# List of people with prostate cancer

This is a list of notable individuals who died from or were diagnosed with cancer of prostate. These diagnoses and deaths from this form of cancer have been confirmed by public information and reports.
Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that is typically slow-growing and originates in or on the prostate, a male reproductive gland that surrounds the urethra in proximity of the bladder and rectum. This is a result of malignant cells forming and multiplying at the prostate, which can then spread or metastasize to other organs in the body. The most common areas that cancer metastasizes is the lymph nodes and bones. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in males after skin cancer. Many cases of prostate cancer present little to no symptoms in early stages. Symptoms may include frequent urination, painful urination and ejaculation, urination and ejaculation difficulties, blood in urine and/or semen, and erectile dysfunction.

## Acting, directing, and filmmaking

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Jake Abraham | 1967 –2023 | British actor; died at the age of 56 after being diagnosed in July 2023 |
| Frank Albanese | 1931 – 2015 | American actor |
| Abdul Khaleq Alghanem | 1958 – 2021 | Saudi Arabian director; received diagnosis in 2016 |
| Don Ameche | 1908 – 1993 | American actor and comedian; died at the age of 85 after being diagnosed in late 1992 after the cancer had spread |
| Lew Anderson | 1922 – 2006 | American actor and musician |
| Roger Beatty | 1933 – 2020 | American director, screenwriter, and stage manager |
| Jerry Belson | 1938 – 2006 | American writer, director, and producer |
| Michael Bentine | 1922 – 1996 | British comedian and actor |
| William Berger | 1928 – 1993 | Austrian-born American actor (cancer diagnosis publicly revealed in August 1993, dying later in October 1993) |
| Bill Bixby | 1934 – 1993 | American actor, director, and producer; died at the age of 59 after being diagnosed in 1991 |
| Lasse Brandeby | 1945 – 2011 | Swedish actor, comedian, and journalist (died at the age of 66 after being diagnosed in 2007) |
| Gil Brother | 1957 – 2023 | Brazilian actor, humorist, dancer and YouTuber; died at the age of 66 after suffering from both prostate and bladder cancer |
| Charles Brown | 1946 – 2004 | American actor |
| John Carl Buechler | 1952 – 2019 | American special-make-up effects artist, director, filmmaker, and actor; died at the age of 66 after being diagnosed with stage IV prostate cancer a month before his death |
| Henry Bumstead | 1915 – 2006 | American cinematic art director and production designer; died at the age of 91 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer while filming Million Dollar Baby |
| Frank Capra Jr. | 1934 – 2007 | American film and television producer |
| Fernando Casanova | 1925 – 2012 | Mexican actor; died at the age of 86 after a battle with metastatic prostate cancer after multiple years |
| Michael Catt | 1952 – 2023 | American film producer, author, and pastor; died at the age of 70 in hospice care after being diagnosed 5 years before his death |
| Tony Conrad | 1940 – 2016 | American video artist, filmmaker, musician, composer, and sound artist (died at the age of 76 after suffering from prostate cancer and pneumonia) |
| Gary Cooper | 1901 – 1961 | American actor; died at the age of 60 after suffering from prostate cancer and colorectal cancer |
| Hume Cronyn | 1911 – 2003 | Canadian actor and writer |
| Peter Cushing | 1913 – 1994 | English actor; died at the age of 81 after being diagnosed in the early 1980s |
| Sadiq Daba | died 2021 | Nigerian actor and broadcaster; died after being diagnosed with leukemia and prostate cancer 4 years before his death |
| Bob Delegall | 1945 – 2006 | American actor, television director, and producer |
| William Demarest | 1892 – 1983 | American actor; died at the age of 91 after collapsing at his home, suffering from prostate cancer and pneumonia |
| Robert De Niro | 1943 – present | American actor and film producer (diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer in October 2003, was reported to have made a full recovery from his cancer) |
| Marc Van Eeghem | 1960 – 2017 | Belgian actor; died at the age of 57 after being diagnosed 7 years before his death |
| Richard Egan | 1921 – 1987 | American actor |
| Tibor Feheregyhazi | 1932 – 2007 | Hungarian-Canadian actor and director |
| Richard Franklin | 1948 – 2007 | Australian film director |
| William Franklyn | 1925 – 2006 | British actor |
| Gray Frederickson | 1937 – 2022 | American film producer |
| Kinji Fukasaku | 1930 – 2003 | Japanese film director and screenwriter |
| Harold Gould | 1923 – 2010 | American actor; died at the age of 86 from metastatic prostate cancer |
| Stewart Granger | 1913 – 1993 | British actor; died at the age of 80 after suffering from a lung illness and prostate cancer |
| Val Guest | 1911 – 2006 | English film director and screenwriter |
| Robert Guillaume | 1927 – 2017 | American actor and singer |
| Bob Hastings | 1925 – 2014 | American actor |
| Charlton Heston | 1923 – 2008 | American actor and political activist (diagnosis of prostate cancer publicly revealed in January 1999. He would undergo weeks of intense radiation therapy after his diagnosis. Died at the age of 84 in April 2008 from pneumonia as a result of Alzheimer's disease) |
| Brian Hibbard | 1946 – 2012 | Welsh actor and singer |
| Israel Hicks | 1943 – 2010 | American theatre director |
| Wilhelm von Homburg | 1940 – 2004 | German boxer, actor, and professional wrestler |
| Bob Homme | 1919 – 2000 | American-Canadian actor |
| Alan Hopgood | 1934 – 2022 | Australian actor, producer, and writer; died at the age of 87 after being diagnosed at the age of 59 |
| Dennis Hopper | 1936 – 2010 | American actor and film director (died at the age of 74 from metastasized prostate cancer after being first diagnosed in 2002, later being diagnosed a second time in October 2009) |
| Ken Howard | 1944 – 2016 | American actor; died at the age of 71 after being diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer |
| Geoffrey Hughes | 1944 – 2012 | English actor (died at the age of 68 after being first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996, diagnosed a second time in 2010) |
| William Hurt | 1950 – 2022 | American actor; died at the age of 71 after being diagnosed with terminal stage 4 prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones in 2012 |
| Brian Jackson | 1931 – 2022 | British actor, photographer, and producer |
| Charles Jarrott | 1927 – 2011 | British film and television director |
| Peter Jeffrey | 1929 – 1999 | English actor |
| Arte Johnson | 1929 – 2019 | American actor and comedian; died at the age of 90 after battling bladder and prostate cancer for about three years |
| Wik Jongsma | 1943 – 2008 | Dutch actor; died at the age of 65 after being diagnosed in 2006 |
| Jerome Kass | 1937 – 2015 | American screenwriter and author |
| John B. Keane | 1928 – 2002 | Irish playwright, novelist, essayist; died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed in 1994 |
| Herbert Kenwith | 1917 – 2008 | American television producer, writer, director, and producer |
| Jack Klugman | 1922 – 2012 | American actor |
| Krzysztof Krauze | 1953 – 2014 | Polish film director, cinematographer, and actor |
| George Kuchar | 1942 – 2011 | Film director and video artist |
| Oscar Lerman | 1919 – 1992 | American film and theatre producer and nightclub impresario (died at the age of 72 after battling prostate cancer for 5 years) |
| Gene Levitt | 1920 – 1999 | American television writer, producer, and director |
| David Lloyd | 1934 – 2009 | American television screenwriter and producer |
| Harold Lloyd | 1893 – 1971 | American actor, comedian, and stunt performer |
| Tony Lo Bianco | 1936 – 2024 | American actor |
| Fredric March | 1897 – 1975 | American actor |
| Gardner McKay | 1932 – 2001 | American actor, artist, and author |
| Ian McKellen | 1939 – present | English actor (diagnosed with prostate cancer in the mid-2000s. Revealed his diagnosis publicly in December 2012) |
| Allan McKeown | 1946 – 2013 | British television and stage producer |
| Bob Monkhouse | 1928 – 2003 | English comedian, writer, and actor (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2001, kept his diagnosis private. He died two years later at the age of 75. His likeness was used to promote prostate cancer awareness after his death) |
| Roger Moore | 1927 – 2017 | English actor (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993, he later underwent a prostatectomy. He would later die at the age of 89 from liver cancer that had metastasized to his lung) |
| Gerard Murphy | 1948 – 2013 | British actor; died at the age of 64 after being diagnosed two and a half years before his death |
| Charles Nolte | 1923 – 2010 | American actor, director, playwright, and educator; died at the age of 86 after being diagnosed two years earlier |
| Laurence Olivier | 1907 – 1989 | English actor and director (died at the age of 82 from renal failure after suffering from prostate cancer and a variety of ailments, including pleurisy, thrombosis, and a degenerative muscle disease for several years) |
| Jerry Orbach | 1935 – 2004 | American actor and singer (diagnosed with prostate cancer in January 1994 after a prostate-specific antigen screening. Cancer had gone into remission after radiation, chemotherapy, and a prostatectomy. His cancer returned and metastasized by March 2004. Orbach succumbed to his cancer at the age of 69) |
| Ryan O'Neal | 1941 – 2023 | American actor and boxer (battled leukemia in the early 2000s. He was diagnosed with stage 2 prostate cancer initially misreported as stage 4 in 2012. He later died 11 years later at the age of 82 in December 2023 from congestive heart failure) |
| Mandy Patinkin | 1952 – present | American actor and singer (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2004, made a full recovery) |
| John Patterson | 1940 – 2005 | American television director |
| Dick Peabody | 1925 – 1999 | American actor |
| Frank Perry | 1930 – 1995 | American stage director and filmmaker (died at the age of 65 after diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 1990) |
| Roger Perry | 1933 – 2018 | American actor |
| Florian Pittiș | 1943 – 2007 | Romanian actor (diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer about a year and a half before his death) |
| Sidney Poitier | 1927 – 2022 | Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat (diagnosed with prostate cancer in the 1990s. Died about 30 years later at the age of 94. His official cause of death is listed to be due to prostate cancer, dementia, and heart failure) |
| Richard M. Powell | 1916 – 1996 | American screenwriter |
| D. Ramanaidu | 1936 – 2015 | Indian film producer |
| Thurl Ravenscroft | 1914 – 2005 | American actor and bass singer |
| Corin Redgrave | 1939 – 2010 | English actor (diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer in 1999. Died at the age of 70 about 11 years after his initial diagnosis) |
| Michael Ritchie | 1938 – 2001 | American film director, producer, and writer |
| Ross Rival | 1945 – 2007 | Filipino actor |
| Eddie Romero | 1924 – 2013 | Filipino film director, producer, and screenwriter (died of cardiopulmonary arrest due to a brain blood clot at the age of 88. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer a year before his death) |
| Dick Sargent | 1930 – 1994 | American actor (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1989. His cancer was diagnosed early but soon spread and Sargent was in poor health by early 1994. He died at the age of 64, about 5 years after his initial diagnosis) |
| Telly Savalas | 1922 – 1994 | American actor; died at the age of 72 from prostate and bladder cancer |
| Harry Secombe | 1921 – 2001 | Welsh actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter (diagnosed with prostate cancer in the summer of 1998. Kept diagnosis private initially, later advocating for increased awareness of the disease. Died 2 years later at the age of 79) |
| John Shrapnel | 1942 – 2020 | English actor |
| Donald Siden | 1923 – 2014 | English actor; died at the age of 90 after suffering from prostate cancer for several years |
| Stirling Silliphant | 1918 – 2006 | American screenwriter and producer (died at the age of 78 after being hospitalized for several months with prostate cancer) |
| Stu Silver | 1947 – 2023 | American screenwriter and television writer |
| C. R. Simha | 1942 – 2014 | Indian actor, director, dramatist, and playwright (died at the age of 71 after being hospitalized with prostate cancer on February 27, 2014. He was suffering from prostate cancer for about 18 months) |
| Tom Sherak | 1945 – 2014 | American film producer; died at the age of 68 after battling prostate cancer for about 12 years |
| Vladimir Soshalsky | 1929 – 2007 | Soviet-born Russian actor |
| Victor Spinetti | 1929 – 2012 | Welsh actor, author, poet, and raconteur (diagnosed with prostate cancer in February 2011 after collapsing on stage during a Valentine's Day performance. Died a year later at the age of 82) |
| Ben Stiller | 1965 – present | American actor, filmmaker, and comedian (diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer after a prostate-specific antigen test in June 2014. He underwent a prostatectomy which removed his cancer. Stiller revealed his diagnosis publicly in 2016) |
| Dean Sullivan | 1955 – 2023 | English actor (died at the age of 68 after being diagnosed in 2018. Sullivan began experiencing abnormalities in urination, which led to his diagnosis after multiple tests) |
| Robert Symonds | 1926 – 2007 | American actor |
| Bud Tingwell | 1923 – 2009 | Australian actor |
| Jean-Louis Trintignant | 1930 – 2022 | French actor (died at the age of 91 after being diagnosed in 2018. He reportedly did not seek treatment for his prostate cancer) |
| James Michael Tyler | 1962 – 2021 | American actor (diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in September 2018. His cancer had spread to bones and forced him into a wheelchair before his death. He died at the age of 59 about 3 years after his diagnosis) |
| Jukka Virtanen | 1933 – 2019 | Finnish director, actor, host, and writer (died at the age of 86 after battling prostate cancer for several years. In 2015, his cancer had metastasized to his bones and by spring 2015, Virtanen was given a year left to live. He would live for another four years before succumbing to his illness) |
| David Watkin | 1925 – 2008 | English cinematographer; diagnosed six months before his death at age 82 |
| Bobs Watson | 1930 – 1999 | American actor and Methodist minister |
| Delmar Watson | 1926 – 2008 | American child actor and news photographer |
| Dennis Weaver | 1924 – 2006 | American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild (died at the age of 81 in February 2006 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991) |
| Samuel E. Wright | 1946 – 2021 | American actor |
| Rudy Wowor | 1941 – 2018 | Dutch Indonesian actor and dancer |

