List of HIV-positive individuals
HIV, including those who have died (whether from
AIDS or another cause).
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Entertainers
- Néstor Almendros (1930-1992), cinematographer
- Emile Ardolino (1943-1993), filmmaker (Sister Act, Dirty Dancing)
- Howard Ashman (1950-1991), film songwriter
- Rick Aviles (1952-1995), American actor
- Amanda Blake, played Kitty Russell (saloon owner, Miss Kitty)(Gunsmoke)
- Sandra Brea, (d. 2000), Brazilian television actress
- Joseph Breen, soap opera star (As the World Turns)
- Jm J. Bullock, television actor (Too Close for Comfort)
- Carlos Busquets, Puerto Rican astrologer
- Ian Charleson (1950-1990), British actor and star of the film (Chariots of Fire) (1981)
- Robbin 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
- Brad Davis, (1949-1991), American actor (Midnight Express)
- Patrick Esposito Di Napoli (d. 1994), Canadian musician (Les Colocs)
- Kiki Djan (1957-2004), Ghanian singer
- Eazy-E, rapper, member of NWA
- Denholm Elliott, distinguished British actor
- Waylon Flowers, entertainer, puppeteer (Waylon Flowers and Madame, Madame's Place)
- Kevin Peter Hall (1955-1991), played the title role in Predator opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Dan Hartman, (1950-1994), American, singer, songwriter and record producer.
- Rock Hudson, Hollywood star, first major American celebrity whose AIDS diagnosis became public knowledge
- Derek Jarman, film director, made the film Blue while blind (as a result of AIDS related causes)
- Holly Johnson , lead singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- Michael Jeter (1952-2003)
- Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-1996), passed away due to an open-heart surgery and complications with AIDS
- Fela Kuti (1938-1997), Nigerian musician and political activist, died from AIDS-related heart failure
- Liberace, pianist
- Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), singer and musician; died from bronchial pneumonia (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
- Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993)
- Chuck Panozzo, rock guitarist (Styx)
- Anthony Perkins (1932-1992), pneumonia, brought on by AIDS
- Gene Anthony Ray (1962-2003), complications of a stroke
- Robert Reed, actor on The Brady Bunch
- Tony Richardson, British actor
- Tommy Sexton (1955-1993), Canadian television comedian
- Jermaine Stewart, (1957-1997), US singer, liver cancer caused by AIDS.
- Michael Sundin, (1961-1989), British children's television presenter and actor, died from AIDS-related complications
- Sylvester, disco artist and drag performer
- Ron Vawter (1949-1994), actor; died from a heart attack
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-positive people to have HIV-negative children
- Rubén Palacios world champion boxer
Humanities
Politics
Pornographic films performers
Others
- Reynaldo Arenas (1943-1990)
- Rebekka Armstrong, HIV educator and former Playboy Playmate
- Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer; infected by transfused blood during heart surgery
- Gia, model, died of complications resulting from AIDS in 1986, at the age of 26
- Gaëtan Dugas, famous as the subject of an early epidemiological study into HIV/AIDS
- Eve van Grafhorst
- Sighsten Herrgård, Swedish fashion designer
- Nkosi Johnson, AIDS advocate
- Suzi Lovegrove
- Troy Lovegrove
- Stephanie Ray, AIDS advocate
- Mitch Rosario, hairdresser to celebrities such as Ricky Martin and Paulina Rubio
- Andrew Sullivan, conservative journalist
- Ryan White, heterosexual hemophiliac teenager who died at a time when it was considered a gay disease
- Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist, was on The Real World
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