Famous
people who lived with diabetes
Tom
Hanks : Actor and producer
Nick Jonas : A musician and
actor
Larry
King : CNN TV Show
Randy
Jackson : The well-known musician
and music producer
Sonia
Sotomayor : A Judge of the Supreme
Court of the United States
Jay Cutler : NFL quarterback
Gary
Hall Jr. : Olympic gold medalist
Elliott Yamin : A
singer and composer
Sherri Shepherd : An
actress and TV personality
Salma
Hayek : The
Oscar nominee
Paula
Deen : Renowned chef
Victor Garber : Actor
Damon
Dash : Dash
is a widely-known name in the
music, fashion, and film industries
Delta
Burke : The Emmy-nominated actress
Gabourey Sidibe : Brooklyn-born
actress, Oscar contender
S. Epatha Merkerson : This Emmy-winning
actress
Mike Huckabee : Governor of
Arkansas (was interested in
running for presidentship of
USA)
Drew
Carey : The sitcom star and
game show presenter
Billie Jean King : Great Wimbledon
winner
Vanessa Williams : The
first black lady to be named
Miss America was Vanessa Williams.
She later achieved popularity
as a singer, actor, and novelist.
Jean Smart : Emmy Award-winning
performer
Patti LaBelle : A Grammy-winning
artist
Dorian Gregory : An actor and
the former host of the venerable
TV programme
David
“Boomer” Wells : A former pitcher
in Major League Baseball
Earl “The Pearl” Monroe : Basketball
player
Charlie Kimball : He
is the first licenced diabetic
driver in IndyCar racing history
Great
people
Celebrities are brands. If people
cant meet the celebrity they
like one on one, they attend
functions, events, award ceremonies
where celebrities are present
and like to take a photo with
them. Some people go to the
extent that they visit the location
of the house of celebrities
and even if they dont meet the
celeb, they take their photo
there.
But
people dont know social doctors
& dont value social doctors
who almost donate their life
to the social sector.
When PM or President of a country
visits other country, she or
he meets political leaders,
business leaders, industry associations.
But they dont have half an hour
in their already tight schedule
to meet 5 or 10 social greats
who helped development of that
country or addressed social
challenges from which visiting
person's country can benefit.
Agreed.
But
they must have someone of their
team (at minister level) to
meet the social doctors for
an hour or so, understand their
work. Its not photo session.
Its learning, understanding
and appreciating session.
We
are not myopic and short sighted
and say great people are just
from the social sector.
They can be from sports, film,
business, philanthropist, scientist
(infact CSRidentity.com thinks
scientists whose work has global
effect are global philanthropists),
IQ test winners ... any
celebrity who invests time (no,
not invest time for photos)
to promote any one social issue
with great efforts. The celebs
can be global, national, regional
or even local level.
People
think they have no time to read
about them, forget about even
thought of meeting them.
They dont want to waste their
time & money. It is perfectly
understandable because we have
seen humans, their liking or
disliking.
It is our responsibility to
share their names (maybe links
and 2 to 3 lines of some greats).
We
share Great people at two levels
(maybe 3 levels from April 2026)
Global greats : Global examples
of people who through their
organisation impact large number
of people in the world or those
who may impact far less numbers
but whose extraordinary work
needs global attention or whose
work pattern is innovative.
National greats : People who
are national greats (means those
whose work is at national level)
Local greats : We will decide
if we can share their name from
April 2026
Please do not recommend any
name unless asked.
And we are clear money can buy
greatness through advertising
or PR (both are good) but money
cant buy sustainable greatness.
So please do not even communicate
that you can give money to us
or donate to any NGO and in
return, share name of a person
who may not deserve it. We are
a social enterprise or not money
minded organisation.
We
will approach
CSRidentity.com will
approach well known organisations
(Donors, NGOs, Celebs, Award
giving organisations) to recommend
names of great people (Again,
there is no cost to them), so
that we can share them and also
share the name of the organisation
which recommended them, so that
if anyone has any query, they
can directly contact them)
Awards
We do not recommend any
one for any award because then
the work of others we share
gets less attention and we also
dont want any bias. CSR Consulting
(or parent organisation) may
consult but not CSRidentity.com
Bhau
Founder exist to share social
gods only because Bhau and others
postponed his death on 28.08.2013
Past
is shared last but good past
lasts forever
Great persons work hard
(intelligently) and think that
the challenge they addressed
expires.
But if we dont share names of
great persons who have expired,
we will make unpardonable mistake.
Every country has greats who
left mother earth long time
back but people remember and
repect them.
People think God lives eternally.
So do we think these Social
Gods may leave mother earth
physically but their contribution
has eternal existance. e.g.
In Social gods in Agriculture
if we dont include M S Swaminathan
who was global leader of the
green revolution but left mother
earth on 28 September 2023,
it is not right. So we share
present as well as past gods
and may not write Late M S Swaminathan
because he exists in his contribution
form. |