Famous People Who Did or Do Suffer from Depression
This is a list of famous people included in a list posted to
the alt.support.depression UseNet newsgroup on a periodic basis.
Writers
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Honore de Balzac
- James Barrie
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Ernest Hemingway
- Hermann Hesse
- Henrik Ibsen
- Henry James
- William James
- Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
- Joseph Conrad
- Charles Dickens
- Isak Dinesen
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Herman Melville
- Eugene O'Neill
- Mary Shelley
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Leo Tolstoy
- Tennessee Williams
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf
Composers
- Hector Berlioz
- Anton Bruckner
- George Frederic Handel
- Gustav Holst
- Charles Ives
- Gustav Mahler
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Sergey Rachmaninoff
- Giocchino Rossini
- Robert Schumann
- Alexander Scriabin
- Peter Tchaikovsky
Non-classical Composers and Musicians
- Irving Berlin
- Noel Coward
- Stephen Foster
- Charles Mingus
- Charles Parker
- Cole Porter
Poets
- William Blake
- Robert Burns
- George Gordon
- Lord Byron
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Hart Crane
- Emily Dickinson
- T.S. Eliot
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Victor Hugo
- Samuel Johnson
- John Keats
- Vachel Lindsay
- James Russell Lowell
- Robert Lowell
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Boris Pasternak
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Ezra Pound
- Anne Sexton
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Dylan Thomas
- Walt Whitman
Artists
- Richard Dadd
- Thomas Eakins
- Paul Gauguin
- Vincent van Gogh
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Edward Lear
- Michelangelo
- Edvard Meunch
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- George Romney
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Living People Who Suffer From Bipolar Depression
- Idi Amin, former dictator
- Patty Duke (Anna Pearce), actor, writer
- Connie Francis, actor, musician
- Peter Gabriel, musician
- Charles Haley, athlete (Dallas Cowboys)
- Kristy McNichols, actor
- Spike Mulligan, comic actor
- Abigail Padgett, mystery writer
- Murray Pezim, financier (Canada)
- Charley Pride, musician
- Axl Rose, musician
- Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant (U.S.)
- Robin Williams, actor, comedian
Living People Who Suffer From Unipolar Depression
- Roseanne Arnold, actor, writer, comedienne
- Dick Cavett, writer, media personality
- Tony Dow, actor, director
- Kitty Dukakis, Massachusetts first lady
- William Styron, writer
- James Taylor, musician
- Mike Wallace, news anchor
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