Exceptional People With Learning Differences


The Following Are Reported to Have Dyslexia:
ART
Auguste Rodine
Leonardo da Vinci
Robert Rauschenberg

ACTORS
Tom Cruise
Cher
Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
Harry Anderson (Night Court)
Susan Hampshire (Upstairs, Downstairs)
Whoopie Goldburg
Robin Williams
Loretta Young
Brooke Theiss (Just the Ten of Us)
Fred Astaire
Harry Belafonte
George Burns
Enrico Caruso
Dave Foley
Harrison Ford
Danny Glover
Tracey Gold
Jay Leno
River Phoenix
Edward James Olmos
Oliver Reed
Billy Bob Thornton
Tom Smothers

ATHLETICS
Bruce Jenner (Olympic Decathelon .80)
Greg Louganis (Olympic Diver '80,'84,'88)
Jackie Stewart (Race Car Driver)
Muhammad Ali
Duncan Goodhew (Olympic Swimmer)
Magic Johnson
Nolan Ryan (Baseball Pitcher)
Bob May (Golfer)
Diamon Dallas Page (World Wrestling Champion)
Steve Redgrave (Olympic Rower)

AVIATION
Charles Lindburgh

ARMED SERVICES
General George Patton
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

BUSINESS
G. Chris Anderson (Managing Director of Drexel Burnham - Wall Street Investment banking firm)
Richard C. Strauss (Dallas real estate developer)
Fred Curry (Chairman & CEO of Greyhound Bus)
Chick Thompson (produces commercial videos)

SCIENTIST & INVENTORS
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Ann Bancroft (Artic Explorer)
Michael Faraday
Werner Von Braun
John Robert Skoyles (Brain Researcher)
Archer Martin (Chemist)

MEDICINE
Dr. Larry Silver (Child Psychologist - The Misunderstood Child)
Dr. Harvey Cushing (Brain Surgeon)
William James (Psychologist, Philosopher)
Paul Ehrlich (German bacteriologist)
Fred Epstein (Neurosurgeon)
John R Horner (Paleontologist)
Dr James Lovelock

POLITICS
Nelson Rockerfeller
Woodrow Wilson
Winston Churchill
Frank Dunkle (Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

WRITERS
Hans Christian Anderson
Agatha Christie
William Butler Yeats
Stephen J. Cannell (TV writer/producer: A-Team. Rockford Files, Hardcastle & McCormick Baretta)

EXPLORERS
Ann Bancroft (First woman to reach North Pole by dog sled)

EDUCATION
Dr. Donald Lyman (teacher, author: Making the Words Stand Still)
Dr. Elizabeth Wiig (educator, speaker, author of five hooks)
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (president of Harvard University)
Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper (educator, locturer, author)

MUSICIANS & VOCALISTS
Cher
Brad Little
John Lennon
Bob Weir (Gratefull Dead)
Nigel Kennedy (Violinist)


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