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Definition of eccentricity

Eccentricity is necessarily defined relatively. For the purposes of this article, an eccentric is someone whose behaviour, beliefs and/or hobbies deviate in a significant way from the accepted norms of their society, but otherwise can function largely as normal in society.^{[citation needed]} He or she may be regarded as strange, odd or at least unconventional, irregular and erratic. Other people may regard the eccentric with apprehension but also with amusement.^{[citation needed]} In popular usage, eccentricity refers to unusual or odd behavior on the part of a person, as opposed to being normal. ...

People behave in "eccentric" ways for many reasons. Sometimes, particular patterns of "eccentric" behavior can be a sign of mental illness. For example, many experts believe Howard Hughes suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder and/or the neurological effects of late-stage syphilis.^{[citation needed]} To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For other people named Howard Hughes, see Howard Hughes (disambiguation). ... Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by a spirochaete bacterium, Treponema pallidum. ...

Sometimes eccentricity is clearly intentional. Some comedians behave in eccentric ways even off-stage for professional reasons—to maintain their funny public image. Some entertainers and artists like Salvador Dalí use eccentric lifestyle to draw attention to themselves and exploit the common perception that creativity and madness are closely related. Athletes may behave in aggressive ways because it is part of their image as "tough guys" and as a way to intimidate their opponents. A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Public Image Ltd. ... An entertainer is someone who is hired to entertain people. ... Look up Artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (Catalan) Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech (Spanish), (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish artist who became one of the most important painters of the 20th century. ... Creative (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up Athlete in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

There are historical cases where an eccentric may have taken the mantle intentionally for religious reasons (Russian Yurodivy, for example) or used it as an unusual way to make a semblance of a living. Some of their contemporaries may have regarded them with religious devotion.^{[citation needed]} The yurodivy (accented on the second syllable, юро́дивый) is the Russian version of the holy fool. ...

Other so-called "eccentrics" behave the way they do simply because they care little about societal pressures against their behavior. What other people think often does not matter to them.

Further insight in the complex relations between madness, eccentricity and the perception of deviant behavior by mainstream society can be found in A social history of madness by Roy Porter (1987 - ISBN 0297795716). This book also treats several examples of "famous" people ending up in asylums, as a result of their eccentric behavior, e.g. Robert Schumann. Madness has several uses: One who is affected by madness could be deemed insane or could have a mental illness A band, see Madness (band) A violent flash cartoon series, see Madness Combat. ... Roy Porter (31 December 1946 to 3 March 2002) was a British historian noted for his work on the history of medicine. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called a mental hospital or asylum) is a hospital specializing in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856) was a German composer and pianist. ...

Persons whose habits, appearance, or beliefs have often been described as eccentric include:^{[citation needed]} Eccentric, in a sense of " out of the center", normaly self-tought artists that could found a school. Example: Ni Tsan, chinese painter. Variation in the physical appearance of humans is believed by anthropologists to be an important factor in the development of personality and social relations in particular physical attractiveness. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: belief Belief is usually defined as a conviction to the truth of a proposition. ...

Artists, architects and composers

• Oscar Araripe, Brazilian painter and writer
• Aubrey Beardsley, artist, illustrator, writer
• Brigid Berlin, Warhol superstar, actor and artist who obsessively recorded her everyday life.
• John Cage, American composer and artist
• Monte Cazazza, American sound artist who dressed like an old beggar woman and set dead cats on fire.
• Ferdinand Cheval, French Postman who spent 33 years building a huge palace from random stones found during his work

Self-portrait (1853) by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, who cut off part of his left ear in 1888 and gave it to a prostitute friend.

• Nick "Momus" Currie, Berlin-based Scottish "folktronica" musician, design critic, orientalist and "emotional communist".
• Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet, musician and comic.
• Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter noted both for his surrealist, dreamlike imagery and for his bizarre theatrical stunts.
• Henry Darger, American "outsider artist"; author of a 15,143-page novel entitled The Story of the Vivian Girls in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, or the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.
• Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect.
• Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-born film director, actor and author of graphic novels
• Edward Leedskalnin, Latvian-born sculptor who built a castle in Florida
• Harry Partch, American composer, used a 43-tone scale for which he had his own set of musical instruments, lived as a hobo for ten years
• Gao Qipei, painter who grew his fingernails excessively long to be a better finger painter because a dream told him to.
• Mi Fu, Chinese painter who declared a stone to be his elder brother and bowed to it.
• Charles Ribart, 18th century French architect who designed a building shaped like an elephant
• Erik Satie, unconventional French composer who was found to have had a vast collection of umbrellas as well as musical compositions hidden "behind the piano, in the pockets of the velvet suits, etc."
• Alexander Scriabin, who, some time before his death, had planned a multi-media work to be performed in the Himalayas that would bring about the Armageddon (or so he believed)
• Hugh Troy, US painter (prankster)
• Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
• Louis Wain, English artist who created widely popular illustrations of anthropomorphized cats which later grew progressively more elaborate, psychedelic and disturbing as he descended into madness.
• Andy Warhol, New York artist and social commentator

