Famous People Who Suffered from Tuberculosis

Marcus Tullius Cecero

Cardinal Richelieu

Jean-Antoine Watteau

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laurence Sterne

Luigi Boccherini

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich Schiller

Sir Walter Scott

Novalis

Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec

Niccolo Paganini

Carl Maria von Weber

Alphonse-Marie-Louise de Prat de Lamartine

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

Leigh Hunt

Christopher Mathewson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Frederic Francois Chopin

Anthony Trollope

Charlotte Bronte

Emily Bronte

Anne Bronte

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Elisa Rachel Felix

Elizabeth Siddal

Sidney Lanier

Edvard Grieg

Edward Livingston Trudeau

Robert Louis Stevenson

Doc Holliday

Cecil John Rhodes

Anton Chekhov

George Alfred Lohmann

Aubrey Beardsley

Mahammed Ali Jinnah

Igor Stravinsky

Franz Kafka

Amedeo Modigliani

Eleanor Roosevelt

David H. Lawnrece

Eugene O'Neill

Katherine Mansfield

Lili Boulanger

Thomas Clayton Wolfe

George Orwell

Vivien Leigh

Walker Percy

Nelson Mandela

From Rom, William N. and Stuart M. Garay. Tuberculosis. Little, Brown and Company: New York, 1996, p 22.