Famous People with Dyslexia
Here is a list of famous people with dyslexia. This list is full of famous people with dyslexia; actors, artists, musicians, politicians and scientists. Dyslexia is NOT a symptom of low intelligence. Someday you or your child might end up in a list like this. Read about dyslexia in movies, television and books.
Tom Cruise - actor
Keira Knightley - actress
Will Smith - actor
Orlando Bloom - actor
Harrison Ford - actor
Anthony Hopkins - actor
Liv Tyler - actress
Keanu Reeves - actress
Zoë Wanamaker - actress
Jerry Hall - entertainer
Felicity Kendal - actress
Marlon Brando - actor
Patrick Dempsey - actor
Robbin Williams - actor/comedian
Bob Hoskins - actor
Dave Foley - actor
Cher - singer/ actress
Tracy Gold - actress
Jeremy Irons - actor
Susan Hampshire - actress/ writer
Jack Nicholson - actor
Steve McQueen - actor
Fred Astaire - actor/dancer
Ben Elton - comedian/writer
Whoopi Goldberg - actress
Guy Ritchie - film director
Steven Spielberg - director/producer
Walt Disney - cartoonist/ filmmaker
Eddie Izzard - comedian
Billy Connolly - comedian
Robbie Williams - pop star
Enrico Caruso - opera singer
John Lennon - singer/ songwriter
Britney Spears - singer
Toyah Wilcox - singer
Jewel - singer/actress
Harry Belafonte - singer/actor
Daniel Powter - musician
Ludwig Van Beethoven - composer
Nigel Kennedy - violinist
Noel Gallagher - Oasis guitarist
Lynda La Plante - screenwriter
Gustave Flaubert - writer
Ernest Hemingway - writer
Edgar Allan Poe - writer
Sir Francis Bacon - artist/ writer
Roald Dahl – writer
Hans Christian Andersen - writer
Agatha Christie - writer
Sir Joshua Reynolds - artist
Leonardo Da Vinci - artist/ inventor
William Turner - artist
Auguste Rodin - artist/ sculptor
Vincent Van Gogh - artist
Andy Warhol - artist
Pablo Picasso - artist
Michelangelo - artist
David Bailey - photographer
Ansel Adams - photographer
Lord Norman Foster - architect
Charles Renie Mackintosh - architect
Franklin Roosevelt - politician
Nelson Rockefeller - politician
Andrew Jackson - politician
Woodrow Wilson - politician
Thomas Jefferson - politician
George Washington - politician
Lyndon Johnson - politician
J F Kennedy - politician
Benjamin Franklin - politician
Michael Heseltine - politician
Winston Churchill - politician
Napoleon Bonaparte - leader of France
King Carl Gustaf XVI - king of Sweden
Jackie Stewart - racing driver
Muhammad Ali - boxer
Charles Lindbergh - aviator
Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. - astronaut
Fred Epstein - neurosurgeon
Jamie Oliver - chef/ presenter/writer
Marco Pierre White - top chief
Sir Richard Branson - businessman
Erin Brockovich- the real person
Henry Ford - Ford cars
Michael Faraday - scientist
Sir Isaac Newton - scientist
Alexander Graham Bell - inventor
Charles Darwin - scientist
Galileo Galilee - scientist
Orville and Wilbur Wright - inventers
Thomas Edison - inventor/scientist
Albert Einstein – physicist