People with ASD

Jason McElwain (born October 1, 1987), informally known as J-Mac, is an autistic high school student who graduated from Greece Athena High School in Greece, New York, a suburb of Rochester, New York, in 2006. He is noted for scoring twenty points in four minutes in a high school basketball game on February 16, 2006. The game was the last home game of the 2005-2006 season for Greece Athena.

Temple Grandin, PhD, (born August 29, 1947) is an associate professor at Colorado State University and arguably the most accomplished and well-known adult with 'high functioning' autism in the world. Grandin is also a world renowned professional designer of humane livestock facilities.

Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879-April 18, 1955) was a German Jewish theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century and one of the greatest physicists of all time. He formulated the special and general theories of relativity; moreover, he made significant contributions to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his "wonderful year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics."

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Indepencence (1776), and an influential Founder of the United States. Major events during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase (1803), the Embargo Act of 1807, and the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806).

Ewen Borcherds (born November 29, 1959) is a mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. Borcherds is best known for his work connecting the theory of finite groups with other areas in mathematics. In recent years, Borcherds has been attempting to construct quantum field theory in a mathematically rigorous manner.

In 1998, at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin, Germany, he received the Fields Medal together with Maxim Kontsevich, William Timothy Gowers and Curtis T. McMullen. The award cited him "for his contributions to algebra, the theory of authomorphic forms, and mathematical physics, including the introduction of vertex algebras and Borcherds' Lie algebras, the proof of the Conway-Norton moonshine conjecture and the discovery of a new class of automorphic infinite products."

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770-March 26, 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of history's greatest composers, and was the predominant figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His reputation and genius have inspired—and in many cases intimidated—ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences.

Timothy William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American film director, writer and designer known for his off-beat and quirky style. Especially in his stop-motion animated films, he is known for the exaggerated style of his characters, which still retain their serious, humanlike characteristics. He first came to note directing the Warner Brothers film, Beetlejuice, which was followed by the monstrous blockbuster success of Batman in 1989. Following which he continued to make blockbusters as well as smaller dramas that continue to study loneliness in a style influenced by Gothic fairy tales.

Lewis Carroll (1832-98), English author, mathematician, and logician, best known for his creation of the immortal fantasy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 - December 26. 1985) was an American ethnologist interested in gorillas. She completed an extended study of several gorilla groups, observing them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda.

Andrew "Andy" Warhol (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987), was an American artist, writer, director and social figure. With his background and experience in commercial art, Warhol was one of the founders of the Pop Art movement.

Daniel Edward Aykroyd (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter and musician. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi, and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.