PD INDEX: A Directory of Parkinson's Disease Information on the Internet

Prominent People with Parkinson's Disease

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
Theodore M. Edison (1898-1992).   Inventor, son of Thomas A. Edison.   New York Times, Nov 26, 1992.
La Verne Kiplinger (1899-1990).   Publishing executive.   New York Times, Dec 5, 1990.
Frank Perdue (1920-2005).   Poultry processing.   People Weekly, April 18, 2005 v63 i15 p92.
Emile Peynaud (1912-2004).   Enologist.   Time, August 2, 2004 v164 i5 p19.
Edmond J. Safra (1932-1999).   Banker and philanthropist.   New York Times, Dec 4, 1999.
Jay Van Andel (1924-2004).   Amway co-founder.   UPI NewsTrack, Dec 7, 2004.
Colston Estey Warne (1900-1987).   Consumers Union co-founder.   Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2000.

EDUCATION
Elisabeth Owens (?-1998).   First woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School.   Harvard Gazette, 11/19/98.
Frank Riessman (1925-2004.   Sociologist and educator. Founded the Self-Help Clearinghouse.   Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004.

GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Brockman "Brock" Adams (1927-2004).   Congressman from Washington, U.S. Secretary of Trnsportation.   HistoryLink.org.
Clinton P Anderson (1895-1975).   U.S. Senator from New Mexico.   New York Times, Nov 15, 1970.
Yuri Andropov (1914-1984).   Head of Soviet KGB.   De Groene Amsterdammer van 6 november 1996.
Yasser Arafat (possible PD) (1929-2004).   Palestinian Authority Head and PLO Chairman.   http://www.middleeast.org/archives/1998_12_24.htm.
Habib Bourguiba (possible PD) (1903-2000).   First president of Tunisia.   http://www.multimania.com/tuniscom/bourguibah.htm.
Chester Bowles (1901-1986).   Head of WW II OPA, Connecticut Governor.   New York Times, Aug 7, 1977.
Harold Burton (1888-1964).   U.S. Supreme Court Justice.   New York Times,Oct 9, 1958.
Prince Claus of the Netherlands (?-2002).   Husband of Queen Beatrix.   Findagrave.com.
Jeffery Cohelan (1914-1999).   U.S. Congressman from California.   PoliticalGraveyard.com.
Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997).   Leader of China.   CNN.
Bulent Ecevit (1925- ).   Former Turkish Prime Minister.   Helenic Resources Network.
Lane Evans (1951- ).   U.S. Congressman from Illinois.   http://www.yourcongress.com/profile.asp?member_id=156.
Floyd Fithian (1928-2003).   U.S. Congressman from Indiana.   Arlington National Cemetery website.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco (1892-1975).   Spanish dictator.   Review by Raymond Carr of book Franco by Paul Preston.   The New York Review of Books, Nov 17,1994.
Booth Gardner (1936- ).   Former Governor of Washington State.   Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jun 10, 2003.
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).   Leader of Nazi Germany.   Various medical journal references.
Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835).   German statesman and philologist.   Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2000 Oct 1;6(4):205-214.
Vincent Impellitteri (1900-1987).   New York City Mayor (1950-53).   http://www.electronicvalley.org/derby/quiz/pages/impellitteri,vincent.htm.
Arthur Horace James (1883-1973).   Governor of Pennsylvania.   Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 9: 1971-1975.
Louis J. Lefkowitz (1904-1996).   NY State Attorney General.   New York Times, Jun 21, 1996.
Harold LeVander (1910-1992).   Governor of Minnesota.   New York Times, Apr 2, 1992.
John V. Lindsay (1921-2000).   New York City Mayor and U.S. Congressman.   New York Times, Apr 30, 1996.
Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976).   Founder, People's Republic of China.   Encyclopedia of World Biography, vol 17, 2nd ed. 1998.
Adel Osseiran (?-1998).   One of Lebanon's founding fathers.   Daily Star, June 19,1998.
John O. Pastore (1907-2000).   U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.   Washington Post, Jul 16, 2000.
Claiborne deB. Pell (1918- ).   Former U.S. Senator from Rhode Island.   The Standard-Times, Sept 5, 1995.
Enoch Powell (1912-1998).   Conservative Member of British Parliament.   BBC News, Nov 18, 1998.
Janet Reno (1938- ).   U.S. Attorney General.   PBS Jim Lehrer Newshour, Jan 27, 1999.
James Roosevelt (1907-1991).   President's son, U.S. Congressman from California.   New York Times, Aug 14, 1991.
Milward Lee Simpson (1897-1994).   Governor of Wyoming (1953-59) and U.S. Senator (1962-67).   PBOE Wyoming political members.
Joe Skeen (1927-2003).   U.S. Congressman from New Mexico.   Lubbock online, Mar 5, 1997.
Jeremy Thorpe (1929- ).   Former British Liberal Party leader.   New Statesman (1996), Oct 29, 2001 v130 i4561 p15.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000).   Prime Minister of Canada.   The Globe and Mail, Sep 29, 2000.
Morris K. Udall (1922-1998).   U.S. Senator from Arizona.   Morris K. Udall Foundation.
George Wallace (1919-1998).   Governor of Alabama.   CNN, Sept 14, 1998.

