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This is a list of notable people who have been described as recluses, individuals who live in voluntary seclusion from the public and society. Excluded are religious hermits , as well as people who live otherwise normal lives but value their privacy.
The Recluse" is an epithet applied to: Abramios the Recluse (290–360), Christian hermit and ascetic from Edessa; Herman the Recluse, according to legend, a 13th-century Benedictine monk who wrote the Codex Gigas, also known as the Devil's Bible; Theophan the Recluse (1815–1894), Russian Orthodox saint, bishop and monk
A recluse is a person who lives in voluntary seclusion and solitude. The word is from the Latin recludere , which means 'shut up' or 'sequester'. Examples of recluses are Symeon of Trier , who lived within the great Roman gate Porta Nigra with permission from the Archbishop of Trier , or Theophan the Recluse , a 19th-century Orthodox Christian ...
That's why she was taking Mandrax and became a recluse.” Callas was found dead in her Paris apartment at the age of 53. The cause of death was a heart attack.
A man who was found dead outside of his battered New York home had the appearance of a hermit - but he was worth millions. George Konnight, 79, kept to himself after his sister died, and police ...
Christopher Thomas Knight (born December 7, 1965), also known as the North Pond Hermit, is an American former recluse and burglar who claimed to have lived without human contact (with two very brief exceptions) for 27 years between 1986 and 2013 in the North Pond area of Maine's Belgrade Lakes.
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Huguette Marcelle Clark / uː ɡ ɛ t k l ɑː r k / [3] (June 9, 1906 – May 24, 2011) was an American painter, heiress, and philanthropist, who became well known again late in life as a recluse, living in hospitals for more than 20 years while her various mansions remained unoccupied.