Famous Dyslexics

Dyslexia affects more people than you'd think it does. Here are many of the well-known and talented people who are dyslexic, or who possess traits resembling those of a similar learning disability.

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Actors and Entertainers

Harry Anderson

A television personality, comedian and trickster. He is best known for his role as a judge on the situation comedy "Night Court" (1984-92)

Orlando Bloom

A well-known actor who started in youth theater with plays like Twelfth Night, and Mephisto and Antigone. Orlando has gone on to appear in blockbuster movies such as The Lord of the Rings and the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogies.

Harry Belafonte

Harry is a Jamaican-American calypso musician and actor who has

Tom Cruise

A Golden Globe winning actor best known for his lead roles in Risky Business and Top Gun. He is also a film producer.

Dave Foley

Dave is a comedic actor who dropped out of high school in large part due to his undiagnosed dyslexia.

Danny Glover

An award-winning actor, Danny has starred in The Color Purple and the Lethal Weapon series, and he is an activist for such causes as anemia awareness, AIDS, and mathematics education.

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg is an American comedian, actor, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host.

Susan Hampshire

Susan Hampshire is an English actress best known for her many television and film roles. She is most famous for her role in What Katy Did.

Jay Leno

Jay Leno is an American stand-up comedian and television host. Jay's most notable role being the host of the Tonight Show.

Keanu Reeves

Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix.

Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. His most memorable role was William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.

Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his burly screen presence.

Billy Bob Thornton

Billy Bob Thornton is an American actor, director, musician, playwright and screenwriter.

Tom Smothers

Tom Smothers is an American comedian, composer and musician, best known as half of the musical comedy team the Smothers Brothers

Robin Williams

Robin McLaurim Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work.

Henry Winkler

Henry Franklin Winkler is an American actor, director, producer, and author. Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days.

Loretta Young

Loretta Young was an American actress. She received an Academy Award for her role in the 1947 film The Farmer's Daughter.

Artists, Designers, and Architects

Ansel Adams

Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.

Tommy Hilfiger

Thomas "Tommy" Hilfiger is an American fashion designer and founder of the brand Tommy Hilfiger.

Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art.

Jørn Utzon

Jørn Oberg Utzon was a Danish architect most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.

Willard Wigan

Willard Wigan is a sculptor from Birmingham, England, who makes microscopic art. His sculptures are created in the eye of a needle or placed on the head of a pin.