People Like Us – International

Famous People From Around The World
Who Have Had Depression

Here we list famous people from around the world who have, or have had, depression.  We are continually adding to this list, and also including a little more information about each person as we find it.  Please let us know of any other famous people who live with depression that are not yet listed here… or if you know where we can find more information on those listed!
 

• Lionel Aldridge – Football Player
• Buzz Aldrin – Astronaut
• Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd
• Ludwig von Beethoven – composer
• Lord Byron – Poet
• Cher – actress / entertainer
• Winston Churchill – English Prime Minister
• John Cleese – actor best known for his role as Basil Fawlty in the series, Fawlty Towers, and Monty Python.
• Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) – soldier, statesman and Lord Protector of England (1652-1658) after he declined the crown after Charles I was beheaded in 1649 during the Civil War.
• Jefferson Davis – President of the Confederate States of America
• Charles Dickens – Author
• Patty Duke – Actress
• Carrie Fisher – Actress
• Peter Green – Guitarist for Fleetwood Mac
• Ernest Hemingway – 1954 Nobel Laureate in Literature
• Linda Hamilton – Actress – The Terminator
• Sir Julian Huxley – Depression is described in his autobiography
• T. H. Huxley – Zoologist
• Kay Jamison – Professor of Psychiatry/Author
• John Keats – poet
• Marion Keys – Irish Novelist
• Vivien Leigh – actress
• Primo Levi – Jewish – Italian Writer
• Meriwether Lewis – Explorer
• Abraham Lincoln – American President
• Mary Todd Lincoln – wife of Abraham Lincoln
• Michelangelo – Artist
• Spike Milligan – Actor / Comedian
• John Nash – Mathematician / Nobel Prize Winner
• Isaac Newton – Physicist
• Vaclav Nijinsky – Famous Russian Dancer
• Marie Osmond – Singer, Entertainer, Author
• Sylvia Plath – poet
• Edgar Allan Poe – writer
• Ezra Pound – poet
• Paul Robeson – Actor and Singer
• General Sherman – Army Commander
• William Styron – Writer/Author of Darkness Visible:a memoir of madness
• Ted Turner – Founded and runs CNN
• Vincent Van Gogh – painter
• Evelyn Waugh – English writer and novelist, probably best known for Brideshead Revisited
• Lewis Wolpert – British Embryologist
• Virginia Woolf – a major British novelist, essayist, and critic