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Athletes

• Muhammad Ali, athlete who attracted much attention with his unorthodox behaviour and style of boxing
• Wade Boggs, athlete who was highly superstitions
• Hector Camacho, world champion boxer
• Dock Ellis, baseball player who pitched a no-hitter while under the influence of the psychedelic drug LSD
• Chris Eubank, world champion boxer who wears a monocle
• Mark Fidrych, baseball pitcher who sometimes talked to the ball
• Naseem Hamed, world champion boxer, famous for his ring entrances
• Rickey Henderson, baseball player known for his malapropisms
• David Icke, English soccer goalkeeper, TV presenter, researcher of unorthodox subjects.
• Leigh Richmond Roose, pre First World War Welsh international goalkeeper who refused to wash his undershirt throughout his 17-year career
• Mike Tyson, boxer, who bit an opponent's ear off.
• Michael Waltrip, NASCAR racer, wears shoes too small at road courses, sings to the fans over the radio during red flags, popped out of roof hatch after winning 2003 EA Sports 500 like a Jack-in-the-box.
• Chris Kaman, a professional basketball player in the NBA, is often fidgity when sitting down on the bench as a result of adult ADHD, wears unkempt long hair, and is known to have a fascination with chicken farms, and is current funding the production of one.
• Kenny Wallace, NASCAR driver with a very destinctive laugh, does humorous things constantly, and talks for long amounts of time during interviews and often tries to break his record for longest talking.

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Businessmen

• "Judge" Roy Bean, US saloonkeeper and arbitrary judge who called himself "The Law West of the Pecos"
• Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive whose antics in the widely-circulated video clip Dance Monkeyboy became an Internet phenomenon
• Richard Branson, UK entrepreneur and founder of Virgin Records, known to enjoy extreme sports and other wild stunts
• E. H. Bronner, US soapmaker who covered his product's packaging with dense text expounding his philosophical views
• Timothy Dexter, US businessman who literally sold coal to Newcastle and held a mock funeral for himself complete with poetic elegies.
• Hetty Green, US businesswoman famous for her stinginess; her estate was more than $100,000,000
• Brian G. Hughes, US banker and prankster of the greedy
• Howard Hughes, US industrialist and aviator who became a recluse and feared germs
• Bernarr McFadden, US publisher and fanatical fitness proponent
• George Francis Train, US businessman who went around the world four times, then spent his final days handing out dimes and refusing to speak to anyone but children and animals.

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Entertainers

• Eden Ahbez, proto-hippie, wrote Nature Boy
• GG Allin, American punk rocker, frequently self-mutilated and defecated on stage, threatened to kill himself whilst performing. Allin was also a drug addict and recorded numerous albums of disputable quality.
• Tori Amos, American musician
• The Great Antonio, Canadian strongman
• Asia Argento, actress, screenwriter, director, novelist
• Leigh Bowery, performance artist.
• Alexis Arquette, actor
• Tom Baker, British actor; former star of Doctor Who and narrator of Little Britain
• Syd Barrett, musician, songwriter, painter, recluse, founding member of Pink Floyd
• Björk, Icelandic singer, recently voted most eccentric celebrity of all time by the BBC
• Marc Bolan, 1970s British rock musician who claimed to have lived with a wizard in Paris
• David Boreanaz, actor
• David Bowie, British singer, musician, whose creativity often goes to the point of eccentricity
• Boy George, androgynous frontman of the pop band Culture Club.
• Buckethead, guitarist who never performs without wearing a kabuki mask and KFC chicken bucket as a hat.
• Tim Burton, film director
• Kate Bush, singer, songwriter, musician
• The Cherry Sisters, whose performances were typically met with a barrage of thrown vegetables
• Les Claypool, frontman of the alternative funk-metal band, Primus.
• George Clinton, leader of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bands Parliament and Funkadelic
• Catman Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Tom Cruise, actor
• Walt Disney, American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator.
• Pete Doherty, British singer and poet, famous in his native country for his open addiction to both crack cocaine and heroin and his tempestuous relationship with supermodel Kate Moss. Doherty is also known for his occasional cross-dressing, violence and alcoholism. He was forced out of his former band, The Libertines, after breaking into his bandmate's flat.
• Christine Ebersole, actress
• Roky Erickson, American rock singer and drug addict. Arrested in 1972 for cannabis possession, pleaded to innocent due to insanity and spent the remainder of the decade in an institution. Upon his release he recorded several albums that have attained a cult audience.
• Flavor Flav, rap artist and member of Public Enemy.

