Famous schizophrenics

Tom Harrell, Jazz Musician

Meera Popkin, Broadway Star

John Nash - Mathematician/Nobel Prize Winner
Albert Einstein's son - Eduard Einstein
Dr. James Watson's son (Dr. Watson is co-discover of DNA and Nobel Prize winner)

Andy Goram - Scottish Soccer Player/Goal Keeper

Lionel Aldridge - Superbowl-winning Football Player

Peter Green, Guitarist for the band Fleetwood Mac

Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd

Alexander "Skip" Spence and Bob Mosley - both members of the 1960's rock group Moby Grape (and Jefferson Airplane for Skip Spence)

Roger Kynard "Roky" Erickson, of the Austin-based 1960's group TheThirteenth Floor Elevators

Joe Meek - 1960's British record producer

James Beck Gordon (Jim Gordon) - James Gordon had been, quite simply, one of the greatest drummers of his time

Charles "Buddy" Bolden - Jazz Musician

Antoin Artaud - Dramatist, Artist

Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln (past-President of the United States)

Vaclav Nijinsky, Famous Russian Dancer

heres a great quote

"The delirium was like a dream from which I seemed never to awake."
-John Nash

You forgot the lead singer for the band "The Who" (hence the album, Quadrophenia)...

whoa, sweet, i love the who, and hey you're right, i remember my bf telling me that!

don't forget the beautiful nancy spungen

and also the original louis lane from the 80's superman films i cant remember her real name

there are also Socrate, Isaac Newton, Bobby Fischer, Kurt Gödel, Georg Cantor, Piccaso...

Nietzsche!!!

Nietzsche has syphillis, which turned him mentally ill, but I don't think he had schizophrenia.

yoshi_kl wrote:there are also Socrate, Isaac Newton, Bobby Fischer, Kurt Gödel, Georg Cantor, Piccaso...

Socrates didn't have it . ..
You're probably thinking of this:
WIKIPEDIA:

Perhaps the most interesting facet of this is Socrates' reliance on what the Greeks called his "daemonic sign", an averting (ἀποτρεπτικός) inner voice Socrates heard only when he was about to make a mistake. It was this sign that prevented Socrates from entering into politics. In the Phaedrus, we are told Socrates considered this to be a form of "divine madness", the sort of insanity that is a gift from the gods and gives us poetry, mysticism, love, and even philosophy itself. Alternately, the sign is often taken to be what we would call "intuition"; however, Socrates' characterization of the phenomenon as "daemonic" suggests its origin is divine, mysterious, and independent of his own thoughts.