Famous Homeschoolers
Need some proof that homeschooling is a perfectly valid form of education and won’t ruin your child’s chances at a successful future? Here are some examples of the many successes that homeschoolers can attain. (Let us know of any others we’ve missed in our list!) U.S. Presidents 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 Statesmen Konrad Adenauer Henry Fountain Ashurst William Jennings Bryan Winston Churchill Henry Clay Pierre du Pont Benjamin Franklin Alexander Hamilton Patrick Henry William Penn Daniel Webster Military Leaders Alexander the Great – Greek Ruler John Barry – Senior Navy Officer Stonewall Jackson – Civil War General John Paul Jones – Father of the American Navy Robert E. Lee – Civil War General Douglas MacArthur – U.S. General George Patton – U.S. General Matthew Perry – naval officer who opened up trade with Japan John Pershing – U.S. General David Dixon Porter – Civil War Admiral Scientists George Washington Carver Pierre Curie Albert Einstein Michael Faraday Oliver Heaviside T.H. Huxley Blaise Pascal Booker T. Washington Erik Demaine Artists 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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Alex Haley Brett Harte L. Ron Hubbard C.S. Lewis Amy Lowell Gabriela Mistral Sean O’Casey Christopher Paolini Isabel Paterson Beatrix Potter Carl Sandburg George Bernard Shaw Mattie J. T. Stepanek Mercy Warren Phillis Wheatley Walt Whitman Laura Ingalls Wilder Educators Amos Bronson Alcott – innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott Catharine Beecher – co-founder of the Hartford Female Seminary Jill Ker Conway – first woman president of Smith College Timothy Dwight – President of Yale University William Samuel Johnson – President of Columbia College Horace Mann – “Father of the American Common School” Charlotte Mason – Founder of Charlotte Mason College of Education Fred Terman – President of Stanford University Frank Vandiver – President of Texas A&M University Booker T. Washington – Founder of Tuskegee Institute John Witherspoon – President of Princeton University Performing Artists Christina Aguilera Louis Armstrong Barlow Girl Justin Bieber (distance schooling) Charlie Chaplin Jacob Clemente Misty Copeland Miley Cyrus Hilary Duff Billie Eilish Dakota Fanning Taylor Gladstone Selena Gomez Whoopi Goldberg Ryan Gosling Hanson Jennifer Love Hewitt Jonas Brothers Demi Lovato Yehudi Menuhin Moffatts Frankie Muniz Daniel Radcliffe (on-set tutoring) LeAnne Rimes Jaden Smith Willow Smith Britney Spears Hailee Steinfeld Taylor Swift Justin Timberlake Emma Watson (on-set tutoring) Michelle Williams Business Entrepreneurs Andrew Carnegie – wealthy steel industrialist Amadeo Giannini – Bank of America’s founder Horace Greeley – New York Tribune founder Soichiro Honda – creator of the Honda automobile company Peter Kindersley – book illustrator and publisher Ray Kroc – founder of McDonald’s fast food restaurant chain Jimmy Lai – newspaper publisher; founder of Giordano International Dr. Orison Swett Marden – founder, Success magazine Adolph Ochs – New York Times founder Joseph Pulitzer – newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer Prize Colonel Harland Sanders – started Kentucky Fried Chicken Dave Thomas – founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain Mariah Witcher – founder of Mariah’s Famous Cookies Daniel Mills – founder of Salem Ridge Press Athletes Jamie Anderson Simone Biles Lia Del Priore Blake Griffin Bethany Hamilton Sage Kotsenburg Joey Logano Tamara McKinney Bode Miller Jim Ryan Maria Sharapova Balaram Stack Jason Taylor Tim Tebow Venus and Serena Williams Shaun White Others Abigail Adams – Wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams Ansel Adams – Photographer Susan B. Anthony – reformer and women’s rights leader John James Audubon – ornithologist and artist Clara Barton – Started the Red Cross Elizabeth Blackwell – first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree Dietrich Bonhoeffer – anti-Nazi German theologian John Burroughs – Naturalist George Rogers Clark – Explorer Davy Crockett – frontiersman Eric Hoffer – social philosopher Sam Houston – lawyer; first president of the Republic of Texas Charles Evans Hughes – jurist; Chief Justice Mary D. Leakey – fossil hunter; wife of Richard Leakey Harriet Martineau – first woman sociologist Margaret Mead – cultural anthropologist John Stuart Mill – Free-market Economist Charles Louis Montesquieu – Philosopher John Muir – naturalist Florence Nightingale – Nurse Sandra Day O’Connor – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sam Oosterhoff – youngest elected MPP in Ontario (at age 19) Thomas Paine – political writer during the American Revolution Bill Ridell – Newspaperman Will Rogers – Humorist Bertrand Russell – Logician Albert Schweitzer – Physician Sir Ernest Shackleton – Explorer Herbert Spencer – philosopher, sociologist Gloria Steinem – founder and long-time editor of Ms. magazine Mary Walker – Civil War physician; recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor Lester Frank Ward – “Father of American Sociology” Martha Washington – wife of George Washington Frances E. C. Willard – educator, temperance leader, and suffragist Frank Lloyd Wright – Architect Elijah ben Solomon Zalman – Jewish scholar Famous Homeschooling Parents Michael Card Robert Frost Paul Overstreet Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith John Travolta and Kelly Preston Lisa Whelchel Darrell Waltrip
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