Of all the cancers that we are prone today, the lung cancer is the most prominent one. I think alot of factors might have contributed to this condition. One, cigarette smoking is always dangerous to your health and two, pollution, its inevitable for us to be exposed to this however, we could take another alternative by being green-living. These are the famous people with Lung Cancer
- Edward Albert – Actor
- Desi Arnez – Actor
- Mark Belanger – Baseball Player
- Jack Benny (Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer) – Comedian
- Leonard Bernstein – Composer
- Gerald Boyd – Managing Editor, New York Times
- Yul Brynner – Actor
- Herb Caen – Journalist
- Allen Carr – Anti – Smoking Guru
- Eric Carr – Musician
- Nat "King" Cole – Musician
- Gary Cooper – Actor
- Luiz Jose Costa – Musician
- Joe DeNardo – TV Meteorologist
- Willie Denson – Singer – Songwriter ("Mama Said")
- Joe DiMaggio – Baseball Player
- Walt Disney – Animator
- Jimmy Dorsey – Musician
- Morton Downey, Jr. – Comedian
- Duke Ellington – Musician
- Barbara Epstein – Editor (New York Review of Books, US edition of The Diary of Anne Frank)
- Freddy Fender – Singer
- Jim Finks – Football Player
- Kam Fong – Actor
- Larry Gilbert – Golfer
- Paul Gleason (Mesothelioma) – Actor
- Stephen Jay Gould (Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma) – Scientist
- Betty Grable – Actress
- Bobby Hachey – Singer
- Carrie Hamilton – Actress
- Lloyd Haynes – Actor
- Susan Hayward – Actress
- Mo Howard – Comedian
- Nancy Gore Hunger – Al Gore's Sister
- Peter Jennings – ABC Anchor
- Andreas Katsulas – Actor (One – armed man in "The Fugitive")
- Eddie Kendrick – Singer
- Jiddu Krishnamurti – Religious Teacher
- Jesse Donald [Don] Knotts – Actor
- Larry Linville – Actor (Comedy)
- Robert Mardian – Watergate figure
- Roger Maris (Lung Cancer, Lymphoma) – Baseball Player
- Bob Marley – Singer
- Dean Martin (Lung Cancer, Testicular Cancer) – Actor
- Kiel Martin – Actor
- Pat Marsden – Broadcast Journalist
- Roddy McDowell – (Lung Cancer, Prostate Cancer)
- Wayne McLaren – Marlboro Man -remember my post about this guy? Check it here.
- David McLean – Marlboro Man
- Doug McLure – Actor
- Steve McQueen – Actor
- Audrey Meadows – Actress
- George Melly – Singer / Writer / Critic
- Melina Mercouri – Actress
- Tammy Faye Messner – Televangelist
- George Millay – Founder of SeaWorld and Wet 'n Wild
- Robert Mitchum – Actor
- Claude Monet – Painter
- Gabriel Montalvo – Vatican envoy and ambassador to the US
- Edward R. Murrow – Journalist
- Paek Nam-sun – North Korea Foreign Minister
- Charles Norwood – Member of Congress (R-GA)
- Benny Parsons – NASCAR driver
- Vincent Price – Actor
- Eddie Rabbitt – Country Singer
- Ayn Rand – Author
- Lou Rawls (Brain/Lung Cancer) – Soul Singer
- Harry Reasoner – Journalist
- Dana Reeve – Actress
- Lee Remick (Kidney, Liver, Lung Cancer) – Actress
- Cal Ripkin, Sr. – Baseball Player
- Wayne Schenk – Lottery Winner
- Beverly Sills – Opera singer
- Ed Sullivan – Entertainer
- Will Thornbury – Actor (Camel TV Ads)
- Spencer Tracy – Actor
- Beau Tucker – Country Music Manager (father of Tanya Tucker)
- Forrest Tucker – Actor
- Jim Varney – Comedian
- Marion E. Warren – Photographer
- John Wayne – Actor
- Sandy West – Drummer ("The Runaways")
- Sir Kyffin Williams (Lung, Prostate) – Artist
- Carl Wilson – Musician
- Warren Zevon (Mesothelioma) – Musician
The above information thankfully comes from the celebritydisease.com at the following link.
