This is a list of people who have suffered from or died of cancer.
Entertainment
- Bud Abbott, actor
- Ansel Adams, photographer
- Claude Akins, actor
- Jack Albertson, actor
- Steve Allen, actor, composer, writer
- Stephen Ambrose, historian
- Don Ameche, actor
- Anastacia, singer, breast cancer
- Victor Argo, (1934-2004), actor
- Pedro Armendáriz, actor
- Desi Arnaz (March 2, 1917 - December 2, 1986), actor and bandleader
- Hal Ashby, actor, director, editor, producer
- Chet Atkins, composer, musician
- Tex Avery, animator
- Chuck Barris, game show host, producer, writer
- Paul Bartel, actor, director, writer, producer
- Béla Bartók, Hungarian composer
- Richard Barthelmess, actor
- Count Basie, musician, composer
- Clyde Beatty, circus performer, hunter
- Melvin Belli, attorney, actor
- Jack Benny, actor, comedian
- Ingrid Bergman, actress
- Milton Berle, actor, comedian
- Bill Bixby, actor who played The Incredible Hulk on television
- Harry Blackstone Jr., magician
- Art Blakey, musician
- Humphrey Bogart, actor
- Ray Bolger, actor, dancer
- Richard Boone, actor
- Lucy Boscana, actress
- Barry Bostwick, actor
- Laura Branigan, (1957-2004), singer
- Jacques Brel, actor, composer, director, writer
- Tod Browning, actor, director, writer, producer
- Yul Brynner, actor
- Anthony Burgess, writer
- Raymond Burr, actor
- Pedro Cabrera (1938-2002), Cuban actor and director who starred for many years in Puerto Rico's television. He survived cancer but succumbed to another disease in 2002.
- Cantinflas, actor
- Eric Carr (1946-1991), drummer for the rock band Kiss
- Leo Carrillo, actor
- Rosa Carrillo (1960-2002), Univision news anchor.
- Leo G. Carroll, actor
- Gower Champion, dancer, choreographer
- Lon Chaney, actor
- Graham Chapman, actor, composer, writer, producer (Monty Python)
- Paddy Chayefsky, writer, producer
- Nat King Cole, singer, musician
- John Coltrane, musician, composer
- Chuck Connors, actor
- Gary Cooper, actor
- Joan Crawford, actress
- Richard Crenna, actor
- Lorel Crespo, Puerto Rican television model, skin cancer
- Tony Croatto, Argentine-Puerto Rican singer, lung and brain cancer
- Scatman Crothers, actor
- Celia Cruz, singer
- Bill Cullen, game show host
- Michael Curtiz, director, writer, producer
- Peter Cushing, actor
- Marion Davies, actress
- Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989), actress
- Sammy Davis Jr., actor, singer
- Raul De Molina, show host and papparazo, kidney cancer
- Robert De Niro, actor (prostate cancer)
- Walt Disney, writer, producer, voice actor, animator
- Jimmy Dorsey, Big band leader
- Ben Duskin, the boy who created Ben's Game
- Vince Edwards, actor
- Duke Ellington, composer, musician
- Melissa Etheridge, singer
- Joe Eszterhas, writer, producer
- Peter Falk, actor
- Frances Farmer, actress
- Fernandel, actor, director, producer
- Vicente Fernandez, singer
- José Ferrer, actor
- John Ford, cinematographer, director, writer, editor, producer, actor
- Victor French, actor
- Giorgio Gaber, Italian singer, composer, comedian
- Andres Garcia, Dominican-born Mexican national who is a soap opera (telenovela) super star
- George Gershwin, musician, composer
- Arthur Godfrey, radio and television host
- Delta Goodrem, singer, actress
- Betty Grable, actress
- Gloria Grahame, actress
- Tom Green, comedian
- Fred Gwynne, comedian (Herman Munster)
- Joan Hackett, actress
- Jean Hagen, actress
- George Harrison, musician, member of The Beatles
- Rex Harrison, actor
- Susan Hayward, actress
- Audrey Hepburn, actress
- Bill Hicks, comedian
- Glenn Hughes, singer, "the biker" of Village People
- Jill Ireland, actress
- Kate Jackson, actress (Charlie's Angels), breast cancer survivor
- Ann Jillian, actress, breast cancer survivor, had a double masectomy,
- Carmita Jimenez, Puerto Rican singer
- Funky Joe, Puerto Rican television and radio gossiper.
