Heard of any of these folk?...

So heres the start of the list of so folk you may have heard of that have been Home Educated...

Frank Lloyd Wright - Genius Architect

Noel Coward - Famously Eccentric Playwright, Composer & Actor

Alexander Graham Bell - Scientist and Inventor


Thomas Edison - Prolific Inventor and Businessman


Wright Brothers - Publishers turned aeroplane inventors


Hans Christian Andersen - Author of The Little Mermaid & Other Fairy Stories


Agatha Christie - Writer


Charles Dickens - Writer


Mark Twain - Writer


Beatrix Potter - Writer and Illustrator


Irving Berlin - Composer


Louis Armstrong - Jazz Musician

Abraham Lincoln - 16th U.S President


Elizabeth II - Er, ... the Queen


Erwin Shroedinger - Nobel Prize Winning Physicist


George Washington - 1st U.S President


Mozart - Composer


Claude Monet - Artist


Leonardo - Artist, Architect, Mathematician, Inventor, Writer & Turtle?


William Blake - Artist & Poet


Ansel Adams - Photographer


Joseph Pulitzer - Publisher


Florence Nightingale - Nurse & Statistician


Margaret Mead - Anthropologist

C.S. Lewis - Author

Charlie Chaplin - Actor & Film-maker

Bertrand Russell - Mathematician, Historian & Philosopher


Patrick Moore - Astronomer & Broadcaster

Yehudi Menuhin - Violinist & Conductor

Jack Kirby - Self-Taught Artist, Comic Writer (X-Men, The Hulk, Fantastic Four, Captain America)


Thomas Jefferson - 3rd U.S President

Theodore Roosevelt - 26th U.S President

(So that's all the presidents carved into Mount Rushmore! Incidentally, 17 of the 44 U.S presidents were home-educated, but obviously not Gump or his dad).


Feel free to add anymore you know of...