:List of people with hepatitis C

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| {{sortname|Pamela|Anderson}}

| 1967–

| Famous for her role as C.J. Parker on the television series Baywatch. She has, since late 2015 had a successful treatment of hepatitis C, and has been cured of the disease.{{cite news|last1=Fisher|first1=Luchina|title=Pamela Anderson Says She's 'Cured' of Hepatitis C|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/pamela-anderson-shes-cured-hepatitis/story?id=35074396|access-date=13 January 2016|work=ABC News.com|date=9 November 2015}}

| {{sortname|Stanley|Fafara}}

| 1943–2003

| Child actor who played "Whitey" on Leave it to Beaver. He was a recovering heroin addict who died after complications from surgery.{{cite news | last = McLellan | first = Dennis | title = Stanley Fafara, 54; 'Whitey' on 'Beaver' | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 27 September 2003 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-sep-27-me-fafara27-story.html | access-date = 2 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Christiane|F.}}

| 1962–

| German actress who played Christiana in the 1984 film 'Decoder'. She contracted hepatitis C from an infected needle in the late 1980s, whilst injecting heroin.{{cite web | url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/christiane-felscherinow-interview/ | title='I Will die Soon; I Know That': Meeting the Real Christiane F| date=10 December 2013}}

| {{sortname|Danny|Kaye}}

| 1911–1987

| American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, and musician. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs. He contacted hepatitis C four years before his death from a transfusion during surgery.{{cite news|last1=Christiansen|first1=Richard|title=Comedic Actor Danny Kaye, 74|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/03/04/comedic-actor-danny-kaye-74-he-wasnt-afraid-to-be-a-child/|access-date=1 January 2016|work=Chicago Tribune|date=4 March 1987}}

| {{sortname|Christopher|Lawford}}

| 1955–2018{{cite news |last1=Schudel |first1=Matt |title=Christopher Lawford, Kennedy family member who wrote an addiction memoir, dies at 63 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/christopher-lawford-kennedy-family-member-who-wrote-an-addiction-memoir-dies-at-63/2018/09/05/cd5f7606-b147-11e8-9a6a-565d92a3585d_story.html |access-date=8 September 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=6 September 2018}}

| Son of Peter Lawford and nephew of John F. Kennedy, best known for his role as Charlie Brent on the soap opera All My Children in the early 1990s. He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 2000.{{cite book | last = Lawford | first = Christopher Kennedy |author2=Diana Sylvestre | title = Healing Hepatitis C: A Patient and a Doctor on the Epidemic's Front Lines | url = https://archive.org/details/healinghepatitis00lawf | url-access = limited | publisher = Harper-Collins Publishers | year = 2009 | location = New York| pages = [https://archive.org/details/healinghepatitis00lawf/page/n7 1]–7 | isbn = 978-0-06-178368-5}}

| {{sortname|Linda|Lovelace}}

| 1949–2002

| The star of the 1972 pornographic film Deep Throat. She contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion after a car accident in 1969 and had a liver transplant in 1987.{{cite news | last = Briggs | first = Joe Bob | title = Linda's Life | work = National Review | date = 25 April 2002 | url = http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-briggs042502.asp | access-date = 4 October 2006}}

| {{sortname|Natasha|Lyonne}}

| 1979–

| American actress best known for her roles in Orange Is the New Black and Russian Doll.{{cite news | title = 'American Pie' Star's Fight for Life | work = Access Hollywood | url = http://www.today.com/id/9013110/ns/today-entertainment/t/american-pie-stars-fight-life/#.VKcMNivF-So | access-date = 2 January 2015| date = 19 August 2005}}{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/theater/06simo.html?_r=2&ref=theater&oref=slogin&oref=slogin|title = When Living at All Is the Best Revenge|last = Simonson|first = Richard|date = 6 January 2008|work = The New York Times|access-date = 2 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Jim|Nabors}}

| 1930–2017

| Best known for his role in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.. His immune system was compromised since receiving a liver transplant in 1994.{{cite news|last1=Dobuzinskis|first1=Alex|title=Jim Nabors hospitalized with throat infection|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-jimnabors-idUSTRE76I72F20110720|access-date=5 February 2015|work=Reuters|date=19 July 2011}}

