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schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

, 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. __NOTOC__

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* Michael Abram - American attempted murderer of

George Harrison George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English musician, singer and songwriter who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Sometimes called "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Culture ...

* Giorgio Agnelli - Italian member of the

Agnelli family The Agnelli family () is an Italian multi-industry business dynasty family founded by Giovanni Agnelli, one of the original founders of the Fiat motor company which became Italy's largest automobile manufacturer. They are also primarily known fo ...

* Süleyman Aktaş - Turkish serial killer known as "The Nailing Killer" * Lionel Aldridge - American professional football player *

Princess Alice of Battenberg Princess Alice of Battenberg (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, and paternal grandmother of King Charles III. Af ...

, British princess, mother of

Prince Philip Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 19219 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he was the consort of the British monarch from h ...

and mother in-law of

Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 19268 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, her death in 2022. ...

* Edward Charles Allaway – American murderer; committed California State University, Fullerton massacre in 1976 *

Louis Althusser Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher who studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser was a long-time member an ...

- French Marxist philosopher * John Altoon - American artist * Audrey Amiss - British artist * Jeffrey Arenburg – Canadian shooter of hockey player Brian Smith *

Antonin Artaud Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (; ; 4September 18964March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud, was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema. Widely ...

– French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, creator of

Theatre of Cruelty The Theatre of Cruelty (, also ) is a form of theatre conceptualised by Antonin Artaud. Artaud, who was briefly a member of the surrealist movement, outlined his theories in a series of essays and letters, which were collected as '' The Theatre an ...

* Alexander Astashev - Russian serial killer known as the "Cheremkhovo Poisoner" * Haroon Rashid Aswat – British follower of extremist Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri; pleaded guilty in U.S. court to providing material support to

al-Qaeda , image = Flag of Jihad.svg , caption = Jihadist flag, Flag used by various al-Qaeda factions , founder = Osama bin Laden{{Assassinated, Killing of Osama bin Laden , leaders = {{Plainlist, * Osama bin Lad ...

* Nathaniel Ayers – American musician

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Parveen Babi Parveen Sultana Wali Mohammad Khanji Babi (; 4 April 195420 January 2005) was an Indian actress and model, who worked in Hindi films. One of the highest-paid actresses of the 1970s and the 1980s, she appeared in over 70 films and was the first ...

- Indian actress and model (alleged) * Gladys Pearl Baker - American actress

Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe ( ; born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 August 4, 1962) was an American actress and model. Known for playing comic "Blonde stereotype#Blonde bombshell, blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex ...

's mother * Joseph Baldi - American serial killer known as The Queens Creeper * Robert John Bardo - American murderer of actress Rebecca Shaeffer * Mary Barnes - English artist and writer *

Syd Barrett Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd in 1965. Until his departure in 1968, he was Pink Floyd's frontman and primary songwriter, ...

- English singer and guitarist, member of

Pink Floyd Pink Floyd are an English Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1965. Gaining an early following as one of the first British psychedelic music, psychedelic groups, they were distinguished by their extended compositions, sonic experiments ...

(alleged) * Konstantin Batyushkov – Russian poet of the 19th century * Herb Baumeister – American alleged serial killer * Benga - British dubstep musician * Estelle Bennett – American musician, member of The Ronettes * Marty Bergen - American baseball player and murderer * David Berkowitz - American serial killer known as the Son of Sam * Peter Joseph Bis - American homeless man * Arthur Bispo do Rosário – Brazilian

outsider art Outsider art is Fine art, art made by Autodidacticism, self-taught individuals who are untrained and untutored in the traditional arts with typically little or no contact with the Convention (norm), conventions of the art worlds. The term ''ou ...

ist (1909–1989) * Kat Bjelland – American musician, member of Babes in Toyland ( schizoaffective disorder) * Nick Blinko – British painter and punk musician: singer, lyricist and guitarist of Rudimentary Peni (schizoaffective disorder) *

Buddy Bolden Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries and later jazz scholars as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass ...