## Arts

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Lennart Anderson | 1928 – 2015 | American painter |
| Leonard Andrews | 1925 – 2009 | American publisher and art collector |
| Robert Beauchamp | 1923 – 1995 | American painter and educator |
| Franta Belsky | 1921 – 2000 | Czech sculptor |
| James Cahill | 1926 – 2014 | American art collector and historian |
| Fred Cress | 1938 – 2009 | British painter (died at the age of 71 from metastatic prostate cancer that spread to his spine, lungs, and liver. He was diagnosed 7 years prior to his death) |
| Ric Estrada | 1928 – 2009 | Cuban-American comic book artist |
| Gene Federico | 1918 – 1999 | American graphic designer and advertising executive |
| Sam Francis | 1923 – 1994 | American painter and printmaker |
| Boscoe Holder | 1921 – 2007 | Trinidadian contemporary artist, dancer, choreographer, and musician; died at the age of 85 after suffering from prostate cancer and diabetes |
| Peter Jackson | 1928 – 2008 | Australian men's fashion designer |
| Jay Jaxon | 1941 – 2006 | American fashion designer, costumer, and courtier |
| Hank Ketcham | 1920 – 2001 | American cartoonist; creator of Dennis the Menace comic strip in the United States |
| Cesar Legasi | 1917 – 1994 | Filipino National Artist for painting |
| David Levine | 1926 – 2009 | American artist and illustrator (died at the age of 83 from complications of prostate cancer and other secondary ailments) |
| Gilbert Luján | 1940 – 2011 | American sculptor, muralist, painter, and educator (died at the age of 71 after battling prostate cancer for about three years) |
| Kazimir Malevich | 1879 – 1935 | Russian avant-garde artist and art theorist |
| Eli Noyes | 1942 – 2024 | American animator |
| Valerian Rybar | 1919 – 1980 | American interior designer |
| Kenneth Snelson | 1927 – 2016 | American contemporary sculptor and photographer |
| Frank Springer | 1929 – 2009 | American comics artist |

## Business

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Gianni Agnelli | 1921 – 2003 | Italian industrialist and shareholder of Fiat |
| Roone Arledge | 1931 – 2002 | American sports and news broadcasting executive; died at the age of 71 after a battle lasting over 6 years |
| Joe Baum | 1920 – 1998 | American restaurateur and innovator |
| Aditya Vikram Birla | 1943 – 1995 | Indian industrialist; died at the age of after being diagnosed in 1991 |
| Clive Bourne | 1942 – 2007 | British businessman and philanthropist |
| Sam Breadon | 1876 –1949 | American executive and owner of the St. Louis Cardinals from 1920 to 1947 |
| Joseph Bruno | 1929 – 2020 | American businessman and politician |
| Warren Buffett | 1930 – present | American businessman, inventor, philanthropist (diagnosed with stage 1 prostate cancer in April 2012. Buffett underwent radiation therapy for the cancer) |
| Jerry Buss | 1933 – 2013 | American businessman, investor, and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers; died at the age of 80 after suffering from metastatic prostate cancer and kidney failure |
| D. Wayne Calloway | 1935 – 1998 | American chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, and golf course architect (died at the age of 62 after battling prostate cancer since 1992) |
| Chen Din Hwa | 1923 – 2012 | Hong Kong industrial tycoon and philanthropist; died at the age of 89 after suffering from prostate cancer and dementia |
| Bob Citron | 1932 – 2012 | American entrepreneur and aerospace engineer |
| Gary Comer | 1927 – 2009 | American entrepreneur, founder of Lands' End |
| Brian Goldner | 1963 – 2021 | American business chief executive and film producer; died at the age of 58 after receiving treatment for prostate cancer since 2014 |
| Victor Grinich | 1924 – 2000 | American businessman |
| Aldo Gucci | 1905 –1990 | Italian personality and chairman of Gucci from 1953 to 1986 |
| Donald Hovde | 1931 – 2002 | American businessman; battled prostate cancer for about a year before his death |
| Lamar Hunt | 1932 – 2006 | American businessman |
| Henri Jayer | 1922 – 2006 | French vintner |
| John Seward Johnson I | 1895 – 1983 | American businessman, son of Robert Wood Johnson I, co-founder of Johnson & Johnson |
| René Lépine | 1929 – 2012 | Canadian businessman (died at the age of 82 after suffering from prostate cancer for at least a year) |
| William Modell | 1921 – 2008 | American businessman and chairman of Modell's Sporting Goods |
| John Mosca | 1925 – 2011 | American restaurateur, owner and co-founder of Mosca's (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002, his cancer went into remission in 2009. He died at the age of 86 two years later) |
| Harold Pierce | 1917 – 2008 | American entrepreneur and founder of Harold's Chicken Shack |
| Richard Pratt | 1934 – 2009 | Australian businessman and chairman of Visy Industries |
| Billy Sullivan | 1915 – 1998 | American businessman and football owner (died at the age of 82 after battling prostate cancer for 8 years) |
| David Tallichet | 1922 – 2007 | American businessman |
| Eddie Thompson | 1940 – 2008 | Scottish businessman, founder, and football club chairman |
| William Bernard Ziff Jr. | 1930 – 2006 | American publishing executive (diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer in 1978. He was initially given a few years to live. Ziff Jr. lived for about 28 more years before dying from his cancer at the age of 76) |

## Military

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Klaus Barbie (Butcher of Lyon) | 1913 – 1991 | German Nazi officer; died at the age of 77 from cancer of the spine, blood, and prostate |
| Ernest Radcliffe Bond (Commander X) | 1919 – 2003 | British soldier and policeman |
| George Scratchley Brown | 1918 – 1978 | American U.S. Air Force General; died at age of 60 after being diagnosed in mid 1977 |
| Bruce W. Carr | 1924 – 1998 | American U.S. Air Force colonel |
| Konrāds Kalējs | 1913 – 2001 | Latvian soldier and accused war criminal; died at the age of 88 in a Melbourne, Australia nursing home after suffering from prostate cancer and dementia, |
| George L. Mabry Jr. | 1917 –1990 | United States Army general; died at the age of 72 after his prostate cancer had metastasized to the tissue lining of his heart |
| Shaban Opolot | 1924 – 2005 | Ugandan military officer (died after being admitted to the hospital for prostate cancer and a mild stroke) |
| Maurice H. Rindskopf | 1917 – 2011 | United States Navy officer and Rear Admiral |
| Charles Calvin Rogers | 1929 – 1990 | United States Army officer |
| Konstantin Rokossovsky | 1896 – 1968 | Soviet and Polish military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union and Poland (died at the age of 71 after suffering from prostate cancer and a cardiovascular condition) |
| Umrao Singh | 1920 – 2005 | Indian army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross (died at the age of 85 after being diagnosed in July 2005. Despite undergoing immediate surgery, his cancer metastasized to his bones and other organs.) |
| Paul Touvier | 1915 – 1995 | French Nazi collaborator |
| Robert Truax | 1917 – 2010 | American United States Navy rocket engineer |
| Hoyt Vandenberg | 1899 – 1954 | United States Air Force General (diagnosed with prostate cancer during a physical examination in May 1952 and promptly had surgery on his cancer. Vandenberg would not reveal his diagnosis publicly and would retire in 1953. He died at the age of 55 about two years later) |
| William B. Walsh | 1920 – 1996 | American military physician and founder of Project HOPE |
| John Wilton | 1910 – 1981 | Australian Army senior commander |

