Elvis Presley suffered from migraines.

Elvis Presley was treated for migraine throughout much of the 1970s and suffered from a range of migraine traits, including auras, sensitivity to light and sound, and fatigue. He also struggled with addictions to narcotic painkillers prescribed for his headaches.

Novelist Virginia Woolf suffered from debilitating migraines. She once wrote: "The merest schoolgirl when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind, but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor, and language at once runs dry."

Charles Darwin suffered from headaches. On a trip to Argentina he recounted in his Voyage of the Beagle: "October 3rd and 4th. — I was confined for these two days to my bed by a headache. A good-natured old woman, who attended me, wished me to try many odd remedies. A common practice is, to bind an orange-leaf or a bit of black plaster to each temple: and a still more general plan is, to split a bean into halves, moisten them, and place one on each temple, where they will easily adhere. It is not thought proper ever to remove the beans or plaster, but to allow them to drop off, and sometimes, if a man, with patches on his head, is asked, what is the matter? he will answer, 'I had a headache the day before yesterday.'"

Famous migraine sufferers include: Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Cervantes, Pascal, Nietzsche, Tchaikovsky, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, Karl Marx Sigmund Freud and George Bernard Shaw.

Sports figures include Chicago Bulls basketball player Scottie Pippen, Denver Bronco football player Terrell Davis, golfer Fred Couples and New York Yankee baseball player Joe Girardi.