Editing Marfan syndrome (section)

==Famous patients==
Notable people who have or had Marfan syndrome include:
* [[Isaiah Austin]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18175535/former-baylor-bears-star-isaiah-austin-diagnosed-marfan-syndrome-2014-said-doctors-cleared-return-basketball|title=Isaiah Austin: Doctors have cleared my return|date=December 2016|access-date=2021-11-19|archive-date=2023-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123112305/https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18175535/former-baylor-bears-star-isaiah-austin-diagnosed-marfan-syndrome-2014-said-doctors-cleared-return-basketball|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Javier Botet]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Cooper |first=Kelly-Leigh |title=Javier Botet: Meet the actor behind Hollywood's monsters |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48266431 |work=BBC News |date=May 27, 2019 |access-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127153019/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48266431 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Austin Carlile]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Trendell |first=Andrew |title=Of Mice and Men's Austin Carlile's devastating message to fans: 'I won't get better' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/mice-men-frontman-austin-carliles-devastating-message-fans-wont-get-better-1884707 |work=[[NME]] |date=December 1, 2016 |access-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211127153019/https://www.nme.com/news/music/mice-men-frontman-austin-carliles-devastating-message-fans-wont-get-better-1884707 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Bradford Cox]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/as-his-recent-bizarre-behaviour-shows-deerhunters-bradford-cox-hasnt-mellowed-and-thats-why-we-need-13072|title=As His Recent Bizarre Behaviour Shows, Deerhunter's Bradford Cox Hasn't Mellowed – and That's Why We Need Him|website=[[NME]]|date=9 December 2015|access-date=19 November 2021|archive-date=19 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054302/https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/as-his-recent-bizarre-behaviour-shows-deerhunters-bradford-cox-hasnt-mellowed-and-thats-why-we-need-13072|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Euell Gibbons]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metv.com/stories/remember-euell-gibbons-the-man-who-would-eat-a-pine-tree-on-tv |title=Remember Euell Gibbons, the man who would ''eat a pine tree'' on TV? |publisher=Metv.com |date=2021-08-13 |accessdate=2022-06-27 |archive-date=2022-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816073136/https://metv.com/stories/remember-euell-gibbons-the-man-who-would-eat-a-pine-tree-on-tv |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://wildfoodadventures.com/about/john-kallas/wild-food-adventurer/wfa-by-volumeyear/euell-gibbons/ |title=Euell Gibbons – Wild Food Adventures |publisher=Wildfoodadventures.com |date=30 September 2015 |accessdate=2022-06-27 |archive-date=2022-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319213408/https://wildfoodadventures.com/about/john-kallas/wild-food-adventurer/wfa-by-volumeyear/euell-gibbons/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Flo Hyman]]<ref name="smh.com.au">{{cite web|url = https://www.smh.com.au/sport/is-it-a-genetic-flaw-that-makes-phelps-the-greatest-20080816-gdsqwk.html|title = Is it a genetic flaw that makes Phelps the greatest?|date = 16 August 2008|access-date = 19 November 2021|archive-date = 19 November 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054254/https://www.smh.com.au/sport/is-it-a-genetic-flaw-that-makes-phelps-the-greatest-20080816-gdsqwk.html|url-status = live}}</ref>
* [[Jonathan Jeanne]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.si.com/nba/2017/06/09/jonathan-jeanne-draft-prospect-marfan-syndrome|title=NBA prospect Jeanne diagnosed with Marfan syndrome|newspaper=Sports Illustrated|access-date=2021-11-19|archive-date=2021-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054252/https://www.si.com/nba/2017/06/09/jonathan-jeanne-draft-prospect-marfan-syndrome|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Peter Mayhew]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=In Good Company |url=https://www.marfantrust.org/articles/143-in-good-company |access-date=2023-08-20 |website=Marfan Trust |archive-date=2023-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230820010757/https://www.marfantrust.org/articles/143-in-good-company |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[Vincent Schiavelli]]<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.3109/13816819609057862 |title=Special Editorial Living with the syndrome |date=1996 |last1=Schiavelli |first1=Vincent |journal=Ophthalmic Genetics |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=1–2 |pmid=8740691 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-3-031-14002-0_54 |chapter=Marfan. Spider Fingers and Near- Sightedness |title=Curiosities in Medicine |date=2023 |last1=Scholtz |first1=Sibylle |last2=Becker |first2=Myriam |last3=MacMorris |first3=Lee |last4=Langenbucher |first4=Achim |pages=199–201 |isbn=978-3-031-14001-3 }}</ref>
