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Hans Christian Anderson
Ann Bancroft
Beethoven
Harry Belafonte
Alexander Graham Bell
Sir Richard Burton
Admiral Richard Byrd
Andrew Carnegie
Lewis Carroll
Prince Charles
Cher
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill
Tom Cruise
Leonardo da Vinci
Salvador Dali
Walt Disney
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Henry Ford
Benjamin Franklin
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Galileo
Danny Glover
Whoopi Goldberg |
Handel
Stephen Hawking
Ernest & Mariel Hemingway
William Randall Hearst
Dustin Hoffman
Bruce Jenner
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
John Lennon
Carl Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
Steve McQueen
Mozart
Napoleon
Isaac Newton
Jack Nicholson
Nostradamus
Louis Pasteur
Gen. George Patton
Picasso
Edgar Allan Poe
Puccini
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Buddy Rich
Joan Rivers |
Nelson & John D. Rockefeller
Rodin
Eleanor Roosevelt
Pete Rose
Babe Ruth
Nolan Ryan
Anwar Sadat
Pierre Salinger
George C. Scott
George Bernard
Shaw
Tom Smothers
Socrates
Suzanne Somers
Sylvester Stallone
Jackie Stewart
James Stewart
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Alberto Tomba
Van Gogh
Jules Verne
Werner von Braun
Robin Williams
Woodrow Wilson
Stevie Wonder
the Wright Brothers
William Butler
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Some of these are so
obvious - I mean - Robin Williams should be a poster boy for the cause, yes? And
seeing Tom Smothers name, I recall his heartbreaking - and hilarious -
'Mom liked you best'...
I'm not sure of the original source
of this list, but I got it at a Special Education seminar. I don't know who answered
the equivalent of the Conner's
Scale for Socrates, for example. And although the visual and dramatic arts are
well represented, the mathematicians (maybe not famous enough) and sci-fi writers seem a
little weak. There are a lot more famous people with ADD than listed here - the guy
who wrote this should be included;
he is one of my favourites.
I am surrounded by people with ADD here in my life, my family and peer group, and I am frequently
allowed to be entertained, stimulated, heartbroken, enlightened, and inspired by
them.
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