Famous Autistic People

There are many famous people with autism or autistic characteristics. Some of them are Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Mozart, Thomas Jefferson, and Thomas Edison.

I would also have to say Temple Grandin is pretty popular in the world of autism. Temple wrote many books on her life and experiences with autism. She is also a college professor and speaker at autism conferences. I found her very interesting to listen to.

Famous people with unspecified forms of autism

The following people have been diagnosed as being somewhere on the autistic spectrum but the specific classification is unknown.
  • Daryl Hannah, an American actress best known for her roles in Splash, Blade Runner and Kill Bill was diagnosed as a child as being 'borderline autistic'
  • Christopher Knowles, American poet
  • Matthew Laborteaux, actor on Little House on the Prairie
  • Katherine McCarron, autistic child allegedly murdered at the age of three by her mother, Karen McCarron.
  • Jason McElwain, high school basketball player
  • Michael Moon, adopted son of author Elizabeth Moon
  • Jasmine O'Neill, author of Through the Eyes of Aliens
  • Sue Rubin, subject of documentary Autism Is a World. Sue Rubin has no oral speech but does communicate with facilitated communication.
  • Birger Sellin, author from Germany,
  • Robert Gagno, actor from Vancouver

Famous people with Asperger syndrome

  • Dan Aykroyd, comedian and actor: Aykroyd stated he has Asperger's, but some feel he was joking.
  • Richard Borcherds, mathematician specializing in group theory and Lie algebras
  • William Cottrell, student who was sentenced to eight years in jail for fire-bombing SUV dealerships
  • Craig Nicholls, frontman of the band The Vines
  • Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter
  • Dawn Prince-Hughes, PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author of Songs for the Gorilla Nation
  • Judy Singer, Australian disability rights activist
  • Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics
  • Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon
  • Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant, believed to have Asperger Syndrome
  • Liane Holliday Willey, author of Pretending to be Normal, Asperger Syndrome in the Family; Asperger syndrome advocate; education professor; and adult diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at age 35

People with high-functioning autism

  • Michelle Dawson, autism researcher and autism rights activist who has made ethical challenges to Applied Behavior Analysis
  • Temple Grandin, a designer of humane food animal handling systems.
  • Hikari Oe, Japanese composer
  • Bhumi Jensen, Thai prince, grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand; killed by drowning in the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
  • Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlife illustrator
  • Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist
  • Donna Williams, Australian author of Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere; after testing for deafness in late childhood, and being labelled 'disturbed', Donna was formally diagnosed as autistic in her 20s
  • Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist
  • Axel Brauns, German author of the autobiographical bestseller Buntschatten und Fledermäuse and filmmaker

Famous autistic savants

  • Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor
  • Tony DeBlois, blind American musician
  • Leslie Lemke, blind American musician
  • Jonathan Lerman, American artist
  • Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimba prodigy
  • Jerry Newport is an author, savant, and has Asperger's. His wife, Mary Newport, is also a savant on the autistic spectrum
  • Derek Paravicini, blind British musician
  • James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter
  • Matt Savage, U.S. autistic jazz prodigy
  • Henriett Seth-F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer and artist

People with severe autism

  • Tito Mukhopadhyay, author, poet and philosopher

P.S.
This is a list of noteworthy people known or speculated to have been diagnosed or misdiagnosed with autism, Asperger syndrome (AS), or another condition on the autism spectrum. Due to the fluctuating and imprecise criteria for the diagnosis of Asperger syndrome and of autism, even a formal diagnosis cannot be taken as certain proof that a given person is on the spectrum.

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