## Miscellaneous

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| George Anastaplo | 1925 – 2014 | American professor and author |
| Leonard Andrews | 1925 – 2009 | American publisher and art collector |
| Diogenes Angelakos | 1919 – 1997 | American engineer and professor; died at the age of 77 after a diagnosis six years prior |
| Michael Aris | 1946 – 1999 | British historian; died on his birthday at the age of 53 after being terminally diagnosed two months before his death |
| George Ballis | 1925 – 2010 | American photographer and activist |
| George Becker | 1928 – 2007 | American labor leader |
| Dennis Brutus | 1924 – 2009 | South African activist, educator, and journalist; died at the age 85 after battling prostate cancer for about a year |
| George Carman | 1929 – 2001 | English barrister; died at the age of 71 after being diagnosed in September 2000 |
| Stokely Carmichael | 1941 – 1998 | American civil rights organizer; died at the age of 57 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1985 |
| Frank Crichlow | 1932 – 2010 | British community activist and civil rights campaigner |
| Enrico Cuccia | 1907 – 2000 | Italian banker |
| Billy Dainty | 1927 – 1986 | British comedian and dancer |
| James DeAnda | 1925 – 2006 | American attorney and judge |
| Dennis Dutton | 1944 – 2010 | American philosopher and professor |
| Benjamin Edwards | 1931 – 2009 | American stockbroker |
| William K. Everson | 1929 – 1996 | English-American archivist, author, critic, and film historian |
| Robert Fagles | 1933 – 2008 | American professor, poet, and academic |
| Mike Filey | 1941 – 2022 | Canadian historian, radio host, journalist, author |
| Leonard Freed | 1929 – 2006 | American documentary photojournalist |
| Len Goodman | 1944 – 2023 | English ballroom dancer and teacher (Initially diagnosed with prostate cancer in March 2009. Died at the age of 78 from the disease after it metastasized to his bones) |
| Beverley Goodway | 1943 – 2012 | English photographer (died at the age of 69 after suffering from prostate cancer and mesothelioma. He suffered from prostate cancer for years before his death) |
| Nils Hasselmo | 1931 – 2019 | President of the University of Minnesota from 1988 to 1997; died at the age of 87 after battling prostate cancer for over 2 decades |
| Rutherford P. Hayes | 1858 – 1927 | American librarian and son of Rutherford B. Hayes |
| Jim Hazelton | 1931 – 2014 | Australian aviator and co-founder of Hazelton Airlines |
| Howard W. Hunter | 1907 – 1995 | American lawyer and 14th President of the LDS Church from 1994 to 1995 (Died at the age of 87 from advanced prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones. He was initially diagnosed in the 1980s) |
| Dexter King | 1961 – 2024 | American civil rights activist, attorney, author, and son of Martin Luther King Jr. (died at the age of 62 after a three-and-a-half-year battle with prostate cancer) |
| Espiridion Laka | 1929 – 2009 | Filipino lawyer and film producer |
| Charles R. Larson | 1938 – 2021 | American literary scholar (died at the age of 83 after being diagnosed about 23 years earlier) |
| Aristide Laurent | 1941 – 2011 | American publisher and LGBT civil rights advocate (diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 1996 and given a prognosis of two years left to live initially. Died 15 years later at the age of 70) |
| José Limón | 1908 – 1972 | Mexican dancer and choreographer; died at the age of 64 after being diagnosed in 1967 |
| Joe Maiden | 1941 – 2015 | British gardener, horticulturalist, and author |
| John McGillicuddy | 1930 – 2009 | American banking industry executive |
| Abdelbaset al-Megrahi | 1952 – 2012 | Libyan Arab Airlines security officer convicted of the Lockerbie Bombing (diagnosed with advanced terminal prostate cancer in September 2008 and initially given three months to live. He later died at the age of 60 in May 2012.) |
| Hans Monderman | 1945 – 2008 | Dutch road traffic engineer |
| Richard A. Moore | 1914 – 1995 | American lawyer and diplomat |
| Eadweard Muybridge | 1830 – 1904 | English photographer |
| George Nasser | 1932 – 2018 | American murderer |
| Maurice Natanson | 1924 – 1996 | American philosopher |
| Jerry Nelson | 1934 – 2012 | American puppeteer (died at the age of 78 from prostate cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and emphysema) |
| Terry O'Neill | 1938 – 2019 | British photographer |
| Joseph Papp | 1921 – 1991 | American theatrical producer and director (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1987, died 4 years later at the age of 70) |
| Laughlin Phillips | 1924 – 2010 | American museum director and magazine founder |
| Gregory Powell | 1933 – 2012 | American criminal and murderer (died at the age of 79 from prostate cancer. Denied compassionate parole with terminal prostate cancer in 2011) |
| Marcel Reich-Ranicki | 1920 – 2013 | Polish-born German critic (died at the age of 93 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier in 2013) |
| Mark Russell | 1932 – 2023 | American political satirist and comedian |
| Mark Sacks | 1953 – 2008 | British philosopher |
| John Shearer | 1947 – 2019 | American photographer, writer, and filmmaker |
| William Shockley | 1910 – 1989 | American physicist, inventor, and eugenicist (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1987. He refused to receive treatment for his cancer and it eventually metastasized to his bones and died at the age of 79 in August 1989) |
| Ira Spring | 1918 – 2003 | American photographer, author, mountaineer, and hiking advocate (died at the age of 84 after battling prostate for about two years) |
| Frank Stallone Sr. | 1919 – 2011 | Italian-American hairdresser and father of Sylvester Stallone |
| Ruhi Su | 1912 – 1985 | Turkish opera singer, folk singer, and saz virtuoso |
| Leslie Vivian | 1919 – 2005 | American academic administrator |
| Vitaly Vulf | 1930 – 2011 | Russian critic of art, drama, film and literature, translator, and broadcaster (died at the age of 80 after being diagnosed in 2002) |
| Maurice Watkins | 1941 – 2021 | British solicitor and sports administrator |
| Eli Whitney | 1765 – 1825 | American inventor and creator of the cotton gin |
| Peter Williams | 1934 – 2015 | New Zealand barrister and penal reform advocate (died at the age of 80 after battling prostate cancer for over a decade before his death) |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein | 1889 – 1951 | Austrian philosopher |
| Earl Woods | 1933 – 2006 | Father of American professor golfer Tiger Woods (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1998, Woods began undergoing radiation treatment for his cancer. Died at the age of 74 in May 2006 after deteriorating health) |
| Boris Yavitz | 1923 – 2009 | American academic administrator and Dean of Columbia Business School |
| Willie York | 1944 – 2019 | American homeless resident of Peoria, Illinois |
| Paul A. Zahl | 1910 – 1985 | American explorer, biologist, and writer |

