Famous Homeschoolers

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

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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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