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Famous People with Mood Disorders

Famous Writers with Bipolar Disorders

Hans Christian Andersen
Honore de Balzac
James Barrie
Arthur Benson
E.F. Benson
James Boswell
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Nikolai Gogl
Maxim Gorky
Kenneth Graham
Graham Greene
Ernest Hemingway
Hermann Hesse
Henrik Ibsen
William Inge
Henry James
William James
Charles Lamb
Malcolm Lowry
John Bunyan
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens
Isak Dinesen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
Eugene O'Neill
Francis Parkman
John Ruskin (H)
Mary Shelley
Jean Stafford
Robert Louis Stevenson
August Strindberg
Leo Tolstoy
Ivan Turgenev
Tennessee Williams
Mary Wollstonecraft
Virginia Woolf
Emile Zola

Famous Composers with Bipolar Disorder

Anton Arensky
Hector Berlioz
Anton Bruckner
Jeremiah Clarke
John Dowland
Edward Elgar
Carlo Gesualdo
Mikhail Glinka
George Frederic Handel
Gustav Holst
Charles Ives
Otto Klemperer
Orlando de Lassus
Gustav Mahler
Modest Mussorgsky
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Giocchino Rossini
Robert Schumann
Alexander Scriagbin
Peter Tchaikovsky
Peter Warlock
Hugo Wolf
Bernd Alois Zimmerman
Nonclassical composers and musicians
Irving Berlin
Noel Coward
Stephen Foster
Charles Mingus
Charles Parker
Cole Porter
Bud Powell
Kurt Cobain, musician (Nirvana)

Famous Artists with Bipolar Disorders

Ralph Barton
Francesco Bassano
Ralph Blakelock
Francesco Borromini
John Sell Cotman
Richard Dadd
Edward Dayes
Thomas Eakins
Paul Gauguin
Theodore Gericault
Hugo van der Goes
Vincent van Gogh
Arshile Gorky
Philip Guston (H)
Benjamin Haydon
Carl Hill
Ernst Josephson
George Innes
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Edwin Landseer
Edward Lear
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
John Martin
Charles Meryon
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Adolphe Monticelli
Edvard Munch
Jules Pascin
Georgia O'Keeffe
Raphaelle Peal
Jackson Pollock
George Romney
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Mark Rothko
Nicolas de Stael
Pietro Testa
Henry Tilson
George Frederic Watts
Sir David Wilkie
Anders Zorn

Famous Poets with Bipolar Disorders

Antonin Artaud
Konstantin Batyushkov
Charles Baudelaire
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
John Berryman
William Blake
Aleksandr Blok
Barcroft Boake
Louis Bogan
Rupert Brooke
Robert Burns
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Thomas Campbell
Paul Celan
Thomas Chatterton
John Clare
Harley Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Collins
William Cowper
Hart Crane
George Darley
John Davidson
Emily Dickinson - more
Ernest Dowson
T.S. Eliot
Sergey Esenin
Robert Fergusson
Afanasy Fet
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Edward FitzGerald
John Gould Fletcher
Gustaf Froding
Oliver Goldsmith
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Thomas Gray
Nikolai Gumilyov
Robert Stephen Hawker
Friedrich Holderlin
Gerard Manley Hopkins - More
Victor Hugo
Randal Jarrell
Samuel Johnson
John Keats
Henry Kendall
Velimir Khlebnikov
Heinrich Von Kleist
Walter Savage Landor
Nikolaus Lenau
J.M.R. Lenz
Mikhail Lermontov
Vachel Lindsay
James Russell Lowell
Robert Lowell
Hugh MacDiarmid
Louis MacNeice
Osip Mandelstam
James Clarence Mangan
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Alfred de Musset
Gerard de Nerval
Boris Pasternak
Cesare Pavese
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allan Poe
Ezra Pound
Alexander Pushkin
Laura Riding
Theodore Roethke
Delmore Schwartz
Anne Sexton
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Christopher Smart
Torquato Tasso
Sara Teasdale
Alfred, Lord tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Edward Thomas
Francis Thompson
George Trakl
Marina Tsvetayeva
Walt Whitman

Famous Living People with Bipolar Disorders

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

Famous People with a Family History Suggesting Bipolar Disorders

Hans Christian Andersen
Konstantin Batyushkov
Arthur and E.F. Benson
Elizabeth Bishop
Aleksandr Blok
Charlotte and Emily Bronte
Anton Bruckner
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Chatterton
Samuel Clemens
John Sell Cotman
Gustave Courbet
Richard Dadd
Isak Dinesen
Ernest Dowson
Thomas Eakins
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Edward FitzGerald
Robert Frost
Thomas Gainsborough
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Nikolai Gogol
Kenneth Graham
Thomas Gray
Hermann Hesse
Charles Lamb
Louis MacNeice
John Martin
Marianne Moore
Edvard Munch
Francis Parkman
Walker Percy
Sylvia Plath
Jackson Pollock
Cole Porter
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Giocchino Rossini
John Rishkin
Alexander Scriabin
Robert Louis Stevenson
Peter Tchaikovsky
J.M.W. Turner
Walt Whitman
Emile Zola

Famous Living People with Unipolar Depression

Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Rona Barrett, entertainment reporter, author
Art Buchwald, writer
Barbara Bush, former First Lady (U.S.)
Ray Charles, musician
Eric Clapton, musician
Dick Clark, television personality (American Bandstand)
Leonard Cohen, musician, writer
Francis Ford Coppola, director
Michael Crichton, writer
Kathy Kronkite, writer (daughter of Walter Kronkite)
Sheryl Crow, musician
Mike Douglas, media personality
Tony Dow, actor, director
Thomas Eagleton, former politician; professor
James Farmer, civil rights activist (1960s to present)
Jules Feiffer, playwright, screenwriter, cartoonist
Albert French, writer
John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, educator, author
Mariette Hartley, actor
Stephen Hawking, physicist
Anthony Hopkins, actor
Salvador Luria, scientist (bacterial genetics), Nobel Laureate
Robert McFarlane, former National Security Advisor (U.S.)
Sarah McLachlan, musician
Charley Pell, former coach, Univ of Florida
Bonnie Raitt, musician
Joan Rivers, comedienne, talk show host
Roseanne, actor, writer, comedienne, also has MPD & OCD
Linda Sexton, writer (daughter of Anne Sexton)
Rod Steiger, actor
William Styron, writer
Kate Taylor, musician
James Taylor, musician
Livingston Taylor, musician
Mike Wallace, news anchor

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