## Music

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Johnny Adams | 1932 – 1998 | American singer; died at age 66 after being diagnosed in fall 1997 |
| Jerry Adler | 1918 – 2010 | American harmonica player |
| J. W. Alexander | 1916 – 1996 | American musician, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur |
| Johnny Alf | 1929 – 2010 | Brazilian musician |
| Alfredo “Chocolate” Armenteros | 1928 – 2016 | Cuban jazz trumpeter |
| Bill Aucoin | 1943 – 2010 | American band manager; died at the age of 66 from complications following surgery for the cancer |
| Mike Auldridge | 1938 – 2012 | American musician; died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed about a decade prior |
| Sil Austin | 1929 – 2001 | American jazz saxophonist |
| Harry Belafonte | 1927 – 2023 | American singer, actor, civil rights activist (diagnosed with prostate cancer around 1995 after a prostate-specific antigen test. He later received successful surgery and treatments to neutralize his cancer) |
| B.G., the Prince of Rap | 1965 –2023 | American rapper and singer |
| Barrelhouse Chuck | 1958 – 2016 | American blues musician and songwriter; died at the age of 58 after being diagnosed four years prior |
| Tommy Bruce | 1937 – 2006 | English singer |
| Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns | 1920 – 1989 | American mandolinist and one-half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro |
| Tito Burns | 1921 – 2010 | British musician |
| Pete Candoli | 1923 – 2008 | American jazz trumpeter |
| Leon "Ndugu" Chancler | 1952 – 2018 | American drummer, composer, and producer |
| Toto Cutugno | 1948 – 2023 | Italian singer-songwriter and musician; died at the age of 80 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007 |
| Lester Davenport | 1932 – 2009 | American harmonica player and singer |
| Bobby Day | 1928 – 1990 | American musician, singer-songwriter, and music producer |
| Dave Dee | 1941 – 2009 | English singer-songwriter, musician, manager, and businessman; die at the age of 67 after being diagnosed in 2001 |
| Johnny Douglas | 1920 – 2003 | English composer, pianist, musical director, conductor, and arranger |
| Harry Edison | 1915 – 1999 | American jazz trumpeter |
| Kenny Edwards | 1946 – 2010 | American singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist |
| Neşet Ertaş | 1938 – 2012 | Turkish folk music singer and lyricist |
| Dan Fogelberg | 1951 – 2007 | American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist (first diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2004, with the cancer going into remission after a year. The cancer returned and he died at the age of 56 in 2007) |
| Tony Fontane | 1925 – 1974 | American recording artist in pop and gospel music |
| Robert Goulet | 1933 – 2007 | American and Canadian singer and actor (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993, Goulet would become a spokesman for awareness, early detection, and advocacy for his disease. Goulet would later die at the age of 73 in October 2007 from pulmonary fibrosis) |
| R. B. Greaves | 1943 – 2012 | American singer |
| Craig Gruber | 1951 – 2015 | American rock bassist |
| Phil Guy | 1940 – 2008 | American blues guitarist |
| Rufus Harley | 1936 – 2006 | American jazz musician |
| Doyle Holly | 1936 – 2007 | American musician |
| Richard Holmes | 1931 – 1991 | American jazz organist; died at the age of 60 after suffering from prostate cancer and a heart attack |
| Al Hurricane | 1936 – 2017 | American singer-songwriter |
| Matt Irving | 1950 – 2015 | Scottish musician |
| Ahmad Jamal | 1930 – 2023 | American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator |
| Rubén Juárez | 1947 – 2010 | Argentine musician, singer, and songwriter (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008. The cancer later metastasized to Juárez's bones. He died at the age of 62 in intensive care at a hospital) |
| Phil K | 1969 – 2020 | Australian electronic music disc jockey; died at the age of 51 after battling bladder and prostate cancer for two years |
| Lee Kerslake | 1947 – 2020 | English musician and drummer |
| Rashid Khan | 1968 – 2024 | Indian classical musician (died in a Kolkata, India hospital while receiving treatment for his prostate cancer. Suffered a stroke a month before his death) |
| Jabu Khanyile | 1957 – 2006 | South African musician (died at at the age of 49 from diabetes and prostate cancer. Had been undergoing radiation therapy before his death) |
| Big Daddy Kinsey | 1927 – 2001 | American blues musician |
| Joseph Kobzon | 1937 – 2018 | Ukrainian-born Russian singer; died at the age of 80 after battling prostate cancer for about 13 years |
| Genji Kuniyoshi | 1930 – 2021 | Japanese singer |
| Johnny Laboriel | 1942 – 2013 | Mexican rock and roll singer |
| Danny La Rue | 1927 – 2009 | Irish-English singer and entertainer |
| Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) | 1945 – 2015 | British rock musician (died at the age of 70 from a combination of prostate cancer, cardiac arrhythmia, and congestive heart failure) |
| Phil Lesh | 1940 – 2024 | American musician and founding member of the band Grateful Dead (publicly revealed diagnosis of prostate cancer in 2006. Lesh was later diagnosed with a non-aggressive form of bladder cancer in 2015. He had surgery to remove the malignant tumors in his bladder) |
| John Lewis | 1920 – 2001 | American jazz pianist, composer, arranger |
| Terry Lightfoot | 1935 – 2013 | British jazz clarinetist and bandleader |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 – present | English composer and impresario (diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer in October 2009. He recovered from his cancer after having his prostate subsequently removed) |
| John D. Loudermilk | 1934 – 2016 | American singer and songwriter (died at the age of 82 from a combination of prostate cancer and respiratory illnesses) |
| Peter Lundblad | 1950 – 2015 | Swedish singer and songwriter |
| Kenny Lynch | 1938 – 2019 | English singer, songwriter, entertainer, and actor |
| Herbie Mann | 1930 – 2003 | American jazz flute player (diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer in 1997. Mann founded a nonprofit foundation against prostate cancer called the “Herbie Man Prostate Cancer Awareness Music Foundation.” Died at the age of 73 from his cancer) |
| Hugh Masekela | 1939 – 2018 | South African flugelhornist, cornetist, trumpeter, singer, and composer (died at the age of 78 after battling metastatic prostate cancer for around a decade) |
| David Maxwell | 1943 – 2015 | American blues singer, pianist, and songwriter (died at the age of 71 after battling advanced prostate cancer for about 8 years) |
| John McLean Morris | 1914 – 1993 | American gynecologist, surgeon, and researcher |
| Haruo Minami | 1923 – 2001 | Japanese enka singer and rōkyoku performer |
| Melton Mustafa | 1947 – 2017 | American jazz musician, music educator, and arranger (died at the age of 70 after his stage 4 prostate cancer had come out of earlier remission) |
| Ferdi Özbeğen | 1941 – 2013 | Turkish folk and pop singer |
| Cecil Payne | 1922 – 2007 | American jazz baritone saxophonist |
| Gnonnas Pedro | died 2004 | Beninese singer and musician; died at the age of 61 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer nine months before his death |
| John W. Peterson | 1921 – 2006 | American songwriter |
| Johnny Ramone | 1948 – 2004 | American guitarist, musician, and founding member of the Ramones (died at the age of 55 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer about five years before his death) |
| Paul Richardsson | 1932 – 2006 | American stadium organist for the Philadelphia Phillies |
| Robbie Robertson | 1943 – 2023 | Canadian musician, guitarist, songwriter, and lead guitarist for Bob Dylan (died at the age of 80 after being diagnosed about a year prior to his death) |
| Gil Robbins | 1931 – 2011 | American folk musician, singer, actor, and vocal coach |
| Jerry Ross | 1933 – 2017 | American songwriter, record producer, and record label owner |
| Roswell Rudd | 1935 – 2017 | American jazz trombonist and composer (diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in 2013. He died from his cancer 4 years later) |
| Teruhiko Saigō | 1947 – 2022 | Japanese actor and singer (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011, had prostate completely removed. Cancer return 6 years later and had metastasized to his bones. Died at the age of 75 11 years after his initial diagnosis) |
| David Sanborn | 1945 – 2024 | American alto saxophonist |
| Robert Sandall | 1952 – 2010 | British musician, music journalist, and radio presenter (died at the age 58 after being diagnosed in 2002) |
| Tony Scott | 1921 – 2007 | American jazz clarinetist and arranger (died at the age 85 after suffering from prostate cancer for multiple years) |
| Scotty (David Scott) | 1951 – 2003 | Jamaican reggae vocalist and disc jockey |
| Clive Shakespeare | 1947 – 2012 | English-born Australian pop guitarist, songwriter, and producer (died at the age of 64 after being diagnosed in 2002) |
| Michael Small | 1939 – 2003 | American film score composer |
| Bill Smith | 1926 – 2020 | American clarinetist and composer |
| Michael S. Smith | 1946 – 2006 | American jazz drummer and percussionist |
| Waldick Soriano | 1933 – 2008 | Brazilian singer-songwriter (died at the age of 75 after being diagnosed with late stage prostate cancer two years before his death) |
| Alvin Stardust | 1942 – 2014 | English rock singer and actor (died at the age of 72 after being recently diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer before his death) |
| King Stitt | 1940 – 2012 | Jamaican disc jockey (died at the age 71 after succumbing to prostate cancer and diabetes) |
| Mighty Striker | 1930 – 2011 | Trinidadian calypsonian |
| Pete Sutherland | 1951 – 2022 | American folk musician |
| Feliciano Vierra Tavares | 1920 – 2008 | Cape Verdean American musician, singer, guitarist |
| Richard Tee | 1943 – 1993 | American jazz fusion pianist, musician, singer, and arranger |
| Karl Tremblay | 1976 – 2023 | Canadian singer (died at the age of 47 after battling prostate cancer for at least three years before his death) |
| Domenic Troiano | 1946 – 2005 | Canadian guitarist and songwriter (died at the age of 59 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer a decade before his death) |
| Earl Van Dyke | 1930 – 1992 | American soul musician |
| Tom Verlaine | 1944 – 2023 | American singer, guitarist, songwriter, and frontman for the rock band Television |
| Leon Ware | 1940 – 2017 | American songwriter, producer, composer, and singer (died at the age of 77 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in the mid-2000s) |
| André Watts | 1946 – 2023 | American classical pianist (diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in 2016. He died 7 years later at the age of 77) |
| Peter Wells | 1946 – 2006 | Australian guitarist and founder of the band Rose Tattoo (died at the age of 59 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002. He spent the last five weeks of his life in the hospital for his cancer) |
| Frank Wilson | 1940 – 2012 | American songwriter, singer, record producer (died at the age of 71 after battling prostate cancer for several years) |
| Art Wood | 1937 – 2006 | British blues, pop, rock singer, and lead vocalist for The Artwoods |
| Frank Zappa | 1940 – 1993 | American musician, composer, and bandleader (diagnosed with inoperable prostate cancer in 1990 after experiencing urinary difficulties. He would undergo vigorous radiation and chemotherapy treatments for his cancer for about 3 years. He would died in December 1993 at the age of 52 from his cancer) |

