User:Ravedave/ALS

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

Notable people with ALS

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