Famous People With Bipolar Disorder

edited by LMM

The following is a list of famous persons who either have been diagnosed as having, or are strongly suspected to have had, bipolar disorder.  There exists a heated debate regarding the possible link between this condition and increased creativity or intelligence.  Quite frankly, I have no opinion on the issue, and think it of little consequence.  I strongly believe, however, that the fact that so many people with bipolar disorder do become successful and, in some cases, even attain greatness, serves as a constant reminder that we need not abandon our dreams and that this condition is not a death sentence.          ---LMM

^{Buzz Aldrin} _{Hans Christian Anderson} ^Balzac _{Ned Beatty}^{Maurice Bernard} _{Napoleon Bonaparte} ^{Tim Burton} 

^{Drew Carey} _{Jim Carrey} ^{Agatha Christie} _{Winston Churchill} ^{Rosemary Clooney} _{Francis Ford Coppola} 

^{Patricia Cornwell}  _{Charles Dickens} ^{Emily Dickinson} _DMX ^{Patty Duke} _{T. S. Eliot}^{Ralph Waldo Emerson} 

^{Carrie Fisher} _{Ella Fitzgerald} ^{Larry Flynt} _{Connie Francis} ^{Sigmund Freud} _{Robert Frost} ^Goethe 

^{Linda Hamilton} _Handel ^{Mariette Hartley} _{Ernest Hemingway} ^{Thomas Jefferson} _{Vivien Leigh} ^{Margot Kidder} 

^{Robert E. Lee} _{Abraham Lincoln} ^{Robert Lowell} _{Burgess Meredith} ^{Kristy McNichol} _{Marilyn Monroe} ^Mozart 

^{Sir Isaac Newton} _{J C Penney} ^Plato _{Edgar Allen Poe} ^{Charley Pride} _{Theodore Roosevelt} ^{Axl Rose} 

^{Saints Francis, John, &Theresa} _Schuman ^{Ann Sexton} _{Phil Spector} ^{Rod Steiger} _{Ben Stiller} ^Sting _{Liz Taylor} 

^{Lord Alfred Tennyson}_Tolstoy ^{Ted Turner} _{Mark Twain} ^{Shania Twain} _{Jean-Claude van Damme} 

^{Vincent van Gogh} _{Mark Vonnegut} ^{Walt Whitman} _{Robin Williams} ^{Tennessee Williams}  _{Brian Wilson} ^{Jonathon Winters}

                                                                         ^{Virginia Woolf}