Considering a style of moustache this month for the "Movember" men's health drive?

The Royal Gazette has drawn up a rogues' gallery of the most notorious 'taches of our times — many named after the real and fictional characters who made them famous.

• The Fu Manchu: a long, down-pointing moustache hanging beyond the chin. An iconic moustache, eponymously linked to the fictional Chinese villain.

• The Yosemite Sam: an enormous, drooping, red-haired moustache, epitmomised by Warner Brothers' cartoon cowboy.

l Pancho Villa: a Mexican revolutionary best remembered elsewhere in the world for his equalling drooping moustache. Like the Fu Manchu, but thicker.

l The Handlebar: a long moustache with pointed, up-curling ends. It's known as a "Rollie Fingers" to baseball fans in the US, after the baseball pitcher Roland Glen Fingers. In London it is popularised by the Handlebar Club, which was founded shortly after World War Two, when the handlebar was popularised by RAF officers.

• Actor Dennis Hopper wore this in the 1969 road movie 'Easy Rider'. The 1960s version of the Walrus moustache already sported by musician David Crosby has been associated with bikers ever since.

• The Toothbrush moustache is linked with two instantly-recognisable faces from the 20th century. It was popularised by the silent film comedian Charlie Chaplin, who made it his trademark. The Toothbrush became infamous after it was worn by Adolf Hitler. It became so linked to the German dictator that today's more recognisable slang for it is the "Hitler", which has had an understandable impact on its popularity.

• The Groucho Marx: the comedian originally applied his bar-shaped moustache with stage paint but eventually grew it as a carefully trimmed rectangle of hair.

• The 'Magnum PI': Actor Tom Selleck's TV character was admired as manly, in part because of his bushy moustache. Emulating the style of his facial hair would take most ordinary mortals longer than a month.

• The Salvador Dali: a narrow moustache with long, up-pointing ends, requiring a great deal of styling wax. This most famous of the surrealists once dedicated a book to his moustache. Dali kept his well-oiled to a glistening sheen.

• Famously unkempt moustaches: philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wore a berserk extreme of the bushy moustache now better associated with Albert Einstein's tamer version. Either way, it shows an eccentric disregard for convention.

• The severe bushy moustache: made emblematic by Soviet leader Josef Stalin, who wanted to more closely resemble Russian farmers.

• The Flanders moustache: thick and yet trimmed, this prim moustache adorns the civic-minded Ned Flanders of 'The Simpsons'.

Check out www.chc.bm to find 'taches to sponsor and a glimpse of Bermuda's own gallery of moustaches. We also want to post your pictures on our own website, www.royalgazette.com. E-mail them to photos@royalgazette.bm.