## Politics and government

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Rotimi Akeredolu | 1956 – 2023 | Nigerian lawyer and politician; died at the age of 67 from complications of prostate and blood cancer (leukemia) |
| Ahmed Ali | 1932 – 2020 | Bangladeshi politician and lawyer |
| A. J. Mohammad Ali | 1951 – 2024 | Bangladeshi lawyer and politician |
| Joseph Alioto | 1916 – 1998 | American politician; 36th mayor of San Francisco, California (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991, dying at the age of 81 from pneumonia) |
| Svend Auken | 1943 – 2009 | Danish politician; died at the age 66 in 2009 (diagnosed originally in 2004 with the cancer later going into remission and reappearing in 2007) |
| Iñaki Azkuna | 1943 – 2014 | Spanish politician; died at the age of 71 after being diagnosed in 2003 |
| James Barbour | 1775 – 1842 | American politician and lawyer |
| Marion Barry | 1936 – 2014 | American politician and Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and from 1995 to 1999 (diagnosed with prostate cancer in November 1995. He subsequently underwent surgery in December 1995 for his cancer. He later died at the age of 78 from hypertensive cardiovascular disease with diabetes and kidney disease as secondary causes) |
| Ray Baum | 1955 – 2018 | American politician, lawyer, and lobbyist |
| Edward R. Becker | 1933 – 2006 | American judge |
| Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | 1936 – 2019 | Tunisian politician, 2nd president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011 (died at the age of 83 after battling prostate cancer for years prior) |
| Tomás Berreta | 1875 – 1947 | Uruguayan politician, 29th president of Uruguay |
| Herbert Blaize | 1918 – 1989 | Grenadian politician and 6th Prime Minister of Grenada; died at the age of 71 after being diagnosed years prior |
| Bruce Boiling | 1945 – 2012 | American politician and businessman; died at the age of 67 after being diagnosed 4 years prior |
| Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw | 1916 – 1978 | Saint Kitts and Nevis politician, first Premier of Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Algirdas Brazauskas | 1932 – 2010 | Lithuanian politician and 4th president of Lithuania from 1993 to 1998; died at the age of 77 after suffering from lymphoma and prostate cancer |
| Séamus Brennan | 1948 – 2008 | Irish politician and government minister |
| Jerry Brown | 1938 – present | American politician and Governor of California from 1975 to 1983 and from 2011 to 2019 (publicly revealed to be battling localized prostate cancer with radiation treatment in late 2012. Brown resumed treatment again in January 2017. His prognosis was reported to be positive.) |
| Keshav Kumar Budhathoki | died 2024 | Nepalese politician; died at the age of 80 after suffering from prostate cancer for an extended period before his death |
| Poseci Bune | 1946 – 2023 | Fijian politician, diplomat, and civil servant |
| William Carney | 1942 – 2017 | American politician; died at the age of 74 after being diagnosed 4 years prior to his death |
| Winston Churchill | 1940 – 2010 | English politician and grandson of Winston Churchill; died at the age of 69 after battling prostate cancer for two years |
| James Clark Jr. | 1918 – 2006 | American politician |
| Rudy Clay | 1935 –2013 | American activist, politician, and Mayor of Gary, Indiana from 2006 to 2012; died at the age of 77 after suffering from prostate cancer for multiple years |
| Tom Coburn | 1948 – 2020 | American politician and U.S. Senator for Oklahoma from 2005 to 2015; died at the age of 72 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer years prior to his death |
| Silvio O. Conte | 1921 – 1991 | American politician and lawyer; died at the age of 69 from cerebral bleeding as a result of the progression of his prostate cancer |
| Dave Cox | 1938 –2010 | American politician; died at 72 after battling prostate cancer for over a decade |
| Colin Cramphorn | 1956 – 2006 | British Chief Constable of West Yorkshire |
| Edwin L. Crawford | 1925 – 1993 | American politician |
| H. R. Crawford | 1939 – 2017 | American politician and real estate developer; died at the age of 78 after suffering from prostate cancer for 20 years |
| Bernard Crick | 1929 – 2008 | British political theorist and democratic socialist; died at the age of 79 from terminal prostate cancer |
| Renny Cushing | 1952 – 2022 | American politician (died at the age of 69 after suffering from stage 4 prostate cancer and COVID-19. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years before his death) |
| Ron Dellums | 1935 – 2018 | American politician and Mayor of Oakland, California from 2007 to 2011 |
| John Dingell | 1926 – 2019 | American politician; died at the age of 92 after being diagnosed the year prior to his death |
| Bob Dole | 1923 – 2021 | American politician, attorney, Senator from Kansas from 1969 to 1996, and 1996 United States Republican nominee for President (underwent a prostatectomy to treat prostate cancer in 1991. He later died at the age of 98 in December 2021 from lung cancer) |
| Wickliffe Draper | 1891 – 1972 | American political activist |
| Adri Duivesteij | 1950 – 2023 | Dutch politician; died at the age of 72 after suffering from an aggressive form prostate cancer since 2006 |
| Jimmy Duncan | 1947 – present | American politician (son of politician John Duncan Sr., diagnosed with prostate cancer in May 2016) |
| John Duncan Sr. | 1919 – 1988 | American politician |
| Anthony Eden | 1897 – 1977 | British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957; died at the age of 79 from metastatic prostate cancer |
| Abulfaz Elchibey | 1938 – 2000 | Azerbaijani political figure, President of Azerbaijan from 1992 to 1993 |
| Asad Al Faqih | 1910 – 1989 | Lebanese diplomat |
| Orval Faubus | 1910 – 1994 | American politician and Governor of Arkansas from 1955 to 1967 |
| Glenn W. Ferguson | 1929 – 2007 | American diplomat, university president, and Ambassador to Kenya from 1966 to 1969 |
| Frank Field, Baron Field of Birkenhead | 1942 – 2024 | British politician (diagnosed with prostate cancer about 11 years before his death. His cancer later metastasized to his jaw. Field died in April 2024 at the age of 81 after revealing his cancer diagnosis publicly in January 2023) |
| Hamilton Fish IV | 1926 – 1996 | American politician; died at the age 70 from prostate cancer after it metastasized to his lungs following successful treatment for the cancer in the 1980s |
| David B. Frohnmayer | 1940 – 2015 | American politician, attorney, and academic |
| Dean Gallo | 1935 – 1994 | American politician and businessman (kept advanced prostate cancer diagnosis a secret after being diagnosed in 1992, later succumbing to the disease in 1994) |
| Carl Gatto | 1937 – 2012 | American politician; died at the age of 74 after suffering from prostate cancer and kidney failure |
| Karma Ghale | 1964 – 2023 | Nepali politician |
| Rudy Giuliani | 1944 – present | American politician, lawyer, and Mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001 (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000 during a physical exam. He underwent radioactive seed implementation for his cancer in September 2000. His prognosis after treatment was reported to be good) |
| Armando Guadiana Tijerina | 1946 – 2023 | Mexican politician, civil engineer, and businessman (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017. Died at the age of 77 after receiving therapy in Houston, Texas and Mexico) |
| Şemsettin Günaltay | 1883 – 1961 | Turkish politician, historian, and Prime Minister of Turkey from 1949 to 1950 |
| Paul Harriss | 1954 – 2022 | Australian politician |
| Charles Haughey | 1925 – 2006 | Irish politician and 7th Taoiseach of Ireland; suffered from prostate cancer for several years before his death |
| Chic Hecht | 1928 – 2006 | American politician, diplomat, and ambassador to The Bahamas from 1989 to 1993; died from complications from prostate cancer after being diagnosed in 2005 |
| Ben Heppner | 1943 – 2006 | Canadian politician, businessman, and teacher (died at the age of 63, after suffering from prostate and bone cancer before his death. He was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2005, later being diagnosed with bone cancer in January 2006) |
| Steve Hilgenberg | 1944 – 2011 | American politician |
| James P. Hosty | 1924 – 2011 | American FBI agent |
| Robert D. Houley | 1927 – 2013 | American politician |
| Félix Houphouët-Boigny | 1905 – 1993 | Ivorian politician, physician, and President of the Ivory Coast from 1960 til his death in 1993 (died at the age of 88 after suffering from prostate cancer for months before his death) |
| Clifford L. Jones | 1927 – 2008 | American politician |
| Thomas R. Jones | 1913 – 2006 | American politician and judge |
| Megat Junid | 1942 – 2008 | Malaysian politician (died at the age of 65 from prostate cancer that had metastasized to his lungs. He had undergone successful surgery in 2004 but his cancer returned in 2006) |
| John Kerry | 1943 – present | American politician and 2004 Democratic U.S. presidential nominee (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002, underwent successful surgery to remove his prostate in February 2003. Cancer declared in remission in October 2004) |
| Richard Kerry | 1915 – 2000 | American Foreign Service officer and lawyer (Father of John Kerry. Diagnosed with prostate cancer 10 years before his death) |
| Jackson Lago | 1934 – 2011 | Brazilian politician, physician, and teacher (died at the age of 76 from multiple organ failure. He was in the hospital for the past 30 days for myocarditis and prostate cancer) |
| Richard Leone | 1940 – 2015 | American politician (died at the age of 75 shortly after being diagnosed with prostate cancer. Leone also suffered from Parkinson's disease before his death) |
| James R. Lilley | 1928 – 2009 | American C.I.A. operative and diplomat |
| Oswaldo López Arellano | 1921 – 2010 | Honduran politician and President of Honduras from 1963 to 1971 and 1972 to 1975 |
| Lester Maddox | 1915 – 2003 | American politician and Governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971 (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1983. Received non-conventional blood serum injection treatments in an attempt to boost his immunity. Suffered from a variety of ailments before his death at the age of 87, including heart disease. His death was determined to be due to pneumonia and prostate cancer) |
| Ananías Maidana | 1923 – 2010 | Paraguayan politician, activist, and teacher (Died at the age of 87 in a hospital after being diagnosed with prostate cancer about a year before his death |
| Nelson Mandela | 1918 – 2013 | South African politician, activist, statesman, and President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 (diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer in July 2001. Mandela promptly began radiation therapy for his cancer for a course of seven weeks. Mandela was declared cancer free by February 2002. He would later die at the age of 95 in 2013 from a Respiratory infection) |
| Frank E. Mann | 1920 – 2007 | American politician and Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia from 1961 to 1967 |
| Thomas Manton | 1932 – 2006 | American politician (died at the age of 73 in June 2006 from his cancer. A bill in his name called “Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2007” was proposed on May 3, 2007) |
| John Marttila | 1940 – 2018 | American political strategist and consultant |
| Spark Matsunaga | 1916 – 1990 | American politician, attorney, and U.S. Senator from Hawaii (died at the age of 73 after his prostate cancer had metastasized to his bones. He reportedly ignored the symptoms and signs until the late stages of the cancer) |
| Tom McCall | 1913 – 1983 | American politician and Governor of Oregon from 1967 to 1975 (initially diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1973, received surgery for after diagnosis . His cancer re-emerged in 1981, spreading to his bones and causing lower back pain. McCall died in January 1983 at the age of 69) |
| Thomas V. Miller Jr. | 1942 – 2021 | American politician (diagnosed with prostate cancer in July 2018, and underwent unsuccessful androgen deprivation treatment to contain it. Diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer months later. He would reveal his diagnosis publicly in January 2019. Miller died about two years later at the age of 78) |
| François Mitterrand | 1916 – 1996 | French politician and President of France from 1981 to 1995 (was diagnosed with prostate cancer soon after the 1981 French Presidential Election. He kept his illness private until 1992. Mitterrand died at the age of 79 4 years later after his cancer had metastasized to his bones) |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | 1930 – 1997 | Congolese politician and President of Zaire from 1971 to 1997 (died at the age of 66 from advanced prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones) |
| Eugene Moore | 1942 – 2016 | American politician (died at the age of 73 after his prostate cancer had metastasized to his bones shortly before his death) |
| Earle Morris Jr. | 1928 – 2011 | American politician |
| Rogers Morton | 1914 – 1979 | American politician (died at the age of 64 after battling prostate cancer since 1973. Morton received radiation therapy for his cancer) |
| Richard Moya | 1932 – 2017 | Mexican-American politician |
| Richard P. Myers | 1947 – 2010 | American politician |
| Naison Ndlovu | 1930 – 2017 | Zimbabwean politician and deputy president of the Senate of Zimbabwe |
| Pablo Neruda | 1904 – 1973 | Chilean poet-diplomat and politician (official reports state that Neruda died from complications of prostate cancer and cancer-related cachexia at the age of 69. Many rumors and speculations of alternate reasons for his death persist) |
| Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat | 1931 – 2015 | Malaysian politician and Muslim cleric (died at the age of 84 after suffering from prostate cancer for at least five years) |
| Joshua Nkomo | 1917 – 1999 | Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996, died 3 years later at the age of 82) |
| Kwame Nkrumah | 1909 – 1972 | Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary |
| Odvar Nordli | 1927 – 2018 | Norwegian politician and prime minister of Norway from 1976 to 1981 |
| George M. O'Brien | 1917 – 1986 | American politician (diagnosed with prostate cancer in the spring of 1986, died a few months later at the age of 69 in July 1986) |
| Anilkumar Patel | 1944 – 2019 | Indian politician, educationist, and industrialist (died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed three years prior) |
| J. J. Pickle | 1913 – 2005 | American politician and U.S. Representative from Texas (diagnosed with prostate cancer 14 years before his death. Four years before his death, Pickle was also diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. Pickle died at the age of 91 after confining to his home a month before his death) |
| Lynden Pindling | 1930 – 2000 | Bahamian politician (died at the age of 70 after being diagnosed four years before his death) |
| David Chilton Phillips | 1924 – 1999 | English structural biologist; died at the age of 74 after being diagnosed in 1988 |
| Leon B. Poullada | 1913 – 1987 | American diplomat and ambassador to Togo from 1961 to 1964 |
| Colin Powell | 1937 – 2021 | American politician, statesman, diplomat, and United States Army officer (Powell underwent surgery to remove his prostate after being diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer. His cancer did not spread and Powell soon became an activist for prostate cancer awareness. He died at the age of 84 in October 2021 from complications of COVID-19.) |
| Orestes Quércia | 1938 – 2010 | Brazilian politician and Governor of the São Paulo state from 1987 to 1991 (died at the age of 72 after the re-emergence of prostate cancer in September 2010. He had battled the illness for over a decade) |
| Karl L. Rankin | 1898 – 1991 | American diplomat |
| Stu Rasmussen | 1948 – 2021 | American politician and mayor of Silverton, Oregon from 2009 to 2015 (died at the age of 73 in hospice care with metastatic prostate cancer) |
| Alf Rattigan | 1911 – 2000 | Australian Public Service official and policymaker |
| Stephen Rivers | 1955 – 2010 | American political activist and publicist |
| Raul Roco | 1941 – 2005 | Filipino politician (first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1996. He would have his prostate subsequently removed and his cancer would go into remission. Roco's cancer would re-emerge during the 2004 Philippine presidential election. He would later die at the age of 63 in August 2005) |
| Frans Ronnes | 1948 – 2017 | Dutch politician |
| Keith Sebelius | 1916 – 1982 | American politician and United States Representative from Kansas |
| Domingo Siazon Jr. | 1939 – 2016 | Filipino diplomat |
| Jón Sigurðsson | 1946 – 2021 | Icelandic politician; died at the age of 75 after suffering from advanced prostate cancer for multiple years |
| Mitchell Sharp | 1911 – 2004 | Canadian politician (diagnosed with prostate cancer in early March 2004 after fracturing his collarbone after a fall. He died later the same month from his cancer) |
| William Howard Taft III | 1915 – 1991 | American diplomat, ambassador to Ireland, and grandson of William Howard Taft |
| Andrew C. Tartaglino | 1926 – 1997 | American deputy chief of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration |
| Edgar Tekere | 1937 – 2011 | Zimbabwean politician |
| Pierre Trudeau | 1919 – 2000 | Canadian politician and Prime Minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984 (diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer at age 80. Refused treatment for his cancer. He succumbed to dementia and prostate cancer at his home) |
| Beaton Tulk | 1944 – 2019 | Canadian politician, civil servant, and educator (died at the age of 75 after being diagnosed 15 years before his death) |
| John V. Tunney | 1934 – 2018 | American politician and United States senator and representative from California |
| Niel Tupas Sr. | 1932 – 2015 | Filipino politician (died at the age of 82 of multiple organ failure and prostate cancer) |
| Al Ullman | 1914 – 1986 | American politician (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1976, his cancer went into remission until 1980. His cancer had metastasized to his back. He died in October 1986 at the age of 72 from his cancer) |
| Richard Vander Veen | 1922 – 2006 | American politician; died at the age of 83 after suffering from prostate cancer for about 14 years |
| Roger Vinson | 1940 – 2023 | United States district judge (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997, his cancer would remain in remission until 2019. Was given a prognosis of three months to live in 2021. Vinson would later die in April 2023 from his cancer at the age of 83) |
| John Wash Pam | 1940 – 2014 | Nigerian politician |
| Bernard Weatherill | 1920 – 2007 | British politician; died at the age of 86 two years after publicly disclosing that he was suffering from prostate cancer |
| Wee Kim Wee | 1915 – 2005 | South Korean diplomat, journalist, and President of Singapore from 1985 to 1993 |
| Clay T. Whitehead | 1938 – 2008 | United States government official |
| Denis Wright | 1911 – 2005 | British diplomat |