– American pioneering jazz musician *

Adrian Borland Adrian Kelvin Borland (6 December 1957 – 26 April 1999) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer, best known as the frontman of post-punk band The Sound (band), The Sound. Following a substantial musical career spanni ...

– English singer-songwriter, member of The Sound ( schizoaffective disorder; alleged) * Clara Bow – American Hollywood

flapper Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee length was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their ...

actress and " It Girl" of the 1920s * Cheyenne Brando - French fashion model, daughter of

Marlon Brando Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cinema actors of the 20th century,''Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia''

* Richard Brautigan – American novelist, poet, and short story writer * Jean "Binta" Breeze (1956–2021), Jamaican dub poet, theatre director, and performer * Karl Brendel - German outsider artist * Leslie Burchart - American serial killer * Gregory Alan Bush - American mass shooter, perpetrator of the 2018 Jeffersontown shooting

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* Frank Calloway - American artist * Jad Capelja - Yugoslavian-born Australian actress * Michael Carneal - American mass shooter, perpetrator of the 1997 Heath High School shooting * Aaron Carter - American singer * Tom Cavanagh - American ice hockey player * Judi Chamberlin - American psychiatric survivors activist and educator * Bryan Charnley – British artist * Richard Chase - American serial killer known as "The Vampire of Sacramento" * James Chasse - American man who died in police custody * Clarence 13X - American religious leader *

Camille Claudel Camille Rosalie Claudel (; 8 December 1864 19 October 1943) was a French sculptor known for her figurative works in bronze and marble. She died in relative obscurity, but later gained recognition for the originality and quality of her work. The ...

– French sculptor of the 19th century * David Copeland – British terrorist; committed nail bombings in London in 1999 * Aloïse Corbaz – Swiss painter * Cesare Cremonini – Italian singer-songwriter, member of Lùnapop *

Lupen Crook Lupen Crook is an English musician and songwriter. Style Initially making his name as an acoustic singer-songwriter, Lupen Crook (real name Matthew Pritchard) has gone on to create an eclectic music style incorporating garage rock, "broken fol ...

– English musician (schizoaffective disorder) * Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka – Hungarian painter * Izola Curry - American attempted assassin of

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, civil and political rights, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights move ...

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* Richard Dadd - English painter * André Dallaire - Canadian attempted assassin of

Jean Chrétien Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (; born January 11, 1934) is a retired Canadian politician, statesman, and lawyer who served as the 20th prime minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003. He served as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, leader of t ...

* Viacheslav Datsik - Russian professional boxer * Terry A. Davis – American computer programmer and vlogger * Patricia Deegan - American disability rights advocate * Princess Deokhye - Korean royal princess * Célio Dias - Portuguese judoka * Randall Gair Doherty – English son of occultist

Aleister Crowley Aleister Crowley ( ; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, novelist, mountaineer, and painter. He founded the religion of Thelema, identifying himself as the pr ...

* John du Pont – American millionaire and wrestling coach who murdered wrestler Dave Schultz

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* Eduard Einstein – Son of physicist

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein (14 March 187918 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence f ...

* Will Elliott – Australian writer *

Roky Erickson Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson (July 15, 1947 – May 31, 2019) was an American musician and singer-songwriter. Called an "outsider genius," he was a founding member and the leader of the 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic r ...

– American rock musician, founder of

The 13th Floor Elevators The 13th Floor Elevators was an American Rock music, rock band from Austin, Texas, United States, formed by guitarist and lead vocalist, vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug (instrument), jug player Tommy Hall (American musician), Tommy Hall, ...

* Frederick Exley - American writer

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* Frances Farmer – American Hollywood actress, varyingly diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar psychosis, split personality and depression * Pavel Fedotov – Russian painter of the 19th century * Shulamith Firestone - Canadian-American radical feminist activist * Wild Man Fischer – American musician, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder *

Zelda Fitzgerald Zelda Fitzgerald (; July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948) was an American novelist, painter, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she marri ...

– American wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist * Erin Fleming - Canadian actress and companion of

Groucho Marx Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in films and vaudeville on television, radio, and the stage. He is considered one of America's greatest comed ...

