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== Writers and poets ==
*[[Agha Ahmad Ali]] (1839–1873), Bengali academic, scholar of Persian and Urdu poet, died of tuberculosis in June 1873
*[[Maksim Bahdanovič]], [[Belarus|Belarusian]] poet, died from tuberculosis
*[[Manuel Bandeira]], Brazilian poet, had tuberculosis in 1904 and expressed the effects of the disease in his life in many of his poems
*[[Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]], Spanish poet, died on 22 December 1870 from tuberculosis
*[[Vissarion Belinsky]], Russian literary critic
* [[Edward Bellamy]] (1850–1898), fiction writer remembered for his book ''[[Looking Backward]]'', died from tuberculosis
*[[Sukanta Bhattacharya]], Bengali poet and playwright
* [[Jonas Biliūnas]]
* [[Rachel Bluwstein]]
* [[Randolph Bourne]], at age 4, he developed [[tuberculosis of the spine]], which left him with a hunchback <ref>{{cite news |last1=Reardon |first1=Christopher |title=Randolph Bourne's 1911 essay on disability shocked society. But what's changed since? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/jan/09/randolph-bournes-1911-essay-on-disability-shocked-society-but-whats-changed-since |newspaper=The Guardian |date=9 January 2018 |access-date=21 April 2024}}</ref>
* [[Anne Brontë|Anne]] and [[Emily Brontë]] and other members of the [[Brontë family]] 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]]
*[[Sara Jeannette Duncan]] (1861–1922), Canadian author and journalist
*[[Paul Éluard]]
*[[Friedrich Robert Faehlmann]]
*[[Kahlil Gibran]] (1883–1931), Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist
*[[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]]
*[[Alice Corbin Henderson]] (1881–1949), American poet, author, and poetry editor
*[[Robert A. Heinlein]], American author
*[[William Ernest Henley]] (1849–1903), English poet, writer, critic, and editor
*[[Mary Eliza Herbert]] (1829–1872), Canadian publisher and poet
*[[Sarah Herbert]] (1824–1846), Irish-Nova Scotian author, publisher, and educator
*[[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]]
*[[Janet Lewis]]
*[[Lu Xun]]
*[[Betty MacDonald]]
*[[Katherine Mansfield]], [[New Zealand]] writer, died from tuberculosis aged 34
*[[William Somerset Maugham]]
*[[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 1930s 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]]
*[[Llewelyn Powys]]
*[[Winthrop Mackworth Praed]]
*[[Sholem Rabinovich]]
*[[Branko Radičević]]
*[[Lynn Riggs]]
*[[Joachim Ringelnatz]], German poet
*[[John Ruskin]]
*[[Albert Samain]]
*[[Kaarlo Sarkia]] (1902–1945), Finnish poet
*[[Friedrich Schiller]]
*[[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
*[[Francis Thompson]]
*[[Henry David Thoreau]]
*[[Lesya Ukrainka]]
*[[Katri Vala]] (1901-1944), Finnish poet
*[[Jessamyn West (writer)|Jessamyn West]], American author, contracted tuberculosis in 1932 and recovered
*[[Yvor Winters]]
*[[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.

== Actors ==
*[[Renée Adorée]], (1898–1933), French actress
*[[Anita Berber]] (1899–1928) German dancer and actress
*[[Colin Clive]] (1900–1937), British stage and screen actor
*[[Georgiana Drew|Georgiana Drew Barrymore]] (1856–1893), actress, succumbed aged 36
*[[Rachel Félix]] (1821-1858), French actress
*[[Vivien Leigh]] (1913–1967), British actress of stage and screen, died from complications of tuberculosis
*[[Annie Lewis]] (c. 1869–1896), musical comedy actress
*[[Dick Martin (comedian)|Dick Martin]] (1922–2008), comedian; lost a lung due to tuberculosis as a teenager
*[[Tim Moore (comedian)|Tim Moore]] (1887–1958), American actor of stage, screen and television
*[[Barry Morse]] (1918–2008), British-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio
*[[Mabel Normand]] (1893–1930), American silent film actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and comedian
*[[N!xau]] (1944–2003), Namibian actor
*[[Michael Raffetto]]
*[[Christiaan Van Vuuren]] (1982– ), Australian actor, writer, director and video blogger