LITERATURE AND JOURNALISM
Jack Anderson (1935- ).   Retired reporter and columnist.   Editor & Publisher, July 23,2004.
Richard Armour (1906-1989).   Author ("It All Started With ..." books).   Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.
Jane Austen (1775-1817).   Author.   LitEncyc.com.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989).   Writer, dramatist (Waiting for Godot).   Duke University GenomeLIFE Magazine, Sep 1, 2003.
John Betjeman (1906-1984).   Poet laureate of England.   New Criterion, March 2005 v23 i7 p10(9).
Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950).   Author (Tarzan series).   Dictionary of American Biography.
M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992).   Author (food).   American Scholar, Spring 1998 v67 n2 p154(4).
Laurence Owen Vine Gandar (1915-1998).   Anti-apartheid editor of The Rand Daily Mail (Johannesberg).   San Diego Union-Tribune.
Nathan C. Heard (1936-2004).   Novelist (Howard Street, House of Slammers).   Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004.
Donald Justice (1925-2004).   Poet. 1980 Pulitzer prize.   Los Angeles Times. Aug 16, 2004. pg. B.9.
Michael Kinsley (1951- ).   Journalist, founded Slate.   NNDB.com.
Arthur Koestler (1905-1983).   Author (Darkness at Noon).   http://www.rock-detente.com/histoire/0303.shtml.
Robin Moore (1925- ).   Author (The French Connection).   Journal of Popular Culture, Feb 2004 v37 i3 p418(18).
Janet Murrow (?-1998).   Writer and wife of Edward R. Murrow.   The Miami Herald, Dec 22, 199812/22/98.
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953).   Playwright (Moon for the Misbegotten).   Time magazine milestones.
M. Scott Peck (1936- ).   Author (The Road Less Traveled).   Psychology Today, Nov/Dec 2002.
Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000).   Cartoonist ("Peanuts").   Scripps news service.
May Sinclair (1865-1946).   Author (Mary Olivier: A Life).   LitEncyc.com.
A.J.P. Taylor (1906-1990).   British historian.   New York Times, Sep 8, 1990.
Earl Ubell (1926- ).   Former New York Times science writer.   NIH News release, Nov 1996.
Farnsworth Wright (1888-1940).   Science fiction/horror editor (Weird Tales).   FactBites.com.

MEDICINE
Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952).   Nurse, pioneer in treatment of polio.   New York Times, Dec 5, 1951.
Millicent Kondracke (1940-2004).   Psychotherapist and subject of book Saving Milly.   Eye on Books.
Dr. William H. Masters (1915-2001).   Sex researcher.   Obit.com.

MUSIC
Harold Arlen (1905-1986).   Songwriter (Over the Rainbow, That Old Black Magic).   Contemporary Musicians, Volume 27. Gale Group, 2000.
Maybelle Carter (1909-1978).   Singer (The Carter Family).   Time magazine milestones.
June Carroll (?-2004).   Singer and Broadway lyricist.   Variety, June 7, 2004 v395 i4 p53(1).
Alfred Cortot (1877-1962).   French concert pianist.   Review by David Dubal of a Nimbus Cortot CD.
Leo Fender (1909-1991).   Electric guitar maker.   Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
Wilhelm Kempff (1895-1991).   Concert pianist.   The Pianist Wilhelm Kempff is dead" by B. John Zavrel.   The Museum of European Art.
William Masselos (1920-1992).   Concert pianist.   Variety magazine, Oct 28, 1992.
Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972).   Composer.   http://www.wolpe.org/swla.html.
Moritz Rosenthal (1862-1946).   Concert pianist.   Arbiter Records museum of historic pianists.

