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If Stalin had his signature mustache, then Brezhnev had his eyebrows.

  • Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has large bushy eyebrows which were frequently lampooned in political cartoons. Bob Hawke, two Prime Ministers ago, also partakes in the art of enormous eyebrows. Back in the day ('40s to '60s), Prime Minister Robert Menzies also had these. Funnily enough, they are Australia's three longest serving Prime Ministers. Co-incidence? (Yes.)
    • As is British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alastair Darling- who has eyebrows and hair of different colours.
    • Darling is following in the footsteps of another British Labour Chancellor, Denis Healey, whose enormous bushy eyebrows were the subject of caricature on Spitting Image. Come to think of it, Conservative Chancellor Norman Lamont also had memetic eyebrows. Maybe it comes with the financial territory.
  • Let's not forget the famous Chinese warrior Guan Yu, whose eyebrows were 'thick as silkworms' ...Now, if only there was a trope for 'long and beautiful' beards.
  • Peter Gallagher (Sandy Cohen from The O.C.) has some truly impressive eyebrows.
    • Peter Gallagher's eyebrows have their own Facebook profile.
    • They are also said to have had their own trailer.
  • Eli Roth. They have their own tumblr.
  • Leonid Brezhnev, who ruled Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and So On for the longest period of time, was known for his big eyebrows as well.
  • Eugene Levy has some truly impressive eyebrows. On the Greg the Bunny commentary, Seth Green claims it takes four puppeteers to work them. Eugene's son Dan Levy also sports magnificent brows, although he claims to trim his down a bit.
  • Adam Levine.
  • Jay Leno.
  • This is the most important feature of Swedish politician Lars Leijonborg.
  • Colin Farrell, anyone?
  • Adam Carolla, of The Man Show fame.
  • George Harrison had a pretty impressive pair.
  • Neil Young, anyone?
  • R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry sports a very impressive unibrow, which were featured on the album cover of Lifes Rich Pageant.
  • Lee Pace (of Pushing Daisies fame), anyone?
    • One episode of Pushing Daisies introduced the half-brothers of his character, who Olive and Chuck were delighted to discover had his eyebrows.
    • Also, Kristin Chenoweth, who played Olive, claims that she has really big eyebrows, but she tweezes them
  • Zachary Quinto has huge, distinct eyebrows, once described by The Guardian as twitching cat's tails. So much that a character on the 2000s Melrose Place made a reference to them. He even demonstrates how his eyebrows create his especially terrifying Kubrick Stare.
  • Sean Connery. The producers decided to trim his eyebrows down for the first few James Bond films, but this gradually slipped.
  • The brothers Gallagher of Oasis, with the lead singer Liam having a large, unsightly monobrow when he's too lazy to groom it, and his brother Noel sporting these monstrosities
  • Colm Wilkinson is a brilliant singer and actor, who was Jean Valjean in Les Mis for years before being Valjean in the 10th-anniversary concert in the Royal Albert Hall. His eyebrows are massive.
  • David Marshall, the First Chief Minister of Singapore, had very bushy eyebrows.
  • Professional wrestler Maven Huffman was occasionally mocked for his exceptionally large eyebrows.
  • Martin Scorsese is famous for three things: great movies, putting a The Rolling Stones song in every movie he makes, and giant eyebrows. Robin Williams once referred to them as "caterpillars" when presenting at the Oscars.
  • Polish general Józef Piłsudski, who also sports an impressive mustache.
  • Mexican artist and cult figure Frida Kahlo made it a point to stress her unibrow in self-portraits.
  • Another born Mexican, now a French citizen, operatic tenor Rolando Villaz?as described as having "eyebrows like scorched earth" by The Guardian's Peter Conrad.
  • Gashuin Tatsuya, a Japanese actor, has an incredibly pronounced unibrow.
  • Jonas Brothers. And that's after manscaping!
  • Stephen Frost of the Comedy Store Players and Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
  • Ron Livingston's eyebrows are not only thick but are also oddly asymmetrical. Lovely.
