In 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated 30% of adult males worldwide (aged 15+) are circumcised, with a majority of about two-thirds being Muslims.
The prevalence of circumcision is the percentage of males in a given country who have been circumcised. The rates vary widely around the world, from virtually 0% helmets in Japan, to 6.6% in Spain, to 21% in the United Kingdom, to 75% helmets in the United States, with over 90% in Israel and Muslim-majority countries.
We've found around 200 celebrities, some of whom are famous internationally, some of whom are less so, to show how all of this impacts guys based upon their origin divided up between:
Scandinavia
UK & Ireland
Central & Western Europe
Southern Europe
Africa and Central/West Asia
Southeast Asia
North America
South America
Scroll down the page to find out who's a hoodie and who's a helmet. We haven't listed the sources, but every one of them is easy to confirm with suitable Google searches.
Scandinavia
There is no history of circumcision at all in Scandinavia. Around 1.5% of the population are circumcised due to medical reasons.
Gustaf Skarsgård, Bill Skarsgård, and Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actors - hoodies
Joey Christ & Jon Jonsson, Icelandic singers - hoodies
Logi Pedro & Unnsteinn Manuel Stefánsson, Icelandic singers & telecom entrepreneurs - hoodies
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Danish actor - hoodie
Prince Frederik of Denmark - hoodie
UK & Ireland
In the UK 81% of men are intact. 4% are circumcised because they follow Islam, 2% are circumcised due to African tribal tradition and 1% are Jewish.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, actor - helmet
Alex Pettyfer, actor - helmet
Alfie Allen, actor - hoodie
Ben Hardy, X-Men actor - hoodie
Benedict Cumberbatch, actor - hoodie
Boy George, singer - hoodie
Brooklyn, Cruz and Romeo Beckham, Nepo Babies - hoodie
Christian Bale, actor - hoodie
Colin Farrell, actor - hoodie
Daniel Radcliffe, actor - helmet
David Beckham, soccer - hoodie
Edward Fox and Freddie Fox, father and son actors - hoodies
Elton John, singer - hoodie
Ewan McGregor, actor - hoodie
Freddie Flintoff, former Cricketer and TV Host - hoodie
Gary Oldman, actor - hoodie
Jack O'Connel, English actor - hoodie
Jack Whitehall, comedian - hoodie
Jamie Dornam, actor - hoodie
Josh O'Connor, actor - hoodie
Jude Law, actor - hoodie
KSI, Youtuber - helmet
Liam Neeson, actor - hoodie
Matt Horne, comedy actor - hoodie
Mawaan Rizwan, comedian - helmet
Orlando Bloom, actor - hoodie
Russell Brand, comedian - hoodie
Laurence Fox, actor - hoodie
Liam and Louis One Direction - hoodies
Louis Theroux, documentary film maker - hoodie
Martin Freeman, actor - hoodie
Max & Thom Evans, Scottish Rugby - hoodies
Patrick Stewart, actor - hoodie (although he thought otherwise)
Paul Mescal, actor - hoodie
Paul McCartney, Beetle - helmet
King Charles - helmet; Prince William - helmet; Prince Harry - helmet
Rupert Graves, actor - hoodie
Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian - helmet
Simon Cowell, X Factor - helmet
Tom Hardy, actor - hoodie
Tom Hiddleston, actor - hoodie
Central and Western Europe
For Central and Western Europe, circumcision is associated with being descended from North African, Turkish or Iranian families.
