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Tue 4 Jan, 2011 10:12 am
make sure they were diagnosed with the disease. If its just a possible candidate please note it as such. Tank you
Google is an amazing thing:
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* 6025 (former second guitarist of Dead Kennedys)
* Antonin Artaud (artist, poet, actor, theater philosopher)
* Syd Barrett (founder of Pink Floyd)
* Nick Blinko (founder, singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist for Rudimentary Peni)
* Buddy Bolden (jazz pioneer)
* Clara Bow (actress)
* Eduard Einstein (son of Albert Einstein)
* Zelda Fitzgerald (painter and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald)
* The Genain quadruplets (a set of four girls who each developed schizophrenia)
* Frederick Frese (Psychologist in Ohio and current Vice President of NAMI)
* Peter Green (founder of rock group Fleetwood Mac)
* Jim Gordon (drummer for the rock group Derek and the Dominos)
* Josef Hassid (gifted classical violinist)
* H.R. Hudson (affected lightly by schizophrenia, leader of hardcore punk band Bad Brains)
* James Tilly Matthews (subject of first book-length psychiatric case study)
* William Chester Minor (army surgeon and major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary)
* John Nash (mathematician and subject of the book and movie A Beautiful Mind)
* Vaslav Nijinsky (ballet dancer and choreographer)
* Daniel Paul Schreber (German judge)
* Phil Spector (music producer)
* Nancy Spungen (girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the punk rock band The Sex Pistols)
* Juanita Titus, the manic-depressive mother of stand up comedian Christopher Titus
* John Kennedy Toole (author of A Confederacy of Dunces)
* Gene Ray (self-proclaimed doctor of cubicism)
* Mark Vonnegut (son of the writer Kurt Vonnegut)
* Louis Wain (artist)
* Tennessee Williams (writer)
* Wesley Willis (musician)
* Brian Wilson (songwriter and member of the Beach Boys)
* Virginia Woolf (writer)
* Adolf Wolfli (artist, in the outsider art tradition)
@boomerang,
ok fair enough
yay goggle
Ok now just for fun how many possible candidates that were not diagnosed as such can we list