| {{sortname|Anita|Pallenberg}}

| 1944–2017

| Italian-born model, actress and fashion designer. According to Marianne Faithfull, "she almost single-handedly engineered a cultural revolution in London by bringing together the Stones and ... transformed the [Rolling] Stones from pop stars into cultural icons."{{cite news | last = Barber | first = Lynn |title = Lady Rolling Stone | work = The Guardian | date = 24 February 2008 | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/feb/24/1 | access-date = 3 January 2015 | location = London }}{{Cite news|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-07-ca-ediemuse7-story.html|title = Reshaping the muse mold|last = Powers|first = Ann|date = 7 January 2007|work = Los Angeles Times|access-date = 5 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Rockets|Redglare}}

| 1949–2001

| Actor and comic. Died from combination of kidney failure, liver failure, cirrhosis and hepatitis C.{{cite news | title = Rockets Redglare, 52, Film Actor and comedian | work = The New York Times | date = 6 June 2001 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E5DE103FF935A35755C0A9679C8B63 | access-date = 6 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Lucy|Saroyan}}

| 1946–2003

| Actress and daughter of William Saroyan who had minor roles in over 20 movies. She died from cirrhosis of the liver complicated by hepatitis C.{{cite news | title = Lucy Saroyan | work = Variety | date = 13 June 2003 | url = https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117888180?categoryid=25&cs=1 | access-date = 6 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Ken|Watanabe}}

| 1959–

| Japanese actor best known for his role in The Last Samurai, he disclosed in his autobiography that he had contracted hepatitis C, and in 2006, told reporters that he was being successfully treated.{{cite news|title=Watanabe Ken Fighting Hepatitis|url=http://www.japan-zone.com/news/2006/05/24/watanabe-ken-fighting-hepatitis/|access-date=13 January 2016|work=Japan-Zone.com|date=24 May 2006}}

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| {{sortname|Rocky|Aoki}}

| 1938–2008

| Japanese businessman and founder of Benihana.{{cite news | last = Schudel | first = Matt | title = Rocky Aoki; Flashy founder of Benihana | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = 12 July 2008 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071103151.html | access-date = 6 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Anita|Roddick}}

| 1942–2007

| Founder of The Body Shop chain of cosmetics stores. She contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion in 1971, and was diagnosed in February 2007. She campaigned to make hepatitis C more of serious health concern and died of a brain hemorrhage in September 2007.{{Cite news|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6988343.stm|title = Dame Anita Roddick dies aged 64|date = 10 September 2007|publisher = BBC News|access-date = 6 January 2015}}

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| {{sortname|Gregg|Allman}}

| 1947–2017

| Rock musician and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band.{{cite news | title = Gregg Allman Being Treated for Hepatitis C | publisher = NBC News | agency = Associated Press | date = 28 March 2008 | url = http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23847506/ns/today-entertainment/t/gregg-allman-being-treated-hepatitis-c/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121002063516/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23847506/ns/today-entertainment/t/gregg-allman-being-treated-hepatitis-c/ | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2 October 2012 | access-date = 8 June 2011}}

| {{sortname|Mark|Arm}}

| 1962–

| Grunge singer/guitarist, and co-founding member of both Green River and Mudhoney.{{cite news | title = Mudhoney 10.02.2013 interview Mark Arm |publisher=rockthecam.de | date = 10 February 2013 | url = http://rockthecam.de/mudhoney-2013-02-10-interview-mark-arm/ | access-date = 21 February 2017}}

| {{sortname|Ray|Benson}}

| 1941–

| Front man of the band Asleep at the Wheel, he believed that he got hepatitis C from a tattoo needle. He later become a vocal spokesperson for the disease.

| {{sortname|Natalie|Cole}}

| 1950–2015{{cite news|title=Natalie Cole, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences-winning singer, dead at 65|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-natalie-cole-dead-20160101-story.html|access-date=1 January 2016|work=Chicago Tribune|date=1 January 2016}}

| Singer and daughter of Nat King Cole. She was diagnosed in 2008 during a routine examination, when she found that the disease had been in her body for 20 years without her knowing it.{{cite news|title=Music Legends Fight the Stigma of Hepatitis C With New Campaign|url=https://www.foxnews.com/health/music-legends-fight-the-stigma-of-hepatitis-c-with-new-campaign/|access-date=10 January 2015|work=Fox News Channel|agency=Reuters|date=28 July 2011}}

