 Celebrities With Diabetes
I just found this list of celebrities with diabetes. Please update the list if you know of any that I missed. Thanks.
Acting
Jack Benny - ’50s television host
Halle Berry - actress who recently appeared in “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”
Wilford Brimley - of television and films - “Cocoon” and “The Firm”
Delta Burke - of television’s “Designing Women”
James Cagney - producer - director and actor
Nell Carter - of the television show “Gimme a Break”
Dale Evans - actress - singer and wife of Roy Rogers
Stephen Furst - actor on the television shows “St. Elsewhere” and “Babylon 5”
Jackie Gleason - funny star of “The Honeymooners”
Gordon Jump - actor on “WKRP in Cincinnati”
Mabel King - actress who played Mama on “What’s Happening”
Marcello Mastroianni - actor who appeared in 142 films
Jerry Mathers - actor of “Leave It To Beaver” fame
Mary Tyler Moore - actress and star of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”
Richard Mulligan - actor on the television show “Empty Nest”
Minnie Pearl - entertainer - actress on the variety show “Hee Haw”
Ehster Rolle - actress on the TV Show “Good Times”
George C. Scott - Academy Award -winning actor
Jean Smart - actress on “Designing Women”
Kate Smith - singer - actress who sang “God Bless America”
Spencer Tracy - famous leading man of Hollywood movies
Mae West - actress
Jane Wyman - actress on “Falcon Crest”
Politics
Yuri Andropov - former premier of Soviet Union
Menachem Begin - Israeli prime minister
Lucille B. Chapman - a five -time Menominee Indian tribal chairwoman
James Farmer - civil rights pioneer
Mikhail Gorbachev - former Soviet premier
Janet Jagan - president of Guyana
Fiorello LaGuardia - New York mayor and the airport’s namesake
Winnie Mandela - South African anti -apartheid leader
Anwar Sadat - Egyptian leader
Business
James Conkling - founder of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Bill and John Davidson - heads of Harley Davidson motorcycles
Tom Foster - former head of Foster Poultry Farms
W.L. Gherra - of Payless Drugs
Howard Hughes - industrialist
Ray Kroc - founder of McDonald’s fast food restaurants
Music
Elliott Yamin - American Idol
Nat Adderley - jazz trumpeter
Ray Anderson - jazz trombonist
Hoyt Axton - folksy baritone - songwriter and actor
Syd Barrett - of the rock group Pink Floyd
Johnny Cash - legendary country singer - known as “the man in black”
Carol Channing - Tony Award -winning singer/actress in “Hello Dolly”
Mark Collie - contemporary country star
David Crosby - member of The Byrds and Crosby - Stills - Nash & Young
Miles Davis - legendary jazz great
Freddy Fender - actor and country singer
Ella Fitzgerald - jazz vocalist
Mick Fleetwood - singer in rock band Fleetwood Mac
Jerry Garcia - lead singer of The Grateful Dead
Dizzy Gillespie - jazz trumpeter
Mahalia Jackson - singer
Waylon Jennings - country singer
B.B. King - rhythm and blues star
Patti LaBelle - pop singer
Peggy Lee - ’50s songster
Tommy Lee - of heavy metal band Motley Crue
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Broadway composer
Meat Loaf - singer
Bret Michaels - lead singer of the rock group Poison
The Pump Girls
Science
Morris Braunstein - scientist
Thomas Edison - inventor
Albert Ellis - psychologist - rational emotive therapy
Cynthia Ice - developer of Lotus software
George Minot - first person with diabetes to receive Nobel Prize in medicine
Lois Jovanovic -Peterson - scientist - endocrinologist - author of “Diabetic Women”
Sports
Joe Gibbs - Washington Redskins NFL Head Coach
Adam Morrison - Charlotte Bobcats NBA Player
Arthur Ashe - tennis legend
Walter Barnes - former Philadelphia Eagle turned actor
Ayden Byle - runner
Bobby Clarke - hockey player for the Philadelphia Flyers
Ty Cobb - baseball player for the Detroit Tigers
Scott Coleman - first man with diabetes to swim the English Channel
Buster Douglas - boxer
Kenny Duckett - football player for the New Orleans Saints
Chris Dudley - New York Knicks basketball player
Del Ennis - baseball player
Curt Frasier - hockey player for the Chicago Black Hawks
Bill Gullickson - pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds
Gary Hall - Olympic gold medalist in swimming
Jonathon Hayes - tight end for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs
Catfish Hunter - pitcher for the Oakland A’s and the New York Yankees
Jason Johnson - pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles
Billie Jean King - tennis player
Ed Kranepool - baseball player with the New York Mets
Kelli Kuehne - LPGA golfer who wears a pump on the golf course
Jay Leeuwenburg - offensive tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals
Calvin Muhammed - football player for the Washington Redskins
Jackie Robinson - baseball star who broke the color barrier in the Major Leagues
Sugar Ray Robinson - boxer
Ron Santo - third basemen for the Chicago Cubs
Art Shell - NFL player and coach
Michael Sinclair - defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks
Bill Talbert - hall of fame tennis player
Jersey Joe Walcott - boxer
Wade Wilson - NFL quarterback
Media
Larry King - CNN Talk Show Host
Richard Bartlett - film
June Bierman - author of books on diabetes
Fran Carpentier - editor of Parade magazine
Sylvia Chase - ABC News Reporter
Ernest Hemingway - 20th century novelist
Walt Kelly - animator and Disney founder
Mario Puzo - author of “The Godfather”
Anne Rice - “Interview With a Vampire” author
H.G. Wells - writer - “The Invisible Man” | 
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