List of people diagnosed with colorectal cancer

This article lists notable people who were or have been diagnosed with colorectal cancer.

• Audrey Hepburn died January 20, 1993 aged 63^[1]
• Alto Reed famous saxophone player died on December 30, 2020 age 72 when he died
• Antonin Artaud French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor,and theatre director, died on 4 March 1948, alone in a psychiatric clinic, at the foot of his bed, clutching his shoe, from an overdose of chloral hydrate his doctor prescribed to control the pain from a very advanced and inoperable rectal cancer.
• Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American athlete^[2]
• Bob Jenkins, Auto racing broadcaster^[3]
• Bobby Moore, England Football Captain and World Cup winner 1966, died February 24, 1993 aged 51. The Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK is committed to beating bowel cancer in his memory.^[4]
• Brion Gysin, British/Canadian writer and painter, was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 1974 and underwent a colostomy; died on 13 July 1986 of lung cancer.
• Carmen Marc Valvo, American Evening-wear designer^[5]
• Chadwick Boseman, American actor, died August 28, 2020 aged 43; 3-4 years after diagnosis.^[6]
• Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts, died at age 77; 60 days after diagnosis.^[7]
• Claude Debussy, French composer^[8]
• Corazon Aquino, 11th president of the Philippines who died 1 Aug 2009, aged 76.^[9]
• Eartha Kitt died December 25, 2008 aged 81^[10]
• Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Developed colon cancer at age 66, died 2002 aged 101^[11]
• Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress, died at age 62, 8 weeks after diagnosis.^[12][13]
• Harold Wilson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• Howard Marks, Welsh drug smuggler and author^[14]
• Hugo Pratt, Italian cartoonist, died of colon cancer on 20 August 1995.
• Jay Monahan, American attorney, died of colon cancer at age 42. His widow, Katie Couric, raised awareness of colorectal cancers after his death, encouraged people to get tested, and a ward for gastrointestinal health at a New York hospital is named after him. ^[15]
• Joel Siegel, Emmy award-winning film critic and Entertainment Editor of ABC's Good Morning America^[16]
• John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State under Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower.^[17]
• José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor, theater, and film director; died 26 January 1992 at the age of 80.^[18]
• John Bain, Video game commentator, died May 24, 2018, aged 33.^[19][20]
• Lois Maxwell, actress known for playing Miss Moneypenny in the first 14 James Bond films.
• Lynn Faulds Wood, former BBC Watchdog presenter, survived advanced bowel cancer and founded the charities Beating Bowel Cancer and Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign.^[21]
• Pelé, former footballer for Santos FC, New York Cosmos and Brazil, diagnosed at 81 years old.
• Sara Murray Jordan, gastroenterologist; diagnosed herself with colon cancer and died in 1959 at the age of 75.^[22]
• Malcolm Marshall, West Indian and Hampshire Cricketer^[23]
• Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, died 9 November, 1940 aged 71^[24]
• Robin Gibb, singer, musician and producer, member of the Bee Gees.^[25]
• Rod Roddy - second announcer for The Price is Right, died on October 27, 2003, 2 years after being diagnosed with colon cancer.^[26]
• Ronald Reagan, 40th US President.^[27]
• Russi Taylor, American voice actress best known as the voice of Minnie Mouse; died July 26, 2019 at the age of 75. ^[28]
• Sam Simon, Co-creator of the TV series The Simpsons; died 8 March 2015 at the age of 59.^[29]
• Sid Waddell, darts commentator (10 August 1940 - 11 August 2012). Died 11 months after diagnosis^[30]
• Simon MacCorkindale, actor; first diagnosed in 2006; died 14 October 2010.^[31]
• Tony Snow, newscaster and former Press Secretary under President George W. Bush; died 12 July 2008 at the age of 53.^[32]
• Vince Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970), American football coach of Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins. The Super Bowl trophy was renamed in his honor shortly after his death, as his Packers won the first two Super Bowls.^[33]
• Jackie Gleason, American actor known for portraying Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners.
• Sir Edward Elgar, English composer; died 23 February 1934 aged 76, four months after diagnosis.^[34]
• John Wetton, British Singer/Songwriter (12 June 1949 - 31 January 2017) ^[35]

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