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After learning yesterday that Dan Akroyd as Aspergers Syndrome I though I would look for other famous people with Autism or Aspergers ect. here is what I came up with .

Famous people with unspecified forms of autism

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]
• Birger Sellin, author from Germany, [9]
• Robert Gagno, actor from Vancouver,[10]

Famous people with
Asperger syndrome

• 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]

People with high-functioning autism

• 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]

Famous autistic savants

• Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor [31]
• Tony DeBlois, blind American musician [32]
• Leslie Lemke, blind American musician [33]
• Jonathan Lerman, American artist [34]
• Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimba prodigy [35]
• Jerry Newport is an author, savant, and has Asperger's. His wife, Mary Newport, is also a savant on the autistic spectrum [36]
• Derek Paravicini, blind British musician [37]
• James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter [38]
• Matt Savage, U.S. autistic jazz prodigy [39]
• Henriett Seth-F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer and artist [40]

People with severe autism

• Tito Mukhopadhyay, author, poet and philosopher [41]