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sarai

06/08/03 2:47 PM

#19635 RE: yayaa #19634

This is a very colloquial internet forum. No need for anyone to act as spelling police. There's the ignore feature if you are troubled by another's posting. Consider using it.



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sarai

06/08/03 2:55 PM

#19637 RE: yayaa #19634

"Great Minds"!! :)


Famous People with the Gift of Dyslexia

http://www.dyslexia.com/qafame.htm

Political Leaders:
Winston Churchill.
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
Michael Heseltine.
Andrew Jackson.
Thomas Jefferson.
John F. Kennedy.
Nelson Rockefeller.
Paul Wellstone,U.S. Senator.
Woodrow Wilson.
George Washington.

Free Thinkers...


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*Albert Einstein / Physicist, Nobel Prize (link #2)
Ann Bancroft, Arctic Explorer
Alexander Graham Bell / Inventor (link #2)
Werner Von Braun / Rocketry (link #2)
*Dr. Simon Clemmet / British Scientist analysed carbon compound
found in the meteorite from Mars
*Thomas Edison /Inventor (link #2 kids) (link #3) (link #4 pbs)
Michael Faraday / Physics,the discoverer of
electromagnetic induction,
paramagnetism, & diamagnetism (link #2) (link #3) (link #4)
Henry Ford / Inventor (link #2)
John R. Horner / Paleontologist / Author: Digging up Tyrannosaurus
Rex & technical adviser for the film Jurassic Park (link #2)
William Lear
Charles Lindbergh / Aviation
Dr. James Lovelock
*Sir Issac Newton / Scientist & Mathematician (link #2) (link #3) (link #4)
Eli Whitney / Inventor "Cotton Gin"
played a large role in the Industrial Revolution
John VonNeumann / Mathematician
Orville & Wilbur Wright / Inventors (link#2) (link #3)







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Dr. Harvey Cushing /Father of modern brain surgery (link #2)
Paul Ehrlich
*Fred Epstein, Neurosurgeonn (link #2)
William James (link #2)
John W. House, M.D. / President, House Ear Institute World
Renowned Research Facility
Dr. Edward Hallowell / Psychiatrist
*John Robert Skoyles, Brain Researcher
Margie C. Sweeney, M.D.
*Dr. Helen Taussig / developed surgery that saved blue babies (link #2)





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*Harry Andersen / TV actor, Judge Stone on Night Court
Fred Astaire / Performer (link #2)
Michael Barrymore / British comedian, TV host
George Burns / actor and comedian
Enrico Caruso
*Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (Tom Cruise) / Actor (Link # 2)
Harrison Ford / Actor
Danny Glover / Actor
Tracey Gold
*Whoopi Goldberg /Actress, comedian (link #2)
Anthony Hopkins / Actor
*Bob Hoskins / Actor (link#2)
*Susan Hampshire / Actress
Edward James
Jay Leno / Actor & Hosts the ABC "Tonight Show"
*Liv Tyler (link #2)
Will Smith / Actor, rapper, comedian (link#2)
Tom Smothers / Actor, singer, comedian
*Henry Winkler / Actor "The Fonze" "Happy Days"
*Oliver Reed
Edward James Olmos
Jill Pages, Trapeze









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*Cher / Actress, singer
*Noel Gallagher / Oasis Guitarist
Nigel Kennedy, Violinist
Jewel / Singer, actress (link#2)
Harry Belafonte / Singer, actor, producer, human rights activist
*Brad Little
John Lennon / Singer
River Jude Phoenix
Achilles Poulos / Greek Entertainer
Bob Weir / Guitarist "Grateful Dead" (link #2)
*Usher / Grammy award winning R&B singer






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*Erin Brockovich
David Boies - Attorney
Nicholas Brady / US Secretary Treasury
George Bush / President of the United State
*Sir. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill / Prime Minister Of England
King Carl XVI / Gustaf of Sweden (link #2)
Jeffrey H. Gallet, Judge.
Michael Hesetine / British MP
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
Lyndon Johnson / President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson / President of the United States
John Fitzgerald Kennedy / President of the United States
*General George S. Patton / General, Pilot (link #2)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt / First Lady
*Nelson Rockefeller / Vice President (link#2 by him)
*Woodrow Wilson / President of the United States
*George Washington / President of the United States





