Famous Dyslexics
Information from Wikipedia.org – List of people diagnosed with dyslexia
| Actor/Actress/Model
Jennifer Aniston (Horrible Bosses, Marley and Me, Friends) Orlando Bloom (Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean) Keira Knightley (Imitation Game, Pirates of the Caribbean, Love Actually) Brendan O’Carroll (Agnes Brown in Mrs. Brown’s Boys) Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones) Kara Tointon (Eastenders) John de Lancie (Star Trek) Patrick Dempsey (Enchanted, Transformers:Dark Side of the Moon) Michael Dudikoff (The Silencer) Salma Hayek (Spy Kids, Muppets Most Wanted) Anthony Hopkins (Noah,Thor) Jaime Murray (Sleepy Hollow, Hustle) Lara Flynn Boyle (Men in Black II) Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman) |
| Musician/singer
Geoff Barrow (Portishead) Noel Gallagher (Oaisis) Mollie King (The Saturdays) Lee Ryan (Blue) Florence Welch (Florence and the Machine) |
| Royalty
Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden |
| Inventor/Scientist
Alexander Graham Bell (telephone) Pierre Curie (Radiation, Magnetism) Steve Jobs (apple) Michael Faraday (electric motor technology) Dean Kamen (Segway human transport) Tom Pellereau (Winner of The Apprentice 2011) John Skoyles, neuroscientist and evolutionary psychologist |
| Director/Producer/Writer
Robert Benton (Twilight) Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) Richard Ford (Independence Day) John Irving (The Cider House Rules) F. Lawton (Pretty Woman) Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes) Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns) Steven Spielberg (War Horse, Adventures of Tintin, ET, Jurassic Park) Jules Verne (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days) |
| TV Personality
Amy Childs (TOWIE) |
| Entrepreneur/Business Person
Richard Branson (Virgin) Theo Paphitis (Dragons’ Den) Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA) John Chambers (Cisco) Paul Orfalea founder of FedEx Ferdinand Piëch (Chairman of Volkswagen) |
| Artist/Architect/Paleontologist
Richard Rogers (Millennium Dome) Jack Horner (advisor to Jurassic Park films) |
| Sports People
Tom Lewis, golfer Kenny Logan, rugby player Scott Quinnell, rugby player Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver |
| Others
Charles “Pete” Conrad, Jr., (third man to walk on the moon) Alexander Faludy, (youngest Cambridge undergraduate for 200 years In 1996, with his mother, he published A Little Edge of Darkness, telling how at the age of nine he was the youngest person ever to pass the English Literature GCSE and at the age of eleven the youngest to pass an A-level, despite suffering from severe dyslexia) Erin Brockovich, legal clerk, socio-environmental activist |
Please message me with anyone I should add 🙂
(Updated 28th March 2015)
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