Some Famous Dyslexics

Actors and Entertainment

• Harry Anderson • Orlando Bloom • Lara Flynn Boyle • George Burns • Doug Bursch • Steven J. Cannell • • Anderson Cooper — CNN Anchor • Bill Cosby's brother and son • • Dom Delouise • Patrick Dempsey • Walt Disney • Sarah Entine — filmmaker • Dave Foley • Luke Ford • Zsa Zsa Gabor • • Tracey Gold — “Growing Pains” • Whoopi Goldberg • Brian Grazer — producer of “A Beautiful Mind” • Woody Harrelson • • • Bob Jimenez — TV anchorman • • Jay Leno • Bruce McCulloch • Steve McQueen • Jack Nicholson • Jamie Oliver — “The Naked Chef” • • George C. Scott • Tom Smothers • Suzanne Somers • • Sylvester Stallone • Daniel Stern • • Lindsay Wagner • • Henry Winkler — “The Fonz”

Musicians • Beethoven • • • Cher • Jewel • John Lennon • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Tom Mulcahy — jazz musician • Aimee Osbourne — Ozzie's eldest

Artists

• Ansel Adams • Scott Adams — creator of Dilbert comic strip • Chuck Close — photorealist portraits • Leonardo da Vinci • Gustave Flaubert • Robert “Bob” Fowler — sculptor & jewelry maker • Allison Merriweather • Michelangelo • P. Buckley Moss • Pablo Picasso • Robert Rauschenberg • Rodin • Charles Schulz — creator of Peanuts comic strip • Robert Toth • Vincent Van Gogh • Margaret Whittington

Designers

Architecture Design o Hugh Newell Jacobsen — winner of 90 different awards for design, including 20 Architectural Record Awards for the best house design of the year. o Richard Rogers — won Pritzker Prize o Takanao Todo — architect

Auto Design o Frank Saucedo — General Motors

Fashion Design o Robert “Bob” Fowler — sculptor & jewelry maker o Tommy Hilfiger — fashion designer

Furniture Design o Martha Sturdy — designer o Mark Wilkinson — kitchen & furniture designer

Landscape Design o Fredrick Law Olmsted — designed Central Park in and Chicago's Grant Park

Other o Jeremy Emerson — chef

Writers and Poets • Hans Christian Andersen • Norla Chee — Native American poet • Agatha Christie • Richard Cohen — syndicated columnist for • Christie Craig — award-winning author • Fanny Flagg — wrote “Fried Green Tomatoes” • Marc Flanagan — TV writer and producer • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Richard Ford — wrote “Independence Day” • John Grisham • John Irving • Debbie Macomber — novelist • Edgar Allen Poe • Patricia Polacco — author and illustrator of children's books • Robert Scheer • Philip Schultz — Pulitzer Prize winner • John Schumacher — cookbook author and chef • Elizabeth Daniels Squire • Thomas Thoreau • Mark Twain • Jules Verne • Victor Villaseñor — Mexican-American writer • William Butler Yeats

Athletes • Mohammad Ali — boxer • Bob Anderson — coach of Olympic team • George Archer — champion golfer • Billy Blanks — captain of 1980 U.S. Olympic Karate Team, Creator of Tae-Bo • Terry Bradshaw • Don Coryell — San Diego football coach, NFL & NCAA • Rulon Gardner — gold medal winner in wrestling, 2000 Summer Olympics • Duncan Goodhew — Olympic swimmer • Ellie Hawkins — rock climber • Adam Heidt — luge competitor • Bruce Jenner • Magic Johnson • • — Olympic diver • Dexter Manley — former NFL player • Pete Rose • Nolan Ryan • Jim Shea, Jr. — gold medal winner in skeleton, 2002 Winter Olympics • Molly Sliney — Olympic fencer • Neil Smith — NFL • Jackie Stewart — inducted into the Grand Prix Hall of Fame • Stan Wattles — Indy race car driver • Eric Wynalda — professional soccer player

Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders • G. Chris Anderson — vice-chairman of PaineWebber • Terri Bowersock — entrepreneur • Richard Branson — founder, Virgin Corporation (airline, music) • John Chambers — CEO, Cisco Systems • Barbara Corcoran — business • William Doyle — chairman, William Doyle Auction Galleries of New York • Fred Friendly — former CBS News president • Malcolm Goodridge III — senior vice president, American Express • Bill Hewlett — co-founder of HP • Jo Malone — CEO of Jo Malone Fragrances of London • Craig McCaw — McCaw Cellular • David Murdock — CEO, Dole Foods • Paul J. Orfalea — founder and chairman, Kinko's copy shops • Evan Paul — college student and entrepreneur • Horst Rechelbacher — Founder of Aveda Corporation • Charles Schwab • Tommy Spaulding — CEO of Up With People • Richard C. Strauss — real-estate financier • Diane Swonk — Bank One • Mark Torrance — CEO, Musak Corporation • Russell Varian • Weyerhauser family • Donald Winkler — CEO of Ford Motor Credit • William Wrigley, Jr.

Government • Napoleon Bonaparte • Gaston Caperton — governor of West Virginia • James Carville — political analyst • Winston Churchill — prime minister of the United Kingdom during World War II • Frank Dunkle — director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service • Dwight D. Eisenhower — 34th U.S. president; World War II general • Jeffrey Gallet — judge • John Hickenlooper — governor of Colorado • Andrew Jackson — 7th president of the • Thomas Kean — governor of New Jersey • John F. Kennedy — 35th president of the United States • Robert Kennedy — senator • Dan Malloy — governor of Connecticut • Carolyn McCarthy — congresswoman • Gavin Newsom — lieutenant governor of • General George Patton • Nelson Rockefeller — Vice President for President Gerald Ford • Franklin Roosevelt — 32nd president of the United States • Anwar Sadat — president of Egypt • Pete Shumlin — governor of Vermont • General Westmoreland • Woodrow Wilson — 28th president of the United States

Science and Medicine • Dr. Maggie Aderin — rocket scientist • Alexander Graham Bell — inventor of the telephone • Baruj Benacerraf, MD — winner of the Nobel prize in Physiology • Charles “Pete” Conrad — astronaut • Dr. Delphos Cogrove — CEO of the Clinic Foundation • Dr. Harvey Cushing — father of modern brain surgery • Charles Darwin • Thomas Edison • Albert Einstein • Dr. Fred Epstein — brain surgeon • Michael Faraday • Henry Ford • Tom Francis — AIDS researcher • Benjamin Franklin • Galileo • Steven Hawkings • Dr. Edward Hallowell — ADD Specialist • Jack Horner — paleontologist • Paul MacCready — “Engineer of the Century” who invented “Gossamer Condor” • James Clerk Maxwell • Louis Pasteur • Dr. Larry Silvers — ADD specialist • James Sorenson — billionaire inventor • William Spicer • Nicolai Tesla • Dr. Ronald Thompson — professor and NIH researcher • — winner 2007 Young Engineer Award • The Wright Brothers

Other Famous Dyslexics • Ann Bancroft — arctic explorer • Erin Brockovich — enviromental activist • HRH Prince Charles — U.K.'s Prince of Wales • Dexter Scott King — son of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and President & CEO of The King Center in Atlanta, GA • Luci Baines Johnson Nugent — daughter of U.S. President Johnson • Roger W. Wilkins — scholar and head of the Pulitzer Prize Board • Peter W.D. Wright — special education attorney