List of HIV-positive people
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 boxer
Magic Johnson , probably most famous for his public announcement in 1991 that he had been infected with the virus HIV and would retire from basketball
Greg Louganis , diver; knew he was HIV-positive since 1988, announced it in 1995
Tommy 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 children
Rubén Palacios world champion boxer
Tim Richmond {1955 -1989 ), NASCAR driver. Won 7 races in 1986 and finished 3rd in points.
Entertainers
Peter Allen , (1944 -1992 ), screen and stage entertainer
Néstor Almendros (1930 -1992 ), cinematographer
Emile Ardolino (1943 -1993 ), filmmaker (Sister Act Dirty Dancing Howard Ashman (1950 -1991 ), film songwriter
Rick Aviles (1952 -1995 ), American actor
Andy Bell , lead singer of the pop group Erasure
Michael Bennett , (1943 -1987 ), choreographer
Christopher Bernau , (1940 -1989 ), actor (Guiding Light John Bindon , (1943 -1993 ), British Actor
Amanda 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 ), actor
Ian 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)
Patrick Cowley , (1950 -1982 ), synthecizer artist
Robbin Crosby , (1960 -2002 ), guitarist for rock band Ratt ; HIV-infected by a tainted needle while addicted to heroin; died of AIDS-related causes
Brad 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 singer
Eazy-E , (1963 -1995 ), rapper, member of NWA
Denholm Elliott , (1922 -1992 ), distinguished British actor
Kenny Everett , (1944 -1995 ), British actor and disc jockey
Wayland 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 movie
Thomas 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 Arnold Schwarzenegger
Anthony Hamilton , (1952 -1995 ), actor also known as Tony Hamilton
Dan Hartman , (1950 -1994 ), American, singer, songwriter and record producer
Ofra Haza , (1957 -2000 ), Israeli pop singer
John 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 knowledge
Richard Hunt , (1951 -1992 ), Muppet performer (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 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 AIDS
Fela Kuti (1938 -1997 ), Nigerian musician and political activist, died from AIDS-related heart failure
Paul Lekakis , singer and actor, best known for his 1987 #1 dance single "Boom, Boom (Let's Go Back to My Room) "
Liberace , (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 disease
Rudolf Nureyev (1938 -1993 )
Chuck Panozzo , rock guitarist (Styx )
Anthony Perkins (1932 -1992 ), pneumonia, brought on by AIDS
Dack Rambo , (1941 -1994 ), American actor
Gene Anthony Ray (1962 -2003 ), complications of a stroke
Robert Reed , (1932 -1992 ) actor on The Brady Bunch Tony Richardson , (1928 -1991 ), British actor
Arthur Russell , (1951 -1992 ), musician
Franklyn Seales , (1952 -1990 ), American actor (Silver Spoons )
Tommy Sexton 1955 -1993 ), Canadian television comedian
Ray 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 complications
Sylvester , (1944 -1988 ), disco artist and drag performer
Ron Vawter (1949 -1994 ), actor; died from a heart attack
Jimmy McShane ((1957 -1995 )), British/Irish singer known as Baltimora
Politicians
Pornographic films performers
Writers and artists
Reinaldo Arenas (1943 -1990 ), novelist
Isaac Asimov , (1920 -1992 ), science fiction writer; infected by transfused blood during heart surgery
Ron 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 playwright
Michael McDowell (1950 -1999 ), screenwriter and novelist
James Merrill , (1926 -1995 ), poet
Paul Monette (1945 -1995 ), novelist and poet
Barabara Samson
Dennis Schuetz (d. 1989 ), novelist
Andrew Sullivan , conservative journalist
Others
Rebekka Armstrong , HIV educator and former Playboy Playmate
Omar Q. Beckins , (1957 -1989 ) medical researcher who contracted AIDS in a lab accident
Kimberly Bergalis (1968 -1991 ), first known doctor-to-patient transmission
Dave Brindle , Canadian Broadcasting Corporation journalist
David Brudnoy , (1940 -2004 ), Boston radio talk show host, merkel-cell carcinoma unrelated to AIDS
Gia , (1960 -1986 ), model , died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1986, at the age of 26
Tina Chow , (1951 -1992 ), restauranteur and model
Roy 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/AIDS
Eve van Grafhorst
Halston , (1932 -1990 ), American fashion designer
Sighsten Herrgĺrd , Swedish fashion designer
Nkosi Johnson , AIDS advocate
Lance 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 advocate
Tim Richmond , (1955 -1989 ), NASCAR driver
Mitch Rosario , (1972 -2003 ), hairdresser to celebrities such as Ricky Martin and Paulina Rubio
Max Robinson , (1939 -1988 ), American Broadcasting Corporation journalist
Steve Rubell , owner of Studio 54 disco in the 1970s
Willi Smith , (1948-1987 ), American fashion designer
Mark Tunney , Vice President of Sales, Travel Technology
Ryan White , (1971 -1990 ), heterosexual hemophiliac gay disease Pedro Zamora , (1972 -1994 ), AIDS activist, was on The Real World Related
Ernesto Pimentel- Peruvian. Chola Chabuca .
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