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Famous People with Asthma
Many famous people with
asthma have proven themselves in the areas of sports,
entertainment, literature and politics. They didn't let asthma
stop them from becoming the best that they could be, and neither
should you!
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
- 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
- Dennis Rodman -
professional basketball player
- Jim Ryun, Olympic
medalist - track
- Alberto Salazar -
marathon runner
- Isaiah Thomas -
professional basketball player
- Amy VanDyken, Olympic
medalist - swimming
- Dominique Wilkins -
professional basketball player
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
- 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
- Antonio Vivaldi -
composer, conductor
- Orson Welles - actor,
director
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
Politics
- Calvin Coolidge - 30th
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.
- Daniel Webster - lawyer,
statesman
- Woodrow Wilson - 28th
President of the U.S.
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