Famous people with diabetes?? How many can we name??
I'll get us started:
Elliot Yamin (American Idol)
Elizabeth Perkins (Actress in Weeds)
7 months ago
Halle Berry
that one lady whose name I can't remember... and a TON of others! :)
7 months ago
Bret Michaels (Guns and Roses). Aretha Franklin (I think)
7 months ago
wilford Brimley from cocoon. And those diabetes commercials
7 months ago
Mary Tyler Moore
7 months ago
thanks Joshua, that's who I was trying to remember!
7 months ago
Nick Jonas. I got this one from my daughters!
7 months ago
oops! That's Bret Michaele from the group Poison. and ya, I was trying to think of M.T. Moore also. BB King too.
7 months ago
Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd
I heard Elvis was, but haven't read anything saying this is substatiated.
Johnny Cash -- Country singer
Jerry Garcia from Grateful Dead
Ella Fitzgerald -- Jazz singer
7 months ago
He is not famous yet,but hopefully he will get a chance to play in the NBA. He is was the best basketball player on the UMass basketbll team and was a senior this year and his name is Gary Forbes.
7 months ago
Gorbachev and Hemingway
7 months ago
james cagney, jackie gleason, buster douglas
7 months ago
Tommy Lee, Patti LaBelle, Anne Rice, Thomas Edison, and one of the Miss America's
7 months ago
I just found out today that Randy Jackson from American Idol is Type 2.
7 months ago
Waylon Jennings. B.B. King
7 months ago
May West and Tiny Tim were diabetic and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Liz Taylor and Dick Clark are.
7 months ago
Halle Barry, Jacky Robinson, Ralph Bunche noble prize winner, James Cagney, Catfish Hunter (baseball), George Lucus Star wars, Luther Vandoss, Neal Young
6 months ago
I heard that when Mary Tyler Moore was first diagnosed, she couldnt bring herself to give herself a shot and she would go to the drs office two times a day to get her injections!
6 months ago
Adam Morrison - Charlotte Bobcats NBA player
Ghostface Killah - Rapper from Wu Tang Clan
6 months ago
I just read that H. G. Wells was.... he worked with R. D. Lawrence (also diabetic) to found the British Diabetic Association (now known as Diabetes UK)
From a new website: Jack Benny - Comedian, Nell Carter - Actress, Gorbachev, Meatloaf--musician, Jerry Mather - Actor, Carroll O'Conner - Actor, Minnie Pearl - comedian, Elizabeth Taylor - Actress, Andrew Lloyd Webber - Composer
6 months ago
sam talbot from top chef, jay hewitt- trialthete, jay cutler- denver broncos QB, bobby clarke- nhl hockey player/ GM of the philedalpia flyers, gary hall jr. olympic swimmer,
5 months ago
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