"Ice cream and famous people: Jackie Chan likes chocolate ice cream, Elvis loved chocolate milkshake ice cream, Marlon Brando enjoyed ice cream, Eddie

Famous People Enjoy Ice Cream

Many people all over the world love ice cream so it should come as no surprise that amongst them are some very famous faces. Quite a number of famous people have been known to love ice cream including US Presidents Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.


Former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher also has an interesting connection with ice cream. She was part of a 1950's research team working for a British ice cream manufacturer looking into ways in which ice cream manufacture could be improved and be made more profitable. The team came up with the idea of adding more air into the ice cream which meant that manufacturers would use less ingredients to produce the same amount thus increasing profitability. It wasn't just the ice cream makers that benefited though because the ice cream produced became really popular - a soft serve ice cream which the public loved the texture of.

Bill Gates, Co-founder of Microsoft and possibly the world's most generous philanthropist is reported to occasionally stop for an ice cream bar when travelling from Redmond (Washington) over Rose Hill. There's an interesting anecdote about Microsoft Employees who were treated to free ice cream back in 1990 courtesy of a computer store chain. It was apparently following the shipment of Windows 3.0 which proved a massive success that Egghead (computer store chain) is believed to have sent trucks with free ice cream over to Microsoft's offices so that the employees could all enjoy an ice cream bar to celebrate the success.

The legendary actor Marlon Brando was known to love ice cream and at one time is reported to have been seen buying 5 gallons at a time.

Here are a few others famous faces and what are understood to be their favorite ice cream flavors:


Jackie Chan
Chocolate Ice Cream

Elvis Presley
Chocolate Milkshake Ice Cream Peach Ice Cream

George W Bush
Pralines and Cream Ice Cream


Eddie Murphy developed a great stage comic performance out of his love of ice cream as a child.

Roald Dahl the famous children's writer wrote about his fantasy of an ice cream that never melts in his most famous story 'Charlie and The Chocolate Factory'.

Laurel & Hardy used ice cream in several, key comedy scenes including the famous 'Moustachio Ice Cream' sketch from their short movie entitled 'Come Clean' made in 1931.

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