| {{sortname|David|Crosby}}

| 1941–2023

| Guitarist, singer, and songwriter, best known for being a founding member of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He was diagnosed after collapsing onstage in the summer of 1994 and received a life-saving liver transplant later that year.{{Cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/david-crosby-says-he-has-health-but-no-wealth/2014/01/30/025dab40-8937-11e3-a5bd-844629433ba3_story.html|title = David Crosby says he has health but no wealth|last = Leiby|first = Richard|date = 31 January 2014|newspaper = The Washington Post|access-date = 12 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Willy|DeVille}}

| 1950–2009

| One of the founders of the band Mink DeVille and a pioneer in punk rock. He was diagnosed with hepatitis C in February 2009 and was found to have pancreatic cancer during the course of his treatment.{{cite news | title = Punk Pioneer Willy DeVille Dies | publisher = BBC News | date = 10 August 2009 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8193234.stm | access-date = 12 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Alejandro|Escovedo}}

| 1951–

| Songwriter, member of the San Francisco punk scene. By 2014, he had recovered from his illness, which was treated with holistic medicine.{{Cite news|url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/04/17/alejandro-escovedo-returns-full-power/tyBtBQiDZZjYE7CyPunyPN/story.html|title = Alejandro Escovedo returns to full power|last = Sullivan|first = James|date = 17 April 2014|work = Boston Globe|access-date = 12 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Marianne|Faithfull}}

| 1946–2025

| Singer and actress who dated Mick Jagger in the 60s. She was diagnosed with the virus in the 1990s, after a long period of drug abuse and clinical depression.{{Cite news|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7039935.stm|title = Singer Faithfull has hepatitis C|date = 11 October 2007|publisher = BBC News|access-date = 25 January 2015}}{{Cite news|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/marianne-faithfull-drugs-are-completely-irrelevant-to-me-now-2230472.html|title = Marianne Faithfull: 'Drugs are completely irrelevant to me now'|last = Duerden|first = Nick|date = 6 March 2011|work = The Independent|access-date = 25 January 2015}}{{Cite news |last=Trebay |first=Guy |date=31 January 2025 |title=Marianne Faithfull Was an Unforgettable Style Paragon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/style/marianne-faithfull-style-influence.html |access-date=2 February 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

| {{sortname|Freddy|Fender}}

| 1937–2006

| Musician who introduced Tex-Mex music to a wider audience. Struggled with alcoholism, drug abuse, and diabetes. He had a kidney transplant (the kidney was donated by his 21-year-old daughter) in 2002 and had a liver transplant two years later.{{cite news | last = Cartwright | first = Garth | title = Obituary: Freddy Fender | work = The Guardian | date = 16 October 2006 | url = http://music.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1931856,00.html | access-date = 25 January 2015 | location = London}}

| {{sortname|Diamanda|Galás}}

| 1955–

| Avant-garde vocalist who got hepatitis C from drug use, by 2005, she was in remission.{{Cite news|url = https://www.smh.com.au/news/music/galas-sunny-side-up/2005/10/04/1128191713551.html|title = Tragic love: that's Galas sunny side up|last = Phillip|first = McCarthy|date = 5 October 2005|work = The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date = 25 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Chet|Helms}}

| 1942–2005

| Music producer who helped create the vibrant San Francisco rock music scene in the 1960s. He was undergoing treatment for hepatitis C when he suffered a stroke.{{cite news | last = Vazari | first = Aidin | title = Chet Helms: Celebrated S.F. Rock Music Producer | work = San Francisco Chronicle | date = 26 June 2005 | url = http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/26/BAGTQDF6HQ1.DTL&hw=Chet+Helms&sn=001&sc=1000 | access-date = 26 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Dusty|Hill}}

| 1949–2021{{Cite news|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=28 July 2021|title=Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/arts/music/dusty-hill-dead.html|access-date=29 July 2021}}

| Bassist and vocalist with rock group ZZ Top. Their tour was cancelled when he was diagnosed in 2000. After he received treatment and went into remission, the band resumed touring in 2002.{{Cite magazine|url = https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/73840/surgery-sidelines-zz-tops-beard|title = Surgery Sidelines ZZ Top's Beard|date = 12 October 2002|magazine = Billboard|access-date = 25 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Etta|James}}

| 1938–2012

| Singer, called "Little Peaches", who was best known for her song "At Last".{{cite news | last = Leopold | first = Todd | title = Singing legend Etta James dies at 73 | publisher = CNN | date = 11 December 2012 | url = http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/20/showbiz/etta-james-obit | access-date = 26 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Naomi|Judd}}