Michael Jackson

• Crispin Glover, actor, writer, musician
• Antony Hegarty, singer and frontman of Antony and the Johnsons
• Werner Herzog, German film director, walked to Paris from Munich and describes chickens as demonic
• Michael Jackson, US pop singer
• Jandek, reclusive musician
• Andy Kaufman, American "song and dance man" known for his bizarre anti-humor and many elaborate hoaxes.
• Tony Kaye, director, musician
• Klaus Kinski, German actor
• John Lennon, musician, member of The Beatles
• Long Gone John, US label owner Sympathy for the Record Industry, art collector, and writer
• Courtney Love, singer of the rock band Hole, widow of Kurt Cobain
• David Lynch, film director
• John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten), former lead singer of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd (PiL) - also an Irish individualist and anarchist.
• Marilyn Manson, musician, author, visual artist
• John McCririck, English television horse racing pundit
• Freddie Mercury, singer of the rock band Queen.
• Russ Meyer, American cult film director and photographer
• Thelonious Monk, jazz musician
• Keith Moon, drummer for The Who
• Patrick Moore, English tv astronomer and writer.
• Morrissey (Steven Patrick Morrissey), former lead singer of the highly influential English indie band The Smiths and is now a successful solo artist.
• Anton Newcombe, US rock singer, of the Brian Jonestown Massacre
• Ted Nugent, US guitarist, Heavy Metal musician, hunter, beef jerky maker, and star of VH1's Supergroup
• Ol' Dirty Bastard, US rapper famous for a series of bizarre public actions and legal trouble
• Ozzy Osbourne, singer of Black Sabbath
• Lucia Pamela, American musician
• Mike Patton, singer of Faith No More, Mr Bungle, Tomahawk and Fantomas, amongst others
• Lee "Scratch" Perry, developer of dub music
• Elvis Presley, visited morgues and cemeteries at night, "The King"'s most prized possession was said to be his bag of sheriff badges that he collected from around the country.
• Prince, American musician, also formerly known as "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince"
• Sun Ra, American jazz musician
• W. Axl Rose, singer of Guns N' Roses
• Jimmy Savile, British DJ and television personality
• Bon Scott, original lead singer of AC/DC
• Edie Sedgwick, model, actor
• Kevin Shields, Irish lead guitarist, singer and songwriter of the Irish-British shoegazing group My Bloody Valentine
• Robert Smith, singer of The Cure
• Edward Askew Sothern, British actor
• Phil Spector, producer
• Vivian Stanshall, British Musician
• Billy Bob Thornton, actor
• Tiny Tim, US musician
• Stanley Unwin, comedian and wordsmith
• Don Van Vliet, musician known as Captain Beefheart, visual artist
• Larry Wachowski, writer, director
• John Waters, American film director
• Brian Wilson, songwriter and former member of The Beach Boys
• Ed Wood, independent film director
• Steven Wright, comedian
• Frank Zappa, American rock/jazz fusion musician, composer, and satirist
• Vivian Stanshall, English musician, painter, singer, songwriter, poet, writer, wit, and raconteur, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

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Inventors

• Alex Chiu, "discoverer" of "immortality rings"
• Lyman Gilmore, inventor, possibly the first man to fly a plane. He did not bathe, and carried a pair of pistols.
• Troy Hurtubise, an obsession with bears led him to invent a suit that could protect him from grizzly bears. He claims his latest invention "can make blind men see and lame men walk."
• Raymond Kurzweil, inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity is Near. He claims human intelligence will be surpassed by artificial intelligence in the near future. Takes 250 vitamin supplements daily.
• Alfred Lawson, ballplayer, economic theorist, founder of Lawsonomy
• Yoshiro Nakamatsu winner of Ig Nobel for cataloguing his meals for 34 years.
• Nikola Tesla, Croatian-born obsessive-compulsive who feared pearl earrings
• John Ward, British-born inventor of the bra-warmer, hand-held portable barbeque and simulated miniature marine mine to prevent others from stealing your cup of tea.

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Politicians, aristocrats and rulers

• Abdelaziz of Morocco, Moroccan sultan who obsessively collected toys and gadgets.
• Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Husband and consort of Queen Victoria.
• Idi Amin, president-for-life of Uganda, self-proclaimed "Conqueror of the British Empire" and "King of Scotland"; rumored to be a cannibal
• Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid caliph, suffering from insomnia; ordered his people to sleep during the day and stay awake at night
• William Thomas Beckford, builder of Fonthill Abbey.
• William John Cavendish Bentinck-Scott, 5th Duke of Portland, who liked to live underground, preferring not to be seen. He also built an entire underground mansion, painted it pink, and filled it with brown wigs packed lovingly in cardboard boxes.
• Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic who declared himself Emperor. Few attended the coronation, but he wore a pair of pearl-studded shoes — among the most expensive shoes in history — for the occasion. He also collected French military uniforms and allegedly fed people to crocodiles.
• Caligula, Roman Emperor who ordered troops to collect sea-shells as spoils of war and appointed his favorite horse as a consul.
• Lord George Gordon, who insisted on reading out long irrelevant pamphlets in Parliament, and led a riot which killed or injured 450
• John Hagelin, perennial Natural Law Party candidate who believed the Maharashi University's meditation reduced DC crime
• Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party, obsessed with alternative medicine

Joshua Norton, a failed San Francisco entrepeneur who declared himself Emperor of the United States of America.

