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This page is a list of famous people who have been [[medical diagnosis|diagnosed]] with an [[Autism spectrum disorder|Autism Spectrum Disorder]].  These disorders include [[autism]], [[Asperger syndrome]], and [[Pervasive Developmental Disorder]] Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS).

==People diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder==
===Actors and singers===

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(contracted; show full)uitar]] player || <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/07/health/human-factor-james-durbin/ |title=‘American Idol’ Favorite Overcomes Tourette’s, Asperger’s |last1=Durbin |first1=James |last2= |first2= |date=January 8, 2013 |website=CNN.com |publisher=Cable News Network (CNN), Turner Broadcasting, Inc. |accessdate=February 17, 2016 |quote=}}</ref>
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| [[Daryl Hannah]] || Autism || Acting; diagnosed with autism during childhood || <ref name=huff/><ref>{{cite web |url=http
s://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/09/29/wall-street-actress-daryl-hannah-also-autistic-woman/#303244b6261a |title=‘Wall Street’ Actress Daryl Hannah is an Autistic Woman |last1=Willingham |first1=Emily |last2= |first2= |date=September 29, 2013 |website=Forbes.com |publisher=Forbes.com LLC |accessdate=February 17, 2016 |quote=}}</ref>
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(contracted; show full)ng the Social Integration of Children with Asperger Syndrome |url= |journal=Autism |publisher=National Autistic Society/SAGE |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=85-100|doi=10.1177/1362361300004001006 |accessdate=February 16, 2016}}</ref> Peter Ostwald<ref>{{cite book|last=Ostwald|first=Peter|title=Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius|year=1998|publisher=Norton|location=New York|isbn=0393318478}} Quoted in: {{cite book |last1=Ledgin |first1=Norm |last2=Grandin |first2=Temple |year=2005 |url=http
s://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=ZdK6F5ACD8UC&pg=PA123 |title=Asperger's and Self-Esteem |publisher=Future Horizons |pages=123–129 |isbn=1885477856}}</ref>
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(contracted; show full)sm || Being a famous [[18th century]] British [[scientist]].  He rarely saw other people, had trouble dealing with other people, could not look people in the eyes, and was very interested in [[pattern]]s. || Oliver Sacks<ref name=SacksCavendish>{{cite journal |author= Sacks O 2001 |title= Henry Cavendish: an early case of Asperger's syndrome? |journal=Neurology |volume=57 |issue=7 |pages=1347 |pmid=11591871 |url=http://www.neurological.org.nz/html/article.php?documentCode=26 | |archiveurl = http
s://web.archive.org/web/20070901095011/http://www.neurological.org.nz/html/article.php?documentCode=26 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-09-01 |doi=10.1212/wnl.57.7.1347}}</ref> and Ioan James.<ref name=JamesAS>{{cite book|first=Ioan|last=James|url=|title=Asperger's Syndrome and High Achievement: Some Very Remarkable People|publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers|location=London|year=2006|isbn=1-84310-388-5}}</ref><ref name=JamesSingular>{{cite journal |author=James I 2003 |title=Singular scientists |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=96 |issue=1 |pages=36–9 |year=2003 |pmid=12519805 |pmc=539373 |doi= 10.1258/jrsm.96.1.36}}</ref> Fred Volkmar of [[Yale University|Yale]] Study Child Center disagrees.<ref name=GoodeNYT>{{cite news|title=CASES; A Disorder Far Beyond Eccentricity|author=Goode, Erica
|date=October 9, 2001|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/health/cases-a-disorder-far-beyond-eccentricity.html|work=New York Times|accessdate=2007-11-26}}</ref> 
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| [[Emily Dickinson]] || Asperger's || Being one of the most famous poets of all time || Vernon Smith<ref name=Creativity>{{cite book|last=Fitzgerald|first=Michael|url=|title=Autism and creativity: is there a link between autism in men and exceptional ability?|location=East Sussex|publisher=Brunner-Routledge|year=2004|isbn= 1-58391-213-4 }}</ref>
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| [[James Joyce]] ||Asperger's || Writing a famous book called ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' || Michael Fitzgerald and Antionette Walker;<ref name=Brilliance>{{cite book|last=Walker|first= Antoinette |author2=Michael Fitzgerald|title=Unstoppable Brilliance: Irish Geniuses and Asperger's Syndrome|publisher=Liberties Press|year=2006|isbn= 1-905483-03-1}}</ref> others disagree.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Whelan PJ 2009 |title=James Joyce and Asperger syndrome |journal=British Journal of Psychiatry |volume=195 |issue=6 |pages=555–6 |pmid=19949213 |doi=10.1192/bjp.195.6.555a }}</ref>
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| [[Blind Tom Wiggins]] || Autism (savant) || Even though he was [[blind]], he learned to play the piano at age 4.  He became one of the best-known American pianists in the 19th century. || Oliver Sacks<ref>{{cite book |last=Sacks |first=Oliver |year=2005 |url=https://books.google.co.ukm/books?id=kucOxvoPjKwC&pg=PT179 |title=An Anthropologist on Mars |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=033053713X}}</ref>
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| [[Prince John of the United Kingdom]] || Autism || This [[20th century]] [[British]] [[prince]] was famous for his [[epilepsy]] and staying away from other people.  He did the same things over and over again, and is thought to have been autistic and [[intellectual disability|intellectually disabled]]. || K. D. Reynolds<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/76928 | title=John, Prince (1905–1919) | publisher=Oxford University Press | work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | year=2004 | author=Reynolds, K.D. | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/76928 | ref={{sfnRef|Reynolds|2004}} }} {{subscription}}</ref> and Paul Tizley<ref>Tizley, Paul (director) (2008).  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh7Nesw6r0I ''Prince John: The Windsors' Tragic Secret] (Documentary).  London: Channel 4.</ref>
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| [[Charles Richter]] || Asperger's || Being the [[seismologist]] who created the [[Richter scale]] || Susan Hough<ref>{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_1_116/ai_n17216514|title=Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man|work=Natural History|publisher=FindArticles.com|date=February 2007|author=Marschall, Laurence A}}</ref>
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| [[Stanley Kubrick]] || Asperger's || Being a famous filmmaker.  He was [[obsession|obsessive]] and had trouble dealing with other people when he was making movies. || Michael Fitzgerald and Viktoria Lyons<ref name=FitzGenesis>{{cite book|last=Fitzgerald |first=Michael|title=The genesis of artistic creativity: Asperger's syndrome and the arts|publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers|year=2005|location=London|isbn=1-84310-334-6}}</ref><ref name="LyonsFitzgerald2005">{{cite book|author1=Viktoria Lyons|author2=Michael Fitzgerald|title=Asperger Syndrome: A Gift Or a Curse?|date=1 January 2005|publisher=Nova Publishers|isbn=978-1-59454-387-6|page=}}</ref>
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