Writers and poets

* Agha Ahmad Ali (1839-1873), Bengali academic, scholar of Persian and Urdu poet *

Maksim Bahdanovič Maksim Adamavich Bahdanovich ( be, Максім Адамавіч Багдановіч, ; russian: Максим Адамович Богданович, translit=Maksim Adamovich Bogdanovich; 9 December 1891 – 25 May 1917) was a Belarusian poet, ...

, Belarusian poet, died from tuberculosis *

Manuel Bandeira Manuel Carneiro de Sousa Bandeira Filho (April 19, 1886 – October 13, 1968) was a Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator, who wrote over 20 books of poetry and prose. Life and career Bandeira was born in Recife, Pernambuco. In 190 ...

, Brazilian poet, had tuberculosis in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems *

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida (17 February 1836 – 22 December 1870), better known as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (), was a Spanish Romantic poet and writer (mostly short stories), also a playwright, literary columnist, and talented ...

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, Russian literary critic *

Edward Bellamy Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author, journalist, and political activist most famous for his utopian novel ''Looking Backward''. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerou ...

(1850–1898), fiction writer remembered for his book ''

Looking Backward ''Looking Backward: 2000–1887'' is a utopian science fiction novel by Edward Bellamy, a journalist and writer from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts; it was first published in 1888. The book was translated into several languages, and in short o ...

'', died from tuberculosis * Sukanta Bhattacharya, Bengali poet and playwright * Jonas Biliūnas * Rachel Bluwstein *

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and Emily Brontë and other members of the

Brontë family The Brontës () were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–184 ...

of writers, poets and painters were struck by tuberculosis. Anne, their brother Branwell Brontë, Branwell, and Emily all died of it within two years of each other. Charlotte Brontë's death in 1855 was stated at the time as having been due to tuberculosis, but there is some controversy over this today. *Clarissa Brooks, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1927 *Charles Brockden Brown *Charles Farrar Browne *Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, died of tuberculosis in 1861 *Jean de Brunhoff *Charles Bukowski (1920–1994), American author and poet, contracted tuberculosis in 1988; he recovered, losing 60 lbs. He died of leukemia. *Robert Burns *Albert Camus, French writer, playwright, activist, and absurdism, absurdist philosopher, suffered from tuberculosis. He was forced to drop out of school (University of Algiers) due to severe attacks of tuberculosis. However, his death was caused by a car accident. *Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC), Roman poet *Anton Chekhov (1860–1904), Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician; died from tuberculosis *Tristan Corbière *Stephen Crane *Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) *René Daumal *Nikolay Dobrolyubov *Laura Don (1852–1886), actress-manager, playwright and artist *Paul Laurence Dunbar *Paul Éluard *Friedrich Robert Faehlmann *Maxim Gorky *Guido Gozzano (1883-1916), Italian poet *Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961), American author and creator of the "hard boiled" detective novel (notably, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (novel), ''The Maltese Falcon''), contracted tuberculosis during World War I *Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet and writer *Jaroslav Hašek *Robert A. Heinlein, American author *Miguel Hernandez *Washington Irving *Takuboku Ishikawa *Panait Istrati *Helen Hunt Jackson *Alfred Jarry *Samuel Johnson *Franz Kafka (1883–1924), German-language novelist best known for his novel ''The Trial'', died from tuberculosis *Uuno Kailas, Finnish composer *Andreas Karkavitsas, Greek writer *John Keats (1795–1821), English Romantic poet; he and his brother Tom were taken by tuberculosis *Dragotin Kette *Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher *Charles Kingsley *Kostas Krystallis, Greek poet *Vincas Kudirka (1858–1899), Lithuanian poet and physician; died from tuberculosis *Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), French-Uruguayan poet *Sidney Lanier *D. H. Lawrence *Lu Xun *Betty MacDonald *Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer, died from tuberculosis aged 34 *William Somerset Maugham *Guy de Maupassant *Sara Haardt, Sara Haardt Mencken *Migjeni, Albanian poet *Molière *Christian Morgenstern, German writer *Josip Murn Aleksandrov *Novalis, German author and philosopher *Jessie Fremont O'Donnell (1860–1897), writer *Eugene O'Neill *George Orwell (1903–1950), British author of ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', ''Animal Farm'' and ''Homage to Catalonia'', first suffered tuberculosis in the early 30s and died from it in 1950, at the age of 46. ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' was written during his final illness. *Walker Percy *Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801–1822), Estonian poet, the founder of modern Estonian poetry; died from tuberculosis, lived only to age 21 *Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Petar Petrović Njegoš Najveći srpski pisac *Andrei Platonov *Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (wife of Edgar Allan Poe) *Maria Polydouri, Greek poet and novelist *Alexander Pope *Eleanor Anne Porden *Katherine Anne Porter *Llewelyn Powys *Winthrop Mackworth Praed *Sholem Rabinovich *Branko Radičević *Michael Raffetto *John Reed (journalist), John Reed *Joachim Ringelnatz, German poet *Edmond Rostand *Jean-Jacques Rousseau *John Ruskin *Albert Samain *Kaarlo Sarkia (1902–1945), Finnish poet *Friedrich Schiller *Sir Walter Scott *Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), Japanese poet famous for revitalizing the haiku, died after a long struggle with tuberculosis *Emily Shore, diarist *Anna Sissak-Bardizbanian, reporter *Juliusz Słowacki *Hristo Smirnenski *Tobias Smollett *Laurence Sterne *Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Neo-romantic Scottish essayist, novelist and poet, is thought to have suffered from tuberculosis during much of his life. He spent the winter of 1887–1888 recuperating from a presumed bout of tuberculosis at Edward Livingston Trudeau, Dr. E.L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York. *Alan Sillitoe *Edith Södergran (1892–1923), Finnish poet *A. H. Tammsaare (1878–1940), Estonian writer; suffered from tuberculosis after 1911 *Dylan Thomas *Francis Thompson *Henry David Thoreau *Lesya Ukrainka *Katri Vala (1901-1944), Finnish poet *Chick Webb *Jessamyn West (writer), Jessamyn West, American author, contracted tuberculosis in 1932 and recovered *Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), American author, died of tuberculosis of the brain. His 1929 novel, ''Look Homeward, Angel'', makes several references to the problem of Tuberculosis, consumption, though Wolfe's condition appeared rather suddenly in 1937. *Jiří Wolker *Simone Weil, French philosopher *Walt Whitman (1819–1892) Autopsy "consumption of the right lung, general miliary tuberculosis" *Vũ Trọng Phụng (1912-1939), Vietnamese people, Vietnamese author, poet.