• Kim Jong Il, leader of North Korea, noted for his movie collection, cognac consumption, platform shoes, and "pleasure squad"
• Boris Johnson, Conservative politian in the UK
• William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada who consulted mediums to communicate with his deceased mother
• Ludwig II of Bavaria, also known as "Ludwig the Mad", 19th-century king of Bavaria who built the fairy-tale-style Neuschwanstein castle.
• Matayoshi Mitsuo, Japanese politician who calls himself Matayoshi Jesus
• John Mytton, English squire who once arrived at a dinner party riding a bear and later in life attempted to cure a case of hiccups by lighting his shirt on fire.
• Joshua A. Norton, who declared himself "His Imperial Majesty Norton I, by the Grace of God, Emperor of the United States, and Protector of Mexico"
• Ne Win - Burmese dictator who was so obsessed with numerology he worsened the economy by creating 45 and 90 as currency denominations because 9 was his lucky number. He allegedly walked backward at times to avoid curses and supposedly came to believe Burma would find salvation by combining socialism with "magic"
• Nero, Roman Emperor who caused scandal by performing as a public entertainer and building an extravagant golden palace covering a third of the city of Rome.
• Saparmurat Niyazov, President of Turkmenistan, renamed months of the year after his family and declared himself "President for Life" and "Father of All Turkmen," among other things
• Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, Welsh Peer who squandered his inheritance on clothes, jewels and partying and was obsessed with the theatre
• Pascual Racuyal, Filipino mechanic and folk icon who ran for President in every presidential election from 1935 to 1986 on a platform that included the construction of pothole-free roads out of plastic.
• Miguel Primo de Rivera, Prime Minister of Spain, known for walking around in his underwear and never bathing.
• Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, English nobleman who spent as much time as possible underwater.
• Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor, devouted occultist, and collector of satanic and alchemy-oriented paraphanalia
• Screaming Lord Sutch, British rock musician and founder of the Monster Raving Loony Party
• Charles Taylor, President of Liberia Considered eccentric for a series of bizarre pronouncements in his career.
• Stephen Tennant, English aristocrat who spent much of his life in bed.
• Tianqi Emperor, Ming emperor who considered carpentry a better use of his time than politics.
• James Traficant, US Congressman from Ohio and law enforcement official, known for outrageous mannerisms and speeches in Congress
• Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, who dedicated his life to promoting the Hollow Earth theory and claimed that he could trace his descent from 63,000BC, when beings from other planets had landed on Earth in spaceships
• Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, who for 20 years after the death of her husband Albert continued to have his place set at dinner.
• Hong Xiuquan Before leading the Taiping Rebellion he believed Christian pamphlets contained coded messages specifically for him, fought imaginary dragons, wore his hair in an illegal fashion, and believed he spoke to his brother's wife in Heaven. (His brother being of course Jesus, but his alleged heavenly wife was not any known figure) At that point he had not harmed anyone, but did have some political anti-Manchu goals.
• Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the Russian Republic of Kalmykia and FIDE President.
• Muammar al-Gaddafi, the 'Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution', de facto leader of Libya. Noted for his unorthodox clothing, bedouin diplomat tents, passion for camel milk and female bodyguards clad in blue camouflage.
• Napoleon Bonaparte

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Religious figures and occultists

• David Bawden who was "elected" "Pope Michael I" in his family's store in Belvue, Kansas (three of the six "electors" were his relatives)
• Vasily Blazhenny, Basil Fool for Christ (see also yurodivy)
• Cross Carrier Chuck Johnson [1]
• Nathan Lloyd Braun, Christian vegetarian/polygamist theologian
• Aleister Crowley, British occultist
• Onisaburo Deguchi, flamboyant, dressed as female deities, jested about remaking the world
• Justo Gallego Martinez, Spanish builder of his own cathedral
• Dr. George King (Aetherius Society), British taxi driver who claimed that Master Jesus was born on the planet Venus and sent him special messages. He received his doctorate either from spirits or the aliens.
• L. Ron Hubbard, invented a religion
• G. I. Gurdjieff, Armenian-born mystic
• Leonard Knight, chief architect and custodian of Salvation Mountain
• Anton LaVey, founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan
• Grigory Rasputin, Russian monk who became the advisor of the last czar
• Hester Stanhope, who wanted to carry a child of a messiah
• St. Simeon Stylites said to have lived on a pillar for 36 years
• Cyrus Teed, US proponent of a Hollow Earth theory
• Dwight York, man of many names & costumes, inventor of United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, et al.

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Scholars, philosophers and scientists

• Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher who wanted himself mummified

Albert Einstein

• James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, Scottish judge and scholar
• Martin van Butchell, British dentist who put his dead wife on display
• Diogenes of Sinope ("the Cynic")
• Horace Donisthorpe, myrmecologist
• Albert Einstein, physicist whose appearance is perhaps that of the stereotypical eccentric scientist. Einstein was known not to wear socks, and to wear a duplicate version of the same outfit the next day.
• Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician
• Richard Feynman, American physicist noted also for his free-spirited nature
• Francis Galton, British statistics and eugenics pioneer who once resolved to taste everything in the local hospital pharmacy in alphabetical order [2] and made a beauty map of Britain counting the number of attractive women he saw in each city.
• Oliver Heaviside, British scientist who replaced his furniture with giant granite blocks
• Arthur Koestler, Hungarian born writer who studied human levitation, and Lamarckianism
• Karl Kruszelnicki, noted for his "loud" shirts, study of belly button fluff, and multiple careers.
• Patrick Moore, British astronomer noted for hoaxes, wearing a monocle for a time, and playing the xylophone
• Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher who attacked the "herd mentality" and revolutionized philosophy as we know it today
• Charles Ogden developed Basic English and wore masks because he believed fresh air was bad for you. (In other words he was a claustrophiliac)
• Gene Ray, discoverer of the Time Cube
• Wilhelm Reich, discoverer of hypothetical Orgone energy; he attempted to "measure" the male orgasm
• Charles Waterton, Catholic naturalist who allegedly turned "animal corpses into effigies of famed Protestants" and "Occasionally he would hide behind couches and attack guests like a dog, chewing at their ankles."[3]
• Josef Maria Wronski, Polish mathematician who made grandiose claims and worked on perpetual motion
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher, schoolteacher, would-be aviator and western movie enthusiast
• John Nash, American mathematician and Nobel prize winner, famous for his contributions to game theory development
• Claude Shannon see sciam_article -- developer of Information theory; rode unicycle in halls of MIT.

