According to wikipedia, the following are all on the autistic spectrum:
Asperger's Syndrome:
* Nikki Bacharach, deceased, daughter of composer Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson.[1]
* Richard Borcherds, Fields Medalist.[2]
* William Cottrell, student sentenced for fire-bombing SUV dealerships.[3]
* Peter Howson, Scottish painter.[4]
* Luke Jackson, author.[5]
* Heather Kuzmich, fashion model and reality show contestant on America's Next Top Model.[6]
* Craig Nicholls, frontman of the Australian garage rock band, The Vines.[7]
* Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter.[8]
* Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author.[9]
* Dawn Prince-Hughes, PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author.[10]
* John Elder Robison, brother of author Augusten Burroughs and author of Look Me in the Eye, a memoir detailing his experience with Asperger's.
* Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in economics.[11]
* Satoshi Tajiri, creator and designer of Pokémon Pocket Monsters.[12]
* Raymond Thompson, New Zealand scriptwriter and TV producer.[13]
* Liane Holliday Willey, author.[14]
[edit] High-functioning autism
Further information: High-functioning autism
* Michelle Dawson, autism researcher and autism rights activist.[15]
* Temple Grandin, food animal handling systems designer and author.[16]
* Caiseal Mor author, musician, and artist.[17]
* Hikari Oe, Japanese composer.[18]
* Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlife illustrator.[19]
* Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist.[20]
* Donna Williams, Australian author.[21]
[edit] Autism spectrum
Further information: Autism, autistic savant, and autism spectrum
* Amanda Baggs, advocate of rights for autistic people.[22]
* Lucy Blackman, university educated author.[23]
* Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor.[24]
* Tony DeBlois, blind American musician.[25]
* Christopher Knowles, American poet.[26]
* Leslie Lemke, blind American musician.[27]
* Jonathan Lerman, American artist.[28]
* Katherine McCarron, autistic child murdered by her mother, Karen McCarron.[29]
* Jason McElwain, high school basketball player.[30]
* Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimba prodigy.[31]
* Tito Mukhopadhyay, author, poet, and philosopher.[32]
* Abubakar Tariq Nadama, autistic boy who died after chelation therapy.[33]
* Derek Paravicini, blind British musician.[34]
* Kim Peek, basis for Rain Man,[27][35] although diagnosis has changed.[36]
* James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter.[37]
* Matt Savage, U.S. autistic jazz prodigy.[38]
* Birger Sellin, German author.[39]
* Henriett Seth-F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer and artist. [40]
* Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant.[41]
* Richard Wawro, Scottish artist.[27]
* Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist.[
And the following are speculated to have been on the autistic spectrum:
Hans Christian Andersen – author Michael Fitzgerald[4]
Béla Bartók – 20th century Hungarian composer Ioan James;[7] Oliver Sacks says the evidence is thin.[8]
Hugh Blair of Borgue – 18th century Scottish landowner thought mentally incompetent, now studied as case history of autism. Rab Houston and Uta Frith[9]
Lewis Carroll – writer, logician Michael Fitzgerald[4][6]
Henry Cavendish – 18th century British scientist. He was unusually reclusive, literal minded, had trouble relating to people, had trouble adapting to people, difficulties looking straight at people, drawn to patterns, etc. Oliver Sacks,[8][10][3] and Ione James;[2][7] Fred Volkmar of Yale Study Child Center is skeptical.[3]
Charles XII of Sweden – speculated to have had Asperger syndrome Swedish researchers, Gillberg[11] and Lagerkvist[12]
Jeffrey Dahmer – serial killer Silva, et al[13][14]
Charles Darwin – naturalist, associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection Michael Fitzgerald[15]
Éamon de Valera – Irish revolutionary and politician Michael Fitzgerald[16][4]
Paul Dirac – British mathematician and physicist. He was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, 1933–1963 and a Fellow of St John's College. Awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the mathematical foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Ione James[2]
Albert Einstein – physicist See analysis below
Janet Frame – New Zealand author Sarah Abrahamson;[17] this suggestion has been the subject of some controversy.[18][not in citation given][19]
Glenn Gould – Canadian pianist and noted Bach interpreter. He liked routine to the point he used the same seat until it was worn through. He also disliked social functions to the point that in later life he relied on the telephone or letters for virtually all communication. He had an aversion to being touched, had a different sense of hot or cold than most, and would rock back and forth while playing music. He is speculated to have had Asperger syndrome. Michael Fitzgerald,[4] Ioan James,[7] Tony Attwood,[20] and NPR[21]
Adolf Hitler – German politician, dictator Michael Fitzgerald[6]
Thomas Jefferson – US President Norm Ledgin[22] Tony Attwood,[20] and Ioan James[7]
Keith Joseph – father of Thatcherism Michael Fitzgerald[4][16]
James Joyce – author of Ulysses Michael Fitzgerald and Antionette Walker[5]
Ted Kaczynski – Unabomber Silva, et al[13][23]
Michelangelo – Italian Renaissance artist, based on his inability to form long-term attachments and certain other characteristics Arshad and Fitzgerald;[24][25][4] Ioan James also discussed Michelangelo's autistic traits.[7]
Wolfgang Mozart – composer Tony Attwood[20] and Michael Fitzgerald;[4] others disagree that there is sufficient evidence to indicate any diagnoses for Mozart.[1]
Isaac Newton See analysis below
Moe Norman – Canadian golfer USA Today[26]
George Orwell – writer speculated to have had Asperger Syndrome. His troubled life went along with social interaction problems. Towards the end of his life he wrote bitter polemic on his preparatory boarding school Such, Such Were the Joys which displays many of the characteristics of Asperger's and interpersonal relationships. Orwell knew this intensely personal account was libellous and biographers have found it a challenge to explain its conflict with the truth, but Orwell still felt it important to publish this account eventually. Michael Fitzgerald[4][16]
Enoch Powell – British politician Michael Fitzgerald[4][16]
Srinivasa Ramanujan – mathematician Ioan James[7] and Michael Fitzgerald[27]
Charles Richter – seismologist, creator of the eponymous scale of earthquake magnitude Susan Hough in her biography of Richter[28]
Erik Satie – composer Ioan James[7] and Michael Fitzgerald[4]
Jonathan Swift – author Ioan James[7] and Michael Fitzgerald[4]
Alan Turing – pioneer of computer sciences. He seemed to be a math savant and his lifestyle has many autism traits about it. Tony Attwood[20] and Ioan James[7]
Michael Ventris – English architect who deciphered Linear B Simon Baron-Cohen[29]
Andy Warhol – American artist Michael Fitzgerald[4][30] and Ioan James[7]
Blind Tom Wiggins – autistic savant Oliver Sacks[31]
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Austrian philosopher Michael Fitzgerald[32][33] Tony Attwood,[20] and Ioan James;[7] Oliver Sacks says the evidence is thin.[8]
W. B. Yeats – poet and dramatist Michael Fitzgerald[4][16]
Note: The formatting is horribly messed up. The people on the right are the ones who posthumously diagnosed them. I don't know what the numbers ar efor.
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