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Top-Earning Deceased Celebrity Of 2009
Posted on 28. Oct, 2009 by CSS.
Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent has been named the Top-Earning Dead Celebrity in a new list compiled by Forbes Magazine.
In its ninth annual listing, Forbes.com said the Frenchman, considered one of the greatest designers of the 20th century has earned $350 million since passing away from brain cancer in June 2008.
Following him were Broadway composers Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein with $235 million, and Michael Jackson, who has clocked $90 million since his death last June. Elvis Presley was fourth with $55 million.
However, according to Matthew Miller, the editor of the list, Jackson is likely to be a bigger earner in years to come.
“He will make tens of millions because he has lucrative publishing rights and rights to all his memorabilia…”
The complete list:
- Yves Saint Laurent
- Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein
- Michael Jackson
- Elvis Presley
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Charles Schulz
- John Lennon
- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
- Albert Einstein
- Michael Crichton
- Jimi Hendrix
- Aaron Spelling
- Andy Warhol
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Top Earning Dead Celebrities
Posted on 01. Nov, 2008 by CSS.
Elvis Presley may have left the building several decades ago, but his earning power is far from diminished with Forbes.com ranking him the top-earning dead celebrity for the second year in a row. Presley pulled in $52 million in the past year, helped by increased visitors to his Graceland estate to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death and new ventures like the Elvis Sirius Satellite Radio show.
The site chose and unlucky/lucky 13 to form their list.
No. 1: Elvis Presley
Earnings: $52 million
Occupation: Singer, actor
Died: Aug. 16, 1977
No. 2: Charles M. Schulz
Earnings: $33 million
Occupation: Cartoonist
No. 3: Heath Ledger
Earnings: $20 million
Occupation: Actor
No. 4: Albert Einstein
Earnings: $18 million
Occupation: Scientist
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No. 5: Aaron Spelling
Earnings: $15 million
Occupation: Television producer
No. 6: Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel)
Earnings: $12 million
Occupation: Author
No. 7: John Lennon
Earnings: $9 million
Occupation: Singer-songwriter
No. 8: Andy Warhol
Earnings: $9 million
Occupation: Artist
No. 9: Marilyn Monroe
Earnings: $6.5 million
Occupation: Actress
No. 10: Steve McQueen
Earnings: $6 million
Occupation: Actor
No. 11: Paul Newman
Earnings: $5 million
Occupation: Actor, philanthropist
No. 12: James Dean
Earnings: $5 million
Occupation: Actor
No. 13: Marvin Gaye
Earnings: $3.5 Million
Occupation: Singer
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31 Famous People That Were Adopted.
Posted on 18. Oct, 2008 by CSS.
Aristotle – Aristotle was the son of Nicomachus, physician to King Amyntas II. His parents died when he was still a very young boy and he was brought up by a guardian, Proxenus, who sent him to Plato’s academy in Athens about 367. He spent 20 years there and eventually founded his own academy.
Art Linkletter – Linkletter was born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He was abandoned by his parents as a child and adopted by an elderly couple who were itinerant evangelists. After several years they settled in San Diego, California, where he was raised in a retirement home. He has hosted a number of popular radio and television programs, such as Art Linkletter’s House Party, The Linkletter Show and Kids Say the Darnedest Things, mostly in the 1940s-60s.
Bo Diddley – Diddley (a nickname he acquired in his high school days) was born Otha Ellas Bates in Mississippi. He was adopted, along with three cousins, by his mother’s cousin and her partner. The family were poor sharecroppers and moved to Chicago in the mid-30s. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the blues and was highly influential on later rhythm and blues and rock musicians.
Buffy Sainte-Marie -She is part Cree and was born on the Piapot Reserve in Canada. She was adopted by a white family from Maine, USA, and raised in Maine and Massachusetts. Her family encouraged her interest in her origins and also her musical talents.
Christina Crawford -Crawford is the adopted daughter of the American movie star Joan Crawford. According to her biography of her mother, made into a movie in 1981, her childhood was bizarre, abusive and unhappy, and ended with her and her adoptive brother being cut out of their mother’s will.
As an adult she has become an advocate for women’s and children’s rights, helping to make child abuse an issue of national concern.