Jeremy Bentham (IPA: ) (February 15, 1748 – June 6, 1832) was an English gentleman, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (640x625, 61 KB) Description: Albert Einstein, gelatin silver print Source: Library and Archives Canada Date: 1948-02-11 Author: Karsh, Yousuf Permission: Restrictions on use/reproduction: Nil, Copyright: expired Other versions of this file: File links The following pages link to... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (640x625, 61 KB) Description: Albert Einstein, gelatin silver print Source: Library and Archives Canada Date: 1948-02-11 Author: Karsh, Yousuf Permission: Restrictions on use/reproduction: Nil, Copyright: expired Other versions of this file: File links The following pages link to... Albert Einstein, photographed in 1947 by Oren J. Turner. ... James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714 - May 26, 1799) was a Scottish judge, scholar and eccentric. ... A judge or justice is an official who presides over a court. ... Martin van Butchell (1735-1812) was a British eccentric dentist who put his dead wife on display, reputedly because of a clause in a marriage contract. ... X-rays can reveal if a person has cavities Dentistry is the practical application of knowledge of dental science (the science of placement, arrangement, function of teeth) to human beings. ... Diogenes by John William Waterhouse, depicting his lamp, tub and diet of onions. ... The Cynics were an influential school of ancient philosophers. ... Image:Donisthorpe. ... Myrmecology is the branch of entomology dealing with ants. ... Albert Einstein, photographed in 1947 by Oren J. Turner. ... Paul ErdÅ‘s, pictured in lecture, late in life. ... Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man; in IPA) was an influential American physicist known for expanding greatly on the theory of quantum electrodynamics, quark theory, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium. ... Francis Galton Sir Francis Galton F.R.S. (February 16, 1822 – January 17, 1911), half-cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, psychometrician, and statistician. ... A graph of a bell curve in a normal distribution showing statistics used in educational assessment, comparing various grading methods. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 – February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English engineer, mathematician and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, developed techniques for applying Laplace transforms to the solution of differential equations, reformulated Maxwells field equations in terms of electric and magnetic... Arthur Koestler Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest – March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. ... Lamarckism is a now discredited theory of biological evolution developed by French biologist Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck in the 19th century. ... Karl Kruszelnicki AM is a scientist, although best known as an author and science commentator on Australian radio and television. ... Sir Patrick Moore presenting The Sky at Night, October 2005 Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS (born 4 March 1923) is an amateur astronomer who has attained an important position in British astronomy as a writer, organizer and presenter of the subject. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (IPA:) (October 15, 1844–August 25, 1900), a German philologist and philosopher, produced critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centered around a basic question regarding the positive and negative attitudes of various systems of morality toward life. ... Charles Kay Ogden (June 1, 1889 - March 21, 1957) was a British linguist and writer most prominently known as the creator of a constructed language called Basic English. ... Basic English is a constructed language with a small number of words created by Charles Kay Ogden and described in his book Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar (1930). ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Claustrophilia Claustrophilia is the liking of small, enclosed spaces. ... Gene Ray, self-claimed discoverer of Natures Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube Gene Ray (born Otis Eugene Ray, 2 July 1927) claims in his writings relating to Natures Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube, that they represent the ineffable truth of the universe. ... It has been suggested that Gene Ray be merged into this article or section. ... Dr. Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897–November 3, 1957) was a Jewish-Austrian psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author, who was trained in Vienna by Sigmund Freud. ... Dr. Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897–November 3, 1957) was an Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who was trained in Vienna by Sigmund Freud. ... Charles Waterton (June 3, 1782 - May 27, 1865) was an English naturalist and explorer. ... Josef Hoëné-Wronski (August 23, 1778 - August 8, 1853), born Josef Hoëné, was a Polish eccentric philosopher of mathematics. ... This article or section should include material from Parallel Path See also Perpetuum mobile as a musical term Perpetual motion machines (the Latin term perpetuum mobile is not uncommon) are a class of hypothetical machines which would produce useful energy in a way science cannot explain (yet). ... Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (IPA: ) (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking works to contemporary philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. ... In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill. ... It has been suggested that Pilot (spaceflight) be merged into this article or section. ... Broncho Billy Anderson, from The Great Train Robbery The Western movie is one of the classic American film genres. ... John Nash may refer to: John Nash (1752-1835), British architect John Forbes Nash (born 1928), mathematician, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and subject of the novel and film titled A Beautiful Mind. ... Sir Edward Appletons medal Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations where players choose different actions in an attempt to maximize their returns. ... Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 _ February 24, 2001) has been called the father of information theory, and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. ...

