Successful People with Dyslexia:

Actors, Scientists, Artists, Musicians, Entrepreneurs and Writers

Harry AndersonOrlando BloomHarry Belafonte
Ann BancroftTom CruiseDanny Glover
Whoopi GoldbergSusan HampshireJay Leno
Christopher LowellKeanu Reeves.Kiera Knightley
Oliver Reed.Billy Bob Thornton.Tom Smothers
Vince VaughnHenry WinklerLoretta Young
Orlando BloomWhoopi GoldbergRobin Williams
Alexander Graham Bell.John Britten, Inventor.Pierre Curie, Nobel Physicist
Thomas Edison.Albert Einstein.Michael Faraday.
Carol Greider, Nobel Mol. BiologistJack Horner, Paleontologist.Dr. Peter Lovatt, psychologist
Dr. James Lovelock.Paul MacCready EngineerArcher Martin, Nobel Chemist
Matthew Schneps, AstrophysicistJohn Skoyles, Brain Researcher.Leonardo da Vinci.
Ansel Adams, Photographer.David Bailey, Photographer.Chuck Close.
Ignacio Gomez, Muralist.Tommy HilfigerIan Marley, Contemporary Artist
Pablo Picasso.Robert Rauschenberg.Auguste Rodin.
Bennett StrahanRobert TothJørn Utzon, architect
Andy Warhol.Willard Wigan, micro sculptor.Jeffrey H. Gallet, Judge.
 CherBrad LittleErin Brockovich, Investigator.
John LennonThomas “Stonewall” Jackson.George Patton.
Nigel Kennedy, Violinist.Bob Weir, Grateful Dead GuitaristMuhammad Ali
Duncan Goodhew, Olm SwimmerBruce Jenner,Magic Johnson
Greg LouganisBob May, golfer.Dallas Page,Wrestling Champion.
Steve Redgrave, Olympic rowingNolan Ryan, Baseball Pitcher.Rex Ryan, Coach.
Jackie Stewart, race car driver.King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.Fred Epstein, Neurosurgeon.
Andrew JacksonHarvey Cushing, Surgeon.Dan Malloy, Gov of Connecticut.
Gavin NewsomGeorge Washington.Paul Wellstone, U.S. Senator.
Woodrow Wilson.Nelson Rockefeller.David Boies, Attorney.
Richard Branson, CEO Virgin Enterprises.John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems.Henry Ford
William HewlettIngvar Kamprad, founder, IKEA.Sir Peter Leitch
Craig McCaw, Telecommunications Visionary.O.D. McKee, founder of McKee Foods.David Neeleman, CEO of jetBlue Airways.
Paul J. Orfalea, founder of Kinko’s.Charles Schwab, Investor.Ted Turner, President, Turner Broadcasting Systems.
Robert Woodruff, President of Coca-Cola, 1923-1954.Frank W. Woolworth.Robert Benton.
Nicole Betancourt, Emmy-winning filmmaker.Walt Disney.Søren KraghJacobsen (Danish film director).
Steven SpielbergBernie Taylor, Biological Time
Scott Adams, Cartoonist (Dilbert)Hans Christian AndersenAvi
Jeanne Betancourt, My Name is Brain BrianStephen Cannell, tv writer novelistJohn Corrigan, novelist.
Larry Chambers.Agatha Christie.John Edmund Delezen, Eye of the Tiger and Red Plateau.
Andrew Dornenburg, award-winning author and chef.Richard Engel, NBC Foreign Correspondent.Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
F. Scott FitzgeraldGustave FlaubertSally Gardner, author/illustrator.
Terry Goodkind The Sword of Truth seriesByron Pitts, News CorrespondentPatricia Polacco, author/illustrator
Eileen Simpson, ReversalsNatasha Solomons, novelistPhilip Schultz, Pulitzer, poetry
Elizabeth Daniels SquireWilliam Butler Yeats, poetVictor Villaseñor, Rain of Gold