Famous Crazy Folks
We’re in Good Company: almost 300 names of well known people who havea psychiatric diagnosis of mental illness. Almost no one was "Glad" to be their friend until they became famous.
| A | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ajax, according to Aristotle | Lionel Aldridge | Buzz Aldrin, astronaut |
| Hans Christian Andersen, writer | Diane Arbus | Anton Arensky, musician |
| Antonin Artaud, poet | ||
| B | ||
| Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), author | James Barrie, writer | Ralph Barton, artist |
| Konstantin Barysuhkov, poet | Francesco Bassano, artist | Charles Baudelaire, poet |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes, poet | Ludwig van Beethoven, composer | Bellerophontes, according to Aristotle |
| Arthur Benson, writer | E. F. Benson, writer | Ingmar Bergman, film maker |
| Hector Berlioz, 19th century French composer | John Berryman, poet | William Blake (1757-1827), poet |
| Ralph Blakelock, artist | Aleksandr Blok, poet | Barcroft Boake, poet |
| Louise Bogan, poet | Boltzmannnn, scientist, (Kretschmer cyclothymic) | David Bomberg, artist |
| Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), general | Tadeusz Borowski | Francesco Borromini, artist |
| James Boswell, writer | Charlotte Bronte, author | Rupert Brooke, poet |
| Anton Bruckner, musician | John Bunyan, writer | Robert Burns, poet |
| Lord Byron, (1788-1824), poet | ||
| C | ||
| Thomas Campbell, poet | Georg Cantor, mathematician | Dick Cavett, TV personality |
| Paul Celan, artist | Benvenuto Cellini, artist | Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), English poet |
| Christian VII, Danish king | Agatha Christie, mystery writer | Sarah Churchill, attendant to Queen Anne and ancestor of Winston |
| Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister | John Clare (1793-1864), poet | Jeremiah Clarke, musician |
| Camille Claudel, sculptor | Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), writer | Rosemary Clooney, singer |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), poet | William Collins (1721-1759), Georgian poet | Joseph Conrad, writer |
| Copernicus, scientist (Kretschmer schizothymic) | Frances Ford Coppola, director | John Sell Cotman, artist |
| Noel Coward, musician | William Cowper (1731-1800), poet | Hart Crane, poet |
| Rene Crevel, artist | Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), English politician | |
| D | ||
| Richard Dadd, artist | Charles Darwin | Daumier, painter |
| John Davidson, poet | Edward Dayes, artist | Charles Dickens, author |
| Emily Dickinson, poet | Isak Dinesen, writer | Gaetano Donizetti |
| Dostoyevsky, author | John Dowland, musician | Ernest Dowson, poet |
| Kitty Dukakis, Massachusetts first lady | Patty Duke, actress | Alexander Dumas, author |
| Albrecht Durer, engraver | ||
| E | ||
| Thomas Eagleton, politician | Thomas Eakins, artist | Russell Edson, poet |
| Edward Elgar, musician | T. S. Eliot, poet | Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist |
| Empedocles, according to Aristotle | Sergei Esenin, Russian poet | |
| F | ||
| Michael Farady, physicist | William Faulkner, writer | Robert Fergusson (1750-1774), Scots poet |
| Anfanasy Fet, poet | Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, poet | Edward Fitgerald, poet |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald, author | Zelda Fitzgerald, celebrity | John Gould Fletcher, poet |
| James Forrestal, investment banker, Navy Sec'y under FDR | Stephen Foster, musician | George Fox (1624-1691), Society of Friends (Quakers) founder |
| Connie Francis, singer | Huey Freeman, playwright | Sigmund Freud, physician |
| Gustaf Froding, poet | ||
| G | ||
| Romain Gary, author | George III | Theodore Gericault, artist |
| Carlo Gesualdo, musician | Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer | Mikhail Glinka, musician |
| Kurt Godel, 1906- 1978, mathematician | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), author | Hugo van der Goes, artist |
| Vincent Van Gogh, painter | Nikolai Gogol, writer | Oliver Goldsmith, author |
| Arshile Gorky, artist | Mazim Gorky, writer | Cary Grant, actor |
| Kenneth Graham, writer | Thomas Gray, poet | Graham Greene, writer |
| Philip Guston, artist | ||
| H | ||
| Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), American politician | Hamlet, fictional Prince of Denmark | George Frideric Handel, composer |
| Robert Stephen Hawker, poet | Nathaniel Hawthorne, author | Benjamin Haydon, artist |
| Heine, poet | Ernest Hemingway, author | Hercules, according to Aristotle |
| Herman Hesse, writer | Carl Hill, artist | Abby Hoffman, activist and author |
| Friedrich Holderlin, poet | Gustav Holst, musician | Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), poet |
| Howard Hughes, entrepreneur | Victor Hugo, poet | |
| I | ||
| Henrik Ibsen, writer | William Inge, modern literary scene | |
| J | ||
