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Who wore a monocle?

Here’s a quick look at some well-known monocle wearers, both real and fictional, followed by a list of those we only think wore one.

🧐 Famous monocle wearers

• Mr. Peanut ~ Planters Peanuts mascot
• The Penguin ~ Batman villain
• Count von Count ~ Sesame Street
• Colonel Mustard ~ in some later versions of Cluedo
• Sir Reginald Hargreeves ~ The Umbrella Academy
• Eustace Tilley ~ The New Yorker magazine mascot
• Baron Samedi ~ Haitian voodoo spirit in popular culture
• Sir Patrick Moore ~ British astronomer and TV presenter
• Karl Lagerfeld ~ fashion designer, occasional wearer
• Karl Marx ~ photographed with a monocle at times
• Chris Eubank ~ British boxing legend

✨ Mandela Effect: Never wore a monocle

The Mandela Effect is when many people share the same false memory. It’s named after Nelson Mandela, as some wrongly recalled him dying in prison in the 1980s, though he lived until 2013.

• Mr. Monopoly ~ Monopoly board game mascot
• Julius Pringles ~ Pringles mascot
• Hercule Poirot ~ Agatha Christie detective, wore pince-nez glasses
• Scrooge McDuck ~ Disney character, wears pince-nez glasses
• Ernst Stavro Blofeld ~ James Bond villain
• Winston Churchill ~ British Prime Minister

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