List of people who arranged for cryonics

This list contains notable people who plan to be or have been cryopreserved after legal death.

Living people who plan to be cryopreserved

• Steve Aoki ^[1]
• Gregory Benford
• Nick Bostrom ^[2]
• Anthony Bourbon ^[3]
• Mike Darwin
• Kim Eric Drexler ^[4]
• Maria Entraigues-Abramson ^[5]
• William Faloon
• Robert A. Freitas Jr. ^[6]
• Patri Friedman ^[7]
• Ugly Dave Gray ^[8]
• Aubrey de Grey ^[2]
• James L. Halperin ^[9]
• Robin Hanson ^[10]
• Keith Henson ^[11]
• Todd Huffman ^[12]
• Ray Kurzweil ^[13]
• Keith Lofstrom ^[14]
• Curtis Lovell II ^[15]
• Seth MacFarlane ^[16]
• Max Marty ^[17]
• Charles Matthau ^[18]
• Ralph Merkle ^[19]
• Robert Miller ^[20]
• Ole Martin Moen ^[21]
• Max More ^[22]
• Luke Nosek ^[23]
• David Pearce ^[24]
• Allan Pease ^[25]
• Christine Peterson ^[26]
• Martine Rothblatt ^[27]
• Anders Sandberg ^[28]
• Carol Shaw ^[29]
• Peter Thiel ^[2]
• Edward O. Thorp ^[30]
• Natasha Vita-More ^[31]
• Anthony Waller ^[32]
• Eliezer Yudkowsky ^[33]

Deceased people who have been cryopreserved

• James Bedford, 1967 ^[34]
• Dora Kent, 1987 ^[35]
• Dick Clair, 1988 ^{[36] [37]}
• Bredo Morstøl, 1989
• Jerry Leaf, 1991 ^[38]
• Phil Salin, 1991 ^[39]
• FM-2030, 2000 ^[2]
• Frank Cole, 2000 ^[40]
• Ted Williams, 2002 ^[41]
• John Henry Williams, 2004 ^[41]
• Gregory Yob, 2005 ^[42]
• Thomas K. Donaldson, 2006 ^[43]
• Curtis Henderson, 2009 ^[44]
• Robert Ettinger, 2011 ^[45]
• Frederick Chamberlin, 2012 ^[46]
• Hal Finney, 2014 ^[47]
• L. Stephen Coles, 2014 ^[48]
• Marvin Minsky, 2016 ^[49]
• Peter Eckersley, 2022 ^[50]
• Saul Kent, 2023 ^[51]
• Don Laughlin, 2023 ^[52]
• Li Zehou, 2023 ^[53]

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