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Famous people with depression

Surgery Door provides a section for people suffering from depression and other related mental health conditions research and learn about their condition. The pages provide access to featured mental health specialists.

All the people on the lists below have been diagnosed as mentally ill either during or after their lifetimes. Those living at present have admitted that they have been treated for mental illness. The lists were obtained from the book 'Touched with Fire' by Kay Redfield Jamison and from other sources.

  

Scientists, Philosophers and Theorists 

Ludwig Boltzman

Johannes Kepler

Jean-Jaques Rousseau

Niclaus Sopernicus

Soren Kierkequard

*Plato

Michael Faraday

Baron Gotfried Lebrutz

*Socrates

George Fox

Salvador Luria

John Strugnell

J.K. Galbraith

Martin Luther

James Swedenberg

Kurt Godel

John Stuart Mill

Stephen Hawking

Isaac Newton

William James

Freidrich Neitzsche

*according to Aristotle

 

Political Figures 

Robert Boorstina James Forrstal Robert MaFarlane
Napolean Boneparte Mahatma Gandhi Hortaio, Viscount Nelson
Laughton Chiles King George III William Pitt
Winston Churchill Alexander Hamilton Yitzhak Rabin
Oliver Cromwell Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt
Thomas Eagleton Robert E. Lee William Sherman
James Farmer Earl K. Long  

 

Artists

Ralph Barton Hugo van der Goes Wilhelm Lehmbruck
George Romney Francesco Bassano Vincent van Gogh
John Martin Dante Gabriel Rossetti David Blomberg
A. Gorky Charles Meryon Mark Rothko
Ralph Blakelock Philip Guston Michelangelo
Nicolas de Stael Francesco Borromini Benjamin Haydon
Adolphe Monticelli Pietro Testa John Sell Cotman
Carl Hill Edward Munch Henry Tilson
Richard Dadd Ernst Josephson Jules Pascin
Maurice Utrillo Edward Dayes George Innes
Georgia O'Keefe Jan Vermeer Albrecht Durer
Ernst Ludwig Kiirchner Raphael Peal George F. Watts
Paul Gauguin Edwin Landseer Jackson Pollock
Sir David Wilkie Theodore Gericault Edward Lear
Rembrandt van Rijn Anders Zorn  

 

Entertainers and Personalities

Buzz Aldrin Mike Douglas Vivien Leigh
Joan Rivers Roseane Barr Tony Dow
Bill Lichtenstein Axl Rose Rona Barrett
Kitty Dukakis Josh Logan Rod Steiger
Dick Cavett Patty Duke Sarah McLaghlan
Kate Taylor Ray Charles Connie Francis
Kristy McNichol James Taylor Eric Clapton
Peter Gabriel Burgess Meredith Livingston Taylor
Dick Clark Cary Grant Mrilyn Monroe
Ted Turner Rosemary Clooney Shacky Grene
Spike Milligan Mike Wallace Leonard Cohen
Marietta Hartley Charley Pell Robin Williams
Francis F. Coppolla Kristin Hersch Charley Pride
Jonathon Winters Sheryl Crow Anthony Hopkins
Bonnie Raitt Zelda Fitzgerald  

 

Writers

Hans C. Anderson F. Dostoyevsky Jean J. Rousseau
Honore de Balzac Alexander Dumas Herman Hesse
John Ruskin James Barrie Ralph W. Emerson
Henrik Ibsen Wiliam Saroyan Arthur Benson
William Faulkner William Inge Linda Sexton
E. F. Benson F. Scott Fitzgerald Henry James
Mary Shelley James Boswell Albert French
Charles Lamb Richard Sheridan Charlotte Bronte
Romain Gary Peter N. Lawerance Jean Stafford
Art Buchwald Lewis G. Gibbon Primo Levi
Robert L. Stevenson John Bunyan Van Goethe
Malcolm Lowrt August Strindberg Agatha Christie
Nikolai Gogi Herman Melville William Styron
Mark Twain Oliver Goldsmith Kate Millet
Leo Tolstoy Joseph Conrad Maxim Gorky
Eugene O'Neill Ivan Turgenev Michael Crichton
Kenneth Graham Francis Parkman Tennessee Williams
Charles Dickens Graham Greene Abigail Padgett
Mary Wollstonecraft Nathaniel Hawthorne Alexander Pushkin
Virginia Woolf Francois Rabelais Emile Zola

 We are indebited to the Depression Alliance for their help in compiling this section.