Famous Homeschooled People in the World

I came across this very interesting list of Famous Homeschooled People and thought I would share it. Its great seeing things like this as it helps build confidence in a parent's ability to home educate their child, especially when you see the names of some of the inventors and scientists. 




Some famous Home schooled people:
Bindi Irwin (Steve Irwin's daughter) 
Maria Sharapova (tennis player) 
Venus Williams (tennis player) 
Serena Williams (tennis player) 
Pro Hart (Australian artist) 
Hanson (band) 
Moffats (band) 
Christina Aguileria (singer) 
LeAnne Rimes (singer) 
Justin Timberlake (singer) 
Hillary Duff (singer/actress) 
Whoopi Goldberg (actress) 
Dakota Fanning (actress) 
Jennifer Love Hewitt (actress) 
Alan Alda (actor) 
Frankie Muniz (child actor) 
Agatha Christie (author) 
CS Lewis (author) 


HS'ing parents: 
Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt- actors
Michael Card - contemporary Christian songwriter 
Duane G. Carey - NASA astronaut 
Mike Farris - lawyer and co-founder of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 
David Guterson - educator and author of Snow Falling on Cedars 
Kimberly Hahn - Catholic apologist and author 
Gregg and Sono Harris - pioneers in the modern Christian homeschooling movement Barbara Howe - Libertarian activist 
Eric Jackson - Whitewater paddler 
Christopher Klicka - attorney and Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) 
Len Munsil - attorney, President of The Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), and gubernatorial candidate 
Paul Overstreet - musician, songwriter 
Jada Pinkett Smith & Will Smith - actors  
Kelly Preston & John Travolta - actors 
Rick Santorum - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 
Mike Smith - lawyer and co-founder of HSLDA 
R.C. Sproul, Jr. - pastor, author of When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling 
Stefan von Trapp - grandson of Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music  
Darrell Waltrip - NASCAR racer 
Lisa Whelchel - former actress, "The Facts of Life", now a pastor's wife and author 


Famous Artists:
Claude Monet 
Leonardo da Vinci 
Jamie Wyeth 
Andrew Wyeth 
John Singleton Copley

Inventors:
Alexander Graham Bell 
Thomas Edison 
Alec Issigonis 
Cyrus McCormick 
The Wright Brothers

Scientists:
Blaise Pascal 
Pierre Curie 
Albert Einstein 
Booker T. Washington 
George Washington Carver

Statesman:
Winston Churchill 
Konrad Adenauer 
Benjamin Franklin 
Patrick Henry 
William Penn 
Henry Clay

Composers:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Anton Bruckner 
Felix Mendelssohn 
Francis Poulenc 
Conlon Nancarrow 
Irving Berlin 
Yehudi Menuhin

Writers:
Agatha Christie 
C.S. Lewis 
George Bernard Shaw 
Noel Coward 
D.H. Lawrence 
Hans Christian Anderson 
Charles Dickens 
Mark Twain 
Margaret Mead 
Sean O'Casey 
Rumer Godden 
Brett Harte 
Phillis Wheatley 
Mercy Warren 
Pearl S. Buck

Miscellaneous: 
Charles Chaplin - Actor 
Florence Nightingale - Nurse 
John Burroughs - Naturalist 
Charles Louis Montesquieu - Philosopher 
Albert Schweitzer - Physician 
George Rogers Clark - Explorer 
Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist 
Bill Ridell - Newspaperman 
Will Rogers - Humorist 
Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier 
Jim Ryan - World Runner 
Ansel Adams - Photographer 
John Stuart Mill - Economist 
John Paul Jones - father of the American Navy 
Clara Barton - started the Red Cross 
Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams 
Martha Washington - wife of George W. (a distant relative of mine, so my Mama says)
Venus and Serena Williams

Religious Leaders:
Joan of Arc 
Brigham Young 
John & Charles Wesley 
Jonathan Edwards 
John Owen 
William Cary 
Dwight L. Moody 
John Newton


If you know of any people I can add, let me know.




Thanks to The Educating Parent for sharing this.