List of autistic people

This is a list of noteworthy people known to have a condition on the autistic spectrum.

People with unspecified forms of autism

Main article: Pervasive developmental disorder

• Michelle Dawson, autismresearcher and autism rightsactivistwho has made ethicalchallenges to Applied Behavior Analysis
• Daryl Hannah, an Americanactressbest known for her roles in Splash, Blade Runner and Kill Bill was diagnosed as a child as being 'borderline autistic'. [1]
• Christopher Knowles, American poet
• Matthew Laborteaux, actor on Little House on the Prairie
• Michael Moon, adopted son of author Elizabeth Moon
• Jasmine O'Neill, author of Through the Eyes of Aliens
• Dawn Prince-Hughes, PhD, primateanthropologist, ethologist, and authorof Songs for the Gorilla Nation
• Donna Williams, Australianauthor of Nobody Nowhere and Somebody Somewhere

People with Asperger syndrome

Main article: Asperger syndrome

• Rafer Alston, basketballplayer currently with the Houston Rockets
• Dan Aykroyd, comedianand actor^{[{{fullurl:Template:FULLPAGENAME}}#endnote_dan_aykroyd]}
• Syd Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd
• Richard Borcherds, mathematicianspecializing in group theoryand Lie algebras
• Bram Cohen, programmer and inventor of BitTorrent
• William Cottrell, student who was sentenced to eight years in jailfor fire-bombingSUV dealerships.
• Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter
• H.P. Lovecraft, author
• Craig Nicholls, frontman of the band The Vines
• Gary Numan, Britishsingerand songwriter
• Keith Olberman, former ESPNanalyst, current host of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann
• Michael Palin, British Monty Pythonactor
• Sia, Australian singer
• Judy Singer, Australiandisability rights activist
• Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureatein Economics[2]
• Steven Spielberg, film director, diagnosed as an adult with Asperger's syndrome [3]
• Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon.
• Thom Yorke, frontman of the band Radiohead

People with high-functioning autism

Main article: high-functioning autism

• Temple Grandin, one of the first to describe being autistic, a designer of humanefood animal handling systems
• Hikari Oe, Japanesecomposer
• Bhumi Jensen, Thai prince, grandson of KingBhumibol Adulyadejof Thailand; killed by drowning in the tsunamicaused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake[4]
• Moe Norman, Canadiangolfer
• Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlifeillustrator
• Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist [5]
• Stephen Wiltshire, British architecturalartist

Autistic savants

Main article: Autistic savant

• Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor
• Tony DeBlois, blindAmerican musician
• Leslie Lemke, blind American musician
• Jonathan Lerman, American artist
• Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimbaprodigy
• Derek Paravicini, blind British musician
• James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter
• Gilles Trehin, Frenchcreator of the fictional city Urville; diagnosed at eight
• Seth F. Henriett, Hungarianautistic savant, poet and writer

References

• ^  Dan Aykroyd stated in an interview with Terry Grossthat he had Asperger's and Tourette syndromeas a preteen. Since he displays symptoms of neither, and the diagnosis of Asperger's syndromedid not exist when he was a preteen (it is a fairly new diagnosis), it can be assumed he was joking.

See also

• List of fictional characters on the autistic spectrum
• People speculated to have been autistic

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