## Religion

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Ireneo A. Amantillo | 1934 – 2018 | Filipino Roman Catholic bishop |
| John Bowden | 1935 – 2010 | English priest, publisher, and theologian |
| Michael Evans | 1951 – 2011 | British Roman Catholic Bishop |
| Joseph Ganda | 1932 – 2023 | Sierra Leonean Roman Catholic archbishop |
| Billy Graham | 1918 – 2018 | American evangelist, Baptist minister, and civil rights advocate (diagnosed with prostate cancer during his life, he suffered from a multitude of ailments in addition, including bronchitis, pneumonia, hydrocephalus, bone fractures, and Parkinson's disease. He died at the age of 99 in February 2018) |
| Curtis Hutson | 1934 – 1995 | American pastor; died at the age of 60 after being diagnosed in 1992 |
| Gordon Keddie | 1944 – 2023 | British-American pastor and theologian |
| Jose Francisco Oliveros | 1946 – 2018 | Filipino Roman Catholic prelate (died at the age of 71 after suffering from prostate cancer for several years) |
| Redovino Rizzardo | 1939 – 2016 | Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop |
| Moishe Rosen | 1932 – 2010 | American minister and founder and former executive of Jews for Jesus (died at the age of 77 from metastatic prostate cancer that had spread to his bones) |
| Francis B. Schulte | 1926 –2016 | American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church (diagnosed with prostate after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Schulte's doctors advised him to receive radiation treatment in Philadelphia after his diagnosis. He died at the age of 89 in January 2016) |
| Desmond Tutu | 1931 – 2021 | South African theologian, bishop, and activist (diagnosed with prostate cancer in early 1997. Died at the age of 90 about 24 years later) |
| Yahweh ben Yahweh | 1935 – 2007 | American religious leader, black separatist and supremacist |

## Science and medicine

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Salim Ali | 1896 – 1987 | Indian ornithologist and naturalist |
| Bernard Babior | 1935 – 2004 | American physician and research biochemist |
| Kenneth Balcomb | 1940 – 2022 | American cetologist |
| Jon-Erik Beckjord | 1939 – 2008 | American cryptozoologist, paranormal investigator, and photographer |
| Francis Birch | 1903 – 1992 | American geophysicist |
| James Black | 1924 – 2010 | Scottish physician and pharmacologist; died at the age of 85 after being diagnosed in 2002 with an inoperable metastatic form of the cancer |
| S. Ward Casscells | 1952 – 2012 | American cardiologist and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; died at the age of 60 after battling prostate cancer for multiple years |
| John Crispo | 1933 – 2009 | Canadian economist, author, and educator; died at the age of 75 after treating prostate cancer for 18 years before his death |
| John Edgcumbe | 1920 – 2001 | American hematologist and medical practitioner |
| Leon Eisenberg | 1922 – 2009 | American psychiatrist and medical educator |
| Kevin Gatter | 1951 – 2017 | American pathologist and professor; died at the age of 65 after being diagnosed 3 years before his death |
| Eugene Goldwasser | 1922 – 2010 | American biochemist, died at the age 88 from kidney failure as a result of prostate cancer |
| Robert Goldwyn | 1930 – 2010 | American surgeon, author, and activist; died at the age of 79 after battling prostate cancer for 16 years |
| Christian Guilleminault | 1938 – 2019 | French physician |
| James Herriot | 1916 – 1995 | British veterinary surgeon and author |
| Jack Hirshleifer | 1925 – 2005 | American economist; died at the age of 79 after being diagnosed a year before his death |
| Charles Hollenberg | 1930 – 2003 | Canadian physician, educator, and researcher |
| Lavkumar Khachar | 1930 – 2015 | Indian ornithologist, nature and wildlife conservationist |
| William Jacob Knox Jr. | 1904 – 1995 | American chemist |
| Timothy Leary | 1920 – 1996 | American psychologist, drug activist, and author (diagnosed with inoperable terminal prostate cancer in January 1995. Died about 5 months later at the age of 75) |
| Julian Lewis | 1946 – 2014 | English developmental biologist; died at the age of 67 after battling prostate cancer for approximately a decade |
| Marc Lieberman | 1949 – 2021 | American ophthalmologist and humanitarian |
| Michael Manley | 1924 – 1997 | Jamaican politician and Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992 (died at the age of 72 after being diagnosed in 1990. He had undergone multiple operations after his diagnosis) |
| John Martin | 1935 – 1993 | American oceangrapher; died at the age of 58 after being diagnosed in 1991 with metastatic prostate cancer |
| Philip Majerus | 1936 – 2016 | American biochemist |
| Charles Moskos | 1934 – 2008 | American sociologist; died at the age of 74 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer two years before |
| Sherwin B. Nuland | 1930 – 2014 | American surgeon, writer, and teacher of bioethics and medicine |
| Lloyd J. Old | 1933 – 2011 | American immunology researcher |
| Noel Olsen | 1946 – 2013 | British doctor and public health consultant |
| Frank Oski | 1932 – 1996 | American pediatrician |
| Stanford R. Ovshinsky | 1922 – 2012 | American scientist, engineer, and inventor |
| Linus Pauling | 1901 – 1994 | American biochemist, chemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator (diagnosed with prostate cancer in December 1991. Underwent two surgeries before rejecting subsequent standard treatments. He died at the age of 93 less than 3 years after his initial diagnosis when his cancer metastasized to his liver) |
| Harold E. Pierce | 1922 – 2006 | American dermatologist and cosmetic surgeon |
| Robin Popplestone | 1938 – 2004 | British computer scientist, roboticist, and machine intelligence pioneer (died at the age of 65 after being diagnosed 10 years before his death. |
| Bernard Rimland | 1928 – 2006 | American research psychologist, writer, and lecturer |
| Paul Saltman | 1928 – 1999 | American biologist |
| Anthony Sattilaro | 1931 – 1989 | American physician (was diagnosed with terminal metastatic prostate cancer in 1978 at the age of 49. He was given a year to live initially. Sattilaro began reading and following a book titled “A Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer.” His cancer had later went into remission for multiple years. Sattilaro authored his own book in 1982 detailing his cancer battle titled "Recalled By Life." He ultimately succumbed to his cancer in 1989) |
| James Scott | 1924 – 2006 | Scottish obstetrician and gynecologist |
| William Shadish | 1949 – 2016 | American psychologist and statistician |
| George A. Sheehan | 1918 – 1993 | American physician, athlete, and author (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1986 that eventually became inoperable after metastasizing to his bones. He died at the age of 74 from his cancer) |
| Nicholas M. Smith Jr. | 1941 – 2003 | American nuclear physicist |
| Richard Smithells | 1924 – 2002 | British pediatrician and emeritus professor |
| Ayhan Songar | 1926 – 1997 | Turkish psychiatrist and academic (diagnosed with prostate cancer in early 1997, died the same year) |
| Emanuel Tanay | 1928 – 2014 | Polish-American physician, forensic physiatrist, and Holocaust survivor |
| Norbert Untersteiner | 1926 – 2012 | American polar scientist |
| Herbert Vilakazi | 1943 – 2016 | South African sociologist |
| Jim Watson | 1943 – 2017 | American biotechnologist and entrepreneur (died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer in 2004) |
| Clyde Wiegand | 1915 – 1996 | American physicist |

