Who was the first hippie ?

Answer 1

Moses...He always wore a long flowing dress, sometimes sandals and sometimes not...didn't cut his hair either, couldnt tell you what he smoked, but he did grow his own veggies...
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Answer 2

Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, then in the late 1950's Langston Hughes invented the "social underground" that was adaped by Frank Zappa and Jerry Garcia, who then thrusted the hippie movement into American mainstream pop culture.

Answer 3

Neal Cassady and the "beatniks" started the hippy movement. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, The Merry Pranksters.

Answer 4

Well, I doubt we'll ever know the name of "the first hippie" (though some might say it was Jesus), but here's a history of the term itself:

"Hippies were part of a youth movement composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults between the ages of 15 and 25 years-old. Inheriting a tradition of cultural dissent from the bohemians and the beatniks, hippies rebelled against established institutions, criticized middle class values, opposed the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of non-Judeo-Christian religions, promoted sexual liberation, and created intentional communities, leading some to describe hippies as a new religious movement. By 1968, self-described hippies had become a significant minority, representing just under 0.2 percent of the U.S. population.
In 1963, the British band The Swinging Blue Jeans released the song "Hippy Hippy Shake" (Del-Fi 4119, which rose to #2 in the British charts and #24 in the US. This song was originally recorded in 1959 by Chan Romero, with less success. The lyrics, at least on the surface, refer to anatomical hips which shake while dancing, rather than to anyone's awareness or culture.
Also in 1963, the Orlons, an African-American singing group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, released the soul dance song "South Street" (Cameo 243) referring to the real South Street in their city. Composed by Dave Appell and Kal Mann, with part of the old Stephen Foster tune from "Camptown Races", it climbed to #3 in sales in the US. The "South Street" lyrics enthuse, "Where do all the hippies meet? South Street, South Street . . . The hippest street in town". Some transcriptions, however, read "Where do all the hippist (sic) meet?" Nevertheless, since many heard it as "hippies", that use was promoted. These early "hippest" people (or "hippies") were African Americans.
"The Hippies" was also the name of a mixed African American and White soul singing group on the Orlons' record label, Cameo-Parkway. Under a previous name, the Tams, they recorded "Memory Lane" in 1959 (Parkway 863). Re-released in April 1963, "Memory Lane" had printed on the label "The Hippies (Formerly The Tams)". It reached #63 in sales.
On the east coast of the U.S. in Greenwich Village, New York City, young counterculture advocates were named hips. At that time, as now, to be hip meant to be "in the know" or "cool", as opposed to being called a stodgy "square". Disaffected youth from the suburbs of New York City flocked to Greenwich Village coffeehouses in their oldest clothes to fit into the counterculture.
Reminiscing about late 1940s Harlem in his 1964 autobiography, Malcolm X referred to the word hippy as a term African Americans used to describe a specific type of white man who "acted more ***** than Negroes."
The more contemporary sense of the word "hippie" first appeared in print on 5 September 1965. In an article entitled "A New Haven for Beatniks," San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight. Fallon reportedly came up with the name by condensing Norman Mailer's use of the word, "hipster" into "hippie"."
Use of the term hippie did not catch on in the mass media until early 1967, after San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen began referring to hippies in his daily columns."

Answer 5

Bob Dylan

Answer 6

George the fat pink hippo.

Oh, you said hippie

Answer 7

Jerry Garcia of the greatful dead

Answer 8

i thought it started in the sixties ...

People are saying George the fat hippo ... must look into this myself.

the only help I can be sorry, but a good question :)

Answer 9

Spinoza? Benjamin Franklin ? Gandalf for sure ...all those guys were tokin' the reefer

Answer 10

My guess would be John Lennon..