== Artists==
*[[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
*[[Richard Parkes Bonington]] (1802–1828) English Romantic landscape painter
*[[Kenneth M. Chapman]] (1875–1968), American art historian
*[[Harry Clarke]] (1889–1931), Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator
*[[Eugène Delacroix]] (1798–1863), French Romantic painter
*[[Wyatt Eaton]] (1849–1896), Canadian-American painter
*[[Rötger Feldmann]] (1950– ), German comic book artist
*[[Théodore Géricault]] (1791–1824), French Romantic painter, died at age 32.
*[[Mark Gertler (artist)|Mark Gertler]] (1891–1939), British painter
*[[Thomas Girtin]] (1775–1802), English watercolourist and etcher
*[[James Dickson Innes]] (1887–1914), Welsh painter
*[[Boris Kustodiev]] (1878–1927), Russian painter and stage designer
*[[Georges Lacombe (painter)|Georges Lacombe]] (1868–1916), French sculptor and painter
*[[Charles Laval]] (1862–1894), French painter <ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.3201/eid2603.AC2603 | title=Confusion in the Genesis of Art and Disease: Charles Laval, Paul Gauguin, and Tuberculosis | date=2020 | last1=Chorba | first1=Terence | last2=Jereb | first2=John | journal=Emerging Infectious Diseases | volume=26 | issue=3 | pages=634–635 | s2cid=212552045 | doi-access=free | pmc=7045813 }}</ref>
*[[John Gaw Meem]] (1894–1983), American architect
*[[Datus Myers]] (1879–1960), American painter
*[[Amedeo Modigliani]] (1884–1920), Italian modernist painter
*[[Norval Morrisseau]] (1932–2007), Indigenous Canadian artist
*[[Edvard Munch]] (1863–1944), Norwegian painter
*[[Kārlis Padegs]] (1911–1940), Latvian painter
*[[José Pancetti]] (1902–1958), Brazilian modernist painter
*[[Paulus Potter]] (1625–1654), Dutch painter
*[[William Ranney]] (1813–1857), 19th-century American painter<ref name=Millan>Millan, Nicholas. [http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2415339/article-Looking-back-Famed-American-19th-century-painter-called-North-Hudson-home? "Famed American 19th century painter called North Hudson home"]; ''[[The Union City Reporter]]''; March 16, 2008</ref><ref name=Rosero>Rosero, Jessica. "All-American painter" ''The Union City Reporter''; April 30, 2006; Pages 7 and 32</ref>
*[[Slava Raškaj]] (1877–1906), Croatian painter
*[[Andrei Ryabushkin]] (1861–1904), Russian painter
*[[Will Shuster]] (1893–1969), American painter, sculptor and teacher
*[[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),<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vfsterrett.com/biography.asp |title=Virginia Frances Sterret |access-date=2008-09-02 |archive-date=2012-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116202722/http://www.vfsterrett.com/biography.asp |url-status=dead }}</ref> American artist and illustrator
*[[Theodore Van Soelen]] (1890–1964), American landscape painter
*[[Carlos Vierra]] (1876–1937), American painter, illustrator and photographer

== Composers, singers and musicians ==
*[[Carl Michael Bellman]] (1740–1795), Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet, and entertainer
*[[Jimmy Blanton]], jazz bassist
*[[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.
*[[Charlie Christian]], jazz guitarist; pioneer of the electric guitar
*[[Tom Fogerty]], (1941–1990), rhythm guitarist for [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]]
*[[George Formby, Sr.]], music hall comedian and singer (d. 1921)
*[[Stephen Foster]]
*[[Hermann Goetz]]
*[[Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold]]
*[[Alex Hill (musician)|Alex Hill]], jazz pianist
*[[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]], Welsh singing legend, spent about a year recovering from TB in his parents' basement around the age of 12
*[[Joseph Martin Kraus]]
*[[Jari Mäenpää]], Finnish musician
*[[Bubber Miley|James "Bubber" Miley]], jazz trumpeter
*[[Joseph Mohr]]
*[[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]]
*[[Julius Reubke]] (1834–1858), German composer, pianist, and organist
*[[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.
*[[Johann Hermann Schein]]
*[[Igor Stravinsky]]
*[[Karol Szymanowski]] (1882-1937), died of TB at age 54
*[[Ringo Starr]], musician/former drummer of [[The Beatles]], survived having tuberculosis at age 11

* [[Cat Stevens]] (now Yusuf Islam) §, British singer-songwriter
*[[Carl Maria von Weber]]
* [[Chick Webb]]
* [[Link Wray]]

