Famous Homeschoolers
Actors and Musicians
# Aaron Carter - Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
# Adam Paskowitz - lead singer, The Flys
# Alan Alda - actor, screenwriter, producer
# Alexander Gould - actor, voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo
# Alyson "Aly" Michalka and Amanda Joy "AJ" Michalka - sister singing duo and actresses
# BarlowGirl - Lauren, Alyssa, and Rebecca Barlow
# Charlie Chaplin - actor
# Cherryholmes - Bluegrass family band
# Chris Brown - R&B singer, dancer, actor
# Dakota Fanning - actress
# Devon Werkheiser - actor known for the role Ned Bigby on "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide"
# Elijah Wood - actor best known as Frodo in the The Lord of the Rings
# Evan Rachel Wood - actress
# Erika Christensen - actress
# Frankie Muniz - actor
# Grandma Moses
# Hanson - sibling singing group
# Hayden Panettiere - actress best known for her role as Claire Bennet in Heroes and in "Remember the Titans"
# Hilary Duff - actress, singer
# Hilary Hahn - classical violin virtuoso
# Hume brothers - Jon, Peter, and Dann of the Evermore alternative rock band from New Zealand
# Jena Malone - actress
# Jennifer Love Hewitt - actress
# Jeremy Sumpter - actor
# Jonas Brothers - Kevin, Joe, and Nick
# Jordin Sparks - singer, actress, model and American Idol winner
# Josh Layne - harp musician
# Kaitlyn Weaver - ice dancer
# Kristen Stewart - actress
# LeAnne Rimes - teen-prodigy country music star
# Lindsay Lohan - actress and singer
# Lindsey Shaw - actress known for her role as Jennifer Mosely on "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide"
# Louis Armstrong - king of jazz
# Maria von Trapp - one of the Von Trapp Family Singers, the third child of Captain von Trapp
# Moffatts - Canadian version of Hanson
# Nicole Jung - member of Korean girl group KARA
# Pat McMahon - television personality
# Raven Symone - actress and singer best known for her role on "That's So Raven"
# Rebecca St. James - contemporary Christian recording artist
# Scott MacIntyre - visually impaired pianist
# Sofia Vassilieva - actress
# Spencer Breslin - actor
# The 5 Browns - five siblings who play classical music on five grand pianos
# Tiffany Jo - Arizona yodeling star
# Toby Hemingway - British actor known for his role as Reid Garwin in "The Covenant"
# Trevor Morgan - American actor
# Whoopi Goldberg - actress
# Yehudi Menuhin - child prodigy violinist
# Akiane Kramarik- 10-year-old art and poetry prodigy
# Andrew Wyeth - American realist painter
# Charles Willson Peale - American portrait artist
# Christian Grew - American Painter
# Claude Monet - French Impressionist
# Donal Hord - San Diego sculptor
# Evelyn De Morgan - Pre-Raphaelite painter
# Grandma Moses - American folk artist
# Jamie Wyeth - American realist painter
# John Singleton Copley - American Colonial painter
# Leonardo da Vinci - Renaissance artist, sculptor
# Lu Pinchang - ceramic sculptor
# William Blake - painter, engraver, poet
# Alexa Glatch - tennis player
# Ariel Rittenhouse - Olympic diver
# Asia Muhammed - tennis player
# Bode Miller - American alpine skier
# Carly Patterson - Olympic gymnast
# Chad Compton - surfer
# David Boudia - Olympic diver
# Jason Taylor - NFL football player
# Katie Hoff - Olympic swimmer
# Madison and Keiffer Hubbell - sibling ice dancers
# Maria Sharapova - tennis player
# Mike Beasley - basketball player
# Shayna Syken - figure skater
# Tamara McKinney - World Cup skier
# Tanith Belbin - figure skating champion
# Timothy "Tim" Tebow - football player, Heisman Trophy winner
# Todd Lodwick - U.S. ski team member
# Sam Warren - basketball player
# Shayna Syken - figure skater
# Venus and Serena Williams - tennis star sisters
# Adolph Ochs - New York Times founder
# Amadeo Giannini - Bank of America’s founder
# Andrew Carnegie - wealthy steel industrialist
# Colonel Harland Sanders - started Kentucky Fried Chicken
# Dave