How many famous people suffer with bipolar (manic depression)?
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Many many, including celebrities, artists. NAMI puts out a wonderful poster with many names of the famous who suffered from bipolar disorder.
I found this list for you by googling bipolar famous people:
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Lionel Aldridge
Hans Christian Andersen, writer
Ned Beatty, actor
Robert Boorstin, writer, assistant to Pres. Clinton,
Arthur Benson, writer
E F Benson, writer
William Blake (1757-1827), poet
Ralph Blakelock, artist
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), general
Tadeusz Borowski
Art Buchwald, writer, humorist
Tim Burton, artist, movie director
Robert Campeau, financier (Canada)
Drew Carey, actor
Jim Carrey, actor
Dick Cavett, writer, media personality
C.E. Chaffin, writer, poet
Agatha Christie, mystery writer
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965- British Prm Mnstr
John Clare, poet
Rosemary Clooney, singer
Garnet Coleman, legislator (Texas)
Francis Ford Coppola, director
Patricia Cornwell, writer
Richard Dadd
John Daly, athlete (golf)
John Davidson, poet
Edward Dayes, artist
Ray Davies, musician
Emily Dickinson
Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of Massachusetts
Patty Duke (Anna Duke Pearce), actor, writer
Thomas Eagleton, lawyer, former U.S. Senator
T S Eliot, poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist
Robert Evans, film producer
Carrie Fisher, writer, actor
Edward FitzGerald
Robert Frost
F Scott Fitzgerald, author
Larry Flynt, magazine publisher
Connie Francis, actor, musician
Sigmund Freud, physician
Cary Grant, actor
Kaye Gibbons, writer
Shecky Greene, comedian, actor
Linda Hamilton, actor
Kristin Hersh, musician
Victor Hugo, poet
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Jack London, author
Robert Lowell, poet
Marilyn Monroe, actress
Mozart, composer
Jay Marvin, radio personality, writer
Cara Kahn, mtv's 'real world'
Kevin McDonald, comedian, actor
Kristy McNichol, actor
Dimitri Mihalas, scientist
Kate Millett, writer, artist
Spike Milligan, comic actor, writer
John Mulheren, financier (U.S.)
Robert Munsch, writer
Napoleon, general
Ilie Nastase, athlete (tennis), politician
Isaac Newton, scientist
Margo Orum, writer
Nicola Pagett, actor
J C Penney
Plato, philosopher, according to Aristotle
Edgar Allen Poe, author
Jimmie Piersall, athlete, sports announcer
Charley Pride, musician
Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), musician
Jeannie C. Riley, musician
Phil Graham, owner, Washington Post
Graham Greene, writer
Peter Gregg, team owner and manager, race car driver
Abbie Hoffman, writer, political activist
Lynn Rivers, U.S. Congress
Francesco Scavullo, artist, photographer
Lori Schiller, writer, educator
Frances Sherwood, writer
Scott Simmie, writer, journalist
Alonzo Spellman, athlete (football)
Muffin Spencer-Devlin, athlete (pro golf)
Gordon Sumner (Sting), musician, composer
St Francis
St John
St Theresa
Rod Steiger, film maker
Robert Louis Stevenson
Liz Taylor, actor
J.M.W. Turner
Mark Twain, author
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant
Jean-Claude Van Damme, athlete, actor
Vincent van Gogh
Mark Vonnegut, doctor, writer
Sol Wachtler, judge, writer
Tom Waits, musician, composer
Walt Whitman, poet
Tennessee Williams, author
Brian Wilson, musician (Beach Boys), composer, arranger
Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor, writer, artist
Luther Wright, athlete (basketball)
Margot Kidder, actor
Robert E Lee, soldier
Bill Liechtenstein, producer (TV & radio)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President
Daniel Johnston, musician
Samuel Johnson, poet
Burgess Meredith, 1908-1997, actor, director
Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist, writer
So if you are, you are in good company!
loads as there all miserable buggers
Probably most keep it secret but Patty Duke had it.
Approximately 48 at last count although this is not counting D-Z celebrities. This is only A-C celebrities.
Would not know how many, but I'm sure Tom Cruise is suffering from that with his manic beliefs and he even has a manic smile.
Why? Surely people have the right to keep their mental health problems to themselves.
There are loads. Alexander the Great was particularly volitile.
It doesn't hold people back, unless you want to be an accountant.
Well more that we know, more than their happy lives and the cameras show, beyond what we read in a magazine, because everyone's a bit of a drama queen.
sinaed o'connor(singer)
the ones who are meant to have it that i know of are Stephen fry, frank bruno, robbie williams, and kerry katona.
and me (yeah yeah, i know im not famous!)xx
there are a lot of actors and singers who suffer from bipolar disorder. Did you that Mariah Carey suffers from depression well she does.
winston churchill suffered with bipolar and described it as having the black dog chasing him also dont forget steven fry as well
I don't doubt that Carlisle Girl has researched thoroughly, especially since her husband is a sufferer. My understanding is slightly different though. Some of the people on the list I have read auto/biographies and they seem to have suffered depession - not bipolar disorder. Both are horrible conditions to live with and should not be compared as one being worse than the other. Winston Churchill, for me, described depression very well with his 'black dog'. When the really bad stuff hits me, I feel myself physically hunching down to avoid the pressure of the darkness from the black cloud pressing down. Spike Milligan was a sufferer of bipolar disorder. I think he epitomised the phrase that there ins a fine line between genius and insanity. I was confined to a psychiatric hospital a couple of years ago and met there some of the funniest and at the same time saddest people I have ever known.
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