Famous People reputed to have had Autism and/or Asperger's Syndrome.

Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist

Albert Einstein, German/American theoretical physicist

Henry Ford, US industrialist, founder of the Ford Motor Company

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer

Howard Hughes, US billionaire

Jane Austen, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice

Ludwig van Beethoven, German/Viennese composer

Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone

Henry Cavendish, Scientist who discovered the composition of air and water

Thomas Edison, US inventor

Thomas Jefferson, US politician

George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, writer of Pygmalion, critic and Socialist

Richard Strauss, German composer

Nikola Tesla, Serbian/American scientist, engineer, inventor of electric motors

Mark Twain, US humorist

Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter

Isaac Asimov, Russian/US writer on science and of science fiction, author of Bicentennial Man

Hans Asperger, Austrian paediatric doctor after whom Asperger's Syndrome is named

John Denver, US musician

Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, US puppeteer, writer, producer, director, composer

Alfred Hitchcock, English/American film director

L S Lowry, English painter of "matchstick men"

Charles Schulz, US cartoonist and creator of Peanuts and Charlie Brown