I looked at famous people with gout a long time ago.
This was part of a “gout entertainment” section where I looked at humor and other interesting aspects of gout.
I got as far as introducing Alfred Lord Tennyson, but the project seemed to take more time than it was worth. Certainly, except for one or two enthusiastic gout sufferers, there seemed to be little interest, and I stopped working on the project.
As part of my website reorganization, I am going to republish the old pages in this new format. At the same time, I will share my list of famous people with gout. If you want to add to this, or want me to do some more research, let me know in the gout forum.
Famous People With Gout List
| Person | Occupation | Date Of Birth | Died | Famous for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansel Adams | Photographer | 20 February 1902 | 22 April 1984 | Yosemite photographer |
| Alexander the Great | Royalty | Jul-356 BC | 10-Jun-323 BC | World conqueror |
| Georges d’Amboise | Religion | 30 December 1903 | 25-May-1510 | Prime Minister under Louis XII |
| Queen Anne | Royalty | 6-Feb-1665 | 1-Aug-1714 | Queen of England, 1702-14 |
| Benedict Arnold | Military | 14-Jan-1741 | 14-Jun-1801 | Betrayed colonists to British |
| William Waldorf Astor | Publisher | 31-Mar-1848 | 18 October 1919 | The Observer |
| Sir Joseph Banks | Botanist | 13-Feb-1743 | 19-Jun-1820 | Accompanied James Cook |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Composer | 17-Dec-1770 | 26-Mar-1827 | Prominent composer |
| Georges Boulanger | Military | 29-Apr-1837 | 30-Sep-1891 | French general-turned-politician |
| William Boyce | Composer | 7-Feb-1710 | 7-Feb-1779 | Cathedral Music |
| Ford Madox Brown | Painter | 16-Apr-1821 | 6-Oct-1893 | English historical painter |
| Sir Richard Burton | Explorer | 19-Mar-1821 | 20-Oct-1890 | Translated The Arabian Nights |
| John Calvin | Religion | 10-Jul-1509 | 27-May-1564 | French Protestant Reformation |
| Girolamo Cardano | Doctor | 24-Sep-1501 | 21-Sep-1576 | De Subtilitate |
| Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione | Painter | 23-Mar-1609 | 5-May-1664 | Italian pastoral painter |
| Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh | Politician | 18-Jun-1769 | 12-Aug-1822 | Architected Napoleon’s defeat |
| William Cecil | Government | 13-Sep-1520 | 5-Aug-1598 | Closest advisor to Elizabeth I |
| Neville Chamberlain | Politician | 18-Mar-1869 | 09 November 1940 | Architect of appeasement |
| Charlemagne | Royalty | c. 747 AD | 28-Jan-814 AD | Holy Roman Emperor |
| Dick Cheney | Politician | 30 January 1941 | Dubya’s VP, ex-CEO of Halliburton | |
| Lord Clarendon | Government | 18-Feb-1609 | 9-Dec-1674 | The Clarendon Code |
| Pope Clement XII | Religion | 7-Apr-1652 | 6-Feb-1740 | Roman Catholic Pope, 1730-40 |
| Grover Cleveland | Head of State | 18-Mar-1837 | 24 June 1908 | 22nd & 24th US President, 1885-89 & 1893-97 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poet | 21-Oct-1772 | 25-Jul-1834 | Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Wilkie Collins | Novelist | 8-Jan-1824 | 23-Dec-1889 | The Moonstone |
| Christopher Columbus | Explorer | 21 December 1903 | 20-May-1506 | Rediscovered the New World |
| William Congreve | Playwright | 24-Jan-1670 | 19-Jan-1729 | The Way of the World |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Artist | 15-Apr-1452 | 2-May-1519 | Mona Lisa, The Last Supper |
| Erasmus Darwin | Naturalist | 12-Dec-1731 | 18-Apr-1802 | English naturalist, very bad poet |
| Charles-François Daubigny | Painter | 15-Feb-1817 | 19-Feb-1878 | French painter of landscapes, ducks |
