Hitchhiking - Notable Hitchhikers

Notable Hitchhikers

• Joe Bennett, New Zealand newspaper columnist and author, hitchhiked around the world for 10 years.
• André Brugiroux, France. Hitchhiked all around the world for 18 years, 1955 to 1973.
• Alan Carter. Last hitchhiker recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for the Land's End to John O'Groats to Land's End round-trip. (39 hours 28 minutes)
• Martin Clark and Graham Beynon. Last hitchhikers recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for the Land's End to John O'Groats trip. (17 hours 8 minutes)
• Chris Coekin, artist from the UK authored the photobook "The Hitcher."
• W. H. Davies, a Welsh poet and tramp, who hitchhiked America during the early 20th century.
• Graham Eccles. British poet, hitcher and balloon sculptor. Hitchhiked from Bude, Cornwall to Edinburgh, Scotland for the Fringe Festival 2011 with his Penny Farthing bicycle in a bid to beat Tony Hawks' Round Ireland with a Fridge legendary hitchhike. Took 8 lifts over 2 days to get to Edinburgh, and 5 lifts in 28 hours hitching to return. The return leg was from Cumbria to Cornwall due to various other escapades during the To the Fringe with a Farthing trip.
• Colin Flaherty, writer and journalist, hitchhiked across the United States and Canada and wrote Redwood to Deadwood: A 53-year Old Dude Hitchhikes Across America. Again.
• Che Guevara.
• Ludovic Hubler, is a French hitchhiker who toured the world entirely by hitchhiking from January 1, 2003 to January 1, 2008. He wrote a book called Le Monde en stop, which was awarded the best travel book of the year 2009 in France.
• Jack Kerouac hitchhiked in America and wrote many books about his experience.
• Suzanne MacNevin (feminist writer) spent several years hitchhiking in Canada and the United States during the late 1990s.
• Chris McCandless, subject of the book, Into the Wild; hitchhiked throughout the western region of North America in the early 1990s.
• Rik Merchie, writer, hitchiked from Ghent to the Mount Everest in 31 days.
• Jim Morrison of The Doors. He is also depicted hitchhiking in his movie HWY: An American Pastoral.
• Robert Prins. Last hitchhiker recorded in the Guinness Book of Records for the 24-hour hitchhiking record. (2,318.4 km)
• Bert Rebhandl, writer and journalist.
• Stephan Schlei, from Ratingen in Germany. Hitchhiked more than 621,371 mi (1,000,000 km). The Guinness Book of Records, before all hitchhiking records were removed, used to say that he was the World's No.1 Hitchhiker.
• Devon Smith was listed in Guinness Book of World Records for most cumulative miles hitchhiked (1973 to 1985), over 290,988 mi (468,300 km). He also held the record for hitchhiking all 48 contiguous U.S. states in 33 days during 1957.
• Andrzej Stasiuk - writer, journalist and literary critic
• Juan Pablo Villarino, Argentinean hitchhiker who travels the world documenting hospitality. His book Vagabundeando en el eje del Mal (Vagabonding in the Axis of Evil - By thumb in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan), was published in Spain, Argentina and Ecuador. He is the founder of Autostop Argentina, and regularly writes for National Geographic VIAJES. His Educational Nomadic Project was shortlisted among the 50 most influential educational related travel enterprise by Matador Network.
• Nedd Willard, writer, artist and journalist.
• David Choe, painter, muralist, graffiti artist and graphic novelist