Notable people with ALS
 

Notable people with ALS

Raymond Abrashkin - author
Zeca Afonso - Portuguese Folk Singer and Anti-Fascist Politician
Jason Becker - guitarist
Rob Borsellino - Des Moines Register columnist and author, "So I'm Talkin' to This Guy..."
Scott Brazil - American television producer and director
Harry Browne - best-selling author and 2-time Libertarian U.S. Presidential candidate
Ezzard Charles - boxer; former world heavyweight champion
Sid Collins - radio personality; radio voice of the Indianapolis 500
Michael Donnelly - Gulf War veteran
John Drury - longtime ABC7 Chicago news anchor
Bruce Edwards - PGA Tour caddy for golfer Tom Watson
Jenifer Estes - producer
Lou Gehrig - baseball player
Marc Harrison - designer
Pro Hart - Australian painter
Stephen Hawking - Theoretical physicist
Jim "Catfish" Hunter - baseball player
Jacob K. Javits, US Senator from New York State
Jeff Julian - PGA golfer
Leadbelly - blues singer and guitarist
Eric Lowen - American singer/songwriter, half of duo Lowen and Navarro
Charles McPhee - Host of the Dream Doctor Radio Show
Charles Mingus - jazz bass player
David Niven - actor
Richard K. Olney - neurologist; ALS physician and researcher
Sidney Preston Osborn - former governor of Arizona
Neon Park, American artist
Diane Pretty, British "right to die" advocate
Sue Rodriguez - Canadian right to die with dignity advocate
Franz Rosenzweig - philosopher and religious thinker
Stanley Sadie - British musicologist, music critic and editor of the 'New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'
Milton Safenowitz - philanthropist
Morrie Schwartz - educator
Lane Smith - actor
Konrad Spindler - archaeologist, involved in the analysis of the Ötzi glacier mummy
Maxwell D. Taylor - former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Viola Tunnard - pianist
Roy Walford - gerontologist and life extensionist
Charlie Wedemeyer - former athlete and coach; motivational speaker
Michael Zaslow - soap actor
Kasra Barkeshly - Professor and Vice President for Student Affairs - Sharif University of Technology

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