List of people diagnosed with Crohn's disease

The following is a list of notable people diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that may affect any part of the gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, causing a wide variety of symptoms. It primarily causes abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be bloody if inflammation is severe), vomiting (can be continuous), or weight loss,[1][2][3] but may also cause complications outside the gastrointestinal tract such as skin rashes, arthritis, inflammation of the eye, tiredness, and lack of concentration.[1][4]

Name	Notability	Ref(s)
Alfred the Great	King of the Anglo-Saxons	[5][6]
Juliet Anderson	American actress	[7]
Anastacia	American pop singer	[8]
Ömer Aşık	New Orleans Pelicans basketball player	[9]
Kathleen Baker	American swimmer	[10]
Ken Baumann	American actor, writer, publisher	[11]
MrBeast	American YouTube personality	[12]
Lili Boulanger	French composer	[13]
Jeffrey Brown	American comic book artist and graphic novelist	[14]
Pierre Carette	Former leader of the Belgian extreme-left militant group CCC	[15]
Ali Carter	English snooker player	[16]
P. Chidambaram	Indian politician	[17]
Claire Chitham	New Zealand actress	[18]
Chris Conley	Lead singer and guitarist of the band Saves The Day	[19]
Charles Darwin	English naturalist, geologist and biologist	[20]
Pete Davidson	American actor and comedian	[21]
Lew DeWitt	American country music singer and composer	[22]
Sacha Dhawan	British actor	[23]
Kevin Dineen	Former professional ice hockey player	[24]
Shannen Doherty	American actress	[25]
Amy Dowden	Welsh dancer	[26]
Dynamo	English magician	[27]
Jonny Edgar	Racing driver	[28]
Dwight D. Eisenhower	34th President of the United States	[29]
Sam Faiers	English television personality	[30]
Theoren Fleury	Professional ice hockey player	[31]
Tommie Frazier	Former Nebraska quarterback	[32]
D. R. Fulkerson	American mathematician	[33]
David Garrard	American football player	[34]
Carrie Grant	British celebrity vocal coach	[35]
Krishnan Guru-Murthy	English broadcast journalist	[36]
Mike Hadreas	Indie musician performing under the name Perfume Genius	[37]
Chelsea Halfpenny	English actress	[38]
Jim Hickey	New Zealand weather broadcaster for TVNZ	[39]
Nicky Hopkins	English pianist and famed session musician	[40]
Jeff Hordley	English actor best known for the soap opera Emmerdale	[41]
Aerial Hull	American professional wrestler	[42]
Ellen Idelson	TV comedy writer, actress, and producer	[43]
Samantha Irby	American comedian, essayist, blogger, and television writer	[44]
Ali Jawad	British Paralympic powerlifter	[45]
Derrick Jensen	American author and environmental activist	[46]
Carrie Johnson	American sprint canoer	[47]
Dennis Kucinich	U.S. Representative	[48]
Jon Landau	Rock critic	[49]
Jack Leach	English cricketer	[50]
Matt Light	American Football player, New England Patriots	[51]
Louis XIII	King of France	[52][53]
Stu Mackenzie	Frontman of the Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	[54]
Jeremy Mansfield	South African radio host	[55]
Audra McDonald	American actress	[56]
Mike McCready	Lead guitarist of the American rock band Pearl Jam	[57]
Thomas Menino	Former mayor of Boston, Massachusetts	[58]
Felicia Michaels	American comedian	[59]
Mark Millar	Scottish comic book writer, known for his work with Marvel Comics	[60]
Mary Ann Mobley	Miss America in 1959; actress and television personality	[61]
Rhys Morgan	Welsh sceptic	[62]
James Morrison	English golfer	[63]
Cedric Mullins	American baseball player	[64]
Ged Nash	Irish politician	[65]
Ogden Nash	American poet	[66]
Larry Nance Jr.	American basketball player	[67]
Lisa Neville	Australian politician	[68]
Tyre Nichols	American photographer and FedEx worker
Dan O'Bannon	American screenwriter (Alien, Total Recall)	[69]
Melanie Onn	English politician	[70]
Beth Orton	English singer-songwriter	[71]
Daryl Palumbo	Lead singer for the bands Glassjaw and Head Automatica	[72]
James Powderly	American artist and activist	[73]
Mark Reale	American guitarist for the band Riot	[74]
Jerry Sadowitz	Scottish comedian	[75]
Jim Sheppard	Bassist of the American metal band Nevermore	[76]
George Steele	American professional wrestler	[77]
Ken Stott	Scottish actor	[78]
Joe Thomas	Welsh 800m athlete	[79]
Cody Vance	American professional wrestler	[80]
Vikkstar123	English YouTube personality (Sidemen) and DJ	[81]
Mieczysław Weinberg	Polish Jewish composer	[82]
Tyler James Williams	American Actor	[83]
Lauren Winfield-Hill	English cricketer	[84]
Yoni Wolf	Musician	[85]
Yoon Jong-shin	Korean singer-songwriter	[86]

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