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AD/HD or Learning Disabilities
- Ansel Adams
- Terry Bradshaw
- Charlotte & Emily Bronte
- George H.W. Bush
- Jim Carrey
- Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain)
- Salvador Dali
- Emily Dickinson
- Thomas Edison
- Henry Ford
- Benjamin Franklin
- Bill Gates
- John F. Kennedy
- Abraham Lincoln
- Mozart
- David Neeleman, founder of JetBlue
- Jack Nicholson
- Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko’s
- Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer
- Elvis Presley
- Pete Rose
- Sylvester Stallone
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Robin Williams
- The Wright Brothers
Dyslexia
- Hans Christian Anderson
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Harry Belafonte
- Richard Branson, founder of Virgin
- George W. Bush, former U.S. president
- Stephen Cannell, producer of “A Beautiful Mind”
- Lewis Carroll
- Prince Charles
- Cher
- Agatha Christie
- Winston Churchill
- Bill Cosby
- Walter Cronkite
- Tom Cruise
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Walt Disney
- Albert Einstein
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Danny Glover
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Ernest Hemingway
- John Irving
- Thomas Jefferson
- Bruce Jenner
- “Magic” Johnson
- John Lennon
- Jay Leno
- Greg Louganis
- Isaac Newton
- Paul J. Orfalea, founder of Kinko’s
- General George Patton
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Nelson Rockefeller, former U.S. vice president
- Charles Schwab
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Woodrow Wilson
Physical Disabilities
- Musicians Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles are blind.
- Violinist Itzhak Perlman and president Franklin Delano Roosevelt had polio.
- Actress Marlee Matlin is deaf.
- Stephen Hawking, scientist and author of A Brief History of Time, has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease).
- Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Harriet Tubman all had epilepsy.
- Senators Bob Dole and Daniel Inouye both sustained disabling injuries during World War II.
- Baseball player Jim Abbott was born with one hand yet pitched in the major leagues.
Did Poorly in School
- Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for President Reagan and author
- Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape
- Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy’s Life, graduate of Oxford and Stanford English professor
- Charles Schulz, creator of “Peanuts” comic strip
