Famous People Who Have Dyslexia
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Famous People who have Dyslexia Actors & Entertainers: Artists, Designers, & Architects: • Harry Anderson • Leonardo da Vinci. • Orlando Bloom • Ansel Adams , Photographer. • Harry Belafonte • David Bailey , Photographer. • Charley Boorman • Chuck Close . • Jim Carrey • Ignacio Gomez , Muralist. • Danny Glover • Tommy Hilfiger , Clothing Designer. • Whoopi Goldberg • Ian Marley , Contemporary Artist, South Africa. • Susan Hampshire • Pablo Picasso. • Jay Leno • Robert Rauschenberg. • Christopher Lowell • Auguste Rodin. • Keanu Reeves . • Bennett Strahan • Kiera Knightley • Robert Toth • • Oliver Reed. Jørn Utzon (architect, designed Sydney Opera house) • Billy Bob Thornton. • Andy Warhol. • Tom Smothers • Willard Wigan , micro sculptor. • Vince Vaughn • Henry Winkler Law & Justice: • Loretta Young • David Boies , Attorney. • Erin Brockovich, Investigator. Inventors & Scientists: • Jeffrey H. Gallet, Judge. • Ann Bancroft, Arctic Explorer. • Alexander Graham Bell. • John Britten, Inventor. Entrepreneurs & Business Leaders: • Pierre Curie , Physicist (1903 Nobel Prize). • • Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Enterprises. Thomas Edison. • • John T Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems. Albert Einstein. • • Henry Ford . Michael Faraday. • • William Hewlett , Co-Founder, Hewlett-Packard. Carol Greider , Molecular Biologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine. • • Ingvar Kamprad , founder of IKEA. Jack Horner, Paleontologist. • • Sir Peter Leitch , New Zealand businessman Dr. Peter Lovatt , psychologist and dancer. • • Craig McCaw , Telecommunications Visionary. Dr. James Lovelock. • • O.D. McKee , founder of McKee Foods. Paul MacCready "Engineer of the Century." • • David Neeleman , CEO of jetBlue Airways. Archer Martin , Chemist (1952 Nobel Laureate) • • Paul J. Orfalea , founder of Kinko's. Matthew H. Schneps , Astrophysicist • • Charles Schwab , Investor. John R. Skoyles , Brain Researcher. • Ted Turner , President, Turner Broadcasting Systems. • Military Heroes: Robert Woodruff , President of Coca-Cola, 1923-1954. • • Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson . Frank W. Woolworth . • George Patton . Read more: http://www.dyslexia.com/famous.htm#ixzz3EpKNK2Ft Famous People who have Dyslexia Athletes: Writers & Journalists: • Muhammad Ali , World Heavyweight Champion Boxer • Scott Adams , Cartoonist (Dilbert) • Meryl Davis Olympic Gold Medalist, Figure Skating. • Hans Christian Andersen • Duncan Goodhew , Olympic Swimmer • Avi • Bruce Jenner , Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist • Jeanne Betancourt . • Magic Johnson • Stephen Cannell , television writer & novelist. • Greg Louganis • John Corrigan , novelist. • Bob May, golfer. • Larry Chambers . • Diamond Dallas Page , World Wrestling Champion. • Agatha Christie . • Steve Redgrave , Olympic Gold Medalist (rowing). • John Edmund Delezen . • Nolan Ryan , Baseball Pitcher. • Andrew Dornenburg , author and chef. • Rex Ryan , Coach. • Richard Engel , NBC Foreign Correspondent. • Jackie Stewart , race car driver. • Fannie Flagg. • Political Leaders: F. Scott Fitzgerald . • Gustave Flaubert . • King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden . • Sally Gardner , children's writer and illustrator. • Andrew Jackson . • Terry Goodkind fantasy writer. • Dan Malloy , Governor of Connecticut. • Byron Pitts , CBS News Correspondent. • Gavin Newsom , Mayor of San Francisco; Lieutenant • Patricia Polacco , Children's Author and Illustrator. Governor of California. • • Nelson Rockefeller . Eileen Simpson (Author of "Reversals"). • • Natasha Solomons , contemporary novelist. Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator. • • Philip Schultz , winner of 2008 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Woodrow Wilson . • • George Washington . Elizabeth Daniels Squire (author of mystery novels). • Bernie Taylor , author of Biological Time. • Victor Villaseñor , author of bestselling novel, Rain of Gold Filmmakers: • William Butler Yeats , poet. • Robert Benton . • Nicole Betancourt , Emmy-winning filmmaker. • Walt Disney. Physicians & Surgeons: • Søren KraghJacobsen (Danish film director). • • Steven Spielberg Harvey Cushing, Surgeon. • Fred Epstein, Neurosurgeon. Musicians & Vocalists: • Cher . • Brad Little . • John Lennon . • Nigel Kennedy, Violinist. • Ludwig van Beethoven • Bob Weir , Grateful Dead Guitarist. Read more: http://www.dyslexia.com/famous.htm#ixzz3EpKNK2Ft.