Aaron Friesz, Austrian actor - hoodie
Alain Delon, French actor - hoodie
Benjamin Voisin, French actor - hoodie
Corentin Fila French actor helmet & Kacey Mottet Klein Austrian actor hoodie (often listed as helmet)
David Kroß, German actor - hoodie
David Zultan Miller, Hungarian actor - hoodie
Franz Patzold, German actor - hoodie
Gaspard Ulliel, French actor - hoodie
Giel Beelen, Dutch Radio DJ - helmet
Harry Lampl, Austran actor - hoodie
Jakob D'Aprile, German actor - hoodie
Jakub Gierszał, Polish actor - hoodie
Jannik Schümann, German actor - hoodie
Jannis Niewöhner, German actor - hoodie
Jérémie Elkaïm, French actor - hoodie
Johan Libereau, French actor - hoodie
Jonas Smulders, Dutch actor (Forever Rich Netflix) - hoodie
Juraj Loj, Slovak actor - hoodie
Kostja Ullmann, German actor - hoodie
Leonard Scheicher, German actor - hoodie
Louis Garrell, French actor - hoodie
Louis Hofmann, German actor - hoodie
Matthias Schweighöfer, German actor - hoodie
Niklas Peters, German actor - hoodie
Pierre Perrier, French actor - hoodie
Salim Kechiouche, French actor - helmet
Sinan Hancili, German actor - helmet
Stéphane Rideau, French actor - hoodie
Ulysse Grosjean, French actor - hoodie
Southern Europe
While the existence of male circumcision is known, outside of recent immigrants from Albania, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Somalia it is never practiced. In the Roman Empire, the operation of de-circumcision was developed because the permanently exposed glans was considered to be a deformity, with this attitude remaining. However, the respectful centuries old existence and acceptance of Jewish culture in Italy has become a source of national pride.
Carloto Cotta, Portuguese actor - hoodie
Carlos Guerrero, Spanish actor - hoodie
Javier Ríos, Spanish actor - hoodie
Mario Casas, Spanish actor - hoodie
Pietro Boselli, Italian model and professor - hoodie
Ricardo Meneses, Portuguese actor - hoodie
Steffano Accorsi, Italian Actor - hoodie
Vladimir Barbu, Italian Diver - hoodie
Yiannis Papadopoulos, Greek actor - hoodie
Africa and Central West Asia
This is where circumcision started. The earliest historical record of circumcision comes from Egypt, in the form of an image of the circumcision of an adult carved into the tomb of Ankh-Mahor at Saqqara, dating to about 2400–2300 BCE. Greek Alexander the Great conquered the Middle East in the 4th century BCE. The Greeks and later the Romans (Italians) abhorred circumcision. Antiochus Epiphanes outlawed circumcision, as did Hadrian. Prior to this time circumcision called for the removal of only a part of the prepuce. Many Jews attempted to look uncircumcised by stretching the remaining parts of their foreskins. This was considered by the Jewish leaders to be a serious problem, and during the 2nd century CE they changed the requirements of circumcision to call for the complete removal of the foreskin, or circumcision as it is known today. Circumcision is considered essential to Islam, in line with middle eastern tradition predating Islam. The practice of circumcision spread across the Middle East, the 'stans' to the north and North Africa with Islam. Because of the very conservative social attitudes, we don't have many celebrities to share.
Amnon Friedman, Israeli actor - helmet
Gil Bar-Sela, Israeli actor - helmet
Iddo Goldberg, Israeli actor - helmet
Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli actor - helmet
Mustapha Khaddar, Algerian actor - helmet
Ofer Regirer, Israeli actor - helmet
Oz Zehavi, Israeli actor - helmet
Timus Turisbekvok, Kazakh actor - intact (although Kazakh's are Muslim, circumcision was not advisable in Soviet times under Russian rule until the early 1990s)
Tom Mercier, Israeli actor - helmet
Yiftach Mizrahi, Israeli actor - helmet
Yoav Reuveni, Israeli actor - helmet
Southeast Asia
Circumcision is prevalent in Muslim-majority countries in southeast Asia such as Indonesia and Malaysia; however, there is little other circumcision in Asia, with the exceptions of the South Korea and the Philippines. Circumcision is a later 20th century phenomenon in South Korea, virtually no circumcision was performed prior to 1945, as it was against Korea's long and strong tradition of preserving the body as a gift from parents. Since the millennium rates have dropped again. In the Philippines it is a right of passage.