Janet Frame Janet Paterson Frame (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous award ...

– New Zealand author * Jackson C. Frank - American folk musician * Leonard Roy Frank - American human rights activist * Frederick Frese - American psychologist

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* Eugène Gabritschevsky – Russian painter and microbiologist * Joe Gallo - American mobster * Ted Gärdestad – Swedish musician (was in Eurovision 1979) * Theodore Garman - English painter * Martin Garratt - English professional footballer * Ed Gein – American killer and body snatcher * Genain quadruplets - American quadruplets who all developed schizophrenia * Willem van Genk - Dutch painter and graphic artist * Jim Gordon – American drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos; killed his mother * Paul Gösch – German artist and architect * Peter Green - English singer-songwriter (

Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac are a British-American Rock music, rock band formed in London in 1967 by the singer and guitarist Peter Green (musician), Peter Green. Green named the band by combining the surnames of the drummer, Mick Fleetwood, and the bassis ...

) * Joanne Greenberg - American author and anthropologist * Ken Grimes - American artist

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* Hamad al-Hajji – Saudi Arabian poet * Will Hall – American mental health advocate * Darrell Hammond – American comedian, actor on ''

Saturday Night Live ''Saturday Night Live'' (''SNL'') is an American Late night television in the United States, late-night live television, live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC. The ...

'' *

Tom Harrell Tom Harrell (born June 16, 1946) is an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger. Voted Trumpeter of the Year of 2018 by ''Jazz Journalists Association'', Harrell has won awards and grants throughout his career, including mul ...

– American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger * Josef Hassid - Polish violinist *

Donny Hathaway Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger who ''Rolling Stone'' described as a "soul legend". His most popular songs include " The Ghetto" ...

– American soul singer and songwriter * Emma Hauck - German outsider artist * Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and

bipolar disorder Bipolar disorder (BD), previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of Depression (mood), depression and periods of abnormally elevated Mood (psychology), mood that each last from days to weeks, and in ...

* Luke Helder – The Midwest Pipe Bomber (schizoaffective disorder) * David Helfgott – Australian concert pianist ( schizoaffective disorder) * Lord Nicholas Hervey - British aristocrat and political activist * John Hinckley Jr. – American failed assassin of

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party a ...

* Sigrid Hjertén – Swedish painter * Friedrich Hölderlin - German poet and philosopher * H.R. – American musician, singer of

Bad Brains Bad Brains are an American punk rock band formed in Washington, D.C., in 1976. They are widely regarded as pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members have objected to the use of this term to describe their music. They are also an ade ...

* Adèle Hugo – Daughter of French writer

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...

; her story is told in the film '' The Story of Adele H.'' * Stephen Huss - Canadian musician, member of Psyche

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* Maryam Jameelah - American-Pakistani author * Topsy Jane - British actress * Jill Janus - American vocalist, lead singer for Huntress *

Daniel Johnston Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in Outsider music, outsider, Lo-fi music, lo-fi, and alternative rock, alternative music scenes. Most ...

– American artist and musician * Lucia Joyce - Irish professional dancer, daughter of

James Joyce James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (born James Augusta Joyce; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influentia ...

and Nora BarnacleBowker, 482.

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* Uuno Kailas – Finnish poet * Victor Kandinsky - Russian psychiatrist * Kathy Kirby - English singer * August Klotz - German outsider artist * Johann Knüpfer - German outsider artist * Marij Kogoj – Slovenian composer * William Kolakoski - American artist and recreational mathematician * Aaron Kosminski - Polish hairdresser and

Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer who was active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer was also ...

suspect * Ronald Kray – English gangster prominent during the 1950s and 1960s * William Kurelek - Canadian artist and writer * Pyotr Kuznetsov - Russian cult leader

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* Veronica Lake – American Hollywood actress of the 1940s * Tony LaMadrid - American research study subject * Sasha Lane – American actress (schizoaffective disorder) * Michael Laudor – American

Yale Law School Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824. The 2020–21 acceptance rate was 4%, the lowest of any law school in the United ...

graduate, subject of a planned

Ron Howard Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. Howard started his career as a child actor before transitioning to directing films. Over his six-decade career, Howard has received List of awards and nominations r ...

movie; later killed his fiancée * Jakob Lenz – German writer of the ''

Sturm und Drang (, ; usually translated as "storm and stress") was a proto-Romanticism, Romantic movement in German literature and Music of Germany, music that occurred between the late 1760s and early 1780s. Within the movement, individual subjectivity an ...

