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List of famous tuberculosis victims
This is a list of famous people and celebrities who had, or are believed to have had,
tuberculosis
.
Table of contents
1 Writers and poets:
2 Artists:
3 Composers:
4 Religious figures:
5 Leaders:
6 Others:
7 Fictional characters:
Writers and poets:
Jane Austen
Honoré de Balzac
Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Charles Farrar Browne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Burns
Albert Camus
Anton Chekov
Tristan Corbière
Stephen Crane
René Daumal
Jean de Brunhoff[?]
Guy de Maupassant
Fyodor Dostoevski
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dashiell Hammett
Robert Heinlein
†
Miguel Hernández
Washington Irving
Alfred Jarry
Samuel Johnson
Franz Kafka
John Keats
Charles Kingsley
Sidney Lanier
D. H. Lawrence
Thomas Mann
Katherine Mansfield
Somerset Maugham
George Orwell
Walker Percy
Edgar Allen Poe
Alexander Pope
Llewelyn Powys
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
John Reed
Edmond Rostand
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
John Ruskin
Albert Samain
Friedrich Schiller
Sir
Walter Scott
Percy Bysshe Shelley
†
Tobias Smollett
Laurence Sterne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alan Sillitoe
§
Dylan Thomas
Francis Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Voltaire
†
Thomas Wolfe
Artists:
Frédéric Bartholdi
Marie Bashkirtseff
Aubrey Beardsley
Harry Clarke
Paul Gauguin
Amedeo Modigliani
Elizabeth Siddal
†
Composers:
Frédéric Chopin
Stephen Foster
Niccolo Paganini
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Henry Purcell
Religious figures:
John Calvin
Cardinal Richelieu
St
Thérèse de Lisieux[?]
St
Bernadette Soubirous
Desmond Tutu
§
Leaders:
Simon Bolivar
Edward VI of England
Sir
Wilfrid Laurier
Louis XVII of France
Nelson Mandela
§
Napoleon II of France
Manuel L. Quezon
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Young
Others:
Renée Adorée
Beulah Annan
Frédéric Bastiat
Alexander Graham Bell
Sarah Bernhardt
Louis Braille
James Burke
Anders Celsius
Arline Feynman[?]
(first wife of physicist
Richard Feynman
)
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
Brenda Fricker[?]
§
Abel Gance[?]
Emmett Hardy
Richard Harris
†
Immanuel Kant
Freddie Keppard
Vivien Leigh
Christy Mathewson
Dmitri Mendeleev
†
Barry Morse[?]
†
Anne Neville
(queen consort of Richard III) (probably)
Florence Nightingale
Mabel Normand[?]
Etti Plesch
†
Herman Potočnik
Gavrilo Princip
Jimmie Rodgers
Erwin Schrödinger
Adrianus Turnebus
Georges Vezina[?]
Lev Vygotsky
Rube Waddell[?]
Link Wray
§
Eugene Wigner
†
§
still living
†
died of something unrelated to tuberculosis
Fictional characters:
Little Nell[?]
from
The Old Curiosity Shop[?]
(
Charles Dickens
)
Mimi[?]
from
La Bohème
(
Giacomo Puccini
et. al.
)
See also:
Emily Bissell
,
Robert Koch
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