Famous Asthmatics
The following celebrities all have or had asthma:
Politicians
Presidents of the USA
Martin Van Buren - 8th president of the USA
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th president of the USA
Woodrow Wilson - 28th president of the USA
Calvin Coolidge - 30th president of the USA
John F. Kennedy - 35th president of the USA
Walter F. Mondale - 42nd vice president of the USA
Bill Clinton - 42nd president of the USA
Other political figures
Peter the Great (1672–1725) - Russian tsar
Seneca - Roman philosopher and politician
Ernesto (Che) Guevara - Argentinian freedom fighter
Jesse Jackson - American politician and civil rights activist
William III of England (1650–1702) - Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
Benjamin Disraeli - British prime minister from the 19th century
John Locke - English philosopher and politician from the 17th century
Daniel Webster (18th century) - 3-fold American minister of foreign affairs
Jym Ryun - American politician, won a Silver medal at the Olympic games and held the world record on the 1500m
John Paul Jones - hero of the American revolution
William T. Sherman - hero of the American civil war
Sports
Water Sports
Mark Spitz - won a record of 7 gold medals at the 1972 Olympics
Amy Van Dyken - 6 x Olympic gold - eerste vrouw die 4 golden medals won op 1 Olympiade - swimming
Debbie Meyer - 3 x Olympic gold - swimming
Tom Dolan - 2 x Olympic gold - swimming
Kurt Grote - Olympic gold - swimming
Tom Malchow - Olympic gold - swimming
Adrian Moorhouse - Olympic gold - swimming
Sandra Völker - German swimming champion
Nancy Hogshead - 3 x Olympic gold - swimming
Greg Louganis - 4 x Olympic gold - diving
Alison Streeter - crossed the channel 43 times, a record
Susie Maroney - long distance swimmer
Sam Riley - Olympic swimmer
Matthew Dunn - Olympic swimmer
Theresa Zabell - Olympic sailing athlete
Every player on the US Olympic water polo team on the 1988 Olympics, suffered from exercise induces asthma!
Athletics
Jackie Joyner-Kersee - 3 x Olympic gold - heptathlon and long jump
Donovan Bailey - 2 x Olympic champion 100m
Paula Radcliffe - world record holder marathon
José Luis González - world record holder 1500m indoor
Rob Muzzio - pentathlon
Alberto Salazar - marathon
Sharon Donnelly - triathlon
Karin Smith - javelin
George Murray - wheelchair marathon champion
Cycling
Miguel Indurain - 5 x Tour de France winner and Olympic champion
Jan Ullrich - Tour de France winner
Alex Zülle - 2 x Vuelta winner
Wintersporten
Bill Koch - 2 x Olympic medal skiing
Gary Roberts - professionnal hockey player
Kristi Yamaguchi - Olympic gold figure skating
Anni Friesinger - Olympic scating champion and worl record holder
Bonnie Warner - luge
Other Sports
Justine Henin - Tennis
Dennis Rodman - Basketball
Isaiah Thomas - Basketball
Dominique Wilkins - Basketball
Bruce Davidson - 2x Olympic champion horse back riding
Ian Botham - legendary cricket player from the 80's
Jerome Bettis - American Football legend
Art Monk - American Football
Paul Scholes - Football player with Manchester United and English national team
Louis Saha - Football player with Manchester United and French national team
Gethin Jenkins - Welsh rugby player
Actors
Morgan Fairchild - actress
Bob Hope - comedian and actor
Liza Minnelli - actress and singer
Christopher Reeve - Superman!
Martin Scorsese - director of classic screenplays like Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino
Paul Sorvino - actor, often cast as mafiosi
Sharon Stone - actress from Basic Instinct
Elizabeth Taylor - actress from Cleopatra
Orson Welles - actor and director of Citizen Kane
Diane Keaton - actress from Godfather films
Helen Hayes - 2x oscar winner
Charlotte Coleman - British actress, known from her part as Scarlet in Four Weddings and a Funeral, died at the age of 33 from an asthma attack
Sarah Michelle Geller - Buffy, the vampire slayer
Steve Allen - comedian and TV personality
Jason Alexander - actor from Seinfield
Ricki Lake - actress and talk show host
Loni Anderson - actress and Burt Reynolds' ex-wife
Martin Freeman - Arthur Dent from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Tim from The Office
Nikki Sanderson - Candice Stowe from Coronation Street
Moses Gunn - Bumpy Jonas from the original Shaft movie
Literature
Marcel Proust - 19th century writer and filosopher
Charles Dickens - writer from Oliver Twist
Joseph Pulitzer - publisher, the Pullitzer price was named after him
Dylan Thomas - Welsh poet
John Updike - American writer
Oliver Wendell Holmes - physician and poet
Composers
Ludwig van Beethoven - deaf composer - wrote 9 symphonies
Leonard Bernstein - Jewish-American composer, conductor and pianist.
Antonio Vivaldi - Italian composer from De Vier Seizoenen
Kenny G - Saxophone player
Singers
Alice Cooper - hard rocker
DMX - rapper
Jonathon Davis - singer from nu-metal band Korn
Billy Joel - Rocker
Judy Collins - American Folk singer
Apex Twin - Techno DJ
Science
Beruj Benacerraf - Nobel Price winner Medicine
Elias James Corey - Nobel Price winner Chemistry
Jan Baptista van Helmont - Belgian pioneer in medicine and chemistry - studies his own asthma (16th - 17th century)
Pliny the Elder - Roman scientist and writer