List of AIDS patients
This is a list of 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).
Entertainers
- Carlos Busquets, Puerto Rican astrologer
- Robin Crosby, guitarist - HIV-infected by a tainted needle while addicted to heroin, died of AIDS-related causes at the age of 42 on June 6, 2002.
- Eazy-E, rapper, member of NWA
- Denholm Elliott - distinguished British actor
- Rock Hudson - Hollywood star, first major American celebrity whose AIDS diagnosis became public knowledge.
- Derek Jarman - film director, made the film Blue while blind (as a result of AIDS related causes)
- Liberace - pianist
- Freddie Mercury - singer and musician, his death from AIDS-related causes led to The Mercury Phoenix Trust anti-AIDS charity and the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.
- Klaus Nomi, singer, died of AIDS-related illness in 1983, one of the first celebrities to die of this disease.
- Robert Reed, actor on The Brady Bunch
- Tony Richardson - British actor
- Sylvester - disco artist and drag performer
Athletes
- Arthur Ashe, tennis player and social activist; infected via transfusion during heart surgery
- Esteban De Jesus 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+ people to have HIV- children.
- Ruben Palacios world champion boxer
Religion
Science
Humanities
Politics
Others
See also: AIDS Memorial Quilt, AIDS, HIV, list of people, list of cancer patients
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