Notable people with chronic fatigue syndrome

Notable people with chronic fatigue syndrome

Some notable persons who are believed to have suffered from chronic fatigue syndrome are:
*Rocco Baldelli, baseball player [cite web | url = http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080312&content_id=2421189&vkey=spt2008news&fext=.jsp&c_id=tb | title = Tampa Bay Rays newspage]
*Olaf Bodden, former German soccer player [cite web | language = german | url = http://www.probono.tv/sendungen/sendung.php?sendung=30&subnav=reportage| title = Documentary "Der müde Stürmer" ]
*Donna Flowers, former professional figure skater, participating in valganciclovir investigation [cite news | last = Tuller | first = David | title = Chronic Fatigue No Longer Seen as 'Yuppie Flu' | pages = | language = English | publisher = The New York Times | date = 2007-07-01 | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/science/17fatigue.html | accessdate = 2008-04-10]
*Clare Francis, British yachtswoman and novelist [Biography at: http://www.clarefrancis.com/biography/]
*Leigh Hatcher, Australian journalist and news presenter - who has authored a book on his experience with CFS [ [http://www.notcrazy.net I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just A Little Unwell ] ]
*Susan Harris, television writer and producer, who incorporated her experiences into the fifth season of "The Golden Girls" [cite web | url = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365358/bio | title = Biography for Susan Harris | source = imdb.com | accessdate = 2007-10-16 | language = english ]
*Laura Hillenbrand, author of the book "", the basis for the film "Seabiscuit" [cite web | url = http://www.nndb.com/people/253/000082007/ | title = Laura Hillenbrand | accessdate = 2007-10-16 | source = Notable Names Database | language = english ]
*Blair Hornstine, a New Jersey resident [cite web | url = http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86469,00.html | title = Demographics, Nerves, Valedictorian, Vouchers | last = Jacobs | first = Joanne |date=2003-05-09 | accessdate = 2007-10-16 | language = english | format = html | source = Foxnews.com ]
*Keith Jarrett, jazz pianist [cite web | format = cfm | language = english | url = http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?ID=2811 | title = Jazz Great Keith Jarrett Discusses Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome |date=2000-09-14 | accessdate = 2007-10-16 ]
*Martin Lev, British actor, former president of 'Action for M.E.', committed suicide 1992, age 33. [cite web|url=http://www.paramountcomedy.com/comedy/watn/article.aspx?id=46 |title=The Cast of Bugsy Malone | publisher=Paramount| format = HTML | accessdate= 2008-03-31] .
*Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer [cite web | url = http://www.footballlegends.org/alastair_lynch.htm | format = html | language = english | accessdate = 2007-10-17 | title = Eighties Tasmanian Footbal Legends: Alastair Lynch |date=2007]
*Peter Marshall, former British squash player [cite web | url = http://www.ayme.org.uk/article.php?sid=13&id=18 | title = Shattered- The Interview | last = Collingridge | first = Emily | language = english |date=2003-08-01 | accessdate = 2007-10-16 | format = php ; Marshall was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis.]
*Stuart Murdoch, British singer [cite web | url = http://www.belleandsebastian.com/press.php?cmd=viewfeature&press_id=9 | title = Belle and Sebastian official site]
*Andrew Oldcorn, British golfer [cite web | url = http://www.europeantour.com/publish.sps?pageid=127&pagegid=%7BAB0336D2%2DD3C9%2D469B%2DBCB6%2DBFD443B52A34%7D&playerId=143 | title = Player biography: Andrew Oldcorn | language = english | accessdate = 2007-10-16 |date=2007; Oldcorn was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis.]
*Ali Smith, Scottish author [cite web | url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookerprize2005/story/0,16347,1546471,00.html | title = Life stories: Ali Smith | accessdate = 2007-10-16 | language = english | format = html |date=2005-05-22 | source = Guardian Unlimited | last = France | first = Louise ]
*Naomi Weisstein, American author and neuroscientist, completely bedridden since the 1980s. [Cite web |url=http://www.cwluherstory.com/CWLUMemoir/weisstein.html |author=Jesse Lemisch and Naomi Weisstein |title=Remarks on Naomi Weisstein |year=1997 |quote=By 1981 she needed a wheelchair. By 1983 she was bedridden. She lived the nightmare that she had written about in "Psychology Constructs the Female," as an insane and sexist medical profession offered psychojunk to explain a woman's illness. The sharks now morphed into greedy drug companies, and medical insurers that wanted Naomi dead because she was so expensive. ]

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