List of people with dyslexia
The following people all have or had some degree of dyslexia:
- Scott Adams
- Tim Armstrong
- Eric B. Borgman
- Richard Branson
- George H.W. Bush
- Tom Cruise
- Charles Dance
- Samuel Delany
- Ben Elton
- Harrison Ford
- Henry Ford
- Richard Ford
- Susan George
- Danny Glover
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Duncan Goodhew
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- Susan Hampshire
- Tommy Hilfiger
- Eddie Izzard
- Thomas Jefferson
- John F. Kennedy
- Jodie Kidd
- Jay Leno
- Sid Meier
- Lawrence Oliver
- Steve Redgrave
- Oliver Reed
- Keanu Reeves
- Guy Ritchie
- Scott Robinson
- Nelson Rockefeller
- Anita Roddick
- Rodin
- Charles Schwab
- Jackie Stewart
- George Washington
- Thomas J. Watson, Jr.
- Willard Wigan
- Robin Williams
- Woodrow Wilson
- Henry Winkler
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Carl XVI Gustaf
The following people are thought by some to have had dyslexia, but it has been denied or disputed:
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Winston Churchill
- Walt Disney
- Thomas Edison
- Albert Einstein
- Michael Faraday
- Keira Knightley
- Pablo Picasso
- Leonardo da Vinci
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A number of eminent scholars throughout history have suffered from varying degree of dyslexia. Among those speculated to have been afflicted with dyslexia are: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Michael Faraday, Walt Disney and many others.
Partly in an effort to remove the stigma attached to the disorder, many people have confirmed that they have dyslexia to varying degrees:
- HM The King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
- Ann Bancroft
- Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings and Kingdom of Heaven)
- Richard Branson (Virgin Group)
- Tom Cruise
- Henry Ford
- Noel Gallagher
- Whoopi Goldberg
- Duncan Goodhew
- Anthony Hopkins
- Ingvar Kamprad (IKEA)
- John F. Kennedy
- Jay Leno
- General George Patton
- Charles Schwab
- Gwen Stefani
- Quentin Tarantino
- Ted Turner (AOL Time Warner)
- George Washington
- Henry Winkler
- Keira Knightley
The list above indicates that those who show reading difficulties in childhood can also cope well with their deficiency later in lives and become avid readers, skilled writers, and entrepreneurs. Some of the people listed in this grouping have erroneously been classified as being dyslexic, however. Albert Einstein, for example, did not posess characteristics of dyslexia, according to many biographers.