List of people with schizophrenia

This is a list of people, living or dead, accompanied by verifiable source citations associating them with schizophrenia, either based on their own public statements, or (in the case of dead people only) reported contemporary or posthumous diagnoses of schizophrenia. Remember that schizophrenia is an illness that varies with severity.

Regarding posthumous diagnoses: only a few famous people are believed to have been affected by schizophrenia. Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. Also, persons prior to the 20th century may have incomplete or speculative diagnoses of schizophrenia.

• Lionel Aldridge - professional football player^[1]
• Parveen Babi - Indian actress^[1]
• Syd Barrett - British musician, founding member of Pink Floyd^[1]
• Buddy Bolden - pioneering jazz musician^[2]
• Clara Bow - Hollywood flapper actress and "It Girl" of the 1920s^[3]
• Amanda Bynes - Hollywood actress and former Nickelodeon star.^[4]
• Camille Claudel - French sculptor of the 19th century^[5]
• Philip K. Dick - American sci-fi author. Diagnosis is contested. ^[6]
• Eduard Einstein - son of Albert Einstein^[1]
• Will Elliott - Australian writer^[7]
• Roky Erickson - rock musician, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators ^[8]
• Daniel Fisher, MD, PhD. A board-certified psychiatrist for 30 years.^[9]
• Zelda Fitzgerald - wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist^[10]
• Vincent van Gogh - visual artist/painter (with schizophrenia and/or bipolar)^[11]
• Andy Goram - Scottish football/soccer player^[1]
• Jim Gordon - drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos^[11]
• Peter Green - guitarist, founder of Fleetwood Mac^[1]
• Darrell Hammond - comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live^[12]
• Tom Harrell - successful Jazz Musician^[1]
• John Hinckley, Jr., American failed assassin.^[13]
• Adèle Hugo - Daughter of French writer Victor Hugo; her story is told in the film The Story of Adele H.^[14]
• Daniel Johnston - artist, musician ^[15]
• Joan of Arc - French soldier during the Hundred Years' War.^[16]
• Veronica Lake - Hollywood actress of the 1940s^[17]
• Mary Todd Lincoln - Wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady of the United States^[18]
• Rufus May - clinical psychologist^[19]
• Joe Meek - pioneering English record producer and songwriter^[1]
• William Chester Minor - contributed to Oxford English dictionary^[8]
• Bob Mosley - rock musician, member of Moby Grape ^[1]
• John Nash - economist/mathematician/Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences in year 1994 (along with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten) ^[1]
• Vaslav Nijinsky - ballet dancer, choreographer^[1]
• John Ogdon - English pianist and composer^[20]
• Jeremy Oxley - Musician and member of Australian band the Sunnyboys.^[21]
• Khieu Ponnary - Wife of Pol Pot.
• Katherine Routledge - British archaeologist^[22]
• Elyn Saks - law professor/schizophrenia writer/researcher^[23]
• Ingo Schwichtenberg - former drummer of power metal band Helloween, committed suicide on the 8th March 1995 at 29 years of age by throwing himself in front of a subway train due to increased schizophrenic episodes after being fired from the band
• Alexander "Skip" Spence - rock musician, cofounder of Moby Grape ^[1]
• Gene Tierney - American actress^[24]
• Louis Wain - artist^[25]
• Hannah Weiner - American 'Clairvoyant' poet.
• Wesley Willis - Musician and artist.^[26]
• Brian Wilson - Musician and member of The Beach Boys^[11]
• Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka - Hungarian painter.

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