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)
• Bo Diddley
• Lydia Echevarria
• Paul Eddington
• Mama Cass Elliot
• Dale Evans
• Jose Feliciano
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Mick Fleetwood
• Jerry Garcia
• Jackie Gleason
• Anna Short Harrington, who portrayed Aunt Jemima
• Waylon Jennings
• Gordon Jump Maytag Repairman on television commercials.
• Larry King Type II. Hosts a self-named talk show on CNN.
• Pedro Knight, musician, husband of Celia Cruz
• Patti LaBelle
• Peggy Lee
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Tommy Lee lead singer, Mötley Crüe
• Marcello Mastroianni
• Jerry Mathers Type II. Actor in Leave it to Beaver
• Bret Michaels (of rock group Poison)
• Mary Tyler Moore 750mg/dL and still walking around at diagnosis.
• 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
• Della Reese Type II. Actress. Known for role in CBS' Touched by an Angel
• Eduardo Rojas
• Willie Rushton
• Melvin Santiago Salsa singer
• 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
• AntonioMartin, wikipedian
• John Osborne, dramatist

Sports

• Arthur Ashe
• Mark Beiro, boxing ring announcer
• Joe Black
• 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)
• Sir Steve Redgrave
• 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
• Gilbert Ortega (1937-2003), jewerly tycoon, also a country singer