Famous Martini Drinkers

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt loved Martinis, was a sloppy mixer and he even occasionally used unconventional ingredients in his, like anisette or fruit juice.

President Richard Nixon was another Martini lover and liked his gin to vermouth ratio about seven to one. It's been reported that he was drinking a Martini the night the Watergate crisis drove him from office.

The famous writer Ernest Hemingway also loved Martinis and his favorite was The Montgomery, named after the WW2 British Field Marshall who liked his odds on the battlefield to be 15-1. Since Hemingway liked his ratio of gin to vermouth 15-1 he was known to always ask for The Montgomery.

Comedic actor WC Fields is another famous martini drinker, as he would start his day with two double Martinis. He would have one before and one after breakfast. He was also known to take an over-sized cocktail shaker full of Martinis to the studio for the days' movie shoot. He reportedly drank about two quarts of gin a day.

Movie legend James Bond is probably the most famous on-screen star associated with a Martini. He always asked for it to be large and very strong and very well made. More precisely "shaken and not stirred" . The Martini called The Vesper is named after a beautiful blond double agent called Vesper Lynd.

TV legends Hawkeye, Trapper and B.J. in the TV hit M*A*S*H made their own gin to make Martinis in a make-shift still in the swamp. In the first-season episode "Chief Surgeon Who?", Hawkeye declares, "Actually, I'm pursuing my lifelong quest for the perfect, the absolutely dryest Martini to be found in this or any other world. And I think I may have hit upon the perfect formula." Upon hearing this, Trapper asks, "Five-to-one?" Hawkeye replies, "Not quite. You pour six jiggers of gin, and you drink it while staring at a picture of Lorenzo Schwartz, the inventor of vermouth." (This is inaccurate, though, as vermouth was actually developed by Antonio Benedetto Carpano.)

Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda, the four angst-ridden stars of from HBO's Sex and the City, love Martinis. From their favorite, the Cosmopolitan, to the Flirtini and the Apple-tini, those four are surely Martini Girls.

There are many more names on the list of famous Martini drinkers throughout history. Martini Madness lives!