Question:
Famous People with Bipolar Disorder?
Answer:
Famous People with Bipolar Disorder Buzz Aldrin - US astronaut
Ned Beatty - actor
Art Buchwald - writer, humorist
Tim Burton - movie director
Dick Cavett - writer, TV personality
Rosemary Clooney - singer
Francis Ford Coppola - movie director
Ray Davies - musician
Eric Douglas - actor
Patty Duke - actress
Carrie Fisher - actress
Larry Flynt - Hustler magazine publisher
Connie Francis - actress, musician
Linda Hamilton - actress
Abbie Hoffman d. - political activist, writer
Margot Kidder - actress
Otto Klemperer d. - musician, conductor
Vivien Leigh d. - actress
Kevin McDonald - comedian, actor
Kristy McNichol - actress
Burgess Meredith d. - actor
Ilie Nastase - pro tennis player
Charley Pride - musician
Jeannie C. Riley - musician
Axl Rose - musician
Del Shannon d. - musician
David Strickland d. - actor
Gordon Sumner (Sting) - musician
Lili Taylor - actress
Jean-Claude Van Damme - actor
Brian Wilson - musician
Jonathan Winters - comedian, actor
Virginia Woolf d. - writer
Hans Christian Anderson
Honoré de Balzac
Ludwig von Beethoven
Irving Berlin
Hector Berlioz
Anton Brückner
Lord Byron
Winston Churchill
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Rosemary Clooney
Noel Coward
Kurt Cobain
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Patty Duke (Anna Pearce)
T. S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Faukner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paul Gauguin
Vincent van Gogh
George Gordon
Maxim Gorky
Georg Friedrich Händel
Ernest Hemingway
Margaux Hemingway.. Ernest's granddaughter
Hermann Hesse
Gustav Holst
Victor Hugo
Henrik Ibsen
Charles Ives
Margot Kidder
Gustav Mahler
Michelangelo
Charles Mingus
Edward Munch
Modest Mussorgsky
Charles Parker
Boris Pasternak
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Cole Porter
Ezra Pound
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Giocchino Rossini
Robert Schumann
Alexander Scriabin
Anne Sexton
Mary Shelly... wrote Frankenstein
Robert Louis Stevenson
Martha Stuart
Gordon Sumner (Sting)
Peter Tchaikovsky
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Leo Tolstoy
Ted Turner
Virginia Woolf
Tennessee Williams
Robert Boorstin, writer, special assistant to Pres. Clinton
Rosemary Clooney, singer
Dick Cavett, writer, media personality
Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of Massachusetts
Patty Duke (Anna Pearce), actor, writer
Connie Francis, actor, musician
Peter Gabriel, musician
Shecky Greene, comedian
Kristin Hersh, musician (Throwing Muses)
Peter Nolan Lawrence, writer
Bill Lichtenstein, producer (TV & radio)
Kristy McNichols, actor
Kate Millett, writer
Spike Mulligan, comic actor and writer, Patron of the MFD
Murray Pezim
Charley Pride, musician
Axl Rose, musician
John Strugnell, Biblical scholar, Harvard
Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant (U.S.)
Jonathon Winters, comedian, actor, writer, artist
I was shocked to see Martha Stuart on the list! A disabilities course that I took referred to such people as
"supercrips." It's more a term among the physically handicapped world I
suppose, as I haven't seen it in mental health. Basically don't feel
that because these people were both bipolar and had "x" accomplishments
that your situation isn't different, and that you don't have to
accomplish a damn thing. Taken one step further, one can say that these
people are counterproductive to the disability movement as the norms
will just refer to this kind of list and say, "they did it, you ought to
be able to." Search for why people hate Jerry Lewis. I'm waiting for them to come out with the "People Who Deal With This in the
Real World" list. When you figure that over 2 million Americans have this
illness, that list is pretty miniscule.