| Daniel Defoe | Author | Sep-1660 | 24-Apr-1731 | Robinson Crusoe |
| John Demjanjuk | Criminal | 03 April 1920 | Retired auto worker convicted for Nazi past | |
| Charles Dickens | Novelist | 7-Feb-1812 | 9-Jun-1870 | Oliver Twist |
| Rudolf Diesel | Inventor | 18-Mar-1858 | 30 September 1913 | Inventor of the diesel engine |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Head of State | 21-Dec-1804 | 19-Apr-1881 | UK Prime Minister, 1874-80 |
| John Donne | Poet | 20 April 1904 | 31-Mar-1631 | Anniversaries |
| John Dryden | Poet | 19-Aug-1631 | 1-May-1700 | Absalom and Achitophel |
| Allen W. Dulles | Spy | 7-Apr-1893 | 29 January 1969 | CIA Director, 1953-61 |
| William Pitt the Elder | Head of State | 15-Nov-1708 | 11-May-1778 | Seven Years War |
| Quintus Ennius | Poet | c. 239 BC | c. 170 BC | Founder of Roman literature |
| Henry Fielding | Novelist | 22-Apr-1707 | 8-Oct-1754 | Tom Jones |
| Charles James Fox | Politician | 24-Jan-1749 | 13-Sep-1806 | U.K.’s first Foreign Secretary |
| Benjamin Franklin | Diplomat | 17-Jan-1706 | 17-Apr-1790 | American founding father |
| Frederick the Great | Royalty | 24-Jan-1712 | 17-Aug-1786 | King of Prussia 1740-86 |
| Galileo Galilei | Astronomer | 15-Feb-1564 | 8-Jan-1642 | Copernican observational astronomer |
| King George IV | Royalty | 12-Aug-1762 | 26-Jun-1830 | King of England 1820-30 |
| Edward Gibbon | Historian | 8-May-1737 | 16-Jan-1794 | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| Goethe | Author | 28-Aug-1749 | 22-Mar-1832 | Most influential German writer |
| Thomas Gray | Poet | 26-Dec-1716 | 30-Jul-1771 | An Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard |
| William Grayson | Politician | 01 October 1904 | 12-Mar-1790 | US Senator from Virginia, 1789-90 |
| Alec Guinness | Actor | 02 April 1914 | 05 August 2000 | Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars |
| Alexander Hamilton | Government | 11-Jan-1757 | 12-Jul-1804 | Primary author of The Federalist Papers |
| Sir William Rowan Hamilton | Mathematician | 3-Aug-1805 | 2-Sep-1865 | Inventor of Quaternions |
| John Hancock | Politician | 23-Jan-1737 | 8-Oct-1793 | First signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| William Harvey | Doctor | 1-Apr-1578 | 3-Jun-1657 | Discovered circulation of blood |
| King Henry VIII | Royalty | 28-Jun-1491 | 28-Jan-1547 | King of England, 1509-47 |
| Hermann Hesse | Author | 2-Jul-1877 | 09 August 1962 | Siddhartha |
| Pope Honorius IV | Religion | c. 1210 | 3-Apr-1287 | Roman Catholic Pope, 1285-87 |
| John Hunter | Doctor | 13-Feb-1728 | 16-Oct-1793 | English pathologist |
| Thomas Jefferson | Head of State | 13-Apr-1743 | 4-Jul-1826 | 3rd US President, 1801-09 |
| Samuel Johnson | Lexicographer | 18-Sep-1709 | 13-Dec-1784 | A Dictionary of the English Language |
| Pope Julius III | Religion | 10-Sep-1487 | 23-Mar-1555 | Roman Catholic Pope, 1550-55 |
| Kublai Khan | Royalty | 23-Sep-1215 | 18-Feb-1294 | Mongol Emperor, 1260-71 |
| Nicolas Louis de Lacaille | Astronomer | 15-May-1713 | 21-Mar-1762 | Coelum Australe Stelliferum |
| Gottfried Leibniz | Mathematician | 1-Jul-1646 | 14-Nov-1716 | Co-Inventor of calculus |
| Jared Leto | Actor | 26 December 1971 | Harry in Requiem for a Dream | |
| Carolus Linnaeus | Botanist | 23-May-1707 | 10-Jan-1778 | Created a taxonomy of the species |
| Louis XVIII | Royalty | 17-Nov-1755 | 16-Sep-1824 | King of France, 1814-15 & 1815-24 |
| Lucian | Author | 120 AD | c. 180 AD | Dialogues of the Dead |
| Karl Marx | Economist | 5-May-1818 | 14-Mar-1883 | Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto |
| George Mason | Politician | 11-Dec-1725 | 7-Oct-1792 | Drafted Virginia’s Bill of Rights |