- Andy Kaufman, comedian, actor
- Pedro Knight, trumpetist, husband of Celia Cruz
- David Kossoff, actor and drug abuse activist
- Michael Landon, actor
- Chris LeDoux, professional rodeo cowboy, Country Singer
- Jack Lemmon (February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001), actor and pianist
- Adamari Lopez, Puerto Rican actress, breast cancer
- Myrna Loy, actress
- Ida Lupino, actress, director
- Linda McCartney, musician, first wife of Sir Paul McCartney
- Hattie McDaniel, actress
- Roddy McDowall, actor
- Margo McLennan, actress
- Steve McQueen, actor
- Henry Mancini, composer, musician
- Bob Marley, musician
- Zeppo Marx (February 25, 1901 - November 30, 1979), actor
- Gary Merrill (August 2, 1915 - March 5, 1990), actor
- Ann Miller, actress, dancer
- Kylie Minogue, singer
- Eddie Miro, Puerto Rican television show host
- Elizabeth Montgomery, actress
- Robert Montgomery, actor
- Agnes Moorehead, actress
- Alfredo Najera, sexologist at Telemundo's Ao Rojo Vivo television show, survivor of prostate cancer
- Olivia Newton-John, singer, actress, survivor of breast cancer
- Omi Nieves (1979-2004), son of Salsa music singer Tito Nieves
- Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy Osbourne
- Alice Pearce, actress
- Edith Piaf (1915-1963), famous French singer
- William Powell, actor
- Gilda Radner, comedian
- Johnny Ramone, musician
- Donna Reed, actress
- Robert Reed, actor, played Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch
- Lee Remick, actress
- Florence Rice, actress
- Jason Robards (July 26, 1922 - December 26, 2000), actor *Rod Roddy (1938-2003), announcer, The Price is Right
- Fred Rogers (1928-2003), Presbyterian minister known for "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" children's television show
- Dick Sargent, actor
- Telly Savalas, actor, Kojak
- Joan Sebastian, famous Mexican northern music singer
- Joan Manuel Serrat, famous Spaniard singer and composer, hip cancer
- Cybill Shepherd, actress
- Ann Sheridan 1915-1967, actress
- Dusty Springfield 1939-1999, singer
- Robert Stack 1919-2003, actor, died of unrelated cause.
- Sylvia Sidney, actress
- Robert Taylor, actor
- Ramon Valdez (1923-1988), Mexican actor
- Raúl Vale, Venezuelan-born Mexican comedian
- Eddie Van Halen, musician, Van Halen
- Vera-Ellen, actress
- Angela Wallenda, (1968-1996), high wire act performer
- Barry Watson, star of 7th Heaven
- John Wayne, actor
- Wesley Willis (1963-2003), singer
- Kerri Yascheshyn (1985-2003), aspiring actress whose friendship with Madonna made the newspaper headlines across Canada.
- Loretta Young (1913-2000), actress
- Frank Zappa (1940-1993), composer and musician
- Warren Zevon (1947-2003), musician and songwriter
- Julie Andrews, actress and singer
- Gene Wilder, actor
Literature & Journalism
- James Baldwin, writer
- Robert Bloch, writer
- Neil Cavuto, FOX News Anchor
- Peter Jennings, ABC News Anchor, World News Tonight
- John Diamond, Times columnist and broadcaster
- Faith Fancher (1950 - October 19, 2003), television journalist and breast cancer awareness activist
- Ted Hughes (August 17, 1930 - October 29, 1998), poet
- Ivan Noble, BBC journalist and author of "Tumour Diary" and the Tumour Diary (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4211475.stm) weblog
- Harvey Pekar, comics writer
- Stan Rice (1943 - December 9, 2002), poet and artist
- Edward Said, (+ 2003, also a musician)
- Charles Sheffield, physicist and author
- Carol Shields, (+ 2003) writer
- User:Mkweise (b. 1968), wikipedian
Sports
- Lyle Alzado, American football player
- Roone Arledge, broadcaster
- Lance Armstrong, cyclist
- Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess player
- Don Baylor, baseball player and coach
- Bobby Bonds (1946-2003), baseball player and coach
- Mikhail Botvinnik, World Chess Champion
- Tommy Brooks (+ 2004), well known boxing trainer
- Brett Butler, baseball player
- Edna Campbell, basketball player, Sacramento Monarchs
- Ty Cobb, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Jerry Colangelo, owner of various Arizona professional sports teams, prostate cancer
- Raymond Dalmau, Puerto Rican basketball player
- Eric Davis, baseball player
- Joe DiMaggio, Baseball Hall of Famer
- Dave Dravecky, baseball player
- Dan Duva (+ 1996), boxing manager
- Heather Farr, LPGA golfer
- Cotton Fitzsimmons, (1931-2004) NBA basketball coach
- Curt Flood (1938-1997), baseball player who helped create free agency in sports.