Daunte Culpepper -Culpepper was born to an unmarried teenager in jail for armed robbery (she is now a qualified social worker, with five other children, and they have always been in contact, although he has no interest in meeting his biological father). She gave him to one of the housemothers of the jail, a widow of 62 who had already raised 14 foster children from her own family, when he was a day old. After she was released from jail she claimed Daunte, by now four or five years old back, but he was so unhappy that she returned him to Mrs. Culpepper, whose name he later took. Culpepper played in the NFL for the Vikings, the Oakland Raiders and the Miami Dolphins before retiring prior to this 2008 NFL season.
Dave Thomas -Thomas was adopted as a baby but his adoptive mother died when he was five. His father remarried three times and Thomas had an unsettled childhood. He did not learn he was adopted until he was 13, from his grandmother. From the age of 12 he worked in the restaurant business. He was a high-school dropout and left home after the 10th grade. He founded the Wendy’s franchise restaurant chain in 1969.
Debbie Harry -Harry was adopted aged three months. Her family includes a born-to sister and a cousin who lived with her parents. She spent most of her twenties working at odd jobs, including spells as a secretary, a cocktail waitress and a Playboy bunny girl, and rubbing shoulders with the Andy Warhol set at a club called Max’s Kansas City. She became singer with the group Blondie (1973-81, revived in 1999), and one of the main punk rock figures. She is also an actress, with credits including Union City, Videodrome, Hairspray, Drop Dead Rock and Heavy.
D.M.C. -Darryl “D.M.C.” Matthews McDaniels (birth name Darryl Lovelace), born May 31, 1964 is one of the pioneers of hip hop culture and founding members of the legendary hip hop group Run-D.M.C. In 2000, 35-year-old D got a bombshell from the only mother he’s ever known – she told him he was adopted. The revelation left him stunned and confused.-I don’t know if you remember the VH1 show he had where they followed him on his quest to find his biological family.
Edgar Allan Poe -Poe’s actor parents died before he was three years old (his father had disappeared before he was born and his mother died in 1811) and he was fostered (never formally adopted) by a merchant named John Allan and his wife, Frances, who had been a friend of his mother. He is famous for his short stories and poems, such as “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Gold Bug,” “The Black Cat,” “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”
Faith Hill -Hill (full name: Audrey Faith Perry Hill) was adopted when a few days old by Ted and Edna Perry, who had two older born-two sons and wanted a daughter, and raised in Star, Mississippi. Her birth parents were unmarried, although they married later and had a son. She always has known she was adopted. She began singing in public when she was seven, but did not debut professionally until 1993, although she had her first band when she was 16 or 17. She went to Nashville when she was 19 and worked at various jobs until her big break with Take Me As I Am in 1993.
George Washington Carver - Carver was born into slavery, to a “good” owner, Moses Carver; his mother was the only slave he had ever owned, and she was well-treated. His father, from a neighboring plantation, had been killed in an accident just before his birth. When his mother was stolen by slave raiders, George was still a baby and he and his older brother, Jim, were then raised by their owners as their own children. He was denied admission to Highland University because of his race, but accepted at Simpson College, where he studied art. He then did a degree at Iowa State College of Agriculture and was the first African-American to graduate from there. He became one of the world’s top agricultural and industrial chemists, most famous for his many inventions derived from peanuts (his research is the main reason for the importance of the peanut as a US crop), and as an educator at Tuskegee Institute.
Jesse Jackson – Jackson was born to an unmarried woman. His birth father was her next-door neighbor, but he was married with children and had very little contact with Jesse. His mother married when he was still young, and he was adopted by his step-father in 1956.
Jesus – adopted by Joseph the carpenter (Bible)- should note that it is not actually a picture of jesus below!
Jett Williams - Williams is the birth child of Hank Williams, the country and western singing star. She was born in Montgomery, Alabama, (named Antha Belle Jett) five days after he died and adopted by her grandmother, who renamed her Catherine Yvonne Stone. When she was two years old, and less than two months after the adoption was finalized, her grandmother died, and since her father’s family did not want her she went through several foster homes before being adopted again, renamed Cathy Louise Deupree. All this time she did not know who her birth family was.
