This is a list of people, living or dead, accompanied by verifiable source citations associating them with schizophrenia, either based on their own public statements, or (in the case of dead people only) reported contemporary or posthumous diagnoses of schizophrenia. Remember that schizophrenia is an illness that varies with severity.
Regarding posthumous diagnoses: only a few famous people are believed to have been affected by schizophrenia. Most of these listed have been diagnosed based on evidence in their own writings and contemporaneous accounts by those who knew them. Also, persons prior to the 20th century may have incomplete or speculative diagnoses of schizophrenia. These will not be listed. __NOTOC__
A Michael Abram – American attempted murderer of George Harrison Giorgio Agnelli – Italian member of the Agnelli family Süleyman Aktaş – Turkish serial killer known as "The Nailing Killer" Lionel Aldridge – American professional football player Princess Alice of Battenberg, British princess, mother of Prince Philip and mother in-law of Queen Elizabeth IICohen, D. (2013), "Freud and the British Royal Family", The Psychologist, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 462–463 Edward Charles Allaway – American murderer; committed California State University, Fullerton massacre in 1976 Louis Althusser – French Marxist philosopher* John Altoon – American artist Audrey Amiss – British artist Pere Areny – Andorran convicted murderer, last person executed by Andorra Eddie Arning – American outsider artist Antonin Artaud – French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, creator of Theatre of Cruelty Nathaniel Ayers – American musician Lil Bober
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Parveen Babi – Indian actress and model (alleged) Gladys Pearl Baker – American actress Marilyn Monroe's mother Joseph Baldi – American serial killer known as The Queens Creeper Billy Bang – American violinist and composer Roohi Bano – Pakistani actress Robert John Bardo – American murderer of actress Rebecca Shaeffer Mary Barnes – English artist and writer Syd Barrett – English singer and guitarist, member of Pink Floyd (alleged) Konstantin Batyushkov – Russian poet of the 19th century Benga – British dubstep musician Estelle Bennett – American musician, member of The Ronettes Marty Bergen – American baseball player and murderer Peter Joseph Bis – American homeless man Arthur Bispo do Rosário – Brazilian outsider artist (1909–1989) Kat Bjelland – American musician, member of Babes in Toyland (schizoaffective disorder) Nick Blinko – British painter and punk musician: singer, lyricist and guitarist of Rudimentary Peni (schizoaffective disorder) Buddy Bolden – American pioneering jazz musician Adrian Borland – English singer-songwriter, member of The Sound (schizoaffective disorder; alleged) Clara Bow – American Hollywood flapper actress and "It Girl" of the 1920s Rebecca Bradley – American bank robber Cheyenne Brando – French fashion model, daughter of Marlon Brando Richard Brautigan – American novelist, poet, and short story writer Jean "Binta" Breeze (1956–2021), Jamaican dub poet, theatre director, and performer Karl Brendel – German outsider artistFreeman, Barbara. "Biographies of Outsider Artists." Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art. Ed. Maurice Tuchman. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. p. 26. . Dorothea Buck – German writer, sculptor, and Holocaust survivor Gregory Alan Bush – American mass shooter, perpetrator of the 2018 Jeffersontown shooting
C Frank Calloway – American artistFrank Calloway at Andrew Edlin Elisabeth Kley, art net. Accessed online December 15, 2011. Jad Capelja – Yugoslavian-born Australian actressLife After Puberty. Australian Broadcasting Corporation: 24 September 2012. . Accessed: 26 January 2019. Tom Cavanagh – American ice hockey player Judi Chamberlin – American psychiatric survivors activist and educator Bryan Charnley – British artist Richard Chase – American serial killer James Chasse – American man who died in police custody Clarence 13X – American religious leader* Camille Claudel – French sculptor David Copeland – British terrorist; committed nail bombings in London in 1999Bomber 'had abnormality of the mind' 14 June 2000, news.bbc.co.uk, Retrieved 20 March 2025 Aloïse Corbaz – Swiss painter Cesare Cremonini – Italian singer-songwriter, member of Lùnapop Lupen Crook – English musician (schizoaffective disorder) Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka – Hungarian painter Izola Curry – American attempted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.
