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Famous People with Learning Disabilities*

Albert Einstein Gen. George Patton Gregory Boyington


Galileo Agatha Christie Harry Belafonte
Mozart John F. Kennedy F. Scott Fitzgerald
Wright Brothers Whoopi Goldberg Mariel Hemingway
Leonardo da Vinci Rodin Steve McQueen
Cher Thomas Thoreau George C. Scott
Bruce Jenner David H. Murdock Tom Smothers
Tom Cruise Dustin Hoffman Suzanne Somers
Charles Schwab Pete Rose Lindsay Wagner
Henry Winkler Russell White George Bernard
Danny Glover Jason Kidd Shaw
Walt Disney Russell Varian Beethoven
John Lennon Robin Williams Carl Lewis
Greg Louganis Louis Pasteur Jackie Stewart
Winston Churchill Werner von Braun "Magic" Johnson
Henry Ford Dwight D. Eisenhower Weyerhauser family
Stephen Hawkings Robert Kennedy Wrigley
Jules Verne Luci Baines Johnson John Corcoran
Alexander Graham Bell Nugent Sylvester Stallone
Woodrow Wilson Prince Charles Walt Whitman
Hans Christian Louisa May Alcott Jay Leno
Anderson J. C. Penney
Nelson A. Rockefeller Gen. Westmoreland
Thomas Edison Eddie Rickenbacker
*as reported by the media
Information on famous people with learning disabilities was adapted from the
following sites:

Child Development Institute. Famous People with Attention Deficit and Learning
Disabilities. Retrieved from the World Wide Web on 10/15/01.
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/disorders/famous.shtml.

Schwab Learning. Successful People with LD and AD/HD. Retrieved from the World
Wide Web on 10/15/01.
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/disorders/famous.shtml.

One A.D.D. Place. Famous People with Attention Deficit and Learning Disorders.
Retrieved from the World Wide Web on 10/15/01.
http://www.oneaddplace.com/famous.htm.

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