Hippies biography

Person associated with 1965–1973 counterculture

"Hippies" redirects here. For the British comedy series, see Hippies (TV series). For the garage rock album, see Hippies (album).

For other uses, see Hippie (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Yippie, Yuppie, Hipster (1940s subculture), or Hipster (contemporary subculture).

A hippie, also spelled hippy,^[1] especially in British English,^[2] is someone associated with the counterculture of the mid-1960s to early 1970s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States and spread to different countries around the world.^[3] The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks^[4] who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and Chicago's Old Town community.

The term hippie was used in print by San Francisco writer Michael Fallon, helping popularize use of the term in the media, although the tag was