Thomas - founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain
# Dr. Orison Swett Marden - founder, Success magazine
# Horace Greeley - New York Tribune founder
# Jimmy Lai - newspaper publisher; founder of Giordano International
# Joseph Pulitzer - newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer Prize
# Peter Kindersley - book illustrator and publisher
# Ray Kroc - founder of McDonald's fast food restaurant chain
# Soichiro Honda - creator of the Honda automobile company
# Anton Bruckner - Symphonies
# Felix Mendelssohn - Romantic
# Francis Poulenc - Choral
# Johann Sebastian Bach - Baroque
# John Philip Sousa - “March King”
# John Porcaro - Experimental
# Irving Berlin - Patriotic
# Noel Coward - Musicals
# Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Classical
# Alexander Hamilton - Lawyer and Economist
# Benjamin Franklin - Inventor and Statesman
# Charles Pickney III - Governor of S. Carolina
# George Clymer - U.S. Representative
# George Mason - Justice of Virginia County Court
# George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.
# George Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court
# James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.
# John Francis Mercer - U.S. Representative
# John Rutledge - Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court
# John Witherspoon - President of Princeton
# Richard Basseti - Governor of Delaware
# Richard D. Spaight - Governor of North Carolina
# William Blount - U.S. Senator
# William Few - U.S. Senator
# William Houston - Lawyer
# William Livingston - Governor of New Jersey
# William S. Johnson - Columbia College President
# Amos Bronson Alcott - innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott
# Booker T. Washington - teacher and founder of Tuskegee Institute
# Catharine Beecher - co-founder of the Hartford Female Seminary
# Charlotte Mason - Founder of Charlotte Mason College of Education
# Erik Demaine - associate professor of Computer Science at MIT
# Frank Vandiver - President of Texas A&M University
# Fred Terman - President of Stanford University
# Horace Mann - "Father of the American Common School"
# Jill Ker Conway - first woman president of Smith College
# John Witherspoon - President of Princeton University
# Joyce Reed - Associate Dean of the College, Brown University
# Noah Webster - "Father of American Christian Education"
# Timothy Dwight - President of Yale University
# William Samuel Johnson - President of Columbia College
# John Wesley Powell - Colorado River Expedition
# Meriwether Lewis - Lewis & Clark Expedition
# Sir Ernest Shackleton - Antarctic Expedition
# William Clark - Lewis & Clark Expedition
# Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams
# Amos Bronson Alcott - innovative teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott
# Barbara Howe - Libertarian activist
# Christopher Klicka - attorney and Senior Counsel, Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
# Chuck Norris - actor, author, martial artist
# Darrell Waltrip - NASCAR racer
# David Guterson - educator and author of Snow Falling on Cedars
# Duane G. Carey - NASA astronaut
# Eric Jackson - whitewater paddler
# Garth Brooks - country music singer
# Geoff Davis - U.S. Congressman (KY)
# Gregg and Sono Harris - pioneers in the modern Christian homeschooling movement
# Jada Pinkett - actress, wife of Will Smith
# Jim Ryun - Olympian runner, Kansas congressman
# John Travolta - actor, pilot
# Kelly Preston - actress, wife of John Travolta
# Kimberly Hahn - Catholic apologist and author
# Laura Ingalls Wilder - children’s book author
# Len Munsil - attorney, President of The Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), and gubernatorial candidate
# Lisa Whelchel - former actress, "The Facts of Life", now a pastor's wife and author
# Michael Card - contemporary Christian songwriter
# Mike Farris - lawyer and co-founder of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
# Mike Smith - lawyer and co-founder of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
# Paul Overstreet - musician, songwriter
# R.C. Sproul, Jr. - pastor, author of When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling
# Rick Santorum - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
# Robert E. Lee - Civil War General
# Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
# Stefan von Trapp - grandson of Captain von Trapp from The Sound of Music
# Stephen Kendrick - pastor, movie producer (Facing the Giants, Fireproof)
# Todd Akin - U.S. Congressman (MO)
# Will Smith - actor
# Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone
# Benjamin Franklin - invented the lightning rod
# Cyrus McCormick - invented grain reaper
# Eli Whitney - invented the cotton gin
# Elias Howe - invented sewing machine
# Guglielmo Marconi - developed radio
# John Moses Browning - firearms inventor/designer
# Orville and Wilbur Wright - brothers who built the first successful airplane
# Peter Cooper - built the first modern skyscraper, the first commercial locomotive, and patented the first gelatin dessert which was later named Jell-O
# Sir Frank Whittle - invented turbo jet engine
# Thomas Edison - invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and electric light bulb
# William Lear - airplane creator
# Albert Schweitzer - Physician
# Clara Barton - started the Red Cross
# Elizabeth Blackwell - first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree
# Florence Nightingale - Nurse
# Mary Walker - Civil War physician; recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
# Susan La Flesche Picotte - first American Indian woman physician
# Albert Schweitzer - Physician
# David Dixon Porter - Civil War Admiral
# Douglas MacArthur - U.S. General
# George Patton - U.S. General
# George Rogers Clark - Revolutionary War hero
# John Barry - Senior Navy Officer
# John Paul Jones - Father of the American Navy
# John Pershing - U.S. General
# Joseph Bradley Varnum - Revolutionary War hero
# Matthew Perry - U.S. Naval Officer
# Nathanael Greene - Revolutionary War hero
# Nathan Hale - Revolutionary War hero
# Robert E. Lee - Civil War General
# Stonewall Jackson - Civil War General
# Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams
# Abraham Kuyper - Dutch politician, journalist
# Alyssa Buecker - director, Milbo Productions
# Ansel Adams - photographer
# Bertrand Russell - Logician
# Bill Ridell - Newspaperman
# Charles Fletcher Lummis - journalist, historian, photographer, founder of the Southwest Society
# Charles Louis Montesquieu - philosopher
# Davy Crockett - frontiersman
# Deborah Sampson - female soldier in the American Revolution
# Drew Ryun - co-founder of Generation Joshua, director of Jim Ryun Running Camp
# Edward Curtis - photographer
# Eleanor Roosevelt - wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
# Elijah ben Solomon Zalman - Jewish scholar
# Emerson Spartz - 12-year-old internet entrepreneur (MuggleNet)
# Eric Hoffer - social philosopher
# Frances E. C. Willard - educator, temperance leader, and suffragist
# Frank Lloyd Wright - architect
# Gloria Steinem - founder of Ms. magazine
# Harriet Martineau - first woman sociologist
# Herbert Spencer - philosopher, sociologist
# Jennie Chancey - historical costumer
# John Burroughs - naturalist
# John James Audubon - ornithologist and artist
# John Lloyd Wright - architect, toy designer, inventor of Lincoln Logs
# John Muir - naturalist
# John Stuart Mill - free-market Economist
# Lester Frank Ward - Father of American Sociology
# Margaret Mead - cultural anthropologist
# Martha Washington - wife of George Washington
# Mary Leakey - fossil hunter
# Ned Ryun - co-founder of Generation Joshua, president of American Majority
# Raymond Parks - Civil Rights activist, husband of Rosa Parks
# Robin Lee Graham - youngest person to sail