RELIGION
Rabbi Louis Finkelstein (1895-1992).   President, Jewish Theological Seminary of America.   Religious Leaders of America, 2nd ed. Gale Group, 1999.
Rev. Billy Graham (1918- ).   Evangelist minister.   Human Genome Research Institute.
G. Bromley Oxnam (1891-1963).   Methodist Church Bishop.   http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9202/brookhiser.html.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993).   Clergyman and author (The Power of Positive Thinking).   New York Times, Dec.30, 1993.
Karol Wojtyla (1920-2005).   Pope John Paul II.   ScienceCentral.

SCIENCE
Frederick Reines (1918-1998).   Nobel prize in physics (discovered the neutrino).   Today@UCI, Aug 28, 1998.
Andrei Sakharov (1921-1989).   Physicist, human rights advocate.   New York Times, June 28, 1985.
Harold Urey (1893-1981).   Chemist, discovered heavy hydrogen.   New York Times, Jan 7, 1981.

SPORTS
Muhammad Ali (1942- ).   World champion boxer; philanthropist.   Infoplease.com.
Jack Buck (1924-2002).   Sportscaster.   St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service), Dec 27, 2002.
Howard Cosell (1918-1995).   Sportscaster.   Los Angeles Times, Apr 24, 1995.
Clem McCarthy (1882-1962).   Sportscaster.   New York Times, June 5, 1962.
Lindsey Nelson (1919-1995).   Sportscaster.   New York Times, Jun 12, 1995.
Mickey Walker (1903-1981).   Boxer (the "Toy Bulldog").   New York Times, Apr 29, 1981.
Tony Zale (1913-1997).   Boxer.   Information Please Almanac.

STAGE AND SCREEN
Jim Backus (1913-1989).   Comic actor.   http://www.findagrave.com/grave/bbbbb.html.
Theodore Beaubrun (1918-1998).   Haitian comedian and actor. .   http://www.youreouttahere.com/1998/june98.html.
Sir Dirk Bogarde (1921-1999).   British actor.   http://members.aol.com/PaulEC3/1999.html.
William Boyd (1895-1972).   Actor (Hopalong Cassidy).   http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101955/.
Howard Dietz (1896-1983).   Lyricist (Dancing in the Dark) and MGM executive.   http://www.imdb.com/Name?Dietz,+Howard.
Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975).   Magician and mentalist ("The Amazing Dunninger").   New York Times, Mar 10, 1975.
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1909-2000).   Actor.   http://obits.com/fairbanks.htm.
Michael J. Fox (1961- ).   Actor and PD activist.   The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
Pauline Kael (1919-2001).   Film reviewer and critic.   She Lost it at the Movies" Interview with Pauline Kael.   Reel.com.
Guy Kibbee (1882-1956).   Actor.   New York Times, May 25, 1956.
George Kirby (1923-1995).   Comedian.   Jet, Oct 16, 1995 v88 n23 p56(1) .
June Marlowe (1903-1984).   Actress, silent and early talking films.   http://www.dspears.com/bio/part06.html.
Kenneth More (1914-1982).   British actor (Genevieve).   Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004.
Dame Anna Neagle (1904-1986).   British film actress (Nell Gwyn).   http://www.britishpictures.com/stars/Neagle.htm.
Vincent Price (1911-1993).   Actor.   http://www.tombcreeper.com/vprice.htm.
Sir Michael Redgrave (1908-1985).   British actor.   http://redgrave.com/biomr.htm.
Jean Renoir (1894-1979).   French film director.   Review by Gerald Pratley of book by Celia Bertin -- Jean Renoir: A Life in Pictures.
Terry Thomas (1911-1990).   British comic actor. .   http://dpsinfo.com/dps/tnames.shtml.

VISUAL ARTS
Bernard Buffet (1928-1999).   Painter.   Time magazine milestones.
Margaret Bourke-White (1906-1971).   Photographer.   Review by Elsa Dorfman of Margaret Bourke-White: A Biography.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976).   Sculptor.
Salvador Dali (1904-1989).   Painter.   Biography Resource Center, 2001 Gale Group.
Andre Kertesz (1894-1985).   Photographer.   New York Times, Aug 27, 1986.
Bill Reid (1920-1998).   Canadian Northwest artist.   Royal British Columbia Museum.
Edward Weston (1886-1958).   Photographer.   http://masters-of-photography.com/W/weston/weston_articles1.html.