Notable people thought to be affected by schizophrenia




 * 6025 (former rhythm guitarist of the Dead Kennedys)
 * Adolf Wolfli (artist, in the outsider art tradition)
 * Antonin Artaud (artist, poet, actor, theater philosopher)
 * Buddy Bolden (jazz pioneer)
 * Clara Bow (actress)
 * Daniel Paul Schreber (German judge)
 * Eduard Einstein (son of Albert Einstein)
 * Frederick Frese (Psychologist in Ohio and current Vice President of NAMI)
 * The Genain quadruplets (a set of four girls who each developed schizophrenia)
 * Gene Ray (self-proclaimed doctor of cubicism)
 * H.R. Hudson (affected lightly by schizophrenia, leader of hardcore punk band Bad Brains)
 * Ingo Schwichtenberg(Original Drummer of Helloween)]
 * James Tilly Matthews (subject of first book-length psychiatric case study)
 * Jim Gordon (drummer for the rock group Derek and the Dominos)
 * John Nash (mathematician, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics and subject of the book and movie A Beautiful Mind)
 * John Kennedy Toole (author of A Confederacy of Dunces)
 * Josef Hassid (gifted classical violinist)
 * Louis Wain (artist)
 * Ted Kaczynski (terrorist)
 * Lucia Joyce (dancer, daughter of James Joyce)
 * Maria Bernoulli (wife of German novelist Hermann Hesse)
 * Mark Vonnegut (son of the writer Kurt Vonnegut)
 * Nancy Spungen (girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the punk rock band The Sex Pistols)
 * Nick Blinko (founder, singer, songwriter, guitarist and artist for Rudimentary Peni)
 * Peter Green (founder of rock group Fleetwood Mac)
 * Roky Erickson (founder of 13th Floor Elevators)
 * Dr Vashishtha Narayan Singh (World renowned mathematician and an ex-NASA scientist from Bihar, India)
 * Skip Spence (band member of Moby Grape and Jefferson Airplane)
 * Syd Barrett (founder of Pink Floyd)
 * Vaslav Nijinsky (ballet dancer and choreographer)
 * Veronica Lake (actress)
 * Wesley Willis (musician)
 * William Chester Minor (army surgeon and major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary)
 * Zelda Fitzgerald (painter and wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald)