The following people have been diagnosed as being somewhere on the autistic spectrum but the specific classification is unknown.
Daryl Hannah, an American actress best 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 [2]
Matthew Laborteaux, actor on Little House on the Prairie [3]
Katherine McCarron, autistic child allegedly murdered at the age of three by her mother, Karen McCarron. [4]
Jason McElwain, high school basketball player [5]
Michael Moon, adopted son of author Elizabeth Moon [6]
Jasmine O'Neill, author of Through the Eyes of Aliens [7]
Sue Rubin, subject of documentary Autism Is a World. Sue Rubin has no oral speech but does communicate with facilitated communication. [8]
Dan Aykroyd, comedian and actor: Aykroyd stated he has Asperger's, but some feel he was joking. [11]
Richard Borcherds, mathematician specializing in group theory and Lie algebras [12]
William Cottrell, student who was sentenced to eight years in jail for fire-bombing SUV dealerships [13]
Craig Nicholls, frontman of the band The Vines [14]
Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter [15]
Dawn Prince-Hughes, PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author of Songs for the Gorilla Nation [16]
Judy Singer, Australian disability rights activist [17]
Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in Economics [18]
Satoshi Tajiri, creator of Pokémon [19]
Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant, believed to have Asperger Syndrome [20]
Liane Holliday Willey, author of Pretending to be Normal, Asperger
Syndrome in the Family; Asperger syndrome advocate; education
professor; and adult diagnosed with Asperger syndrome at age 35 [21]
Michelle Dawson, autism researcher and autism rights activist who
has made ethical challenges to Applied Behavior Analysis [22]
Temple Grandin, a designer of humane food animal handling systems. [23]
Hikari Oe, Japanese composer [24]
Bhumi Jensen, Thai prince, grandson of King Bhumibol Adulyadej of
Thailand; killed by drowning in the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian
Ocean earthquake [25]
Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlife illustrator [26]
Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist [27]
Donna Williams, Australian author of Nobody Nowhere and Somebody
Somewhere; after testing for deafness in late childhood, and being
labelled 'disturbed', Donna was formally diagnosed as autistic in her
20s [28]
Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist [29]
Axel Brauns, German author of the autobiographical bestseller Buntschatten und Fledermäuse and filmmaker [30]
Boo Radley from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (debated)
Albino from The Technopriests by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Zoran Janjetov
Lou Arrendale and his associates from The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.
Caleb Applewhite from the television show Desperate Housewives
Raymond Babbitt from the film Rain Man played by Dustin Hoffman [1]
Christopher John Francis Boone in the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Kazan from the film Cube
Roy Cropper From Coronation Street
Jerry "Hands" Espenson from the television show Boston Legal
Lily Montgomery (Jackson Montgomery's daughter) on the television show All My Children.
Jade from Fahrenheit
Simon Lynch from the film Mercury Rising [2].
Dr. Kio Masada from C. S. Friedman's This Alien Shore is an
autistic savant with a talent for computer science. The book also
mentions his deceased wife, a musically gifted autistic savant, and
includes Masada's musings on the nature of their relationship. Within
the text, members of their culture refer to them as iru, but Friedman
has confirmed that this term is meant to be analogous to autism.
Darryl McAllister from A Wizard Alone, part of Diane Duane's
Young Wizards series. His autism gives him an unusual perspective of
the world that in turn gives him unique abilities as a wizard.
Ellen Ripley from the film Alien: Resurrection, described as "emotionally autistic" after her resurrection.
Cody from the film Bless the Child.
Sheperd from the book By the Light of the Moon.
Arnie O' Conner from Dean Koontz's Frankenstien.
Seth Wyler from Stephen King's book The Regulators.
Charlie Godfrey from Betsy Byars' novel Summer of the Swans.
Reed Richards: Alicia Masters and Susan Storm speculated that
Reed's social inadequecy and scientific aptitude were a result of
Asperger's Syndrome in Fantastic Four: 1234 by Grant Morrison.
Protagonist Raam of the 2005 internationally-acclaimed Tamil film Raam (film).
J, a recurring character in the video game Final Fight.
Mayuko (Rie Tomosaka) in the 2000 dorama Kimi ga oshiete kureta koto
Teru (Fumiya Fujii) in the 2000 dorama Tenshi ga kieta machi
Natalie Flanagan from Gennifer Choldenko's 2004 youth novel Al Capone Does My Shirts
Marty Zellerbach from Robert Ludlum's novel, The Hades Factor
Legion (Marvel Comics) [3]
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I've posted this before.
Famous people with autistic traits
Fictional, real, historical and contemporary celebrities
Only a person's close friends or relatives, or doctors, are
likely to be able to judge whether he or she can be diagnosed
with autism or Asperger's syndrome (AS). But it is illuminating
to learn of people with similar characteristics to ourselves,
especially when those people are successful or well-known. For
this reason, I have listed here some well-known people who have
shown some autistic or AS traits. Some may have autism or AS, in
their mild or severe forms. Others may be elsewhere on the
autistic continuum. And others listed may just be unusual
individuals.
I hope you appreciate this page. If you think other famous
people should be added, please e-mail
me at richardg_uk@yahoo.com including a
brief explanation of why you think they have autistic traits.
Please send any comments or suggested links to the same address.
Fictional characters
Television characters
NEARLY NEWAlex
P Keaton, played by Michael J Fox in Family
Ties, USA 1982-1989
Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese in Fawlty
Towers, BBC 1975-1979
Seven of Nine and The Doctor,
played by Jeri Ryan and Robert Picardo in Star Trek:
Voyager, USA 1995-
The Doctor, The Daleks
and The Cybermen, from Dr Who,
BBC TV and films UK 1963-1989
Mork, played by Robin Williams in Mork and
Mindy, USA 1978-1982
Dick, Sally, Harry
and Tommy Solomon, played by John
Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart and Joseph
Gordon-Levitt in 3rd Rock
from the Sun, USA 1996-
Film characters
Andrew Martin the robot, played by Robin
Williams in Bicentennial
Man, USA 1999 from a story by Isaac Asimov (see below)
Barry, played by Jack Black in High
Fidelity, USA 2000 (based on the book of the
same name by Nick Hornby, whose son
is autistic)
Benjie, played by Oliver Conant in Summer of
'42, USA 1971
Chance the Gardener ("Chauncy
Gardener"), played by Peter Sellers in Being
There, USA 1979
Charly Gordon, played by Cliff Robertson
in Charly,
USA 1968; also known as Charlie Gordon,
played by Matthew Modine, in Flowers
for Algernon, USA 2000; based on the novel by Daniel Keyes
Cody, played by Holliston Coleman in Bless the
Child, USA 2000
Victor, played by Jean-Pierre Cargol in L'Enfant
Sauvage, directed by François Truffaut,
France 1969 (based on the true
story of "the wild boy of Aveyron"; see
also Genie, below)
William Forrester, played by Sean
Connery in Finding
Forrester, UK/USA 2000