List of famous tuberculosis victims

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
• Anne Perry §
• 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
• Cat Stevens §

Religious figures:

• John Calvin
• Cardinal Richelieu
• St Thérèse de Lisieux
• St Bernadette Soubirous
• Desmond Tutu §

Leaders:

• Simon Bolivar
• Edward VI of England
• Muhammed Ali Jinnah
• 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
• Charlie Christian
• Arline Feynman (first wife of physicist Richard Feynman)
• Augustin-Jean Fresnel
• Brenda Fricker §
• Abel Gance
• Emmett Hardy
• Richard Harris (actor) ?
• Immanuel Kant
• Freddie Keppard
• Vivien Leigh
• Christy Mathewson
• Dmitri Mendeleev ?
• Barry Morse ?
• N!xau
• Anne Neville (queen consort of Richard III) (probably)
• Florence Nightingale
• Mabel Normand
• Etti Plesch ?
• Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe)
• Herman Potočnik
• Gavrilo Princip
• Jimmie Rodgers
• Erwin Schrödinger
• Adrianus Turnebus
• Georges Vezina
• Lev Vygotsky
• Rube Waddell
• William Winchester (son of Oliver Winchester, husband of Sarah Winchester
• Link Wray §
• Eugene Wigner ?

§ still living

? died of something unrelated to tuberculosis

Fictional characters:

• Helen Burns from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
• Little Nell from The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
• Mimi from La Bohème (Giacomo Puccini et. al.)
• Buddy Willard from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

See also: Emily Bissell, Robert Koch

Referenced By