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Successful Dyslexics
Actors, Actresses and Entertainers
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Harry Belafonte - Singer / Entertainer
George Burns - Actor / Comedian
Stephen J. Cannell - TV Writer / Producer - Director of Hill Street Blues, Rockford Files
Cher - Singer / Actress
Tom Cruise - Actor
Walt Disney - Created / Produced animated cartoons: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck
Danny Glover - Actor
Tracey Gold - Actress
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Whoopi Goldberg - Actress / Comedian
David Jones - Helicopter Pilot / Stunt Man
Jay Leno - "Tonight Show" host
Tom Smothers - Comedian
Aaron Spelling - TV / Film Producer Dynasty
Quentin Tarantino - Actor / Producer / Director
Lindsey Wagner - Actress, Bionic Woman
Henry Winkler - Actor, The Fonz
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Famous Athletes
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Ann Bancroft - only woman to go to the North Pole by dog sled (1986)
Bruce Jenner - U.S. Olympic decathlon gold medalist 1976; fitness expert
Greg Louganis - won 48 national diving titles; U.S. Olympic diving silver medalist 1976; gold medalist '84 & '88; World Diving Champion 1986
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Nolan Ryan - Pitcher for Texas Rangers
Jackie Stewart - Race Car Driver
Russell White - Football Running Back
Eric Wynalda - Professional Soccer Player (1994)
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Presidents, Inventors, Authors and More
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Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the Telephone
Leonardo da Vinci - Italian sculptor, architect, engineer, mathematician, inventor, artist, multi-talented genius; designs in geometry; helicopter; Mona Lisa painting
George Bush - U.S. President (1988-1992)
George Washington - First U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson - U.S. President (1913-1920); League of Nations
Thomas Edison - inventor; 1300+ inventions (microphone; phonograph; incandescent light
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Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister
Paul Ehrlich - Bacteriologist 'side chain theory' (Nobel Prize in medicine - 1908)
Michael Faraday - Discovered Electromagnetic Induction
General George Patton - WW II
King Karl XI - King of Sweden
Wm. Butler Yeats - Poet; Nobel Prize 1923
Henry Ford - Manufactured Ford Automobiles
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