Cooper Learning Center
Famous People With The Gift Of Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read. These individuals typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence. Although the disorder varies from person to person, common characteristics among people with dyslexia are difficulty with phonological processing (the manipulation of sounds) and/or rapid visual-verbal responding.
But dyslexia doesn't have to keep a kid down. With some help and a lot of hard work, anyone who has dyslexia can learn to read and succeed.
Here are a few people you may have heard of with dyslexia.
Actors, Entertainers, Filmmakers & Directors
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Harry Anderson
Tom Cruise
Tracey Gold
Jay Leno
Oliver Reed
Tom Smothers
Dustin Hoffman
Anthony Hopkins
Martin Nigel Davey
Harrison Ford
Patrick Dempsey
Brad Little
Will Smith
Daniel Stern
Muse Watson
Walt Disney
Goldie Hawn |
Orlando Bloom
Dave Foley
Whoopi Goldberg
Keanu Reeves
Billy Bob Thornton
Robin Williams
Jack Nicholson
Fred Astaire
Joseph Asthon
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Bob Hoskins
Sarah Miles
Suzanne Somers
Liv Tyler
Guy Ritchie
Robert Benton |
Harry Belafonte
Danny Glover
Susan Hampshire
Edward James Olmos
Loretta Young
Henry Winkler
Steve McQueen
George Burns
Michael Barrymore
Kristian Digby
Keira Knightley
George C. Scott
Steven Spielberg
Lindsay Wagner
Soren Kragh Jacobson
Nicole Betancourt |
Artists, Designers & Architects
Ansel Adams
Ignacio Gomez
Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Toth
David Bailey
Gustave Flaubert
Andrew Menzies
Marco Pierre White |
David Bailey
Tommy Hilfiger
Auguste Rodin
Jorn Utzon
Chuck Close
Lord Richard Rogers
Allison Merriweather |
Leonardo da Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Bennett Strahan
Andy Warhol
Margaret Whittington
Hugh Newell Jacobson
Patricia Buckley Moss |
Inventors & Scientists
Ann Bancroft
Albert Einstein
Willem Hollenbach
John Robert Skoyles
The Wright Brothers
Harvey Cushing
Isaac Newton
Galileo
Eli Whitney |
Alexander Graham Bell
Michael Faraday
John R. Horner
Werner Von Braun
Louis Pasteur
James Clark Maxwell
Nicholai Tesia
Tom Francis
Baruj Benacerraf |
Thomas Edison
Dr. James Lovelock
Archer Martin
Allen Grant
Steven Hawkings
William Lear
Henry Ford
Simon Clemment |
Law & Justice
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Erin Brockovich |
Jeffrey H. Gallet |
Military Heroes
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson |
General Westmoreland |
George Patton |
Musicians & Vocalists
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Cher
Nigel Kennedy
Beethoven
Toyah Wilcox |
Brad Little
Bob Weir
Jewel |
John Lennon
Mozart
Noel Gallagher |
Athletes
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Muhammad Ali
Magic Johnson
Diamond Dallas Page
Jackie Stewart
Bruce Jenner
Pete Rose |
Duncan Goodhew
Greg Louganis
Steve Redgrave
Carl Lewis
Dexter Manley
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Bob May
Nolan Ryan
Ann Bancroft
Chris Boardman
Josie Kidd |
Physicians & Surgeons
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Harvey Cushing
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Fred Epstein
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Political Leaders
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Winston Churchill
Andrew Jackson
Gavin Newsom
Woodrow Wilson
George Bush
Robert Kennedy
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
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King Carl XVI of Sweden
Thomas Jefferson
Nelson Rockefeller
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Kean
King Olaf of Norway
Carolyn McCarthy
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Micahel Heseltine
John F. Kennedy
Paul Wellstone
Prince Charles
Gaston Caperton
Nicholas Brady
Frank Dunkle
Peter Leonard |
Writers
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Hans Christian Anderson
Steve Cannell
Agatha Christie
Gustave Flaubert
Elizabeth Daniels Squire
W.B. Yeats
Edgar Allen Poe
Marc Flanagan
Robert Scheer
Sarah Miles
Esther Freud
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Avi
Andrew Dornenburg
Fannie Flagg
Patricia Polacco
Bernie Taylor
Lynda LaPlante
John Irving
Michael Charles Messioneo
Ronald Davis
Benjamin Zephaniah
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Jeanne Betancourt
John Corrigan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Eileen Simpson
Victor Villasenor
Cedric Hurtt
Jules Verne
Richard Cohen
Thomas Thoreau
Lewis Carroll |
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