Success with Dyslexia

Actors, Actresses and Entertainers

  • John Lennon - Songwriter
  • Kiera Knightley - Actress
  • Harry Belafonte - Singer / Entertainer
  • George Burns - Actor / Comedian
  • Stephen J. Cannell - TV Writer / Producer - Director of Hill Street Blues, Rockford Files
  • Cher - Singer / Actress
  • Tom Cruise - Actor
  • Walt Disney - Created / Produced animated cartoons: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck
  • Danny Glover - Actor
  • Tracey Gold - Actress
  • Vince Vaughn - Actor
  • Orlando Bloom - Actor
  • Keanu Reeves - Actor
  • Whoopi Goldberg - Actress / Comedian
  • David Jones - Helicopter Pilot / Stunt Man
  • Jay Leno - "Tonight Show" host
  • Tom Smothers - Comedian
  • Aaron Spelling - TV / Film Producer Dynasty
  • Quentin Tarantino - Actor / Producer / Director
  • Lindsey Wagner - Actress, Bionic Woman
  • Henry Winkler - Actor, The Fonz

Famous Athletes

  • Magic Johnson - Former LA Lakers Basketball player
  • Ann Bancroft - only woman to go to the North Pole by dog sled (1986)
  • Bruce Jenner - U.S. Olympic decathlon gold medalist 1976; fitness expert
  • Greg Louganis - won 48 national diving titles; U.S. Olympic diving silver medalist 1976; gold medalist '84 & '88; World Diving Champion 1986
  • Muhammad Ali - World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
  • Nolan Ryan - Pitcher for Texas Rangers
  • Jackie Stewart - Race Car Driver
  • Russell White - Football Running Back
  • Eric Wynalda - Professional Soccer Player (1994)

Presidents, Inventors, Authors and More

  • Pablo Picasso - Artist
  • Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the Telephone
  • Leonardo da Vinci - Italian sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician, inventor, artist, multi-talented genius; designs in geometry; helicopter; Mona Lisa painting
  • George Bush - U.S. President (1988-1992)
  • George Washington - First U.S. President
  • Woodrow Wilson - U.S. President (1913-1920); League of Nations
  • Thomas Edison - inventor; 1300+ inventions (microphone; phonograph; incandescent light
  • Tommy Hilfiger - Clothing designer
  • Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister
  • Paul Ehrlich - Bacteriologist 'side chain theory' (Nobel Prize in medicine - 1908)
  • Michael Faraday - Discovered Electromagnetic Induction
  • General George Patton - WW II
  • King Karl XI - King of Sweden
  • Wm. Butler Yeats - Poet; Nobel Prize 1923
  • Henry Ford - Manufactured Ford Automobiles