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 Picasso
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 other half was expelled from Stanbridge Earls School which is one of the most prominent schools specializing in dyslexia in the UK.
Babe Ruth
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.
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4 responses so far ↓
Ulf Hednar // Jun 3, 2008 at 9:53 am
You missed a big one: Willy Wonka.
Hook // Jun 3, 2008 at 10:44 am
I am sorry, but I cannot believe this stuff. Where is Jesus? You have people that are actually semi-retarded (George W. Bush and Magic Johnson) on this list. Pretty much every single person of any significance in American culture has dyslexia according to your list. Where is Jesus, I bet he was dislexic, in fact he must be since he didn’t write down any of his teachings, the apostles did. And Socrates is dyslexic too, since we only know of him from Plato.
Patrick // Jun 3, 2008 at 10:55 am
In many of these examples you are conflating difficulty with reading and writing with dyslexia. They are not the same thing. (But, in fact, many educational researchers specialising in special educational needs argue that there is no evidence to suggest ‘dyslexia’ is anything different from this - if this is true it doesn’t technically exist as a discrete disorder. But if you believe it does, it is important that it is differentiated from mere poor literacy.)
Angus // Jun 3, 2008 at 11:58 am
In addition to being dyslexic, George Washington was an alien whose natural form closely resembled that of the star-nosed mole.
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