Most of the people on the following list are speculated to have
Asperger's Syndrome, rather than being confirmed cases of Asperger's
Syndrome. Asperger's Syndrome was not included in the World Health
Organization's diagnostic manual until 1991, and not in the American
Psychiatric Association's manual until 1994. Also, for a number of the
people on this list, there are other characteristics evidenced by the
people listed that would suggest that they did not have Asperger's
Syndrome.
Amy Lee
Richard Pearse (First to fly a plane),
Dr Janet Frame (Famed Authoress),
Charles de Gaulle (Great French warzhyphenztime/peacezhyphenztime leader/President),
T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (British leader of Arab Revolt against Turks),
Captain Matthew Webb (First to swim the English Channel),
Satoshi Tajiri (Pokemon Inventor - formal diagnosis),
Dan Aykroyd (Leading Musician/Comedian, Blues Bros - formal diagnosis?),
Alfred Hitchcock (Horror-movie Sub-genre Creator),
Bobby Fischer (Greatest Chess Player Ever),
Daniel Tammet (Smartest Man Alive Today - formal diagnosis),
Les Murray (Greatest Living English Writer/Poet Alive - self diagnosis),
Gary Numan (Greatest Industrial Synch-pop Musician Ever),
Craig Nicholls (Lead singer of top Australian group The Vines - formal diagnosis).
Comment:
I do not believe that Les Murray has any formal diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. He does have a formal diagnosis of depression, and has self-identified as autistic, and does have a close relative with a formal diagnosis of autism. Can you back up the above claim with any published references?
------ ...
Sorry, quite correct...
Les Murray wrote an amazing poem AFTER his self discovery re Aspergers...
"I very much wanted to ask him about his self-diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, but he hadn't publicly read the poem (which plays upon the phrase from the opening line of the old Latin Catholic Mass, Asperges me hyssopo, [Sprinkle me with a Hyssop branch], where Murray transmutes it to Aspergers me, and ends on such a wry note with "Hyssop is a bitter herb"), so it seemed too personal to ush the question succinctly." [Peter Craven, The Monthly]
Further Audio comment from a podcast (skip 1st 3 minutes) featuring Les talking about his 'mild' Autism and a case of Autism per se in his family is at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2006/1634867.htm
------ ...
The best place that I know of to look for information about famous people and Asperger syndrome is the list maintained at the blog Incorrect Pleasures (Google it). It is a big and diverse list of famous people backed up with references to published or mass-media sources that are generally produced by professional journalists, authors, psychologists or psychiatrists, including book biographies, journalistic interviews, scholarly and medical journal papers, famous people's own blogs, and books specifically about famous people and Asperger syndrome. There's even a reference to a poem in which a famous poet identified himself with Asperger syndrome, and the details of a YouTube video of another famous person filmed rocking in a very autistic manner. Many of the journal papers and other resources linked to and listed at this list are freely available to read or view or listen to through the internet. The list at Incorrect Pleasures is based on references that meet a higher standard than the one set for the Wikipedia, which often accepts trashy, misspelt and anonymous bits of writing that can only be found on the internet, or dead links, as documentary evidence to back up claims made on the Wikipedia. Every effort has been made to avoid nationalistic and other types of bias in the compilation of this list. The list is not dominated by American names or consicuously geeky scientists and mathematicians.
