Scholars have long marveled at the fact that many great minds, leaders, artists and creative thinkers have also suffered from epilepsy. Could there be a connection? I like to think so. I like to think that maybe I'm one of them. Who knows? Today I have a just for fun post for you- a list of famous people (actors, leaders, musicians, politicians, writers) throughout history who either had a diagnosis of epilepsy while they were alive, or a retrospective diagnosis based on historical writings and literature from their times.
NOTE: I have read before that Lewis Carroll And Edgar Allen Poe had alcohol withdrawal/drug induced seizures. Take that however you wish :)
Leonardo Da Vinci
Truman Capote
Charles Dickens
Michaelangelo
Alfred Nobel
Neil Young
Aristotle
Socrates
Julius Caesar
Vincent Van Gogh
Edgar Allen Poe
Lewis Carroll
Dante Alighieri (author of Inferno, The Divine Comedy)
Moliere (author)
Sir Walter Scott (author)
Jonathan Swift (author of Gulliver’s Travels)
Lord Byron
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Dostoevsky (author of Crime and Punishment)
Leo Tolstoy (author of Anna Karenina and War and Peace)
Gustave Flaubert
Charles V (King of Austria)
Prince John (youngest son of King George V of England)
Pope Pius IX (in the 1800’s became the longest serving pontiff in history, he also died from a seizure
induced heart attack)
Martha Parke Custis(step-daughter of George Washington)
US President James Madison
Vladimir Lenin (founder of the Soviet Union & died from status epilepticus)
Senator Ted Kennedy
US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Richard Burton (actor)
Bud Abbott (of Abbott&Costello)
Danny Glover (actor)
Hugo Weaving (actor)
Margot Hemingway(actress&granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway)
Florence Griffith Joyner (FloJo)(Athlete)
Samari Rolle ( Baltimore Ravens cornerback)
Jason Snelling (Atlanta Falcons starting lineup)
Alan Faneca, (Pro Bowl guard, Pittsburgh Steelers)
Agatha Christie
Alexander The Great
Lil' Wayne
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