Jim Palmer -Palmer was adopted when two days old by a wealthy New York manufacturer, who also adopted an older girl. His adoptive father died when he was nine. His mother and he then moved to California and she married actor Max Palmer and he had an otherwise happy and privileged childhood. He played baseball from 1965 to 1984, pitching 53 shutouts with a 2.83 ERA, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. After retiring from playing baseball he became a sports commentator and also models clothing, plays golf and gardens.
John Hancock - Hancock’s father, a Congregationalist minister, died when he was a boy of seven, leaving his mother a destitute widow with three children, and he was adopted by his uncle, Thomas Hancock, a rich Boston merchant. John grew up to become the richest man in New England. He was also a successful lawyer, again following in his uncle’s footsteps. He was the third president of the Continental Congress 1775-77, when the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and thus became the first man to sign it, and was governor of Massachusetts for nine terms, dying in office.
John Lennon – Lennon’s parents, Alfred (who was orphaned age nine and raised in an orphanage) and Julia Lennon, separated when he was three. From the age of five, after a failed attempt by his father to restart the marriage, and unwanted in the new family of his mother and step-father, he was raised by his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George, who were childless. A younger half-sister, Victoria Williams (born of a liaison between Mrs. Lennon and a soldier), was adopted by another family and raised in Norway, and she did not trace her birth family until 1996. His Uncle George died suddenly when he was 12 and Lennon’s behavior deteriorated. Lennon had a difficult time at school and was often in trouble with the headmaster; he and friends also stole from shops and threw stones at trains. He formed a skiffle band, The Quarrymen, in 1955. In 1956 he entered Liverpool Art College (he was expelled in 1960) and discovered rock ‘n’ roll music. He met Paul McCartney in 1957, who introduced him to George Harrison. The band evolved into The Beatles (via Johnny and the Moondogs and The Silver Beetles), Ringo Starr joined the group in 1962, and the rest is musical and cultural history.
Langston Hughes -Langston Hughes’ father left his family in Missouri shortly after he was born (he was a lawyer, unable to practice his profession, and went to Mexico), and when he was eight his mother sent him to live with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. After she died he was happily fostered by a childless couple until he rejoined his mother, who had remarried. He was recognized as a promising poet while still in school and was first published in 1921. He worked as a merchant seaman in 1923-24 and was widely traveled in Africa, Europe and America, and was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Lee Majors -Majors was born Harvey Lee Yeary. His father was killed in a work accident a month before he was born, and his mother died in a car accident when he was a toddler. He was adopted by his paternal aunt and uncle, who had an older biological son. Majors became an actor and his big break came in 1965 when he won a major role in The Big Valley TV series. His first major file role was in Will Penny in 1968. In 1973 he won the part of Steve Austin in The Six Million Dollar Man films and TV series. He has been married four times in all and has three more children.
Les Brown – Brown and his twin brother, born in a Miami ghetto, were adopted at six weeks of age by a single woman. He was hyperactive as a child and labeled a slow learner.
After high school he became a radio DJ, then broadcasting manager, community activist, political commentator, legislator, emcee, and award-winning motivational speaker and writer, with his own promotional company, commanding over $10,000 per speaking engagement.
Lynnette Cole -Cole was adopted aged two from an abusive family, by Larry and Gail Cole. She is Miss Tennessee and Miss USA 2000. She also works as a model and an elementary school substitute teacher, but her goal is to become a lawyer specializing in family law.
Malcolm X -Malcolm Little was born in the American South. His father, a Christian minister, was murdered by white racists in 1931. Several years later, because of their great poverty, and her mental illness, he and his siblings were taken from their mother by social workers and put into a children’s home. He was later fostered but got into trouble (he was once sent to reform school for putting a thumb tack on a teacher’s chair). Although a brilliant student he drifted into a life of petty crime. While in prison he became converted to the Nation of Islam (the Black Muslims) and when released he became one of their most effective evangelists and leaders. After a pilgrimage to Mecca he left the Nation of Islam and became a “mainstream” Muslim, but he was assassinated by members of the Nation of Islam in 1965, leaving three daughters and a widow pregnant with twins.
