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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===

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
! scope="col" style="width: 150px;" | '''Person:'''
! scope="col" style="width:100px;" | '''Diagnosis:'''
! scope="col" style="width:500px;" | '''Famous For:'''
! scope="col" style="width:40px;" | '''Source'''
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| [[Dan Aykroyd]] || Asperger's || Acting; says his Asperger's helped him with the movie ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' because he was so interested in [[ghost]]s and [[law enforcement]] || <ref name=huff/>
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| [[Susan Boyle]] || Asperger's || Winning 2nd place on ''[[Britain's Got Talent]]'' in 2009, then becoming a famous singer || <ref name=huff>{{cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/12/autism-celebrities-aspergers_n_4427196.html |title=These 8 Inspiring People Will Change the Way You Think About Autism and Asperger’s |last1=Schocker |first1=Laura |last2= |first2= |date=December 12, 2013 |website=HuffingtonPost.com |publisher=The Huffington Post |accessdate=February 17, 2016 |quote=}}</ref>
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| [[Paddy Considine]] || Asperger's || Actor, says his 2011 directorial debut ''[[Tyrannosaur (film)|Tyrannosaur]]'' is partly based on his condition || <ref>{{cite web |http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8440399/Paddy-Considine-Knowing-I-have-Aspergers-is-a-relief.html</ref>
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| [[James Durbin]] || Asperger's || Winning 4th place on ''[[American Idol]]'' in 2011, then becoming a famous singer and [[guitar]] 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=https://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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| [[Courtney Love]] || Autism || Singing, writing songs, and acting; diagnosed with "mild autism" at age 9 || <ref>{{cite book|ref={{SfnRef|Brite|1998}}|first=Poppy Z.|last=Brite|publisher=Simon & Schuster|title=Courtney Love: The Real Story |isbn=978-0-684-84800-6|year=1998|page=25}}</ref>
|}

===Models===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
! scope="col" style="width: 150px;" | '''Person:'''
! scope="col" style="width:100px;" | '''Diagnosis:'''
! scope="col" style="width:500px;" | '''Famous For:'''
! scope="col" style="width:40px;" | '''Source'''
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| [[Heather Kuzmich]] || Asperger's || Winning 5th place on ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'' in 2007 || <ref name=huff/>
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| [[Alexis Wineman]] || PDD-NOS || In 2013, she was voted Miss [[Montana]].  She became the first person with an Autism Spectrum Disorder to compete in the [[Miss America]] [[Beauty pageant|pageant]] || <ref name=huff/>
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===Other famous people===
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
! scope="col" style="width: 150px;" | '''Person:'''
! scope="col" style="width:100px;" | '''Diagnosis:'''
! scope="col" style="width:500px;" | '''Famous For:'''
! scope="col" style="width:40px;" | '''Source'''
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|[[Govy]]
|Autism
|Being an award winning [[Artist|visual artist]]; exhibited internationally; diagnosed in 2013.
|<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://competition.adesignaward.com/designer.php?profile=134729|title=A' Design Award & Competition - Artist Profile|first=|last=|date=2014-02-18|website=A' Design Award & Competition|publisher=A' Design Award & Competition|accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://davepape.com/index.php/2015/08/28/you-space-time/|title=YOU + SPACE + TIME|first=Dave|last=Pape|date=August 28, 2015|website=davepape|publisher=|accessdate=}}</ref>
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| [[Temple Grandin]] || Autism || Being a [[professor]] of animal sciences at Colorado State University; improving how animals like [[cattle]] are treated; fighting for autism rights || <ref name=huff/>
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| [[Ahmed Al-Rahimi]] || Autism || Being a clever student on Køge Gymnasium in Denmark || <ref name=nymag>{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/news/features/autism-spectrum-2012-11/ |title=Autism Spectrum: Are You On It?  If so, you’re in good company.  From Asperger’s to “Asperger’s,” how the spectrum became quite so all-inclusive |last1=Wallace |first1=Benjamin |last2= |first2= |date=May 12, 2014 |website=New York Magazine |publisher=New York Media, LLC |accessdate=February 17, 2016 |quote=}}</ref>
|}

==People from history==
Some doctors, writers, and historians think they can diagnose people from the past with an Autism Spectrum Disorder.  They do this by reading about what the person was like and seeing if any of the symptoms of an Autism Spectrum Disorder fit that person.

