List of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

This is a list of notable people who have or had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative neuromuscular disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles.

Living

NFL football player Steve Gleason chronicled his experiences with ALS in the documentary Gleason. He was also awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his contributions to ALS awareness.

• Ady Barkan (born 1983), American lawyer and political activist.[1]
• Jason Becker (born 1969), American musician, songwriter and composer.[2]
• David Bradley (born 1954), American artist.[3]
• O. J. Brigance (born 1969), American football player.[4]
• Rob Burrow (born 1982), English rugby league player.[5]
• Neale Daniher (born 1961), Australian rules footballer.[6]
• Steve Gleason (born 1977), American football player.[7]
• Kerry Goode (born 1965), American football player.[8]
• Tim Green (born 1963), American football player, commentator and author.[9]
• Tunch Ilkin (born 1957), Turkish-American football player and broadcaster.[10]
• Lenny Johnrose (born 1969), English footballer.[11]
• Jaan Kaplinski (born 1941), Estonian author, translator, philosopher, and culture critic.[12]
• George Kooymans (born 1948), Dutch musician (Golden Earring).[13]
• Kenneth Mitchell (born 1974), Canadian actor.[14]
• Emanuel Morales (born 1987), Argentine footballer.[15]
• Augie Nieto (born 1958), American entrepreneur, founder of Life Fitness.[16]
• Tim Shaw (born 1984), American football player.[17]
• Michael Soles (born 1966), Canadian football player.[18]
• Eric Stevens (born 1989), American football player.[19]
• Tempt One, American graffiti artist.[20]
• Kyousei Tsukui (born 1961), Japanese voice actor.[21]
• Juan Carlos Unzué (born 1967), Spanish footballer and manager.[22]
• Doddie Weir (born 1970), Scottish rugby union player.[23]
• Moamen Zakaria (born 1988), Egyptian footballer.[24]

Deceased

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, had ALS for 55 years, the longest recorded time. He died at the age of 76 in 2018.

Chairman Mao Zedong was reported to have been suffering from ALS.

• Eddie Adams (1933-2004), American photographer.[25]
• Frank Alamo (1941-2012), French singer.[26]
• Bruce Allpress (1930-2019), New Zealand actor.[27]
• Pietro Anastasi (1948–2020), Italian footballer.[28]
• Hideyuki Ashihara (1944-1995), Japanese karate master.[29]
• Dale Baer (1950-2021), American animator.[30]
• Derek Bailey (1930-2005), English guitarist.[31]
• Giovanni Bertini (1951–2019), Italian footballer.[32]
• Stefano Borgonovo (1964–2013), Italian footballer[33]
• Scott Brazil (1955-2006), American television producer.[34]
• Donna Britt (1958-2021), American news anchor.[35]
• Ben Byer (1971–2008), American playwright, subject of the film Indestructible, documenting his life post-diagnosis.[36]
• Jeff Capel II (1953–2017), American basketball coach.[37]
• Paul Cellucci (1948-2013), American politician and diplomat.[38]
• Neil Cherry (1936-2003), New Zealand environmental scientist.[39]
• Marián Čišovský (1979-2020), Slovak footballer.[40]
• Dwight Clark (1957–2018), American football player.[41]
• Ronnie Corbett (1930-2016), Scottish comedian and actor.[42]
• Cyril Cusack (1910-1993), Irish actor.[43]
• Garth Dawley (1933-2020), Canadian journalist.[44]
• Dennis Day (1916-1988), American singer and actor.[45]
• Dieter Dengler (1938-2001), German-American aviator POW.[46]
• Papa Bouba Diop (1978-2020), Senegalese footballer.[47]
• Rickey Dixon (1966-2020), American football player.[48]
• Masayuki Dobashi (1935-2013), Japanese baseball player and manager.[49]
• Jenifer Estess (1963–2003), American theatre producer and activist, subject of HBO film Jennifer; founding member of Project ALS.[50]
• Hal Finney (1956-2014), American computer scientist.[51]
• Simon Fitzmaurice (1973-2017), Irish film director.[52]
• Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), American baseball player, after whom the disease in the USA is commonly referred.[53]
• Vic Gilliam (1953-2020), American politician.[54]
• Richard Glatzer (1952-2015), American film director and screenwriter.[55]
• Nina Griscom (1954-2020), American model and television host.[56]
• Stanislav Gross (1969-2015), Czech politician, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic.[57]
• David Hagen (1973-2020), Scottish footballer.[58]
• Darryl Hammond (1967-2017), American football player.[59]
• Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), English theoretical physicist.[60]
• Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants.[61]
• Catfish Hunter (1946–1999), American baseball player.[62]
• Jacob Javits (1904-1986), American politician.[63]
• Derrick Jensen (1956–2017), American football player.[64]
• Hans Keller (1919-1985), Austrian-born British musician and writer.[65]
• Suna Kıraç (1941-2020), Turkish-American businesswoman.[66]
• Hannu Lahtinen (1960-2020), Finnish wrestler.[67]
• John Land (1938-2021), British field hockey player.[68]
• Lead Belly (1888-1949), American singer.[69]
• Scott Lew (1968-2017), American film director and screenwriter.[70]
• Stefan Lindqvist (1967-2020), Swedish footballer.[71]
• Tony Liscio (1940-2017), American football player.[72]
• Rebecca Luker (1961-2020), American actress and singer.[73]
• Pave Maijanen (1950-2021), Finnish musician.[74]
• Mickey Marvin (1955-2017), American football player.[75]
• Scott Matzka (1978-2018), American ice hockey player.[76]
• Charles Mingus (1922-1979), American jazz composer and bandleader.[77]
• Kyle Morrell (1963-2020), American football player.[78]
• David Niven (1910-1983), British actor.[79]
• Polly Platt (1939-2011), American production designer and film producer.[80]
• Mike Porcaro (1955-2015), American musician, bassist of Toto.[81][82]
• Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko (1957-2021), Russian diplomat and government official, former deputy prime minister (2013-2018).[83]
• Christopher Pitchford (1947-2017), British judge.[84]
• Patrick Quinn (1983-2020), American co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge[85]
• James C. Renick (1948-2021), American academic administator.[86]
• Fernando Ricksen (1976-2019), Dutch footballer.[87]
• Tommy Robson (1944-2020), English footballer.[88]
• Chizu Saeki (1943-2020), Japanese cosmetologist.[89]
• Morrie Schwartz (1916-1995), American sociology professor, subject of Tuesdays with Morrie.[90]
• Kim Shattuck (1963–2019), American singer and songwriter (The Muffs).[91]
• Luton Shelton (born 1985), Jamaican footballer.[92]
• Sam Shepard (1943–2017), American actor and playwright.[93]
• Gianluca Signorini (1960–2002), Italian footballer.[94]
• Lane Smith (1936-2005), American actor.[95]
• Ezra Swerdlow (1953-2018), American film producer.[96]
• Stacy Title (1964-2021), American director, screenwriter and producer.[97]
• Francis Tsai (1967-2015), American comic book artist.[98]
• Dmitri Vasilenko (1975–2019), Russian gymnast.[99]
• Joost van der Westhuizen (1971–2017), South African rugby union player.[100]
• Baron Wolman (1937-2020), American photographer.[101]
• George Yardley (1928-2004), American basketball player.[102]
• Marius Žaliūkas (1983-2020) Lithuanian football player who played for Heart of Midlothian.[103]
• Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese statesman.[104]

See also

• List of NFL Players with ALS

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