Writers

• Oscar Zeta Acosta, American author, lawyer, and activist
• Pita Amor, Mexican poet
• Antonin Artaud, French playwright, director, and actor
• Michael "Atters" Attree, British satirist
• Jeffrey Bernard, British journalist
• William Blake, British poet and Artist
• William S. Burroughs, American Beat Generation author
• Truman Capote, American author
• Lewis Carroll, author
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British poet
• Jake Cohen, American author
• Harry Crosby, American poet
• Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, playwright and adventurer
• Philip K. Dick, American science fiction author
• Edward Gorey, American author and illustrator
• Jemmy Hirst, English trainer of unusual animals
• Robert E. Howard, American writer, creator of Conan the Barbarian.
• Alfred Jarry, French playwright.
• Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, writer, "widow" of Jim Morrison.
• Florence King, Southern American humourist, social commentator, and misanthrope
• Comte de Lautreamont, Uruguayan-French poet
• H.P. Lovecraft, American writer, creator of the Cthulhu Mythos.
• Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet, also wrote Scottish Eccentrics reflecting his self-identification as such.
• Effie Ross, French journalist and prostitute
• William McGonagall, Scottish poet
• Gerard de Nerval, French poet and lobster fancier
• Nadeem F. Paracha, notorious Pakistani music critic and short story writer
• Jim Morrison, American poet
• Mervyn Peake, English writer, creator of Gormenghast
• Daniel Pellizzari, Brazilian author and translator
• Edgar Allan Poe, American author, critic and poet
• Charles Baudelaire, French poet
• Arthur Rimbaud, French poet
• Frederick Rolfe, English novelist also known as Baron Corvo
• J.D. Salinger, American author and recluse
• Marquis de Sade, French author, philosopher and political prisoner
• Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist
• Kurt Vonnegut, American author; satirist.
• Horace Walpole, British novelist
• Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright and poet
• Tom Wolfe, American author

This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Guadalupe Teresa Amor Schmidtlein (30 May 1918 – 8 May 2000) who wrote as Pita Amor, was a Mexican poet. ... Antonin Artaud Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896–March 4, 1948) was a playwright, actor, and director. ... Michael Atters Attree sporting his famous handlebar moustache. ... Jeffrey Bernard (May 27, 1932 - September 4, 1997) was a British journalist, notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. ... William Blake (1807) William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. ... William Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Truman García Capote (pronounced ) (September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American writer whose non-fiction, stories, novels and plays are recognized literary classics. ... Lewis Carroll. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, 1795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. ... Harry Crosby (1898-1929) was an American heir, bon vivant, minor poet, and for some, an exemplar of the Lost Generation in American literature. ... dAnnunzio. ... Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American science fiction writer. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Edward St. ... Jemmy Hirst (1738-1829) was an English eccentric. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population –mid-2004... Robert E. Howard Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was a writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories published mainly in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s. ... Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet. ... Alfred Jarry Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 – November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mothers side. ... Patricia Kennealy-Morrison (born 1946 in New York City) is an American author of fantasy novels. ... For other people named James or Jim Morrison, see James Morrison James Douglas Jim Morrison, (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was a singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. ... Florence Virginia King (born January 5, 1936 in Washington, D.C., USA) is an American novelist, essayist and columnist. ... Comte de Lautréamont is a pseudonym for Isidore Lucien Ducasse (Montevideo, Uruguay, April 4, 1846 - Paris, November 24, 1870), a French poet and writer. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... Cthulhu Mythos is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and associated writers. ... Hugh MacDiarmid was the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve (August 11, 1892, Langholm - September 9, 1978), perhaps the most important Scottish poet of the 20th century. ... William Topaz McGonagall (1825–September 29, 1902) was a weaver, actor, and poet. ... Gérard de Nerval (May 22, 1808 - January 26, 1855) was the nom-de-plume of the French poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie, the most essentially Romantic among French poets. ... Nadeem F. Paracha, (born November 9, 1967) is a controversial Pakistani journalist, music critic and short story writer. ... For other people named James or Jim Morrison, see James Morrison James Douglas Jim Morrison, (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was a singer, songwriter, writer, and poet. ... Mervyn Laurence Peake (July 9, 1911 – November 17, 1968) was a British modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. ... Gormenghast Castle in the BBC miniseries Gormenghast is a fictional castle of titanic proportions that features prominently in a series of fantasy works penned by Mervyn Peake. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, critic and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Charles Baudelaire, photograph taken by Nadar. ... Arthur Rimbaud at seventeen Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 – November 10, 1891) was a French poet, born in Charleville. ... Fr. ... Frederick William Serafino August Lewis Mary Rolfe, better known as Baron Corvo (July 22, 1860 - October 25, 1913), was an English novelist and eccentric. ... Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for The Catcher in the Rye, a classic coming-of-age story that has enjoyed enduring popularity since its publication in 1951. ... Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. ... Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. ... Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ... Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, more commonly known as Horace Walpole, (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797), was a politician, writer and forerunner of the Gothic revival. ... Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, short story writer and Freemason. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Others