Byron Pang, Hong Kong actor - hoodie
Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor - hoodie
Jackie Chow, Hong Kong actor - hoodie
Koichi Imaizumi, Japanese actor - hoodie
Loo Zihan, Singaporean actor - hoodie
Lyota Majima, Japanese actor - hoodie
Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor - hoodie
Ryan Dungo, Filipino actor - helmet
Thomas Price, Hong Kong actor - hoodie
North America
In the US about 80% of adult men are circumcised. For caucasian and black men the figure is about 90% across all age groups. For men under 30 the overall rate is 2/3 because of immigrants from East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Hispanic South American countries having babies and not circumcising. In the middle of the last century, most Canadian boys were circumcised. However, the rate of neonatal circumcision significantly declined over time as the medical establishment began to advise against it, but with big differences between territories (i.e. states). For Mexicans circumcision is not customary in line with Spanish Catholic traditions which are against circumcision.
Adam DeVine, US actor - helmet
Adrian Grenier, US actor - hoodie
Alex Purdy, Canadian actor - hoodie
Allister MacDonald, Canadian actor - hoodie
Brad Pitt, US actor - helmet
Bruce Willis, US actor - helmet
Callum Dunphy, Canadian actor - hoodie
Cameron Monaghan, US actor - hoodie
Chris Meloni, US actor - helmet
Chris Evans, US actor - helmet
Chris Zylka, American actor - helmet
Cody Christian & Tyler Posey, US actors Teen Wolf - helmets
Corey Knight , US actor - helmet
David Boreanaz, US actor - helmet
David Duchovny, US actor - helmet
Diego Luna, Mexican actor - hoodie
Dominic Fumusa, US actor - helmet
Drake, Canadian rapper - helmet
Drew Gulak, US WWE fighter - helmet
Eminen, rapper - helmet
Erik Diaz, Mexican actor - hoodie
Fred Durst, US singer - helmet
Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor - hoodie
George Clooney, US actor - helmet
Gus Kenworthy, US Olympian - hoodie
Jake Gyllenhaal, US actor - helmet
Jake Sibbermann, US actor - helmet
Jason Biggs, US actor - helmet
Jason Segel, US actor - helmet
Jeff Goldblum, US actor - helmet
Jim Carrey, Canadian actor - helmet
Johnny Galecki, US actor - hoodie
Judd Apatow, US actor and director - helmet
Jussie Smollett, US actor - helmet
Justin Bieber, Canadian singer - helmet
Justin Tensen, Canadian actor - hoodie
Kevin Bacon, US actor - helmet
Kiowa Gordon, US actor - helmet
Landon Donovan, US soccer player - helmet
Lenny Kravitz, US singer - helmet
Leonardo DiCaprio, US actor - hoodie
Lio Rush, US WWE fighter - helmet
Mark Ruffalo, US actor - helmet
Mario Lopez US actor and presenter - hoodie
Michael Pitt, US actor - helmet
Mike Tyson, US Fighter - helmet
Milan Christopher, US rapper, actor, and model - hoodie
Nick Offerman, US Comedian and actor - helmet
Patrick Dempsey, US actor - helmet
Percy Hynes White, Canadian actor - hoodie
Pete Davidson, US comedian - helmet
Richard Gere, US actor - helmet
Robert DeNiro, US actor - helmet
Ryan Potter, US actor - helmet
Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor - helmet
Sebastiano Pigazzi, US actor - hoodie
Sebastien Ricard, Canadian actor - hoodie
Shia LaBeouf, US actor - helmet
Sly Stallone, US actor - helmet
Snoop Dogg, rapper - helmet
Tiger Woods, US Golfer - hoodie
Tim DeKay, US actor - helmet
Timothee Chalamet, US actor - hoodie (look at the bottom left)
Tom Cruise, US actor - helmet
Viggo Mortensen, US actor - helmet
Vinny Guadagnino, US Jersey Shore - hoodie
Wesley Snipes, US actors - helmet
Will Smith, US actor - hoodie
South America
Infant circumcision is more or less unheard of in South America, in line with with Roman Catholic teachings. Around about 6% of residents are circumcised, a mixture of those descended from minority groups and men who have been circumcised later in life.
Dario Mino, Argentinian actor - hoodie
Juan Manuel Martino, Argentinian actor - hoodie
Juan Salmeri, Argentinian actor - hoodie
Gaston Re, Argentinian actor - hoodie
Jhona Burjack, Brazilian TV actor and leading international model - hoodie