| Henry James, writer, brother of William | William James, philosopher | Kay Jamison, professor and writer |
| Randall Jarrell, poet | Samuel Johnson, poet | Ernst Josephson, artist |
| K | ||
| Kazan, Far Eastern naturalist artist, suicide | John Keats, poet, opium addict | Henry Kendall, poet |
| Kepler, scientist (Kretschmer schizothymic) | Velimir Khlebnikov, poet | Soren Kierkegaard |
| Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, artist | Otto Klemperer, musician | |
| L | ||
| Charles Lamb, author | Walter Savage Landor, poet | Edwin Landseer, artist |
| Orlando de Lassus, musician | Edward Lear, artist | King Lear, fictional |
| Nathaniel Lee, 17th century playwright | Robert E Lee, soldier | Wilhelm Lehmbruck, artist |
| Leibniz, scientist (Kretschmer schizothymic) | Vivian Leigh, actress | Nikolaus Lenau, poet |
| J. M. R. Lenz, poet | Mikhail Lermontov, poet | Primo Levi, author |
| Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President | Vachel Lindsay, poet | Liszt, composer |
| Josh Logan, songster | Jack London, author | Earl K Long, politician |
| James Russell Lowell, poet | Robert Lowell, poet | Malcolm Lowry, writer |
| Martin Luther (1483-1546), religious | ||
| M | ||
| Hugh MadDiarmid, poet | Louis MacNeice, poet | Gustav Mahler, composer |
| Osip Mandelstam, poet | James Clarence Mangan, poet | Johm Martin, artist |
| Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet | Herman Melville, author | Charles Mryon, artist |
| Michelangelo, artist | John Stuart Mill | Edna St Vincent Millay, poet |
| Kate Millett, author | Charlie Mingus, musician | Modigliani, artist |
| Adolphe Monticelli, artist | Marilyn Monroe, actress | Mozart, composer |
| John Mulhern, Wall Street trader | Edvard Munch, artist | Alfred de Musset, poet |
| Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), Italian political leader | Modest Mussorgsky, musician | |
| N | ||
| Napoleon, general | Nebuchadnezzar | Lord Nelson, statesman |
| Gerard de Nerval, poet | Isaac Newton, scientist | Friederich Nietzsche, philosopher |
| Vaslov Nijinsky (-1950), Russian dancer | Emperor Norton I | |
| O | ||
| Oedipus, fictional | Georgia O'Keefe, artist | Eugene O'Neill, playwright |
| P | ||
| Charles Parker, musician | Francis Parkman, writer | Juses Pascin, artist |
| Boris Pasternak, poet | Cesare Pavese, poet | Raphaelle peale, artist |
| J. C. Penney | Jimmy Piersall, baseball player | Robert M. Pirsig, author |
| William Pitt, statesman | Jackson Pollack, artist | Sylvia Plath, poet |
| Plato, philosopher, according to Aristotle | Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), author | Cole Porter, musician |
| Ezra Pound, poet | Bud Powell, musician | Alexander Pushkin, author |
| R | ||
| Rabelais, author | Sergei Rachmaninoff, musician | Rembrandt, painter |
| Laura Riding, poet | Theodore Roethke, poet | George Romney, visual arts |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), poet | Theodore Roosevelt, US President | Giocchino Rossini, musician |
| Mark Rothko, artist | Rousseau, author | John Ruskin (1819-1900), writer |
| S | ||
| St. Francis | St. John | St. Theresa |
| William Saroyan, author | Schiller, poet | Franz Schubert, composer |
| Robert Schumann (1810-1856), musician | Delmore Schwartz, poet | Alexander Scriabin, musician |
| Sabbatai Sevi (1626-1676), religious | Anne Sexton, poet, 20th century | Shapiro, modern literary scene |
| Mary Shelley, writer | Percy Bysse Shelley, poet | Richard Sheridan, playwright |
| William T. Sherman, soldier | Christopher Smart (1722-1771), sacred lyric poet | Mitch Snyder, activist |
| Socrates, philosopher, according to Aristotle | Nicolas de Stael, artist | Jean Stafford, writer |
| Rod Steiger, film maker | Robert Louis Stevenson, writer | August Strindberg, writer |
| William Styron, author | James Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish philosopher | |
| T | ||
| Torquato Tasso, Italian poet | James Taylor, singer popular 1990 | Peter Tchaikovsky, composer |
| Sara Teasdale, poet | Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet | Pietro Testa, artist |
| Dylan Thomas, poet | Edward Thomas, poet | Francis Thompson, poet |
| Henry Tilson, artist | Leo Tolstoy, author | Lily Tomlin, comedian and playwrite |
| Georg Trakl, poet | Marina Tsvetayeva, poet | Ted Turner, entrepreneur |
| Ivan Turgenev, writer | Mark Twain, author | |
| U | ||
| Utrillo, painter | ||
| V | ||
| Verlaine, poet | Vermeer, painter | Heinrich Von Kleist, poet |
| Mark Vonnegut, author | ||
| W | ||
| Richard Wagner, composer | Mike Wallace, investigative reporter | Peter Warlock |
| George Frederic Watts, artist | Walt Whitman, poet | Robin Williams, comedian |
| Tennessee Williams, author, playwriter | Sir David Wilkie, artist | Jonathan Winters, comedian |
| Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer | Mary Wollstonecraft, writer | Virginia Woolf, author |
| Y | ||
| Bert Yancy, golfer | ||
| Z | ||
| Emile Zola, writer | Anders Zorn, artist | |
