11th August 2025
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National Sideburns Day. Noddy Holder voted Best Modern Sideburns 2025
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that with National Sideburns Day on August 11th it has run a snap on-line poll to judge the best modern sideburns.
Noddy Holder won 56.1% of the 1200 votes cast with Chris Packham, presenter of Spring Watch, getting 31.7%.
National Sideburns Day takes place every 11th August, and reflects the growing popularity of a range of facial hair styles.
National Sideburns Day was originally held to mark Bradley Wiggins Olympic victory in 2012
The campaigners say that sideburns, sometimes known as mutton chops, and named after US Civil War General Ambrose Burnside were often worn by Victorian politicians
Bradley Wiggins reinvented the post-1945 tradition of sideburns from Elvis Presley to Noddy Holder and the late Lemmy and Alvin Stardust, turned them into something no self-respecting hipster would be without
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, this year National Sideburns Day underlines the resilience of the style over centuries of changing facial hair fashions with a particular focus on contemporary sideburns. We congratulate Noddy Holder whose iconic sideburns are surely a National Treasurer
Shortlist
Richard Osman
Chris Packham
Noddy Holder
Jacob Elordi
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