Famous People Who Have Suffered from Depression
These famous authors, scientists, leaders, artists, and celebrities all have been reported as having suffered from depression.
| Alvin Ailey, dancer and choreographer Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, astronaut Louie Anderson, comedian, actor Ann-Margaret, actress Diane Arbus, photographer Lionel Aldridge, football player Alexander the Great, king Hans Christian Anderson, author Tai Babilonia, figureskater Oksana Baiul, figureskater Honore de Balzac, writer Samuel Barber, classical composer Roseanne Barr, actress Drew Barrymore, actress James M. Barrie, writer Rona Barrett, columnist Charles Baudelaire, poet Shelley Beattie, athlete and artist Ned Beatty, actor Samuel Becket, writer Ludwig von Beethoven, composer Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel Brendan Behan, poet Irving Berlin, composer Hector Berlioz, composer John Berryman, poet William Blake, poet Charles Bluhdorn, executive, Gulf Western Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway Robert Boorstin, writer, special assistant to Pres. Clinton, State Department Clara Bow, actor Tommy Boyce, musician, composer Cheyenne Brando, actor Marlon Brando, actor Richard Brautigan, writer Van Wyck Brooks, writer John Brown, abolitionist Ruth Brown, singer Anton Bruckner, composer Art Buchwald, political humorist John Bunyan, writer Robert Burns, poet Robert Burton, writer Tim Burton, artist, movie director Willie Burton, basketball player Barbara Bush, former First Lady Lord Byron, poet Helen Caldicott, activist, writer Donald Cammell, movie director, screenwriter Robert Campeau, Canadian businessman Albert Camus, writer Truman Capote, writer Drew Carey, actor and comedian Jim Carrey, actor and comedian Dick Cavett, broadcaster C.E. Chaffin, writer, poet Ray Charles, R&B performer Thomas Chatterton, poet Paddy Chayefsky, writer, movie director Lawton Chiles, former governor of Florida Frederic Chopin, composer Winston Churchill, British prime minister Sandra Cisneros, writer Eric Clapton, blues-rock musician Dick Clark, entertainer (American Bandstand) John Cleese, actor Rosemary Clooney, singer Kurt Cobain, rock star Tyrus Cobb, athlete Leonard Cohen, poet and singer Natalie Cole, singer Garnet Coleman, Texas legislator Samuel Coleridge, poet Judy Collins, musician, writer Shawn Colvin, musician Jeff Conaway, actor Joseph Conrad, author Pat Conroy, writer Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president Francis Ford Coppola, director Billy Corgan, musician Patricia Cornwell, writer Noel Coward, composer William Cowper, poet Hart Crane, writer Oliver Cromwell, dictator Kathy Cronkite, writer Dennis Crosby, actor Sheryl Crow, singer and rock musician Richard Dadd, artist John Daly, athlete (golf) Rodney Dangerfield, comedian Charles Darwin, explorer and scientist David, Israeli King Ray Davies, musician Thomas De Quincey, poet Lenny Dee, musician Sandra Dee, actor Ellen DeGeneres, comedienne, actor John Denver, singer and actor Muffin Spencer Devlin, pro golfer Diana, Princess of Wales Paolo DiCanio, athlete (soccer) Charles Dickens, writer Emily Dickenson, poet Isak Dinesen, author Scott Donie, Olympic athlete (diving) Terence Donovan, photographer Michael Dorris, writer Theodore Dostoevski, writer Eric Douglas, actor Tony Dow, actor, producer, director Richard Dreyfuss, actor Jack Dreyfus, manager, Dreyfus Fund Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady, Mass. Patty Duke, actress Thomas Eagleton, lawyer, U.S. Senator Thomas Eakins, artist Thomas Edison, inventor Edward Elgar, composer T.S. Eliot, poet Queen Elizabeth I of England Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer Robert Evans, film producer James Farmer, civil rights leader Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television William Faulkner, writer Jules Feiffer, cartoonist and satirist Tim Finn, musician, composer Carrie Fisher, actress and writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer Larry Flynt, magazine publisher Betty Ford, former First Lady Harrison Ford, actor James Forrestal, cabinet member Steven Foster, writer Michel Foucault, writer, philosopher George Fox, Quaker Connie Francis, entertainer Andre Franquin, 1924-1997, cartoonist Albert French, writer Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist Brenda Fricker, actress Peter Gabriel, rock star John Kenneth Galbraith, economist Judy Garland, singer, actor James Garner, actor Paul Gascoigne, athlete (soccer) Paul Gauguin, artist | Harold Geneen, executive, ITT Industries King George III of England Stan Getz, musician Kaye Gibbons, writer Kendall Gill, athlete (basketball) Kit Gingrich, Newt's mother Johann Goethe, writer Oliver Goldsmith, poet Dwight Gooden, baseball player George Gordon, poet Tipper Gore, wife of U.S. Vice-President Arshille Gorky, artist Francisco de Goya, painter Phil Graham, owner, Washington Post Graham Green, writer Shecky Greene, comedian Philip Guston, artist Alexander Hamilton, politician Linda Hamilton, actress Georg Frederich Handel, composer Pete Harnisch, baseball player Mariette Hartley, actress Juliana Hatfield, musician Hampton Hawes, musician Stephen Hawking, physicist Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer Lillian Hellman, writer Ernest Hemingway, writer Margaux Hemingway, actor Audrey Hepburn, actress King Herod, Biblical figure Kristin Hersh, musician Hermann Hesse, writer Abby Hoffman, writer and activist Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor Gerard M. Hopkins, poet Edward Hopper, artist Howard Hughes, industrialist Victor Hugo, author Helen Hutchison, broadcaster Heinrich Ibsen, playwright Jack Irons, musician Eugene Izzi, writer Andrew Jackson, U.S. President Janet Jackson, singer Henry James, writer William James, writer Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist, writer Randall Jarrell, poet Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President Jim Jenson, CBS News Jeremiah, Biblical figure Joan of Arc, French leader Job, Biblical figure Billy Joel, musician, composer Elton John, musician, composer Daniel Johns, musician Samuel Johnson, poet Daniel Johnston, musician Ashley Judd, actor Franz Kafka, writer Karen Kain, prima ballerina Danny Kaye, entertainer John Keats, writer Margot Kidder, actress Larry King, talkshow host Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, artist Gelsey Kirkland, dancer Heinrich von Kleist, poet Percy Knauth, journalist Joey Kramer, musician William Kurelek, artist Pat LaFontaine, hockey player Charles Lamb, poet Jessica Lange, actor Peter Nolan Lawrence, English writer Edward Lear, artist Frances Lear, publisher Robert E. Lee, U.S. general Vivian Leigh, actress John Lennon, musician Rika Lesser, writer, translator Primo Levi, chemist, writer Bill Lichtenstein, producer (TV & radio) Allie Light, director Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President Vachel Lindsey, writer Karl Paul Link, chemist Ross Lockridge, Jr., writer Joshua Logan, producer Jack London, writer Rick London, cartoonist Greg Louganis, U.S. diver and Olympic gold medallist Courtney Love, musician James Russell Lowell, poet Robert Lowell, poet Malcolm Lowry, writer J. Anthony Lukas, writer Salvador Luria, bacterial geneticist Martin Luther, Protestant leader Gustav Mahler, composer Duke of Marlborough, soldier Elizabeth Manley, Canadian figureskater Camryn Mannheim, actor Martha Manning, psychologist, writer Imelda Marcos, Philippine dictator's wife Jay Marvin, radio personality, writer Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet Gary McDonald, Australian actor Kevin McDonald, comedian, actor Robert McFarlane, former United States National Security Adviser Rod McKuen, writer, poet, producer Sarah McLachlan, singer, Lilith Fair creator Kristy McNichol, actress Peter McWilliams, writer Herman Melville, writer Burgess Meredith, actor Robert Merrill, musician, lyricist Paul Merton, British comedian Michelangelo, Italian artist Dimitri Mihalas, scientist Kate Millett, writer, artist Spike Milligan, comic actor, writer Carmen Miranda, actor Claude Monet, artist Thelonious Monk, musician Marilyn Monroe, actor Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer S.P. Morrissey, musician John Mulheren, financier (U.S.) Edvard Munch, artist Robert Munsch, writer Les Murray, Australian poet Conrad Meyer, writer Michelangelo, artist John Stuart Mill, writer Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet Kate Millet, writer and feminist Spike Milligan, humourist John Milton, poet Charles Mingus, compser Carmen Miranda, singer Marilyn Monroe, actress Mavor Moore, producer J.P. Morgan, industrialist Modest Mussogorgsky, composer Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator Ilie