Visit our Pinterest Board with Over 50 Celebs with A-Fib
Atrial Fibrillation doesn’t discriminate. It hits performers and musicians, politicians and public officials, sport professionals (from the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL), track & field competitors and Olympic champions.
Browse our Pinterest board of over 50 celebs who have dealt with A-Fib. You’ll be amazed at the many personalities and celebrities with A-Fib. For example:

Kevin Nealon
KEVIN NEALON, comedian-actor-writer and Saturday Night Live alumni; Had his first A-Fib episode while on vacation in Mexico. He ended up in an emergency room thinking it was a heart attack. Back home he was diagnosed with A-Fib. Today as a spokesman for Janssen pharmaceuticals, he promotes stroke and clot prevention.

Lynne Cox
LYNNE COX, Champion long-distance open-water swimmer, swam the English Channel at age 15; became the first woman to swim across the Bering Strait from the United States to the Soviet Union. Diagnosed in 2012 with A-Fib. From her 2016 memoir Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart.

Billie Jean King
BILLIE JEAN KING, Tennis legend (Wimbledon champ 20 times) and advocate for gender equality. Her A-Fib diagnosis came after playing tennis with a friend. “My heart was beating, I thought it was going to come out of my chest.”

Ellen Degeneres
ELLEN DEGENERES, Talk show host, comedian. Ellen acknowledged her A-Fib in an episode of her show with Canadian comedian, actor and television host Howie Mandel (who also has A-Fib).

Rich Peverley
RICH PEVERLEY, Dallas Stars forward. A “blip” on his EKG during the physical prior to 2013 training camp was A-Fib. With a procedure to shock his heart back into rhythm and with medication he returned to the ice three weeks later.
Browse our Pinterest board of over 50 celebrities, personalities, athletes and public servants who have dealt with A-Fib. Go to “Celebs With A-Fib“.
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