Parkinson’s Hall of Fame

The record comes first.

The PD5 Hall of Fame is written like a record book: Olympic medals, world titles, NBA seasons, Emmy wins, landmark recordings, defining roles, foundations, tours, and public institutions. Parkinson’s belongs to the story, but it does not replace the work.

This page recognizes public figures publicly associated with Parkinson’s disease, parkinsonism, or related movement-disorder awareness. It is an achievement page, not a diagnosis page.

Boxing, Basketball & Competitive Sport

Medals, titles, seasons, training rooms.

These careers were built through physical repetition, public pressure, and measurable results.

BoxingParkinson’s Syndrome

Muhammad Ali

Olympic Gold Medalist · Three-Time Heavyweight Champion

Won light-heavyweight gold at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games.
Stopped Sonny Liston in 1964 to become world heavyweight champion at age 22.
Became the first fighter to win the lineal heavyweight championship three times.
Named Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Century and BBC Sports Personality of the Century in 1999.

Speed, distance, language, nerve, public consequence: Ali made the ring a world stage.

TrainerParkinson’s

Freddie Roach

International Boxing Hall of Fame Trainer · Founder of Wild Card Boxing Club

Founded Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood, one of boxing’s most recognized training rooms.
Trained championship fighters across multiple eras, weight classes, and styles.
Worked with elite names including Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, James Toney, Amir Khan, and Julio César Chávez Jr.
Named Trainer of the Year multiple times by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

Roach’s record is the corner: correction, timing, discipline, and fight intelligence under pressure.

NBAParkinson’s

Brian Grant

NBA Veteran · Xavier Standout · Foundation Founder

Selected eighth overall in the 1994 NBA Draft after a standout college career at Xavier.
Named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team after his first season with Sacramento.
Played 12 NBA seasons with Sacramento, Portland, Miami, the Lakers, and Phoenix.
Created the Brian Grant Foundation to focus on exercise, nutrition, and community education for people with Parkinson’s.

Grant’s path moves from professional frontcourts to a public mission built around movement and daily discipline.

Film, Television & Comedy

Roles, scripts, timing, voice.

These performers are measured by scenes, broadcasts, books, films, series, awards, and the public institutions they built after success.

Film & TVParkinson’s

Michael J. Fox

Back to the Future · Family Ties · Spin City · Research Foundation Founder

Became a defining television figure as Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties.
Carried the Back to the Future trilogy as Marty McFly, one of modern film’s most recognizable roles.
Won major television awards across Family Ties, Spin City, and later guest work.
Founded The Michael J. Fox Foundation, one of the world’s major Parkinson’s research organizations.

Fox’s card joins comic timing, franchise cinema, television rhythm, authorship, and institution-building.

ActorParkinson’s

Alan Alda

M*A*S*H · Six Emmys · Six Golden Globes

Played Hawkeye Pierce across all 256 episodes of M*A*S*H.
Wrote and directed episodes of M*A*S*H while anchoring one of television’s landmark ensembles.
Won six Primetime Emmy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards across a seven-decade career.
Built a later public platform around science communication, interviews, books, and teaching.

Alda’s record is craft in multiple lanes: actor, writer, director, interviewer, and translator of difficult ideas.

ComedyParkinson’s

Billy Connolly

Scottish Comedian · Actor · Storyteller

Built a stand-up career around long-form storytelling, improvisation, timing, and Glaswegian voice.
Moved into international film and television while retaining a distinct comic identity.
Received major UK honors for services to entertainment and charity.
Turned travel, documentary work, personal memory, and stage command into a later public body of work.

Connolly’s record is voice: cadence, fearlessness, timing, and command of a room.

Music & Performance

Catalogs, stages, induction halls.

These musicians are measured by recordings, tours, genre shifts, awards, and songs that continued living in public long after their release.

MusicParkinson’s

Neil Diamond

Songwriters Hall of Fame · Rock & Roll Hall of Fame · Kennedy Center Honoree

Wrote and recorded Sweet Caroline, America, Cracklin’ Rosie, and I Am... I Said.
Entered the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
Received the Kennedy Center Honors in 2011 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Built a five-decade career as both a songwriter and stadium-level performer.

Diamond’s record is heard in crowd response: songs that became communal rituals.

MusicProgressive Supranuclear Palsy

Linda Ronstadt

Grammy Winner · Rock & Roll Hall of Fame · Kennedy Center Honoree

Recorded across rock, country, pop, Latin, opera, standards, and traditional Mexican music.
Released 24 studio albums and placed 38 singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2014.
Received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievement.

Ronstadt’s card is range: language, genre, volume, restraint, and command.

MusicParkinson’s

Ozzy Osbourne

Black Sabbath · Solo Artist · Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Fronted Black Sabbath, the Birmingham band that helped define heavy metal.
Built a major solo career beginning with Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.
Entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with Black Sabbath in 2006 and as a solo artist in 2024.
Created Ozzfest, a touring platform that shaped heavy music culture for a generation.

Osbourne’s record is industrial sound, theatrical persona, and a voice recognized in seconds.

PD5 Standard

Recognition should read like a record book.

The Hall of Fame should name the work: Olympic medals, world titles, NBA seasons, Emmy awards, albums, foundations, tours, songs, roles, and public institutions. PD5 presents achievement first because the member seeing this page should understand the point without being told: identity is not surrendered; it is practiced.

PD5 is a movement and community platform. This tribute page is not medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or rehabilitation. Public figures are included based on public professional achievements and public association with Parkinson’s disease, parkinsonism, or related movement-disorder awareness.