List of People With Autism

ASPERGER

Dan Aykroyd, famous comedian

Phillipa "Pip" Brown (aka Ladyhawke), indie rock musician

Michael Burry, US investment fund manager

Lizzy Clark, actress and campaigner

William Cottrell, student sentenced for fire-bombing SUV dealerships

Paddy Considine, Actor

James Durbin, American singer

Robert Durst, American real estate developer accused of murder

Tim Ellis, Australian magician and author

Peter Howson, Scottish painter

Luke Jackson, author

Heather Kuzmich, fashion model and reality show contestant on America's Next Top Model

Adrian Lamo, American computer hacker

Clay Marzo, American professional surfer

Gary McKinnon, British computer hacker

Robert Napper, British murderer

Jerry Newport, American author and mathematical savant, basis of the film Mozart and the Whale

Craig Nicholls, frontman of the Australian garage rock band, The Vines

Gary Numan, British singer and songwriter

Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author

Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D., primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author

Nicky Reilly, failed suicide bomber from Britain

John Elder Robison, author of Look Me in the Eye

Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Laureate in economics

Carl Söderholm, speaker in neuropsychiatric disorders

Satoshi Tajiri, creator and designer of Pokémon

Raymond Thompson, New Zealand scriptwriter and TV producer

Liane Holliday Willey, author

HIGH FUNCTIONING AUTISM

Michelle Dawson, autism researcher and autism rights activist

Temple Grandin, food animal handling systems designer and author

Caiseal Mór author, musician, and artist

Hikari Ōe, Japanese composer

Dylan Scott Pierce, wildlife illustrator

Jim Sinclair, autism rights activist

Donna Williams, Australian author; this diagnosis is controversial

Haley Moss, teenage author

AUTISM SPECTRUM

Amanda Baggs, advocate of rights for autistic people

Marty Balin, singer and songwriter with Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship

Lucy Blackman, university educated author

Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor

Tony DeBlois, blind American musician

Jonathan Jayne, contestant on American Idol

Christopher Knowles, American poet

Bhumi Jensen, grandson of Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand

Leslie Lemke, blind American musician

Jonathan Lerman, American artist

Jason McElwain, high school basketball player

Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimba prodigy

Tito Mukhopadhyay, author, poet, and philosopher

Derek Paravicini, blind British musician

James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter

Matt Savage, U.S. autistic jazz prodigy

Birger Sellin, German author

Henriett Seth-F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer and artist

Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant

Richard Wawro, Scottish artist

Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist

NOTABLE PARENTS OR SIBLINGS OF PEOPLE WITH AUTISM

Burt Bacharach, composer and Angie Dickinson, actress

Gary Cole and Teddi Siddall, actors

Byron Dafoe, ice hockey goalie and co-founder of Athletes Against Autism

Ernie Els, golfer

Doug Flutie, football player and founder of the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism

Robert Gottlieb, former editor of The New Yorker

Olaf Kolzig, ice hockey goalie and co-founder of Athletes Against Autism

Dan Marino, football player

Meaghan Jette Martin, Disney Channel actress/singer

Jenny McCarthy, entertainer and John Mallory Asher, actor/director

Karen McCarron, physician

Scott Mellanby, ice hockey player and co-founder of Athletes Against Autism

Emma Noble, model, actress and TV personality

Holly Robinson Peete and Rodney Peete, actor and former NFL player

Aidan Quinn and Elizabeth Bracco, actors

Curt Schilling, former Major League Baseball player

John Schneider, actor

Sylvester Stallone, actor

Stephen Stills, musician

John Travolta and Kelly Preston, actors