# List of people who have undergone electroconvulsive therapy

This is a list of people treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
* Linda Andre, American author, activist, director of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (CTIP), and self-described psychiatric survivor.
* Louis Althusser, French marxist philosopher
* Antonin Artaud, French poet and playwright
* Dick Cavett, American television talk show host
* Ted Chabasinski, American attorney, activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor who received ECT at six years of age.
* Clementine Churchill, wife of Sir Winston Churchill
* Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
* Simone D., a pseudonym for a psychiatric patient in the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in New York, who in 2007 won a court ruling which set aside a two-year-old court order to give her electroshock treatment against her will
* Duplessis Orphans Orphans of the 1950s in the province of Quebec, Canada, endured electroshock.
* Kitty Dukakis, wife of former Massachusetts governor and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis and author of Shock, a book chronicling her experiences with ECT
* Thomas Eagleton, US senator and vice presidential candidate
* Eduard Einstein (28 July 1910 – 25 October 1965) Albert Einstein's second son had ECT. Hans Albert Einstein, his brother thought the psychiatric treatment made him worse.
* Roky Erickson, American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist
* Frances Farmer, American film actress, who described standing in line with other girls at mental hospital waiting for shock treatments in the 1940s.
* Carrie Fisher, American actress and novelist Fisher speaks at length of her experiences with ECT in her autobiography Wishful Drinking.
* Janet Frame, New Zealand writer and poet
* Leonard Roy Frank, is a published author, human rights activist, and self-described psychiatric survivor.
* Judy Garland, Singer, dancer, actress.
* Harold Gimblett, British cricketer
* Julie Goodyear, English actress from Coronation Street.
* Gloria Grahame Actress. (1964)
* Peter Green, English blues guitarist, founding member of Fleetwood Mac.
* David Helfgott, Australian pianist
* Ernest Hemingway, American Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist, Nobel Laureate, short-story writer, and journalist
* Gloria Hemingway, daughter of Ernest Hemingway
* Marya Hornbacher, American writer
* Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-American classical pianist
* Vivien Leigh, English actress and second wife of Laurence Olivier
* Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, television and film personality
* Carmen Miranda, Luso-Brazilian Singer, dancer, actress
* Michael Moriarty, American actor
* Robbie Muir, Australian rules football player - when aged seven.
* Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon and writer
* Andrew Loog Oldham, manager of The Rolling Stones
* Karolina Olsson, the "Sleeping Beauty of Oknö"
* Sam Phillips, founder, Sun Records, discoverer of Elvis Presley
* Robert M. Pirsig, who later wrote about his experience in the autobiographical novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
* Sylvia Plath, American writer and poet
* Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression; he was 57.
* Bud Powell, American jazz musician
* Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter
* Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist
* Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor
* Yves Saint-Laurent, French fashion designer
* Peggy S. Salters, from South Carolina, in 2005 became the first survivor of electroshock treatment in the United States to win a jury verdict and a large money judgment ($635,177) in compensation for extensive permanent amnesia and cognitive disability caused by the procedure
* Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and Warhol superstar
* William Styron, American author
* Gene Tierney, American actress
* Townes van Zandt, American country singer-songwriter
* David Foster Wallace, American writer
* Mike Wallace, American journalist
* Tammy Wynette, American country singer and composer, who described having a series of shock treatments for depression in her biography.