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
  Alonzo Clemons Sculptor
  Daniel Tammet Pictured with Dr. Treffert at the Calatrava Art Museum
  Richard Wawro South Devon Coast, England

  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
  
  
• Esther Brokaw
  Drawing Autism
  
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
  
• Temple Grandin
  A Noteworthy "Emergence"
  
  
• Thristan "Tum-Tum" Mendoza
  A Child Prodigy Marimbist
  
  
• Tony DeBlois
  A Prodigious Musical Savant
  
  
• Wil Kerner
  A boy, a scissors and some paper
  
  

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: daroldt@charter.net