• Patch Adams, US doctor and clown
• David Belasco, US writer and producer, wandered New York dressed as the Bishop of Broadway
• Harry Bensley, UK adventurer known for being the subject of a notorious wager
• Blackwolf the Dragonmaster, self-proclaimed Unofficial Wizard of New York City
• Bill Boaks, UK road safety campaigner and election candidate who set records for the fewest votes
• Robert "Gypsy Boots" Bootzin, American fitness pioneer
• Ian Brackenbury Channell, "The Wizard of New Zealand"
• Beau Brummell, British fop
• Frank Chu, San Francisco protestor and political activist
• Collyer brothers, US recluses and hoarders
• Fred Crisman, paranormal enthusiast
• John Patrick Ennis, known as Sollog
• Bobby Fischer, chess prodigy
• Chuck Farnham, covers himself in food to feed the homeless and bring light to their plight
• James Hampton, janitor who secretly built a throne from scavenged materials
• Ben Hana, a homeless man in Wellington New Zealand who only wears a blanket and a loin cloth
• Ultimate Warrior (Jim Hellwig), professional wrestler and public speaker
• Florence Foster Jenkins, a soprano famous for her lack of singing ability
• Charles K. Johnson, president and promoter of the Flat Earth Society
• Marshall Ledbetter, temporary occupier of the Florida State Capitol
• Lobsang Rampa (nee Cyril Hoskins), British plumber who claimed to have been a Tibetan Lama
• Stanley Marsh 3, best known as sponsor of the Cadillac Ranch
• Prince Mongo, nee Robert Hodges, a fringe politician from Memphis, Tennessee who claims to be the ambassador of the Planet of Zambodia.
• Edward Wortley Montagu, who wanted to be an Ottoman prince
• Cecil G. Murgatroyd, Australian/New Zealand satirical political candidate
• Daniel Pratt, “The Great American Traveller”
• Dr. William Price, who refused to treat smokers and carried out an impromptu cremation of his baby son
• Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke, tried to use opinion polls to prevent World War II, among other unusual ideas
• John Roche, Irishman who built a castle for himself in County Cork
• Richard S. Shaver, US author who believed the earth to be controlled by sadistic inner-earth dwellers operating mind-controlling ray machines
• William James Sidis, US secluded autistic genius
• Edith Sitwell, British poet who recited her first poem through a curtain and claimed to be descended from Plantagenets
• Joey Skaggs, US media prankster
• Viv Stanshall, notable English eccentric
• Harry Truman (volcano victim)
• John Cleves Symmes Jr, US proponent of Hollow Earth theory
• Tagish Elvis Presley, believes himself to be the reincarnation of Elvis Presley and ran for the leadership of the Yukon Liberal Party
• Orelie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer
• Edmund Trebus, Polish-British compulsive hoarder
• Sarah L. Winchester, US heiress who continued construction of her house for 38 years to confuse the spirits
• Alfred Wintle, British Colonel who served in both World War I and World War II who regarded the period between as "intensely boring"
• Theodore Kaczynski, former brilliant American scholar who protested against the development of modern industrial society by sending letter-bombs.

