Famous aspies
Aspies love to make lists. Lists are order. This list is of for-whatever-reason famous people with Asperger's, or at least people who might have/have had Asperger's ("rumored"). Quite some, as a matter of fact. More often than not those are people who lived some time ago, when Asperger's wasn't discovered yet, and therefore tests didn't exist yet.
- Woody Allen, film director (rumored)
- Hans Christian Anderson, Author (rumored)
- Isaac Asimov, writer (diagnosed)
- Jane Austen, Writer (rumored)
- Dan Aykroyd, actor (diagnosed)
- Daantjie Badenhorst, Journalist & Author
- Kage Baker, Writer
- Marty Balin, Singer & Songwriter of Jefferson Airplane
- Benjamin Banneker, Author (rumored)
- Bela Bartok, Composer (rumored)
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer (rumored)
- Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor (rumored)
- Mark Boerbach, Musical Savant
- Henry Bond, Writer
- Richard Borcherds, Mathematician
- Susan Boyle, singer (diagnosed)
- Adam Bradford, Activist & Entrepreneur
- Axel Brauns, Writer
- Anton Bruckner, Composer (rumored)
- Michael Burry, U.S. Investment Fund Manager
- Tim Burton, film director (rumored)
- David Byrne, musician (diagnosed)
- Lewis Carroll, Author (rumored)
- Johnny Carson, TV Host (rumored)
- Henry Cavendish, Scientist (rumored)
- Todd Rafael Cimino, Novelist
- Marie Curie, Scientist (rumored)
- Charles Darwin, scientist (rumored)
- John Denver, singer (diagnosed)
- Charles Dickinson, Writer (rumored)
- Emily Dickinson, Poet (rumored)
- Bob Dylan, Musician (rumored)
- Joseph Eber, Musician
- Thomas Edison, Inventor (rumored)
- Albert Einstein, Scientist (rumored)
- Tim Ellis, Author & Magician
- Justin Eugene Evans, film director
- Bobby Fischer, World Chess Champion (rumored)
- Henry Ford, Industrialist (rumored)
- Benjamin Franklin, U.S. Politician (rumored)
- Francis Galton, Scientist (rumored)
- Bill Gates, Entrepreneur (rumored)
- Alex Generous, Author
- Gunilla Gerland, Author
- Vincent van Gogh, Painter (rumored)
- Al Gore, Politician (rumored)
- Glenn Gould, Pianist
- Temple Grandin, Writer (diagnosed)
- Jeff Greenfield, Political Analyst
- Paula Hamilton – model
- Daryl Hannah, actress and environmental activist (diagnosed)
- Brant Hansen, Radio Personality
- Dan Harmon, screenwriter and producer (self-diagnosed)
- Oliver Heaviside, Physicist (rumored)
- Anne Hegerty, TV Personality
- David Helfgott, Pianist
- Jim Henson, Animator & Puppeteer (rumored)
- Alfred Hitchcock, film director (rumored)
- Liane Holliday Willey, Author
- Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor (diagnosed)
- Peter Howson, Painter
- Howard Hughes, American Businessperson (rumored)
- William "Bill" Hunt Gross, Investor & Philanthropist
- Jamie Hyneman, TV Host (rumored)
- Luke Jackson, Author
- Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President (rumored)
- Steve Jobs, Apple Co-founder (rumored)
- James Joyce, Author (rumored)
- Carl Jung, Psychoanalyst (rumored)
- Franz Kafka, Writer (rumored)
- Wasily Kandinsky, Painter (rumored)
- Charlie Kaufman, Writer (rumored)
- Garrison Keillor, Writer
- Rosie King, Writer
- Alfred Kinsey, Scientist (rumored)
- Paul Kostabi, Artist
- Heather Kuzmich, Model
- Ladyhawke, Musician
- Juice Leskinen, Musician
- Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President (rumored)
- Courtney Love, musician and actress (diagnosed)
- H.P. Lovecraft, Writer (rumored)
- L S Lowry, Artist
- Ludwig II, King of Bavaria (rumored)
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Architect (rumored)
- Gustav Mahler, Composer (rumored)
- Nina Marker, Model
- Lindsay Mason, Politician
- Barbara McClintock, Scientist (rumored)
- Travis Meeks, Musician
- Michelangelo, Artist (rumored)
- Marilyn Monroe, actress (rumored)
- Josh Morgan, Drummer
- A.R. Morlan, Author
- John Motson, Sports Commentator
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer (rumored)
- Suzanne Muldowney, Performance Artist
- Rich Mullins, Singer/Songwriter (rumored)
- Timothé Nadim, French Politician
- John Nash, Mathematician (rumored)
- Ari Ne’eman, Activist
- Jerry Newport, Author & Mathematical Savant
- Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematician
- Craig Nicholls, Musician
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher (rumored)
- Lisa Nowak, Astronaut
- Gary Numan, Singer & Songwriter
- Keith Olberman, Sports Commentator (rumored)
- Jennifer Cook O’Toole, Writer
- Chris Packham, TV Personality
- Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize Author
- Markku Tapani Pölönen, Screenwriter
- Dawn Prince-Hughes, Scientist (rumored)
- John Elder Robinson, Author
- Bertrand Russell, Polymath (rumored)
- Oliver Sacks, Neurologist (rumored)
- Patrick Samuel, Musician (diagnosed)
- Eric Satie, Composer (rumored)
- Charles Schulz, Cartoonist (rumored)
- Jerry Seinfeld, stand-up comedian (self-diagnosed)
- George Bernard Shaw, Writer (rumored)
- Rudy Simone, Author (rumored)
- Judy Singer, Activist & Sociologist (she coined the term Neurodiversity)
- Vernon Smith, Award-winning Economist
- Richard Strauss, Composer (rumored)
- Satoshi Tajiri, video game designer (diagnosed)
- Syed Talha Ahsan, Poet
- Susanna Tamaro, Author
- Daniel Tammet, Novelist & Poet
- James Taylor, musician (diagnosed)
- Nikola Tesla, Inventor (rumored)
- Raymond Thompson, Scriptwriter
- Henry Thoreau, Writer (rumored)
- Greta Thunberg, environmental activist (diagnosed)
- Penelope Trunk, Entrepreneur & Author
- Alan Turing, Mathematician (rumored)
- Mark Twain, Writer (rumored)
- Andy Warhol, Artist (rumored)
- George Washington, U.S. President (rumored)
- Donna Williams, Author
- Robbie Williams, Singer (rumored)
- Robin Williams, actor (rumored)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Logician (rumored)
- Virginia Woolf, Writer (rumored)
- Adam Young, Musician (rumored)
- Neil Young, Musician (rumored)
- Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder (rumored)