Famous Homeschool Parents
Will Smith - singer, actor
· Michael Card - singer, songwriter
· Mike Farris - lawyer and
co-founder of Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA)
· Robert Frost - Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet
· Len Munsil - attorney and
President of The Center for Arizona Policy (CAP)
· Paul Overstreet - musician,
songwriter
· Kelly Preston - actress, wife of
John Travolta
· John Travolta - actor, pilot
· Lisa Whelchel - former actress,
"The Facts of Life", now a pastor's wife and author
· Darrell Waltrip
- NASCAR Racer
Constitutional Convention Delegates
· Richard Basseti - Governor of DE
· William Blount - U.S. Senator
· George Clymer - U.S. Representative
· William Few - U.S. Senator
· Benjamin Franklin
· William Houston – Lawyer
· William S. Johnson
· William Livingston - Governor of NJ
· James Madison - 4th U.S. President
· George Mason - Justice of VA
· John Francis Mercer - U.S. Rep.
· Charles Pickney III - Governor of SC
· John Rutledge - Chief Justice
· Richard D. Spaight - Governor of NC
· George Washington
· John Witherspoon
· George Wythe - Justice of VA
Presidents
· John Adams
·
John Quincy Adams
·
Grover Cleveland
·
James Garfield
·
William Henry Harrison
·
Andrew Jackson
·
Thomas Jefferson
·
Abraham Lincoln
·
James Madison
·
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
·
Theodore Roosevelt
·
John Tyler
·
George Washington
·
Woodrow Wilson
Statesmen
· Konrad
Adenauer
·
Henry Fountain Ashurst
·
William Jennings Bryan
·
Winston Churchill
·
Henry Clay
· Pierre du Pont
· Benjamin Franklin
· Alexander Hamilton
· Patrick Henry
· William Penn
· Daniel Webster
Military Leaders
· Alexander the Great - Greek
Ruler
· John Barry - Senior Navy Officer
· Stonewall Jackson - Civil War
General
· John Paul Jones - Father of the
American Navy
· Robert E. Lee - Civil War General
· Douglas MacArthur - U.S. General
· George Patton - U.S. General
· Matthew Perry - naval officer who
opened up trade with Japan
· John Pershing - U.S. General
· David Dixon Porter - Civil War
Admiral
U.S. Supreme Court Judges
·
John Jay
·
John Marshall
·
John Rutledge
·
Sandra Day O'Connor
Scientists
· George
Washington Carver
· Pierre
Curie
· Albert Einstein
· Michael Faraday - electrochemist
· Oliver Heaviside - physicist and
electromagnetism researcher
· T.H. Huxley
· Blaise Pascal
· Booker T. Washington
· Erik Demaine - Popular Science
Mag: One of the Most Brilliant Scientists in
America
Artists
· William
Blake
·
John Singleton Copley
·
Claude Monet
·
Grandma Moses
·
Charles Peale
·
Leonardo da Vinci
·
Andrew Wyeth
·
Jamie Wyeth
Religious Leaders
·
Joan of Arc
·
William Carey
·
Jonathan Edwards
·
Philipp Melancthon
·
Dwight L. Moody
·
John Newton
·
John Owen
·
Hudson Taylor
·
John & Charles Wesley
·
Brigham Young
Inventors
· Alexander Graham Bell - invented
the telephone
· John Moses Browning - firearms
inventor and designer
· Peter Cooper - invented
skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive
· Thomas Edison - invented the
stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb
· Benjamin Franklin - invented the
lightning rod
· Elias Howe - invented sewing
machine
· William Lear - airplane creator
· Cyrus McCormick - invented grain
reaper
· Guglielmo Marconi - developed
radio
· Eli Whitney - invented the cotton
gin
· Sir Frank Whittle - invented
turbo jet engine
· Orville and Wilbur Wright
- built the first successful airplane
Composers
· Irving
Berlin
·
Anton Bruckner
·
Noel Coward
·
Felix Mendelssohn
·
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
·
Francis Poulenc
·
John Philip Sousa
Writers
·
Hans Christian Anderson
·
Margaret Atwood
·
Pearl S. Buck
·
William F. Buckley, Jr.
