This is a list of famous people who are known to have or to have had the virus known as HIV, including those who have died (whether from AIDS or another cause).
Athletes Arthur Ashe , (1943 -1993 ), tennis player and social activist; infected via transfusion during heart surgery Esteban De Jesus , (1951 -1990 ), world champion boxerMagic Johnson , probably most famous for his public announcement in 1991 that he had been infected with the virus HIV and would retire from basketballGreg Louganis , diver; knew he was HIV-positive since 1988, announced it in 1995Tommy Morrison world champion boxer, tests in 1996 revealed he was HIV-positive, automatically retiring him from boxing as a competitor; underwent a technique known as "sperm washing ", designed to allow HIV-positive people to have HIV-negative childrenRubén Palacios world champion boxer
Entertainers Peter Allen , (1944 -1992 ), screen and stage entertainerNéstor Almendros (1930 -1992 ), cinematographer Emile Ardolino (1943 -1993 ), filmmaker (Sister Act Dirty Dancing Howard Ashman (1950 -1991 ), film songwriterRick Aviles (1952 -1995 ), American actorAndy Bell, lead singer of the pop group Erasure Michael Bennett , (1943 -1987 ), choreographer John Bindon , (1943 -1993 ), British ActorAmanda Blake , (1929 -1989 ), played Kitty Russell (saloon owner, Miss Kitty) (Gunsmoke Sandra Brea, (d. 2000 ), Brazilian television actress Joseph Breen , soap opera star (As the World Turns Jim J. Bullock, television actor (Too Close for Comfort ) Geoffrey Burridge, (1949 -1987 ), British Actor Carlos Busquets, Puerto Rican astrologer Merritt Butrick , (1959 -1989 ), actorIan Charleson (1950 -1990 ), British actor and star of the film (Chariots of Fire Cyril Collard, (1957 -1993 ), French writer/actor/director of Les Nuits fauves (Savage Nights) Robbin Crosby , (1960 -2002 ), guitarist for rock band Ratt ; HIV-infected by a tainted needle while addicted to heroin; died of AIDS-related causesBrad Davis, (1949 -1991 ), American actor (Midnight Express Bobby Debarge, (1945 -1995 ), American singer Patrick Esposito Di Napoli (d. 1994 ), Canadian musician (Les Colocs )Kiki Djan (1957 -2004 ), Ghanian singerEazy-E , (1963 -1995 ), rapper, member of NWA Denholm Elliott , (1922 -1992 ), distinguished British actorKenny Everett , (1944 -1995 ), British actor and disc jockeyWayland Flowers, (1939 -1988 ), entertainer, puppeteer (Wayland Flowers and Madame, Madame's Place Richard Frank, (1953 -1995 ), American actor (Anything But Love ) Leonard Frey , (1938 -1988 ), Acted in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway and in the movieThomas Fuccello, (1936 -1993 ), American actor Christopher Gillis , (1951 -1993 ), dancer and choreographer, Paul Taylor Dance Company Kevin Peter Hall (1955 -1991 ), played the title role in Predator opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger Anthony Hamilton, (1952 -1995 ), actor also known as Tony Hamilton Dan Hartman , (1950 -1994 ), American, singer, songwriter and record producerOfra Haza , (1957 -2000 ), Israeli pop singerJohn Hargreaves, (1945 -1996 ), Australian actor René Highway (1954 -1990 ), Canadian Cree actor and dancer Rock Hudson , (1925 -1985 ), Hollywood star, first major American celebrity whose AIDS diagnosis became public knowledgeRichard Hunt, (1951 -1992 ), supplied voices for the Muppets (Beaker, Scooter, Statler) Paul Jabara, (1948 -1992 , American Actor (Hair) and songwriter of Donna Summer 's Last Dance Derek Jarman , (1942 -1994 ), film director, made the film Blue while blind (as a result of AIDS related causes)Holly Johnson , lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood Michael Jeter (1952 -2003 )Larry Kert , (1930 -1991 ), Broadway performer (West Side Story )Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 -1996 ), passed away due to an open-heart surgery and complications with AIDSFela Kuti (1938 -1997 ), Nigerian musician and political