Celebrities and famous people with kidney disease
This CKDEx’s list of famous people with kidney disease. Each has an article written about them.
- Andy Cole
- Halle Berry
- Darren Daniel (our very own Tik Tok kidney warrior)
- Serena Gomez
- Sarah Hyland
- Lyndon B Johnson
- Jonah Lomu
- Pele
- Tina Turner.
Serena Gomez
Other famous people who had/have kidney disease
- Alexander III, Emperor of Russia
- Idi Amin, President of Uganda
- Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- Chester Arthur, President of the United States, had Bright’s Disease
- Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer
- Charles Babbage, English mathematician
- John Barrymore, actor
- Sarah Bernhardt, actress
- Eric Carle, childrens’ writer
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright
- James Callaghan, Prime Minister of UK
- Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild West show entertainer
- Julia Child, chef and writer
- Marlene Dietrich, actress
- Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentinian racing driver
- Bobby Fischer, chess master
- Matthew Flinders, explorer, navigator and cartographer
- Greta Garbo, actress
- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and social reformer
- Larry Hagman, actor
- Jean Harlow, actress
- Howard Hughes, Hollywood filmmaker, inventor, aviator, real estate mogul and philanthropist
- Alfred Hitchcock, director
- Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese military and political leader
- Anna Kendrick, actress, has kidney stones
- Veronica Lake, actress
- David Lange, Prime Minister of New Zealand
- Nikki Lauda, Austrian racing driver, had a kidney transplant
- CS Lewis, writer
- Douglas MacArthur, military leader
- Kevin McDonald, ex-Fulham, Bradford City and Scotland footballer, has received a kidney transplant from his brother
- Norman Mailer, author
- Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines, received kidney transplants
- Aries Merritt, 110m Olympic hurdles champion who won gold at London 2012, has had a kidney transplant
- Spike Milligan, comedy actor and writer
- Alonzo Mourning, ex-NBA basketball player, has had a kidney transplant
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, died 1791 most likely from kidney failure
- Ogden Nash, poet and writer
- Laurence Olivier, actor
- Oscar Peterson, jazz musician
- Karl Popper, philosopher
- Cole Porter, composer
- James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King Jr
- Don Rickles, comedian
- Nate Robinson, ex-NBA basketball player, is on dialysis
- Neil Simon, playwright, has PKD, and received a kidney transplant
- Frank Sinatra, singer
- Jim Steinman, singer and song writer
- Madam CJ Walker, cosmetic maker
- Barry White, singer.
Other resource
Famous people with kidney failure
Celebrities and famous people with kidney stones
Last Reviewed on 27 May 2024