This is a list of people who have suffered from or died of cancer. To all Wikipedians: If you know of anyone famous who has had cancer and is not on this list, feel free to add that person's name to it.
... Parry[?], (born 1790), Arctic explorer
Robert Edwin Peary, (1856-1920), first man to reach the North Pole
Auguste Piccard, (1884-1962), physicist and ...