Hunter Patch Adams (born May 28, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia) founded the Gesundheit Institute in 1972. ... David Belasco, between 1898 and 1916. ... Harry Bensley (?, 1876 or 1877 - May 21, 1956) was an English rake and adventurer, best remembered as the subject of an extraordinary wager between John Pierpoint Morgan and Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale. ... Slot machines in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Blackwolf the Dragonmaster, created and performed by Richard Washington, is the self-proclaimed Unofficial Wizard of New York City. ... Lt Cmdr Bill Boaks DSC Lieutenant Commander William George Boaks DSC (May 25, 1904 – April 4, 1986) was a British Royal Navy officer who became an eccentric political campaigner for road safety. ... Robert Gypsy Boots Bootzin (August 19, 1914 - August 8, 2004) was an American fitness pioneer. ... The Wizard of New Zealand The Wizard of New Zealand is also the Archwizard of Canterbury, a living work of art at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Robert MacDougall Art Gallery, and Cosmologer at the University of Melbourne. ... Brummell, engraved from a miniature portrait. ... FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is an XSL-FO processor written in Java, which provides the feature to convert XSL-FO files to PDF or direct-printable-files. ... Frank Chu Frank Chu (24 March 1955 — ) is one of San Franciscos best-known eccentrics. ... Langley Collyer (1885–1947), circa 1942–43 Homer Lusk Collyer (November 1881–March 21, 1947) and Langley Collyer (October 1885–March 1947) were two United States brothers who became famous because of their reclusiveness, filth and compulsive hoarding. ... Fred Crisman (July 22, 1920 - December 10, 1975) was an writer, educator, minor political provocateur, broadcaster and self-described disruption agent from Tacoma, Washington. ... Sollog (born July 14, 1960 as John Patrick Ennis) is an American numerologist, mystic, and self-proclaimed psychic. ... Bobby Fischer. ... James Hampton (April 8, 1909–1964) was an African-American janitor who secretly built a throne from scavenged materials. ... Ben (Bernard) Hana, known to many locals as Blanket Man or Tarzan, is an infamous character in Wellington, New Zealand. ... Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara or Poneke) is the capital of New Zealand, the countrys second-largest urban area and the most populous national capital in Oceania. ... The Ultimate Warrior James Brian Hellwig (born June 16, 1959), is an American professional wrestler known by many as The Ultimate Warrior, who legally changed his name to Warrior in 1993. ... Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–November 26, 1944) was an American soprano who became famous for her complete lack of singing ability. ... Charles Kenneth Johnson (July 24, 1924 - March 19, 2001) was, from 1971 until his death, the president and energetic promoter of the International Flat Earth Society, which he and his wife ran from their home in California. ... The Flat Earth Society is an organization first based in England and later in Lancaster, California that advocates the belief that the Earth is not a sphere but is flat (see flat Earth). ... Marshall Ledbetter, Jr. ... Lobsang Rampa, Cyril Hoskins, or both? Tuesday Lobsang Rampa is the name of a spirit of a Tibetan lama that a British man named Cyril Hoskins claimed had taken over his body. ... Stanley Marsh 3 is a millionaire, artist, philanthropist, and prankster from Amarillo, Texas, USA. He is perhaps best known as the sponsor of the Cadillac Ranch, a public art installation near Amarillo. ... The cars as you face east, towards Amarillo Cadillac Ranch is a public art installation and sculpture in Amarillo, Texas. ... Robert Hodges, better known by his self-styled moniker Prince Mongo, is a Mephis eccentric and minor political personality. ... Nickname The River City, The Bluff City Location Location in Shelby County and the state of Tennessee Government Country State Counties United States Tennessee Shelby County Mayor W. W. Herenton (D) Geographical characteristics Area  - Total  - Land  - Water 294. ... Edward Wortley Montagu (1713 - April 29, 1776), was an English author and traveller. ... Cecil G. Murgatroyd (1958-2001) Murgatroyd was a long-running satirical political candidate in Australia and New Zealand, both of which he had citizenship of. ... This biographical article needs to be wikified. ... William Price (doctor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (1894–1948, by suicide) was a British inventor. ... Combatants Allies: Poland, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, France/Free France, United States, China, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece,Norway and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Burma, Slovakia Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead... For 1880s Chicago mayor, see John A. Roche. ... Richard Sharpe Shaver (b. ... William James Sidis (April 1, 1898–July 17, 1944) was a highly gifted mathematician and a child prodigy in the United States of America in the early 20th century. ... Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic. ... Angevin is the name applied to two distinct medieval dynasties which originated as counts (from 1360, dukes) of the western French province of Anjou (of which angevin is the adjectival form), but later came to rule far greater areas including England, Hungary and Poland (see Angevin Empire). ... Joey Skaggs (born 1945) is a U.S. media prankster who has organized numerous successful hoaxes and other presentations. ... Vivian Stanshall (March 21, 1943 – March 5, 1995) was an English musician, writer, wit, and raconteur and is probably best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. ... Harry R. Truman (October 30, 1896 – May 18, 1980) came to brief fame as a well loved, if eccentric resident of Washington who lived near Mount St. ... John Cleves Symmes Jr (1779 - 1829) nephew of John Cleves Symmes. ... The phrase hollow Earth expresses the esoteric idea that the planet Earth has a hollow interior, almost invariably including the idea that it has a habitable inner surface. ... Tagish Elvis Presley, Jr. ... The Yukon Liberal Party is a political party in the Yukon Territory in Canada. ... Orelie-Antoine I, would-be-King of Araucania and Patagonia. ... Edmund Trebus (1918-2002) Edmund Trebus (November 11, 1918–September 29, 2002) was a Polish émigré to Britain and compulsive hoarder, who came to fame when he was featured on a British television documentary called A Life of Grime. ... Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding) is a term which is used to describe extreme hoarding behaviour in humans. ... Sarah Winchester (1837 - September 5, 1922), born Sarah Lockwood Pardee, was an heiress and the builder of the Winchester Mystery House. ... Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Daniel Wintle, better known as A.D. Wintle, (b. ... Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total dead: 7 million The First World War, also known as... Combatants Allies: Poland, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, France/Free France, United States, China, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Greece,Norway and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Finland, Romania, Hungary, Burma, Slovakia Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead... Dr. Theodore Ted Kaczynski Theodore John (Ted) Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American terrorist convicted of murder for sending mail bombs to various people for nearly eighteen years, killing three and wounding 29. ... In sociology, industrial society refers to a society with a modern societal structure. ...

See also

• List of occultists
• Impostor
• Mad scientist
• Fantastic Architecture: Personal and Eccentric Visions by George R. Collins et al. ISBN 0810909146

List of notable occultists and mystics. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Caucasian, male, aging, crooked teeth, messy hair, lab coat, spectacles/goggles, dramatic posing — one popular stereotype of a mad scientist. ...

Bibliography

• Le livre des bizarres (in French) - Guy Bechtel and Jean-Claude Carrière, Robert Laffont, Paris (1981)