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.

Living people

• Edward Charles Allaway – American murderer; committed California State University, Fullerton massacre in 1976[1]
• Haroon Rashid Aswat – British follower of extremist Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri; pleaded guilty in U.S. court to providing material support to al-Qaeda[2][3]
• Nathaniel Ayers – American musician[4]
• Kat Bjelland – American musician, member of Babes in Toyland (schizoaffective disorder)[5]
• Nick Blinko – British painter and punk musician: singer, lyricist and guitarist of Rudimentary Peni (schizoaffective disorder)[6]
• Will Elliott – Australian writer[7]
• Jim Gordon – American drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos; killed his mother[8]
• Darrell Hammond – American comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live[9]
• Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder[10]
• David Helfgott – Australian concert pianist (schizoaffective disorder)[11]
• John Hinckley Jr. – American failed assassin[12]
• H.R. – American musician, singer of Bad Brains[13]
• Jake Lloyd – retired American actor who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace[14]
• Rufus May – British clinical psychologist[15]
• Jeremy Oxley – Australian musician and member of the Sunnyboys[16]
• Elyn Saks – American law professor and schizophrenia writer/researcher[17][18]
• Brian Wilson - American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys (schizoaffective disorder)[19][20]

Deceased

• Aby Warburg – German art historian and cultural theorist, diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder[21]
• Adèle Hugo – Daughter of French writer Victor Hugo; her story is told in the film The Story of Adele H.[22]
• Adolf Wölfli – Swiss painter[23]
• Agnes Martin – Canadian American abstract painter[24]
• Aloïse Corbaz – Swiss painter[25]
• Antonin Artaud – French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, creator of Theatre of Cruelty[26]
• Arthur Bispo do Rosário – Brazilian outsider artist (1909–1989)[27]
• Audrey Munson – American artist's model and film actress, "America's First Supermodel"[28]
• August Natterer – German painter[29]
• Bettie Page – American pin-up model[30]
• Bud Powell – American jazz pianist[31]
• Buddy Bolden – American pioneering jazz musician[32]
• Butch Warren – American jazz double bassist[33]
• Camille Claudel – French sculptor of the 19th century[34]
• Charles Manson – American criminal, cult leader and folk rock musician[35]
• Clara Bow – American Hollywood flapper actress and "It Girl" of the 1920s[36]
• Daniel Johnston – American artist and musician[37]
• Daniel Paul Schreber – German judge, writer, and notable patient of Freud[38]
• Darren Rainey – American prisoner who died at Dade Correctional Institution after being left in a steaming hot shower for two hours by prison guards[39]
• Ed Gein – American killer and body snatcher
• Eduard Einstein – Son of German physicist Albert Einstein
• Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler – German avantgarde-painter[40]
• Émile Nelligan – French Canadian poet[41]
• Estelle Bennett – American musician, member of The Ronettes[42]
• Eugène Gabritschevsky – Russian painter and microbiologist[43]
• Frances Farmer – American Hollywood actress, varyingly diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar psychosis, split personality and depression[44]
• Gene Tierney – American actress[45]
• Hannah Weiner – American 'clairvoyant' poet[46]
• Herb Baumeister – American alleged serial killer[47]
• Ingo Schwichtenberg – German drummer of power metal band Helloween[48]
• Jakob Lenz – German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement of the 18th century[49]
• Jeffrey Arenburg – Canadian shooter of hockey player Brian Smith[50]
• Joey Ramone – lead vocalist of American band Ramones[51]
• John du Pont – American millionaire and wrestling coach who murdered wrestler Dave Schultz[52]
• John Nash – American economist, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences[53]
• John Ogdon – English pianist and composer[54]
• Karl Maria Wiligut – Austrian SS-general and an occultist[55]
• Katherine Routledge – British archaeologist[56]
• Kelly Thomas – American citizen who was beaten to death by police without punishment[57]
• Konstantin Batyushkov – Russian poet of the 19th century[58]
• Lauri Viita – Finnish poet and author[59]
• Louis Wain – British artist[60]
• Marij Kogoj – Slovenian composer[61]
• Michael O'Hare - American actor, suffered from paranoid delusions and hallucinations[62][63]
• Nancy Spungen – American Punk icon and girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious[64]
• Ol' Dirty Bastard – American rapper, one of the founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan[65]
• Paul Goesch - German artist and architect[66]
• Pavel Fedotov – Russian painter of the 19th century[67]
• Philip K. Dick – American sci-fi author, diagnosis is contested[68]
• Richard Brautigan – American novelist, poet, and short story writer[69]
• Robert M. Pirsig – American writer and philosopher[70]
• Robert Walser – Swiss author, diagnosed with a catatonic schizophrenia[71]
• Roky Erickson – American rock musician, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators[72]
• Ronald Kray – English gangster prominent during the 1950s and 1960s[73]
• Sigrid Hjertén – Swedish painter[74]
• Syd Barrett - British musician, founding member of Pink Floyd[75]
• Talal – King of Jordan (for a year)[76]
• Ted Gärdestad – Swedish musician (was in Eurovision 1979)[77]
• Terry A. Davis – American computer programmer and vlogger[78]
• Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka – Hungarian painter[79]
• Unica Zürn – German artist[80]
• Uuno Kailas – Finnish poet[81]
• Valerie Solanas – American radical feminist who attempted to murder artist Andy Warhol[82]
• Vashishtha Narayan Singh – Indian academic[83]
• Vaslav Nijinsky – Russian ballet dancer, choreographer[84]
• Veronica Lake – American Hollywood actress of the 1940s[85]
• Wesley Willis – American musician and artist[86]
• Wild Man Fischer – American musician, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder[87]
• William Chester Minor – American killer and a contributor to Oxford English dictionary[88]
• Zelda Fitzgerald – American wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist[89]

See also

• List of people with bipolar disorder
• List of people with major depressive disorder

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