'' movement of the 18th century * Juhan Liiv - Estonian poet * Jake Lloyd – retired American actor who played

Anakin Skywalker Darth Vader () is a fictional character in the ''Star Wars'' franchise. He was first introduced in the Star Wars original trilogy, original film trilogy as the primary Antagonist, antagonist and one of the leaders of the Galactic Empire (Star W ...

in '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' * Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler – German avantgarde-painter * Jared Lee Loughner – perpetrator of the

2011 Tucson shooting On January 8, 2011, United States Representative Gabby Giffords and 18 others were shot during a constituent meeting held in a supermarket parking lot in Casas Adobes, Arizona, in the Tucson metropolitan area. Six people were killed, inclu ...

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Charles Manson Charles Milles Manson (; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Some cult members committed a Manson ...

– American criminal, cult leader and folk rock musician * Austin Mardon - Canadian scientist *

Agnes Martin Agnes Bernice Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004) was an American abstract painter known for her minimalist style and abstract expressionism. Born in Canada, she moved to the United States in 1931, where she pursued higher education ...

– Canadian American abstract painter * James Tilly Matthews - British merchant * Rufus May – British clinical psychologist * Mary Virginia McCormick - American philanthropist * Angus McPhee - Scottish outsider artist *

Joe Meek Robert George "Joe" Meek (5 April 1929 – 3 February 1967) was an English record producer and songwriter considered one of the most influential sound engineers of all time, being one of the first to develop ideas such as the recording studio a ...

- English record producer and songwriter * Charles Meryon – French artist * Mayo Methot - American actress * William Chester Minor – American killer and a contributor to

Oxford English dictionary The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (''OED'') is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first editio ...

* Mario Miranda - Colombian professional boxer * Peter Moog - German outsider artist * William Lewis Moore - American civil rights activist * Anatoly Moskvin - Russian linguist, philologist and grave robber * Bob Mosley - American musician, member of Moby Grape * Audrey Munson – American artist's model and film actress, "America's First Supermodel"

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* Nadiuska - German model and actress * John Nash – American economist, mathematician and

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; ; ) are awards administered by the Nobel Foundation and granted in accordance with the principle of "for the greatest benefit to humankind". The prizes were first awarded in 1901, marking the fifth anniversary of Alfred N ...

winner in Economic Sciences * August Natterer – German painter * Émile Nelligan –

French Canadian French Canadians, referred to as Canadiens mainly before the nineteenth century, are an ethnic group descended from French people, French colonists first arriving in Canada (New France), France's colony of Canada in 1608. The vast majority of ...

poet * Neil Nephew - American actor and writer * Vaslav Nijinsky – Russian ballet dancer, choreographer * Joseph Ntshongwana – South African rugby player and serial killer

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* Michael O'Hare – American actor, suffered from paranoid delusions and hallucinations *

John Ogdon John Andrew Howard Ogdon (27 January 1937 – 1 August 1989) was an English pianist and composer. Biography Career Ogdon was born in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire; his family moved to Manchester when he was eight. He attended the M ...

– English pianist and composer * Adnan Oktar - Turkish cult leader and Muslim televangelist *

Ol' Dirty Bastard Russell Tyrone Jones (November 15, 1968 – November 13, 2004), known professionally as Ol' Dirty Bastard (often abbreviated as ODB), was an American rapper. He was one of the founding members of the New York rap group Wu-Tang Clan, which forme ...