| 1946–2022

| Member of the mother-daughter duo The Judds; she retired in 1991 after being diagnosed with hepatitis C, but returned to touring with her daughter Wynonna by 2011.{{Cite news|url = https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/ashley-judd-claims-incest-abuse-memoir-trauma-judd/story?id=13268661&singlePage=true|title = Ashley Judd's Story of Abuse Echoes Family's Sad Narrative|last = James|first = Susan Donaldson|date = 1 April 2011|publisher = ABC News|access-date = 26 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Anthony|Kiedis}}

| 1962–

| American vocalist/lyricist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He contracted hepatitis C from drug use.{{cite book | last = Kiedis | first = Anthony | title = Scar Tissue | publisher = Hyperion | year = 2004 | location = New York | page = [https://archive.org/details/scartissue00kiedi/page/3 3] | isbn = 978-1-4013-0101-9 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/scartissue00kiedi/page/3 }}

| {{sortname|Phil|Lesh}}

| 1940–2024

| Founding member and bass guitarist of the rock band Grateful Dead. He received a life-saving liver transplant in 1998.{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/arts/music/17mnoo.html|title = Now the Dead Will Always Be With Us|last = Mnookin|first = Seth|date = 17 April 2005|work = The New York Times|access-date = 27 January 2015}}

|{{sortname|David|Marks|David Marks (musician)}}

| 1948–

| Founding member of The Beach Boys, was diagnosed in 1999. After undergoing treatment, Marks has been virus free since 2004. His diagnosis inspired him to stop drinking and smoking, and lead a healthier lifestyle.{{cite news | title = Celebrity Health – David Marks | publisher = BBC News | date = 23 May 2008 | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7414433.stm | access-date = 27 January 2015}}

|{{sortname|Tawn|Mastrey}}

| 1957–2007

|Disc jockey who was the voice of 1980s heavy-metal scene in Los Angeles. She contracted hepatitis C when she was a child.{{cite news | last = Nelson | first = Valerie J. | title = Obituaries–Tawn Mastrey, 53; DJ Was the Voice of L.A.'s '80s Heavy-Metal Scene | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 7 October 2007 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-07-me-mastrey7-story.html | access-date = 27 January 2015}}

|{{sortname|Kenny|Neal}}

| 1957–

| New Orleans blues guitarist. Diagnosed in 2005, less than one year after his brother, musician Ronnie Neal, died of hepatitis C. He was successfully treated and went into remission.{{Cite news|url = http://www.nola.com/music/baton-rouge/index.ssf/2013/10/kenny_neal_baton_rouge_blues.html|title = Kenny Neal returns home to continue Baton Rouge blues legacy|last = Brasted|first = Chelsea|date = 5 October 2013|work = The Times-Picayune|access-date = 27 January 2015|publisher = NOLA.com}}

|{{sortname|Chuck|Negron}}

| 1942–

| Vocalist and founding member of Three Dog Night. He contracted hepatitis C due to "the long-lasting effects of drug use and alcoholism".{{cite book | last = Negron | first = Chuck | title = Three Dog Nightmare: The Continuing Chuck Negron Story | publisher = Literary Architects | year = 1999 | location = Indianapolis, IN | page = 280 | isbn = 978-1-933669-13-7}}

|{{sortname|Gary S.|Paxton}}

| 1938–2016{{cite news|last1=Roberts|first1=Sam|title=Gary S. Paxton, Whose Mixed Bag of a Life Was Filled With Music, Dies at 77|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/arts/music/gary-paxton-dead.html|access-date=7 August 2016|work=The New York Times|date=22 July 2016}}

| Bakersfield country and gospel music artist. He contracted hepatitis C through several blood transfusions and almost died from the disease in 1990.{{cite book | last = Terry | first = Lindsay | title = Stories behind 50 Southern Gospel Favorites | publisher = Kregel Publications | year = 2002 | location = Grand Rapids, Michigan | page = 32 | isbn = 978-0-8254-3885-1}}

