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Famous People with dyslexia

Inventors & Scientists

  • Henry Ford

  • The Wright Brothers

  • Michael Faraday, electromagnets

  • Alexander Graham Bell, telephone

  • Carol Greider, Molecular Biologist

  • John Robert Skoyles, brain researcher

  • Ann Bancroft, explorer

  • Pierre Curie, Physicist

  • Harvey Cushing, Surgeon

  • Sir Isaac Newton, Scientist

  • Thomas Edison, light bulb

  • Albert Einstein, inventor

  • Fred Epstein, Neurosurgeon

  • Galileo Galilei, scientist

  • Willem Hollenbach, inventor

  • John R. Horner, Paleontologist

  • Archer Martin, Chemist

  • Louis Pasteur, Microbiologist

  • Helen B. Taussig, Cardiologist

  • Werner Von Braun, rockets

  • Eli Whitney, cotton gin

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Athletes

  • Babe Ruth

  • Jason Kidd

  • Nolan Ryan

  • Jackie Stewart

  • Muhammad Ali

  • Scott Quinnell

  • Duncan Goodhew

  • Magic Johnson

  • Greg Louganis

  • Bob May

  • Diamond Dallas Page

  • Steve Redgrave

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Writers

  • Jules Verne

  • Agatha Christie

  • Avi

  • John Corrigan

  • Steven Cannell

  • Samuel R. Delaney

  • Andrew Dornenburg

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Fannie Flagg

  • Gustave Flaubert

  • John Irving

  • Elizabeth Daniels Squire

  • Patricia Polacco

  • Eileen Simpson

  • Bernie Taylor

  • Victor Villasenor

  • Edgar Allen Poe

  • W.B. Yeats

  • Jeanne Betancourt

  • Hans Christian Anderson

  • Sir Francis Bacon

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Musicians

  • Ludwig Van Beethoven

  • Harry Belafonte

  • Noel Gallagher

  • Nigel Kennedy

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

 

Political Leaders

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Prince Charles

  • George Washington

  • Winston Churchill

  • George W. Bush

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

  • George H. W. Bush

  • Princess Beatrice

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • Robert Kennedy

  • John F. Kennedy

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

  • King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden

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Actors & Entertainers

  • Fred Astaire

  • Loretta Young

  • Harry Anderson

  • Harry Belafonte

  • Lindsay Wagner

  • Orlando Bloom

  • Patrick Dempsey

  • Dave Foley

  • Loretta Young

  • Harrison Ford

  • Danny Glover

  • Tracey Gold

  • Whoopi Goldberg

  • Susan Hampshire

  • Salma Hayek

  • Anthony Hopkins

  • Keira Knightley

  • Jay Leno

  • Edward James Olmos

  • Oliver Reed

  • Keanu Reeves

  • Will Smith

  • Tom Smothers

  • Suzanne Somers

  • Billy Bob Thornton

  • Vince Vaughn

  • Robin Williams

  • Henry Winkler

  • Loretta Young

  • Robert Benton

  • Nicole Betancourt

  • Walt Disney

  • Soren Kragh Jacobsen

  • Steven Spielberg

  • ​Henry Winkler 

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Artists

  • Pablo Picasso

  • Ansel Adams

  • Alice Williams, Photography

  • Andy Warhol

  • August Rodin

  • Bennett Strahan

  • David Bailey, Photographer

  • Ignacio Gomez, Muralist

  • Jorn Utzoh, Architect

  • Leonardo da Vinci

  • Michelangelo

  • Robert Rauschenberg

  • Robert Toth

  • Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

  • Vincent Van Gogh

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Military Heroes

  • “Stonewall” Jackson

  • George Patton

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Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders

  • Nelson Rockefeller, Philanthropist

  • G. Chris Anderson, Paine Webber

  • William Hewlett, Hewlett-Packard

  • Ted Turner, Turner Broadcasting

  • Paul J. Orfalea, Kinko’s

  • Craig McCaw, telecom.

  • John T. Chambers, Cisco

  • Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA

  • O.D. McKee, McKee Foods

  • Richard Branson, Virgin Ent.

  • David Neeleman, JetBlue Air

  • Charles Schwab, Investor

  • F.W. Woolworth, retail

  • Steve Jobs, Founder of Apple

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Law & Justice

  • David Boies, Attorney

  • Erin Brockovich, Investigator

  • Jeffrey H. Gallet, Judge

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