  • Daniel Radcliffe has some impressive eyebrows, as seen here.
  • The late Andy Rooney had an impressive pair of bushy eyebrows. Dana Carvey once suggested that a raccoon lived in them.
  • Georges Pompidou, a French President.
  • Bruce Lee, who inspired the design of Kenshiro.
  • David Hemmings.
  • Germany's long-time finance minister Theo Waigel.
  • One of Morrissey's most distinctive features, along with his chin and quiff haircut.
  • Daruma dolls often have big eyebrows painted on them (though they don't usually come with eyes painted on).
  • While hardly big by the standards of this page, Brooke Shields (especially in her early career) was known for her heavy eyebrows. Not bushy, but certainly more noticeable than most female movie stars.
    • Keira Knightley is sometimes mentioned in the same terms, but hers are hardly the same, despite one reviewer describing her as looking like "Natalie Portman in the early stages of a werewolf transformation".
    • Jennifer Connelly also has noticeably thick eyebrows.
    • Jenna Coleman treats her eyebrows, along with her large, expressive eyes, as a personal trademark. Early in her acting career, Coleman's eyebrows were noticably trimmed down for her role in Emmerdale, but she later stopped doing this. By Series 9 of Doctor Who, her eyebrows almost deserved co-star credit along with her eyes.
  • Michael Ignatieff, former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
  • Luis Castanon from Newgrounds.com. Seriously! [1]
  • Female example: in her early years, Audrey Hepburn had thick (though very well-groomed) eyebrows.
  • Senator Sam Ervin, who chaired the Senate Watergate Committee, had a habit of emphasizing his comments with a lot of eyebrow movements.
  • German footballer Phillip Lahm.
  • Lady Gaga is another Rare Female Example, actually thickening and darkening her eyebrows.
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Keith Moon [2]
  • Two words. Learned. Hand.
  • Hockey executive George Gund III (right). His current team, the San Jose Sharks, are no slouches in this department themselves with Patrick Marleau and Jamal Mayers on their roster.
  • New Orleans Pelicans star basketball player Anthony Davis sports them, too.
  • Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has very prominent eyebrows.
  • Beau Bridges.
  • Stjepan "Stipe" Mesic the former president of Croatia.
  • Former Marilyn Manson guitarist, Scott "Daisy Berkowitz" Putesky.
  • Robert Sheehan from Misfits sports a pair of thick, expressive caterpillars over his eyes.
  • All the penguins belonging in the Eudyptes genus have big, yellow eyebrows that extend beyond their faces.
  • Ed Boon, co-creator of the Mortal Kombat games, has these.
  • Darren Criss has some really large, thick and slightly triangular eyebrows.
  • Canadian musician Andrew Huang is constantly getting comments on his videos about his "awesome eyebrows." He comments on it here.
  • Italian musician Elio, leader of the band "Elio e le Storie Tese". Just look at them. One of the earlier fanclubs was even named "Culto del monociglione" ("Cult of the Big Unibrow").
  • Model Katie Price, better known as Jordan, sports a large pair.
  • Same goes for Denise Richards.
  • Labor leader John L. Lewis.
  • I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Lily Collins. [3]
  • Some owls come off looking like this, due to their facial markings.
  • T.O.P of Big Bang has quite a distinctive pair
  • R. Lee Ermey's IMDB photo gallery is practically a showroom for his amazing brow throughout his career.
  • Elizabeth Taylor, by Hollywood standards. She wouldn't allow them to be trimmed, as she felt that they were part of her identity.
  • Schnauzers.
  • Johnny Galecki.
  • Kevin Richardson from the Backstreet Boys.
  • Abe Vigoda, from... everything.
  • Landon Liboiron, although it could be (and is) argued that the brows add to his charm.
  • Cara Delevingne has had articles written about her eyebrows.
  • Jordana Brewster's eyebrows are almost as famous as she is.
