List of people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, has had ALS for over 50 years, the longest recorded time

• 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
• 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
• Neale Daniher – former AFL player (Essendon) & coach (Melbourne)
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 – 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
• 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
• Hans Keller – Austrian-born British musicologist and music critic.
• Suna Kıraç, Turkish businesswoman and philanthropist
• Dan Klein – Singer of The Frightnrs
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mao Zedong – Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party

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