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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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