Stanley Green, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stanley Green

Human billboard

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1915

Place of Birth: Harringay, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Dec-1993

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Stanley Owen Green (22 February 1915 – 4 December 1993), known as the Protein Man, was a human billboard in central London in the latter half of the 20th century.
One writer called him "the most famous non-famous person in London".
According to Lynne Truss, Green became such a ubiquitous figure in and around Oxford Street in the West End that, like Zelig, he was "present in every black-and-white picture of London crowds that one has ever seen".For 25 years, from 1968 until 1993, Green patrolled Oxford Street with a placard recommending "protein wisdom", a low-protein diet that he said would dampen the libido and make people kinder.
His 14-page self-published pamphlet, Eight Passion Proteins with Care went through 84 editions and sold 87,000 copies over 20 years.Green's "campaigning for the suppression of desire", as one writer described it, was not always popular, but Londoners developed an affection for him.
The Sunday Times interviewed him in 1985, and the fashion house Red or Dead used his "less passion from less protein" slogan in one of its collections.
When he died aged 78, the Daily Telegraph, Guardian and Times all published obituaries, and the Museum of London acquired his pamphlets and placards.
In 2006 his biography was included in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.