List of savants
The following are well-known people with savant syndrome, noted for their talent in their identified fields:
- Aleksander Vinter, a Norwegian musician that has written produced over 10,000 songs in his lifetime. He is well known under the stage name, “Savant.”
- Alonzo Clemons, American clay sculptor
- Anthony Torrone, American Christian writer
- Blind Tom Wiggins, blind African American pianist.
- Brett Salisbury – Author, Male Model, College Football Quarterback, top 300 checker players in the world and code breaker.
- Daniel Tammet, British author.
- Derek Paravicini, blind British musician
- Florence ‘Flo’ and Katherine ‘Kay’ Lyman, calendar calculator twins. Featured in a documentary produced by TV network
- George and Charles Finn, calendar calculator twins
- Gilles Tréhin, artist, author
- Gottfried Mind, Swiss artist known as the “Raphael of Cats”
- Henriett Seth F., Hungarian autistic savant, poet, writer, and artist
- James Henry Pullen, gifted British carpenter
- Jason D. Padgett, American Mathematical Artist
- Jonathan Lerman, American artist
- Kim Peek, speed reader and calculator, although not autistic
- Leslie Lemke, blind American musician
- Mark Boerebach Disk jockey, subject of the documentary
- Matt Savage, American autistic jazz prodigy
- Orlando Serrell, sudden savant, clendrical calculation, mnemonist, featured on English version of Expedition ins Gehirn.
- Rex Lewis-Clack, blind American pianist.
- Richard Wawro, British artist
- Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist
- Temple Grandin, Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University, and consultant to the livestock industry in animal behavior
- Thristan Mendoza, Filipino marimba prodigy
- TLC entitled
- Tony DeBlois blind American musician
- Twin Savants: Flo & Kay
- Wesley Willis, American musician, savant levels of visual recall.