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 with a lot of famous people.
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
Michael Phelps
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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