70 Famous Dyslexics: 31-50

June 2nd, 2008 by William

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 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.

Jewel Jewel
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

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3 Responses to “70 Famous Dyslexics: 31-50”

On February 26th 2009, Marie wrote:

Does anybody know what is the earliest age a child can be diagnosed with dyslexia?
On July 6th 2009, rach wrote:

As dislexics I feel we see the whole field.. we see the trees at the side, and the sky and its details and we see the birds looking down from above…its just trying to focus in one row of the crop that its hard and trying to put it in the right words in what we see.:)
On October 6th 2009, andrea wrote:

In Texas the school system tests the children in
K and 1st. A simple 1/2 hr test will find a diagnoses and start intervention immediately, unlike our schools in Los Angeles. I had no idea what was going on with my son, nor did I know where to go. The schools will not diagnose your child as they will have to pay for more services. They would rather fail your child and push them on to the next grade. By the time these children are in 5 th grade they give up. Get a professional diagnoses outside of your school system, then look into Linda Mood Bell program or Susan Barton. I used both and my son can read, but he is making up for the serious lack of intelligent intervention in public school. BEWARE,
do not put this off. Your child will suffer if you don’t take matters into your hands.Good luck and never give up on your child.