Homeschooled celebrities

Lists abound of famous achievers who were taught at home, some more accurate than others.[1][2] Conservapedia believes that the people in the following list were arguably homeschooled, though their educational background has not yet been thoroughly researched by our editors.

* Military
* Stonewall Jackson
* Inventors and Scientists
* Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), one of two independent inventors of the telephone.
* Pierre Curie
* Cyrus McCormick
* Charles Louis Montesquieu
* Booker T. Washington

* Leaders
* George Washington
* John Quincy Adams
* James Madison
* William Henry Harrison
* John Tyler
* George Clymer
* William Livingston
* George Mason
* Charles Pickney III
* George Wyeth
* Patrick Henry
* William Paca
* William Penn
* Henry Clay
* John Jay
* John Marshall
* John Rutledge
* Abraham Lincoln

* Religious Figures
* William Cary
* Jonathan Edwards
* Dwight L. Moody
* John Newton
* Charles Wesley
* John Wesley
* Brigham Young

* Writers and thinkers
* Hans Christian Andersen
* Robert Browning (1812-1889), a brilliant English poet.
* Pearl S. Buck
* Charles Dickens
* Bret Harte
* C. S. Lewis
* Sean O’Casey
* Beatrix Potter \- Victorian illustrator and writer of children's stories still loved today.[3]
* Herbert Spencer
* Jonathan Krohn

* Artists and Social Figures
* Claude Monet
* John Burroughs
* George Rogers Clark
* Florence Nightingale
* Leo Tolstoy

## References[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.eadshome.com/Famoushomeschooled.htm
2. ↑ http://www.education-reform.net/dropouts.htm
3. ↑ Beatrix Potter's life