If you or someone you love has ADHD, you are in good company! Some of the most creative, innovative, and imaginative people have ADHD. Below is a list of famous people who have ADHD or who are suspected of having ADHD.
Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
Artists
Salvador Dali
Pablo Picasso
Vincent Van Gogh
Athletes
Terry Bradshaw
Scott Eyre
Justin Gatlin
Cammi Granato
Jason Kidd
Michael Phelps
Pete Rose
Authors
Charlotte and Emily Bronte
Samuel Clemens
Emily Dickenson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Virginia Woolf
William Butler Yeats
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders
Andrew Carnegie
Malcolm Forbes
Henry Ford
David Neeleman
Paul Orfalea
Explorers
Christopher Columbus
Lewis and Clark
Entertainers
Ann Bancroft
Jim Carrey
Steve McQueen
Jack Nicholson
Ty Pennington
Elvis Presley
Evil and Robbie Knievel
Justin Timberlake
Robin Williams
Inventors
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Benjamin Franklin
Photographer
Ansel Adams
Physicist
Albert Einstein
Political Figures
James Carville
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Sources:
Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. Famous People with Dyslexia and other Learning Disabilities and/or AD/HD. SchwabLearning.org.
Kitty Petty ADD/LD Institute. Famous People with ADD/LD. kpinst.org 2001.
