List of people with ankylosing spondylitis

This is a list of people, living or dead, accompanied by verifiable source citations associating them with ankylosing spondylitis, either based on their own public statements, or (in the case of dead people only) reported contemporary or posthumous diagnoses.

• Abdullah Karaarslan
• Christopher Columbus (explorer),^[1]

• John Addey,^[2] an English astrologer who lived from 1920 to 1982.
• Simon Armitage,^[3] an English poet, playwright and novelist born in 1963.
• Mike Atherton,^[4] a broadcaster, journalist and retired England international cricketer born in 1968.
• Rico Brogna,^[5] a former Major League Baseball first baseman born in 1970.
• Jay Chou,^[6][7] a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director who was born in 1979 and has won the World Music Award four times.
• Norman Cousins,^[8] an American political journalist, author, professor. Wrote Anatomy of an Illness.
• Bruce Furniss,^[9] an American swimmer born in 1957.
• Andrew George,^[10] a British Liberal Democrat politician born in 1958.
• Bryan Gunn,^[11] a Scottish former professional goalkeeper and football manager born in 1963.
• Franklin Gutierrez,^[12] a Major League Baseball player.
• Edward Hubbard,^[13] an English architectural historian who worked with Nikolaus Pevsner in compiling volumes of the Buildings of England and lived from 1937 to 1989.
• Lee Hurst,^[14] an English comedian born in 1962.
• Michael King,^[15] an English professional golfer born in 1950.
• Vladimir Kramnik,^[16] a Russian chess grandmaster born in 1975.
• Paul Kuhr,^[17] an American musician, vocalist, lyricist, author, and graphic designer who was born in 1971 and was a founding member of the band Novembers Doom.
• Iain Macleod,^[18] a British Conservative Party politician and government minister who lived from 1913 to 1970.
• Mick Mars,^[19] lead guitarist for American heavy metal band Mötley Crüe who was born in 1951.
• Nikolai Ostrovsky,^[20] a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era and lived from 1904 to 1936.
• Christa Reinig,^[21] a German writer born in Berlin in 1926 and died in Munich in 2008.
• Michael Slater,^[22] a former Australian cricketer who played in 74 Tests and 42 ODIs for the Australian cricket team from 1993 to 2001 and was born in 1971.
• Chris Small,^[23] a retired Scottish professional snooker player born in 1973.
• William Soutar,^[24] a Scottish poet born in 1898 and died in 1943.
• David Oswald Thomas,.^[25] a Welsh philosopher, born in Rhuthun, Denbighshire in 1924 and died in 2005.
• Leonard Trask,^[26] born in 1805 and whose condition provided the first American description of ankylosing spondylitis.
• Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister of Norway 2000-2001 and 2005-2013.^[27]
• Juan Luis Suárez Garrido,^[28] guitarist for the Spanish pop-rock band El sueño de Morfeo.
• Michael Woodhouse, Minister of Immigration, Police, and Workplace Relations and Safety for New Zealand, and Honorary Life Member of Arthritis New Zealand.^[29]
• Ian Woosnam,^[15] a Welsh professional golfer born in 1958.
• Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) Czech writer
• Shane Wehner, former ASP World Tour professional surfer from 1993–2001, born in Australia in 1974.
• Dan Reynolds, lead singer of Grammy award winning rock group Imagine Dragons, originating from Las Vegas. He first revealed the existence of his condition in November 2015 during a gig in Leeds, UK.
• Rachel Taylor, lead singer of band He Is We
• Ed Sullivan
• Randy Gallan, American/world champion and record holder in powerlifting, AAU Hall of Fame.

