Were in Good Company: The well-known people listed below were considered to have a serious mental illness.

Ajax, according to Aristotle Lionel Aldridge Buzz Aldrin, astronaut Hans Christian Andersen, writer Diane Arbus Anton Arensky, musician Antonin Artaud, poet Honore de Balzac (1799-1850), author James Barrie, writer Ralph Barton, artist Konstantin Barysuhkov, poet Francesco Bassano, artist Charles Baudelaire, poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes, poet Ludwig van Beethoven, composer Bellerophontes, according to Aristotle Arthur Benson, writer E F Benson, writer Ingmar Bergman, film maker Hecotr Berlioz, 19th century French composer John Berryman, poet William Blake (1757-1827), poet Ralph Blakelock, artist Aleksandr Blok, poet Barcroft Boake, poet Louise Bogan, poet Boltzmannnn, scientist, (Kretschmer cyclothymic) David Bomberg, artist Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), general Tadeusz Borowski Francesco Borromini, artist James Boswell, writer Charlotte Bronte, author Rupert Brooke, poet Anton Bruckner, musician John Bunyan, writer Robert Burns, poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, (1788-1824), poet

Thomas Campbell, poet Georg Cantor, mathematician Dick Cavett, TV personality Paul Celan, artist Benvenuto Cellini, artist Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), English poet Christian VII, Danish king Agatha Christie, mystery writer Sarah Churchill, attendant to Queen Anne and ancestor of Winston Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister John Clare (1793-1864), poet Jeremiah Clarke, musician Camille Claudel, sculptor Samuel Clemens, writer Rosemary Clooney, singer Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), poet William Collins (1721-1759), Georgian poet Joseph Conrad, writer Copernicus, scientist (Kretschmer schizothymic) Frances Ford Coppola, director John Sell Cotman, artist Noel Coward, musician William Cowper (1731-1800), poet Hart Crane, poet Rene Crevel, artist Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), English politician Richard Dadd, artist Charles Darwin Daumier, painter John Davidson, poet Edward Dayes, artist Charles Dickens, author Emily Dickinson, poet Isak Dinesen, writer Gaetano Donizetti Dostoyevsky, author John Dowland, musician Ernest Dowson, poet Kitty Dukakis, Massachusetts first lady Patty Duke, actress Alexander Dumas, author Albrecht Durer, engraver Thomas Eagleton, politician

Thomas Eakins, artist Russell Edson, poet Edward Elgar, musician T S Eliot, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist Empedocles, according to Aristotle Sergei Esenin, Russian poet Michael Farady, physicist William Faulkner, writer Robert Fergusson (1750-1774), Scots poet Anfanasy Fet, poet Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, poet Edward Fitgerald, poet F Scott Fitzgerald, author Zelda Fitzgerald, celebrity John Gould Fletcher, poet James Forrestal, investment banker, Navy Sec'y under FDR Stephen Foster, musician George Fox (1624-1691), Society of Friends (Quakers) founder Connie Francis, singer Huey Freeman, playwright Sigmund Freud, physician Gustaf Froding, poet Romain Gary, author George III Theodore Gericault, artist Carlo Gesualdo, musician Lewis Grassic Gibbon, writer Mikhail Glinka, musician Kurt Godel, 1906- 1978, mathematician Johan Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), author Nikolai Gogol, writer Oliver Goldsmith, author Arshile Gorky, artist Mazim Gorky, writer Cary Grant, actor Kenneth Graham, writer Thomas Gray, poet Graham Greene, writer Philip Guston, artist Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), American politician Hamlet, fictional Prince of Denmark

George Frideric Handel, composer Donny Hathaway, singer/songwriter Robert Stephen Hawker, poet Nathaniel Hawthorne, author Benjamin Haydon, artist Heine, poet Ernest Hemingway, author Hercules, according to Aristotle Herman Hesse, writer Carl Hill, artist Abby Hoffman, activist and author Friedrich Holderlin, poet Gustav Holst, musician Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), poet Howard Hughes, entrepreneur Victor Hugo, poet Phyliss Hyman, singer/songwriter Henrik Ibsen, writer William Inge, modern literary scene Henry James, writer, brother of William William James, philosopher Kate Jamison, professor and writer Randall Jarrell, poet Samuel Johnson, poet Ernst Josephson, artist Kazan, Far Eastern naturalist artist, suicide John Keats, poet, opium addict Henry Kendall, poet Kepler, scientist (Kretschmer schizothymic) Velimir Khlebnikov, poet Soren Kierkegaard Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, artist Otto Klemperer, musician

