Who is credited with coining the word "hippie"?

Lonederanger

It was coined by a journalist in San Francisco. Unfortunately I can't remember his name, but this might get a little further down the road to the full answer. Dec 04 06, 8:06 AM

What-A-Mess

On 5 September 1965, in an article in the San Francisco Examiner about the new "Bohemian" scene developing in the Haight-Ashbury district, Michael Fallon labeled its members "hippies." http://www.answers.com/topic/hippie http://www.answers.com/topic/hippie And then there is this part of the same article....... Reminiscing about late 1930s 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 Negro than Negroes." Dec 04 06, 8:50 AM

zbeckabee

The phrase "I'm Hip" was used quite often by beatniks. Their talk was said to be hip. Some even called them "Hipsters". Thus the beginning of the Hippies. It was the hippies that took the movement out of the coffee shops and on to the campuses around the country. Berkley became the center of the movement. http://oldhippie.jimgreenlee.com/hiphistory.html Dec 04 06, 9:07 AM