PEOPLE YOU WOULD NEVER BELIEVE HAD AUTISM!!!

This is a surprising list of people diagnosed or presumed to be autistic based on available research, evidence or studies carried out by experts in the field. It seems more like an award list or hall of fame for achievers. Well, except for a few whose names may make some people cringe. Other than that, you might as well be looking at a copy of " The Guinness Book of Records" or a list of Nobel Laureates. 

NAME	OCCUPATION (KNOWN FOR)
Adolf Hitler	Austrian born, Nazi-German politician, chancellor and dictator (suspected although disputed)
Albert Einstein	Physicist, Nobel Laureate
Alan Turing	Pioneer of computer sciences. He seemed to be a math savant and his lifestyle has many autism traits about it.
Blind Tom Wiggins	Autistic savant
Charles Darwin	Naturalist, associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection
Emily Dickinson	Poet
George Orwell	Writer
Glenn Gould	Canadian pianist and noted Bach interpreter.
Isaac Newton	English Physicist and mathematician
James Joyce	Author of Ulysses
Jeffrey Dahmer	Serial killer
Michelangelo	Italian Renaissance artist, based on his inability to form long-term attachments and certain other characteristics
Thomas Jefferson	US President
William. B. Yeats	Poet and dramatist
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Composer

Source(s) and Further reading suggestions: 

• Wikipedia: Famous people with autism
• Berman D, Fitzgerald M, Hayes J (Editors)(1996). The danger of words and writings on Wittgenstein M.O.C. Drury Bristol Thoemmes Press.
• Fitzgerald M, Berman D (1994). "Of Sound Mind". Nature, 368:92. Reprinted in Portraits of Wittgenstein. Ed by F.A. Flowers Thoemmes Press, 1999.
• Fitzgerald M (1999). "Did Isaac Newton have Asperger's Syndrome". European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Journal 8: 244.