– American rapper, one of the founding members of the

Wu-Tang Clan Wu-Tang Clan is an American hip hop collective formed in Staten Island, New York City, in 1992. Its members include RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and, until his death in 2004, O ...

* Viktor Orth - outsider artist * Jeremy Oxley – Australian musician and member of the Sunnyboys

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P.O Pyo Ji-hoon (; born February 2, 1993), better known by his stage name P.O, is a South Korean rapper, singer and actor. He is the youngest member of the boy group Block B and its sub-unit Bastarz. As an actor, he has appeared in television ser ...

- South Korean rapper, singer and actor *

Bettie Page Bettie Mae Page (April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008) was an American model who gained notoriety in the 1950s for her pin-up model, pin-up photos.Rufe Persful - American criminal * Michael Peterson - Australian surfer * Robert M. Pirsig – American writer and philosopher * Sophie Podolski - Belgian poet and graphic artist * Franz Pohl - German outsider artist * Khieu Ponnary - Cambodian first wife of President

Pol Pot Pol Pot (born Saloth Sâr; 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998) was a Cambodian politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled the communist state of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976 until Cambodian–Vietnamese War, his overthrow in 1979. During ...

Bud Powell Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory,Grove Powell's application of complex phrasing to ...

– American jazz pianist

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* Darren Rainey – American prisoner who died at Dade Correctional Institution after being left in a steaming hot shower for two hours by prison guards * Martín Ramírez – Mexican-American self-taught artist *

Joey Ramone Jeffrey Ross Hyman (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), known professionally as Joey Ramone, was an American singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist and founding member of the punk rock band Ramones, with Johnny Ramone and Dee Dee Ramone. His ...

– lead vocalist of American band

Ramones The Ramones were an American punk rock band formed in the New York City neighborhood Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. Known for helping establish the punk movement in the United States and elsewhere, the Ramones are often recognized as one of th ...

* Cornelia Rau – German-Australian unlawful detainees * Margaret Mary Ray – American stalker of talk show host

David Letterman David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947) is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer, and auto racing team owner. He hosted late-night television talk shows for 33 years, beginning with the February 1, 1982, debut of ''Late N ...

and astronaut

Story Musgrave Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second a ...

* Eleanor Riese – American patient and lawsuit plaintiff * Peter Robbins – American actor and real estate broker, original voice of

Charlie Brown Charles "Charlie" Brown is the Protagonist, principal character of the comic strip ''Peanuts'', syndicated in daily newspaper, daily and Sunday newspapers in numerous countries all over the world. Depicted as a "lovable loser", Charlie Brown ...

* Royal Robertson – American outsider artist * John Russell, 4th Earl Russell – British nobleman, son of Bertrand and Dora Russell * Katherine Routledge – British archaeologist

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Elyn Saks Elyn R. Saks is associate dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fell ...

– American law professor and schizophrenia writer/researcher * Hisham al-Sayed - Israeli Hamas hostage * Lori Schiller – American writer * Howard Schoenfield – American tennis player * Daniel Paul Schreber – German judge, writer, and notable patient of Freud * Ingo Schwichtenberg – German drummer of power metal band

Helloween Helloween is a German power metal band founded in 1984 in Hamburg by members of bands Iron Fist, Gentry, Second Hell and Powerfool. The band has at times been called one of the most influential European heavy metal bands of the 1980s. Its first ...

* Shocka – British rapper and mental health advocate * Vashishtha Narayan Singh – Indian academic * Oliver Sipple – American war veteran and intervener in the attempted assassination of

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, Ford assumed the p ...

* Marguerite Sirvins – French textile artist * Craig Smith – American musician * Valerie Solanas – American radical feminist who attempted to murder artist

Andy Warhol Andy Warhol (;''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary''"Warhol" born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol ...

* Skip Spence – Canadian-born American musician, member of Moby Grape * Nancy Spungen – American Punk icon and girlfriend of

Sex Pistols The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band formed in London in 1975. Although their initial career lasted just two and a half years, they became culturally influential in popular music. The band initiated the punk movement in the United Ki ...

bassist

Sid Vicious Simon John Ritchie (10 May 1957 – 2 February 1979), better known by his stage name Sid Vicious, was an English musician, best known as the second bassist for the punk rock band Sex Pistols. After his death in 1979 at the age of 21, he remai ...