References

1. url=http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2005/arthritis-expert-re-examines-death-of-christopher-columbus.html
2. Mann, A. T. (2004). The future of astrology. p. 41. ISBN 1-931044-87-2. OCLC 57641554. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
3. "Simon Armitage: 'I'm quite boyish in my outlook'". The Independent (The Independent). 18 December 2009. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
4. Nick Gough (2005). Puzzling Out General Medicine, Part 2. Remedica. p. 60. ISBN 1-901346-87-0. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
5. Doug Glanville (2010). The Game from Where I Stand: A Ballplayer's Inside View. Macmillan. p. 188. ISBN 1-4299-4720-9. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
6. "Jay Chou discusses the wonder of life in illness 二度造访心情电视 周杰伦谈病痛中的精彩人生" (News article) (in Chinese). sina.com.cn. 28 April 2003. Retrieved 2 June 2007.
7. "Jacky Wu: Jay Chou takes 12 painkillers 吴宗宪：周杰伦一度服12颗止痛药" (News article) (in Chinese). zaobao.com. 25 February 2006. Retrieved 2 June 2007.
8. Siân Griffiths (2005). Change and Development in Specialist Public Health Practice: Leadership, Partnership and Delivery. Radcliffe Publishing. p. 43. ISBN 1-85775-697-5. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
9. Jean, Dorthy (Dec 1999). "You Gotta Play Hurt". Orange Coast Magazine (Emmis Communications) 25 (12): 20. ISSN 0279-0483. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
10. Andrew George (19 September 2010). "Toothache in my hips; MP Andrew George tells how it feels to have the rheumatic disease ankylosing spondylitis". The Mail on Sunday. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
11. Forsyth, Paul (25 January 2009). "Interview: Gunn slings his hat in the ring at City". Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh). Retrieved 15 March 2011.
12. Divish, Ryan. "Franklin Gutierrez re-signs with Mariners", The Seattle Times, December 18, 2013.
13. Edward Hubbard (1991). The work of John Douglas (illustrated ed.). Victorian Society. p. 289. ISBN 0-901657-16-6. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
14. "Probe into arthritis pain". BBC News (BBC News). 24 August 2002. Retrieved 6 September 2007.
15. Casey, Phil (29 July 2006). "New treatment puts Woosnam back in title hunt". The Independent (UK). Retrieved 18 December 2011.
16. "ChessBase.com – Chess News – Kramnik drops out of Wijk Super-Tournament". Chessbase.com. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2008.
17. "Study Finds Arthritis Genes". International Business Times. 15 July 2002. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
18. Nigel Fisher (1973). Iain Macleod. Deutsch. p. 46. ISBN 0-233-96324-3. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
19. Lee, Tommy; Strauss, Neil; Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Nikki Sixx, Neil Strauss (2002) [2001]. The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band (reprint, illustrated ed.). HarperCollins. p. 186. ISBN 0-06-098915-7. OCLC 212381899. Retrieved 18 December 2011. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
20. Dan Richardson (2001). The rough guide to Moscow. Rough Guides. p. 135. ISBN 1-85828-700-6.
21. Hillgruber, Katrin (7 October 2008). "Nachruf: Christa Reinig—Ich träume von meiner Verkommenheit". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Retrieved 20 February 2012.
22. Presenters: Andrew Denton and Michael Slater (14 March 2005). "Michael Slater". Enough Rope with Andrew Dentonhttp://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1323968.htm. |transcripturl= missing title (help). 30 minutes in. ABC Television.
23. "Small forced to give up snooker. Former World No.12 Chris Small has retired from snooker due to a degenerative spinal disease.". BBC News (BBC). 23 September 2005. Retrieved 18 December 2011.
24. University of Edinburgh. Graduates' Association (1995). University of Edinburgh journal, Volumes 37–38. University of Edinburgh. p. 239. OCLC 1831427.
25. Martin Fitzpatrick and W. Bernard Peach; Enlightenment and Dissent; Aberystwyth; 19, 2000, vii–xiii; and 21, 2002 vii.
26. Jayson MI (March 2003). "Leonard Trask: the wonderful invalid: the first American description of ankylosing spondylitis". Arthritis and Rheumatism 48 (3): 612–3. doi:10.1002/art.10875. PMID 12632411.
27. Sandli, Espen (2009-08-18). "Nå er Jens vaksinert - nyheter". Dagbladet. Retrieved 2013-04-09.
28. Agudo, Alejandra (11 May 2012). "Mi columna es como una caña de bambú". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 August 2014.
29. "Woodhouse Elected Honorary Life Member by Arthritis New Zealand". Retrieved 3 January 2015.