== Religious figures ==
*[[Dina Bélanger]] (1897–1929), beatified Canadian nun
* [[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.<ref name="Biography-Piper">{{cite web | author=John Piper | authorlink=John Piper (theologian) | date=January 31, 1990 |url=http://www.desiringgod.org/library/biographies/90brainerd.html |title="Oh, That I May Never Loiter on My Heavenly Journey!" — Reflections on the Life and Ministry of David Brainerd | accessdate=2006-05-08 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20060216053159/http://www.desiringgod.org/library/biographies/90brainerd.html  |archivedate = 2006-02-16}}</ref><ref name="Brainerd-dairy">{{cite book | author = Jonathan Edwards | authorlink = Jonathan Edwards (theologian) | title = The Life And Diary of The Rev. David Brainerd | url = http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/works2.ix.html | accessdate = 2006-05-08 | publisher = Christian Classics Ethereal Library | location = Calvin College | chapter = The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Volume Two}}</ref>
*[[John Calvin]], leader of the [[Protestant Reformation]]
*[[Józef Cebula]] (1902–1941), beatified Polish priest
*Saint [[Gemma Galgani]], suffered from 'tuberculosis of the spine with aggravated curvature'
*[[John Harvard (clergyman)|John Harvard]] (1607–1638), English dissenting minister and founder of [[Harvard University]]
* [[Mary Faustina Kowalska|Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska]], the [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] [[nun#Religious Sister|religious Sister]] and [[Mysticism|mystic]] from Poland, initiator of the [[Divine Mercy devotion]], suffered greatly from tuberculosis and succumbed to it on 5 October 1938.<ref name="St.Faustina">{{cite web | title=Maria Faustina Kowalska | publisher=St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church | year=2006 | url=http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/faustina.htm}}</ref>
*[[Nachman of Breslov]] (1772–1810), [[Hasidic Judaism|Hasidic]] rabbi and religious teacher
*[[Karl Leisner]] (1915–1945), Roman Catholic priest
*[[Bruna Pellesi]] (1917–1972), beatified Italian nun
*[[Maria Angela Picco]] (1867–1921), beatified Italian Roman Catholic
*[[Gérard Raymond]] (1912–1932), Canadian seminarian
*[[Cardinal Richelieu]] of France, died from tuberculosis in 1642
*[[Junípero Serra]] (1713–1784), Spanish Catholic priest and missionary
*Saint [[Bernadette Soubirous]], the visionary of [[Lourdes]]
*[[Muktanand Swami]] (1758–1830), saint of the Swaminarayan Sampraday.<ref>Williams, Raymond (2001), Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism, Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-521-65422-7}}</ref>
*Saint [[Therese de Lisieux|Thérèse de Lisieux]] (1873–1897), died of tuberculosis
*[[Richard Wurmbrand]], Protestant minister
*[[Domingo Iturrate Zubero]] (1901–1927), Spanish Roman Catholic priest