Melissa Gilbert -Melissa Gilbert was adopted as a new-born baby by a well-known Hollywood family. Her parents were actors and her grandfather was a television writer. Her parents divorced when she was eight and her adoptive father died when she was 11. Melissa became one of the principal actors, playing Laura Ingalls, in the long-running television series Little House on the Prairie, whose male lead, Michael Landon, became a surrogate father-figure to her. She has a large number of other acting credits to her name.
Nancy Reagan – Reagan was adopted aged six by her step-father, Loyal Davis, after her parents’ divorce and mother’s remarriage. She was a successful Hollywood actress from 1949 to 1956, but she gave up her career after she married the actor and future governor of California and president of the US in 1952.
Nelson Mandela -Mandela was born into the Thembu sub-tribe nobility of the Xhosa people in Mveso, South Africa, initially raised by his parents there and in Qunu. He was early marked for great things, and was the first in his family to attend school. Soon after his father died, when young Nelson was nine, he was taken to the larger village of Mqhekewenzi, the Thembu provincial capital, where he became the ward of the chief-regent, Jongintaba, for the next 10 years, although he continued to see his mother on visits.
Peter and Kitty Carruthers – Adoptive (not biological) brother and sister, the Carruthers were 1984 US Olympic pairs figure skating silver medalists. They became professionals after the Games and retired from regular performing in 1994. Peter is now a sports broadcasting commentator.
President Gerald Ford -Ford was born Leslie Lynch King, Jr. His parents separated a few weeks after he was born and were divorced when he was two. After his mother remarried he was adopted by his step-father, Gerald R. Ford, although his name was not legally changed until 1935. He did not know that his step-father was not his biological father until 1930, when his father walked up to him without warning and introduced himself.
President William Clinton – President Clinton’s father was killed in a car accident shortly before he was born. His mother remarried in 1950 and he was adopted by his step-father. He was governor of Arkansas, and US president.
Sarah McLachlan – McLachlan was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a woman named Judy James (or Kaines; sources differ) and adopted soon afterwards by an American couple living in Canada, Jack and Dorice McLachlan, who have two other adopted children. From the age of four McLachlan was a singer and played the ukulele, and studied music later at the Nova Scotia Royal Conservatory. She joined a band called October Game then she was 17 but did not become a full-time musician until after completing her education at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She has released a number of albums, including Touch (1989), Solace (1991), Fumbling towards Ecstasy (1993), The Freedom Sessions (1995), Rarities, B-Sides and Other Stuff (1996), Surfacing (1997), and Mirrorball (1999). McLachlan was the founder of the group Lilith Fair.
Scott Hamilton -Hamilton was adopted at six weeks of age by two university professors, joining an older born-to daughter. Later his family adopted another son. He stopped growing when he was three or four years old, and spent four or five years going the rounds of doctors and hospitals in an attempt to diagnose his condition. Several diagnoses were made, including cystic fibrosis and Schwachman-Diamond syndrome, but none was correct, and he was put on a number of different diets to correct the problem, which was an inability of his body to absorb nutrients. When he was nine, however, the problem simply went away and he began to grow again, although he never grew to be more than 5′ 3½” tall and 108 lb. He began skating when he was nine and became a champion at 22, winning 16 championships in a row. He won the Olympic gold medal in 1984 and the World Championships in 1981-84. He has been elected to the Figure Skating Hall of Fame and received the Jacques Favart Award, the highest award of the International Skating Union. Since 1984 he has been a professional entertaining skater and is very involved in medical charities for children. In 1997 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy.
Victoria Rowell- was a foster child for most of her childhood, in Maine and Massachusetts, sometimes with Black families and sometimes with whites. She credits her foster child experiences with giving her the background of hard work and application which enabled her at 15 to convince unwilling social workers to finance her ballet training and to endure the vicissitudes of show business. She was a professional dancer and then went into acting. She works in both television (The Cosby Show, The Young and the Restless, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Herman’s Head, and Deadly Games) and films (The Distinguished Gentleman, with Eddie Murphy, Dumb and Dumber, Eve’s Bayou, Barb Wire, Secrets, Diagnosis Murder, etc.). She has endowed an arts, music, dance and sports scholarship foundation for foster children and does speaking events and lobbying for foster children’s organization
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70 Famous Dyslexics
Posted on 15. Sep, 2008 by CSS.
