ROSEANNE BARR, actress
*John Nash - Mathematician / Nobel Prize Winner (Main character in A Beautiful Mind )
*King George III of England
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Played for the Green Bay Packers in the 1960's, he suffered from schizophrenia and was homeless for two years. He now gives inspirational talks on his battle against paranoid schizophrenia.
Vivien Leigh: The actress who starred in" Gone With The Wind" suffered from mental illness, as documented in Vivien Leigh by Anne Edwards.
Charles Dickens: author of A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations, suffered from depression*
Leo Tolstoy: Author of War and Peace, Tolstoy told of his own mental illness in My Confession.
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Ernest Hemingway, Writer The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's suicidal depression is examined in the True Gen: An Intimate Portrait of Ernest Hemingway by Those Who Knew Him by Denis Brian.
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John Keats, Poet The renowned poet's mental illness is documented in The Dynamics of Creation by Anthony Storr
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Abraham Lincoln: The 16th president, one of the greatest Americans, suffered from severe, incapacitating and occasionally suicidal depressions
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Patty Duke: The Academy Award-winning actress told of her bipolar disorder in her autobiography and made-for-TV move Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic-Depressive Illness, co-authored by Gloria Hochman.
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Richard Nixon, U.S. president
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Poet Victor Hugo
*ADAM ANT- MUSICIAN in the 80's
*KURT COBAIN, musician. Kurt was diagnosed at a young age with ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER[ADD], then later with bipolar disorder
*ROSEMARY CLOONEY-- singer and actress.
*Richard Dreyfuss, actor
*Mike Doughty, musician. First described himself diagnosed as bipolar in 2007 on his blog.
*Carrie Fisher, actress and writer. "'I ended up being diagnosed as a bipolar II,' says Fisher."
*Connie Francis, singer
*Stephen Fry, actor, comedian and writer.
*Mel Gibson, actor and director.
*Macy Gray, musician and actor.
*Jack Irons, drummer, formerly of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Pearl Jam
*Kay Redfield Jamison, clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who profiled her own bipolar disorder in her 1995 memoir An Unquiet Mind and argued for a connection between bipolar disorder and artistic creativity in her 1993 book, Touched with Fire .
*Daniel Johnston, musician: "Johnston's output in his late teens and early 20s proved to be a symptom of his worsening manic depression." The Guardian Unlimited, Saturday August 20, 2005: "Personal demons", review of film, The Devil and Daniel Johnston: [54]
*Andrew Johns, Professional Rugby League Player. has gone public about his condition.
*Margot Kidder, actress self-described: "I have been well and free of the symptoms that are called manic-depression for almost five years, and have been working steadily and leading a happy and productive life since then."
*Neil Lennon Footballer with Celtic FC open about his battles with depression.
*Jenifer Lewis, American actress, spoke about her diagnosis on Oprah in September 2007
*Bill Lichtenstein print and broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, profiled in Time magazine, October 10, 1994.
*Michelle Lombardo, model and actress.
*Florence Nightingale, nurse and health campaigner. BPW "Florence heard voices and experienced a number of severe depressive episodes in her teens and early 20s - symptoms consistent with the onset of bipolar disorder", Dr. Kathy Wisner, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
*Sinéad O'Connor, musician. She discussed her diagnosis with Oprah Winfrey in October 2007.
*Graeme Obree, Scottish racing cyclist.
*Phil Ochs, musician.
*Ozzy Osbourne, singer. Lead singer of Black Sabbath.Edgar Allan Poe, poet and writer.
*Axl Rose, lead singer and frontman best known for Guns N' Roses."I went to a clinic, thinking it would help my moods. The only thing I did was take one 500-question test - ya know, filling in the little black dots. All of sudden I'm diagnosed manic-depressive."
*Richard Rossi, filmmaker, musician, and maverick minister, revealed for the first time in a live interview on the Lynn Cullen show on June 5, 2008 the link between his artistic productivity and his depression to bipolar disorder, stating that "my father was bi-polar one, and I'm bi-polar two." He spoke of the relationship between creativity and the illness.
*Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor.
*Mark Vonnegut, author
*Brian Wilson, musician, founding member of The Beach Boys schzophrenic
*Virginia Woolf, writer.
*Jim Carrey- manic depressive
*Robin Williams-manic depressive
*Sting--has talked about being manic depressive--it is still elusive
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