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Famous People with Asthma

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
Miguel Indurain - Tour de France winner (5 times) and Olympic champion
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
Paula Radcliffe - world record holder marathon
Dennis Rodman - professional basketball player
Jim Ryun - Olympic medalist, track
Alberto Salazar - marathon runner
Mark Spitz - Olympics medalist, swimming
Alison Streeter - crossed the English channel a record 43 times
Isaiah Thomas - professional basketball player
Jan Ullrich - Tour de France winner
Amy VanDyken - Olympic medalist, swimming
Dominique Wilkins - professional basketball player
Kristi Yamaguchi - Olympic medalist, figure skating

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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
DMX - rapper
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
Apex Twin - techno DJ
Antonio Vivaldi - composer, conductor
Orson Welles - actor, director

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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

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Politics

Calvin Coolidge - 30th President of the U.S.
Bill Clinton - 42nd 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.
Seneca - Roman philosopher and politician
William T. Sherman - hero of the American civil war
Daniel Webster - lawyer, statesman
William III of England (1650-1702) - Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
Woodrow Wilson - 28th President of the U.S.

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Science

Baruj Benacerraf - Nobel Prize Winner in medicine
E.J. Corey - Nobel Prize Winner in chemistry
Beruj Benacerraf - Immunologist, Nobel Prize winner
Jan Baptista van Helmont - Belgian pioneer in medicine and chemistry

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This asthma information section was written by Peter Crosta and may not be re-produced in any way without the permission of Medical News Today.

Sources of information:

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
• MedlinePlus
• National Asthma Council Australia
• Environmental Protection Agency

Disclaimer: This guide is provided for general information purposes only. The materials contained within this guide do not constitute medical or pharmaceutical advice, which should be sought from qualified medical and pharmaceutical advisers. Full disclaimer.

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