One word of caution, though - only very few of the famous people in the list at Incorrect Pleasures have been given a formal diagnosis of autism or Asperger syndrome during their lifetime, as adults. Many famous people have been posthumously diagnosed, and the list also includes a few living people who claim to have been clinically labelled as autistic when they were children. There is also quite a collection of famous people, including one Nobel Prize winner, who claim to be themselves currently autistic, to varying degrees. Rock star Craig Nicholls was formally diagnosed by a Dr Attwood in 2004 in Australia. Fields Medallist Prof. R. Borcherds was sorta-kinda diagnosed by Prof. Baron-Cohen, and this diagnostic process was described in detail in a popular science book. See the list at the blog Incorrect Pleasures for more details. Below is a very rudimentary list of the names listed at Incorrect Pleasures:
John Couch Adams
Joy Adamson
Hans Christian Andersen
Sherwood Anderson
Archimedes of Syracuse
Hans Asperger
Julian Assange
W. H. Auden
Sir A.J. Ayer
Dan Aykroyd CM
Charles Babbage FRS
Stefan Banach
Syd Barrett / Roger Barrett
Béla Bártok
Daisy Bates
Samuel Beckett
Ludwig van Beethoven
David Bellamy OBE
Jeremy Bentham
Richard Borcherds
Robert Boyle
Gordon Brown
Anton Bruckner
Warren Buffett
Tim Burton
David Byrne
Lewis Carroll
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Henry Cavendish
King Charles XII of Sweden
Bruce Chatwin
Bram Cohen
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Marie Curie
Helen Dale / Darville / Demidenko
Henry Darger
Charles Darwin
"Dibs"
Emily Dickinson
Paul Dirac OM FRS
Greg Egan
Albert Einstein FRS
Robert Emmet
Paul Erdos
Robert "Bobby" Fischer
Tim Fischer AC FTSE
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS
Henry Ford
Janet Frame ONZ CBE
Rosalind Franklin
Evariste Galois
Bill Gates
Antoni Gaudi
Charles de Gaulle
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Kurt Godel
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB
Glenn Gould
Temple Grandin
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Daryl Hannah
G. H. Hardy
John Hartford
Hermann Hesse
Patricia Highsmith
David Hilbert
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Edward Hopper
John Howard (1726-1790)
Peter Howson
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Irene Joliot-Curie
Sir Keith Joseph CH PC
James Joyce
Wassily Kandinsky
Leo Kanner
Immanuel Kant
Andy Kaufman
Alfred Kinsey
Stanley Kubrick
Ladyhawke / Pip Brown
Paul Laffoley
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Oscar Levant
Charles Lindbergh
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Deborah Locke
Courtney Love
H. P Lovecraft
L.S. Lowry
James Clerk Maxwell FRS
Darius McCollum
Herman Melville
Gregor Mendel
Michelangelo
Reg Mombassa / Christopher O'Doherty
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG GCB DSO PC
Caiseal Mor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Les Murray
John F. Nash Jr.
Craig Newmark
Sir Isaac Newton FRS
Craig Nicholls
Nico / Christa Paffgen
Moe Norman
Gary Numan
George Orwell
Patrick Pearse
Grigori Perelman
King Philip II of Spain
Henri Poincare
Enoch Powell MBE
Willard Van Orman Quine
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Charles Richter
Bernhard Riemann
Paul Robeson
Peter Mark Roget FRS
Bertrand Russell
Carl Sagan
Erik Satie
Solomon Shereshevskii
William Shockley
Boris Sidis
William James Sidis
Adam Smith
Vernon L. Smith
Socrates
Spinoza
Richard Stallman
Lawrence Summers
Screaming Lord Sutch / David Sutch
Jonathan Swift
Satoshi Tajiri
Daniel Tammet
Nikola Tesla
Henry David Thoreau
Alan Turing
J. M. W. Turner
Maurice Utrillo
Eamon de Valera
Michael Ventris
Louis Wain
Robert Walser
Andy Warhol
John B. Watson
Simone Weil
Orson Welles
Herbert G. Wells
Opal Whiteley
Norbert Wiener
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jack B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Bill Gates
Historical people from earlier periods (died before 1975)
- Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice
- Béla Bartók, 1881-1945, Hungarian composer
- Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008, World Chess Champion
- Michelangelo, 1475 1564 - Italian Renissance artist
- Erik Satie, 1866-1925 - Composer
- Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer
- Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone
- Anton Bruckner , 1824-1896, Austrian composer
- Henry Cavendish, 1731-1810, English/French scientist, discovered the composition of air and water
- Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, US poet
- Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, US inventor
- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist
- Seth Engstrom, 1987-Present, Magician and World Champion
- Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist
- Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, US polictician/writer
- Kaspar Hauser, c1812-1833, German foundling, portrayed in a film by Werner Herzog
- Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925, English physicist
- Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, US politician
- Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychoanalyst
- Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Czech writer
- Wasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Russian/French painter
- Abraham Lincoln,1809-1865, US Politician
- H P Lovecraft, 1890-1937, US writer
- Ludwig II, 1845-1886, King of Bavaria
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928, Scottish architect and designer
- Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911, Czech/Austrian composer
- Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, US actress
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, Austrian composer
- Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
- Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British logician
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish playwright, writer of Pygmalion, critic and Socialist
- Richard Strauss, 1864-1949, German composer
- Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian/American scientist, engineer, inventor of electric motors
- Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer
- Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptographer
- Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist
- Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
- George Washington, 1732-1799, US Politician
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Viennese/English logician and philosopher
- Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, English Writer
Historical people prominent in the late twentieth century (died after 1975)
- Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, Russian/US writer on science and of science fiction, author of Bicentennial Man
- Hans Asperger, 1906-1980, Austrian paediatric doctor after whom Asperger's Syndrom is named
- John Denver, 1943-1997, US musician
- Glenn Gould, 1932-1982, Canadian pianist
- Jim Henson, 1936-1990, creator of the Muppets, US puppeteer, writer, producer, director, composer
- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, English/American film director
- Howard Hughes, 1905-1976, US billionaire
- Andy Kaufman, 1949-1984, US comedian, subject of the film Man on the Moon
- L S Lowry, 1887-1976, English painter of "matchstick men"
- Charles Schulz, 1922-2000, US cartoonist and creator of Peanuts and Charlie Brown
- Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, US artist
Contemporary famous people
- Tony Benn, 1925-, English Labour politician
- Pip Brown "Ladyhawke", 1979-, New Zealand Singer/Songwriter, Musician
- Charles Dickinson, 1951, US Writer
- Bob Dylan, 1941-, US singer-songwriter
- Joseph Erber, 1985-, young English composer/musician who has Asperger's Syndrome, subject of a BBC TV documentary
- Bill Gates, 1955-, US global monopolist
- Genie, 1957-?, US "wild child" (see also L'Enfant Sauvage, Victor, )
- Crispin Glover, 1964-, US actor
- Al Gore, 1948-, former US Vice President and presidential candidate
- Jeff Greenfield, 1943-, US political analyst/speechwriter, a political wonk
- David Helfgott, 1947-, Australian pianist, subject of the film Shine
- Garrison Keillor, 1942-, US writer, humorist and host of Prairie Home Companion
- Paul Kostabi 1962-, writer, comedian, artist, producer, technician
- Kevin Mitnick, 1963-, US "hacker"
- John Motson, 1945-, English sports commentator
- John Nash, 1928-, US mathematician (portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, USA 2001)
- Keith Olbermann, 1959-, US sportscaster
- Michael Palin, 1943-, English comedian and presenter
- Oliver Sacks, 1933-, UK/US neurologist, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings
- James Taylor, 1948-, US singer/songwriter
- Robin Williams, 1951-, US Actor
- Jamie Hyneman, 1956-, Co-host of Mythbusters
- Seth Engstrom, 1987-, Magician and World Champion in Sleight of Hand. The best man with a deck of cards that the world has ever seen.
Amy Lee
Richard Pearse (First to fly a plane),
Dr Janet Frame (Famed Authoress),
Charles de Gaulle (Great French warzhyphenztime/peacezhyphenztime leader/President),
T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (British leader of Arab Revolt against Turks),
Captain Matthew Webb (First to swim the English Channel),
Satoshi Tajiri (Pokemon Inventor - formal diagnosis),
Dan Aykroyd (Leading Musician/Comedian, Blues Bros - formal diagnosis?),
Alfred Hitchcock (Horror-movie Sub-genre Creator),
Bobby Fischer (Greatest Chess Player Ever),
Daniel Tammet (Smartest Man Alive Today - formal diagnosis),
Les Murray (Greatest Living English Writer/Poet Alive - self diagnosis),
Gary Numan (Greatest Industrial Synch-pop Musician Ever),
Craig Nicholls (Lead singer of top Australian group The Vines - formal diagnosis).
Comment:
I do not believe that Les Murray has any formal diagnosis of Asperger syndrome. He does have a formal diagnosis of depression, and has self-identified as autistic, and does have a close relative with a formal diagnosis of autism. Can you back up the above claim with any published references?
------ ...
Sorry, quite correct...
Les Murray wrote an amazing poem AFTER his self discovery re Aspergers...
"I very much wanted to ask him about his self-diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, but he hadn't publicly read the poem (which plays upon the phrase from the opening line of the old Latin Catholic Mass, Asperges me hyssopo, [Sprinkle me with a Hyssop branch], where Murray transmutes it to Aspergers me, and ends on such a wry note with "Hyssop is a bitter herb"), so it seemed too personal to ush the question succinctly." [Peter Craven, The Monthly]
Further Audio comment from a podcast (skip 1st 3 minutes) featuring Les talking about his 'mild' Autism and a case of Autism per se in his family is at: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2006/1634867.htm
------ ...
The best place that I know of to look for information about famous people and Asperger syndrome is the list maintained at the blog Incorrect Pleasures (Google it). It is a big and diverse list of famous people backed up with references to published or mass-media sources that are generally produced by professional journalists, authors, psychologists or psychiatrists, including book biographies, journalistic interviews, scholarly and medical journal papers, famous people's own blogs, and books specifically about famous people and Asperger syndrome. There's even a reference to a poem in which a famous poet identified himself with Asperger syndrome, and the details of a YouTube video of another famous person filmed rocking in a very autistic manner. Many of the journal papers and other resources linked to and listed at this list are freely available to read or view or listen to through the internet. The list at Incorrect Pleasures is based on references that meet a higher standard than the one set for the Wikipedia, which often accepts trashy, misspelt and anonymous bits of writing that can only be found on the internet, or dead links, as documentary evidence to back up claims made on the Wikipedia. Every effort has been made to avoid nationalistic and other types of bias in the compilation of this list. The list is not dominated by American names or consicuously geeky scientists and mathematicians.
