List of recluses

This is a list of notable recluses.

Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Known for
Syd Barrett[1]	1946	2006	former leader of the band Pink Floyd
David Bowie[2][3]	1947	2016	singer and actor
Huguette Clark[4]	1906	2011	heiress and philanthropist
Emily Dickinson[5][6]	1830	1886	American poet
Steve Ditko[7]	1927		comic book artist, writer and co-creator of Spider-Man
Bobby Fischer[8]	1943	2008	former world chess champion
Greta Garbo[9]	1905	1990	movie actress
João Gilberto[10]	1931		Brazilian singer and composer
Alexander Grothendieck[11]	1928	2014	stateless mathematician
Burkhard Heim[12]	1925	2001	German theoretical physicist
Lauryn Hill[13][14][15]	1975		American musician
Howard Hughes[9][16]	1905	1976	billionaire aviation pioneer, businessman and movie producer
Theodore Kaczynski[17][18]	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[19]	1977		British comedian
Stanley Kubrick[20]	1928	1999	American film director
Harper Lee[21]	1926	2016	author of To Kill a Mockingbird
Terrence Malick[22][23]	1943		American filmmaker
Pordenone Montanari[24][25]	1937		painter, sculptor and philosopher
Edvard Munch[26][27]	1863	1944	Norwegian painter of The Scream
Leo Ornstein[28][29][30]	1893 or 1892	2002	avant-garde pianist-composer
Grigori Perelman[31][32]	1966		Russian mathematician
Thomas Pynchon[21]	1937		novelist
Marcel Proust[33]	1871	1922	French novelist of In Search of Lost Time
Axl Rose	1962		Guns N' Roses lead singer
J. D. Salinger[9][21]	1919	2010	author of The Catcher in the Rye
Arthur Scargill[34]	1938		Leader of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain) during a year-long strike in 1984-1985
Phil Spector[35]	1940		record producer and songwriter
Layne Staley[36]	1967	2002	lead singer of the band Alice in Chains

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10. Aaron Cohen (July 31, 2003). "Bossa nova legend has his way at Ravinia". Chicago Tribune. He may be Brazil's foremost recluse.
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34. Harris, John (28 February 2014). "In search of Arthur Scargill: 30 years after the miners' strike". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
35. Tim Cumming (2 November 2001). "I want to be alone". The Independent. London.
36. Joe D'Angelo (April 22, 2002). "'An Angry Angel' — Layne Staley Remembered By Bandmates, Friends". MTV.com. Retrieved July 13, 2016.