Savant Profiles

Below you will find links to articles on savants, both living and historic, and their remarkable abilities.

• Kim Peek "The Real Rain Man" Photo from Scientific American
  Leslie Lemke "Inspired Performer" Photo by Ethan Hill of New York, NY

  Kim Peek
  The Real Rain Man
  
  
• Leslie Lemke
  An Inspirational Performance
  
  
• Stephen Wiltshire
  Prodigious Drawing Ability and Visual Memory
  
  
• Alonzo Clemons
  A Genius Among Us
  
  
• Amanda LaMunyon
  A Dream Unfolds
  
  
• "Blind Tom" Tom Bethune
  A 19th Century Marvelous Musician
  
  
• Boone
  It's About Time
  
  
• Brittany Maier
  Playing by Ear
  
  
• Bugra Cankir
  A Musical Savant in Turkey
  
  
• Christophe Pillault
  A Remarkable Artist


• Daniel Tammet
  Brainman: "Numbers are my friends"
  
  
• Derek Paravicini
  A Talent and Love for Music
  
  
• Ellen
  With a Song in Her Heart
  
  
• George Widener
  A Multiply Gifted Savant
  
  
• Gilles Trehin
  The City of Urville
  
  
• Gregory Blackstock
  An Anthropologist of the Everyday
  
  
• Henriett Seth F.
  Rain Girl
  
  
• Hikari oe [off-site]
  "Hikari Finds His Voice"
• James Cucek
  A Piano Man with a Mom on a Mission

South Devon Coast, England by Richard Wawro, Edinburgh

• James Henry Pullen
  The Genius of Earlswood Asylum
  
  
• Jonathan Lerman
  An Extraordinary Artist
  
  
• Matt Savage
  A 14-Year-Old Marvelous Musician
  
  
• Ping Lian Yeak
  A Remarkable Artist
  
• Richard Wawro
  An Amazing Artist
  
  
• Seth Chwast
  Describing his World in Paint
  
  
• Thristan "Tum-Tum" Mendoza
  A Child Prodigy Marimbist
  
  
• Tony DeBlois
  A Prodigious Musical Savant
  
  

For more information, please contact:
Darold A. Treffert, MD
St. Agnes Hospital, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison
Personal Web site: www.daroldtreffert.com
E-mail: savants@charter.net