* Sun Hong Rhie – Korean-American astrophysicist

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* Takashi Tachibana – Japanese social activist and politician * Talal – King of Jordan (for a year) * Emmanuel Tardif – Canadian filmmaker; killed his mother * Mackenzie Taylor – British comic, writer and director (schizoaffective disorder) * Kelly Thomas – American citizen who was beaten to death by police, who went unpunished for taking his life. * Andrew Toles – American baseball player

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Maurice Utrillo Maurice Utrillo (; born Maurice Valadon; 26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955) was a French painter of the School of Paris who specialized in cityscapes. From the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the few famous painters of ...

– French painter

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* Lauri Viita – Finnish poet and author * Mark Vonnegut – American memoirist, pediatrician, son of author

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfict ...

* Lark Voorhies – American actress (''

Saved by the Bell ''Saved by the Bell'' is an American television teen sitcom created by Sam Bobrick for NBC. The series premiered, in prime time, on August 20, 1989, a Sunday night. Targeted at kids and teens, ''Saved by the Bell'' was broadcast in the United ...

''; schizoaffective disorder)

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* Louis Wain – British artist * Walkie – Russian rapper * Robert Walser – Swiss author, diagnosed with a catatonic schizophrenia * Esmé Weijun Wang – American writer (schizoaffective disorder) *

Aby Warburg Aby Moritz Warburg (June 13, 1866 – October 26, 1929) was a German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the ''Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg'' (Warburg Library for Cultural Studies), a private library, which was later m ...

– German art historian and cultural theorist, diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder *

Butch Warren Edward Rudolph "Butch" Warren Jr. (August 9, 1939 – October 5, 2013) was an American jazz bassist who was active during the 1950s and 1960s. Biography Warren's mother was a typist at the CIA. His father, Edward Sr., was an electronics tech ...

– American jazz

double bass The double bass (), also known as the upright bass, the acoustic bass, the bull fiddle, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument, chordophone in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding rare additions ...

ist * Melvin Way – American folk artist * Hannah Weiner – American '

clairvoyant Clairvoyance (; ) is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense". Any person who is claimed to ...

' poet * Robison Wells – American novelist and blogger * Danniella Westbrook – English actress (''

EastEnders ''EastEnders'' is a British television soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the East End of London, the ...

'') *

Karl Maria Wiligut Karl Maria Wiligut (alias Weisthor, Jarl Widar, Lobesam; 10 December 1866 – 3 January 1946) was an Austrian Völkisch occultist and soldier. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and was a leading figure in the Irminis ...

– Austrian SS-general and an

occult The occult () is a category of esoteric or supernatural beliefs and practices which generally fall outside the scope of organized religion and science, encompassing phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysti ...

ist * Ron Willems – Dutch footballer * Wesley Willis – American musician and artist * Stefan Wilmont - Polish criminal who assassinated the mayor of Gdańsk in 2019 *

Brian Wilson Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 – June 11, 2025) was an American musician, songwriter, singer and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often Brian Wilson is a genius, called a genius for his novel approaches to pop compositio ...

– American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded

the Beach Boys The Beach Boys are an American Rock music, rock band formed in Hawthorne, California, in 1961. The group's original lineup consisted of brothers Brian Wilson, Brian, Dennis Wilson, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their f ...

( schizoaffective disorder) * Adolf Wölfli – Swiss painter * Louis Wolfson – American writer

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* Lola Young – British singer-songwriter (schizoaffective disorder)

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* David Zancai – Canadian street performer * Carlo Zinelli – Italian outsider artist * Unica Zürn – German artist

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Schizophrenia Schizophrenia () is a mental disorder characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, Auditory hallucination#Schizophrenia, hearing voices), delusions, thought disorder, disorganized thinking and behavior, and Reduced affect display, f ...

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