Famous Homeschoolers

There are many famous who were homeschooled in past and our present. Some of the famous actors, writers, scientists, composers, US presidents who were homeschooled. Did you know? I sure did not. Here are some of the famous homeschooler, that you know but did not know they were homeschooled.

Here are some of the famous actors and artists of our time that were homeschooled.

• · Louis Armstrong - king of jazz
• · Charlie Chaplin - actor
• · Whoopi Goldberg - actress
• · Hanson - sibling singing group
• · Jennifer Love Hewitt - actress
• · Yehudi Menuhin - child prodigy violinist
• · Moffatts - Canadian version of Hanson
• · Frankie Muniz - child actor
• · LeAnne Rimes - teen-prodigy country music singer
• · Barlow Girl - Alyssa, Rebecca, and Lauren Contemporary Christian Music
• · Jonas Brothers - Kevin, Joe, and Nick Performers
• · Jacob Clemente - Broadway Actor

Famous US Presidents Who were Homeschooled:

· John Adams

· John Quincy Adams

· Grover Cleveland

· James Garfield

· William Henry Harrison

· Andrew Jackson

· Thomas Jefferson

· Abraham Lincoln

· James Madison

· Franklin Delano Roosevelt

· Theodore Roosevelt

· John Tyler

· George Washington

· Woodrow Wilson

U.S. Supreme Court Judges

· John Jay

· John Marshall

· John Rutledge

· Sandra Day O'Connor

Scientists

· George Washington Carver

· Pierre Curie

· Albert Einstein

· Michael Faraday - electrochemist

· Oliver Heaviside - physicist and electromagnetism researcher

· T.H. Huxley

· Blaise Pascal

· Booker T. Washington

· Erik Demaine -

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Artists Who were Homeschooled

· William Blake

· John Singleton Copley

· Claude Monet

· Grandma Moses

· Charles Peale

· Leonardo da Vinci

· Andrew Wyeth

· Jamie Wyeth

Inventors

· Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone

· John Moses Browning - firearms inventor and designer

· Peter Cooper - invented skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive

· Thomas Edison - invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb

· Benjamin Franklin - invented the lightning rod

· Elias Howe - invented sewing machine

· William Lear - airplane creator

· Cyrus McCormick - invented grain reaper

· Guglielmo Marconi - developed radio

· Eli Whitney - invented the cotton gin

· Sir Frank Whittle - invented turbo jet engine

· Orville and Wilbur Wright - built the first successful airplane

Composers

· Irving Berlin

· Anton Bruckner

· Noel Coward

· Felix Mendelssohn

· Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

· Francis Poulenc

· John Philip Sousa

Writers

· Hans Christian Anderson

· Margaret Atwood

· Pearl S. Buck

· William F. Buckley, Jr.

· Willa Cather

· Agatha Christie

· Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

· Charles Dickens

· Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

· Charlotte Perkins Gilman

· Alex Haley

· Brett Harte

· L. Ron Hubbard

· C.S. Lewis

· Amy Lowell

· Gabriela Mistral

· Sean O'Casey

· Christopher Paolini - author of #1 NY Times bestseller, Eragon

· Isabel Paterson

· Beatrix Potter - author of the beloved Peter Rabbit Tales

· Carl Sandburg

· George Bernard Shaw

· Mattie J. T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of Heartsongs

· Mercy Warren

· Phillis Wheatley

· Walt Whitman

· Laura Ingalls Wilder