Notable Cases
- Australian author Colleen McCullough has TN and has undergone surgical treatment in Jan 2010.
- Entrepreneur and author Melissa Seymour was diagnosed with TN in 2009 and underwent microvascular decompression surgery in a well documented case covered by magazines and newspapers which helped to raise public awareness of the illness in Australia. Seymour was subsequently made a Patron of the Trigeminal Neuralgia Association of Australia.
- Jim Fitzpatrick, the British Member of Parliament for Poplar and Limehouse disclosed that he was a sufferer from the condition when launching a Parliamentary debate on it on 27 July 2010.
- Charles Sanders Peirce, who has been called "... the greatest American thinker ever," was a sufferer for most of his life.
- In August 2011, Indian actor Salman Khan disclosed that he has been suffering from trigeminal neuralgia for 7 years. He had surgery for the condition in September 2011.
- Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War also had TN. His first recorded attack was in 1852, when he was 44 years old, and he suffered from this ailment for the remainder of his life.
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