- Bayard Forrest, former NBA player, Seattle SuperSonics and Phoenix Suns.
- Ruben Gómez, "The Divine Madman", baseball player
- Zach Gowen, professional wrestler
- Scott Hamilton, figure skater
- Ray Harford, British Association football player
- Julie Krone, Horse Racing jockey
- John Kruk, baseball player
- Mario Lemieux, hockey player
- Vince Lombardi, football coach
- Mickey Mantle (1931-1995), baseball player
- Sara Meltz, Puerto Rican Olympic committee mission director, survivor of breast cancer
- Tug McGraw (1944-2004), baseball player
- Wesley Mouzon (+2003), boxer
- Roger Neilson, NHL hockey coach
- Gunnar Nilsson, Formula One racing driver
- Steve Patterson, NCAA basketball player and head coach
- Walter Payton (1954-1999), American football player
- Kim Perrot (+1999), WNBA basketball player, Houston Comets
- Tigran Petrosian, World Chess Champion
- Brian Piccolo (+1971), American football player
- Barry Sheene (1950-2003), world motocross champion
- Mel Stottlemyre, major league baseball player and coach
- Darryl Strawberry, baseball player
- Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion
- Dick Tiger, world champion boxer
- Rudy Tomjanovich, former NBA player and head coach of the Houston Rockets
- Jim Valvano (+ 1993), college basketball coach
- Babe Zaharias (1911-1956), Olympic athlete and women's golf pioneer
Politics
- Willy Brandt, German politician
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994), American first lady
- Prescott Bush (May 15, 1895 - October 8, 1972), US Senator from Connecticut
- Cai E, protagonist of anti-Yuan movement
- Claire Chennault, United States general
- Chou En-lai, Chinese Communist leader and Premier of China
- Moshe Dayan, Israeli General, politician
- Bob Dole, US presidential candidate
- John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State
- King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
- Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York
- King Hussein
- Seham Ibrahim, stepsister of Saddam Hussein
- John Kerry, US Senator and former presidential candidate
- Lester Maddox, former governor of Georgia
- Lila Mayoral, former first lady of Puerto Rico (+2003)
- Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 - June 22, 1993), American first lady
- Henri d'Orleans, Count of Paris (July 5, 1908 - June 19, 1999)
- Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran (October 26, 1919 - July 27, 1980)
- Evita Peron, first lady of Argentina
- King George VI of the United Kingdom (December 14, 1895 - February 6, 1952)
- King Paul of Greece (December 14, 1901 - March 6, 1964)
- Colin Powell
- Donald Regan
- William H. Rehnquist, United States supreme court leader
- Winthrop Rockefeller (1912-1973), Governor of Arkansas
- John Savage (1932-2003), premier of Nova Scotia
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (April 27, 1822 - July 23, 1885), general and U.S. President
- Mary Stanfield (+1977), former first lady of Nova Scotia
- Paul Tsongas, Massachusetts state senator and US Presidential candidate
Religion
Science
- Rachel Carson, biologist, author of Silent Spring
- Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA structure
- Pierre Curie, physicist, chemist
- Edsger Dijkstra, computer scientist
- Enrico Fermi, physicist
- Richard Feynman, physicist
- Rosalind Franklin, contributor to the discovery of the structure of DNA
- Sophie Germain, mathematician
- Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and science writer
- Jurgen Moser, mathematician
- John von Neumann, mathematician and computer pioneer
- Simon Newcomb, mathematician
- Linus Pauling, chemist
- Julia Robinson, mathematician
- An Wang, computer pioneer
Business
Philosophers
Symbols
Criminals
Others
