Famous People with Psoriasis

A list of some famous and infamous people with psoriasis, or maybe just suspected of having 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, in which Baker denies having psoriasis, at least in a particular place.
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
Disabled World
The History Behind Braveheart
Strange Tales from Scotland — My heart will go on (although there’s no such thing as “virulent” psoriasis)
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)

Ben’s tussle with baby blues
Disabled World
Gary Shine’s List
Skinship

Garfunkel, Art (musician, b. 1941)

Art Garfunkel’s Feelin’ Groovy Again
Disabled World

Gastineau, Mark (defensive end, b. 1956)

Disabled World
The Psoriasis Advisor

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)
Disabled World
Dr. Greene

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

Home Page
International Piano Competition and Festival Jury Biographies

Dr. Steven B. Abramson, MD

treated Janis
The Standard-Times
Arthritis News Magazine — Use It or Lose It

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

Author, Author: On the Threshold

Disabled World
Lashed by Lish

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

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

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

Disabled World
Gee, Wally, the Beaver’s got Psoriasis
Step Into My Skin™

spokesman
Therapist on Line 1

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)

Disabled World
The Hidden Delight of Psoriasis
Pedestrian: Weblog Insecurity

Review of Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years

VN Collation #20

Palmen, Connie (author, b. 1955)

Disabled World
The Hidden Delight of Psoriasis
Dutch
Dutch?

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

The British Film Resource
At the Margin
Disabled World
Waiting for the Boat: Dennis Potter and Television
Skinema
“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)

Bibliography Disabled World

Stalin, Joseph (tyrant, 1879-1953)

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

Starr, Kenneth Winston (special prosecutor, b. 1947)

A Starr is Spanked
Disabled World
The Truth According to Paula & Ken
Starr Crossed
Re: Last Post, I Swear Under Oath
“Chickenhawk” Lists:

BartCop’s Political Humor
BuzzFlash Editorial
The Chickenhawk Database
The Chickenhawks
GOP Draft Dodgers
Etc, etc…

Updike, John Hoyer (author, 1932-2009)

Disabled World Pegasos Biography
Classics in Dermatology(Table of Contents,Editorial)
Personal Health; Struggling for peace in the war against psoriasis.
Chapter 18 of Skin Deep
Storytelling, a movie
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
Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide
Affadavit of Dr. Stuart Maddin

(from the Miralex Class-Action Lawsuit)
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
Swathmore Warders of Imaginative Literature (check attendance, near the bottom)
Bibliography of Secondary Sources on the History of Dermatology
Litweb.net Biography
Armstrong Atlantic State University Literary Nonfiction Book Reviews & Reports
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care Bibliography
Chapter 5 of Writing as a Reflective Action
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
I Have Preened, I Have Lived
The Hidden Delight of Psoriasis
Norwegian
French:

Une maladie multifactorielle

German:

Formvollendete Unartigkeiten

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

Chapter 9 of Stalin’s Loyal Executioner