Artists and actors

*Ioannis Altamouras (1852–1878), Greek painter *Frédéric Bartholdi (1834–1904), French sculptor, creator of the Statue of Liberty *Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884), Russian-born, French-educated painter and diarist, died from tuberculosis at the age of 26 *Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898), English illustrator and author *Anita Berber (1899–1928) German dancer and actress *Harry Clarke (1889–1931), Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator *Colin Clive (1900–1937), British stage and screen actor *Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), French Romantic painter *Rötger Feldmann, German comic book artist *Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), French painter *Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), French Romantic painter, died at age 32. *Boris Kustodiev (1878–1927), Russian painter and stage designer *Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), British actress *Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920), Italian modernist painter *Tim Moore (comedian), Tim Moore (1887–1958), American actor of stage, screen and television *Robert Natus (1890–1950), Estonian architect; suffered from tuberculosis after 1948 *Kārlis Padegs (1911–1940), Latvian painter *José Pancetti (1902–1958), Brazilian modernist painter *William Ranney (1813–1857), 19th-century American painterMillan, Nicholas
"Famed American 19th century painter called North Hudson home"
''The Union City Reporter''; March 16, 2008Rosero, Jessica. "All-American painter" ''The Union City Reporter''; April 30, 2006; Pages 7 and 32 *Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter *Andrei Ryabushkin (1861–1904), Russian painter *Elizabeth Siddal (1829–1862), English artists' model, poet and artist *Peter Purves Smith (1912–1949), Australian modernist artist, died during a lung operation *Virginia Frances Sterret (1900–1931), American artist and illustrator *Renée Adorée *Christiaan Van Vuuren *Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter *Mabel Normand *N!xau *Barry Morse *Dick Martin (comedian), Dick Martin, comedian; lost a lung due to tuberculosis as a teenager *Annie Lewis (c. 1869–1896), musical comedy actress *Vivien Leigh (1913–1967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosis *Georgiana Drew, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, actress, succumbed aged 36