One word of caution, though - only very few of the famous people in the list at Incorrect Pleasures have been given a formal diagnosis of autism or Asperger syndrome during their lifetime, as adults. Many famous people have been posthumously diagnosed, and the list also includes a few living people who claim to have been clinically labelled as autistic when they were children. There is also quite a collection of famous people, including one Nobel Prize winner, who claim to be themselves currently autistic, to varying degrees. Rock star Craig Nicholls was formally diagnosed by a Dr Attwood in 2004 in Australia. Fields Medallist Prof. R. Borcherds was sorta-kinda diagnosed by Prof. Baron-Cohen, and this diagnostic process was described in detail in a popular science book. See the list at the blog Incorrect Pleasures for more details. Below is a very rudimentary list of the names listed at Incorrect Pleasures:
John Couch Adams
Joy Adamson
Hans Christian Andersen
Sherwood Anderson
Archimedes of Syracuse
Hans Asperger
Julian Assange
W. H. Auden
Sir A.J. Ayer
Dan Aykroyd CM
Charles Babbage FRS
Stefan Banach
Syd Barrett / Roger Barrett
Béla Bártok
Daisy Bates
Samuel Beckett
Ludwig van Beethoven
David Bellamy OBE
Jeremy Bentham
Richard Borcherds
Robert Boyle
Gordon Brown
Anton Bruckner
Warren Buffett
Tim Burton
David Byrne
Lewis Carroll
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Henry Cavendish
King Charles XII of Sweden
Bruce Chatwin
Bram Cohen
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Marie Curie
Helen Dale / Darville / Demidenko
Henry Darger
Charles Darwin
"Dibs"
Emily Dickinson
Paul Dirac OM FRS
Greg Egan
Albert Einstein FRS
Robert Emmet
Paul Erdos
Robert "Bobby" Fischer
Tim Fischer AC FTSE
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS
Henry Ford
Janet Frame ONZ CBE
Rosalind Franklin
Evariste Galois
Bill Gates
Antoni Gaudi
Charles de Gaulle
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Kurt Godel
Major-General Charles George Gordon CB
Glenn Gould
Temple Grandin
Sir William Rowan Hamilton
Daryl Hannah
G. H. Hardy
John Hartford
Hermann Hesse
Patricia Highsmith
David Hilbert
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Edward Hopper
John Howard (1726-1790)
Peter Howson
Stonewall Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Irene Joliot-Curie
Sir Keith Joseph CH PC
James Joyce
Wassily Kandinsky
Leo Kanner
Immanuel Kant
Andy Kaufman
Alfred Kinsey
Stanley Kubrick
Ladyhawke / Pip Brown
Paul Laffoley
Joseph Louis Lagrange
Oscar Levant
Charles Lindbergh
Nikolai Lobachevsky
Deborah Locke
Courtney Love
H. P Lovecraft
L.S. Lowry
James Clerk Maxwell FRS
Darius McCollum
Herman Melville
Gregor Mendel
Michelangelo
Reg Mombassa / Christopher O'Doherty
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein KG GCB DSO PC
Caiseal Mor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Les Murray
John F. Nash Jr.
Craig Newmark
Sir Isaac Newton FRS
Craig Nicholls
Nico / Christa Paffgen
Moe Norman
Gary Numan
George Orwell
Patrick Pearse
Grigori Perelman
King Philip II of Spain
Henri Poincare
Enoch Powell MBE
Willard Van Orman Quine
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Charles Richter
Bernhard Riemann
Paul Robeson
Peter Mark Roget FRS
Bertrand Russell
Carl Sagan
Erik Satie
Solomon Shereshevskii
William Shockley
Boris Sidis
William James Sidis
Adam Smith
Vernon L. Smith
Socrates
Spinoza
Richard Stallman
Lawrence Summers
Screaming Lord Sutch / David Sutch
Jonathan Swift
Satoshi Tajiri
Daniel Tammet
Nikola Tesla
Henry David Thoreau
Alan Turing
J. M. W. Turner
Maurice Utrillo
Eamon de Valera
Michael Ventris
Louis Wain
Robert Walser
Andy Warhol
John B. Watson
Simone Weil
Orson Welles
Herbert G. Wells
Opal Whiteley
Norbert Wiener
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jack B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats
Bill Gates
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