Famous People with Dyslexia
Here is a list of famous people with dyslexia. This list is full of famous celebrities, actors, artists, musicians, kings, queens, politicians and scientists. They all have one thing in common – they are dyslexic.
Dyslexia is NOT a symptom of low intelligence. Who knows, maybe someday you or your child might end up on a celebrity list like this. If you or your child have dyslexia, don’t let anyone put you down because of it. 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