Famous People with Asthma

Sports

Jerome Bettis - professional football player
Bruce Davidson - Olympic equestrian
Tom Dolan - Olympic medalist, swimming
Kurt Grote - Olympic medalist, swimming
Nancy Hogshead - Olympic medalist, swimming
Jim "Catfish" Hunter - professional baseball player
Miguel Indurain - Tour de France winner (5 times) and Olympic champion
Jackie Joyner-Kersee - Olympic medalist, track
Bill Koch - Olympic medalist, cross-country skiing
Greg Louganis - Olympic medalist, diving
Tom Malchow - Olympic medalist, swimming
Debbie Meyer - Olympic medalist, swimming
Art Monk - professional football player
George Murray - wheelchair athlete & Boston Marathon winner
Robert Muzzio - decathlete
Paula Radcliffe - world record holder marathon
Dennis Rodman - professional basketball player
Jim Ryun - Olympic medalist, track
Alberto Salazar - marathon runner
Mark Spitz - Olympics medalist, swimming
Alison Streeter - crossed the English channel a record 43 times
Isaiah Thomas - professional basketball player
Jan Ullrich - Tour de France winner
Amy VanDyken - Olympic medalist, swimming
Dominique Wilkins - professional basketball player
Kristi Yamaguchi - Olympic medalist, figure skating

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Entertainment

Steve Allen - comedian, actor
Loni Anderson - actress
Jason Alexander - actor, director
Ludwig von Beethoven - composer
Leonard Bernstein - conductor, composer
Judy Collins - folk singer
Alice Cooper - rock singer
DMX - rapper
Morgan Fairchild - actress
Kenneth Gorelick (Kenny G) - musician
Bob Hope - comedian, actor
Billy Joel - singer
Robert Joffrey - dancer, choreographer
Diane Keaton - actress
Liza Minelli - actress, singer
Arnold Schoenburg - composer
Martin Scorsese - film director
Paul Sorvino - actor
Sharon Stone - actress
Elizabeth Taylor - actress
Apex Twin - techno DJ
Antonio Vivaldi - composer, conductor
Orson Welles - actor, director

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Literature

Ambrose Bierce - journalist and author
Elizabeth Bishop - poet and author
Charles Dickens - author
Oliver Wendell Holmes - poet, physician, inventor
Samuel Johnson - 18th century poet, critic, essayist
Joseph Pulitzer - publisher, philanthropist
Dylan Thomas - poet, playwright
John Updike - author
Edith Wharton - author

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Politics

Calvin Coolidge - 30th President of the U.S.
Bill Clinton - 42nd President of the U.S.
Benjamin Disraeli - British statesman, author
Che Guevara - South American revolutionary leader
Rev. Jesse Jackson - political leader
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the U.S.
John Locke - 17th century politician, philosopher
Walter Mondale - 42nd Vice President of the U.S.
Peter the Great - Russian Czar
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the U.S.
Seneca - Roman philosopher and politician
William T. Sherman - hero of the American civil war
Daniel Webster - lawyer, statesman
William III of England (1650-1702) - Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
Woodrow Wilson - 28th President of the U.S.

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Science

Baruj Benacerraf - Nobel Prize Winner in medicine
E.J. Corey - Nobel Prize Winner in chemistry
Beruj Benacerraf - Immunologist, Nobel Prize winner
Jan Baptista van Helmont - Belgian pioneer in medicine and chemistry