Question:
Who are some of the famous artists, writers, musicians, actors, directors, and so forth, in the present or from
history, who have/had manic depression/bipolar disorder?
Answer:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF8 &q=famous+people+with+bipolar+disorder try doing a web search, there are loads of them...
Robert Schumann
Serge Rachmaninov
G F Handel
Kay Redfield Jamison
Winston Churchill
Peter Gabriel
Billy Joel
uhh...that’s just a few off the top of my head
Here is a reference, and a partial list of the names contained therein.
There is an excellent book by D. Jablow Hershman and Julian Lieb, MD, "Manic Depression and Creativity" (Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 1998). Individual chapters are devoted to Newton, Beethoven, Dickens,
and Van Gogh. In various places in their summary chapters many others are mentioned as almost certainly to have had bipolar disorder: Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Maxim
Gorky, Gauguin, Franz Liszt, the American philosopher William James, the German writer Heinrich von Kleist, the English painter Romney, the Italian composer Rossini, Nathaniel Hawthorne, the French poet
Rimbaud, Michelangelo, the French mathematician Lagrange, the German composer Wagner, the Polish composer Chopin, the French writer George Sand, the English poet Shelley, Pablo Picasso, the English poet Keats, the Russian poet Pushkin, and many more.
As you can see, to be judged "bipolar" means you are in pretty respectable company!