## Sports

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Hank Aguirre | 1931 – 1994 | American baseball player and entrepreneur |
| Tore Aleksandersen | 1968 – 2023 | Norwegian volleyball coach |
| Chris Balderstone | 1940 – 2000 | English association football and cricket player |
| Greg Ballard | 1955 – 2016 | American basketball player and coach; died at the age of 61 from prostate cancer in stage 4 |
| Cyril Baptise | 1949 – 2006 | American basketball player |
| Chief Bender | 1884 – 1954 | American baseball player; died at the age of 70 while undergoing hospitalization for a heart attack and prostate cancer for several weeks |
| Joe Black | 1924 – 2002 | American baseball player |
| Paul Blair | 1949 – 2006 | American swimming coach |
| Miroslav Blažević | 1935 – 2023 | Bosnian-Croatian football player and manager |
| Pete Brennan | 1936 – 2012 | American basketball player |
| Joe Brodsky | 1934 – 2006 | American football coach |
| Brickhouse Brown | 1960 – 2018 | American professional wrestler; died at the age 57 in hospice after being diagnosed a year prior |
| Ed Brown | 1928 – 2007 | American football player |
| Warren G. “Freckles” Brown | 1921 – 1987 | American rodeo cowboy; died at the age of 66 after being diagnosed four years before his death |
| Jim Bush | 1926 – 2017 | American track and field coach; died the age of 90 from a metastatic form of prostate cancer years after diagnosis |
| Mike Campbell-Lamerton | 1933 – 2005 | Scottish rugby player and British Army officer; died at the age of 71 after being diagnosed in 2001 |
| Jean Carlos | 1974 – 2024 | Brazilian footballer |
| Fred Carr | 1946 – 2018 | American football player; died at the age of 71 after suffering from prostate cancer and dementia |
| Rubin Carter | 1937 – 2014 | American boxer |
| Maurice Catarcio | 1929 – 2005 | American professional wrestler; died at the age of 76 after battling prostate cancer for over a decade |
| Clive Charles | 1951 – 2003 | English football player, coach, and announcer; died at the age 51 after being diagnosed in July 2000 |
| Ray Clemence | 1948 – 2020 | English goalkeeper; died at the 72 after suffering from advanced prostate cancer for several years |
| Ty Cobb | 1886 – 1961 | American baseball player; died at the age of 74 after suffering from prostate cancer for two years, along with other major ailments such as heart disease and diabetes |
| Blanton Collier | 1906 – 1983 | American football coach |
| Wally Cruice | 1913 – 2001 | American football player, coach, and scout |
| Stanley Dancer | 1927 – 2005 | American harness racing driver and trainer |
| Ben Davidson | 1940 – 2012 | American football player |
| Glenn Davis | 1924 – 2005 | American football player |
| Jack Doland | 1928 – 1991 | American football coach, college administrator, university president, and politician |
| Tom Dunbar | 1959 – 2011 | American baseball player |
| LeRoy Ellis | 1940 – 2012 | American basketball player |
| Jack Evans | 1928 – 1996 | Welsh-born Canadian hockey player and coach |
| John Ferguson Sr. | 1938 – 2007 | Canadian ice hockey player and executive |
| Rod Franz | 1925 – 1999 | American football player and coach; died at the age 74 after being diagnosed 9 years before his death |
| Larry Friend | 1935 – 1998 | American basketball player |
| Dwight Garner | 1964 – 2022 | American football player |
| Jake Gaudaur | 1920 – 2007 | Canadian football player, executive, and Canadian Football League commissioner |
| Karl Geis | 1933 – 2014 | American martial arts instructor |
| Barry Gomersall | 1945 – 2007 | Australian rugby league referee |
| Ken Griffey Sr. | 1950 – present | American baseball player (diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer after a PSA test at the age of 55 in 2006. He subsequently underwent successful surgery for his cancer. Griffey Sr. revealed that prostate cancer was hereditary in his family, with four of his uncles suffering from the disease) |
| Happy Hairston | 1942 – 2001 | American basketball player |
| Bret Hart | 1957 – present | Canadian-American wrestler (announced diagnosis of prostate cancer in early 2016, underwent successful treatment for the cancer) |
| Smith Hart | 1948 – 2017 | American-Canadian wrestler; died at the age of 68 after being diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer around the same time as his brother Bret Hart's diagnosis |
| Stu Hart | 1915 – 2003 | Canadian wrestler (patriarch of the Hart wrestling family. Diagnosed with prostate cancer in the 1980s) |
| Shiro Hashizume | 1928 – 2023 | Japanese Olympic swimmer |
| Anders Haugen | 1888 – 1984 | Norwegian-American ski jumper; died at the age of 95 after suffering from kidney failure and prostate cancer |
| Bob Hayes | 1942 – 2002 | American sprinter and football player; died at the age of 59 after suffering from prostate cancer, lung and kidney ailments |
| Ed Herrmann | 1946 – 2013 | American baseball player; died at the age of 67 after battling prostate cancer for multiple years |
| Fedor den Hertog | 1946 – 2011 | Dutch racing cyclist; died at the age of 64 after being diagnosed in 2007 |
| Bud Hollowell | 1943 – 2014 | American baseball player and manager |
| Wilhelm von Homburg | 1940 – 2004 | German boxer, actor, and wrestler |
| Marv Hubbard | 1946 – 2015 | American football player |
| Ken Hutcherson | 1952 – 2013 | American football player and pastor; died at the age of 61 after battling prostate cancer for more than a decade |
| Javier Imbroda | 1961 – 2022 | Spanish basketball coach and politician; died at the age of 61 after battling prostate cancer since 2016 |
| Bob Jane | 1929 – 2018 | Australian race car driver and entrepreneur |
| Jesse Jefferson | 1949 – 2011 | American baseball player |
| Alex Johnson | 1942 – 2015 | American baseball player |
| Byron Johnson | 1911 – 2005 | American baseball player |
| Juvenal Juvêncio | 1934 – 2015 | Brazilian football president and lawyer |
| Kaiser Kalambo | 1953 – 2014 | Zambian footballer and coach; died at the age of 60 after receiving an unsuccessful surgery for his prostate cancer three weeks before his death |
| Tom Keating | 1942 – 2012 | American football player |
| Johnny "Red" Kerr | 1932 – 2009 | American basketball player, coach, and commentator |
| Abel Kiviat | 1892 – 1991 | American track coach, press agent, middle-distance runner |
| Benjamin Kogo | 1944 – 2022 | Kenyan Olympic runner; died at the age of 77 from prostate cancer after being diagnosed the year prior in May 2021 |
| Fred Kovaleski | 1924 – 2018 | American tennis player, spy, and businessman; died at the at age of 93 from metastatic prostate cancer |
| Terry Laughlin | 1951 – 2017 | American swimming coach; died at the age of 66 from complications of metastatic prostate cancer |
| Frank Legacki | 1939 – 2020 | American swimmer; died at the age of 81 from complications of prostate cancer that metastasized |
| Leroy Lewis | 1945 – 2021 | Costa Rican football player and coach |
| Chris Limahelu | 1950 – 2010 | American college football player |
| Joe Lis | 1946 – 2010 | American professional baseball player |
| Arturo Macapagal | 1942 – 2015 | Filipino Olympic shooter |
| Marcelino | 1939 – 2002 | Brazilian footballer |
| Marinho | 1957 – 2020 | Brazilian professional footballer (died at the age of 63 after suffering from pancreatitis and prostate cancer) |
| Press Maravich | 1915 – 1987 | American college and professional basketball coach and father of Pete Maravich (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1985. His cancer was untreated before his death at the age of 71 in 1987) |
| Ken McCracken | 1941 – 2019 | New Zealand rugby league footballer |
| Gil McDougald | 1928 – 2010 | American baseball player |
| John McGraw | 1873 – 1934 | American baseball player and manager (died at the age of 60 from a combination of prostate cancer and uremia) |
| Peter McNamara | 1955 – 2019 | Australian tennis player and coach |
| Ivor Mendonca | 1934 – 2014 | West Indian cricketer; died at the age of 79 from laryngeal and prostate cancer |
| Rick Mitchell | 1955 – 2021 | Australian sprinter |
| Khan Mohammad | 1928 – 2009 | Pakistani cricketer |
| Eric Monti | 1917 – 2009 | American professional golfer |
| Jimmy Murray | 1935 – 2008 | English footballer |
| Henk Nienhuis | 1941 – 2017 | Dutch footballer and manager (was diagnosed with prostate cancer in September 2012. Died less than 5 years later at the age of 75) |
| Jonny Nilsson | 1943 – 2022 | Swedish speed skater (died at the age of 79 after deterioration of his health during his battle of prostate cancer) |
| David Oakley | 1945 – 2006 | American professional golfer (initially diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 50. Oakley spent an estimated 20,000 dollars in battling his illness, which included the removal of his prostate. Cancer had returned in January 2006 and he died about 7 months later at the age of 61) |
| Les Olive | 1928 – 2006 | English football player |
| Wanderley Paiva | 1946 – 2023 | Brazilian football player and coach |
| Arnold Palmer | 1929 – 2016 | American professional golfer (diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer in early 1997. He underwent a successful prostatectomy for his cancer which forced him to go on a two-month hiatus from competing until he made a full recovery. He would later died about 19 years later at the age of 87 from complications of heart disease) |
| Bud Palmer | 1921 – 2013 | American professional basketball player (died at the age of 91 from metastatic prostate cancer after being diagnosed 21 years prior) |
| Floyd Patterson | 1935 – 2006 | American professional boxer (died at the age of 71 after suffering from prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease eight years before his death) |
| Travis Payze | 1946 – 2006 | Australian rules footballer |
| Dave Pureifory | 1949 – 2009 | American professional football player |
| Bobby Riggs | 1918 – 1995 | American professional tennis player (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1988, he founded the Bobby Riggs Tennis Museum Foundation soon after to promote awareness of his illness. His condition improved after a 1989 surgical operation for his cancer but was reportedly in ill health before his death for several months before his death at the age of 77 in October 1995) |
| Andy Ripley | 1947 – 2010 | English rugby union international player |
| Lammie Robertson | 1947 – 2023 | Scottish footballer |
| Rolf Rüssmann | 1950 – 2009 | German footballer; died at the age of 58 after being diagnosed two years before his death |
| Al Schroll | 1932 – 1999 | American baseball player |
| Mike Sexton | 1947 – 2020 | American professional poker player and commentator |
| Bob Simpson | 1930 – 2007 | Canadian gridiron football player |
| O. J. Simpson | 1947 – 2024 | American football player, actor, and media personality (died at the age of 76 after battling prostate cancer for multiple years. Simpson kept his diagnosis secret from public knowledge) |
| Gordon Singleton | 1956 – 2024 | Canadian world-record holding track cyclist |
| Ilkka Sinisalo | 1958 – 2017 | Finnish hockey player (died at the age of 58 after suffering from prostate cancer for at least three years) |
| Dave Sisler | 1931 – 2011 | American baseball player |
| A. J. Smith | 1949 – 2024 | American football scout and executive (died at the age of 75 after battling prostate cancer for 7 years) |
| Ronnie Sox | 1922 – 2006 | American drag racer |
| Ken Sparks | 1944 – 2017 | American football coach and player (diagnosed with prostate cancer in June 2012 after a routine physical examination that showed his prostate-specific antigen counts were high. He had radical surgery which involved removing his prostate two days later. Died at the age of 73 from his cancer in March 2017) |
| Leon Spinks | 1953 – 2021 | American professional boxer (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2019. His cancer spread to his bladder and his cancer was deemed to be terminal in November 2019. He died about 4 months later at the age of 67) |
| Dimitrious Stanley | 1974 – 2023 | American football wide receiver (died at the age of 48 after being diagnosed with an aggressive prostate cancer at the age of 45. He advocated for people at risk for prostate cancer to receive screening) |
| John Stearns | 1951 – 2022 | American baseball player (diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer in January 2022. He died at the age of 71 months later in September 2022) |
| Teruo Sugihara | 1937 – 2011 | Japanese professional golfer (died at the age of 74 after being diagnosed in 1997) |
| Steve Sumner | 1955 – 2017 | English-born New Zealand footballer (died at the age of 61 after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer two years earlier in 2015) |
| Naftali Temu | 1945 – 2003 | Kenyan long-distance runner |
| Charlie Timmins | 1922 – 2010 | English footballer |
| Bobby Thomson | 1943 – 2009 | English footballer |
| Joe Torre | 1940 – present | American baseball executive, manager, player, and commentator (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999 after a spring training physical exam. Torre then underwent prostate surgery to treat the cancer. His cancer then went into remission for several years) |
| Sven Tumba | 1931 – 2011 | Swedish professional ice hockey player (diagnosed with prostate two years before his death in October 2011 at the age of 80) |
| Harry Varner | 1885 – 1970 | American football coach and head football coach of the University of Virginia |
| Don Vesco | 1939 – 2002 | American motorcycle racer and businessman; died at the age of 63 after battling prostate cancer for about a year |
| Claudell Washington | 1954 – 2020 | American baseball player (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017, ceased treatments for his cancer in 2018. Died two years later at the age of 65) |
| Josip Weber | 1964 – 2017 | Belgian footballer (died at the age of 52 after suffering from prostate cancer for about three years) |
| John "Hot Rod" Williams | 1962 – 2015 | American basketball player; died at the age of 53 after being diagnosed six months before his death |
| Bob Willis | 1949 – 2019 | English cricketer (diagnosed with prostate cancer after suffering from disruptions to urine flow and frequent urinary tract infections according to his wife. His prostate cancer took four and a half months to properly diagnose. Willis died three years and eight months later at the age of 70 after his cancer metastasized to his bones and lymphatic system. A prostate cancer fund in his namesake was established to raise awareness and research money for prostate cancer) |
| Peter Wherrett (Pip Wilson) | 1936 – 2009 | Australian motorsport journalist and race car driver (died at age of 72 after battling prostate cancer since at least 2007) |
| Ed Whitlock | 1931 – 2017 | English-born Canadian long-distance runner |
| Ted Whitten | 1933 – 1995 | Australian rules footballer (died at the age of 62 after being diagnosed in 1991. He began advocating for others experiencing symptoms to not ignore them. Whitten retired due to the progression of his cancer in 1994) |
| Phil Woosnam | 1932 – 2013 | Welsh association football player and manager (died at the age of 80 from complications related to prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease) |
| Wally Yonamine | 1925 – 2011 | Japanese-American professional baseball and football player (died at the age of 85 after a 12-year battle with prostate cancer) |
| Norm Zuchin | 1929 – 1999 | American baseball player |