D Richard Dadd – English painterThe Victorians part 4. Dreams and Nightmares BBC One, 8 March 2009 Viacheslav Datsik – Russian professional boxerДацик в стране викингов , Interfax, 22 September 2010 Terry A. Davis – American computer programmer and vlogger Matthew de Grood – Canadian mass murderer Francis E. Dec – Polish-American disbarred lawyer and outsider writer. Patricia Deegan – American disability rights advocate Princess Deokhye – Korean royal princess Randall Gair Doherty – English son of occultist Aleister Crowley John du Pont – American millionaire and wrestling coach who murdered wrestler Dave Schultz
E Eduard Einstein – Son of physicist Albert Einstein Will Elliott – Australian writer Roky Erickson – American rock musician, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators Ramon Escobar – Salvadoran-American serial killer Frederick Exley – American writer
F Frances Farmer – American Hollywood actress, varyingly diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar psychosis, split personality and depression Pavel Fedotov – Russian painter of the 19th century Shulamith Firestone – Canadian-American radical feminist activist Wild Man Fischer – American musician, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder Zelda Fitzgerald – American wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist Erin Fleming – Canadian actress and companion of Groucho Marx Janet Frame – New Zealand author Jackson C. Frank – American folk musician Leonard Roy Frank – American human rights activist Leonard Roy Frank's Testimony before the NY State Assembly, May 19, 2001 Frederick Frese – American psychologist
G Eugène Gabritschevsky – Russian painter and microbiologist Joe Gallo – American mobster Ted Gärdestad – Swedish musician (was in Eurovision 1979) Theodore Garman – English painter Martin Garratt – English professional footballer Genain quadruplets – American quadruplets who all developed schizophrenia Willem van Genk – Dutch painter and graphic artistSee Ans Van Berkum, "A Bird Above the City", in Patrick Allegaert, Annime Calliau, Ans van Berkum and Bart Amrius, Willem van Genk: Building A World of His Own, Tielt: Lanoo, 2010, pp. 46, 63-64 and the endnote on p. 100. Jim Gordon – American drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos; killed his mother Paul Gösch – German artist and architect Peter Green – English singer-songwriter (Fleetwood Mac) Joanne Greenberg – American author and anthropologistTake These Broken Wings Daniel Mackler's webpage for the film. Includes several clips and trailers. Ken Grimes – American artist
H Hamad al-Hajji – Saudi Arabian poet Will Hall – American mental health advocate Darrell Hammond – American comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live Tom Harrell – American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger Josef Hassid – Polish violinist Donny Hathaway – American soul singer and songwriter Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder Lord Nicholas Hervey – British aristocrat and political activist John Hinckley Jr. – American failed assassin of Ronald Reagan Sigrid Hjertén – Swedish painter Friedrich Hölderlin – German poet and philosopherConstantine (1990), p. 299. H.R. – American musician, singer of Bad Brains Adèle Hugo – Daughter of French writer Victor Hugo; her story is told in the film The Story of Adele H. Stephen Huss – Canadian musician, member of Psyche"Stephen Huss, founding member of Psyche, dies – RIP". Side-Line, By Bernard Van Isacker Aug 4,2015
J Maryam Jameelah – American-Pakistani author* Topsy Jane – British actressBenn, Melissa. Twice bottled grief: the defiant life of Tony Garnett, The New Statesman, 15 August 2016 Jill Janus – American vocalist, lead singer for Huntress Daniel Johnston – American artist and musician Lucia Joyce – Irish professional dancer, daughter of James Joyce and Nora BarnacleBowker, 482.
K Uuno Kailas – Finnish poet Kathy Kirby – English singer August Klotz – German outsider artistKrannert Art Museum 1984, p. 11 Johann Knüpfer – German outsider artist(Prinzhorn 1972, p. 172) Marij Kogoj – Slovenian composer William Kolakoski – American artist and recreational mathematicianPersonal communication from Mike Vargo to Clark Kimberling in 2001 Aaron Kosminski – Polish hairdresser and Jack the Ripper suspect William Kurelek – Canadian artist and writer Pyotr Kuznetsov – Russian cult leaderRussian doomsday sect threatens mass suicide, The Guardian, November 15, 2007
L Veronica Lake – American Hollywood actress of the 1940s Tony LaMadrid – American research study subject"Ethics in Neurobiological Research with Human Subjects:" Author Adil E. Shamoo. 1996 Book. Page 171 Michael Laudor – American Yale Law School graduate, subject of a planned Ron Howard movie; later killed his fiancée Jakob Lenz – German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement of the 18th century Juhan Liiv – Estonian poet Jake Lloyd – retired American actor who played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler – German avant-garde painter Jared Lee Loughner – perpetrator of the 2011 Tucson shooting
M Gucci Mane – American musician Austin Mardon – Canadian scientist Agnes Martin – Canadian American abstract painter James Tilly Matthews – British merchant Rufus May – British clinical psychologist Mary Virginia McCormick – American philanthropist Angus McPhee – Scottish outsider artistRoger Hutchinson; The Silent Weaver. pub.Birlinn, 2011. Joe Meek – English record producer and songwriter Charles Meryon – French artist Mayo Methot – American actress* William Chester Minor – A contributor to Oxford English dictionary Mario Miranda – Colombian professional boxer Peter Moog – German outsider artistPrinzhorn, Hans. Artistry of the mentally ill: a contribution to the psychology and psychopathology of configuration. Trans. Eric von Brockdorff. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1972. . William Lewis Moore – American civil rights activist Anatoly Moskvin – Russian linguist, philologist Bob Mosley – American musician, member of Moby Grape Audrey Munson – American artist's model and film actress, "America's First Supermodel"
N Nadiuska – German model and actressVegas, Valeria (January 19, 2016). "From Being a Movie Star to Sleeping in One: The Rise and Fall of Nadiuska". Vanity Fair – via Google Translate. John Nash – American economist, mathematician and Nobel Prize winner in Economic SciencesLaura Freberg, Discovering Biological Psychology (Centgage Learning, 2010), p. 457. August Natterer – German painter Émile Nelligan – French Canadian poet Neil Nephew – American actor and writerEllen Burstyn – Burstyn Feared Death as Abusive Husband Stalked Her" Vaslav Nijinsky – Russian ballet dancer, choreographerLeighton C. Whitaker, Schizophrenic Disorders: Sense and Nonsense in Conceptualization, Assessment, and Treatment (Springer Science & Business, 1992), pp. 65–66. Joseph Ntshongwana – South African rugby player and serial killer
O Michael O'Hare – American actor, suffered from paranoid delusions and hallucinations John Ogdon – English pianist and composer Adnan Oktar – Turkish cult leader and Muslim televangelist Ol' Dirty Bastard – American rapper, one of the founding members of the Wu-Tang Clan