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Here is the Famous dyslexics list - list
of famous people with dyslexia
Nelson Rockefeller - As a lad of nine, he did not know the letters of
the alphabet. He was thought of as dull and backward. He entered Davidson
College but his grades were mediocre.
Cher - one famous dyslexic women - This famous entertainer has
achieved success in tow major fields of entertainment. But because of a math
learning disability, she has a challenge with remembering phone numbers and
balancing a checkbook.
Thomas Edison - His teacher though him to be mentally ill. His mother
withdrew the child from school and taught him herself.
F.W. Woolworth - As a child he was labeled as slow.
George Patton - When he was twelve years old, he could not read yet and
he remained deficient in reading all his life. However, he could memorize entire
lectures, which was how he got through school. famous people with add
Walt Disney - Fired from the Kansas City new paper for not being
creative, he was also labeled as slow as a child.
Winston Churchill - This statesman could be called
academically disadvantage. He failed grade eight, did terrible in math and
generally hated school.
Woodrow Wilson - He had great difficulty in reading: in fact,
throughout his life, he was unable to read well. Despite this, he was extremely
successful in politics.
Albert Einstein - He could not talk until the age of four.
He did not learn to read until he was nine. His teachers considered him slow,
unsociable and a dreamer. He failed the entrance examinations to college but
finally passed the after an additional year of preparation. He lost three
teaching positions and then became a paten clerk. famous people with learning
disability
Hans Christian Anderson - Had difficulty in reading and writing but for
years people have cherished his wonderful stories. famous people with dyspraxia
Tom Cruise and dyslexia - Despite being a success in his chosen field,
this entertainer can learn lines only by listening to a tape.
Agatha Christie - Had a learning disability called dysgraphia, which
prevented an understood or legible written work. As a result, all material had
to be dictated to a typist/transcriptionist.
16-year-old boy writing
"We set out early with Intent to Run round the sd. Land but being taken in a
Rain &it Increasing very fast obliged us to return. It clearning about one
o'Clock & our time being too Precious to Loose we a second time ventured out &
Worked hard till Night & then returned to pEnningtons we got our Suppoers & was
Lighted in to a Room & I not being so good a Woodsman as the rest of my Company
striped my slef very orderly & went in to the Bed as they call'd it when to my
Surprize I found it to be northing but a Little Straw-matted together without
Sheets or any thing else but only on Thread Bear blanket with double its Weight
of Vermin such as Lice Feas & c. Had we not have been very Tired, Ia, sure we
should not have slep'd much that night. I made a Promise not to Sleep so from
that time forward chusing rather to sleep in the open Air before a fire as will
Appear hereafter."
It is interesting to note that his is an example from the writing of the
first president of the United States, George Washington who
professionals believe was dyslexic.
famous Actors & Entertainers with learning disability
& dyslexia:
Harry Andersen.Fred Astaire.Harry
Belafonte.George Burns.Enrico Caruso.Tom
Cruise.Dave
Foley.Harrison Ford.Danny
Glover.Tracey Gold.Whoopi
Goldberg.Susan
Hampshire.Jay Leno.River
Phoenix.Edward
James Olmos.Jill Pages, Trapeze Artist.Oliver
Reed..Tom Smothers.Cher.
Jewel.Henry Winkler.Loretta Young..
Artists, Designers, & Architects with learning
disability:
Ansel Adams, Photographer..David
Bailey, Photographer..Leonardo
da Vinci..Ignacio
Gomez, Muralist..Pablo
Picasso..Robert
Rauschenberg..Auguste Rodin..Bennett
Strahan.Robert Toth.J?rn Utzon
(architect, designed Sydney Opera house).Andy
Warhol..
Athletes with learning disability:
Muhammad Ali, World Heavyweight Champion Boxer.Ann
Bancroft, Arctic Explorer.. Duncan
Goodhew, Olympic Swimmer. Bruce
Jenner, Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist.Magic Johnson. Greg
Louganis. Bob
May, golfer.. Diamond Dallas Page,
World Wrestling Champion.. Steve
Redgrave, Olympic Gold Medalist (rowing).. Nolan
Ryan, Baseball Pitcher for the Texas Rangers.. Jackie
Stewart, race car driver..
Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders with learning disability:
Richard Branson
Founder of Virgin Enterprises. John
T Chambers,CEO of Cisco Systems.Henry Ford.. William
Hewlett, Co-Founder, Hewlett-Packard. Craig
McCaw, Telecommunications Visionary.. Paul
J. Orfalea, founder of Kinko's.. Charles
Schwab, Investor..Ted Turner, President, Turner Broadcasting Systems.F.W.
Woolworth.
Filmmakers with learning disability:
Nicole Betancourt
Emmy-winning filmmaker.Walt Disney.S?ren Kragh Jacobsen (Danish film director).
Inventors & Scientists with learning disability:
Alexander Graham Bell.. Thomas
Edison. . Albert
Einstein.. Michael Faraday.. Dr.
James Lovelock..John R. Horner, Paleontologist.. John
Robert Skoyles, Brain Researcher..Werner Von Braun.
Law & Justice with learning disability:
David Boies,
Attorney.. Erin
Brockovich, Investigator.. Jeffrey
H. Gallet, Judge..
Military Heroes with learning disability:
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson.. George
Patton..
Physicians & Surgeons with learning disability
Harvey Cushing, Surgeon.. Fred
Epstein,Neurosurgeon..
Political Leaders with learning disability:
Winston Churchill.. King
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden..Michael Heseltine.. Andrew
Jackson..Thomas Jefferson..John F. Kennedy.. Nelson
Rockefeller.. Paul
Wellstone,U.S. Senator.. Woodrow
Wilson.. George
Washington..
Writers with learning disability:
Hans Christian Andersen.. Avi.. Jeanne
Betancourt, (Author of "My Name is Brain Brian").. Steven
Cannell, television writer & novelist.. Agatha
Christie..Fannie Flagg (Author of "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop
Cafe")..Gustave Flaubert.. Patricia
Polacco, Children's Author and Illustrator.. Elizabeth
Daniels Squire(author of mystery novels). Victor
Villase?or.W.B. Yeats. Mr.
Author of Dyslexia My Life .
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"Dyslexia is not a disease to have and to be
cured of, but a way of thinking and learning. Often it's a gifted mind waiting
to be found and taught. " - DML
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