Peter Mark Roget, best remembered as the person who compiled Roget’s Thesaurus. He was a physician by trade, but was actually pretty slow to start up that career, taking multiple detours along the way. Biographers noted that he suffered from depression most of his life, and, from an early age, compiled lists as a relaxation mechanism. After he retired as a physician, he earnestly compiled lists and lists of meanings of words and phrases, and indexed and organized them so that they could be referenced.

Mozart. Dude heard an exclusive Catholic track and copied it at 14.

So I am sure he had a touch of the 'tism.

Alfred Krupp, German steel manufacturer, inventor, and the largest arms dealer of his age.

He was obsessed with building cannons and built the first successful breech loading cannon of cast steel. Common wisdom was that such cannons would explode and kill their operators. He kept building cannons even though nobody would buy them.

He was an extreme hypocondriac who also suffered from depression. He would not leave his bed for weeks or months at a time. He would weigh anyone who visited his house and kept over thirty years of records before he died. He loved the smell of horse dung and had his office built over the stables so he could always smell it.

Alan Turing, I bet

Isaac Newton.

There is a legit theory in historical circles that Galileo Galilei was brcause he clearly didn’t understand some social conventions. Additionally, he was really ok with home arrest.

Henry Cavendish

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cavendish

Scientific genius, asocial and probably asexual, extremely shy, especially so around women, could only talk to one person at a time, and then only if he knew them, and they were male. Also the largest depositor at the Bank of England in his day.

Thomas Jefferson. Good at writing, shit at social conventions. Developed a whole mechanised house via slaves. Slavery might not be an autistic trait, but mechanizing your house is.

I wouldn’t consider him a positive example, but he almost certainly was autistic.

Nikola Tesla

David Lynch.

Euler, most probably.

All religions figures and or founders.

Kant

Nietzsche

Buddha