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List of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis


This is a list of notable people who have or had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Raymond Abrashkin – author
Zeca Afonso – Portuguese folk singer and anti-fascist politician
Derek Bailey – British avant-garde guitar virtuoso
Jason Becker – American guitar virtuoso
Lead Belly – blues singer and guitarist
Stefano Borgonovo – Italian football player
Rob Borsellino – Des Moines Register columnist and author of So I'm Talkin' to This Guy...
Scott Brazil – American television producer and director
O.J. Brigance – American football player and Advisor
Donna Britt - Newscaster At WAFB in Baton Rouge Louisiana for more than 30 years
Harry Browne – best-selling author and 2-time Libertarian U.S. presidential candidate
Ben Byer - American playwright and subject of the film Indestructible, documenting his life post-diagnosis
Jeff Capel II – American collegiate and professional basketball coach[1]
Paul Cellucci – politician and diplomat; 69th Governor of Massachusetts and U.S. Ambassador to Canada
Ezzard Charles – boxer; former world heavyweight champion
Leonard Cheshire – notable RAF pilot and charity worker
Marián Čišovský – Slovak football player[2]
Dwight Clark – American football player[3]
Preston Cloud – eminent American earth scientist
Sid Collins – radio personality; radio voice of the Indianapolis 500
Luca Coscioni – Italian researcher, political activist and advocate for euthanasia
Ronnie Corbett - British comedian and actor
Neale Daniher – former AFL player (Essendon) & coach (Melbourne)
Stephen Darby - former footballer for Bolton Wanderers
Dennis Day – singer, comedian, actor
Dieter Dengler – Vietnam era Air Force pilot who escaped from Laotian POW camp
Michael Donnelly – Gulf War veteran
Peter Doohan - Australian tennis player
Ann Downer – Author of books for children and teenagers
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis – Greek architect, urban planner and visionary
John Drury – longtime ABC7 Chicago news anchor
Bruce Edwards – PGA Tour caddie for golfer Tom Watson
Jenifer Estess – theatre producer; star of HBO documentary Three Sisters, subject of HBO film Jennifer; founding member of Project ALS
Hal Finney – computer scientist
Jay S. Fishman – Chairman of the Board and former CEO of The Travelers Companies
Roberto Fontanarrosa – Argentine cartoonist
Pete Frates – former Boston College baseball star, founder and inspiration behind the viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (Summer 2014)
Steven 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
Richard Glatzer – writer and director; director of Still Alice
Steve Gleason – American football player for the New Orleans Saints 2000-2007
Jérôme Golmard - French tennis player
Tim Green - Former NFL player and broadcaster.
Stanislav Gross – former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
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 – , 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
Stephen Hillenburg – marine biologist and cartoonist; creator of SpongeBob SquarePants[4]
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
Tony Judt – historian and writer
Hans Keller – Austrian-born British musicologist and music critic.
Motoo Kimura – Japanese population geneticist
Suna Kıraç, Turkish businesswoman and philanthropist
Dan Klein – Singer of The Frightnrs
Mao Zedong – Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
Denny Miller- actor
Charles Mingus – jazz bass player
Glenn Montgomery – NFL football player for the Houston Oilers and Seattle Seahawks
Augie Nieto – fitness guru; founder and retired chief executive of Life Fitness and the chairman of Octane Fitness
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
Tony Proudfoot - CFL player, teacher, coach, broadcaster and journalist.
Don Revie – English football player and manager
Fernando Ricksen – Dutch football player
Sue Rodriguez – Canadian "right to die" advocate
Franz Rosenzweig – philosopher and religious thinker
Ayan Sadakov - Bulgarian football player and manager
Stanley Sadie – British musicologist, music critic and editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Ed Sadowski – baseball catcher and coach
Washington César Santos – Brazilian Footballer.
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
Sam Shepard - American actor and playwright[5]
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
Orlando Thomas- NFL safety for the Minnesota Vikings
Kevin Turner – NFL fullback for the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles
Roy Walford – gerontologist and life extensionist
Henry A. Wallace – 33rd Vice President of the United States to Franklin D. Roosevelt
Charlie Wedemeyer – former athlete and coach; motivational speaker
Doddie Weir – former Scottish rugby union player[6]
Joost van der Westhuizen – former South African Rugby Union player; former Supersport commentator[7]
Michael Zaslow – soap actor
Catherine G. Wolf - American psychologist and expert in human-computer interaction
See also
List of NFL Players with ALS