celebrities who have themselves said they're on the spectrum

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I retract that.

It's Craig Nicholls the lead singer of The Vines (such an easy mistake )

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the list is quite long

Most of the people on the following list are speculated to have Asperger's Syndrome, rather than being confirmed cases of Asperger's Syndrome. Asperger's Syndrome was not included in the World Health Organization's diagnostic manual until 1991, and not in the American Psychiatric Association's manual until 1994. Also, for a number of the people on this list, there are other characteristics evidenced by the people listed that would suggest that they did not have Asperger's Syndrome.

Historical people from earlier periods (died before 1975)

Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice
Béla Bartók, 1881-1945, Hungarian composer
Bobby Fischer, 1943-2008, World Chess Champion
Michelangelo, 1475 1564 - Italian Renissance artist
Erik Satie, 1866-1925 - Composer
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer
Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone
Anton Bruckner , 1824-1896, Austrian composer
Henry Cavendish, 1731-1810, English/French scientist, discovered the composition of air and water
Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, US poet
Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, US inventor
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist
Seth Engstrom, 1987-Present, Magician and World Champion
Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist
Benjamin Franklin,1706-1790, US polictician/writer
Kaspar Hauser, c1812-1833, German foundling, portrayed in a film by Werner Herzog
Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925, English physicist
Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, US politician
Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychoanalyst
Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Czech writer
Wasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Russian/French painter
Abraham Lincoln,1809-1865, US Politician
H P Lovecraft, 1890-1937, US writer
Ludwig II, 1845-1886, King of Bavaria
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928, Scottish architect and designer
Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911, Czech/Austrian composer
Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, US actress
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, Austrian composer
Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British logician
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish playwright, writer of Pygmalion, critic and Socialist
Richard Strauss, 1864-1949, German composer
Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian/American scientist, engineer, inventor of electric motors
Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer
Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptographer
Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
George Washington, 1732-1799, US Politician
Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Viennese/English logician and philosopher
Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941, English Writer


Historical people prominent in the late twentieth century (died after 1975)

Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, Russian/US writer on science and of science fiction, author of Bicentennial Man
Hans Asperger, 1906-1980, Austrian paediatric doctor after whom Asperger's Syndrom is named
John Denver, 1943-1997, US musician
Glenn Gould, 1932-1982, Canadian pianist
Jim Henson, 1936-1990, creator of the Muppets, US puppeteer, writer, producer, director, composer
Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, English/American film director
Howard Hughes, 1905-1976, US billionaire
Andy Kaufman, 1949-1984, US comedian, subject of the film Man on the Moon
L S Lowry, 1887-1976, English painter of "matchstick men"
Charles Schulz, 1922-2000, US cartoonist and creator of Peanuts and Charlie Brown
Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, US artist


Contemporary famous people

Tony Benn, 1925-, English Labour politician
Pip Brown "Ladyhawke", 1979-, New Zealand Singer/Songwriter, Musician
Charles Dickinson, 1951, US Writer
Bob Dylan, 1941-, US singer-songwriter
Joseph Erber, 1985-, young English composer/musician who has Asperger's Syndrome, subject of a BBC TV documentary
Bill Gates, 1955-, US global monopolist
Genie, 1957-?, US "wild child" (see also L'Enfant Sauvage, Victor, )
Crispin Glover, 1964-, US actor
Al Gore, 1948-, former US Vice President and presidential candidate
Jeff Greenfield, 1943-, US political analyst/speechwriter, a political wonk
David Helfgott, 1947-, Australian pianist, subject of the film Shine
Garrison Keillor, 1942-, US writer, humorist and host of Prairie Home Companion
Paul Kostabi 1962-, writer, comedian, artist, producer, technician
Kevin Mitnick, 1963-, US "hacker"
John Motson, 1945-, English sports commentator
John Nash, 1928-, US mathematician (portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, USA 2001)
Keith Olbermann, 1959-, US sportscaster
Michael Palin, 1943-, English comedian and presenter
Oliver Sacks, 1933-, UK/US neurologist, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings
James Taylor, 1948-, US singer/songwriter
Robin Williams, 1951-, US Actor
Jamie Hyneman, 1956-, Co-host of Mythbusters
Seth Engstrom, 1987-, Magician and World Champion in Sleight of Hand. The best man with a deck of cards that the world has ever seen.

More names at website
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Craig Nicholls of The vines wrote the song 'Homesick' after he had yet another meltdown trying to tour with his band.

At the time of writing it he had not been diagnosed with anything, was just always seen as a quirky, errattc person who went a bit loopy at times. Truth was they never managed to actually finish a tour properly, it was always cancelled before the end as Nicholls couldn't cope with being away from home and the lack of routine.

It was only after one of these episodes that his manager urged him to seek help and he was finally diagnosed.

love Homesick, can't help but see it as very poignant considering he was writing about something he was yet to fully understand

Paddy Considine, actor, filmaker, screenwriter, and musician.

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