Natase, tennis player, politician Ralph Nader, U.S. consumer rights advocate Nebuchadnezzar, Biblical figure | Sir Isaac Newton, physicist Florence Nightingale, British nurse Vaslav Nijinksy, ballet dancer Richard Nixon, U.S. president Deborah Norville, television journalist Sinead O'Connor, musician Georgia O'Keeffe, painter Eugene O'Neill, playwright John Ogden, pianist Laurence Olivier, actor Margo Orum, writer Ozzie Osborne, rock star Donny Osmond, musician Marie Osmond, musician Wilfred Owen, poet, soldier Nicola Pagett, actor Susan Panico, business executive Charles Parker, compoer Dorothy Parker, writer, poet, wit Dolly Parton, singer Boris Pasternak, writer John Pastorius, composer George Patton, soldier Pierre Peladeau, publisher Charley Pell, former coach, Univ. of Florida Teddy Pendergrass, musician Walker Percy, writer Murray Pezim, Canadian businessman Jimmie Piersall, baseball player William Pitt, Prime Minister Sylvia Plath, poet Edgar Allen Poe, writer Jackson Pollock, artist Cole Porter, composer Ezra Pound, poet Alma Powell, wife of Gen. Colin Powell Susan Powter, motivational speaker Charlie Pride, country singer Sergey Rachmaninoff, composer Bonnie Raitt, singer Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), musician Lou Reed, singer Jeannie C. Riley, singer Rainer Maria Rilke, poet Joan Rivers, comedian Lynn Rivers, U.S. Congresswoman Alys Robi, Canadian vocalist Norman Rockwell, artist Theodore Roethke, poet George Romney, artist Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President Axl Rose, rock star Roseanne, actor, writer, comedienne Amelia Rosselli, 1930-1996, poet Dante Rossetti, poet and painter Gioacchimo Rossini, composer Martin Rossiter, musician Philip Roth, writer Mark Rothko, artist Gabrielle Roy, author John Ruskin, writer Winona Ryder, actor Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer May Sarton, poet, novelist Francesco Scavullo, artist, photographer Lori Schiller, writer, educator Charles Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts) Robert Schumann, German composer Delmore Schwartz, poet Ronnie Scott, musician Alexander Scriabin, composer Jean Seberg, actress Monica Seles, athlete (tennis) Anne Sexton, poet Linda Sexton, writer Mary Shelley, author Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet William Tecumseh Sherman, general Frances Sherwood, writer Dmitri Shostakovich, musician Scott Simmie, writer, journalist Paul Simon, composer, musician Lauren Slater, writer Christopher Smart, poet Jose Solano, actor Phil Specter, promoter and producer Alonzo Spellman, athlete (football) Muffin Spencer-Devlin, pro golfer Vivian Stanshall, musician, writer, artist Rod Steiger, actor George Stephanopoulos, political advisor Robert Louis Stevenson, writer Sting, singer and musician Teresa Stratas, opera singer Darryl Strawberry, baseball player William Styron, writer Emmanuel Swedenbourg, religious leader James Taylor, singer and musician Kate Taylor, musician Lili Taylor, actor Livingston Taylor, musician P.I. Tchaikovsky, composer Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet Tracy Thompson, writer, reporter Dylan Thomas, poet Edward Thomas, poet Leo Tolstoy, writer Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, artist Spencer Tracy, actor Ted Turner, founder, CNN Network Mark Twain, author Hunter Tylo, actress Mike Tyson, prizefighter Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor Vincent Van Gogh, artist Vivian Vance, actor Victoria, British Queen Mark Vonnegut, doctor, writer Kurt Vonnegut, writer Sol Wachtler, judge Tom Waits, musician Mike Wallace, broadcaster Michael Warren, executive, Canada Post George Washington, U.S. President Damon Wayans, comedian, actor, writer, director, producer Walt Whitman, poet Dar Williams, musician Robin Williams, actor Tennessee Williams, playwright Brian Wilson, rockstar (Beach Boys) William Carlos Williams, physician, writer Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous Jonathan Winters, comedian Hugo Wolf, composer Thomas Wolfe, writer Mary Wollstoncraft, writer Ed Wood, movie director Natalie Wood, actor Virginia Woolf, writer Luther Wright, basketball player Elizabeth Wurtzel, writer Tammy Wynette, singer Bert Yancey, pro golfer Boris Yeltsin, former President, Russia Faron Young, musician Robert Young, actor William Zeckendorf, industrialist Emile Zola, writer Stefan Zweig, poet |