Because autism and Asperger syndrome were first described in the 1940s, none of these people could have actually been diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder while they were alive.

<!-- This is a list of historic figures only. Do not add either recently deceased people or living people that have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.  See List above for current figures. Also please include scientists that have speculated the person(s) that are considered autistic. -->

{|class="wikitable sortable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto;"
! scope="col" | '''Person:'''
! scope="col" | '''Diagnosis:'''
! scope="col" | '''Famous For:'''
! scope="col" | '''Who Thought They Had an ASD?
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| [[Michelangelo]] || Asperger's || Being a famous artist during the [[Renaissance]].  He was unable to keep relationships with other people. || Arshad and Fitzgerald;<ref name=FitzGenesis/><ref>{{cite journal |author=Arshad M; Fitzgerald M 2004 |title=Did Michelangelo (1475-1564) have high-functioning autism? |journal=Journal of Medical Biography |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=115–20 |pmid=15079170 }}</ref> Ioan James<ref name=JamesAS/>
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|[[Glenn Gould]] || Asperger's || Being a [[Canadian]] [[pianist]], and an [[interpreter]] for [[Johann Sebastian Bach]].  Gould liked routine so much that he used the same seat until it was worn through.  He did not like talking to people, and when he got older, he used the phone or letters any time he needed to communicate with someone.  He did not like being touched, and would rock back and forth while playing music. || Michael Fitzgerald,<ref name=FitzGenesis/> Ioan James,<ref name=JamesAS/> Tony Attwood,<ref name=AttwoodStrat>{{cite journal |author=Attwood T 2000 |title=Strategies for Improving 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=https://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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| [[Charles XII of Sweden]] || Asperger's || Being [[King of Sweden]] from 1697-1718.  He was stubborn, did exactly the same things every day, and did not feel bad for other people. || Gillberg<ref>{{cite journal |author=Gillberg C 2002 |title=Karl XII tycks ha uppfyllt de flesta kriterierna för Aspergers syndrom|url=http://www.lakartidningen.se/OldPdfFiles/2002/25796.pdf |language=Swedish |journal=Läkartidningen|volume=99 |issue=48 |pages=4837–8 |pmid=12523067 |doi=}}</ref> and Lagerkvist<ref>{{cite journal |author=Lagerkvist B 2002 |title=[Charles XII had all symptoms of Asperger syndrome: stubbornness, a stereotyped existence and lack of compassion] |language=Swedish |journal=Läkartidningen|volume=99 |issue=48 |pages=4874–8 |pmid=12523074 |doi=}}</ref>
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| [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] || Asperger's || Being a famous [[composer]] who wrote his first music at age five || Tony Attwood<ref name=AttwoodStrat/> and Michael Fitzgerald;<ref name=FitzGenesis/> others disagree<ref name=JankovicMozart>{{cite journal |author=Ashoori A; Jankovic J 2007 |title=Mozart's movements and behaviour: a case of Tourette's syndrome? |journal=Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry |volume=78 |issue=11 |pages=1171–5 |pmid=17940168 |pmc=2117611 |doi=10.1136/jnnp.2007.114520 }}</ref>
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| [[Thomas Jefferson]] || Asperger's || Being the 3rd [[President of the United States]] and writing the [[Declaration of Independence]] || Norm Ledgin,<ref>{{cite book|last=Ledgin|first=Norm|url=|title=Diagnosing Jefferson|publisher=Future Horizons|year=2000|isbn=1-885477-60-0}}</ref> Tony Attwood,<ref name=AttwoodStrat/> and Ioan James<ref name=JamesAS/>
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| [[Henry Cavendish]] || Autism || 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 = https://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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