page_title: List of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
hierarchical_section_title: List of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
caption_attribution_description: English: Stephen Hillenburg holding the SpongeBob SquarePants bible in 2011
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people who have or had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  Pietro Anastasi, Italian football player
  Ady Barkan, American lawyer and political activist
  Jason Becker, American musician, songwriter and composer
  Giovanni Bertini, Italian football player
  Stefano Borgonovo, Italian football player
  Rob Burrow, English rugby league player
  Ben Byer, American playwright, subject of the film Indestructible, documenting his life post-diagnosis
  Jeff Capel II, American basketball coach
  Marián Čišovský, Slovak football player
  Dwight Clark, American football player
  Rickey Dixon, American football player
  Jenifer Estess, American theatre producer and activist, subject of HBO film Jennifer; founding member of Project ALS
  Lou Gehrig, American baseball player, after whom the disease is commonly referred
  Steve Gleason, American football player
  Tim Green, American football player, commentator and author
  Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author of several books on astrophysics, including A Brief History of Time
  Stephen Hillenburg, American animator, voice actor, and marine science educator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants
context_section_description: This is a list of notable people who have or had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
  Pietro Anastasi (1948–2020), Italian football (soccer) player
  Ady Barkan (born 1983), American lawyer and political activist
  Jason Becker (born 1969), American musician, songwriter and composer
  Giovanni Bertini (1951–2019), Italian football (soccer) player
  Stefano Borgonovo (1964–2013), Italian football (soccer) player
  Rob Burrow (born 1982), English rugby league player
  Ben Byer (1971–2008), American playwright, subject of the film Indestructible, documenting his life post-diagnosis
  Jeff Capel II (1953–2017), American basketball coach
  Marián Čišovský (1979-2020), Slovak football (soccer) player
  Dwight Clark (1957–2018), American football (gridiron) player
  Rickey Dixon (born 1966), American football (gridiron) player
  Jenifer Estess (1963–2003), American theatre producer and activist, subject of HBO film Jennifer; founding member of Project ALS
  Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), American baseball player, after whom the disease is commonly referred
  Steve Gleason (born 1977), American football (gridiron) player
  Tim Green (born 1963), American football (gridiron) player, commentator and author
  Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author of several books on astrophysics, including A Brief History of Time
  Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator, voice actor, and marine science educator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants
  Catfish Hunter (1946–1999), American baseball player
  Derrick Jensen (1956–2017), American football (gridiron) player
  Jaan Kaplinski (born 1941), Estonian author, translator, philosopher, and culture critic 
  Fernando Ricksen (1976-2019), Dutch football (soccer) player 
  Kim Shattuck (1963–2019), American singer and songwriter (The Muffs)
  Charles Mingus (1922-1979), American jazz composer and bandleader.
  Tim Shaw (born 1984), American football (gridiron) player
  Sam Shepard (1943–2017), American actor and playwright
  Gianluca Signorini (1960–2002), Italian football (soccer) player
  Kyousei Tsukui (born 1961), Japanese voice actor
  Dmitri Vasilenko (1975–2019), Russian gymnast
  Doddie Weir (born 1970), Scottish rugby union player
  Joost van der Westhuizen (1971–2017), South African rugby union player
caption: Cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg, whose ALS was diagnosed in 2017, the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants. He died at the age of 57 in 2018.
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