actually just the name ptsd is new..it has been recognized as a battlefield disorder dating back to the civil war...combatants would talk of 'seeing the elephant" and then be shell shocked, battle fatigued etc....that was what we call ptsd...

it just wasn't as openly applied to others having to deal with issues as wide ranging as it is today.

so i would say that audie murphy, or any other famous vet had ptsd...read the book "flag of our fathers" if you want to read a story of how ptsd destroyed some of the men who raised the flag on iwo jima...

survivors guilt also would be ptsd...anyone who survived any major accident & received publicity over it would be a classic case..such as the rescuers involved in 9/11...maybe these aren't the type of famous people you are looking for but they also were in the media & have had to deal with the press in many instances along with their memories...& that is one of the most difficult situations there is. you want to be honest but yet feel the need to not be at the same time....