HEROES WHO HAVE STRUGGLED WITH DEPRESSION

Public Figures
Barbara Bush - Former First Lady
Garnet Coleman - Texas legislator
Kitty Dukakis - Former First Lady of Massachusetts
Thomas Eagleton - Lawyer, former U.S. Senator
Lynn Rivers - U.S. Congresswoman
Phil Graham - Owner of the Washington Post
Abble Hoffman - Writer and political activist
Robert McFarlane - Former National Security Adviser

Athletes
Derek Jeter- Baseball player
Terrell Owens – Football player
Ilie Natase - Tennis player and politician
Jimmie Piersall - Baseball player and announcer
Muffin Spencer Devlin - Pro golfer
Bert Yancey - Pro golfer

Scientists
Buzz Aldrin - Astronaut, second man to walk on Moon
Kad Paul Link - Chemist
Steven Hawking - Physicist, developed the Big Bang creation theory
Salvador Luria - Scientist of bacterial genetics, Nobel Laureate

Entertainers
Francis Ford Coppola - Director of The Godfather
Patty Duke - Actor on The Patty Duke Show
Alvin Alley - Dancer and choreographer
Dick Clark - Host of New Year's Rockin' Eve
Drew Barrymore - Movie actor and director SA,

Writers
William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness SA
Eugene O'Neill - The Iceman Cometh H, SA
Tennessee Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire
Virginia Woolf - A Room of Ones Own

Composers/Musicians
Irving Berlin - "White Christmas" and "God Bless America"
Cole Porter - Anything Goes
Hector Berlioz - Symphonic Fantastique
Kurt Cobain - Former musician for the band Nirvana
Sting - Formerly of The Police and now a solo performer
Tom Waits - Experimental, progressive musician
Brian Wilson - Former member of the Beach Boys
Axl Rose - Singer for rock band Guns n' Roses
Ray Charles - Legendary R&B performer
Eric Clapton - Blues-rock musician
Sheryl Crow - Rock musician
Sarah McLachlan - Pop singer and creator of Lilith Fair
Robert Schumann - German classical composer

Poets
T.S. Eliot - The Wasteland
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Edgar Allen Poe - "The Raven"
Anne Sexton - Live or Die
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Artists
Vincent Van Gogh - Starry Night, Sunflowers
Michelangelo - Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and
sculptor of David
Edvard Munch - The Scream
Mark Rothko - Modern, color-block painting pioneer