6th Edition
by Judith and Stephen Crooker

LD Persons of Note

Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, engineer and humanist of the Italian Renaissance, 1452-1519.

Hans Christian Anderson
Danish Writer, beloved for his fairy tales, 1805-1875.

Auguste Rodin
French sculptor, well-known for works in bronze like "The Thinker",
1840-1917

Nicholas Brady
Treasury Secretary

Nelson Rockefeller
Former Governor of New York and presidential candidate

Tom Cruise
Actor

Woodrow Wilson
Former President of The United States; he did not learn to read until he
was 11 years old.

Greg Lougainis
Olympic diver; "When you are told that you are lazy when you are 6, 7,
or 8 years old and you're told that enough times, you start believing
it....The only place I really felt comfortable with athletics."

Albert Einstein
Brilliant physicist who developed the theory of special and general
relativity. He was four years old before he could speak and seven before
he could read. He failed mathematics in high school.

Isaac Newton
Famous mathematician responsible for inventing the study of differential
calculus and developing theories on gravitation. He did poorly in grade
school.

Ludwig van Beethoven
His music teacher once said of him, "As a composer, he is hopeless."

Thomas Edison
American inventor who obtained patents for photography, phonography, and
electric lighting. When a boy, his teacher told him he was too stupid to
learn anything.

Walt Disney
A newspaper editor fired him because he had "no good ideas." Also, he
went bankrupt seven years in a row and received a dishonorable discharge
from the military.

J.C. Penney
At the age of 57 he was in a psychiatric ward, diagnosed as crazy, was
left alone, and was in debt for $6,000,000.00. However, he died at the
age of 92 a multi-millionaire.

Leo Tolstoy
Russian novelist and philosopher. He failed out of college.

Charles Schwab
Businessman. Dyslexic.

Werner von Braun
Rocket scientist. He failed 9th grade algebra.

Abraham Lincoln
Our 16th president entered the Black Hawk War a captain and came out as a
private.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen
Award winning architect.

Jackie Stewart
Most successful Grand Prix driver in racing history.

Cher
Actress

Agatha Christie
Mystery Writer. Dyslexic.

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