List of people believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder
Many famous people are believed to have been affected by bipolar disorder, based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them.
Some of these people include:
- Buzz Aldrin
- Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard)
- Charles Baudelaire
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Maurice Benard
- Hector Berlioz
- Bjork
- William Blake
- James Boswell
- Tim Burton
- George Gordon Byron
- Jim Carrey
- Thomas Chatterton
- Winston Churchill
- John Clare
- Samuel Clemens
- Rosemary Clooney
- Kurt Cobain
- Hartley Coleridge
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Francis Ford Coppola
- William Cowper
- Hart Crane
- Bing Crosby
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Jean Claude van Damme
- George Darley
- Ray Davies
- Gaetano Donizetti
- Patty Duke
- T.S. Eliot
- Eminem (Marshall Mathers III)
- William Faulkner
- Robert Fergusson
- Carrie Fisher
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Larry Flynt
- Connie Francis
- Saint Francis of Assisi
- Peter Gabriel
- Paul Gauguin
- Vincent van Gogh
- Linda Hamilton
- Ernest Hemingway
- Jimi Hendrix
- Hermann Hesse
- Adolf Hitler
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Victor Hugo
- Henry James
- William James
- Samuel Johnson
- Sarah Kane
- Jack Kerouac
- Margot Kidder
- Derrick Lang
- Vivien Leigh
- Meriwether Lewis
- Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Lowell
- James Clarence Mangan
- Herman Melville
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Spike Milligan
- Marilyn Monroe
- Edvard Munch
- Alfred de Musset
- Florence Nightingale
- Phil Ochs
- Jane Pauley
- Jimmy Piersall
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Jaco Pastorius
- Jackson Pollock
- Ezra Pound
- Vonne Robertson
- Theodore Roethke
- Axl Rose
- Mark Rothko
- Robert Schumann
- Anne Sexton
- Mary Shelley
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Frank Sinatra
- Christopher Smart
- Phil Spector
- Ben Stiller
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Sara Teasedale
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Dylan Thomas
- Ted Turner
- Tom Waits
- Peter Warlock
- Paul Weller
- Walt Whitman
- Robin Williams
- Jonathan Winters
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf