- According to Sylvia Nasar's biography of Nash, Alicia allowed him to live with her again in 1970 - seven years after she divorced him - but as a boarder. After he won the Nobel Prize in 1994, they renewed their relationship.
- Son John Charles Martin remained nameless for a year because Alicia, having just committed Nash to a mental hospital, felt that he should have a say in what to name the baby. As was his parents, John grew up to be a mathematician, but, like his father, he was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.
- Sons: John David Stier (born June 19, 1953) by Eleanor Stier; John Charles Martin Nash (born May 20, 1959) by wife Alicia. John David Stier became a nurse (his mother's profession); John Charles Martin Nash became a mathematician, but, like his father, was diagnosed a paranoid schizophrenic.
- Is not the only legendary genius named John Nash to have suffered from a psychological disorder. The British architect John Nash, among whose greatest works were Buckingham Palace and the Royal Pavillion at Brighton, suffered from high-functioning autism.
- Resided in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife Alicia Nash until they were killed in an automobile accident on May 23, 2015.
- John Forbes Nash passed away on May 23, 2015, a month away from what would have been his 87th birthday on June 13.
- John and Alicia Nash were killed in a car accident on May 23, 2015, when the driver of a taxi in which they were passengers lost control of the car and collided with a guard rail and a second car on the New Jersey Turnpike. The New York times said that although the two drivers suffered only minor injures, the Nashes were "ejected from the cab and pronounced dead at the scene"; John was 86 and Alicia was 82.
- According to the Adam Curtis' Documentary "The Trap: What happened to our dream of freedom?", the theories of John Nash were applied unsuccessfully by a man named Alain Enthoeven in both Vietnam and the British Public Sector Services.
- He was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
- He was portrayed by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind (2001).
- She was portrayed by Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind (2001).
- He was nominated for the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts & Letters category.
- He was nominated for the 2018 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
- He was nominated for the 2019-2020 Class of New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
- He was inducted into the 2021 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
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