|{{sortname|Martin|Phillipps}}

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| Co-founder and front runner of the New Zealand-based, Dunedin sound rock band The Chills. Phillipps contracted hep C from alcohol and drug abuse in the 1990s, but received a "miracle reprieve" when the drug Harvoni was used to treat it in 2016.{{cite news |last1=McConnell |first1=Glenn |title=The Chills' dying frontman Martin Phillipps is given miracle reprieve from Hepatitis C |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/celebrities/92358051/the-chills-dying-front-man-martin-phillipps-is-given-miracle-reprieve-from-hepatitis-c--just-weeks-from-the-end-of-his-final-tour |access-date=25 March 2019 |work=Stuff (company) |date=14 May 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Krakow |first1=Steve |title=New Zealand psych-pop icons the Chills hit Chicago on a rare U.S. tour |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/new-zealand-psych-pop-icons-the-chills-hit-chicago-on-a-rare-us-tour/Content?oid=67938455 |access-date=25 March 2019 |work=Chicago Reader |date=14 February 2019}}

|{{sortname|Lou|Reed}}

| 1942–2013

| Singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose work with the Velvet Underground influenced generations of rock musicians. He struggled with hepatitis C for many years before receiving a liver transplant in 2013, but died later that year.{{cite news | last = Sawyer | first = Patrick | title = Lou Reed saved by liver transplant after years of drugs and alcohol take their toll | work = The Telegraph | date = 1 June 2013 | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10092969/Lou-Reed-saved-by-liver-transplant-after-years-of-drugs-and-alcohol-take-their-toll.html | access-date = 27 January 2015}}{{cite news | last = Ratliff | first = Ben | title = Outsider Whose Dark, Lyrical Vision Helped Shape Rock 'n' Roll | work = The New York Times | date = 27 October 2013 | url =https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/arts/music/lou-reed-dies-at-71.html?ref=obituaries&_r=2&&pagewanted=all | access-date = 27 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Keith|Richards}}

| 1943–

| Founding member of The Rolling Stones. He credited his "incredible immune system" with curing his hepatitis C, "without even bothering to do anything about it".{{Cite book|title = Life|last = Richards|first = Keith|publisher = Little, Brown, and Company|year = 2010|isbn = 978-0-316-03438-8|location = New York|pages = 233}}

| {{sortname|Curtis|Salgado}}

| 1954–

| Blues musician who was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1988 and had a successful liver transplant in 2006.{{cite news|last1=Clark|first1=Sunny|title=Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival 2014: Headliner Curtis Salgado says, "Get tested!" at the Blues Fest Health Net Pavilion|url=http://oregonmusicnews.com/2014/07/04/safeway-waterfront-blues-festival-2014-headliner-curtis-salgado-says-get-tested-blues-fest-health-net-pavilion/|access-date=4 February 2015|work=Oregon Music News|date=4 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205011243/http://oregonmusicnews.com/2014/07/04/safeway-waterfront-blues-festival-2014-headliner-curtis-salgado-says-get-tested-blues-fest-health-net-pavilion/|archive-date=5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Tony|Scalzo}}

| 1964–

| Rock musician and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the band Fastball.

| {{sortname|Randy|Turner}}

| 1949–2005

| Lead singer for the seminal hardcore punk band Big Boys.{{cite news | last = Moser | first = Margaret | title = C Sick: Hepatitis C and the Damage Done, part II | work = The Austin Chronicle | date = 24 November 2006 | url = http://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2006-11-24/422659/ | access-date = 10 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Steven|Tyler}}

| 1948–

| Musician, songwriter, and member of the rock band Aerosmith. In September 2006, he announced that he had been diagnosed three years prior and had just completed eleven months of treatment.{{cite news | title = Steven Tyler reveals he has hepatitis C | agency = Associated Press | publisher = Today.com | date = 26 September 2006 | url = http://www.today.com/id/15017267 | access-date = 28 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Scott|Weiland}}

| 1967–2015

| Singer, songwriter, and member of the rock bands Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver.{{cite magazine | title = Scott Weiland's Harrowing Final Months: Those Close to Him Reveal His Mental Health and Family Illness Struggles | last = Bacher | first = Danielle | magazine = Billboard | date = 28 January 2016 | url = https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/6859089/scott-weiland-final-months-friends-family-talk-mental-illness-family-struggles | access-date = 24 November 2017}}

