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

• Kat Bjelland - American musician, member of Babes in Toyland. (Has a schizoaffective disorder.)^[1]
• Will Elliott - Australian writer^[2]
• Roky Erickson - American rock musician, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators ^[3]
• Beate Grimsrud - Norwedian/Swedish author and film director^[4]
• Andy Goram - Scottish football/soccer player^[5]
• Jim Gordon - American drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos^[6]
• Peter Green - British guitarist, founder of Fleetwood Mac^[5]
• Darrell Hammond - American comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live^[7]
• Tom Harrell - American Jazz Musician^[5]
• Michael Hawkins - American actor. Was diagnosed with a schizophrenia and a bipolar disorder.^[8]
• David Helfgott - Australian concert pianist (has a schizoaffective disorder)^[9]
• John Hinckley, Jr., American failed assassin.^[10]
• Daniel Johnston - American artist, musician ^[11]
• Jake Lloyd - American actor^[12]
• Rufus May - British clinical psychologist^[13]
• Bob Mosley - American rock musician, member of Moby Grape ^[5]
• Jeremy Oxley - Australian Musician and member of the Sunnyboys.^[14]
• Elyn Saks - American law professor/schizophrenia writer/researcher^[15]
• Brian Wilson - American Musician and member of The Beach Boys. Has a schizoaffective disorder.^[16]

Deceased

• Lionel Aldridge - American football player^[5]
• Princess Alice of Battenberg - British princess^[17]
• Antonin Artaud - French theatre person, creator of Theathe of Cruelty^[18]
• Parveen Babi - Indian actress^[5]
• Syd Barrett - British musician, founding member of Pink Floyd. Wasn't diagnosed, diagnosis is contested.^[5]
• Konstantin Batyushkov - Russian poet of the 19th century^[19]
• Estelle Bennett - American musician, member of The Ronettes^[20]
• Richard Brautigan - American Writer^[21]
• Arthur Bispo do Rosário - Brazilian outsider artist. (1909-1989)
• Buddy Bolden - American pioneering jazz musician^[22]
• Clara Bow - Hollywood flapper actress and "It Girl" of the 1920s^[23]
• Camille Claudel - French sculptor of the 19th century^[24]
• Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka - Hungarian painter.
• Philip K. Dick - American sci-fi author. Diagnosis is contested.^[25]
• Eduard Einstein - son of Albert Einstein^[5]
• Frances Farmer - Hollywood actress, varyingly diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar psychosis, splitted personality and depression^[26]
• Pavel Fedotov - Russian painter of the 19th century.^[27]
• Zelda Fitzgerald - wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist^[28]
• Eugène Gabritschevsky - Russian painter and microbiologist.^[29]
• Ed Gein - American Killer And Body Snatcher^[30]
• Paul Goesch - German artist and architect^[31]
• Vincent van Gogh - Dutch visual artist/painter (with schizophrenia and/or bipolar)^[6]
• Ted Gärdestad - Swedish musician (was in Eurovision 1979)^[32]
• Sigrid Hjertén - Swedish painter^[33]
• Adèle Hugo - Daughter of French writer Victor Hugo; her story is told in the film The Story of Adele H.^[34]
• Joan of Arc - French soldier during the Hundred Years' War.^[35]
• Uuno Kailas - Finnish Poet^[36]
• Marij Kogoj - Slovenian composer^[37]
• Veronica Lake - Hollywood actress of the 1940s^[38]
• Vivian Leigh - Hollywood actress. Was diagnosed as a manic depressive, schizophrenic and nymphomaniac.^[39]
• Jakob Lenz - German writer of the Sturm und Drang -movement of the 18th century.^[40]
• Mary Todd Lincoln - Wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady of the United States^[41]
• Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler - German avantgarde-painter^[42]
• Joe Meek - pioneering English record producer and songwriter^[5]
• William Chester Minor - contributed to Oxford English dictionary^[3]
• John Nash - American economist, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences^[5]
• August Natterer - German painter^[43]
• Émile Nelligan - French Canadians poet^[44]
• Vaslav Nijinsky - Russian ballet dancer, choreographer^[5]
• Bettie Page - American pin-up model^[45]
• John Ogdon - English pianist and composer^[46]
• Khieu Ponnary - Cambodian Wife of Pol Pot.
• Joey Ramone - American guitarist of Ramones^[47]
• Katherine Routledge - British archaeologist^[48]
• Ingo Schwichtenberg - former drummer of power metal band Helloween^[49]
• Vashishtha Narayan Singh - Indian mathematician^[50]
• Alexander "Skip" Spence - rock musician, cofounder of Moby Grape ^[5]
• Nancy Spungen - Punk icon and girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious.^[51]
• Talal - King of Jordan (for a year)^[52]
• Gene Tierney - American actress^[53]
• Lauri Viita - Finnish poet and author^[54]
• Louis Wain - British artist^[55]
• Hannah Weiner - American 'Clairvoyant' poet.^[56]
• Wesley Willis - American musician and artist.^[57]
• Adolf Wölfli - Swiss painter^[58]
• Unica Zürn - German artist^[59]

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