·
Willa Cather
·
Agatha Christie
·
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
·
Charles Dickens
·
Robert Frost - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
· Charlotte
Perkins Gilman
·
Alex Haley
·
Brett Harte
·
L. Ron Hubbard
·
C.S. Lewis
·
Amy Lowell
·
Gabriela Mistral
·
Sean O'Casey
·
Christopher Paolini - author of #1 NY Times
bestseller, Eragon
· Isabel
Paterson
·
Beatrix Potter - author of the beloved Peter
Rabbit Tales
· Carl
Sandburg
·
George Bernard Shaw
·
Mattie J. T. Stepanek - 11-year-old author of
Heartsongs
· Mercy
Warren
·
Phillis Wheatley
·
Walt Whitman
·
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Educators
· Amos Bronson Alcott - innovative
teacher, father of Louisa May Alcott
· Catharine Beecher - co-founder of
the Hartford Female Seminary
· Jill Ker Conway - first woman
president of Smith College
· Timothy Dwight - President of
Yale University
· William Samuel Johnson -
President of Columbia College
· Horace Mann - "Father of the
American Common School"
· Charlotte Mason - Founder of
Charlotte Mason College of Education
· Fred Terman - President of
Stanford University
· Frank Vandiver - President of
Texas A&M University
· Booker T. Washington - Founder of
Tuskegee Institute
· John Witherspoon - President of
Princeton University
Performing Artists
· Louis Armstrong - king of jazz
· Charlie Chaplin - actor
· Whoopi Goldberg - actress
· Hanson - sibling singing group
· Jennifer Love Hewitt - actress
· Yehudi Menuhin - child prodigy
violinist
· Moffatts - Canadian version of
Hanson
· Frankie Muniz - child actor
· LeAnne Rimes - teen-prodigy
country music singer
· Barlow Girl - Alyssa, Rebecca, and Lauren
Contemporary Christian Music
· Jonas Brothers - Kevin, Joe, and Nick Performers
· Jacob Clemente -
Broadway Actor
Business Entrepreneurs
· Andrew Carnegie - wealthy steel
industrialist
· Amadeo Giannini - Bank of
America’s founder
· Horace Greeley - New York Tribune
founder
· Soichiro Honda - creator of the
Honda automobile company
· Peter Kindersley - book
illustrator and publisher
· Ray Kroc - founder of McDonald's
fast food restaurant chain
· Jimmy Lai - newspaper publisher;
founder of Giordano International
· Dr. Orison Swett Marden -
founder, Success magazine
· Adolph Ochs - New York Times
founder
· Joseph Pulitzer - newspaper
publisher; established Pulitzer Prize
· Colonel Harland Sanders - started
Kentucky Fried Chicken
· Dave Thomas - founder of the
Wendy’s restaurant chain
· Mariah Witcher - founder of
Mariahs Famous Cookies
· Daniel Mills - founder of
Salem Ridge Press
Others
· Abigail Adams - Wife of John
Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams
· Ansel Adams - Photographer
· Susan B. Anthony - reformer and
women’s rights leader
· John James Audubon -
ornithologist and artist
· Clara Barton - Started the Red
Cross
· Elizabeth Blackwell - first woman
in the U.S. to receive a medical degree
· John Burroughs - Naturalist
· George Rogers Clark - Explorer
· Davy Crockett - frontiersman
· Eric Hoffer - social philosopher
· Sam Houston - lawyer; first
president of the Republic of Texas
· Charles Evans Hughes - jurist;
Chief Justice
· Mary D. Leakey - fossil hunter;
wife of Richard Leakey
· Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier
· Harriet Martineau - first woman
sociologist
· Margaret Mead - cultural
anthropologist
· John Stuart Mill - Free-market
Economist
· Charles Louis Montesquieu -
Philosopher
· John Muir - naturalist
· Florence Nightingale - Nurse
· Thomas Paine - political writer
during the American Revolution
· Bill Ridell - Newspaperman
· Will Rogers - Humorist
· Bertrand Russell - Logician
· Jim Ryan - World Runner
· Albert Schweitzer - Physician
· Sir Ernest Shackleton - Explorer
· Herbert Spencer - philosopher,
sociologist
· Gloria Steinem - founder and
long-time editor of Ms. magazine
· Jason Taylor - plays in the
National Football League
· Mary Walker - Civil War
physician; recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor
· Lester Frank Ward - "Father of
American Sociology"
· Martha Washington - wife of
George Washington
· Frances E. C. Willard - educator,
temperance leader, and suffragist
· Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect
· Elijah ben Solomon Zalman -
Jewish scholar
· Balaram Stack - Award winning
Surfer
· Lia Del Priore -
Award Winning Gymnast
· Taylor Gladstone -
Ballerina
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