Famous People With Bipolar Disorder

Actors & Actresses
Ned Beatty Maurice Bernard, soap operaJeremy Brett Jim CareyLisa Nicole Carson Rosemary Clooney, singerLindsay Crosby Eric DouglasRobert Downey Jr. Patty DukeCarrie Fisher Connie Francis, singer and actressShecky Greene, comedian Linda HamiltonMoss Hart, actor, director, playright Mariette HartleyMargot Kidder Vivien LeighKevin McDonald, comedian Kristy McNicholsBurgess Meredith, actor, director Spike Milligan, actor, writerSpike Mulligan, comic actor and writer Nicola PagettBen Stiller, actor, director, writer David StricklandLili Taylor Tracy UllmanJean-Claude Van Damme Robin WilliamsJonathon Winters, comedian
Artists
Alvin Alley, dancer, choreogapherLudwig Von BeethovenTim Burton, artist, directorFrancis Ford Coppola, directorGeorge Fredrick Handel, composerBill Lichtenstein, producerJoshua Logan, broadway director, producerVincent Van Gogh, painterGustav Mahier, composerFrancesco Scavullo, artist, photographerRobert Schumann, composerDon Simpson, movie producerNorman Wexler, screenwriter, playwright
Entrepreneurs
Robert CampeauHeinz C. PrechterTed
Turner, media giant
Financiers
John MulherenMurray Pezim
Miscellaneous
Buzz Aldrin, astronautClifford Beers, humanitarianGarnet Coleman, legislator (Texas)Larry Flynt, publisher and activistKit Gingrich, Newt's momPhil Graham, owner of Washington PostPeter Gregg, team owner and manager, race car driverSusan Panico (Susan Dime-Meenan), business executiveSol Wachtier, former New York State Chief Judge
Musicians
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer Alohe Jean Burke, musician, vocalistRosemary Clooney, singer DMX Earl Simmons, rapper and actorRay Davies Lenny DeeGaetano Donizetti, opera singer Peter GabrielJimi Hendrix Kristen Hersh (Throwing Muses)Phyllis Hyman Jack IronsDaniel Johnston Otto Klemperer, musician, conductorOscar Levant, pianist, composer, television
Phil Ochs, musician, political activist, poet John Ogden, composer, musicianJaco Pastorius Charley PrideMac Rebennack (Dr. John) Jeannie C. RileyAlys Robi, vocalist in Canada Axl Rose,Guns n RosesNick Traina Del ShannonPhil Spector, musician and producer Sting, Gordon Sumner, musician, composerTom Waits, musician, composer Brian Wilson, musician, composer, arrangerTownes Van Zandt, musician, composer
Poets
John Berryman C.E. Chaffin, writer, poetHart Crane Randall JarrellJane Kenyon Robert LowellSylvia Plath
Robert SchumannDelmore Schwartz
Political
Robert Boorstin, special assistant to President ClintonL. Brent Bozell, political scientist, attorney, writerBob Bullock, ex secretary of state, state comptroller and lieutenant governer Winston ChurchillKitty Dukasis, former First Lady of MassachusettsThomas Eagleton, lawyer, former U.S. SenatorLynne Rivers, U.S. CongressTheodore Roosevelt, President of the United States
Scholars
John Strugnell, biblical scholar
Scientists
Karl Paul Link, chemistDimitri Mihalas
Sports
Shelley Beattie, bodybuilding, sailing John Daly, golfMuffin Spencer-Devlin, pro golf Ilie Nastase, tennisJimmy Piersail, baseball player, Boston Red Sox, sports announcer
Barret Robbins, football Wyatt Sexton, footballAlonzo Spellman, football Darryl Strawberry, baseballDimitrius Underwood, football Luther Wright, basketballBert Yancey, athlete
TV & Radio
Dick CavettJay Marvin, radio, writerJane Pauley
Writers
Louis Althusser, philosopher, writer Honors de BalzacArt Buchwald, writer, humorist Neal CassadyPatricia Cornwell Margot EarlyKaye Gibbons Johann GoetheGraham Greene Abbie Hoffman, writer, political activistKay Redfield Jamison, writer, psychologist Peter Nolan LawrenceFrances Lear, writer, editor, women's rights activist Rika Lesser, writer, translatorKate MilletRobert Munsch Margo OrumEdgar Allen Poe Theodore RoethkeLori Schiller, writer, educator Frances SherwoodScott Simmie, writer, journalist August StrindbergMark Twain Joseph Vasquez, writer, movie directorMark Vonnegut, doctor, writer Sol Wachtler, writer, judgeMary Jane Ward Virginia Woolf