## Television and radio

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Gay Byrne | 1934 – 2019 | Irish presenter and host; died at the age of 85 after being diagnosed in 2016 |
| Jonathan Coleman | 1956 – 2021 | English-born presenter, announcer, writer, comedian, and spokesperson; died at the age of 65 4 years after his diagnosis |
| Tony Fenton | 1961 – 2015 | Irish radio presenter and DJ; died at the age of 53 after battling prostate cancer since 2010 |
| Joe Franklin | 1926 – 2015 | American radio and television host and personality, author, and actor |
| Merv Griffin | 1925 – 2007 | American television host and media mogul (died at the age of 82 after battling prostate cancer for several years. His cancer initially went into remission in 1996 but had returned) |
| Huell Howser | 1945 – 2013 | American television personality, actor, producer, writer, and singer |
| Joe Madison | 1944 – 2024 | American radio talk show host and activist (diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2009. Died at the age of 74 after the cancer went into remission and then re-emerged) |
| Bruce Mansfield | 1944 – 2016 | Television and radio personality and narrator |
| Julio Martínez | 1923 – 2008 | Chilean sports commentator (died at the age of 84 from bilateral bronchial pneumonia. He was also suffering from prostate cancer, which he was diagnosed with twelve years earlier) |
| Captain Jack McCarthy | 1914 – 1996 | Radio announcer and host |
| John McLaughlin | 1927 – 2016 | American television personality, host, and political commentator (died at the age of 89 from metastatic prostate cancer after suffering from the cancer for an extended period of time) |
| Johnny Midnight | 1941 – 2014 | Filipino television and radio broadcaster |
| Gary Papa | 1954 – 2009 | American sportscaster (died at the age of 54 after battling advanced prostate cancer for multiple years. A namesake annual Father's Day Run is organized in his honor to raise awareness and funds against prostate cancer) |
| Bill Shadel | 1908 – 2005 | American news anchor, broadcasting journalist and reporter |
| David Sheehan | 1938 – 2020 | American broadcaster, interviewer, host, and reporter (suffered from an aggressive form of prostate cancer and small-cell lung cancer for several years before his death at the age of 82 in December 2020 from complications of a stroke) |
| Lon Simmons | 1923 – 2015 | American sports announcer (diagnosed with prostate cancer in October 2010. His cancer was reported to be under control in February 2013. He died from his cancer two years later at the age of 91) |
| Bill Turnbull | 1956 – 2022 | British radio and television presenter (diagnosed with prostate cancer in November 2017. Revealed his diagnosis publicly in March 2018. Died at the age of 66 4 years later) |
| Garrick Utley | 1939 – 2014 | American television journalist |

## Writing

| Name | Lifetime | Comments |
| Jarl Afredius | 1943 – 2009 | Swedish journalist and newsreader; died at the age of 66 after being diagnosed in July 2008 |
| Arswendo Atmowiloto | 1948 – 2019 | Indonesian journalist and writer |
| J. G. Ballard | 1930 – 2009 | English writer, novelist, satirist, and essayist; died at the age of 78 after being diagnosed in 2006 |
| Lloyd Best | 1934 – 2007 | Trinidadian columnist, professor, and economist |
| Norman Bridwell | 1928 – 2014 | American author and cartoonist; creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog book series (succumbed to prostate cancer after being hospitalized for a fall weeks before his death) |
| Anatole Broyard | 1920 – 1990 | American writer, literary critic, and editor; died at the age of 70 after being diagnosed in August 1989 |
| Bill Carlson | 1934 – 2008 | American journalist and television anchor; died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed 18 months before his death, with the cancer spreading to his liver during this period |
| Eldridge Cleaver | 1935 – 1998 | American writer and activist; died at the age of 62 after suffering from prostate cancer and diabetes |
| Phil Collier | 1925 – 2001 | American sportswriter; died at the age 75 after being diagnosed in 1985 |
| Gregory Corso | 1930 – 2001 | American poet |
| Robert Creamer | 1922 – 2012 | American sportswriter |
| Julian Critchley | 1930 – 2000 | British journalist and politician (died at the age of 69 after suffering from a brain tumor, bone and prostate cancer. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1992) |
| James S. Denton | 1951 – 2018 | American publisher and editor |
| David Dick | 1930 – 2010 | American journalist; died at the age of 80 after suffering from prostate cancer for 17 years |
| Mike Filey | 1941 – 2022 | Canadian historian, radio host, journalist, and author |
| Bill Flemming | 1926 – 2007 | American television sport journalist and announcer |
| Vince Flynn | 1966 – 2013 | American author; died at the age of 47 after being diagnosed with stage 3 metastatic prostate cancer in November 2010 |
| William Gaddis | 1922 – 1998 | American novelist |
| Charles J. Givens | 1941 – 1998 | American writer; died at the age of 57 after being diagnosed in 1994 |
| Bruce Hood | 1936 – 2018 | Canadian author, businessman, politician, professional ice hockey referee |
| Jay Hopler | 1970 – 2022 | American poet (diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer when he began writing his poetry collection Still Life. Died at the age of 51 in June 2022) |
| Langston Hughes | 1901 – 1967 | American poet, novelist, playwright, and activist; died at the age of 66 from surgery complications for prostate cancer |
| Robert Hunter | 1941 – 2005 | Canadian journalist, environmentalist, author and politician (died at the age of 63 after being diagnosed in 1998) |
| Christopher Isherwood | 1904 – 1986 | English-American writer; died at the age of 81 after being diagnosed in 1981 |
| Sidney L. James | died 2004 | American executive journalist; died after suffering from cardiorespiratory arrest and prostate cancer |
| George Clayton Johnson | 1929 – 2015 | American writer; died on Christmas Day 2015 at the age of 86 from prostate and bladder cancer |
| Barry Lopez | 1945 – 2020 | American writer (diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in August 2013. Died at the age of 75 seven years later) |
| Bob MacDonald | 1929 – 2006 | Canadian journalist and conservative columnist; died 14 years after being diagnosed |
| Terry Major-Ball | 1932 – 2007 | British columnist, banker and media personality; died at the age of 74 after suffering from prostate cancer for multiple years |
| Gregory Mcdonald | 1937 – 2008 | American writer |
| Joe McGiniss | 1942 – 2014 | American writer and novelist (diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in May 2013, died a year later at the age of 71 from his cancer) |
| Harald Norbelie | 1944 – 2015 | Swedish journalist and writer (diagnosed with prostate cancer 11 years before his death. Cancer became terminal in early 2015 and Norbelie became wheelchair bound. Norbelie expressed his desire for euthanasia which is illegal in Sweden) |
| Scott O'Dell | 1898 – 1989 | American writer |
| Bernard Ostry | 1927 – 2006 | Canadian author, philanthropist, and civil servant |
| Walker Percy | 1916 – 1990 | American novelist; died at the age of 74 after battling prostate cancer for at least two years before his death |
| William Rapberry | 1935 – 2012 | American public affairs columnist (died at his home at the age of 76 after a year long battle with prostate cancer) |
| David Richardson | 1916 – 2005 | American journalist and military soldier |
| Andrew Roth | 1919 – 2010 | American-British journalist and biographer |
| Cornelius Ryan | 1920 – 1974 | Irish-American journalist and writer (diagnosed with prostate cancer at the age of 50 in 1970. He died 4 years later at the age of 54 from his cancer) |
| Fred Saberhagen | 1930 – 2007 | American science fiction and mystery writer |
| John Sack | 1930 – 2004 | American literary journalist and war correspondent |
| William Saroyan | 1908 – 1981 | American novelist, playwright, and short story writer |
| Michael Schildberger | 1938 – 2010 | Australian journalist, radio and television presenter, and author (died at the age of 72 after being diagnosed in 1997) |
| Irwin Shaw | 1913 – 1984 | American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist |
| Doodhnath Singh | 1936 – 2018 | Indian Hindi language writer, critic, and poet |
| Tom Terrell | 1950 – 2007 | American music journalist, disc jockey, NPR music reviewer, and promoter |
| Robert Penn Warren | 1905 – 1989 | American poet, novelist, and literary critic; died at the age of 84 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1985 |
| Junichi Watanabe | 1933 – 2014 | Japanese writer |
| Peter Wells | 1950 – 2019 | New Zealand writer, filmmaker, and historian (diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer in November 2017. Died at the age of 69 in February 2019 after the cancer was deemed terminal) |
| Walter Williams | 1864 – 1925 | American journalist and educator (died at the age of 71 from prostate cancer. Williams delayed receiving treatment for his cancer in order to continue his professional career) |
| Óscar Yanes | 1927 – 2013 | Venezuelan journalist and author (died at the age of 86 after suffering from prostate cancer since at least March 2012) |
| Yeng Pway Ngon | 1947 – 2021 | Singaporean poet, novelist, and critic (died at the age of 73 after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007. His cancer later metastasized to his colon and pancreas) |