100 Successful Famous Homeschoolers

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100 Successful Famous Homeschoolers

Performing Artists, Government Officials, Scientist, Military Leader, Artists, Religious Leader, Inventors, Composers, Writers, Artists, Educators, Business Entrepreneur, all  Homeschooled

1. ·  Louis Armstrong – king of jazz
2. ·  Charlie Chaplin – actor
3. ·  Whoopi Goldberg – actress
4. ·  Hanson – sibling singing group
5. ·  Jennifer Love Hewitt – actress
6. ·  Yehudi Menuhin – child prodigy violinist
7. ·  Moffatts – Canadian version of Hanson
8. ·  Frankie Muniz – child actor
9. ·  LeAnne Rimes – teen-prodigy country music singer
10. ·  Barlow Girl – Alyssa, Rebecca, and Lauren Contemporary Christian Music
11. ·  Jonas Brothers – Kevin, Joe, and Nick Performers
12. ·   Benjamin Franklin
13. ·  James Madison – 4th U.S. President
14. John Rutledge – Chief Justice·
15.  John Adams
16. ·  John Quincy Adams
17. ·  William Henry Harrison
18. ·  Andrew Jackson
19. ·  Thomas Jefferson
20. ·  Abraham Lincoln
21. ·  James Madison
22. ·  Franklin Delano Roosevelt
23. ·  Theodore Roosevelt
24. ·  John Tyler
25. ·  George Washington
26. Konrad Adenauer  
27. Woodrow Wilson
28. Robert E. Lee – Civil War General
29. ·  George Washington Carver
30. ·  Pierre Curie
31. ·  Michael Faraday – electrochemist
32. ·  Oliver Heaviside – physicist and electromagnetism researcher
33. ·  Booker T. Washington
34. ·  Erik Demaine – Popular Science Mag: One of the Most Brilliant Scientists in America
35. John Singleton Copley
36.   Leonardo da Vinci
37. Joan of Arc
38. ·Alexander Graham Bell – invented the telephone
39. ·  John Moses Browning – firearms inventor and designer
40. ·  Peter Cooper – invented skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive
41. ·  Thomas Edison – invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb (read his story)
    
42. ·  Benjamin Franklin – invented the lightning rod
43. ·  Elias Howe – invented sewing machine
44. ·  William Lear – airplane creator
45. ·  Cyrus McCormick – invented grain reaper
46. ·  Guglielmo Marconi – developed radio
47. ·  Eli Whitney – invented the cotton gin
48. ·  Sir Frank Whittle – invented turbo jet engine
49. ·  Orville and Wilbur Wright – built the first successful airplane
50. · Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
51. ·  Agatha Christie
52. ·  Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
53. ·  Charles Dickens
54. ·  Robert Frost – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
55. ·  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
56. ·  Alex Haley
57. ·  Christopher Paolini – author of #1 NY Times bestseller, Eragon
58. ·  Mattie J. T. Stepanek – 11-year-old author of Heartsongs
59. ·  Amos Bronson Alcott – innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott
60. ·  Catharine Beecher – co-founder of the Hartford Female Seminary
61. ·  Jill Ker Conway – first woman president of Smith College
62. ·  Timothy Dwight – President of Yale University
63. ·  William Samuel Johnson – President of Columbia College
64. ·  Horace Mann – “Father of the American Common School”
65. ·  Charlotte Mason – Founder of Charlotte Mason College of Education
66. ·  Fred Terman – President of Stanford University
67. ·  Frank Vandiver – President of Texas A&M University
68. ·  Booker T. Washington – Founder of Tuskegee Institute
69. ·  John Witherspoon – President of Princeton University
70.  ·  Amadeo Giannini – Bank of America’s founder
71. ·  Horace Greeley – New York Tribune founder
72. ·  Soichiro Honda – creator of the Honda automobile company
73. ·  Ray Kroc – founder of McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain
74. ·  Adolph Ochs – New York Times founder
75. ·  Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer Prize
76. ·  Colonel Harland Sanders – started Kentucky Fried Chicken
77. ·  Dave Thomas – founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain
78. ·  Mariah Witcher – founder of Mariahs Famous Cookies
79.  ·  Clara Barton – Started the Red Cross
80. ·  Elizabeth Blackwell – first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree
81. ·   George Rogers Clark – Explorer
82. ·  Davy Crockett – frontiersman
83. ·  Eric Hoffer – social philosopher
84. ·  Charles Evans Hughes – jurist; Chief Justice
85. ·  Mary D. Leakey – fossil hunter; wife of Richard Leakey
86. ·  Tamara McKinney – World Cup Skier
87. ·  Charles Louis Montesquieu – Philosopher
88. ·  Bertrand Russell – Logician
89. ·  Jim Ryan – World Runner
90. ·  Albert Schweitzer – Physician
91. ·  Sir Ernest Shackleton – Explorer
92. ·  Herbert Spencer – philosopher, sociologist
93. ·  Gloria Steinem – founder and long-time editor of Ms. magazine
94. ·  Jason Taylor – plays in the National Football League
95. ·  Mary Walker – Civil War physician; recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
96. ·  Frances E. C. Willard – educator, temperance leader, and suffragist
97. ·  Frank Lloyd Wright – Architect
98. ·  Balaram Stack – Award winning Surfer
99. ·  Lia Del Priore – Award Winning Gymnast
100. ·  Taylor Gladstone – Ballerina

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There are many more famous homeschoolers. This is only a list of 100.  See websites below for more.

http://www.thebestcolleges.org/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers/

http://www.famoushomeschoolers.net/

http://www.homeschoolacademy.com/famoushomeschoolers.htm

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