Graves' Disease - Notable Cases

Notable Cases

  • John Adams, second President of the United States (possible case)
  • Ayaka, Japanese singer/songwriter
  • George H. W. Bush, U.S. president, developed new atrial fibrillation and was diagnosed in 1991 with hyperthyroidism due to the disease, and treated with radioiodine. The president's wife, Barbara Bush, also developed the disease about the same time, which in her case produced severe infiltrative exophthalmos. Scientists said the odds of both George and Barbara Bush having Graves’ disease might be one in 100,000 or as low as one in 3,000,000, presuming the disease was independently caused.
  • Perry Chapman, Australian hip-hop artist
  • Gail Devers, athletic champion
  • Melissa Arnette "Missy" Elliott, American rapper, songwriter, producer and recording artist
  • Marlanna "Rapsody" Evans, American rapper
  • Marty Feldman, British comedian
  • Diane Finley, Canadian cabinet minister
  • Faith Ford, American actress
  • Sia Furler, Australian singer
  • Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, former Gambino family underboss
  • Heino, German folk singer, whose dark sunglasses (worn to hide his symptoms) became part of his trademark look
  • Maggie Cheung Ho-Yee, Hong Kong actress
  • Herbert Norman Howells, British composer
  • Jill Marie Jones, American singer/songwriter
  • Nadezhda Krupskaya, Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician, married to Russian revolutionary Vladimir Iljič Lenin
  • Barbara Leigh, an American former actress and fashion model, now spokeswomen for the National Graves' Disease Foundation
  • Yūko Miyamura, Japanese voice actress
  • Christopher Monckton, third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
  • Rob Oakeshott, Australian politician
  • Carla Overbeck, former captain, U.S.A. Women's National Soccer Team
  • Claire Rayner, UK nurse, Agony Aunt and broadcaster
  • Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador to the USA from 1912 to 1918
  • Christina Georgina Rossetti, British Victorian poet
  • Mary Webb, English author and poet, descendant of Sir Walter Scott
  • LaNora Williams-Clark "The Muse", American model


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