Andrew Wakefield

Andrew Wakefield

male, 52 years old
Andrew Wakefield (born 1956 in the United Kingdom) is a Canadian trained surgeon, best known as the lead author of a controversial 1998 research...
Simon Baron-Cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen

male
Dr. Baron-Cohen holds a degree in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford; a Masters in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry; and a...
Donna Williams

Donna Williams

female, 46 years old
Donna Williams (born 1963) is a best-selling Australian-born author, artist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and sculptor diagnosed with autism...
Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon

male, 47 years old
Mark Haddon (born 1962 in Northampton) is a novelist and poet, who was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied...
Bernard Rimland

Bernard Rimland

male, deceased (2006) (San Diego, California, United States)
Bernard Rimland, PhD (November 15, 1928 - November 21 2006) was a research psychologist, writer, lecturer, and advocate for children with autism,...
Hans Asperger

Hans Asperger

male, deceased (1980)
Hans Asperger was the Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome is named.
Leo Kanner

Leo Kanner

male, deceased (1981)
Leo Kanner was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and physician known for his work related to autism. Kanner was born in Klekotow, Austria. He...
Amanda Baggs

Amanda Baggs

female
Amanda Baggs is an autism rights activist. In January 2007 she published a video on YouTube describing her experience as an autistic person...
Dan Olmsted

Dan Olmsted

male
Dan Olmsted is an investigative reporter and senior editor for United Press International (UPI), and the author of the "Age of Autism" report...
Boyd Haley

Boyd Haley

male, 69 years old
Boyd Haley earned his doctorate in chemistry/biochemistry from Washington State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale University...