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Scott Adams / "Dilbert" creator
*David Bailey / British Photographer
Michelangelo Buonarroti /Artist
*Walt Disney / Animation artist
*Leonardo da Vinci / Artist (link#2) (link# 3)
Nicola Hicks / British Sculptress
Auguste Rodin / Sculptor "the thinker"
Patricia Buckley Moss / Artist
*Pablo Ruiz Picasso / Artist (link #2)
*Robert Rauschenberg / Artist (link #2)
Jørn Utzon / Architect "Sydney Opera house" (link #2)
Richard Rogers / Internationally famous architect,
creator of Lloyd's Building, London, Pompidou Centre, Paris
*Allison Merriweather/ Artist
Søren Kragh Jacobsen / Danish film director
*Stacy Poulos, Photographer, writer, multimedia Producer
Steven Spielberg / Filmmaker "The color Purple", "Indiana Jones"
"Schindlers List" "Always" "Jurassic Park"
*Robert Toth / Artest / Sculpture

Bennett Strahan
*Vincent VanGogh / Artist




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G. Chris Anderson / Managing Director of Drexel Burnham -
Wall Street Investment banking firm
*Stephen Bacque / Inventor & Entrepreneur,
President, A.S. "Bacque Enterprises, Inc."
*Richard Branson / Founder of "Virgin Enterprises"
*John T Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems (link# 2)
Fred Curry /Chairman & CEO of Greyhound Bus
Reyn Guyer / Nerf ball developer
*William Hewlett / Co-Founder "Hewlett-Packard" (link#2)
*Tommy Hilfiger / internationally-known fashion designer.
Steve Jobs / Founder "Apple Computers"
*Craig McCaw / Billionaire of "McCaw Cellular"
David Murdock / CEO, Dole Food
*Paul J. Orfalea / Founder and Chairman "Kinko's"
*Charles Schwab / Investor & multimillionaire businessman (link# 2)
Raymond Smith / Former CEO, Bell Atlantic
Richard C. Strauss (Dallas real estate developer)
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger / Harvard University
Auther Stone
Chick Thompson / produces commercial videos
Ted Turner / President "Turner Broadcasting Systems"
Thomas J. Watson Jr. / Former CEO, IBM
F.W. Woolworth / Department Store Innovator
William Wrigley, Jr. / Chewing Gum





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*Avi / Children's writer & illustrator
Hans Christian Anderson / Author of fairy tales
Earnest Hemingway / Writer (link #2)
*Steven Cannell / TV Show writer "Rockford Files" Clumbo"
Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Dame Agatha Christie / Mystery writer
Fannie Flagg / Author
"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe"
*Ronald Davis / writer, educator
Gustave Flaubert / French
*John Irvine / Writer
*Debbie Macomber / Auther
New York Times bestseller status with her 101st novel
Prophet Mohammed
*Danielle Mullen / 19 year old playwriter
*Patricia Polacco / Children's Author & Illustrator
*Girard Sagmiller / Writer
Prophet Joseph Smith / The Book of Mormon
Elizabeth Daniels Squire / Author of mystery novels
*Victor Villaseñor
Mark Twain / Writer "The adventures of Huckel Breey Fin"
William Butler Yeats / Irish Author

Victor Villaseñor / Writer






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* Terry Bradshaw / host of Fox's NFL pre-game show /former NFL quarterback


*Rulon Gardner / gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Greco-Roman wrestling


Duncan Goodhew / Olympic Swimmer
*Bruce Jenner / Olympic Decathlon Gold Medalist
*Magic Johnson / Basket Ball
*Greg Louganis / Olympic Gold medalist


Dan O'Brian / Olympian


Babe Ruth - Baseball Legend


*Steven Redgrave / 4 Olympic Gold medals for Rowing
Jackie Stewart, World famous race car champion
Muhammad Ali / World Heavyweight Champion Boxer
*Bob May / Golfer


Joe Montana /Greatest quarterback of all time


*Diamond Dallas Page / World Wrestling Champion (link #2)


*Jim Shea, Jr./ gold medal competing in the skeleton event at the 2002 Winter Olympics


Nolan Ryan / Pitcher, National Baseball of Hall of Fame (link# 2)


Billy Banks /Tae-Bo the Fitness of the future






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Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. / Astronaut
*Ennis William Cosby
*Andrew Cunningham
Frank Dunkle (Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
*Angus Hepburn
Joseph P. Land
*Julia Walker / Hollywood hair stylist for
Whoopi Goldberg "Sister Act 1 & 2" "Made In America"
Elizabeth B. (Liz) Student / LD Pride On Line
*Anthony Parle, farmer / some cucumbers for Mc Donald Secrete sauce
*Bob Turney / Probation Officer & author
"I'm Still Standing" and "Going Straight"
*Leonie J. Winson
*Sam K. / student



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http://www.playback.net/vision/dyslexia/people.htm

"Fifteen percent of the population has some level of a 'developmental learning disability', stemming from 'dyslexia'"

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