244 Famous People Suffering From Depression
February 26, 2008
You Are Not Alone! Many talented, creative successful people have suffered from depression. This list is only a fraction of celebrities with some form of the condition of depression
Famous People Who Have Suffered from Depression or Manic-Depression:
- Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, astronaut
- Louie Anderson, comedian, actor
- Ann-Margaret, actress
- Alexander the Great, king
- Hans Christian Anderson, author
- Tai Babilonia, figureskater
- 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
- John Berryman, poet
- William Blake, poet
- Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor
- Kjell Magne Bondevik, Prime Minister of Norway
- Marlon Brando, actor
- Art Buchwald, political humorist
- Robert Burns, poet
- Robert Burton, writer
- Tim Burton, artist, movie director
- Willie Burton, basketball player
- Barbara Bush, former First Lady
- Lord Byron, poet
- Truman Capote, writer
- Drew Carey, actor and comedian
- Jim Carrey, actor and comedian
- Dick Cavett, broadcaster
- Ray Charles, R&B performer
- Lawton Chiles, former governor of Florida
- Frederic Chopin, composer
- Winston Churchill, British prime minister
- Eric Clapton, blues-rock musician
- Dick Clark, entertainer (American Bandstand)
- 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
- Pat Conroy, writer
- Calvin Coolidge, U.S. president
- Francis Ford Coppola, director
- Patricia Cornwell, writer
- Noel Coward, composer
- William Cowper, poet
- Kathy Cronkite, writer
- Dennis Crosby, actor
- Sheryl Crow, singer and rock musician
- John Daly, athlete (golf)
- Rodney Dangerfield, comedian
- Charles Darwin, explorer and scientist
- David, Israeli King
- Sandra Dee, actor
- Ellen DeGeneres, comedienne, actor
- John Denver, singer and actor
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Paolo DiCanio, athlete (soccer)
- Charles Dickens, writer
- Emily Dickenson, poet
- Scott Donie, Olympic athlete (diving)
- Theodore Dostoevski, writer
- Tony Dow, actor, producer, director
- Richard Dreyfuss, actor
- Kitty Dukakis, former First Lady, Mass.
- Patty Duke, actress
- Thomas Eagleton, lawyer, U.S. Senator
- Thomas Edison, inventor
- T.S. Eliot, poet
- Queen Elizabeth I of England
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer
- Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television
- William Faulkner, writer
- Carrie Fisher, actress and writer
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer
- Larry Flynt, magazine publisher
- Betty Ford, former First Lady
- Harrison Ford, actor
- Steven Foster, writer
- Michel Foucault, writer, philosopher
- Connie Francis, entertainer
- Andre Franquin, 1924-1997, cartoonist
- Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist
- Peter Gabriel, rock star
- Judy Garland, singer, actor
- James Garner, actor
- Paul Gauguin, artist
- Harold Geneen, executive, ITT Industries
- King George III of England
- Kendall Gill, athlete (basketball)
- Dwight Gooden, baseball player
- Tipper Gore, wife of U.S. Vice-President
- Francisco de Goya, painter
- Phil Graham, owner, Washington Post
- Shecky Greene, comedian
- Linda Hamilton, actress
- Georg Frederich Handel, composer
- Ernest Hemingway, writer
- Margaux Hemingway, actor
- Audrey Hepburn, actress
- King Herod, Biblical figure
- Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor
- Howard Hughes, industrialist
- Victor Hugo, author
- Andrew Jackson, U.S. President
- Janet Jackson, singer
- 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
- Ashley Judd, actor
- Franz Kafka, writer
- Karen Kain, prima ballerina
- Danny Kaye, entertainer
- John Keats, writer
- Margot Kidder, actress
- Larry King, talkshow host
- Jessica Lange, actor
- Robert E. Lee, U.S. general
- Vivian Leigh, actress
- John Lennon, musician
- Abraham Lincoln, U.S. President
- Greg Louganis, U.S. diver and Olympic gold medallist
- Courtney Love, musician
- Robert Lowell, poet
- Salvador Luria, bacterial geneticist
- Martin Luther, Protestant leader
- Imelda Marcos, Philippine dictator’s wife
- Robert McFarlane, former United States National Security Adviser
- Rod McKuen, writer, poet, producer
- Sarah McLachlan, singer, Lilith Fair creator
- Kristy McNichol, actress
- Herman Melville, writer
- Burgess Meredith, actor
- Robert Merrill, musician, lyricist
- Paul Merton, British comedian
- Michelangelo, Italian artist
- Spike Milligan, comic actor, writer
- Carmen Miranda, actor
- Claude Monet, artist
- Marilyn Monroe, actor
- Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- Michelangelo, artist
- John Stuart Mill, writer
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
- Kate Millet, writer and feminist
- Spike Milligan, humourist
- John Milton, poet
- J.P. Morgan, industrialist
- 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
- Sinead O’Connor, musician
- Georgia O’Keeffe, painter
- John Ogden, pianist
- Laurence Olivier, actor
- Ozzie Osborne, rock star
- Donny Osmond, musician
- Marie Osmond, musician
- Dolly Parton, singer
- Boris Pasternak, writer
- John Pastorius, composer
- George Patton, soldier
- Pierre Peladeau, publisher
- Teddy Pendergrass, musician
- Jimmie Piersall, baseball player
- William Pitt, Prime Minister
- Edgar Allen Poe, writer
- Jackson Pollock, artist
- Cole Porter, composer
- Alma Powell, wife of Gen. Colin Powell
- 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
- Norman Rockwell, artist
- Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. President
- Axl Rose, rock star
- Dante Rossetti, poet and painter
- Gioacchimo Rossini, composer
- Philip Roth, writer
- Mark Rothko, artist
- Winona Ryder, actor
- Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer
- Charles Schulz, cartoonist (Peanuts)
- Mary Shelley, author
- William Tecumseh Sherman, general
- Paul Simon, composer, musician
- Alonzo Spellman, athlete (football)
- Rod Steiger, actor
- George Stephanopoulos, political advisor
- Sting, singer and musician
- Teresa Stratas, opera singer
- Darryl Strawberry, baseball player
- James Taylor, singer and musician
- P.I. Tchaikovsky, composer
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
- Dylan Thomas, poet
- Leo Tolstoy, writer
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, artist
- Spencer Tracy, actor
- Ted Turner, founder, CNN Network
- Mark Twain, author
- Mike Tyson, prizefighter
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, actor
- Vincent Van Gogh, artist
- Victoria, British Queen
- Kurt Vonnegut, writer
- Mike Wallace, broadcaster
- George Washington, U.S. President
- Damon Wayans, comedian, actor, writer, director, producer
- Walt Whitman, poet
- Robin Williams, actor
- Tennessee Williams, playwright
- Brian Wilson, rockstar (Beach Boys)
- Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- Jonathan Winters, comedian
- Natalie Wood, actor
- Virginia Woolf, writer
- Tammy Wynette, singer
- Boris Yeltsin, former President, Russia
- Robert Young, actor
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Man that’s a huge list. A lot of world leaders in there. That surprises me.
Thanks for this list of wonderful people who publicly declared their battle with depression. It’s an inspiration to those of us out there who are fighting the same battle. Cheers!
Wow, what a list of wonderful, talented people who have publicly declared their battle with depression. It’s an inspiration to those of us who are fighting our own battles - thank you for the list!
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