== Leaders and politicians ==
*[[Abdulmejid I]], 31st Ottoman sultan
*[[Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom|Princess Amelia]], at age 27; youngest child of King [[George III]]
*[[Simón Bolívar]], the liberator of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, died in 1830 of tuberculosis
*[[Henry B Bolster]]
*[[Anthony Burns]] (1834–1862), American enslaved man who challenged the Fugitive Slave Act
*[[John C. Calhoun]], seventh [[Vice President of the United States]]
*[[John Solomon Cartwright]] (1804–1845), Canadian businessman, lawyer, judge, farmer, and political figure
*[[Catherine I of Russia]] (1684–1727), emperor
*[[Charles IX of France]]
*[[Crowfoot]] (1830–1890), chief of the Siksika First Nation
*[[Charles Daoust]] (1825–1868), Canadian lawyer, journalist, and political figure
*[[Edward VI]] of England (1537–1553), died of tuberculosis at age 15
*[[Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505)]], a study of her bones indicated that she probably had tuberculosis at a young age
*[[Read Fletcher]] ({{circa|1829}}–1889), American politician, lawyer, co-founder and editor of the ''Pine Bluff Graphic''<ref>{{cite news|author=|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/603982013/ |title=Hon. Read Fletcher|url-access=subscription|work=[[The Tennessean]]|volume=XV|number=4830|location=Nashville, Tenn.|page=5|date=November 30, 1889|access-date=March 7, 2022|via=[[Ancestry.com#Newspapers.com|Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
*[[Lucien Gagnon]] (1793–1843), farmer who fought in the Lower Canada Rebellion
*[[Gilbert Anselme Girouard]] (1846–1885), Canadian member of parliament
*[[John Hearn (politician)]] (1827–1894), Irish-Canadian member of parliament
*[[Henry VII of England]]
*[[Ho Chi Minh]]
*[[Doc Holliday|John Henry "Doc" Holliday]], famous gambler and [[gunslinger]], suffered from tuberculosis until his death in 1887
*[[Charles Hamilton Houston]], NAACP lawyer known as "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow"
*[[Andrew Jackson]], 7th [[President of the United States]]
*[[Muhammed Ali Jinnah]]
*[[Andres Larka]] (1878–1942), Estonian military commander and politician; suffered from tuberculosis after 1924
*Sir [[Wilfrid Laurier]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]]
*[[Edward Baker Lincoln]], son of [[Abraham Lincoln]] and [[Mary Todd Lincoln]]
*[[Thomas "Tad" Daniel Lincoln]] (1853–1871), youngest child of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, died of TB in [[Chicago, Illinois]], at age 18
*[[Graciano López Jaena]] (1856–1896), Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national hero
*[[Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France]] (1781–1789), second child of [[Louis XVI]] and [[Marie Antoinette]]
*[[Louis, Dauphin of France (1729–1765)]], elder son of [[Louis XV]]
*[[Louis XIII]] of France
*[[Louis XVII]] of France
*[[John Lynch (Fenian)|John Lynch]] (c.1832–1866), Irish nationalist
*[[William Mactavish]] (1815–1870), Scottish-Canadian trader and governor
*[[J. B. McLachlan]] (1869–1937), Scottish-Canadian trade unionist, journalist, revolutionary, and activist
*[[Madeleine of Valois]] (Daughter of [[Francis I of France]], first wife of [[James V of Scotland]]
*[[Nestor Makhno]] (Ukrainian revolutionary)
*[[Madhavrao I|Peshwa Madhavrao I]]
*[[Asif Maharramov]], national hero of Azerbaijan
*[[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
*[[Albert Mountain Horse]] (1893–1915), Kainai Canadian soldier
*[[Marcelo H. del Pilar]] (1850–1896), Filipino writer, lawyer, journalist, and freemason
*[[Mary Tudor, Queen of France]] (Daughter of [[Henry VII of England]], third wife of [[Louis XII]] of France)
*[[James Monroe]]
*[[Napoleon II]], disputed Emperor of the French, later Austrian nobility
*[[Anne Neville]] (queen consort of [[Richard III of England]]) (unproven)
*[[Arthur Nixon]], President [[Richard Nixon]]'s brother
*[[Harold Nixon]], President Nixon's brother
*[[William Bernard O'Donoghue]] (1843–1878), Irish-American participant in the [[Red River Rebellion]]
*[[Prince Paul von Thurn und Taxis]] (1843–1879), former aide-de-camp of King Ludwig II
*[[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.
*[[Jane Pierce]], United States [[First Lady of the United States|first lady]]
*[[Madame de Pompadour]] (1721–1764), French courtier and chief mistress of [[Louis XV]]
*[[Joseph Mary Plunkett]]
*[[Gavrilo Princip]], assassin who fired the "first shot" of [[World War I]]
*[[Manuel L. Quezon]], President of the [[Philippines]]
*[[John Aaron Rawlins]]
*[[Dmitri Pavlovitch Romanov]]
*[[Eleanor Roosevelt]], United States [[First Lady of the United States|first lady]]
*[[Haym Salomon]], major financier of the American side during the [[American Revolutionary War]]
*[[Dred Scott]] (1799–1858), plaintiff in Supreme Court case [[Dred Scott v. Sandford]]
*[[Takasugi Shinsaku]] (1839–1867), samurai
*[[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]], the only [[Vice President of the Confederate States]]
*[[Sudirman]], Commander of Indonesia's armed forces during its [[Indonesian National Revolution|National Revolution]]
*[[Alexis de Tocqueville]] (1805–1859), French political philosopher
*[[Shreya Tripathi]] (d. 2018), Indian health activist
*[[Charles Turner Torrey]] (1813–1846), American abolitionist
*[[Desmond Tutu]], South African clergyman and reformer, had tuberculosis as a child
*[[Andreas Vokos Miaoulis]], Greek admiral and politician
*[[David Walker (abolitionist)|David Walker]] (1796–1830), American abolitionist
*[[George Washington Williams]] (1849–1891), American minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and writer
*[[Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu]]
*[[John Young (Governor)|John Young]]