Dyslexia is a learning disability that can often be devastating if untreated. People who suffer from dyslexia primarily have trouble with written language, both reading and writing. Despite having this affliction, many people overcome it to lead normal and successful lives. We’ve compiled a list of 70 well known people who suffered (or were thought to suffer) from dyslexia, some of whom will definitely surprise you. On to the list:
Scott Adams
The trained hypnotist, vegetarian and creator of the comic strip “Dilbert” noticed his dyslexia when he worked as a bank teller and couldn’t get his totals to balance at the end of the day.
Muhammad Ali
The boxer barely graduated from high school and also has a daughter who is dyslexic.
Harry Anderson
He played Judge Harry Stone on “Night Court” and was able to deal with his dyslexia enough to be valedictorian on his high school class.
Tim Armstrong
Rancid’s singer/guitarist has never had a driver’s license or bank account due to his dyslexia.
Alexander Graham Bell
The inventor of the telephone reportedly overcome his dyslexia.
Billy Blanks
He created exercise craze Tae-Bo but struggled early on when he was placed in special education classes due to undiagnosed dyslexia.
Orlando Bloom
The actor once said, “Dyslexia is not due to lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of access. It’s like, if you’re dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.” He now considers himself “mildly dyslexic.”
Laura Flynn Boyle
Known for her role in “The Practice” from 1997 to 2003.
Richard Branson
He dropped out of school at age 16 after doing poorly in school but later founded the very successful Virgin Records.
Erin Brockovich
She struggled in school and wasn’t diagnosed until later in life. She helped win a $333 million class action law suit that is the largest in U.S. history.
George Burns
“For me the toughest thing about dyslexia was learning to spell it.” – George Burns
George H.W. Bush
41st President of the United States
Neil Bush
George W. Bush’s younger brother was told early on that he would be unlikely to graduate and was later diagnosed with dyslexia but went on to get an economics degree and an MBA.
George W. Bush
The 43rd President was head cheerleader his senior year of high school but struggled academically, especially with reading and writing. His response to his diagnosis of dyslexia? “No, I’m not dyslexic,” Bush said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “That’s all I can tell you.”
John T. Chambers
The CEO of Cisco Systems(a computer company- routers) had to have a reading specialist during school and became determined to do whatever he set his mind to.
Cher
At age sixteen, school became too much and she dropped out.
Agatha Christie
The author has sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in 45 other languages but had to dictate her work to a typist because of her disability.
Winston Churchill
The former Prime Minister of the UK had a lot of problems in school due to what historians believe was undiagnosed dyslexia.
Anderson Cooper
As a child, I had a problem reading. I had a mild form of dyslexia where I would see some letters backward, and I had to go to a special reading instructor. – Anderson Cooper
Tom Cruise
The actor went through 15 schools in 12 years and was put in the remedial classes at school but claimed that Scientology cured him from his dyslexia after he converted.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Historians believe the artist was dyslexic based on his notes being written backwards, from right to left, in a mirror image and the many spelling errors.
Patrick Dempsey
He was diagnosed with dyslexia at age 12 and was placed in special education classes before that. He relies on memorization to overcome it these days.
Walt Disney
The film producer, animator, theme park designer, etc. was labeled slow as a child.
Thomas Edison
He invented the light bulb after being thrown out of school at age 12 because he was thought to be dumb and mentally ill.
Albert Einstein
He couldn’t talk until he was four and didn’t learn to read until age nine but went on to develop the theory of relativity and stay in most people’s mind as a genius.
Dave Foley
He is an actor/comedian best known for “The Kids In the Hall” and “NewsRadio.”
Harrison Ford
Henry Ford
He founded the Ford Motor Company.
Noel Gallagher
“What I was bad at was spelling. Still am. Anything over six letters and that’s me gone.” – Noel Gallagher
Danny Glover
His dyslexia hurtle led him to tutor and help coordinate reading centers in the inner city.
Tracey Gold
The actress from “Growing Pains” suffered from dyslexia in high school.
Whoopi Goldberg
She was called slow and dumb because she had a lot of problems reading as a child and was diagnosed in adulthood with dyslexia.