* [[Troye Sivan]]<ref>{{cite news |date=25 January 2013 |title=Troye Sivan |url=http://troyesivan.tumblr.com/post/41456927880/troye-have-you-ever-noticed-how-long-your-fingers |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620014958/https://troyesivan.tumblr.com/post/41456927880/troye-have-you-ever-noticed-how-long-your-fingers |archive-date=20 June 2022 |access-date=18 April 2016 |work=Tumblr}}</ref>
* [[John Tavener]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://johntavener.com/life/health/|title=Health &#124; Sir John Tavener|access-date=2021-11-19|archive-date=2021-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054258/http://johntavener.com/life/health/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Chris Turner (comedian)|Chris Turner]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Logan |first=Brian |date=2015-08-12 |title=Straight outta Edinburgh: a rap guide to the fringe's freestyling standups |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/aug/12/rapping-standups-edinburgh-fringe-jenny-bede-liam-williams-chris-turner-joseph-morpurgo |access-date=2024-08-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* [[Matty Cardarople]]

Other historical figures and celebrities have appeared on lists of people with Marfan syndrome, but from case to case the evidence is speculative, questionable, or refuted.<ref name="pmid23516684">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rushton AR |title=Diagnosing the dead: the retrospective analysis of genetic diseases |journal=J R Coll Physicians Edinb |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=11–4 |date=2013 |pmid=23516684 |doi=10.4997/JRCPE.2013.103 |url=|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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* [[Akhenaten]]; artistic depictions show many physical characteristics of people with Marfan, such as elongated skull and larger pelvis with enlarged thighs and spindly calves.{{sfn|Lorenz|2010}} Most Egyptologists as of 2021 argue that Akhenaten's portrayals are not the results of a genetic or medical condition, but rather should be interpreted as stylized portrayals influenced by [[Atenism]].{{sfn|Reeves|2019|pp=154–155}}{{sfn|Montserrat|2003}}
* [[Osama bin Laden]]; rumors of Marfan syndrome deemed "likely false" by journalists<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/osama-bin-laden-top-health-rumors/story?id=13518880|title=Osama bin Laden Health Rumors: Fact or Fiction?|website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|access-date=2021-11-19|archive-date=2021-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117034730/https://abcnews.go.com/Health/osama-bin-laden-top-health-rumors/story?id=13518880|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/new-life-old-rumor-was-bin-laden-marfanoid-flna1c6437414|title=New life for an old rumor: Was bin Laden 'Marfanoid'?|website=[[NBC News]]|date=11 May 2011|access-date=19 November 2021|archive-date=19 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054252/https://www.nbcnews.com/health/body-odd/new-life-old-rumor-was-bin-laden-marfanoid-flna1c6437414|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Robert Johnson]]; speculative<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Connell D | title=Retrospective blues: Robert Johnson—an open letter to Eric Clapton |journal=BMJ |date=2 September 2006 |volume=333 |issue=7566 |page=489 |doi=10.1136/bmj.333.7566.489 |pmc=1557967 }}</ref>
