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In a message dated 6/3/2003 10:26:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> I know a lot of great people were homeschooled - for example Ben Franklin.
> I"m drawing a blank on others - any ideas?

Here's a small sampling: If you'd like a more complete list, just type
"famous homeschoolers" in at google.com
Scientists

George Washington Carver

Pierre Curie

Albert Einstein

Booker T. Washington

Blaise Pascal

Statesmen

Konrad Adenauer

Winston Churchill

Benjamin Franklin

Patrick Henry

William Penn

Henry Clay

United States Supreme Court Judges

John Jay

John Marshall

John Rutledge

Composers

Irving Berlin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Anton Bruckner

Felix Mendelssohn

Francis Poulenc

Writers


Hans Christian Anderson

Charles Dickens

Brett Harte

Mark Twain

Sean O'Casey

Phillis Wheatley

Mercy Warren

Pearl S. Buck

Agatha Christie

C.S. Lewis

George Bernard Shaw

Religious leaders

Joan of Arc

Brigham Young

John &Charles Wesley

Jonathan Edwards

John Owen

William Cary

Dwight L. Moody

John Newton

Others

Charles Chaplin - Actor

George Rogers Clark - Explorer

Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist

Noel Coward - Playwright

John Burroughs - Naturalist

Bill Ridell - Newspaperman

Will Rogers - Humorist

Albert Schweitzer - Physician

Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier

Jim Ryan - World Runner

Ansel Adams - Photographer

Charles Louis Montesquieu - philosopher

John Stuart Mill - Economist

John Paul Jones - father of the American Navy

Florence Nightingale - nurse

Clara Barton - started the Red Cross

Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams

Martha Washington - wife of George W.

Constitutional Convention Delegates

George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.

James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.

John Witherspoon - President of Princeton U.

Benjamin Franklin - inventor and statesman

William S. Johnson - President of Columbia C.

George Clymer - U.S. Representative

Charles Pickney III - Governor of S. Carolina

John Francis Mercer - U.S. Representative

George Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court

William Blount - U.S. Senator

Richard D. Spaight - Governor of N. Carolina

John Rutledge - Chief Justice U.S. Supr Court

William Livingston - Governor of New Jersey

Richard Basset - Governor of Delaware

William Houston - lawyer

William Few - U.S. Senator

George Mason



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[email protected]

In a message dated 6/3/2003 10:26:41 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
> I know a lot of great people were homeschooled - for example Ben Franklin.
> I"m drawing a blank on others - any ideas?

Here's a small sampling: If you'd like a more complete list, just type
"famous homeschoolers" in at google.com
Scientists

George Washington Carver

Pierre Curie

Albert Einstein

Booker T. Washington

Blaise Pascal

Statesmen

Konrad Adenauer

Winston Churchill

Benjamin Franklin

Patrick Henry

William Penn

Henry Clay

United States Supreme Court Judges

John Jay

John Marshall

John Rutledge

Composers

Irving Berlin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Anton Bruckner

Felix Mendelssohn

Francis Poulenc

Writers


Hans Christian Anderson

Charles Dickens

Brett Harte

Mark Twain

Sean O'Casey

Phillis Wheatley

Mercy Warren

Pearl S. Buck

Agatha Christie

C.S. Lewis

George Bernard Shaw

Religious leaders

Joan of Arc

Brigham Young

John &Charles Wesley

Jonathan Edwards

John Owen

William Cary

Dwight L. Moody

John Newton

Others

Charles Chaplin - Actor

George Rogers Clark - Explorer

Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist

Noel Coward - Playwright

John Burroughs - Naturalist

Bill Ridell - Newspaperman

Will Rogers - Humorist

Albert Schweitzer - Physician

Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier

Jim Ryan - World Runner

Ansel Adams - Photographer

Charles Louis Montesquieu - philosopher

John Stuart Mill - Economist

John Paul Jones - father of the American Navy

Florence Nightingale - nurse

Clara Barton - started the Red Cross

Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams

Martha Washington - wife of George W.

Constitutional Convention Delegates

George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.

James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.

John Witherspoon - President of Princeton U.

Benjamin Franklin - inventor and statesman

William S. Johnson - President of Columbia C.

George Clymer - U.S. Representative

Charles Pickney III - Governor of S. Carolina

John Francis Mercer - U.S. Representative

George Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court

William Blount - U.S. Senator

Richard D. Spaight - Governor of N. Carolina

John Rutledge - Chief Justice U.S. Supr Court

William Livingston - Governor of New Jersey

Richard Basset - Governor of Delaware

William Houston - lawyer

William Few - U.S. Senator

George Mason



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