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