Bi-Polar its not what you think



















Famous PEOPLE WHO have Manic Depressive Disorder...Or Known as Bi-Polar


Buzz Aldrin, astronaut

Lionel Aldridge

Hans Christian Andersen, writer

Ned Beatty, actor

Robert Boorstin, writer, assistant to Pres. Clinton,



Arthur Benson, writer

E F Benson, writer

William Blake (1757-1827), poet

Ralph Blakelock, artist

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), general

Tadeusz Borowski

Art Buchwald, writer, humorist

Tim Burton, artist, movie director

Robert Campeau, financier (Canada)

Drew Carey, actor

Jim Carrey, actor

Dick Cavett, writer, media personality

C.E. Chaffin, writer, poet

Agatha Christie, mystery writer

Winston Churchill, 1874-1965- British Prm Mnstr

John Clare, poet

Rosemary Clooney, singer

Garnet Coleman, legislator (Texas)

Francis Ford Coppola, director

Patricia Cornwell, writer



Richard Dadd

John Daly, athlete (golf)

John Davidson, poet

Edward Dayes, artist

Ray Davies, musician

Emily Dickinson

Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady of Massachusetts

Patty Duke (Anna Duke Pearce), actor, writer

Thomas Eagleton, lawyer, former U.S. Senator

T S Eliot, poet

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist

Robert Evans, film producer

Carrie Fisher, writer, actor

Edward FitzGerald

Robert Frost

F Scott Fitzgerald, author

Larry Flynt, magazine publisher

Connie Francis, actor, musician

Sigmund Freud, physician

Cary Grant, actor

Kaye Gibbons, writer

Shecky Greene, comedian, actor

Linda Hamilton, actor

Kristin Hersh, musician

Victor Hugo, poet



Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward

All in the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred:

Forward the Light Brigade!

Charge for the guns' he said.

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Jack London, author

Robert Lowell, poet

Marilyn Monroe, actress

Mozart, composer

Jay Marvin, radio personality, writer

Cara Kahn, mtv's 'real world'

Kevin McDonald, comedian, actor

Kristy McNichol, actor

Dimitri Mihalas, scientist



Kate Millett, writer, artist

Spike Milligan, comic actor, writer

John Mulheren, financier (U.S.)

Robert Munsch, writer

Napoleon, general

Ilie Nastase, athlete (tennis), politician

Isaac Newton, scientist

Margo Orum, writer

Nicola Pagett, actor

J C Penney

Plato, philosopher, according to Aristotle

Edgar Allen Poe, author

Jimmie Piersall, athlete, sports announcer

Charley Pride, musician

Mac Rebennack (Dr. John), musician

Jeannie C. Riley, musician

Phil Graham, owner, Washington Post

Graham Greene, writer

Peter Gregg, team owner and manager, race car driver

Abbie Hoffman, writer, political activist

Lynn Rivers, U.S. Congress

Francesco Scavullo, artist, photographer

Lori Schiller, writer, educator

Frances Sherwood, writer

Scott Simmie, writer, journalist

Alonzo Spellman, athlete (football)

Muffin Spencer-Devlin, athlete (pro golf)

Gordon Sumner (Sting), musician, composer

St Francis

St John

St Theresa

Rod Steiger, film maker

Robert Louis Stevenson

Liz Taylor, actor

J.M.W. Turner

Mark Twain, author

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet

Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant

Jean-Claude Van Damme, athlete, actor

Vincent van Gogh

Mark Vonnegut, doctor, writer

Sol Wachtler, judge, writer

Tom Waits, musician, composer

Walt Whitman, poet

Tennessee Williams, author

Brian Wilson, musician (Beach Boys), composer, arranger

Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor, writer, artist

Luther Wright, athlete (basketball)

Margot Kidder, actor

Robert E Lee, soldier

Bill Liechtenstein, producer (TV & radio)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President

Daniel Johnston, musician

Samuel Johnson, poet

Burgess Meredith, 1908-1997, actor, director

Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist, writer

Not so famous People

Melvin J. Howard Father, Businessman, explorer of the unknown, knowledge seeker support the Bi-Polar Foundation at www.bipolar-foundation.org