Understanding Dyslexia
Arts
Artists
Satoru Abe
Chuck Close
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
P. Buckley Moss
Robert Rauschenberg
August Rodin
James B. Talmadge
Robert Toth
Authors
Fannie Flagg, “Fried Green Tomatoes”
Richard Ford, “Independence Day”
John Grisham, “The Firm”
John Irving, “Cider House Rules”
Dav Pilkey, “Captain Underpants”
Patricia Polacco, “Rechenka’s Eggs”
Victor Villasenor, “Rain of Gold”
Thomas G. West, “In The Mind’s Eye”
Athletics
Auto Racing
Jackie Stewart
Stan Wattles
Baseball
Pete Rose
Babe Ruth
Nolan Ryan
Basketball
Earvin “Magic” Johnson
Football
Terry Bradshaw
Don Coryell
Dexter Manley
Joe Montana
Neil Smith
Olympians
Rulon Gardner
Adam Heidt
Bruce Jenner
Carl Lewis
Greg Louganis
Jim Shea, Jr
Tennis
Pam Shriver
Business
Founder and/or CEO
Richard Branson, Virgin Airlines
John T. Chambers, Cisco Systems
Bill Hewlett, Hewlett-Packard
Craig McCaw, McCaw Cellular
David Murdock, Dole Foods
Paul Orfalea, Kinko’s
Charles Schwab, Charles Schwab Corp.
Raymond Smith, Former CEO, Bell Atlantic
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Former CEO, IBM
Donald Winkler, Ford Motor Credit
Entertainment
Actors
Harry Anderson
Tom Cruise
Dom Deluise
Tracey Gold
Whoopi Goldberg
Danny Glover
Susan Hampshire
Woody Harrelson
James Earl Jones
Alyssa Milano
Edward James Olmos
Suzanne Somers
Lindsay Wagner
Henry Winkler
Cartoonists
Scott Adams, “Dilbert”
Walt Disney
Musicians
Harry Belafonte
Cher
Jon Finn
Jewel
Wolfgang Mozart
Writers/Producers
Stephen Cannell, “21 Jump Street”
Politics/Law
Congress
Sam Gejdenson
Carolyn McCarthy
Executive Branch
Benjamin Franklin
Nelson Rockefeller
Woodrow Wilson
Judicial System
David Boies, Attorney
Erin Brockovich Ellis, Community Activist
Jeffrey Gallet, Judge
Foreign Government
Winston Churchill, Former Prime Minister, Great Britain
Lee Kuan Yew, President, Singapore
Governors
Gaston Caperton
Thomas Kean
Political Consultant
James Carville
Science/Mathematics
Inventors
Alexander Graham Bell, Telephone
Thomas Edison, Lightbulb
Nicola Tesla, Fluorescent & Neon Lights
Physicians
Beryl Benacerraf, Radiologist
Fred Epstein, Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Physicists
Albert Einstein
Michael Faraday
James Clerk Maxwell
Psychiatrists
Edward Hallowell
Larry B. Silver
Scientists
Baruj Benaceraff, Nobel Prize Winner
Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr., Astronaut
Florence Haseltine, Reproductive Endocrinology
John Horner, Paleontologist
Louis Pasteur, Chemist