Famous People In History That Have Epilepsy

 

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)