  • Maggie Thatcher's press secretary Sir Bernard Ingham. As those who watched Thatcher's funeral may have noticed, his already rather bushy eyebrows have become even more bushy with age, to the point where he now looks like he has pieces of cotton wool on his brow.
  • Ronnie Corbett.
  • John Belushi had thick but very expressive eyebrows which helped make his performance as Bluto in Animal House a masterclass in silent comic acting.
  • Anne Hathaway has some very prominent eyebrows.
  • As does Rowan Atkinson.
  • Sam Waterston. This prompted at least one late night talk show joke where Stephen Colbert tried to prove Katherine Waterston's relation to him by giving her prosphetic eyebrows.
  • Chris Noth.
  • Iran's former Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
  • John L. Lewis, the irascible president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) for 40 years, was famous for them, a was believed to have been his source of power.
  • Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis .
  • Stage Magician David Copperfield had these in spades.
  • Theo Waigel, the finance minister of Germany during most of The '90s.
  • Ray Goulding of Bob & Ray.
  • Tyler Hoechlin.
  • Pop singer Billie Eilish.
  • Chilean sports commenter Juan Cristóbal Guarello, nicknamed by the late Large Ham Eduardo Bonvallet (who also had some rather nice brows) as "matorral de cejas" aka "eyebrows bush" in Spanish.note 
  • Former Massachusetts Governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis also was noted for his rather prominent eyebrows.
  • French actress Mathilda May, most (in)famous for her role as the Space Girl in Lifeforce (1985), had some prominent eyebrows on her youth.
  • 29th U.S. president Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) and 37th president Richard Nixon (1969-1974).
  • Rockhopper penguins have head crests that resemble oversized eyebrows.
  • Byzantine Emperor Alexius V Murtzuphlus had these, and they were prominent enough to have his nickname be "Bushy eyebrows" when translated from Greek.
  • Timothy Dalton, especially as he got older (for reference, compare how they looked in The Living Daylights versus how they look in Penny Dreadful.)
  • Dave Franco, and it's apparently not hereditary as big brother James' brows aren't nearly as thick as his.
  • Mick Macneil and Derek Forbes of Simple Minds both had bushy brows
  • Davy Jones of The Monkees is another figure of the '60s [4]
  • Daniel Clark, who played Sean Cameron on Degrassi: The Next Generation, has some pretty thick eyebrows, which was lampshaded in the show at least once. His younger brother Robert, who's also an actor, has these as well.
  • YouTuber Mattshea has some fairly dark and prominent eyebrows.
  • Madonna had this in her classic era before shaving them off during the Erotica era in favour of pencilled in eyebrows before slowly regrowing them but not back to what it once was.
  • Peter Capaldi has a nice, big and furry pair of grey eyebrows. Interestingly, when he was first introduced as the Twelfth Doctor, they made an appearance before we even saw his whole face (and, for great measure, were called "attack eyebrows")!
  • Björk. It was noticeably thicker during her time as part of the Sugarcubes.
  • Joaquin Phoenix, which helps to give him his signature smoldering gaze.
  • Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Rudolf Hess, had some massive eyebrows.
  • Yitzhak Shamir, prime minister of Israel in the 1980s, and member of the militant organization Lehi (aka Stern gang) during the British Mandate, had such huge and distinctive eyebrows that a member of the Mandate Police recognized him because of them (well, that and Shamir's height - he was less than five feet tall).
  • Val Kilmer's eyebrows have gotten noticeably thicker over the years (to the point that he resembles the aforementioned Beau Bridges).
  • French politician and former Prime Minister François Fillon.
  • Actress Rachel Weisz is also known for her eyebrows.
  • Tik-Tok star Sammie-Joe Hailford is noted to have the world's biggest eyebrows.
  • Melissa Roxburgh.
  • John Diehl has grown some pretty thick eyebrows throughout his career in addition to sporting a lot of facial hair.
  • U.S. Army General Mark Milley.

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