Composers, singers and musicians

*Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer, died in 1805 of pulmonary tuberculosis *Alfredo Catalani *Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849), died of consumption at age 39 (see Frédéric Chopin's illness, the discussion for details). Historical records indicate episodes of hemoptysis during performances. *Stephen Foster *Hermann Goetz *Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold *Joseph Martin Kraus *Niccolò Paganini *Jimmy Palao (1879–1925), jazz musician, died of tuberculosis at age 45 *Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736), died of tuberculosis at age 26 *Henry Purcell *Johann Hermann Schein *Igor Stravinsky *Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), died of TB at age 54 *Carl Maria von Weber *Ringo Starr §, musician/former drummer of The Beatles, survived having tuberculosis at age 11 * Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) §, British singer-songwriter * Link Wray * Jimmie Rodgers (country singer), Jimmie Rodgers (1897–1933), country music singer, sang about the woes of tuberculosis in the song ''T.B. Blues'' (co-written with Raymond E. Hall) and ultimately died of the disease days after a New York City recording session. * Joseph Mohr * Bubber Miley, James "Bubber" Miley, jazz trumpeter * Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones, Welsh singing legend, spent about a year recovering from TB in his parents' basement around the age of 12 * Alex Hill (musician), Alex Hill, jazz pianist * George Formby, Sr., music hall comedian and singer (d. 1921) * Charlie Christian, jazz guitarist; pioneer of the electric guitar * Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician

Religious figures

* David Brainerd (1718–1747), left a diary that reflects his reliance upon God's faithfulness amidst his battle with consumption. The diary was historically very influential, particularly to the modern Christians, Christian missionary movement. *John Calvin, leader of the Protestant Reformation * Mary Faustina Kowalska, Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska, the Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic nun#Religious Sister, Religious Sister and Mysticism, mystic from Poland, the proponent of devotion to the Divine Mercy, suffered greatly from tuberculosis and succumbed to it on 5 October 1938. *Cardinal Richelieu of France, died from tuberculosis in 1642 *Saint Therese de Lisieux, Thérèse de Lisieux (1873–1897), died of tuberculosis *Saint Bernadette Soubirous, the visionary of Lourdes *Saint Gemma Galgani, suffered from 'tuberculosis of the spine with aggravated curvature' *Richard Wurmbrand, Protestant minister *Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810), Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic rabbi and religious teacher *Muktanand Swami (1758–1830), saint of the Swaminarayan Sampraday. *Jimmy Blanton, jazz bassist

Leaders and politicians

*Abdulmejid I, 31st Ottoman sultan *Simón Bolívar, the libeator of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, died in 1830 of tuberculosis *Henry B Bolster *John C. Calhoun *Charles IX of France *Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505), a study of her bones indicated that she probably had tuberculosis at a young age *Read Fletcher (–1889), American politician, lawyer, co-founder and editor of the ''Pine Bluff Graphic'' *Henry VII of England *Charles Hamilton Houston, NAACP lawyer known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow" *Andrew Jackson *Muhammed Ali Jinnah *Andres Larka (1878–1942), Estonian military commander and politician; suffered from tuberculosis after 1924 *Sir Wilfrid Laurier *Louis XIII of France *Louis XVII of France *Nestor Makhno (Ukrainian revolutionary) *Madhavrao I, Peshwa Madhavrao I *James Monroe *Napoleon II of France *Pedro I of Brazil (Pedro IV of Portugal) *Petar II Petrović Njegoš (1813-1851), was a Prince-Bishop (vladika) of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered some of the most important in Serbian/Montenegrin literature. *Manuel L. Quezon *John Aaron Rawlins *Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov *Eleanor Roosevelt *Haym Salomon, major financier of the American side during the American Revolutionary War *Okita Soji (1842/1844–1868), young and famous captain of the Shinsengumi, died from tuberculosis. He was rumored to have discovered his disease when he coughed blood and fainted during the Ikedaya Affair. *Alexander Stephens *Sudirman, Commander of Indonesia's armed forces during its Indonesian National Revolution, National Revolution *Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French political philosopher *Desmond Tutu, had tuberculosis as a child *Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu *John Young (Governor), John Young * Edward VI of England * Mahmud II, 30th Ottoman sultan *Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician and philanthropist. He got tuberculosis exacerbated by the dank conditions in his cell *Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician *Edward VI (1537–1553), died of tuberculosis at age 15 during his short reign as King of England *Mary Tudor, Queen of France (Daughter of Henry VII of England, third wife of Louis XII of France) *Madeleine of Valois (Daughter of Francis I of France, first wife of James V of Scotland *Ho Chi Minh *Prince Paul von Thurn und Taxis (1843–1879), former aide-de-camp of King Ludwig II *Takasugi Shinsaku (1839–1867), samurai *Gavrilo Princip *Joseph Mary Plunkett *Jane Pierce, United States First Lady of the United States, first lady *Okita Soji (1844–1868), samurai *Arthur Nixon, President Nixon's brother *Harold Nixon, President Nixon's brother *Anne Neville (queen consort of Richard III) (unproven) *Asif Maharramov, national hero of Azerbaijan *Thomas "Tad" Daniel Lincoln (1853–1871), youngest child of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, died of TB in Chicago, Illinois, at age 18 *John Lynch (Fenian), John Lynch (c.1832–1866), Irish nationalist *Edward Baker Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, Mary Ann Todd Lincoln *Doc Holliday, John Henry "Doc" Holliday, famous gambler and gunslinger, suffered from tuberculosis until his death in 1887 *Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Princess Amelia, at age 27; youngest child of King George III

