User:Ravedave/ALS

This is a list of famous people who have or had Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Notable people with ALS

Raymond Abrashkin - author
Augustine (Augie) Nieto - fitness guru
Zeca Afonso - Portuguese folk singer and anti-fascist politician
David E. Babcock, Sr. - former CEO, May Department Stores - 1975–1980; governor of U.S. Postal Service - 1980
Derek Bailey - British avaunt-garde guitar virtuoso
Jason Becker - American guitar virtuoso
Rob Borsellino - Des Moines Register columnist and author of So I'm Talkin' to This Guy...
Scott Brazil - American television producer and director
Harry Browne - best-selling author and 2-time Libertarian U.S. presidential candidate
Jerry Glenn Bryant - professional wrestler from Memphis, TN
Mao Zedong - Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
Ezzard Charles - boxer; former world heavyweight champion
Leonard Cheshire - notable RAF pilot and charity worker
Sid Collins - radio personality; radio voice of the Indianapolis 500
Luca Coscioni - Italian researcher, political activist and advocate for [[euthanasia]
Dominic S. D'Angona - nuclear physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
Dennis Day - singer, comedian, actor
Dieter Dengler - Vietnam era Air Force pilot who escaped from Laotian POW camp
Michael Donnelly - Gulf War veteran
Konstantinos Apostolos Doxiadis - Greek architect, urban planner and visionary
John Drury - longtime ABC7 Chicago news anchor
Bruce Edwards - PGA Tour caddy for golfer Tom Watson
Jenifer Estess - theatre producer; star of HBO documentary Three Sisters, subject of HBO film Jennifer; founding member of Project ALS
Roberto Fontanarrosa - Argentine cartoonist and writer
Steven G. Gey- law professor and expert on the separation of church and state and freedom of speech; former on-air analyst for ABC during the 2000 presidential recount
Lou Gehrig - baseball player, after whom the disease is commonly referred
Marc Harrison - designer
Pro Hart - Australian painter
Stephen Hawking - theoretical physicist and author of several books on astrophysics, including A Brief History of Time
Bob Haymes - actor, singer, pianist and songwriter of the Great American Songbook ballad "That's All"
Stephen Heywood - carpenter; subject of So Much So Fast and His Brother's Keeper
Jim "Catfish" Hunter - baseball player
Jörg Immendorff, German painter
Jacob K. Javits, U.S. Senator from New York
Axel Jensen - writer
Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish international footballer
Hans Keller - Austrian-born British musicologist and music critic.
Suna Kıraç, Turkish businesswoman and philanthrophist
Leadbelly - blues singer and guitarist
Joseph Mayo - Clerk of the Maine House of Representatives
Charles Mingus - jazz bass player
Glenn Montgomery - NFL football player for the Houston Oilers and Seattle Seahawks
Johnathon Nadaro - Australian painter and sculptor
David Niven - actor
Krzysztof Nowak, Polish footballer
Richard K. Olney - neurologist; ALS physician and researcher
Sidney Preston Osborn - former governor of Arizona
Neon Park - American artist
Mike Porcaro- American bassist, Toto
Diane Pretty - British "right to die" advocate
Don Revie - English football player and manager
Sue Rodriguez - Canadian "right to die" advocate
Franz Rosenzweig - philosopher and religious thinker
Stanley Sadie - British musicologist, music critic and editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Ed Sadowski - baseball catcher and coach
Michael Schwartz - key conservative political strategist in the U.S. Congress; American "right to life" advocate; chief of staff to U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Okla.)
Morrie Schwartz - educator
Raúl Sendic - Uruguayan Marxist and leader of the Tupamaros
Gianluca Signorini - Italian football player
Lane Smith - actor
Konrad Spindler - archaeologist, involved in the analysis of the Ötzi glacier mummy
Jon Stone - creator of Sesame Street
Maxwell D. Taylor - former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Roy Walford - gerontologist and life extensionist
Charlie Wedemeyer - former athlete and coach; motivational speaker
George Yardley - basketball player
Michael Zaslow - soap actor

References

Jim O'Hagan Olympic swimmer