Charles Lamb, author

Walter Savage Landor, poet Edwin Landseer, artist Orlando de Lassus, musician Edward Lear, artist King Lear, fictional Nathaniel Lee, 17th century playwright Robert E Lee, soldier Wilhelm Lehmbruck, artist Leibniz, scientist (Kretschmer schizothymic) Vivian Leigh, actress Nikolaus Lenau, poet J M R Lenz, poet Mikhail Lermontov, poet Primo Levi, author Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President Vachel Lindsay, poet Liszt, composer Josh Logan, songster Jack London, author Earl K Long, politician James Russell Lowell, poet Robert Lowell, poet Malcolm Lowry, writer Martin Luther (1483-1546), religious Hugh MadDiarmid, poet Louis MacNeice, poet Gustav Mahler, composer Osip Mandelstam, poet James Clarence Mangan, poet Johm Martin, artist Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet Herman Melville, author Charles M ryon, artist Michelangelo, artist John Stuart Mill Edna St Vincent Millay, poet Kate Millett, author Charles Mingus, musician Modigliani, artist Adolphe Monticelli, artist Marilyn Monroe, actress Mozart, composer John Mulhern, Wall Street trader

Edvard Munch, artist Alfred de Musset, poet Benito Mussolino (1883-1945), Italian political leader Modest Mussorgsky, musician Napoleon, general Nebuchadnezzar Lord Nelson, statesman Gerard de Nerval, poet Isaac Newton, scientist Friederich Nietzsche, philosopher Vaslov Nijinsky (-1950), Russian dancer Emperor Norton I Oedipus, fictional Georgia O'Keefe, artist Eugene O'Neill, playwright Charles Parker, musician Francis Parkman, writer Juses Pascin, artist Boris Pasternak, poet Cesare Pavese, poet Raphaelle peale, artist J C Penney Jimmy Piersall Robert M Pirsig, author William Pitt, statesman Jackson Pollack, artist Sylvia Plath, poet Plato, philosopher, according to Aristotle Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), author Cole Porter, musician Ezra Pound, poet Bud Powell, musician Alexander Pushkin, author

Rabelais, author Sergei Rachmaninoff, musician Rembrandt, painter

Laura Riding, poet Theodore Roethke, poet George Romney, visual arts Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), poet Theodore Roosevelt, US President Giocchino Rossini, musician Mark Rothko, artist Rousseau, author John Ruskin (1819-1900), writer St Francis St John St Theresa William Saroyan, author Schiller, poet Franz Schubert, composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), musician Delmore Schwartz, poet Alexander Scriabin, musician Sabbatai Sevi (1626-1676), religious Anne Sexton, poet, 20th century Shapiro, modern literary scene Mary Shelley, writer Percy Bysse Shelley, poet Richard Sheridan, playwright William T Sherman, soldier Christopher Smart (1722-1771), sacred lyric poet Mitch Snyder, activist Socrates, philosopher, according to Aristotle Nicolas de Stael, artist Jean Stafford, writer Rod Steiger, film maker Robert Louis Stevenson, writer August Strindberg, writer William Styron, author James Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish philosopher

Torquato Tasso, Italian poet James Taylor, singer popular 1990 Peter Tchaikovsky, composer Sara Teasdale, poet

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet Pietro Testa, artist Dylan Thomas, poet Edward Thomas, poet Francis Thompson, poet Henry Tilson, artist Leo Tolstoy, author Lily Tomlin, comedian and playwrite Georg Trakl, poet Marina Tsvetayeva, poet Ted Turner, entrepreneur Ivan Turgenev, writer Mark Twain, author Utrillo, painter Hugo van der Goes, artist Vincent Van Gogh, painter Verlaine, poet Vermeer, painter Heinrich Von Kleist, poet Mark Vonnegut, author Wagner, composer Peter Warlock George Frederic Watts, artist Walt Whitman, poet Robin Williams, comedian Tennessee Williams, author, playwriter Sir David Wilkie, artist Jonathan Winters, comedian Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer Mary Wollstonecraft, writer Virginia Woolf, author Bert Yancy, golfer Emile Zola, writer Anders Zorn, artist List is collated from a variety of secondary sources. This file came from anonymous ftp sjuvm.stjohns.edu cd MADNESS The MADNESS ftp site is a service of

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