| Matthias Corvinus | Royalty | 24-Feb-1443 | 6-Apr-1490 | King of Hungary, 1458-90 |
| Cosimo de Medici | Government | 27-Sep-1389 | 1-Aug-1464 | Uncrowned king of Florence |
| Michelangelo | Sculptor | 6-Mar-1475 | 18-Feb-1564 | Renaissance sculptor and painter |
| John Milton | Poet | 9-Dec-1608 | 8-Nov-1674 | Paradise Lost |
| Gouverneur Morris | Politician | 31-Jan-1752 | 6-Nov-1816 | American financier, Revolutionary politician |
| Pablo Neruda | Poet | 12 July 1904 | 23 September 1973 | Residencia en la Tierra |
| Isaac Newton | Physicist | 4-Jan-1643 | 31-Mar-1727 | Father of the clockwork universe |
| Nostradamus | Paranormal | 14-Dec-1503 | 1-Jul-1566 | Notoriously ambiguous prophet |
| Laurence Olivier | Actor | 22 May 1907 | 11 July 1989 | Shakespearean actor |
| Lord Palmerston | Head of State | 20-Oct-1784 | 18-Oct-1865 | Twice Prime Minister of UK |
| Colonel Tom Parker | Business | 26 June 1909 | 21 January 1997 | Elvis Presley’s manager |
| George Peabody | Business | 18-Feb-1795 | 4-Nov-1869 | American businessman, philanthropist |
| Albert Pike | Military | 29-Dec-1809 | 2-Apr-1891 | Confederate general, Freemason |
| Pope Pius II | Religion | 18-Oct-1405 | 14-Aug-1464 | Roman Catholic Pope, 1458-64 |
| Pope Pius III | Religion | 9-May-1439 | 18-Oct-1503 | Roman Catholic Pope, 1503 |
| Auguste Renoir | Painter | 25-Feb-1841 | 03 December 1919 | Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette |
| François de la Rochefoucauld | Author | 15-Sep-1613 | 16-Mar-1680 | Maxims |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Painter | 28-Jun-1577 | 30-May-1640 | Flemish baroque painter |
| Philip Schuyler | Military | 11-Nov-1733 | 18-Nov-1804 | US Revolutionary War general |
| Winfield Scott | Military | 13-Jun-1786 | 29-May-1866 | US Army general, Mexican campaign 1847 |
| Pope Sergius II | Religion | ? | 27-Jan-847 AD | Roman Catholic Pope, 844-47 |
| Septimius Severus | Royalty | 11-Apr-146 AD | 4-Feb-211 AD | Roman Emperor, 193-211 AD |
| William Shenstone | Poet | 18-Nov-1714 | 11-Feb-1763 | The Schoolmistress |
| Josias Simmler | Author | 29 March 1904 | 24 April 1904 | De Alpibus Commentarius |
| Sitting Bull | Military | c. 1831 | 15-Dec-1890 | Warrior Chief of the Sioux |
| Sydney Smith | Religion | 3-Jun-1771 | 22-Feb-1845 | Instigated the Edinburgh Review |
| Gilbert Stuart | Painter | 3-Dec-1755 | 9-Jul-1828 | American portrait painter |
| Thomas Sydenham | Doctor | 13-Sep-1624 | 29-Dec-1689 | The English Hippocrates |
| Richard L. M. Synge | Chemist | 28 October 1914 | 18 August 1994 | Partition chromatography |
| William Howard Taft | Head of State | 15-Sep-1857 | 08 March 1930 | 27th US President, 1909-13 |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | Poet | 6-Aug-1809 | 6-Oct-1892 | The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| Dylan Thomas | Poet | 27 October 1914 | 09 November 1953 | Most influential Welsh poet |
| Martin Van Buren | Head of State | 5-Dec-1782 | 24-Jul-1862 | 8th US President, 1837-41 |
| Queen Victoria | Royalty | 24-May-1819 | 22 January 1901 | Longest-reigning British monarch |
| Horace Walpole | Author | 24-Sep-1717 | 2-Mar-1797 | Wrote the first Gothic novel |
| William Warburton | Religion | 24-Dec-1698 | 7-Jun-1779 | Divine Legation |
| Harry Warren | Composer | 24-Dec-1893 | 22 September 1981 | Forty-Second Street |
| Anthony Wayne | Military | 1-Jan-1745 | 15-Dec-1796 | Revolutionary War general |
| David Wells | Baseball | 20 May 1963 | MLB pitcher, wrote Perfect I’m Not | |
| Early Wynn | Baseball | 06 January 1920 | 04 April 1999 | MLB Hall of Famer |
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