Famous People With
ADHD and ADD

Have you heard about all the famous people with ADHD? Well many of the stories are true.

Some of the most talented, creative and successful people in this world have ADD/ADHD.

Did you know that one of the most famous people with ADD was Albert Einstein? It wasn’t called Attention Deficit Disorder back then. But the thought of him having it makes many wonder what our lives would be like today if Einstein, one of the greatest minds of the last century had been prescribed Ritalin. Would he have been creative enough to come up with the theory of relativity or discover the law of the photoelectric effect? Maybe so, but who knows?

So the next time you think of ADHD as a curse, a disease or the worst thing that could have ever happened to you or your child, think again! You’re in good company.

Check out this list of famous people who either have or are thought to have ADD or ADHD.

Architect
• Frank Lloyd Wright

Artists
• Salvador Dali
• Pablo Picasso
• Vincent Van Gogh

Athletes
• Terry Bradshaw
• Pete Rose
• Nolan Ryan
• Michael Jordan
• Jason Kidd

Authors
• Charlotte and Emily Bronte
• Samuel Clemens
• Emily Dickenson
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Robert Frost
• George Bernard Shaw
• Henry David Thoreau
• Leo Tolstoy
• Tennessee Williams
• Virginia Woolf
• William Butler Yeats

Composer
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
• Andrew Carnegie
• Malcolm Forbes
• Henry Ford
• Bill Gates
• David Neeleman
• Paul Orfalea
• Ted Turner

Explorers
• Christopher Columbus
• Lewis and Clark

Entertainers
• Ann Bancroft
• Jim Carrey
• Steve McQueen
• Jack Nicholson
• Ty Pennington
• Elvis Presley
• Evil and Robbie Knievel
• Sylvester Stallone
• Robin Williams
• Wright Brothers

Inventors
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Benjamin Franklin

Photographer
• Ansel Adams

Physicist
• Albert Einstein

Political Figures
• James Carville
• John F. Kennedy

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