List of celebrities with diabetes

This is a list of celebrities who suffered or who suffer from diabetes.

(Note to all Wikipedians: Please include anyone you know that suffers diabetes, regardless of whether they suffer type 1 or type 2 Diabetes).

Table of contents 1 Entertainment 2 Literature 3 Sports 4 Politics and Royalty 5 Religion 6 Fashion and Arts

Entertainment

• Lavern Baker[?] Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member
• Jack Benny
• Halle Berry
• B.B. King
• Wilford Brimley[?]
• Delta Burke[?]
• James Cagney
• Johnny Cash
• Phoebe Cates
• Carol Channing
• Miles Davis
• Evelyn Del Rio[?] (famous Hollywood actress, from Puerto Rico)
• Lydia Echevarria
• Paul Eddington[?]
• Mama Cass Elliot[?]
• Dale Evans[?]
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Mick Fleetwood
• Jerry Garcia
• Jackie Gleason
• Anna Short Harrington[?], who portrayed Aunt Jemima[?]
• Waylon Jennings
• Gordon Jump[?] Maytag Repairman on television commercials.
• Patti LaBelle
• Peggy Lee
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Tommy Lee lead singer, Mötley Crüe
• Marcello Mastroianni
• Bret Michaels[?] (of rock group Poison)
• Mary Tyler Moore
• Milton Nascimento[?]
• Simon Nkabinde[?]
• Edward Patten[?] (a member of Gladys Knight and The Pips. Knight's family has several diabetic members. Patten is her cousin)
• John Peel (the radio presenter)
• Kukrit Pramoj[?] Actor and former Prime Minister of Thailand
• Elvis Presley
• Giacomo Puccini
• Eva Puig[?]
• Pump Girls teen music group, all members have diabetes
• Johnnie Ray[?]
• Eduardo Rojas[?]
• Willie Rushton
• Anthony Santos[?] Portuguese singing star
• George C. Scott
• Jean Smart[?]
• Katie Smith[?] (sang God Bless America)
• Fernando Soto[?]
• Sharon Stone
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Tiny Tim
• Spencer Tracy
• Bobby Valentin[?], Puerto Rican Salsa music singer
• Luther Vandross
• Mae West
• Vanessa Williams
• Jane Wyman
• Neil Young

Literature

• Terry Carr[?], science fiction author and editor
• John Osborne, dramatist

Sports

• Arthur Ashe[?]
• Primo Carnera, world boxing champion
• Bobby Clarke[?]
• Ty Cobb
• James Buster Douglas[?]
• Chris Dudley[?], basketball player, New York Knicks
• Ned Edwards[?] (Squash champion)
• Joe Frazier

• Bill Gullickson[?]
• Gary Hall Jr.[?]
• Dave Hollins[?]
• Rolando Hourrutuiner[?]. basketball player on the BSN
• Jim Catfish Hunter[?]
• Billie Jean King
• Gorilla Monsoon[?] (Wrestling champion)
• Jackie Robinson
• Sugar Ray Robinson
• Ron Santo[?]
• Art Shell[?]
• Bill Talbert[?]
• Jersey Joe Walcott
• Per Zetterberg[?]

Politics and Royalty

• Yuri Andropov
• Hafiz al-Assad[?]
• Menachem Begin
• Chiang Chifu[?]
• Bettino Craxi[?]
• King Fahd
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Nikita Krushchev
• Fiorello LaGuardia
• Ludwig XIV[?]
• Winnie Mandela
• Gamal Abdel-Nasser
• Augusto Pinochet
• Anwar Sadat
• Norodam Sihanouk[?]
• Cevat Soysal[?]

Religion

Fashion and Arts

• Paul Cezanne
• Walt Kelly