Homeschooled celebrities

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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