People, fictional and non-fictional characters that already have AS or other forms of autism (probably):
Fictional characters
Television characters
* Alex P Keaton, played by Michael J Fox in Family Ties, USA 1982-1989
* Basil Fawlty, played by John Cleese in Fawlty Towers, BBC 1975-1979
* Bert (voiced by Frank Oz) in Sesame Street, USA 1969-
* Cliff Clavin, played by John Ratzenberger in Cheers, USA 1982-1993
* Daria Morgendorffer (voiced by Tracy Grandstaff) in Daria, MTV cartoon USA 1997-
* Jim Dial, played by Charles Kimbrough in Murphy Brown, USA 1988-1998
* Lisa Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith) and Moe (Moe Szyslak of Moe's Tavern, voiced by Hank Azaria) in The Simpsons cartoon, USA 1989-
* Martin Miller ("Ben's little brother") played by Matthew Buckley in Grange Hill, Children's BBC UK 1978-
* Mr Bean, played by Rowan Atkinson in the eponymous TV series UK 1989- and film Bean UK/USA 1997-
* Taz Tasmanian Devil (voiced by Jim Cummings) in Taz-Mania, USA cartoon 1991-1993
* Steven Quincy "Steve" Urkel / Myrtle Urkel / Stephan Urquell, played by Jaleel White in Family Matters, USA 1989-1998
* Dr Victor Ehrlich and Dr Mark Craig, played by Ed Begley Jr and William Daniels, in Saint Elsewhere, USA 1982-1988
TV Aliens/Extra-Terrestrials
* Mr Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek, TV and films, USA 1966-
* Data and Reginald Barclay, played by Brent Spiner and Dwight Schultz in Star Trek: The Next Generation, USA 1987-1994
* Seven of Nine and The Doctor, played by Jeri Ryan and Robert Picardo in Star Trek: Voyager, USA 1995-
* The Doctor, The Daleks and The Cybermen, from Dr Who, BBC TV and films UK 1963-1989
* Mork, played by Robin Williams in Mork and Mindy, USA 1978-1982
* Dick, Sally, Harry and Tommy Solomon, played by John Lithgow, Kristen Johnston, French Stewart and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in 3rd Rock from the Sun, USA 1996-
Film characters
* Andrew Martin the robot, played by Robin Williams in Bicentennial Man, USA 1999 from a story by Isaac Asimov (see below)
* Barry, played by Jack Black in High Fidelity, USA 2000 (based on the book of the same name by Nick Hornby, whose son is autistic)
* Benjie, played by Oliver Conant in Summer of '42, USA 1971
* Chance the Gardener ("Chauncy Gardener"), played by Peter Sellers in Being There, USA 1979
* Charly Gordon, played by Cliff Robertson in Charly, USA 1968; also known as Charlie Gordon, played by Matthew Modine, in Flowers for Algernon, USA 2000; based on the novel by Daniel Keyes
* Cody, played by Holliston Coleman in Bless the Child, USA 2000
* Edward Scissorhands, played by Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands, USA 1990
* Herbie Stempel, played by John Turturro in Quiz Show, USA 1994
* "Joon" (Juniper Pearl), played by Mary Stuart Masterson in Benny & Joon, USA 1993
* Malcolm Hughes, played by Colin Friels in Malcolm, Australia 1986
* Melvin Udall, obsessive-compulsive writer played by Jack Nicholson in As Good as it Gets, USA 1997
* Molly McKay, played by Elisabeth Shue in Molly, USA 1999
* "Noodles" (David Aaronson), played by Robert De Niro in Once Upon a Time in America, Italy/USA 1984
* "Powder" (Jeremy Reeves), played by Sean Patrick Flanery in Powder, USA 1995
* Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, USA 1988
* Ricky Fitts, played by Wes Bentley in American Beauty, USA 1999
* Simon Lynch, "nine-year-old autistic boy", played by Miko Hughes in Mercury Rising, USA 1998
* Thomas Newton, played by David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, UK 1976
* Victor, played by Jean-Pierre Cargol in L'Enfant Sauvage, directed by François Truffaut, France 1969 (based on the true story of "the wild boy of Aveyron"; see also Genie, below)
* William Forrester, played by Sean Connery in Finding Forrester, UK/USA 2000
Cartoon characters
* Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes, created by Bill Watterson, US
* Dilbert, engineer, created by Scott Adams, US
* Mr Logic, literalist character from the adult British comic Viz, inspired by Steve Donald (brother of the comic's creators)
* Gerald McBoing-Boing, created by "Dr Seuss" (Theodore Seuss Geisel), US books, films and TV
Literary and stage characters
* Alexandre Luzhin of The Luzhin Defence by Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/USA/Europe 1899-1977; played by John Turturro in the 2000 film
* Bartleby of Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street, a short story by Herman Melville, USA 1819-1891
* Billy Bibbit of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, USA 1935-; played by Brad Dourif in the 1975 film
* Frankenstein's Monster from Frankenstein, much-filmed book by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, England 1797-1851
* Geoffrey Firmin of Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, played by Albert Finney in the subsequent film
* Professor Henry Higgins, the linguist in Pygmalion, a play by George Bernard Shaw (see below), staged and filmed as the musical My Fair Lady
* Monsieur Hercule Poirot, Belgian private detective, from the books of Agatha Christie, England 1890-1976
* Ignatius Reilly of A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
* Jeremy Clockson of Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
* Mary Bennet, Mr Bennet and Mr Collins from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (see below)
* Phileas Fogg from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, France 1828-1905
