Ankylosing Spondylitis - Notable People With Ankylosing Spondylitis

Notable People With Ankylosing Spondylitis

• John Addey, an English astrologer who lived from 1920 to 1982.

• Mike Atherton, a broadcaster, journalist and retired England international cricketer born in 1968.
• Rico Brogna, a former Major League Baseball first baseman born in 1970.
• Jay Chou, a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director who was born in 1979 and has won the World Music Award four times.
• Norman Cousins, an American political journalist, author, professor. Wrote Anatomy of an Illness, a best-seller, describing how he "cured" himself of the disease. Most likely he had reactive arthritis, however, based on the symptoms described.
• Bruce Furniss, an American swimmer born in 1957.
• Andrew George, a British Liberal Democrat politician born in 1958.
• Bryan Gunn, a Scottish former professional goalkeeper and football manager born in 1963.
• Edward Hubbard, an English architectural historian who worked with Nikolaus Pevsner in compiling volumes of the Buildings of England and lived from 1937 to 1989.
• Lee Hurst, an English comedian born in 1962.
• Michael King, an English professional golfer born in 1950.
• Vladimir Kramnik, a Russian chess grandmaster born in 1975.
• Paul Kuhr, an American musician, vocalist, lyricist, author, and graphic designer who was born in 1971 and was a founding member of the band Novembers Doom.
• Iain Macleod, a British Conservative Party politician and government minister who lived from 1913 to 1970.
• Mick Mars, lead guitarist for American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe who was born in 1951.
• Nikolai Ostrovsky, a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era and lived from 1904 to 1936.
• Christa Reinig, a German writer born in Berlin in 1926 and died in Munich in 2008.
• Michael Slater, a former Australian cricketer who played in 74 Tests and 42 ODIs for the Australian cricket team from 1993 to 2001 and was born in 1971.
• Chris Small, a retired Scottish professional snooker player born in 1973.
• William Soutar, a Scottish poet born in 1898 and died in 1943.
• David Oswald Thomas,. a Welsh philosopher, born in Rhuthun, Denbighshire in 1924 and died in 2005.
• Leonard Trask, born in 1805 and whose condition provided the first American description of ankylosing spondylitis.
• Ian Woosnam, a Welsh professional golfer born in 1958.
• Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) Czech writer