Mental health is an increasing priority for the average person. But what about famous people? They aren’t exempt from mental health issues either. Some are more private about their mental health,while others strive to raise awareness in hopes of debunking misconceptions about disorders. This list identifies some of history’s most well-known names.
Isaac Newton
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Abraham Lincoln
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Winston Churchill
Virginia Woolf
Jane Pauley
Linda Hamilton
Shawn Colvin
Judy Collins
Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison
Maurice Bernard
William Styron
John Nash
Carrie Fisher
Lionel Aldridge
Eugene O’Neill
Vivien Leigh
Ruth Graham
Brooke Shields
People Known to have Coped with Symptoms of Mental Illness
Leo Tolstoy,author
Charles Dickens,English author
John Keats,poet
Michelangelo,artist
Bette Midler,entertainer
Charles Schultz,cartoonist
Dick Clark,entertainer
Irving Berlin,composer
Rosemary Clooney,singer
Jimmy Piersall,baseball player. Boston Red Sox
Burgess Meredith, actor
Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky,composer
Charlie Pride,singer
Sylvia Plath,poet and novelist
Janet Jackson,singer
Patty Duke,actress
Roseanne Barr, comedian
Marlon Brando,actor
Maurice Bernard,actor
Buzz Aldrin,astronaut
Margot Kidder,Actress
Jonathon Winters,comedian
Pat Conroy,author
Ernest Hemingway,Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist
Tennessee Williams,American playwright

