Famous People with Psoriasis

A list of some famous people with psoriasis.

This is simply a list of famous, infamous, and not-quite-famous people with psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis (PA). Also included are famous people for whom there is a lot of speculation that they have or had psoriasis, but who may not have (or have had) the disease at all.

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Famous people with psoriasis

Baker, Nicholson (author, b. 1957)

Dave Edelman’s Interview
Nicholson Baker, without Blushing
Review of U and I: A True Story
Camel Driver: Exurbia Fights Back
U and I: A True Story at Amazon.com

Bruce, Robert (the) (King of Scotland, 1274-1329)

Biographical compilation from Melanie Campbell
Catholic Prayer Page
The History Behind Braveheart
Strange Tales from Scotland — My heart will go on (although there’s no such thing as “virulent” psoriasis)
The Truth about “Braveheart”
Themes in Dermatology — Did Robert the Bruce have leprosy? (and he probably didn’t have psoriasis, either)

Caro, Isabelle (actress, b. 1980)

Anorexic woman poses naked in ad campaign
This Never Happened When I Was a Kid

Castagna, Michael (copywriter, b. ?)

Camel Driver: Exurbia Fights Back

Elton, Ben (comedian and author, b. 1959)

Skinship
Surgery Door Health Magazine
Living with cutaneous T cell lymphoma
Gary Shine’s List

Garfunkel, Art (musician, b. 1941)

Art Garfunkel’s Feelin’ Groovy Again

Gastineau, Mark (defensive end, b. 1956)

Strahan’s Spotlight will Shine on Gastineau

Guzman, Abimael (Shining Path leader, b. 1934)

Peruvian Police Puts Down Shining Path Captives Riot(Print Version)
Location Story about The Dancer Upstairs
International Emergency Committee to Defend the Life of Dr. Abimael Guzmán
Andean Coca Trade
Gary Shine’s List
‘Superman’ Meets Shining Path: Story of a CIA Success
The Telegraph Magazine: The Warlords
“Capture of Abimael Guzman” (PubMed entry for American Journal of Dermatopathology article of that title)
Wikipedia

Holstein, Karin (cover girl, NPF spokesperson, author, b. ?)

Cover Girl Uncovered: A Woman’s Journey (her book)
BK Nelson sells the book
Dr. Greene
Rock-n-Reel.com sells the book
Total Living with Jerry Rose (Feb 8, 2002)

Janis, Byron (pianist with PA in his fingers, b. 1928)

Home Page
Arthritis.org
International Piano Competition and Festival Jury Biographies
Lyra Music Magazine
Dr. Steven B. Abramson, MD treated Janis
The Standard-Times
Arthritis News Magazine — Use It or Lose It
An LP for Sale

Lish, Gordon (author, editor, b. ?)

Author, Author: On the Threshold
Lashed by Lish

Marat, Jean-Paul (journalist, anti-aristocracy leader, 1743-1793)

The Flow of Western Culture
Jaques-Louis David’s Marat

Skinema says Marat had eczema or maybe dermatitis herpetiformis

Mathers, Jerry (actor, “The Beaver,” b. 1948)

Gee, Wally, the Beaver’s got Psoriasis
New Class of Drugs Target Psoriasis Offers Hope to Those Who Suffer With the Disease
Ron’s Log
Step Into My Skin™ spokesman
Therapist on Line 1
WPIX-TV New York Morning News
Yahoo! TV Entertainment News & Gossip

Morrison, Danny (friend/manager of Joe Diffie, b. ?)

Country Music Star Joe Diffie is Spokesperson for National Psoriasis Awareness Month (archived web page)

Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich (author, 1899-1977)

The Hidden Delight of Psoriasis
Pedestrian: Weblog Insecurity
Review of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
VN Collation #20

Palmen, Connie (author, b. 1955)

The Hidden Delight of Psoriasis
Norwegian?
Dutch?

Potter, Dennis (author, TV dramatist, 1935-1994)

The British Film Resource
At the Margin
Robert Downey, Jr., to star in The Singing Detective
DOROTHYL Digest
The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
Potter-Related Links
Psoriasis Researchers Seek Skin Sample Donors
A Review of The Singing Detective
Waiting for the Boat: Dennis Potter and Television
Reviews of Dennis Potter: A Biography
Skinemedia
“Self-consciousness and the psoriatic personality: considering updike and potter” (PubMed entry for Literature and Medicine article of that title)
The Hidden Delight of Psoriasis
BartCop Entertainment

Rimes, LeAnn (singer, b. 1982)

Lee Ann Rimes Reveals Struggle With Psoriasis
Wikipedia

Robbins, Tom (author, b. 1936)

Stalin, Joseph (tyrant, 1879-1953)

Bibliography of Secondary Sources on the History of Dermatology
“Joseph Stalin’s psoriasis: its treatment and the consequences” (PubMed entry for Cutis article of that title)

Starr, Kenneth Winston (special prosecutor, b. 1947)
Updike, John Hoyer (author, 1932-2009)

BBC Education Biography
BBCi Books Biography
Pegasos Biography
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. mentions Updike’s psoriasis(Print Version)
Classics in Dermatology(Table of Contents,Editorial)
Geometry Book & Article List
New York Times Review of Self-Consciousness
Chapter 18 of Skin Deep
Storytelling, a movie
U and I, by Nicholson Baker (see above)
Profile in The Guardian(Print Version)
Camel Driver: Exurbia Fights Back
VN Collation #20
AAD Dispatches from the National Psoriasis Foundation
A National Psoriasis Foundation Chat Transcript
Washington Post Review of Gertrude and Claudius
Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
Health Care Solutions’ Quality Watch
Affadavit of Dr. Stuart Maddin (from the Miralex Class-Action Lawsuit)
The Practice of the Ministry of Medicine
Semiotics and the Shakespeare Authorship Debate: The Author — and His Icon — Do Make a Difference in Understanding the Works
The Archives of the Canadian Dermatology Association has Updike as a reference
Minnesota Medicine’s About Face (Print Version)
Swathmore Warders of Imaginative Literature (check attendance, near the bottom)
WebMD — Study: Arthritis Drug Shows Early Promise in Relieving Psoriasis Symptoms
Bibliography of Secondary Sources on the History of Dermatology
Litweb.net Biography
Armstrong Atlantic State University Literary Nonfiction Book Reviews & Reports
Episcopal Life Review of John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace
Jonathan Stewart’s Biography
Transcript of Film Week which discusses Storytelling (.DOC file)
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care Bibliography
Chapter 5 of Writing as a Reflective Action
i digress
Chapter 17 of Personality, Biology & Society
Gary Shine’s List
“John Updike on psoriasis: At war with my skin, from the journal of a leper” Jackson R. J Cutan Med Surg 2000 Apr;4(2):113-5
“Self-consciousness and the psoriatic personality: considering updike and potter” (PubMed entry for Literature and Medicine article of that title)
Chapter 1 of The Private I
Rabbit Grumble
I Have Preened, I Have Lived
The Hidden Delight of Psoriasis
Norwegian
Dutch
Spanish:

Review of The Centaur
Blurb of Self-Consciousness

French:

Réflexion sur le Psoriasis
Physiopathologie du psoriasis(Print Version)

German:

Blurb of Self-Consciousness
Heilsames Gemetzel
Neue Strategien gegen die Schuppenflechte
Formvollendete Unartigkeiten

Yezhov, Nikolai Ivanovich (also Ezhov, Stalin henchman [see above], 1895-1940)

Chapter 9 of Stalin’s Loyal Executioner