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| {{sortname|Stew|Albert}}

| 1939–2006

| 1960s era activist and co-founder of the Yippies. He died of liver cancer and had previously been diagnosed with hepatitis C, which he successfully treated.{{cite news | last = Simmons | first = Michael | title = Stew Lives! | work = Pasadena Weekly | date = 16 February 2006 | url = http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=2997&IssueNum=7 | access-date = 29 January 2015 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927023510/http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=2997&IssueNum=7 | archive-date = 27 September 2007 }}

| {{sortname|Hank|Johnson}}

| 1954–

| U.S. Representative for the state of Georgia; was declared free of hepatitis C, which ravaged his liver and resulted in depression, thyroid problems, and other health issues, in January 2009. He underwent an experimental treatment to keep the disease in remission.{{cite news | last = Keefe | first = Bob | title = U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson battling hepatitis C | work = The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | date = 1 March 2010 | url = http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/us-rep-hank-johnson-battling-hepatitis-c/nQZpB/ | access-date = 29 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Robert F.|Kennedy, Jr.}}

| 1952–

| American radio host, environmental activist, author, and attorney; son of Robert F. Kennedy. He was treated for hepatitis C with interferon when he was in rehab in 1983.{{cite book|last1=Oppenheimer|first1=Jerry|title=RFK Jr.: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream|date=2015|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-1-250-03295-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/rfkjrrobertfkenn0000oppe/page/252 252]|url=https://archive.org/details/rfkjrrobertfkenn0000oppe/page/252}}

| {{sortname|Yohei|Kono}}

| 1938–

| Japanese politician. His eldest son, Taro Kono, also a politician, donated part of his liver to save his father's life in 2002.{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/world/japanese-father-and-son-share-a-liver-and-a-political-rivalry.html|title = Japanese Father and Son Share a Liver and a Political Rivalry|last = French|first = Howard W.|date = 25 June 2002|work = The New York Times|access-date = 29 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Mel|Lastman}}

| 1933–2021

| Mayor of Toronto. He contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion in 1989.{{Cite news|url =https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hepatitis-c-worsening-lastman-reveals/article1010109/|title = Hepatitis C worsening, Lastman reveals|last =Fowlie|first =Johnathan|date =30 January 2003|work=The Globe and Mail}}

| {{sortname|Kenneth|Zebrowski}}

| 1946–2007

| Member of the New York State Assembly. Contracted hepatitis C from blood transfusion in 1973, but was not diagnosed with it until 1996. His son, Kenneth Zebrowski, Jr., also became an Assemblyman and introduced legislation to fund research and treatment in his honor.{{cite web|title=Assemblyman Zebrowski Announces New York State Actions to Address Hepatitis C Epidemic|url=http://assembly.state.ny.us/member_files/096/20080305/|website=New York State Assembly|access-date=5 February 2015}}

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| {{sortname|Jack|Kevorkian}}

| 1928–2011

| Pathologist noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's "right to die". He served eight years in prison for second-degree murder. His attorney claimed Kevorkian contracted hepatitis C after testing blood transfusions during the Vietnam War.{{cite news | last = Setrakian | first = Lara | title = Dying 'Dr. Death' Has Second Thoughts about Assisting Suicides | publisher = ABC News | date = 26 May 2006 | url = https://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=2008364&page=1 | access-date = 29 January 2015}}{{cite news | last = Snyder | first = Keith | title = Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83; A Doctor Who Helped End Lives | work = The New York Times | date = 6 March 2011 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/04/us/04kevorkian.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1 | access-date = 29 January 2015}}

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| {{sortname|Rolf|Benirschke}}

| 1955–

| Former placekicker in the National Football League for the San Diego Chargers. Diagnosed in 1998, he was infected by the blood transfusions he received in 1979 to treat ulcerative colitis.{{cite web | last = Blair | first = Tom | title = Rolf Benirschke | work = San Diego Magazine | date = November 2006 | url = http://www.sandiegomagazine.com/San-Diego-Magazine/November-2006/Rolf-Benirschke-with-Tom-Blair/ | access-date = 30 January 2015 }}

| {{sortname|Billy|Graham|Superstar Billy Graham}}

| 1943–2023

| American professional wrestler. He claims to have contracted hepatitis C "from rolling around the ring in other wrestlers' blood".{{Cite news|url = http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2011-03-31/news/billy-graham-made-it-big-in-wrestling-now-the-steroids-that-got-him-there-may-be-killing-him/|title = Superstar Billy Graham Made It Big in Wrestling – Now the Steroids That Got Him There May Be Killing Him|last = Pratt|first = Gregory|date = 31 March 2011|work = Phoenix New Times|access-date = 30 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Mickey|Mantle}}

| 1931–1995

| Baseball player for the New York Yankees. He underwent a liver transplant in June 1995 but his liver cancer had spread to other parts of his body and he died in August.{{cite news | last = Barnes | first = Bart | title = Mickey Mantle, legend of baseball, dies at 63 | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = 14 August 1995 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/longterm/memories/1995/95pass6.htm |access-date= 30 January 2015}}

