A partial list of well-known people
who have had, or were thought to have had Alzheimer's disease, or have it
in their family. Type names into 'search' for more background information.

Frau Auguste Deter, 1906
First patient described by Dr. Alzheimer
Ronald Reagan
President of the United States
Governor of California
President of the Screen Actors Guild
Dana Andrews, actor
Ted Abernathy, baseball player
Joe Adcock, baseball player
Mabel Albertson, actress
Brooke Astor, philanthropist
Charles Bronson, actor
Bobby Baldwin's Father, CEO Mirage Resorts
Frank Broyles' Wife (football coach)
Jimmy Buffet's Father (singer/songwriter)
Jim Broadbent's Mother (actor)
Sir Rudolph Bing, operatic impresario
Slingin' Sammy Baugh, Pro Football
Hall of Famer
First Lady Laura Bush's Father
William J. Bell, creator/writer of 'soaps'
George Balanchine, choreographer
James Brooks, artist
Patty Berg, golfer
Enid Blyton, author
Abe Burrows, author
Jack Close, Taser inventor
Aaron Copeland, composer
Sir Winston Churchill, statesman
Perry Como, singer
Bryan Cranston's Mother (actor)
Eleanor Cooney's Mother,
Novelist Mary Durant, (writer)
Joyce Chen, chef
Gov. Campbell, South Carolina
Angie Dickinson's Sister (actress)
'Dear Abby' - Pauline Phillips, columnist
Alfred Deakin, Australian Prime Minister
Mike Ditka's Father (football player)
Linda Dano's Father (actress)
Olympia Dukakis' Mother (actress)
James Doohan, actor
Willem de Kooning, artist
Keith Diamond's Father (actor)
Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
Maj. Gen. William 'Wild Bill' J. Donovan
Nathan J. Diamond, bandmaster
Thomas 'Georgia Tom' Dorsey, singer
Sir Richard Eyre's Mother (director)
Hector Elizondo's Mother, four Aunts & a Cousin (actor)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, author
Arlene Francis, actress/television personality
Barbara Fairchild's Mother (singer)
Gov. Freeman, Minnesota
Shelley Fabares' Mother (actress)
Nanette Fabray's Sister (actress)
Deborah Franco's Loved One (singer/songwriter)
Henry Ford, automobile production innovator
Tom Fears, football player & coach
Louis Feraud, fashion designer
Mike Frankovich, film producer
Peter Falk, actor
Dr. John Douglas French,
Alzheimer's research specialist
(Verne Gagne, wrestler)
(Helmut R. Gutmann, scientist & musician)
(visit: minnpost.com, search for Gagne + Gutmann)
Victor Garber's Mother (actor)
Hope Garber, actress
Peter Gallagher's Mother (actor)
Sen. Barry Goldwater, Arizona, & Presidential candidate
Leeza Gibbons' Mother & Grandmother (entertainment personality)
Drew Griffin's Father-in-Law (investigative reporter)
Robert Graves, poet/novelist
Peter Gallagher's Mother (actor)
Rita Hayworth, actress
Keith Hernandez's Mother (baseball player)
Elizabeth Hasselbeck's Grandfather (television personality)
Raul Silva Henriquez, Catholic cardinal
Grant Heslov's Father (actor/producer/director)
Charlton Heston, actor
William Hanna, cartoonist
Susan Hayward, actress
Ken Howard's Father (actor)
Deidra Hall's Father (actress)
Melissa Isaacson's Mother & Father (sports writer)
Queen Julianna, The Netherlands
Dr. Georgeanna Jones, infertility pioneer
Howard Koch, producer
Laine Kazan's Mother (actress)
Lillian Kessler, Kessler Corp. founder
Chuck Knoblauch's Father (baseball player)
"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, musician
Jack Lord, actor
Beatrice Lillie, actress
Joe Louis' Sister (boxer)
Lucius Licinius Lucullus, Roman general
Sharon Lawrence's Grandmother (actress)
W. Somerset Maughm, author
Kate Mulgrew's Mother (actress)
Bill Maudlin, WWII cartoonist
Dame Iris Murdock, author
'Mum Shirl' - Shirley Smith, advocate for Australian Aboriginals
Mass. Congressman Edward J.Markey's Mother
Maryland Sen. Barbara A. Mikulsky's Father
Ross MacDonald, author
Burgess Meredith, actor
Vincente Minnelli, director
Penny & Garry Marshall's Mother (actors/writers/directors)
Natalie Morales' Mother-in-Law (news correspondent)
Susan McLane, New Hampshire State Senator
Arthur 'Spud' Melin, toy maker
Cindy McCain's Half-Sister, Dixie Lea Burd
Jim Nantz's Father (sportscaster)
Edmund O'Brien, actor
Carl 'Bobo' Olson, boxer
Arthur O'Connell, actor
Marv Owen, baseball player
Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect
Ret. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's Husband
Guy Pavageau's Father (auto racing)
Jake Plummer's Father (football player)
David Hyde Pierce's Father & Grandfather (actor)
Molly Picon, actress
Otto Preminger, director
Terry Pratchett, writer
Charles P. Pierce's Father (writer)
Sen. William Proxmire, Wisconsin
Peter Louis Pihos, football player
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist
Larry Ruvo's Father, Las Vegas entrepreneur
(See: Lou Ruvo Brain Institute)
Floyd Patterson, boxer
Terry Pratchett, novelist
Bill Quackenbush, hockey player
Eddie Robinson, football coach
Norman Rockwell, artist
Maurice Ravel, composer
Tim Ryan's Wife, Lee (sports broadcaster)
"Buddy" Ryan's Wife, Joanie (football coach)
Roger Rosenblatt's Mother (essayist/journalist)
Indiana Congressman J. Edward Roush
Sugar Ray Robinson, boxer
Margaret Rutherford, actress
Jim Reeves' Widow (country singer)
Harry Ritz, performer
Charles Scribner, Jr., publisher
& Wife Joan Scribner
Brenda Strong's Mother (actress/yoga instructor)
Sally Struthers' Mother (actress)
Jonathan Swift, author
Barbra Streisand (singer/actress) & Roslyn Kind's Mother (singer)
Frank Sinatra, singer
Sandy Sadler, boxer
Bob Shane, singer
Robert Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps Director
Brooke Shields' Mother (actress)
Simon Scott, actor
Retired Vice Admiral James Stockdale,
Medal of Honor Recipient & President of The Citadel
Irving Shulman, screenwriter
Betty Schwartz, Gold Medal Track Oympian
Kay Swift, composer
Amy Tan's Mother (author)
George Takei's Mother (actor)
Lea Thompson, both Grandmothers (actress)
William Utermohlen, artist
(Google his remarkable Alzheimer's paintings)
Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State
Alfred Van Vogt, author
E. B. White, essayist/author
Joan Winston, ultimate Trekkie
Juan Williams' Mother (commentator)
DeWitt Wallace, Reader's Digest founder
& Wife Lila Bell Acheson Wallace
Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister
Helmut Zacharias, violinist
Tim Johnson composed "She Misses Him" inspired by his
Grandmother-in-Law who cared for her Husband
http://www.geocities.com/UOFACATS.geo/RealAudio.html#htm
Bernie Weiss. who first danced with me, December 1941

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Well known people with non-Alzheimer's specific dementias:

Estelle Getty, actress
Phil Hill, Formula One race driver
Louis Bellson, drummer
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain
Pete Domenici, New Mexico Senator

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