activist, died from AIDS-related heart failureLiberace , (1919 -1987 ), pianist Lar Lubovitch , (1943 -)), choreographer, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Freddie Mercury (1946 -1991 ), singer and musician; died from bronchial pneumonia (his death from AIDS-related causes led to The Mercury Phoenix Trust anti-AIDS charity and the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness )Andy Milligan, (1929 -1991 ), director of exploitation movies Jacques Morali , (1947 -1991 ), disco composer and co-creator of the Village People Timothy Patrick Murphy, (1959 -1988 ), American actor (Dallas ) Klaus Nomi , (1944 -1983 ), singer, died of AIDS-related illness in 1983, one of the first celebrities to die of this diseaseRudolf Nureyev (1938 -1993 )Chuck Panozzo, rock guitarist (Styx) Anthony Perkins (1932 -1992 ), pneumonia, brought on by AIDSDack Rambo , (1941 -1994 ), American actorGene Anthony Ray (1962 -2003 ), complications of a strokeRobert Reed , (1932 -1992 ) actor on The Brady Bunch Tony Richardson , (1928 -1991 ), British actorArthur Russell, (1951 -1992 ), musician Franklyn Seales, (1952 -1990 ), American actor (Silver Spoons ) Tommy Sexton (1955 -1993 ), Canadian television comedianRay Sharkey, (1952 -1993 ), American actor Hugo Soto (1954 -1994 ), Argentine actor Jermaine Stewart, (1957 -1997 ), American singer, liver cancer caused by AIDS. Michael Sundin , (1961 -1989 ), British children's television presenter and actor, died from AIDS-related complicationsSylvester , (1944 -1988 ), disco artist and drag performerRon Vawter (1949 -1994 ), actor; died from a heart attack
Politicians
Pornographic films performers
Writers and artists Reinaldo Arenas (1943 -1990 ), novelistIsaac Asimov , (1920 -1992 ), science fiction writer; infected by transfused blood during heart surgeryRon Athey , performance artist Mike Davis (d. 1986 )Michel Foucault , (1926 -1984 ), philosopher Keith Haring , (1958 -1990 ), artist Gibson Kente , (1932 -2004 ), playwright Larry Kramer , novelist and playwrightMichael McDowell (1950 -1999 ), screenwriter and novelist James Merrill , (1926 -1995 ), poet Dennis Schuetz (d. 1989 ), novelist Andrew Sullivan , conservative journalist
Others Rebekka Armstrong , HIV educator and former Playboy PlaymateKimberly Bergalis (1968 -1991 ), first known doctor-to-patient transmissionDave Brindle , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalistDavid Brudnoy , (1940 -2004 ), Boston radio talk show host, merkel-cell carcinoma unrelated to AIDSGia , (1960 -1986 ), model , died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1986, at the age of 26Tina Chow , (1951 -1992 ), restauranteur and modelRoy Cohn , (1927 -1986 ), lawyer Joey DiPaolo , who contracted AIDS by a blood transfusion at the age of four, activist.Gaëtan Dugas , famous as the subject of an early epidemiological study into HIV/AIDSEve van Grafhorst Halston , (1932 -1990 ), American fashion designer Sighsten Herrgĺrd, Swedish fashion designer Nkosi Johnson , AIDS advocateLance Loud , (1951 -2001 ), part of the reality TV show, PBS' An American Family Suzi Lovegrove Troy Lovegrove Makgatho Mandela , son of Nelson Mandela Robert Mapplethorpe , (1946 -1989 ), photographer Margrethe (Grethe) Rask , (1930 -1977 ), Danish physician and surgeon, first non-African known to have died from AIDS.Stephanie Ray , AIDS advocateTim Richmond , (1955 -1989 ), NASCAR driverMitch Rosario , (1972 -2003 ), hairdresser to celebrities such as Ricky Martin and Paulina Rubio Max Robinson , (1939 -1988 ), American Broadcasting Corporation journalistSteve Rubell, owner of Studio 54 disco in the 1970s Willi Smith, (1948-1987 ), American fashion designer Ryan White , (1971 -1990 ), heterosexual hemophiliac teenager who died at a time when it was considered a gay diseasePedro Zamora , (1972 -1994 ), AIDS activist, was on The Real World
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