List of HIV-positive individuals |
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). This list is
incomplete. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
Entertainers
- 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
- Joseph Breen, soap opera star (As the World Turns)
- Carlos Busquets,
Puerto Rican astrologer
- Robbin 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
- Brad Davis, (1949-1991), American actor (Midnight Express)
- Kiki Djan (1957-2004), Ghanian singer
- Eazy-E, rapper, member of NWA
- Denholm Elliott, distinguished British actor
- Kevin Peter Hall
(1955-1991), played the title role in Predator opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Dan Hartman, (1950-1994), American, singer, songwriter and record producer.
- 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)
- Holly Johnson , lead singer of Frankie goes to
Hollywood
- Michael Jeter (1952-2003)
- 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
- Liberace, pianist
- 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)
- Klaus Nomi, singer, died of AIDS-related illness in 1983, one of the first
celebrities to die of this disease
- Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993)
- Anthony Perkins (1932-1992), pneumonia, brought on by AIDS
- Gene Anthony Ray (1962-2003), complications of a stroke
- Robert Reed, actor on The Brady Bunch
- Tony Richardson, British actor
- Jermaine Stewart,
(1957-1997), US singer, liver cancer caused by
AIDS.
- Sylvester, disco artist
and drag performer
- Ron Vawter (1949-1994), actor; died from a heart attack
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-positive people to have HIV-negative children
- Rubén Palacios world
champion boxer
Humanities
Politics
Pornographic films performers
Others
- Reynaldo Arenas
(1943-1990)
- Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer; infected by transfused blood
during heart surgery
- Gia, model, died of complications resulting from AIDS in
1986, at the age of 26
- Gaëtan Dugas, famous as the subject of an early epidemiological study
into HIV/AIDS
- Eve van
Grafhorst
- Sighsten Herrgĺrd, Swedish fashion designer
- Nkosi Johnson, AIDS advocate
- Suzi Lovegrove
- Troy Lovegrove
- Stephanie Ray, AIDS advocate
- Mitch Rosario, hairdresser to celebrities such as Ricky Martin and Paulina
Rubio
- Andrew Sullivan, conservative journalist
- Ryan White, heterosexual hemophiliac teenager who died at a time when it was considered a gay disease
- Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist, was on The Real World
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