General Bankruptcy
Famous People Who Have Filed Bankruptcy
Artists
- Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch painter)
- James Abbot McNeil Whistler (Painted "Whistler's Mother")
- Felix de Weldon (Sculptor and creator of the Iwo Jima Memorial)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (Architect)
Musicians
- Bunny Berigan (1930s band leader and jazz trumpeter)
- Jerry Lee Lewis (Rock and Roll singer and pianist)
- Wayne Newton (Entertainer)
- Isaac Hayes (Academy Award winning songwriter, composer and singer)
- Johnny Paycheck (Country music singer)
- Tom Petty (Rock star)
- Michael Lee Aday, stage name "Meat Loaf" (Rock star)
- Mick Fleetwood (Founding member of "Fleetwood Mac")
- Jay Black (lead singer "Jay and the Americans")
- Merle Haggard (Country music singer)
Celebrities
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (Founder of Barnum & Bailey Circus)
- Walt Disney (Cartoonist and founder "Disneyland")
- Audie Murphy (Most decorated United States soldier)
- Francis Ford Coppola (Director, "The Godfather")
- Anita Bryant (Singer and 1959 Miss America 2nd runner up)
- John Brown (Slavery abolitionist)
- E. Howard Hunt (Watergate burglar)
- Larry King (Talk show host)
- Jean Ronald Getty (son of J. Paul Getty)
- Lammont du Pont Copeland, Jr. (Heir to the Du Pont fortune)
- Bowie Kuhn (Former Baseball Commissioner)
Writers
- Mark Twain (humorist, satirist, author and lecturer, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer")
- Oscar Wilde (Irish playwright, novelist and poet)
- L. Frank Baum (Wizard of Oz)
- Stan Lee (co-creator of Spider-Man, X-Men and Hulk comics)
- Washington Irving ("Rip Van Winkle")
Actors
- Mickey Rooney (Academy Award winner)
- Debbie Reynolds ("Signin' in the Rain")
- Burt Reynolds ("Deliverance" and "Smokey and the Bandit")
- Sherman Hemsley ("The Jeffersons")
- Dorothy Dandridge (Academy Award nominee)
- Lorraine Bracco (Academy Award nominee)
- Don Johnson ("Miami Vice" and "Nash Bridges")
- Gary Burghoff ("M*A*S*H")
Athletes
- Johnny Unitas (Hall of Fame quarterback)
- Eddy "the Eagle" Edwards (Olympic Ski Jumper)
- Dorothy Hamill (Olympic Gold Medal ice skater)
- Gaylord Perry (Baseball pitcher)
- Leon Spinks (Olympic gold medal boxer and former heavyweight boxing champion)
Politicians
- King Edward II (King of England)
- Robert Morris Jr. (Financier of the American Revolution)
- John Connally (Governor of Texas, wounded in 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy)
- J. Fife Symington (Governor of Arizona, who filed while in office)
- George McGovern (U.S. Senator and Former Presidential Candidate)
- Ed Herschler (Former Governor of Wyoming)
Industrialists
- Henry John Heinz (Condiment manufacturer)
- Milton Snavely Hershey (Founder The Hershey Chocolate Company)
- James Harrison (Inventor of the refrigerator)
- Charles Stahlberg (Inventor of the alarm clock)
- Nelson Bunker Hunt (Billionaire silver investor)
Others
- Matthew Brady (distinguished Civil War photographer)
- Immanuel Nobel (father of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prizes)-twice
- Jorge and Joanne Lopes ($58.9 million dollar lottery winners, filed after winning)
- Juan Rodriguez ($149 million dollar lottery winner, filed one month before winning)
- Albert Lowry (author of How You Can Become Financially Independent By Investing in Real Estate)
