List of people with motor neuron disease
Appearance
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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
- 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]
- Kenneth Mitchell (born 1974), Canadian actor.[13]
- Augie Nieto (born 1958), American entrepreneur, founder of Life Fitness.[14]
- Tim Shaw (born 1984), American football player.[15]
- Michael Soles (born 1966), Canadian football player.[16]
- Eric Stevens (born 1989), American football player.[17]
- Tempt One, American graffiti artist.[18]
- Kyousei Tsukui (born 1961), Japanese voice actor.[19]
- Doddie Weir (born 1970), Scottish rugby union player.[20]
- Moamen Zakaria (born 1988), Egyptian footballer.[21]
Deceased
- Frank Alamo (1941-2012), French singer.[22]
- Bruce Allpress (1930-2019), New Zealand actor.[23]
- Pietro Anastasi (1948–2020), Italian footballer.[24]
- Hideyuki Ashihara (1944-1995), Japanese karate master.[25]
- Dale Baer (1950-2021), American animator.[26]
- Derek Bailey (1930-2005), English guitarist.[27]
- Giovanni Bertini (1951–2019), Italian footballer.[28]
- Stefano Borgonovo (1964–2013), Italian footballer[29]
- Scott Brazil (1955-2006), American television producer.[30]
- Ben Byer (1971–2008), American playwright, subject of the film Indestructible, documenting his life post-diagnosis.[31]
- Jeff Capel II (1953–2017), American basketball coach.[32]
- Paul Cellucci (1948-2013), American politician and diplomat.[33]
- Neil Cherry (1936-2003), New Zealand environmental scientist.[34]
- Marián Čišovský (1979-2020), Slovak footballer.[35]
- Dwight Clark (1957–2018), American football player.[36]
- Ronnie Corbett (1930-2016), Scottish comedian and actor.[37]
- Cyril Cusack (1910-1993), Irish actor.[38]
- Garth Dawley (1933-2020), Canadian journalist.[39]
- Dennis Day (1916-1988), American singer and actor.[40]
- Dieter Dengler (1938-2001), German-American aviator POW.[41]
- Papa Bouba Diop (1978-2020), Senegalese footballer.[42]
- Rickey Dixon (1966-2020), American football player.[43]
- Masayuki Dobashi (1935-2013), Japanese baseball player and manager.[44]
- Jenifer Estess (1963–2003), American theatre producer and activist, subject of HBO film Jennifer; founding member of Project ALS.[45]
- Hal Finney (1956-2014), American computer scientist.[46]
- Simon Fitzmaurice (1973-2017), Irish film director.[47]
- Lou Gehrig (1903–1941), American baseball player, after whom the disease in the USA is commonly referred.[48]
- Vic Gilliam (1953-2020), American politician.[49]
- Richard Glatzer (1952-2015), American film director and screenwriter.[50]
- Nina Griscom (1954-2020), American model and television host.[51]
- David Hagen (1973-2020), Scottish footballer.[52]
- Darryl Hammond (1967-2017), American football player.[53]
- Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), English theoretical physicist.[54]
- Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), American animator, creator of SpongeBob SquarePants.[55]
- Catfish Hunter (1946–1999), American baseball player.[56]
- Jacob Javits (1904-1986), American politician.[57]
- Derrick Jensen (1956–2017), American football player.[58]
- Hans Keller (1919-1985), Austrian-born British musician and writer.[59]
- Suna Kıraç (1941-2020), Turkish-American businesswoman.[60]
- Hannu Lahtinen (1960-2020), Finnish wrestler.[61]
- John Land (1938-2021), British field hockey player.[62]
- Lead Belly (1888-1949), American singer.[63]
- Stefan Lindqvist (1967-2020), Swedish footballer.[64]
- Tony Liscio (1940-2017), American football player.[65]
- Rebecca Luker (1961-2020), American actress and singer.[66]
- Pave Maijanen (1950-2021), Finnish musician.[67]
- Mickey Marvin (1955-2017), American football player.[68]
- Scott Matzka (1978-2018), American ice hockey player.[69]
- Charles Mingus (1922-1979), American jazz composer and bandleader.[70]
- Kyle Morrell (1963-2020), American football player.[71]
- David Niven (1910-1983), British actor.[72]
- Polly Platt (1939-2011), American production designer and film producer.[73]
- Mike Porcaro (1955-2015), American musician, bassist of Toto.[74][75]
- Sergei Eduardovich Prikhodko (1957-2021), Russian diplomat and government official, former deputy prime minister (2013-2018).[76]
- Christopher Pitchford (1947-2017), British judge.[77]
- Patrick Quinn (1983-2020), American co-founder of the Ice Bucket Challenge[78]
- Fernando Ricksen (1976-2019), Dutch footballer.[79]
- Tommy Robson (1944-2020), English footballer.[80]
- Chizu Saeki (1943-2020), Japanese cosmetologist.[81]
- Morrie Schwartz (1916-1995), American sociology professor, subject of Tuesdays with Morrie.[82]
- Kim Shattuck (1963–2019), American singer and songwriter (The Muffs).[83]
- Luton Shelton (born 1985), Jamaican footballer.[84]
- Sam Shepard (1943–2017), American actor and playwright.[85]
- Gianluca Signorini (1960–2002), Italian footballer.[86]
- Lane Smith (1936-2005), American actor.[87]
- Ezra Swerdlow (1953-2018), American film producer.[88]
- Stacy Title (1964-2021), American director, screenwriter and producer.[89]
- Francis Tsai (1967-2015), American comic book artist.[90]
- Dmitri Vasilenko (1975–2019), Russian gymnast.[91]
- Joost van der Westhuizen (1971–2017), South African rugby union player.[92]
- Baron Wolman (1937-2020), American photographer.[93]
- George Yardley (1928-2004), American basketball player.[94]
- Marius Žaliūkas (1983-2020) Lithuanian football player who played for Heart of Midlothian.[95]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese statesman.[96]
See also
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