Famous People with Anxiety/Panic Disorder
Someone on HighAnxieties.org’s forum posted a list of some famous people who have or have had panic disorder/agoraphobia. Reading through the list and realizing how these people have done great things and succeeded in their careers despite their anxieties was incredibly encouraging to me, so I wanted to share it.
- Isaac Asimov (author)
- Roseanne Barr (comedian)
- Kim Basinger (actress)
- David Bowie (singer)
- Charlotte Bronte (author)
- Robert Burns (poet)
- Nicholas Cage (actor)
- Dean Cain (actor)
- Earl Campbell (football player)
- Naomi Campbell (model)
- John Candy (comedian)
- Johnny Depp (actor)
- Emily Dickinson (poet)
- Jim Eisenreich (baseball player)
- Michael English (singer)
- Sally Field (actress)
- Aretha Franklin (singer)
- Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist)
- James Garner (actor)
- Barbara Gordon (filmmaker)
- Shecky Greene (comedian)
- Pete Harnisch (baseball player)
- Olivia Hussey (actress)
- Marty Ingels (comedian)
- Michael Jackson (singer)
- Naomi Judd (singer)
- Al Kasha (songwriter)
- Leila Kenzle (actress)
- Abraham Lincoln (president)
- Courtney Love (singer)
- John Madden (announcer)
- John Stuart Mill (philosopher)
- Alanis Morisette (singer)
- Edvard Munch (artist)
- Sir Isaac Newton (scientist)
- Lani O’Grady (actress)
- Sir Laurence Olivier (actor)
- Susan Powter (tv host)
- Burt Reynolds (actor)
- Charles Schultz (cartoonist)
- Willard Scott (weatherman)
- Sam Shepard (playwright)
- Carly Simon (singer)
- Tom Snyder (host)
- Sissy Spacek (actress)
- John Steinbeck (author)
- Barbra Streisand (singer)
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (poet)
- Nikola Tesla (inventor)
- Anne Tyler (author)
- Oprah Winfrey (host)
- W.B. Yeats (poet)
There are no doubt a great many names that are not on this list too; IMDB also had a list of Celebrities with a history of depression and/or anxiety with 40 names on it.
