Famous Dyslexics
These famous folks haven't "overcome" their dyslexia, it is because they are dyslexic that they have the visionary gifts that they've used to excel:
Actors, Filmmakers:
Jennifer Aniston, Fred Astaire, Robert Benton, Orlando Bloom, Jim Carrey, Tom Cruise, Walt Disney, Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Woody Harrelson, Anthony Hopkins, Kiera Knightley, Jay Leno, Steve McQueen, Keanu Reeves, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Spielberg, Will Smith, Octavia Spencer, Quentin Tarantino, Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Williams, Henry Winkler
Architects and Designers:
Michael Faraday, Christopher Lowell, Richard Rogers
Artists and Musicians:
Ansel Adams, Beethoven, Harry Belafonte, Cher, Leonardo Da Vinci, John Lennon, Mozart, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, Bob Weir, Willard Wigan, Andy Worhol
Athletes:
Muhammad Ali, Magic Johnson, Bob May, Diamond Dallas Page, Steve Redgrave, Pete Rose, Jackie Stewart
Educators:
Bill Bowen, Dean Bragonier, Ben Foss
Entrepreneurs:
Josh Almeida, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Craig McCaw, David Neeleman, Charles Schwab
Law and Justice:
David Boies, Erin Brockovich
Leaders:
Winston Churchill, Benjamin Franklin, Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Gavin Newsom, Nelson Rockefeller, Erna Solberg, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson
Military:
Dwight D. Eisenhower, George Patton, General Westmoreland
Scientists and Inventors:
Ann Bancroft, Alexander Graham Bell, Pierre Curie, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Henry Ford, Carol Greider, Jack Horner, Archer J. P. Martin, Ky Michaelson
Writers—Fiction Writers:
Stephen Cannell, Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie, John Corrigan, Jane Elson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fannie Flagg, Gustave Flaubert, Vince Flynn, Terry Goodkind, John Irving, Edgar Allen Poe, Anne Rice, Natasha Solomons, Elizabeth Daniels Squire, Jules Verne, Tom West
Writers—Journalists:
Scott Adams, Anja Dembina, Richard Engel, Byron Pitts
Writers—Literature for Children and Young Adults:
Avi, Hans Christian Andersen, Jeanne Betancourt, Amber Lee Dodd, Sally Gardner, Patricia Polacco
Writers—Nonfiction:
Charley Boorman, Larry Chambers, John Edmund Delezen, Andrew Dornenburg, Nelson Lauver, Eileen Simpson, Bernie Taylor
Writers—Poets:
Philip Schultz, William Butler Yeats