Bet You Didn't Know...

... about these famous people who suffer(ed )from bipolar disorder (a.k.a. manic-depression)

Alvin Ailey
Buzz Aldrin, astronaut
Hans Christian Anderson, writer
Honors de Balzac
Ned Beatty, writer
Beethoven
Maurice Benard (Sonny, General Hospital)
William Blake, poet
Art Buchwald, writer, humorist
Tim Burton, artist, movie director
Lord Byron
Drew Carey
Jim Carrey
Dick Cavett, writer, media personality
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill, prime minister
Rosemary Clooney, singer
Francis Ford Coppola, director
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Patty Duke
T.S. Eliot
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Faulkner
Carrie Fisher, writer, actress
Robert Frost
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Connie Francis
Sigmund Freud
Cary Grant
Graham Greene, writer
Alexander Hamilton, politician
Mariette Hartley
Victor Hugo
Phyllis Hyman
Jack London
Robert Lowell, poet
Marilyn Monroe
Mozart
Kristy McNichol
Isaac Newton
Florence Nightingale
Jane Pauley
J.C. Penney
Plato
Poe
Charley Pride
Theodore Roosevelt
St Francis
Sidney Sheldon
Rod Steiger, film maker
Robert Louis Stevenson
Ben Stiller
Liz Taylor, actor
Mark Twain, author
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet
Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant
Jean-Claude Van Damme, athlete, actor
Vincent van Gogh
Kurt Vonnegut
Walt Whitman, poet
Robin Williams
Tennessee Williams, author
Jonathan Winters, comedian, actor, writer, artist
Robert E Lee, soldier
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), US President
Samuel Johnson, poet
Burgess Meredith, 1908-1997, actor, director

To name a few…