Actors/Directors

• 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”

Political Leaders

• 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 Leaders

• 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

Musicians

• 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

Scientists

• 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

• 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

Writers/Reporters

• 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”

Chart courtesy of Angela and Rose Goode (www.angelarose.com/FamousDiabetics)
Updated from June 1999