Famous Dyslexics

“The future can be bright; dyslexics do and can succeed.”

-Margaret Byrd Rawson

· Agatha Christie, English mystery writer

· Tom Cruise, actor

· Whoopi Goldberg, actress

· Walt Disney, founder of Disneyland, cartoonist

· Charles Schwab, founder of the investment brokerage firm

· Thomas Edison, inventor

· Winston Churchill, former prime minister of Britain

· Leonardo Da Vinci, Renaissance artist

· Harrison Ford, actor

· Jay Leno, comedian

· Robin Williams, actor and comedian

· Albert Einstein, scientist

· Nolan Ryan, athlete

· Harry Belafonte, singer, entertainer

· Cher, entertainer, actress

· Danny Glover, actor

· Gustave Flaubert, writer

· William Hewlett, co-founder, Hewlett-Packard

· Andy Warhol, artist

· John Lennon, musician

· Ted Turner, media mogul, philanthropist

· George Burns, actor, comedian

· Alexander Graham Bell, inventor

· Bruce Jenner, Olympian athlete

· George Patton, U.S. general

· Tom Smothers, comedian

· Henry Winkler, actor

· Billy Bob Thornton, actor

· Nelson Rockefeller, former governor of New York

· Woodrow Wilson, former U.S. president

· William Yeats, poet

· Hans Christian Anderson, author