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| {{sortname|Penny|Arcade|Penny Arcade (performer)}}

| 1950–

| Performance artist and playwright, diagnosed in 2003. She became an "unofficial spokesperson for sufferers of a disease that often strikes people living on the margins".{{cite news | last = Kaysen | first = Ronda | title = Artist Takes on New Role: Hepatitis C Educator | work = The Villager | date = 10 December 2005 | url = http://www.thevillager.com/villager_128/artisttakesonnewrole.html | access-date = 30 January 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305074311/http://thevillager.com/villager_128/artisttakesonnewrole.html | archive-date = 5 March 2016 | url-status = dead }}

| {{sortname|Jim|Carroll|Jim Carroll}}

| 1949–2009

| Author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician, best known for his 1978 autobiography The Basketball Diaries, which was made in the 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.{{cite news | last = Williams | first = Alex | title = Jim Carroll's Long Way Home | work = The New York Times | date = 27 September 2009 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/fashion/27Cover.html?pagewanted=all | access-date = 30 January 2015}}

| {{sortname|Nik|Cohn|Nik Cohn}}

| 1946–

| Popular music journalist and critic. He said that having hepatitis C was like having "permanent jet lag".{{cite book | last = Cohn | first = Nik | title = Triksta : Life and Death and New Orleans Rap | publisher = Random House | year = 2005 | location = New York | page = 3 | isbn = 978-1-4000-7706-9}}

| {{sortname|Allen|Ginsberg}}

| 1926–1997

| Beat poet best known for the poem Howl. He died of liver cancer after suffering for many years with hepatitis C.{{cite news | title = Poet Allen Ginsberg Dead at 70 | publisher = CNN | date = 5 April 1997 | url = http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/05/ginsberg/index.html | access-date = 4 October 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060907055225/http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/05/ginsberg/index.html |archive-date = 7 September 2006}}

| {{sortname|Ken|Kesey}}

| 1935–2001

| Best known for his novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Died of liver cancer, caused by hepatitis C.{{cite news | last = Lehmann-Haupt | first = Christopher | title = Ken Kesey, Author of 'Cuckoo's Nest,' Who Defined the Psychedelic Era, Dies at 66 | work = The New York Times | date = 11 November 2001 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02EFDC1238F932A25752C1A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | access-date = 25 June 2008}}

| {{sortname|Richard|McCann}}

| 1949–2021

| Writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, best known for his book Mother of Sorrows. He was diagnosed in 1990, a few months after the hepatitis C test became available, and received a liver transplant in 1996.{{cite journal | last = Mazmanian | first = Adam | title = A Life Prosaic | journal = Washington City Paper | volume = 25 | issue = 19 | date = 13 May 2005 | url = http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=30581 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130205192120/http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=30581 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 5 February 2013 | access-date = 5 February 2015 }}

| {{sortname|Hubert|Selby, Jr.}}

| 1928–2004

| Author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and other existential novels. He contracted hepatitis C while receiving treatment for tuberculosis.{{cite news | last = Mclellan | first = Dennis | title = Hubert Selby Jr., 75; Wrote Existential Novels | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 28 April 2004 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-apr-28-me-selby28-story.html | access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Jerry|Stahl}}

| 1954–

| Novelist. He was forced to avoid contact with his pregnant wife while on a clinical trial for a new hepatitis C treatment.{{Cite news|url = https://www.latimes.com/books/la-xpm-2013-nov-21-la-ca-jc-jerry-stahl-20131124-story.html|title = Jerry Stahl gets toxic for 'Happy Mutant Baby Pills'|last = Lapin|first = Joseph|date = 21 November 2013|work = Los Angeles Times|access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Robert|Schimmel}}

| 1954–2010

| Comedian who was known for "taboo-breaking humor of the sexual and scatological variety"{{cite news | last = Wilson | first = Erik | title = Robert Schimmel, Comic, Dies at 60 | work = The New York Times | date = 4 September 2010 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/arts/television/05schimmel.html| access-date = 5 February 2015}} who regularly appeared on Howard Stern's radio show. He contracted hepatitis C from a blood transfusion while serving in the Air Force, wrote a book in 2008 about his experiences with cancer, and died in 2010 from injuries sustained in a car accident.

