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  • Lionel Aldridge - professional football player

  • Parveen Babi - Indian actress

  • Syd Barrett - British musician, founding member of Pink Floyd

  • Buddy Bolden - pioneering jazz musician

  • Clara Bow - Hollywood flapper actress and "It Girl" of the 1920s

  • Camille Claudel - French sculptor of the 19th century

  • Philip K. Dick - American sci-fi author

  • Eduard Einstein - son of Albert Einstein

  • Will Elliott - Australian writer

  • Roky Erickson - rock musician, founder of The 13th Floor Elevators 

  • Zelda Fitzgerald - wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald; writer, dancer and artist

  • Vincent van Gogh - visual artist/painter (with schizophrenia and/or bipolar)

  • Andy Goram - Scottish football/soccer player

  • Jim Gordon - drummer, member of Derek and the Dominos

  • Peter Green - guitarist, founder of Fleetwood Mac

  • Darrell Hammond - comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live

  • Tom Harrell - successful Jazz Musician

  • John Hinckley, Jr., American failed assassin.

  • Adèle Hugo - Daughter of French writer Victor Hugo; her story is told in the film The Story of Adele H.

  • Daniel Johnston - musician 

  • Veronica Lake - Hollywood actress of the 1940s

  • Ash Lieb - Artist, comedian and writer

  • Mary Todd Lincoln - Wife of Abraham Lincoln and First Lady of the United States

  • Rufus May - clinical psychologist

  • Joe Meek - pioneering English record producer and songwriter

  • William Chester Minor - contributed to Oxford English dictionary

  • Bob Mosley - rock musician, member of Moby Grape 

  • John Nash - economist/mathematician/Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economic Sciences in year 1994 (along with John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten)

  • Vaslav Nijinsky - ballet dancer, choreographer

  • John Ogdon - English pianist and composer

  • Jeremy Oxley - Musician and member of Australian band the Sunnyboys.

  • Khieu Ponnary - Wife of Pol Pot.

  • Katherine Routledge - British archaeologist

  • Elyn Saks - law professor/schizophrenia writer/researcher

  • Ingo Schwichtenberg - drummer of power metal band Helloween, committed suicide at 29 years of age by throwing himself in front of a subway train due to increasing schizophrenic episodes after being fired from the band

  • Alexander "Skip" Spence - rock musician, cofounder of Moby Grape 

  • Gene Tierney - American actress

  • Louis Wain - artist

  • Wesley Willis - Musician and artist.

  • Brian Wilson - Musician and member of The Beach Boys

It's more common than you think..., see if you recognize any of these names...

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