Prosopagnosia Celebrities: Does Jane Goodall have face blindness?

Prosopagnosia, commonly called face blindness, is simply a condition where one is unable  to accurately remember faces.

The difficulty with accurate facial recognition can manifest in a number of ways including; poor recognition of familiar individuals in person or in photographs and an inability to describe faces.

Some may be unaware they have the condition, instead believing they have a “bad memory for faces”.

But prosopagnosia is entirely unrelated to intelligence or broader memory ability.

Prosopagnosia affects some celebrities and the the list of famous people who have been officially diagnosed with prosopagnosia include;

1. Anthropologist Jane Goodall,
2. British actor Stephen Fry,
3. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and
4. Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden.

Who is Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is an English primatologist and anthropologist who is regarded as the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees.

Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960.

While in Tanzania, she reported human-like behaviours amongst chimpanzees, including armed conflict.