| {{sortname|Gene|Weingarten}}

| 1951–

| Pulitzer-prizewinning humor writer and journalist with The Washington Post.{{cite news | title = Just the FAQs: A Guide to the Ever-Expanding Universe Known as Chatological Humor | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = 2 February 2006 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/05/AR2005120501314.html | access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Elizabeth|Young|Elizabeth Young (author)}}

| 1950–2001

| Literary critic and writer.{{cite news | last = Williams | first = John | title = Elizabeth Young | work = The Guardian | date = 23 March 2001 | url = http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,461540,00.html |access-date= 5 February 2015 | location = London}}

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| {{sortname|Dharmachari|Aryadaka}}

| 1948–2003

| First Buddhist chaplain in Washington state prisons.{{cite news | last = Fulbright | first = Leslie | title = Dharmachari Aryadaka, 55, First Buddhist Chaplain in State's Prisons | work = The Seattle Times | date = 15 October 2003 | url = https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20031015/aryadakaobit15e/dharmachari-aryadaka-55-first-buddhist-chaplain-in-states-prisons | access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Jeannine Parvati|Baker}}

| 1949–2005

| Midwife, herbalist, author and homebirth advocate. She contracted hepatitis C from an injection she received after the birth of her first child in 1970 to prevent Rh disease.{{cite web | title = Obituaries: Jeannine Parvati Baker | work = Widwifery Today | date = 11 January 2006 | url = http://www.midwiferytoday.com/enews/enews0801.asp#obit | access-date = 29 January 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061016073748/http://www.midwiferytoday.com/enews/enews0801.asp#obit | archive-date = 16 October 2006 | url-status = dead }}{{Cite journal|title = At Peace with the BreathMaker: An Interview with Jeannine Parvati Baker|last = Bly|first = Sarah Naomi|date = 1 July 2005|journal = Midwifery Today|issn = 1551-8892|issue = 74|pages = 38–39}}

| {{sortname|Laurie|Bembenek}}

| 1958–2010

| Ex-Milwaukee police officer accused of killing her husband's ex-wife. She died of liver and kidney failure and hepatitis C.{{Cite news|url = https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/the-saga-of--bambi-bembenek--finally-ends-20101121-182w1.html|title = The saga of 'Bambi' Bembenek finally ends|date = 22 November 2010|work = The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Evel|Knievel}}

| 1938–2007

| Stuntperson best known for his public displays of long distance, high-altitude motorcycle jumping. He underwent a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, which he believed he had contracted from a blood transfusion after one of his many violent crashes.{{cite news | last = Severo | first = Richard | title = Evel Knievel, 69, Daredevil on a Motorcycle, Dies | work = The New York Times | date = 1 January 2007 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/us/01knievel.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1217021925-DxBNjIqmtilYK/VVuxLD7g&pagewanted=all | access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Lance|Loud}}

| 1951–2001

| Best known for his role in An American Family, a 12-part 1973 PBS documentary. Died of liver failure caused by a hepatitis C and HIV co-infection.{{cite news | last = Jensen | first = Elizabeth | title = Lance Loud's Last Testament | work = Los Angeles Times | date = 6 January 2003 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-06-et-jensen6-story.html | access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|James Earl|Ray}}

| 1928–1998

| Confessed assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. Died of liver disease due to hepatitis C.{{cite news | title = Friend of Dr. King aids Ray's bid for new liver | work = The New York Times | date = 11 November 1997 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9904E2D8123AF93BA15752C1A961958260 | access-date = 5 February 2015}}{{Cite news|url = http://www.cnn.com/US/9804/24/ray.autopsy.pm/|title = Autopsy confirms Ray died of liver failure|date = 24 April 1998|publisher = CNN|access-date = 5 February 2015}}

| {{sortname|Chopper|Read}}

| 1954–2013

| Australian criminal and author, who claimed to have contracted hepatitis C from his time in prison. He refused a liver transplant because he said "he did not deserve it".{{Cite news|url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-09/chopper-read-dies/5012244|title = Mark 'Chopper' Read, one of Australia's most notorious standover men, dies|date = 9 October 2013|work = The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date = 5 February 2015}}