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Famous Homeschoolers

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Here are some of the famous Homeschoolers You May know of:

Famous Homeschool Parents

Will Smith – singer, actor
· Michael Card – singer, songwriter
· Mike Farris – lawyer and co-founder of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
· Robert Frost – Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
· Christopher Klicka – attorney and Senior Counsel of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
· Len Munsil – attorney and President of The Center for Arizona Policy (CAP)
· Paul Overstreet – musician, songwriter
· Kelly Preston – actress, wife of John Travolta
· Mike Smith – lawyer and co-founder of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
· John Travolta – actor, pilot
· Lisa Whelchel – former actress, “The Facts of Life”, now a pastor’s wife and author
· Darrell Waltrip – NASCAR Racer

Performing Artists

· 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

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 – Popular Science Magazine

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

Famous 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

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 Mariahs Famous Cookies
· Daniel Mills – founder of Salem Ridge Press

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