Scientists

* Niels Abel, mathematician * Anandi Gopal Joshi, first Indian woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine *Frédéric Bastiat *Alexander Graham Bell *Anders Celsius *William Kingdon Clifford, mathematician and philosopher *Trial of Reuben Crandall, Reuben Crandall, 19th-century physician, caught disease while in jail awaiting trial; he was acquitted *Gotthold Eisenstein, mathematician *Augustin-Jean Fresnel *Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811–1846), British naval surgeon, botanist and malacologist, diagnosed with phthisis in 1845 *George Katona, founder of behavioural macro-economics *Immanuel Kant *Dmitri Mendeleev, creator of the first version of the periodic table of elements. *Friedrich Miescher, Swiss biochemist, noted for discovery of nucleic acids in cell nucleus (1844–1895) *Srinivasa Ramanujan, mathematician; uncertain: believed for many years to have died from tuberculosis but now suspected the cause may have been hepatic amoebiasis *Gustav Roch, mathematician *Bernhard Riemann, mathematician *Erwin Schrödinger *Baruch Spinoza *Eugene Wigner *Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French anatomist *Lev Vygotsky *Adrianus Turnebus *Edward Livingston Trudeau, American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium for treatment of tuberculosis *Herman Potocnik, Herman Potočnik *René Laennec, French physician; inventor of the stethoscope *Wang Jin (archaeologist), Wang Jin, former President of the Hubei Archaeological Association, died of Thoracic Spinal Tuberculosis at age 93

Businessmen

* Jay Gould, American railroad magnate and financier of the Gilded Age (1880s) * William Wirt Winchester, William Winchester (son of Oliver Winchester, husband of Sarah Winchester)

Sportsmen

* Malcolm Allison, footballer and manager * James Burke (boxer), James Burke * Rico Carty, baseball player * George Coulthard, Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer * Archie Jackson, Australian cricketer * Dan Kolov, Bulgarian wrestler * George Lohmann, English cricketer * Christy Mathewson (1880–1925), major league baseball pitcher; developed tuberculosis as a consequence of being accidentally gassed during a training exercise while serving in the U.S. Army Chemical Service during World War I. Zee * Red Schoendienst, baseball player and manager * Georges Vézina, Georges Vezina * Rube Waddell

Fictional characters

* Arthur Morgan (Red Dead), Arthur Morgan, fictional former gunslinger and member of the Van Der Linde gang (1863-1899); Main protagonist in Rockstar game ''Red Dead Redemption 2'' * Helen Burns in ''Jane Eyre'' * Marguerite Gautier in ''La Dame aux Camélias'' * Nikolai Dmitrich Levin in ''Anna Karenina'' * ''Mimì in La bohème, La Bohème'' * The patients of Thomas Mann's sanatorium of ''The Magic Mountain''

Others

*Simonetta Vespucci *Beulah Annan *Samuel Arnold (Lincoln conspirator), Samuel Arnold *Sarah Bernhardt *Louis Braille *Cheng Man-ch'ing, T'ai chi ch'uan master *W. C. Fields *Brenda Fricker *Andrés Gómez *Emmett Hardy *Antonia Navarro Huezo, at age 21; first woman in Central America to graduate from university *John Ives *Adrian Joss *Freddie Keppard *Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), Chinese architect *Leander H. McNelly *Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail#Biography, Ismail Mohammed *Florence Nightingale *Etti Plesch *Shanawdithit, believed to have been the last surviving member of the Beothuk people of Newfoundland (island), Newfoundland, died from tuberculosis in 1829. *Tulasa Thapa, kidnapped Nepali girl, died of tuberculosis in 1995