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The Depression List

a list of famous people who suffer(ed) from depression

KEY: (H)=hospitalized or institution; (S)=committed suicide

Writers:

  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • Scott Fitzgerald
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Henrik Isben
  • Mary Shelley
  • Virginia Woolf (S)
  • William Faulkner
  • Tennesee Williams (H)

Poets:

  • William Blake
  • Robert Burns
  • Walt Whitman
  • Lord Byron
  • Sylvia Plath (H,S)
  • George Gordon
  • Percy Brice Shelley
  • Hart Crane (S)
  • Emily Dickinson
  • T.S. Eliot (H)
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Samuel Johnson
  • Victor Hugo
  • Dylan Thomas
  • John Keats
  • Vachel Lindsay (S)
  • James Russell Lowell
  • Anne Sexton (H,S)
  • Edgar Allan Poe
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • Edna St.Vincent Millay(H)
  • Boris Pastemak(H)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Robert Lowell (H)
  • Ezra Pound (H)

Artists:

  • Richard Dodd (H)
  • Thomas Eakins
  • Paul Gauguin
  • Vincent VanGogh (H,S)
  • Ernest Ludwig Kirchner (H,S)
  • Edward Lear
  • George Romney
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Composers:

  • Hector Berlioz
  • Anton Bruckner (H)
  • George Frederic Handel
  • Gustav Mahler
  • Modest Mussorgsky
  • Sergey Rachmanioff
  • Giocchino Rossini
  • Robert Schumann (H)
  • Alexander Scriabin
  • Peter Tchaikovski

Suffers Depression; Still living:

  • Roseanne Arnold (actor, comedianne)
  • Dick Cavett (media personality)
  • Tony Dow (actor, director)
  • Kitty Dukakis (Massachusetts 1st lady)
  • Mike Wallace (news anchor)
  • James Taylor (musician)
  • William Styron (writer)

Suffers bipolar disorder (Manic-Depression)--- still living:

  • Robin Williams (actor, comedian)
  • Idi Amin (former dictator)
  • Patty Duke (actor, writer)
  • Connie Francis (actor, musician)
  • Peter Gabriel (musician)
  • Charles Haley (football athlete)
  • Axl Rose (musician)
  • Kristy McNichols (actor)
  • Ted Turner (entrepreneuer)
  • Spike Mulligan (comic actor)
  • Abigail Padgett (mystery writer)
  • Murray Pezim (financer, Canada)
  • Charley Pride (musician)

More...

Abraham Lincoln; Teddy Roosevelt; Winston Churchill...

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