Leaders and Politicians
- Peshwa Madhavrao I
- Simón Bolívar, the liberator of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, died in 1830 of TB.
- Charles IX of France
- John C. Calhoun
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French
- James Monroe
- Muhammed Ali Jinnah
- Andres Larka (1878–1942), Estonian military commander and politician; suffered from tuberculosis after 1924.
- Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- Henry VII of England
- Louis XIII of France
- Louis XVII of France
- Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician
- Napoleon II of France
- Manuel L. Quezon
- John Aaron Rawlins
- Chandler Abram Hatch
- Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Haym Salomon, a major financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War
- Okita Soji (1844–1868), a young and famous captain of the Shinsengumi, died from tuberculosis. He was rumored to have discovered his disease when he coughed blood and fainted during the Ikedaya Affair.
- Alexander Stephens
- Sudirman, Commander of Indonesia's armed forces during its National Revolution
- John Young
- Pedro I of Brazil (Pedro IV of Portugal)
- Henry B Bolster
- Desmond Tutu had TB as a child and was cured.
- Charles Hamilton Houston, NAACP lawyer known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow"
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