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Bill Gross - successful investment manager (C): his video about his diagnosis is here Dan Aykroyd – Comedic Actor (C) Hans Christian Andersen – Children’s Author Benjamin Banneker – African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer Susan Boyle – Singer (C) Tim Burton – Movie Director (C) David Campion - champion snowboarder Lewis Carroll – Author of “Alice in Wonderland” Henry Cavendish – Scientist Charles Darwin – Naturalist, Geologist, and Biologist Emily Dickinson – Poet Paul Dirac – Physicist Albert Einstein – Scientist & Mathematician Bobby Fischer – Chess Grandmaster Bill Gates – Co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation Temple Grandin – Animal Scientist (C) Daryl Hannah – Actress & Environmental Activist (C) Thomas Jefferson – Early American Politician Steve Jobs – Former CEO of Apple James Joyce – Author of “Ulysses” Alfred Kinsey – Sexologist & Biologist Stanley Kubrick – Film Director Barbara McClintock – Scientist and Cytogeneticist Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet Chris Packham - naturalist, TV presenter (C) Gary Numan - singer and songwriter Michael Burry - USA physician, investor and hedge fund manager: Movie the Big Short based on him (C) Dawn Prince-Hughes - PhD, primate anthropologist, ethologist, and author of Songs for the Gorilla Nation Jerry Newport - American author and mathematical savant, basis of the film Mozart and the Whale John Elder Robison - author of Look Me in the Eye Judy Singer - Australian disability rights activist, sociologist who coined term neurodiversity 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 Travis Meeks - lead singer, guitarist and song writer for acoustic rock band Days of the New | Lizzy Clark - actress and campaigner Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Classical Composer Ulysse Delsaux & Cody Ware - Racecar drivers (C) Sir Isaac Newton – Mathematician, Astronomer, & Physicist Carl Sagan - Astronomer (C) Jerry Seinfeld – Comedian Satoshi Tajiri – Creator of Nintendo’s Pokémon (C) Nikola Tesla – Inventor Andy Warhol – Artist Ludwig Wittgenstein – Philosopher William Butler Yeats – Poet Donna Williams - autism advocate, author, speaker, change maker and more (C) Alix Generous - professional speaker, neuroscientist, author, artist, consultant, comedian, and media producer (C) Carly Fulgham - technology project lead for national bank and is President of Autism Society of America Ventura (C) Marie-Curie - scientist who pioneered research on radioactivity Barbara McClintock – Scientist and Cytogeneticist Francis Galton - scientist, mathematician and discovered fingerprints Sir Isaac Newton Stephen Fry – actor (C) Courtney Love - actor, musician and was the wife of Kurt Cobain (C) James Durbin - musician Paddy Considine - actor (C) Clay Marzo - professional surfer (C) Daniel Tammet - savant Gary Numan - British singer and songwriter Sir Anthony Hopkins – actor (C) Barry Humphries – actor (C) Alan Turing - father of modern computing, mathematician and logician, code breaker in WW2 Henry Ford - maker of Ford Dan Harmon - Comedy fans will recognize Dan Harmon as the writer and creator of the hit show Community (C) Heather Zumich- top model (C) Dr. Vernon Smith - Professor of Economics, Chapman University, practically invented the field of experimental economics — an achievement for which he won the Nobel Prize in 2002. Credits Aspergers for his success. (C) Alexis Wineman - first Miss America and model (C) Adam Young - the singer and songwriter behind Owl City, is a successful musician with Aspergers
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For more details go to 25-famous-people-with-asperger-syndrome
Sources: www.disabled-world.com ; https://www.abadegreeprograms.net/successful-people-on-the-autism-spectrum
https://list25.com/25-famous-people-with-asperger-syndrome
https://blog.ongig.com/diversity-and-inclusion/famous-people-with-autism/