List of recluses

This is a list of notable recluses.

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Known for
Syd Barrett	1946	2006	former leader of the band Pink Floyd
David Bowie	1947	2016	singer and actor
Huguette Clark	1906	2011	heiress and philanthropist
Emily Dickinson	1830	1886	American poet
Steve Ditko	1927		comic book artist, writer and co-creator of Spider-Man
Bobby Fischer	1943	2008	former world chess champion
Greta Garbo	1905	1990	movie actress
João Gilberto	1931		Brazilian singer and composer
Alexander Grothendieck	1928	2014	stateless mathematician
Burkhard Heim	1925	2001	German theoretical physicist
Lauryn Hill	1975		American musician
Howard Hughes	1905	1976	billionaire aviation pioneer, businessman and movie producer
Theodore Kaczynski	1942		American terrorist known as the Unabomber
Kamo no Chomei	1153 or 1155	1216	Japanese author, poet (in the waka form) and essayist
Daniel Kitson	1977		British comedian
Stanley Kubrick	1928	1999	American film director
Harper Lee	1926	2016	author of To Kill a Mockingbird
Terrence Malick	1943		American filmmaker
Pordenone Montanari	1937		painter, sculptor and philosopher
Edvard Munch	1863	1944	Norwegian painter of The Scream
Leo Ornstein	1893 or 1892	2002	avant-garde pianist-composer
Grigori Perelman	1966		Russian mathematician
Thomas Pynchon	1937		novelist
Marcel Proust	1871	1922	French novelist of In Search of Lost Time
Axl Rose	1962		Guns N' Roses lead singer
J. D. Salinger	1919	2010	author of The Catcher in the Rye
Arthur Scargill	1938		Leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain) during a year-long strike in 1984-1985
Phil Spector	1940		record producer and songwriter
Sly Stone	1943		musician, songwriter and record producer