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IDEAS DYSLEXIA HALL OF FAME

The following are some of the many famous or recognized individuals who are dyslexic, or had symptoms of dyslexia or related learning problems:

 

SCIENCE & INVENTION

Albert Einstein / Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner

Ann Bancroft / Arctic Explorer

Alexander Graham Bell / Inventor

Pierre Curie, Physicist (1903 Nobel Prize)

Thomas Edison / Inventor

Michael Faraday / Physicist

Henry Ford / Inventor

John R. Horner / Paleontologist, author

Willem Hollenbach / Astronomical Photographer & Inventor

William Lear / Inventer

Charles Lindbergh / Aviator

Dr. James Lovelock / pioneer in the development of environmental awareness

Archer Martin / Chemist 1952 Nobel Laureate

Sir Issac Newton / Scientist & Mathematician 

Eli Whitney / Inventor

Orville & Wilbur Wright / Inventors

 

MEDICINE

Harvey Cushing / Neurosurgeon

Fred Epstein / Neurosurgeon

William James / Psychologist 

Dr. Edward Hallowell / Psychiatrist

John Robert Skoyles / Brain Researcher

Margie C. Sweeney / Doctor, author

Helen Taussig / Pediatric Cardiologist  

 

PERFORMING ARTS

Harry Anderson / Actor, comedian

Fred Astaire / Performer

Orlando Bloom / Actor

George Burns / Actor and comedian

Tom Cruise / Actor

Patrick Dempsey / Actor ‘McDreamy’

Harrison Ford / Actor

Dave Foley / Actor

Danny Glover / Actor

Tracey Gold / Actress

Whoopi Goldberg / Actress, comedian

Anthony Hopkins / Actor

Keira Knightley / Actress

Susan Hampshire / Actress

Salma Hayek / Actress

Jay Leno / Comedian, "Tonight Show" host  

Alyssa Milano / Actress

Rosie O'Donnell / Actress, "View" host

Billy Bob Thornton / Actor

Liv Tyler / Actress

Will Smith / Actor, singer

Tom Smothers / Actor, singer, comedian

Henry Winkler / Actor, author

Robin Williams / Actor Comedian

Oliver Reed / Actor

Keanu Reeves / Actor

Edward James Olmos / Actor

Loretta Young / Actress

 

MUSIC

Cher / Actress, singer

Nigel Kennedy / Violinist

Jewel / Singer, actress

Harry Belafonte / Singer, actor, producer, human rights activist

John Lennon / Singer, songwriter, actor, activist

Britney Spears / Singer

River Phoenix / Actor

Bob Weir / Grateful Dead Guitarist

Usher / Singer

 

GOVERNMENT

Erin Brockovich / Activist

George Herbert Walker Bush / 41st U.S. President

George W. Bush / 43rd President of the United States

Winston Churchill / Prime Minister Of England

Jeffrey H. Gallet / Judge

Michael Heseltine / British Prime Minister

Andrew Jackson / 7th President of the United States

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson

Lyndon Johnson / President of the United States

Thomas Jefferson / President of the United States

John Fitzgerald Kennedy / President of the United States

General George S. Patton / General, pilot

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt / First Lady

Nelson Rockefeller / Vice President

Woodrow Wilson / President of the United States

George Washington / President of the United States

Paul Wellstone / U.S. Senator

 

ARTISTS

Ansel Adams / Photographer

Scott Adams / Cartoonist, "Dilbert" creator

David Bailey / British Photographer

Michelangelo Buonarroti / Artist

Leonardo da Vinci / Artist

Walt Disney / Producer, animation artist, theme park pioneer

Guy Ritchie / Film director and husband of Madonna

Pablo Picasso / Artist

Richard Rogers / Architect

Steven Spielberg / Filmmaker

Bennett Strahan / Architect, Artist

Robert Toth / Artist , sculptor

Jørn Utzon / architect, designed Sydney Opera house

Vincent van Gogh / Artist

Andy Warhol / Artist  

 

BUSINESS

Richard Branson / Founder of Virgin Enterprises

John T Chambers / CEO of Cisco Systems

Fred Curry / Chairman & CEO of Greyhound Bus

Bill Gates / Microsoft Founder

Reyn Guyer / Nerf ball developer

William Hewlett / Co-Founder of Hewlett-Packard

Tommy Hilfiger / Fashion designer

Steve Jobs / Founder of Apple Computer

Dave Morrison / Owner / The Right Stuff Centers

Jim Messelbeck / Genentech

Craig McCaw, Telecommunications Visionary.

O.D. McKee, founder of McKee Foods.

David Murdock / CEO of Dole Foods

David Neeleman, CEO of JetBlue Airways.

Paul J. Orfalea / Founder and Chairman of Kinko's

Anthony Parle / Managing Director of Parle Foods

Charles Schwab / Investor & multimillionaire businessman

Raymond Smith / Former CEO of Bell Atlantic

Richard C. Strauss / Real estate developer

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger / Harvard University

Chick Thompson / Commercial video producer

Ted Turner / Founder and President of Turner Broadcasting Systems [link#2]

Thomas J. Watson Jr. / Former CEO of IBM

F.W. Woolworth / Department store innovator

William Wrigley, Jr. / Founder of Wrigley Chewing Gum

 

WRITERS

Avi / Children's author & illustrator

Jeanne Betancourt / Author of "My Name is Brain Brian"

Hans Christian Anderson / Author

Earnest Hemingway / Author

Steven Cannell / TV writer

Lewis Carroll / Author

Agatha Christie / Author

Fannie Flagg / Author

Gustave Flaubert / French novelists [Link#2]

Ronald Davis / Writer, educator

John Irving / Author

Debbie Macomber / Author

Patricia Polacco / Children's author & illustrator

Girard Sagmiller / Author

Elizabeth Daniels Squire / Author

Mark Twain / Author

Bernie Taylor / Author of Biological Time

Victor Villaseñor / Author

William Butler Yeats / Poet

 

ATHLETICS

Terry Bradshaw / Football player, TV host

Rulon Gardner / Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler

Duncan Goodhew / Olympic Swimmer

Bruce Jenner / Olympic Decathlete

Magic Johnson / Basketball player

Greg Louganis / Olympic Diver

Dan O'Brien / Olympic Decathlete

Babe Ruth / Baseball player

Steven Redgrave / Olympic Rower

Jackie Stewart / Race car driver

Neil Smith / Football player, author

Muhammad Ali / Boxer

Bob May / Golfer

Joe Montana / Football player

Diamond Dallas Page / World Wrestling Champion

Jim Shea, Jr. / Gold Medal 2002 Winter Olympics

Nolan Ryan / Baseball player

Billy Banks / Fitness instructor, creator of Tae-Bo

Neil Smith / Football player

 

MORE

Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. / Astronaut

Frank Dunkle /Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Vince McMahon / World Wrestling Entertainment Founder

Jamie Oliver / The Naked Chef

Andrew Dornenburg Culinary Artist / Chef / Writer

Marco Pierre White / London's Top Chef

Roger Wilkins / Past Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board / Professor of History

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