Woody Harrelson
He was diagnosed with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder (A.D.D.) as a child.
Salma Hayek
The actress sometimes struggles with her lines as a result of her dyslexia.
William Hewlett
Dyslexia forced the co-founder of the Hewlett-Packard Company to memorize schoolwork which developed his memory to the point of him memorizing everything.
Tommy Hilfiger
“I performed poorly at school, when I attended, that is, and was perceived as stupid because of my dyslexia. I still have trouble reading. I have to concentrate very hard at going left to right, left to right, otherwise my eye just wanders to the bottom of the page.” -Tommy Hilfiger
Anthony Hopkins
He found a love for the arts such as painting or playing the piano as an alternative to his studies.
Eddie Izzard
“I don’t read much because I take so long to read things. I’ll catch up one day. This partial dyslexia thing. I just take ages to read.” – Eddie Izzard
Thomas Jefferson
The third President of the United States.
Bruce Jenner
The Olympic track athlete got into sports because he had dyslexia.
Jewell
The singer used to love reading when she was younger and then found it more difficult as time went by and was diagnosed with dyslexia.
Magic Johnson
He is a retired Los Angeles Lakers basketball player.
John F. Kennedy
The 35th President of the United States.
Tawny Kitaen
The actress found school very challenging thanks to her dyslexia.
Christopher Knight
He learned to deal with his dyslexia while growing up and has found few problems as an adult.
Keira Knightley
She says her problems haven’t affected her ability to learn her lines and adds, “I can learn them fine. It’s just reading them in the first place that is the problem.”
David Koresh
The Branch Dividian religious cult leader dropped out of high school because of his dyslexia.
John Lennon
He was expelled from school for misbehavior but his teachers didn’t know that he suffered from dyslexia and was considered legally blind without his glasses.
Jay Leno
His struggle with dyslexia is what he credits as helping him develop drive and perseverance needed to succeed in comedy and in life.
Greg Louganis
“From the start, I had trouble reading, but it got really bad once we got past single words and simple sentences. What I couldn’t explain – what I didn’t realize – was that I was dyslexic.” – Greg Louganis
Craig McCaw
He found success in the cable and cellular phone industry after filling left out and struggling in school.
Vince McMahon
The owner of the World Wrestling Foundation is said to have dyslexia and attention deficit disorder.
Alyssa Milano
She writes down her lines to become more familiar with them.
Vince Neil
The Motley Crue lead singer was kicked out of school and later found out he is dyslexic.
Jamie Oliver
“Reading bores me to death as I’m dyslexic; I’ve honestly never read a book from cover to cover in my life.”- Jamie Oliver
Ozzy Osbourne
The singer says that he began drinking because he struggled to deal with is learning disability.
Pablo Picaso
Dyslexia made school difficult so he never gained much from his education and the difficulty plagued him for the rest of his life.
Keanu Reeves
Excelled in hockey more than academics.
Guy Ritchie
Madonna’s Ex-Husband was expelled from Stanbridge Earls School which is one of the most prominent schools specializing in dyslexia in the UK.
Babe Ruth
Legendary baseball player.
Suzanne Somers
She excelled in artistic expression but not in her other subjects.
Steven Spielberg
The highest grossing filmmaker of all time.
Ted Turner
The founder of CNN is dyslexic and bipolar.
Liv Tyler
Tyler says, “My diary is a disaster – sometimes I can’t even read it. I can’t spell at all, it’s embarrassing. Thank God for spell check on computers. I’ll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.”
James Van Der Beek
He was diagnosed as dyslexic in kindergarten and went on to become an honors student.
George Washington
The first President of the United States is said to have been dyslexic.
Robbie Williams
The singer is outspoken about his dyslexia and doesn’t let it hold him back.
Robin Williams
Actor/comedian.
Woodrow Wilson
The 28th President of the United States was a poor student and still couldn’t read at age ten which historians believe is because he was dyslexic.
Henry Winkler
He struggled throughout school and discovered he was dyslexic while making a documentary about dyslexia.
Updated: Leave a comment if you know anyone that I left off and would like me to add-below you will find all additional dyslexic people:
Andy Warhol
American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.