around the world at age 16
# Sam Houston - lawyer; first leader of Texas
# Sho Yano - gifted child prodigy
# Sofia, Susan, and Judit Polgar - chess masters
# Susan B. Anthony - women’s rights leader
# Timmy Teepell - chief of staff for Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana
# Will Rogers - Humorist
# Abraham Lincoln
# Andrew Jackson
# Franklin Delano Roosevelt
# George Washington
# Grover Cleveland
# James Garfield
# James Madison
# James Polk
# Jefferson Davis (the only president of the short-lived Confederate States of America)
# John Adams
# John Tyler
# John Quincy Adams
# Theodore Roosevelt
# Thomas Jefferson
# William Henry Harrison
# Woodrow Wilson
# Brigham Young
# Charles Wesley
# Dietrich Bonhoeffer
# Dwight L. Moody
# Hudson Taylor
# Joan of Arc
# John Newton
# John Owen
# Jonathan Edwards
# Philipp Melancthon
# William Carey
# Ada Lovelace - founder of scientific computing
# Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist
# Benoit Mandelbrot - pioneer in fractal geometry
# Blaise Pascal - French mathematician
# Booker T. Washington
# Erik Demaine
# George Washington Carver - agricultural research
# Gilbert Newton Lewis - physical chemist
# Joseph Priestley - father of modern chemistry
# Konstantin Tsiolkovsky - Russian rocket scientist
# Michael Faraday - electrochemist
# Oliver Heaviside - electromagnetism researcher
# Paul Erdos - Hungarian mathematician
# Pierre Curie - discovered radium
# Pierre-Gilles de Gennes - French physicist
# Ruth Lawrence - mathematician
# Samuel C. C. Ting - Chinese American physicist
# T.H. Huxley - biologist, zoologist, Darwinist
# Wilson A. Bentley - "The Snowflake Man"
# Benjamin Franklin
# Daniel Webster
# Henry Clay
# Henry Fountain Ashurst
# John Dickinson
# Patrick Henry
# Pierre du Pont
# William Jennings Bryan
# William Penn
# Winston Churchill
# Charles Evans Hughes
# John Jay
# John Marshall
# John Rutledge
# Sandra Day O'Connor
# Agatha Christie - mystery author
# Alex Haley - African-American novelist
# Amy Lowell - Modernist poet
# Beatrix Potter - author of Peter Rabbit Tales
# Bret Harte - frontier California journalist
# C.S. Lewis - Christian writer and apologist
# Carl Sandburg - American poet
# Charles Dickens - British novelist
# Charlotte Perkins Gilman - early feminist writer
# Christopher Paolini - teen author of Eragon
# Fawn M. Brodie - biographer
# Gabriela Mistral - Nobel-prize winning Latin American poet
# George Bernard Shaw - Irish-born playwright
# Gerald Durrell - Conservationist and writer
# Hans Christian Anderson - fairy tale writer
# Helen Keller - blind and deaf author and lecturer
# Isabel Paterson - conservative political author
# Jedediah Purdy - author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
# Joshua Harris- pastor and author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye
# Kenneth Rexroth - poet, translator, critical essayist
# L. Ron Hubbard - science fiction writer
# Laura Ingalls Wilder - children’s book author
# Leo Tolstoy - Russian writer
# Louisa May Alcott - author of Little Women
# Margaret Atwood - Canadian novelist, poet
# Mattie J. T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of Heartsongs
# Mercy Warren - American Revolution eyewitness
# Pearl S. Buck - Nobel prize-winning author
# Phillis Wheatley - African-American poet
# Rabindranath Tagore - Bengali poet, essayist, dramatist, songwriter
# Rose Wilder Lane - journalist, ghostwriter, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder
# Rosemary Sutcliff - historical novels for children
# Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
# Samuel Clemens - a.k.a. Mark Twain
# Sean O'Casey - Irish author
# Sharlot Hall - poet, writer, Arizona historian
# Thomas Paine - political writer during the American Revolution, author of Common Sense
# Virginia Woolf - English novelist
# Willa Cather - American novelist
# William F. Buckley, Jr. - conservative writer
