Famous
People
With ADHD
Some of the most creative, talented and innovative visionaries over the course of history exhibited a preponderance of ADHD traits . The purpose of the list is not to diagnose individuals (sometimes posthumously) as ADHD, but rather to show that despite ADHD challenging traits or symptoms, these individuals have made and are making great contributions to the world. If you have ADHD, you are in good company. (This list is by no means exhaustive.)
Artists and Architects
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Salvador Dali
- Ansel Adams
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Pablo Picasso
Inventors
- Thomas Edison
- Benjamin Franklin
- Alexander Graham Bell
Entrepeneurs and Business Leaders
- Henry Ford
- Malcolm Forbes
- Bill Gates
- David Neeleman (Founder JetBlue Airways)
- Paul Orfalea (Founder Kinkos)
- Ted Turner
- Andrew Carnegie
Composers and Musicians
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Justin Timberlake
- Elvis Presley
Political Leaders
- Abraham Lincoln
- John F. Kennedy
- James Carville
Comedians
- Robin Williams
- Joan Rivers
- Jim Carrey
Actors and Entertainers
- Jack Nicholson
- Ann Bancroft
- Sylvester Stallone
- Steve McQueen
- Ty Pennington
Physicists
- Albert Einstein
Authors
- Charlotte and Emily Bronte
- Emily Dickenson
- Virginia Woolf
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Eugene O'Neil
- Tennessee Williams
- George Bernard Shaw
- Robert Frost
- Edgar Allen Poe
- Leo Tolstoy
- William Butler Yeats
Athletes
- Michael Jordan
- Terry Bradshaw
- Pete Rose
- Michael Phelps
Sources:
- Kitty Petty ADD/LD Institute
- Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD)
- Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Famous People with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities and/or AD/HD. SchwabLearning.org.2001
- About.com
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