Famous People With Learning Differences

These and many other successful and famous people give hope to those who struggle with

learning differences. They are not alone and they too can achieve success.

ACTORS
Harry Anderson (Night Court)

Cher

Tom Cruise
Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy)

Brian Grazer (Producer of Apollo 13)

Susan Hampshire (Upstairs, Downstairs)

Robin Williams

Henry Winkler (Happy Days)
Loretta Young

 

ART
Chuck Close

Leonardo da Vinci

Tommy Hilfiger

Robert Rauschenberg

Auguste Rodine

 

ATHLETES
Billy Blanks (martial artist/actor)

Terry Bradshaw (NFL quarterback)

Scott Eyre (San Francisco Giants pitcher)

Cammi Granato (Olympic Ice Hockey)

Bruce Jenner (Olympic Decathlon '80)

Mike Lorenz (New England Patriots lineman)
Greg Louganis (Olympic Diver '80, '84, '88)

John E. Morgan (PGA Champion)

Jim Shea (Olympic small sled event, 1st 3rd 

   generation Winter Olympian in US history)

Neil Smith  (San Diego Chargers defensive end)
Jackie Stewart (race car driver)

 

AVIATION
Charles Lindbergh

 

ARMED SERVICES
General George Patton

 

BUSINESS
G. Chris Anderson (Managing Director of Drexel

   Burnham - Wall Street Investment banking firm)

John Chambers (CEO of Cisco Systems)

 

Richard C. Strauss (Dallas real estate developer)

Fred Curry (Chairman & CEO of Greyhound Bus)
Paul Offalea (Kinkos founder)

Charles Schwab (Charles Schwab Corporation    founder)

Diane Swonk (Sr. Managing Director, Mesirow Financial,

   one of nation's largest banks)

Chick Thompson (produces commercial videos)

Donald Winkler (CEO of Ford Motor Credit)

 

EDUCATION
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (president of Harvard University)

Dr. Donald Lyman (teacher, author: Making the Words Stand

   Still)
Dr. Ann McGee-Cooper (educator, lecturer, author)

Dr. Elizabeth Wiig (educator, speaker, author of five books)

EXPLORERS
Ann Bancroft (First woman to reach North Pole by dog sled)

 

MEDICINE
Dr. Harvey Cushing (brain surgeon)

Paul Ehrlich (German bacteriologist)

William James (psychologist, philosopher)
Dr. Larry Silver (Child Psychologist - The Misunderstood Child)

 

POLITICS
Frank Dunkle (Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

Winston Churchill

Nelson Rockefeller
Woodrow Wilson
 

SCIENCE
Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein


WRITERS
Hans Christian Anderson

Stephen J. Cannell (TV writer/producer: A-Team, Rockford Files,

   Hardcastle & McCormick, Baretta)

Agatha Christie
Patricia Polocco
William Butler Yeats

 

"No matter what you do…just give it your best shot!"  ¯ Whoopi Goldberg 

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