== Scientists ==

* [[Niels Abel]], mathematician
*[[William James Anderson]] (1812–1873), Scottish-Canadian physician
*[[Frédéric Bastiat]]
*[[Alexander Graham Bell]]
*[[Norman Bethune]] (1890–1939), Canadian surgeon and Communist
*[[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
*[[George Mercer Dawson]] (1849–1901), Canadian geologist and surveyor
*[[Gotthold Eisenstein]], mathematician
*[[Augustin-Jean Fresnel]]
*[[Richard Brinsley Hinds]] (1811–1846), British naval surgeon, botanist and malacologist, diagnosed with phthisis in 1845 <ref>{{cite web |title=Hinds, Richard Brinsley (1812?{{ndash}}1847) |url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E002231b.htm |accessdate=19 May 2019 |website=[[Royal College of Surgeons of England|Royal College of Surgeons]]}}</ref>
*[[Anandi Gopal Joshi]], first Indian woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine
*[[Edgar Lee Hewett]] (1865–1946), American archaeologist and anthropologist
*[[George Katona]], founder of behavioural macro-economics
*[[Immanuel Kant]]
*[[René Laennec]], French physician; inventor of the stethoscope
*[[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)
*[[Herman Potocnik|Herman Potočnik]]
*[[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]]
*[[Flora Madeline Shaw]] (1864–1927), Canadian nurse and nursing teacher
*[[Baruch Spinoza]]
*[[Edward Livingston Trudeau]], American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium for treatment of tuberculosis
*[[Adrianus Turnebus]]
*[[Félix Vicq-d'Azyr]], French anatomist
*[[Lev Vygotsky]]
*[[Wang Jin (archaeologist)|Wang Jin]], former President of the Hubei Archaeological Association, died of Thoracic Spinal Tuberculosis at age 93
*[[Eugene Wigner]]

== Business ==

*[[Michael James Heney]] (1864–1910), Canadian railroad contractor
* [[Jay Gould]], American railroad magnate and financier of the Gilded Age (1880s)
* [[George Keats]], American businessman and civic leader
* [[John B. Stetson]], American hat maker
* [[William Wirt Winchester|William Winchester]] (son of [[Oliver Winchester]], husband of [[Sarah Winchester]])

== Athletes ==

* [[Malcolm Allison]], footballer and manager
* [[Roberto Bettega]], Italian footballer; was forced out of a game on 16 January 1972 to treat his tuberculosis
* [[Robert Boucher (ice hockey)|Robert Boucher]] (1904–1931), Canadian hockey player
* [[James Burke (boxer)|James Burke]]
* [[Rico Carty]], baseball player
* [[George Coulthard]], Australian cricketer and Australian rules footballer
* [[Deerfoot-Bad Meat]] (1864–1897), Canadian runner
* [[Arthur Farrell]] (1877–1909), Canadian hockey player
* [[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
* [[Red Schoendienst]], baseball player and manager
* [[Katherine Stinson]] (1891–1977), American aviator
* [[Georges Vézina|Georges Vezina]]
* [[Rube Waddell]]

== Fictional characters ==

* Helen Burns in ''[[Jane Eyre]]''
* Marguerite Gautier in ''[[La Dame aux Camélias]]''
* Nikolai Dmitrich Levin in ''[[Anna Karenina]]''
* ''Mimì in [[La bohème|La Bohème]]''
* [[Arthur Morgan]] in ''[[Red Dead Redemption 2]]''
* The patients of Thomas Mann's sanatorium of ''[[The Magic Mountain]]''
* [[Oscar François de Jarjayes]] in [[The Rose of Versailles]]
* [[Okita Souji]] in [[Fate/type Redline]]
* Ruby Gillis dies from tuberculosis in ''[[Anne of the Island]]''

== Others ==
*[[Beulah Annan]]
*[[Samuel Arnold (Lincoln conspirator)|Samuel Arnold]]
*[[Sarah Bernhardt]]
*[[Louis Braille]]
*[[Demasduit]] (1796–1820), one of the last Beothuk women in Newfoundland
*[[Marie Duplessis]] (1824–1847), French courtesan
*[[Cheng Man-ch'ing]], [[tai chi]] 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<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-09-21 |title=Ella es la primera mujer universitaria de Centroamérica |url=https://www.elsalvador.com/entretenimiento/cultura/ella-es-la-primera-mujer-universitaria-de-centroamerica/520777/2018/ |access-date=2020-01-03 |website=Noticias de El Salvador - elsalvador.com |language=es}}</ref>
*[[John Ives]]
*[[Adrian Joss]]
*[[Freddie Keppard]]
*[[Lin Huiyin]] (1904–1955), Chinese architect
*[[Dorothy McKibbin]] (1897–1985), Manhattan Project administrator
*[[Leander H. McNelly]]
*[[Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail#Biography|Ismail Mohammed]]
*[[Florence Nightingale]]
*[[Etti Plesch]]
*[[Jeannie Rousseau]], allied spy during World War II
*[[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
*[[Simonetta Vespucci]], artists' model

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Rothman, Sheila M. (1994). ''Living in the Shadow of Death: Tuberculosis and the Social Experience of Illness in American History''. {{ISBN|0-8018-5186-6}}

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