* [[Jonathan Larson]]; speculative<ref>{{cite web|url=https://marfan.org/2021/11/11/tick-tick-boom-on-netflix-continues-the-legacy-of-jonathan-larson/|title=Tick, Tick… Boom! On Netflix Continues the Legacy of Jonathan Larson|date=11 November 2021|access-date=19 November 2021|archive-date=19 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054255/https://marfan.org/2021/11/11/tick-tick-boom-on-netflix-continues-the-legacy-of-jonathan-larson/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Abraham Lincoln]]; disputed speculative diagnosis based on his physical characteristics and family history<ref name="pmid22504423">{{cite journal |vauthors=Sotos JG |title=Abraham Lincoln's marfanoid mother: the earliest known case of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B? |journal=Clin Dysmorphol |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=131–136 |date=July 2012 |pmid=22504423 |doi=10.1097/MCD.0b013e328353ae0c |s2cid=26805372 |url=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2013/04/19/did-abraham-lincoln-have-marfan-syndrome/|title=Did Abraham Lincoln Have Marfan Syndrome? – Clinical Correlations|access-date=2021-11-19|archive-date=2021-11-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054256/https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2013/04/19/did-abraham-lincoln-have-marfan-syndrome/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Niccolò Paganini]]; speculative<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Wolf P | title = Creativity and chronic disease. Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840) | journal = The Western Journal of Medicine | volume = 175 | issue = 5 | page = 345 | date = November 2001 | pmid = 11694491 | pmc = 1071620 | doi = 10.1136/ewjm.175.5.345 }}</ref>
* [[Michael Phelps]]; disputed by Phelps<ref name="smh.com.au"/>
* [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]];<ref name="pmid11694497">{{cite journal |vauthors=Wolf P |title=Creativity and chronic disease. Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) |journal=West J Med |volume=175 |issue=5 |pages=354 |date=November 2001 |pmid=11694497 |pmc=1071626 |doi=10.1136/ewjm.175.5.354 |url=}}</ref><ref name="pmid18357679">{{cite journal |vauthors=Braun E |title=[Sergie Rachmaninov: did he suffer from Marfan's syndrome?] |language=Hebrew |journal=Harefuah |volume=147 |issue=2 |pages=170–1 |date=February 2008 |pmid=18357679 |doi= |url=}}</ref><ref name="pmid3101945">{{cite journal |vauthors=Young DA |title=Rachmaninov and Marfan's syndrome |journal=Br Med J (Clin Res Ed) |volume=293 |issue=6562 |pages=1624–6 |date=1986 |pmid=3101945 |pmc=1351877 |doi=10.1136/bmj.293.6562.1624 |url=}}</ref> disputed: "Rachmaninov did not clearly exhibit any of the other clinical characteristics typical of Marfan's. (...) Nor did he express any of the clinical effects of a Marfan-related syndrome".<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ramachandran M, Aronson JK | title = The diagnosis of art: Rachmaninov's hand span | journal = Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine | volume = 99 | issue = 10 | pages = 529–530 | date = October 2006 | pmid = 17066567 | pmc = 1592053 | doi = 10.1177/014107680609901015 }}</ref>
* [[Joey Ramone]]; speculative<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Psychiatry rocks – psychiatry in music|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/psychiatry-rocks-psychiatry-in-music/1DD076D5BB698EC4A6BDE98339368DFA|journal=The British Journal of Psychiatry|last1=MacDonald|first1=James|volume=200|issue=6|date=2012|pages=253|access-date=2024-01-14|archive-date=2023-12-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231213222155/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/psychiatry-rocks-psychiatry-in-music/1DD076D5BB698EC4A6BDE98339368DFA|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Tutankhamen]]; did not have Marfan syndrome<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hawass Z, Gad YZ, Ismail S, Khairat R, Fathalla D, Hasan N, Ahmed A, Elleithy H, Ball M, Gaballah F, Wasef S, Fateen M, Amer H, Gostner P, Selim A, Zink A, Pusch CM | display-authors = 6 | title = Ancestry and pathology in King Tutankhamun's family | journal = JAMA | volume = 303 | issue = 7 | pages = 638–647 | date = February 2010 | pmid = 20159872 | doi = 10.1001/jama.2010.121 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url = https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-antiquities/egypts-king-tut-born-of-incestuous-marriage-tests-idINTRE61G42720100217|title = Egypt's King Tut born of incestuous marriage: Tests|newspaper = Reuters|date = 17 February 2010|access-date = 19 November 2021|archive-date = 19 November 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054254/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-antiquities/egypts-king-tut-born-of-incestuous-marriage-tests-idINTRE61G42720100217|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.history.com/news/king-tut-death-mystery|title=How Did King Tut Die?|date=10 August 2023|access-date=19 November 2021|archive-date=19 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119054254/https://www.history.com/news/king-tut-death-mystery|url-status=live}}</ref>
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