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    • Famous Homeschoolers

    My brother sent me this link (thanks):

    The Quick 10: 10 Famous Homeschooled People
    http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20302.html

    I can certainly relate to #6 (except I stayed in public school and “hate” is too mild of a word to describe how I felt about school).

    “Robert Frost hated school so much he would get physically ill at the thought of going. He was homeschooled until his high school years.”

    The list reminded me of a collection I had on my old website. I am sure some hardworking person deserves the credit for compiling most of the following list. There are variations of it everywhere online. I already found errors, so there could be more errors and there are most certainly omissions.

    Check out the video at the end of this post.

    Inventors
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Thomas Edison
    Cyrus McCormick
    Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright

    Artists
    Claude Monet
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Jamie Wyeth
    Andrew Wyeth
    John Singleton Copley
    Rembrandt Peale
    Ansel Adams

    Composers
    Irving Berlin
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    Anton Bruckner
    Felix Mendelssohn
    Francis Poulenc

    Writers
    Hans Christian Andersen
    Charles Dickens
    Brett Harte
    Mark Twain
    Sean O’Casey
    Phillis Wheatley
    Mercy Warren
    Pearl S. Buck
    Agatha Christie
    C.S. Lewis
    George Bernard Shaw
    Beatrix Potter
    Irving Berlin
    Leo Tolstoy
    Daniel Webster
    Robert Frost
    Phyllis Wheatley
    Will Rogers
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Louisa May Alcott
    Christopher Paolini

    Religious leaders
    Joan of Arc
    Brigham Young
    John and Charles Wesley
    Jonathan Edwards
    John Owen
    William Cary
    Dwight L. Moody
    John Newton
    Hudson Taylor

    Presidents
    George Washington
    Thomas Jefferson
    John Quincy Adams
    James Madison
    William Henry Harrison
    John Tyler
    Abraham Lincoln
    Theordore Roosevelt
    Woodrow Wilson
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt

    Scientists/Businessmen
    George Washington Carver
    Pierre Curie
    Albert Einstein
    Booker T. Washington
    Blaise Pascal
    Thomas Edison
    Benjamin Franklin
    Andrew Carnegie
    John Stuart Mill

    Statesmen
    Konrad Adenauer
    Winston Churchill
    Benjamin Franklin
    William Penn
    Henry Clay
    George Mason

    U.S. Governors
    Patrick Henry [VA]
    Charles Pickney III [SC]
    Richard D. Spaight [NC]
    William Livingston [NJ]
    Richard Bassett [DE]

    U.S. Senators and Congressmen
    William S. Johnson [CT]
    George Clymer [PA]
    John Francis Mercer [MD]
    William Blout [TN]
    William Few [GA]

    U.S. Supreme Court Judges
    John Jay
    John Marshall
    John Rutledge
    George Wythe – Justice of Virginia High Court

    Educators
    Frank Vandiver (Texas A&M)
    Fred Terman (Stanford)
    William Samuel Johnson (Columbia)
    John Witherspoon (Princeton)
    Timothy Dwight (Yale)

    Generals
    Stonewall Jackson
    Robert E. Lee
    Douglas MacArthur
    George Patton

    Famous Women
    Abigail Adams
    Mercy Warren
    Martha Washington
    Florence Nightingale
    Phyllis Wheatley
    Agatha Christie
    Pearl S. Buck
    Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Louisa May Alcott
    Clara Barton – started the Red Cross
    Elizabeth Blackwell – First Woman Doctor
    Sally Ride – Astronaut

    Philosopher
    Charles Montesquieu

    Naturalists
    John Burroughs
    John J. Audubon

    Physicians
    Albert Schweitzer – Physician
    Elizabeth Blackwell – First Woman Doctor

    Others
    Charles Chaplin – Actor
    George Rogers Clark – Explorer
    Andrew Carnegie – Industrialist
    Noel Coward – Playwright
    Bill Ridell – Newspaperman
    Will Rogers – Humorist
    Louis Armstrong – Musician
    Ansel Adams – Photographer
    John Paul Jones – father of the American Navy
    William Houston – Lawyer
    Frank Lloyd Wright – Architect

    Athletes
    Venus and Serena Williams
    Tamara McKinney – World Cup Skier
    Jim Ryun – World Runner
    Jason Taylor

    Celebrity Homeschoolers
    Dakota Fanning
    Whoopi Goldberg
    Jennifer Love Hewitt
    Miley Cyrus
    Hanson
    Jayden Smith
    Elijah Wood
    Leann Rimes
    Raven Simone
    Jonas Brothers
    Bindi Irwin
    Hillary Duff

    (List is incomplete and may need corrections…)

    Famous Homeschoolers

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