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 school shooter at California State University, Fullerton^[1]
• Jeffrey Arenburg - Canadian shooter of hockey player Brian Smith^[2]
• Haroon Rashid Aswat - British terror suspect. Extradited to US despite of danger of inhumane treatment - against decision of European Court of Human Rights^[3]
• Nathaniel Ayers - American musician^[4]
• Kat Bjelland - American musician, member of Babes in Toyland. (Has a 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]
• Roky Erickson - American rock musician, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators ^[8]
• Beate Grimsrud - Norwegian/Swedish writer and film director^[9]
• Jim Gordon - American drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos.^[10] Killed his mother.
• Joanne Greenberg - American author of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (schizophrenic as teenager, recovered)
• Darrell Hammond - American comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live^[11]
• Michael Hawkins - American actor. Was diagnosed with a schizophrenia and a bipolar disorder.^[12]
• David Helfgott - Australian concert pianist (has a schizoaffective disorder)^[13]
• Sarah Holcomb - American actress^[14]
• Daniel Johnston - American artist and musician^[15]
• Edmund Kemper - American serial killer
• Jake Lloyd - American actor^[16]
• Charles Manson - American murderer and folk rock musician^[17]
• Rufus May - British clinical psychologist^[18]
• Jeremy Oxley - Australian Musician and member of the Sunnyboys.^[19]
• Elyn Saks - American law professor/schizophrenia writer/researcher^[20]
• John Hinckley, Jr., American failed assassin.^[21]

Deceased

• Antonin Artaud - French theatre person, creator of Theathe of Cruelty^[22]
• Konstantin Batyushkov - Russian poet of the 19th century^[23]
• Herb Baumeister - American alleged serial killer^[24]
• Estelle Bennett - American musician, member of The Ronettes^[25]
• Richard Brautigan - American novelist, poet, and short story writer^[26]
• Arthur Bispo do Rosário - Brazilian outsider artist. (1909-1989)^[27]
• Syd Barrett - English musician
• Buddy Bolden - American pioneering jazz musician^[28]
• Clara Bow - American Hollywood flapper actress and "It Girl" of the 1920s^[29]
• Camille Claudel - French sculptor of the 19th century^[30]
• Aloïse Corbaz - Swiss painter^[31]
• Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka - Hungarian painter.^[32]
• Philip K. Dick - American sci-fi author. Diagnosis is contested.^[33]
• Frances Farmer - American Hollywood actress, varyingly diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar psychosis, splitted personality and depression^[34]
• Pavel Fedotov - Russian painter of the 19th century.^[35]
• Wild Man Fischer - American musician. He was diagnosed with a paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.^[36]
• Zelda Fitzgerald - American wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist^[37]
• Eugène Gabritschevsky - Russian painter and microbiologist.^[38]
• Ed Gein - American killer and body snatcher
• Paul Goesch - German artist and architect^[39]
• Vincent van Gogh - Dutch visual artist/painter (with schizophrenia and/or bipolar)^[10]
• Ted Gärdestad - Swedish musician (was in Eurovision 1979)^[40]
• Sigrid Hjertén - Swedish painter^[41]
• Adèle Hugo - Daughter of French writer Victor Hugo; her story is told in the film The Story of Adele H.^[42]
• Uuno Kailas - Finnish poet^[43]
• Marij Kogoj - Slovenian composer^[44]
• Veronica Lake - American Hollywood actress of the 1940s^[45]
• Vivian Leigh - American Hollywood actress. Was diagnosed with manic depression, schizophrenia,and nymphomania.^[46]
• Jakob Lenz - German writer of the Sturm und Drang -movement of the 18th century.^[47]
• Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler - German avantgarde-painter^[48]
• Agnes Martin - Canadian American abstract painter^[49]
• William Chester Minor - American killer and a contributor to Oxford English dictionary^[50]
• Audrey Munson - American artist's model and film actress, "America's First Supermodel"^[51]
• John Nash - American economist, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences^[52]
• August Natterer - German painter^[53]
• Émile Nelligan - French Canadian poet^[54]
• Vaslav Nijinsky - Russian ballet dancer, choreographer^[55]
• John Ogdon - English pianist and composer^[56]
• Ol' Dirty Bastard - American rapper, one of the founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan^[57]
• Bettie Page - American pin-up model^[58]
• John du Pont - American millionaire and wrestling coach who murdered wrestler Dave Schultz^[59]
• Bud Powell - American jazz pianist.^[60]
• Darren Rainey - American prisoner who died at Dade Correctional Institution after being left in a steaming hot shower for two hours by prison guards^[61]
• Joey Ramone - American guitarist of Ramones^[62]
• Katherine Routledge - British archaeologist^[63]
• Daniel Paul Schreber - German judge, writer, and notable patient of Freud^[64]
• Ingo Schwichtenberg - German former drummer of power metal band Helloween^[65]
• Vashishtha Narayan Singh - Indian mathematician^[66]
• Valerie Solanas - American radical feminist who attempted to murder artist Andy Warhol.^[67]
• Nancy Spungen - American Punk icon and girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious.^[68]
• Talal - King of Jordan (for a year)^[69]
• Kelly Thomas - American citizen who was beaten to death by police without punishment^[70]
• Gene Tierney - American actress^[71]
• Lauri Viita - Finnish poet and author^[72]
• Louis Wain - British artist^[73]
• Robert Walser - Swiss author. He was diagnosed with a catatonic schizophrenia.^[74]
• Aby Warburg - German art historian and cultural theorist. Diagnosed with a schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.^[75]
• Butch Warren - American jazz double bassist.^[76]
• Hannah Weiner - American 'Clairvoyant' poet.^[77]
• Karl Maria Wiligut - Austrian SS-general and an occultist^[78]
• Wesley Willis - American musician and artist.^[79]
• Adolf Wölfli - Swiss painter^[80]
• Unica Zürn - German artist^[81]

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