | Intersection of Delancey and Orchard Streets, New York City | Aron Kay | ||
| Rupert Murdoch | Australian-American media mogul | July 19, 2011 | Giving evidence before a Parliament select committee | Portcullis House, London | Jonnie Marbles | |
| Ralph Nader | American attorney, political activist and presidential candidate | September 12, 2003 | News conference endorsing Peter Camejo for recall governor | San Francisco | Unidentified male | |
| Michael O'Leary | Irish businessman and CEO of Ryanair | September 7, 2023 | Press conference | Brussels, Belgium | Unidentified climate activists | |
| Jacques Parizeau | Former premier of Quebec | November 1998 | Ahuntsic College, Montreal | Bruno Caron | ||
| Pierre Karl Péladeau | President and CEO of Quebecor Media Inc. | October 19, 2004 | Montreal, Quebec (UQAM) | Les Entartistes | ||
| Pierre Pettigrew | Canadian Human Resources Minister | January 18, 1999 | News conference | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Entartistes | |
| Fred Phelps | Religious activist | May 31, 2003 | Des Moines, Iowa, United States | |||
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Allan Rock | Canadian ambassador to the United Nations | January 24, 2000 | Montreal, Quebec | |||
| Alex Rodriguez | Third baseman, New York Yankees | May 16, 2009 | After walk-off home run | Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York | A.J. Burnett | |
| August 7, 2009 | ||||||
| Ségolène Royal | French politician | June 16, 2006 | La Rochelle, France | Jonathan Joly, student | ||
| Renato Ruggiero | Former WTO director | |||||
| George Ryan | Governor of Illinois | May 1, 2000 | Carbondale, Illinois | Dawn Roberts | ||
| Phyllis Schlafly | Lawyer and conservative activist | April 16, 1977 | Women's Republic Club luncheon | The Waldorf-Astoria, New York City | Aron Kay | |
| David Shayler | British spy | |||||
| Gail Shea | Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans | January 25, 2010 | Canada Centre for Inland Waters speech | Burlington, Ontario | Emily McCoy, PETA activist | |
| Clare Short | British politician | |||||
| Jeffrey Skilling | CEO of Enron | June 21, 2001 | Commonwealth Club of California | Francine Cavanaugh representing the Biotic Baking Brigade | ||
| Sylvester Stallone | Action movie star | July 28, 1998 | During the grand opening of a Planet Hollywood restaurant in Montreal | Montreal | Les Entartistes | |
| 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 | |
| Gerry Thompson | Magic: The Gathering professional player | During an interview with Mana Nation | Patrick Chapin | |||
| Gérald Tremblay | Mayor of Montreal | June 18, 2002 | Meeting to discuss the future of the city | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Les Entartistes | |
| 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 | Local party meeting in a hotel, Kassel, Germany | Peng Collective | |
| Claude Vorilhon | Leader of the Raëlian Movement | December 24, 1998 | Les Entartistes | |||
| 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) | |
| Ann Widdecombe | British Shadow Home Secretary | April 20, 2000 | Book signing for The Clematis Tree | Oxford University, England | Biotic Baking Brigade | |
| James Wolfensohn | Former president of the World Bank Group | October 29, 2001 | Helsinki, Finland | Anti-World Bank protester | ||
| Tommy Yune | Comic artist and anime director | July 1, 2007 | Anime Expo 2007 | Long Beach, California | Mr. Schiller | |
| 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. | |
| Bjørn Lomborg | Danish author | September 5 2001 | At a book event for The Skeptical Environmentalist | Oxford, England | Mark Lynas |
See also
- Egging
- List of practical joke topics
- List of slapstick comedy topics
- Pieing
- Shoeing
- Slapstick comedy
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