* Sherlock Holmes of the detective stories by English-Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, who himself may have had some autistic traits
Characters from children's literature
* Catweazle the wizard, from children's stories by Richard Carpenter, played by Geoffrey Bayldon in the UK TV series
* Pippi Longstocking or Pippi Langstrump, from the children's stories written by Astrid Lindgren, Sweden 1907-2002
Musical characters
* Albert Herring from the 1947 comic opera of the same name by Benjamin Britten, England 1913-1976
* Petroushka or Petrushka, the puppet, from the 1911 ballet of the same name by Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971
Fabled characters
* Domme Hans ("Stupid Hans") from the Tales of the Brothers Grimm
* Brother Juniper, disciple to Saint Francis of Assisi
Historical famous people
* Jane Austen, 1775-1817, English novelist, author of Pride and Prejudice (see above)
* Béla Bartók, 1881-1945, Hungarian composer
* Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827, German/Viennese composer
* Alexander Graham Bell, 1847-1922, Scottish/Canadian/American inventor of the telephone
* Anton Bruckner, 1824-1896, Austrian composer
* Henry Cavendish, 1731-1810, English/French scientist, discovered the composition of air and water
* Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, US poet
* Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, US inventor
* Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German/American theoretical physicist
* Henry Ford, 1863-1947, US industrialist
* Kaspar Hauser, c1812-1833, German foundling, portrayed in a film by Werner Herzog
* Oliver Heaviside, 1850-1925, English physicist
* Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, US politician
* Carl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychoanalyst
* Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Czech writer
* Wasily Kandinsky, 1866-1944, Russian/French painter
* H P Lovecraft, 1890-1937, US writer
* Ludwig II, 1845-1886, King of Bavaria
* Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1868-1928, Scottish architect and designer
* Gustav Mahler, 1860-1911, Czech/Austrian composer
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791, Austrian composer
* Isaac Newton, 1642-1727, English mathematician and physicist
* Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher
* Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British logician
* George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish playwright, writer of Pygmalion (see above), critic and Socialist
* Richard Strauss, 1864-1949, German composer
* Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian/American scientist, engineer, inventor of electric motors
* Henry Thoreau, 1817-1862, US writer
* Alan Turing, 1912-1954, English mathematician, computer scientist and cryptographer
* Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US humorist
* Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
* Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Viennese/English logician and philosopher
Historical people prominent in the late twentieth century (died after 1975)
* Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, Russian/US writer on science and of science fiction, author of Bicentennial Man (see above)
* Hans Asperger, 1906-1980, Austrian paediatric doctor after whom Asperger's Syndrom is named
* John Denver, 1943-1997, US musician
* Glenn Gould, 1932-1982, Canadian pianist
* Jim Henson, 1936-1990, creator of the Muppets, US puppeteer, writer, producer, director, composer
* Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, English/American film director
* Howard Hughes, 1905-1976, US billionaire
* Andy Kaufman, 1949-1984, US comedian, subject of the film Man on the Moon
* L S Lowry, 1887-1976, English painter of "matchstick men"
* Charles Schulz, 1922-2000, US cartoonist and creator of Peanuts and Charlie Brown
* Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, US artist
Contemporary famous people
* Woody Allen, 1935-, US comedian, actor, writer, director, producer, jazz clarinettist
* Tony Benn, 1925-, English Labour politician
* Bob Dylan, 1941-, US singer-songwriter
* Joseph Erber, 1985-, young English composer/musician who has Asperger's Syndrome, subject of a BBC TV documentary
* Bobby Fischer, 1943-, US chess champion
* Bill Gates, 1955-, US global monopolist
* Genie, 1957-?, US "wild child" (see also L'Enfant Sauvage, Victor, above)
* Crispin Glover, 1964-, US actor
* Al Gore, 1948-, former US Vice President and presidential candidate
* Jeff Greenfield, 1943-, US political analyst/speechwriter, a political wonk
* David Helfgott, 1947-, Australian pianist, subject of the film Shine
* Michael Jackson, 1958-, US singer
* Garrison Keillor, 1942-, US writer, humorist and host of Prairie Home Companion
* Kevin Mitnick, 1963-, US "hacker"
* John Motson, 1945-, English sports commentator
* John Nash, 1928-, US mathematician (portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind, USA 2001)
* Keith Olbermann, 1959-, US sportscaster
* Michael Palin, 1943-, English comedian and presenter
* Keanu Reeves, 1964-, Lebanese/Canadian/US actor
* Oliver Sacks, 1933-, UK/US neurologist, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings
* James Taylor, 1948-, US singer/songwriter
Writers on autism
* Gunilla Gerland, 1963-, Swedish
* Temple Grandin, 1947-, US
* Wendy Lawson, 1952-, English/Australian
* Edgar Schneider, 1932-, US
* Donna Williams, 1963-, Australian/English
