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.

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.

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.

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.

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/