Epilepsy-Celebs

Rev Chuck

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Sep 16, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/16/97

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Steve Dollinger wrote:
>
> My 11 year old son feels like he is the only person in the world
> with this "problem". I am trying to find a list of any celebrities
> or sports figures that have epilepsy. If anyone has any info please
> e-mail me at musi...@xnet.com
> Thanks,
> Steve

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Julius Caesar, Emporer and architect of ancient Rome.
Charles Dickens, social reformist writer.
Doestoyevsky, Russian novelist.
Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch impressionist painter, helped revolutionize late 19th
century painting. "Sunflowers", sold for over $20 million at auction, though
the work may well have been a fake; even so, a high price for a fake says
much about him.
Moses. TLE subjects can recognize many of his visions as aura episodes / partial
seizures. Was also prone to stuttering.
Mark Twain had a daughter with epilepsy.

Steve Dollinger

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Sep 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/17/97

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P. F. Atlas

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Sep 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/18/97

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OK, here we go:
1. Alexander the Great
2. Hector Berlioz (French composer)
3. George Gordon - Lord Byron, English poet
4. Julius Caesar
5. Fedor Dostoevski (Russian novelist)
6. Gustave Flaubert (French novelist)
7. Vincent Van Gogh (probably)
8. Edward Lear (English painter and poet)
9. Guy de Maupassant (French writer)
10. Niccolo Paganini (Italian violinist)
11. Blaise Pascal (French scientist and philosopher)
12. Peter the Great (probably)
13. Pope Pius IX
14. Duc de Richelieu (French cardinal and statesman)
15. Algernon Charles Swinburne (English poet)
16. Alfred Nobel
17. Neil Young
18. Napoleon
19. Charles Dickens
20. Lewis Carroll
21. Georg Friedrich Händel
22. Sokrates (probably)
23. Jeanne d'Arc (probably)
24. Paulus (probably)
25. Peter Tsjaikovsky (probably)

. . . . . . . . as far as i know. Though the case with some of these,
is that the epilepsy just helped make them a legend (?!?).
Not too many sports figures here, I'm afraid, though Neil Young is
known to have been skiing. At least the list proves there is no
connection between epilepsy and intellectual disbalities. Hopefully
someone else will fill you in with sports figures.

Best wishes, Ole Kvaal,
Trondheim,
Norway.

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David A. Naess

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Sep 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/19/97

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Rev Chuck wrote:

>
> Steve Dollinger wrote:
> >
> > My 11 year old son feels like he is the only person in the world
> > with this "problem". I am trying to find a list of any celebrities
> > or sports figures that have epilepsy. If anyone has any info please
> > e-mail me at musi...@xnet.com
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
>

> (posted and mailed)
>
> Julius Caesar, Emporer and architect of ancient Rome.
> Charles Dickens, social reformist writer.
> Doestoyevsky, Russian novelist.
> Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch impressionist painter, helped revolutionize late 19th
> century painting. "Sunflowers", sold for over $20 million at auction, though
> the work may well have been a fake; even so, a high price for a fake says
> much about him.
> Moses. TLE subjects can recognize many of his visions as aura episodes / partial
> seizures. Was also prone to stuttering.
> Mark Twain had a daughter with epilepsy.

Bud Abbott (Abbott & Costello) had epilepsy
In ancient Egypt epilepsy was called "the holy sickness" and some orders
would not let people become priests UNLESS they had epilepsy.
St. Paul is believed to have had epilepsy (the "thorn in his side" that
he referred to).