List of HIV-positive individuals

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Table of contents

1 Entertainers 2 Athletes 3 Religion 4 Politics 5 Others

Entertainers

• Carlos Busquets, Puerto Rican astrologer
• Robin Crosby, guitarist - HIV-infected by a tainted needle while addicted to heroin, died of AIDS-related causes at the age of 42 on June 6, 2002.
• Eazy-E, rapper, member of NWA
• Denholm Elliott - distinguished British actor
• Rock Hudson - Hollywood star, first major American celebrity to acknowledge being infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
• Derek Jarman - film director, made the film Blue while blind (as a result of AIDS related causes)
• Liberace - pianist
• Freddie Mercury - singer and musician, his death from AIDS-related causes led to The Mercury Phoenix Trust anti-AIDS charity and the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.
• Klaus Nomi, singer, died of AIDS-related illness in 1983, one of the first celebrities to die of this disease.
• Robert Reed, actor on the Brady Bunch
• Tony Richardson - British actor
• Sylvester - disco artist and drag performer

Athletes

• Arthur Ashe, tennis player and social activist; infected via transfusion during heart surgery
• Esteban De Jesus world champion boxer
• Magic Johnson - probably most famous for his public announcement in 1991 that he had been infected with the virus HIV and would retire from basketball.
• Greg Louganis - diver, knew he was HIV-positive since 1988, announced it in 1995
• Tommy Morrison world champion boxer, tests in 1996 revealed he was HIV-positive, automatically retiring him from boxing as a competitor; underwent a technique known as "sperm-washing," designed to allow HIV+ people to have HIV- children.
• Ruben Palacios world champion boxer

Religion

Politics

• Peter McWilliams, author and libertarian activist

Others

• Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist, was on The Real World
• Gia Marie Carangi - 1980s model, died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1986, at the age of 26
• Mitch Rosario, hairdresser to stars such as Ricky Martin and Paulina Rubio
• Ryan White - heterosexual hemophiliac teenager who died at a time when it was considered a gay disease
• Patient Zero (Gaëtan Dugas) - famous as the subject of an early epidemiological study into HIV/AIDS
• Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer - infected by transfused blood during heart surgery.