Famous People with
Mental Illness
Famous people with mental illness are outlined here. There is
a misconception in the general public that because someone has
risen to fame or fortune they are somehow immune to mental illness
just like anyone else.
This page rebuts this belief. There are famous people with mental
illnesses of all kinds including Hollywood celebrities, sports
stars, the rich and wealthy and all walks of people. Famous people
with mental illness are no more immune to the stresses of life
or biology and genetics than anyone else is.
Famous People with Mental Illness
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Lionel Aldridge
Buzz Aldrin
Woody Allen
Adam Ant
Roseanne Barr
Ludwig van Beethoven
Irving Berlin
Marlon Brando
Art Buchwald
Drew Carey
Jim Carrey
Dick Cavett
Winston Churchill
Agatha Christie
Dick Clark
Rosemary Clooney
Kurt Cobain
Shawn Colvin
Judy Collins
Calvin Coolidge
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Rodney Dangerfield
John Denver
Princess Diana
Charles Dickens
Kitty Dukakis
Patty Duke
Kirsten Dunst
Richard Dreyfuss
T. S. Elliot
William Faulkner
Carrie Fisher
Harrison Ford
Connie Francis
Paul Getty
Mel Gibson
Vincent Van Gogh
Macy Gray
Peter Green
Linda Hamilton
Ernest Hemingway
Abbie Hoffman
Janet Jackson
William James
Billy Joel
Samuel Johnson
John Keats
Jack Kerouac
Margot Kidder
Vivien Leigh
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Todd Lincoln
Jack London
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Martin Luther
Henri Matisse
Kristy McNichol
Burgess Meredith
Michelangelo
Bette Midler
Spike Milligan
Wolfgang Mozart
Edvard Munch
John Nash
Isaac Newton
Friedrich Nietzsche
Florence Nightingale
Sinead O'Connor
Eugene O'Neill
Ozzy Osbourne
Marie Osmond
Jane Pauley
Jimmy Piersall
Sylvia Plath
Edgar Allen Poe
Jackson Pollock
Charlie Pride
Anne Rice
John D. Rockefeller
Theodore Roosevelt
Axl Rose
Mark Rothko
J. K. Rowling
Charles Schultz
Peter Sellers
Brooke Shields
Robert Shumann
Sarah Silverman
Britney Spears
Rod Steiger
Ben Stiller
James Taylor
Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky
Leo Tolstoy
Ted Turner
Mark Twain
Tracy Ullman
Kurt Vonnegut
Mike Wallace
Walt Whitman
Tennessee Williams
Jonathon Winters
Brian Wilson
Owen Wilson
Virginia Woolf
Boris Yeltsin
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So you can see that famous people with mental illness is not
as rare as it may seem at first. I've only included the most notable
famous people with mental illness for this list and left off some
more minor celebrities of which there are literally thousands.
Making the famous people with mental illness list does take some
editorial judgment on my part. So, if you feel that there is a
celebrity or other notable that I've left off please send them
in so that I may add them to the list.
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