Asthma Hall of Fame
What is Asthma?
Asthma is a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), chest tightness, shortness of breath, coughing.
The coughing often occurs at night or early in the morning.
Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts during childhood. In the United States, more than 25 million people are known to have asthma. About 7 million of these people are children. . . Read Article
Be Inspired
By the Achievements and Abilities!
Take a quick look into the archives of people with ADHD who became famous. 1 min 13 sec
Be Informed
Links to bio’s of famous people with Asthma to learn more about each person:
- John F. Kennedy
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Alice Cooper
- Calvin Coolidge
- Liza Minnelli
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- Charles Dickens
- Bob Hope
- Judy Collins
- Morgan Fairchild
- Shannon Briggs
- Louis Terkel
- Ambrose Bierce
- Amy Van Dyken
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Arnold Schoenberg
- Art Monk
- Baruj Benacerraf
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Bill Koch
- Bruce Davidson
- Che Guevara
- Daniel Webster
- Debbie Meyer
- Dennis Rodman
- Dominique Wilkins
- Dylan Thomas
- Edith Wharton
- Elizabeth Bishop
- George Murray
- Greg Louganis
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- Jason Alexander
- Jim Ryun
- Jim Catfish Hunter
- John Locke
- John Updike
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Kurt Grote
- Leonard Bernstein
- Loni Anderson
- Marcel Proust
- Martin Scorsese
- Martin Van Buren
- Nancy Hogshead
- Paul Sorvino
- Peter the Great
- Robert Joffrey
- Samuel Johnson
- Steve Allen
- Tom Dolan
- Walter Mondale
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Billy Joel
- Jerome Bettis
- Howard Thurman
- Pliny the Elder
- William III of England
- Orson Welles
- Diane Keaton
- Sharon Stone
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Emmitt Smith
- Kenny G
- Reverend Jesse Jackson
- John Paul Jones
- Barbara Smith
- Elias James Corey