1. Daryl Christine Hannah is an American film
actress. She starred in a number of Hollywood films,
notably Blade Runner, Splash, Wall Street, Roxanne
and in 2003-4 Hannah received acclaim for her role
in the Kill Bill series. She was awarded Best
Supporting Actress at the Saturn Award in 2004.
Hannah wrote, directed and produced a short film,
The Last Supper, which won an award at the Berlin
Film Festival.
Daryl Hannah and actress Hilary Shepard Turner
created two board games, “Love It Or Hate It” and
“LIEbrary”, with Hannah previewing the latter on
Ellen DeGeneres’ talk show in 2005.
Courtney Michelle Love is an American
rock musician and actress. Love is known as
lead singer and lyricist for the alternative
rock band Hole.
Love received several awards, namely, Best
Supporting Actress award, Best
Performance, Best Breakthrough
Performance, Best Personal Style and
Outstanding Actress.
2. Donna Williams is a best-selling
author, artist, singer-songwriter,
screenwriter and sculptor.
Williams’ first book was the
autobiographical Nobody Nowhere:
The Extraordinary Autobiography of
an Autistic Girl. It was an international
bestseller for fifteen weeks on the New
York Times Bestseller List. It was
shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s
Prize for Literacy in 1992.
Donna became a qualified teacher,
international public speaker and autism
consultant. She was invited to join the
UK’s Medical Research Council’s
review into the causes of autism in
2002, where she was elected to the lay-
person’s panel.
http://www.donnawilliams.net/about.0.html
Heather Kuzmich is an art student. She is currently
studying video game design. Kuzmich is best known for
being a contestant of America’s Next Top Model, Cycle 9,
where she was the fourth runner-up of the show.
3. Craig Robert Nicholls is the lead singer,
songwriter and guitarist of the rock group The
Vines.
Satoshi Tajiri is a Japanese video game
designer, best known as the creator of
Pokémon.
4. Dawn Prince-Hughes is an anthropologist, primatologist
and ethologist who has M.A. and PhD in
interdisciplinary anthropology. She is the executive chair
of ApeNet, has served as the executive director of the
Institute for Cognitive Archaeological Research and is
associated with the Jane Goodall Institute.
Prince-Hughes is the author of Song of the Gorilla
Nation: My Journey Through Autism, Gorillas Among
Us: A Primate Ethnographer’s Book of Days, Expecting
Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood, The
Archetype of the Ape-man: The Phenomenological
Archaeology of a Relic Hominid Ancestor, Adam, and the
editor of Aquamarine Blue 5: Personal Stories of
College Students with Autism. Her new book, Passing As
Human/Freak Nation: How I Discorvered That No One is Normal will be released in
December, 2009.
Dylan Scott Pierce is an American child
prodigy who excels at painting. His
work consists primarily of animal and
natural imagery.
Pierce’s work has been compared to
Henri Rousseau’s in its illustration of the
absurdity of man’s self-imprisonment in
the menagerie of form. His work has
been featured on QVC, profiled by a
publication of the National Geographic
Society, and he has a partnership with
SeaWorld.
He is also a photographer who did work in that field during safaris in Africa. He is
currently active in both conservation and autism issues.
5. Matthew “Matt” Savage is an
American autistic savant musician.
At age six, Matt taught himself to
read piano music. He studied
classical piano for less than a year
before discovering jazz, which
became his main focus. Among
Matt’s talents are hyperlexia and
perfect pitch. Coupled with his
extremely high intelligence, these
abilities have allowed him to
achieve other distinctions as well,
such as winning a statewide
geography bee.
Matt has received many awards,
including being signed in 2003 to
Bösendorfer pianos. He is the only
child to be so recognised in the
company’s 175-year history.
http://www.savagerecords.com/
Liane Holliday Willey is a popular keynote speaker
and best-selling American author. She is a wife,
mother and avid horsewoman. In addition to being an
educator and keynote speaker, she is the senior editor
of the Autism Spectrum Quarterly and the founder of
the Asperger Society of Michigan.
http://www.aspie.com/