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Athletes

Brianna Weissman, Figure Skater

Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier

Jim Ryan - World Runner

Bobby Convey, Major League Soccer

Brittany Reitz, Tennis

Drew Weatherford, Football Quarterback

Darrell Waltrip, NASCAR Racer

Gabe Jennings, Olympic Track & Field

Jenny Keim, Olympic Diver

Jason Taylor, NFL Football Player

Jill Dworsky, Rodeo Champ, Veterinary

Joe Garofalo, Ice Hockey

Venus and Serena Williams, Tennis

Authors

Christopher Paolini
Christopher began writing the first volume of the "Inheritance" trilogy, Eragon, when he completed a home learning high school curriculum at the age of 15.

Jedediah Purdy
Homelearninged in West Virginia, Jedediah Purdy is a student at Yale and author of For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today.

Hans Christian Anderson

Agatha Christie

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Charles Dickens

Robert Frost

Alex Haley

C.S. Lewis

Carl Sandburg

George Bernard Shaw

Walt Whitman

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Business Success

Aaron Fessler, CEO - Founder of The Allegro Group

Andrew Carnegie - Wealthy steel industrialist

Amadeo Giannini - Bank of America’s founder

Horace Greeley - New York Tribune founder

Soichiro Honda - Creator of the Honda automobile company

Ray Kroc - Founder of McDonald's fast food restaurant chain

Adolph Ochs - New York Times founder

Joseph Pulitzer - Newspaper publisher; established Pulitzer Prize

Colonel Harland Sanders - Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken

Dave Thomas - Founder of the Wendy’s restaurant chain

Educators

Joyce Reed, Associate Dean of the College, Brown University
Since my lifelong career has been as a professional educator, people are frequently bewildered when they learn that my five children did most of their learning at home until they entered colleges and universities that suited their interests. How did I do it, they ask?

Frances E. C. Willard - Educator, temperance leader, and suffragist

Mathematicians

Erike Demaine
The home-schooled whiz kid from Halifax who last year became the youngest professor hired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has won a MacArthur Fellowship, better known as The Genius Award.

Musicians

Billy Contreras, Violinist
Now 15 years old, Billy keeps up a year-round concert schedule that includes regular stints in Nashville along with tours taking him to symphonies and festivals all over the country.

Joanna MacGregor, pianist
Unconventional pianist who has hit the classical music scene like the proverbial whirlwind. The eclecticism predates her formal musical studies. She and her two siblings were educated at home until they were 11 years old.

Josh Layne, Harpist
Josh is an exciting young musician who has recorded and produced 3 solo CDs. He performs as both a recitalist and an orchestral soloist. He began playing the harp at age 13. Because he was learning at home, he had time to develop his skills as a musician.

One Way Rider Family Bluegrass Band
One Way Rider is a family band performing bluegrass, newgrass, and contemporary acoustic music. They are a homelearning family, and their son BassBoy was on the Grand Ole Opry, Jan. 5, 2002, performing his original song.

Paskowitz, Rock Group "The Flys"
Paskowitz' diverse interests ... reflect something of his eclectic education, having been home schooled with his sister and seven brothers. "We didn't have organized homelearning, it was more like Life Long Learning, more like we assimilated from our environment," he says.

Performing Artists and Famous Life Long Learning Parents

David Tamaki, Ballet Dancer

Lisa Whelchel, Actress
Blair on "The Facts of Life," is a homelearning mom of three kids. Before you could say "no college degree," I had succeeded in teaching a kindergartner, first-grader, and second-grader "reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic." We were having so much fun, you couldn't have paid me to send my kids to school.

Spencer Breslin, Actor

Tyler Hoechlin, Actor

Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
This Hollywood couple has chose to be a homelearning family with their children, because they're unimpressed with America's educational system. Jada played "Annie" in "Collateral, and was also in the Matrix series.

Michael Card - Singer, songwriter

Robert Frost - Poet

Paul Overstreet - Musician, songwriter

Presidents

        George Washington (1732-1799)
         1st President of the United States;
         commander-in-chief of the Continental
         Army during the American Revolution

        Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
        3rd President of the United States; chief
        drafter of the Declaration of Independence;
        made the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and sent
        out the Lewis and Clark Expedition

        James Madison (1751-1836)
        4th President of the United States; member of
        the Constitutional Congress and recorder at the
        Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame
        the Bill of Rights

        James Monroe (1758-1831)
        5th President of the United States;
        author of the "Monroe Doctrine"

        John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
        6th President of the United States
        and son of the 2nd President

        William Henry Harrison (1773-1841)
        9th President of the United States; caught
        pneumonia during his inauguration and died
        shortly after

        John Tyler (1790-1862)
        Elected Vice President and became the
        10th President of the United States when
        Harrison died

        Zachary Taylor (1784-1850)
        12th President of the United States;
        died in office

        Millard Fillmore (1800-1874)
        Elected Vice President and became the
        13th President of the United States
        when Taylor died in office

        James Buchanan (1791-1868)
        15th President of the United States

        Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
        16th President of the United States; saved the
        Union during the Civil War and emancipated the
        slaves; was assassinated by Booth

        Andrew Johnson (1808-1875)
        17th President of the United States; was elected
        Vice President and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln
        was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by
        one vote

        James Garfield (1831-1881)
        20th President of the United States;
        assassinated by a frustrated office-seeker

        Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)
        22nd and 24th President of the United States

        Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
        26th President of the United States; hero
        of the Spanish-American War; Panama Canal
        was built during his administration; said
        " Speak softly but carry a big stick"

        Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
        28th President of the United States; led U.S.
        in World War I and secured the formation of
        the League of Nations

        Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
        31st President of the United States;
        in 1929 the stock market crashed and
        the economy collapsed and Hoover was
        defeated for re-election by Franklin
        Roosevelt

        Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
        32nd President of the United States; elected
        four times; instituted New Deal to counter
        the great depression and led country during
        World War II

        Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
        36th President of the United States; was elected
        Vice President and succeeded Kennedy when
        Kennedy was assassinated

Scientists, Inventors, & Explorers

Alexander Graham Bell - Invented the telephone

Peter Cooper - Invented skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive

Thomas Edison - Invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb

Benjamin Franklin - Invented the lightning rod

Elias Howe - Invented sewing machine

William Lear - Airplane creator

Guglielmo Marconi - Developed radio

Eli Whitney - Invented the cotton gin

Sir Frank Whittle - Invented turbo jet engine

Orville and Wilbur Wright - Built the first successful airplane

George Washington Carver

Albert Einstein

Michael Faraday - Electrochemist

Oliver Heaviside - Physicist and Electromagnetism Researcher

Booker T. Washington

Singers

Billy Gilman, Recording Artist
"I am home-schooled, and I find Junior Scholastic very valuable for my learning," says Gilman. "I do a lot of traveling because of my music and I meet kids from all over the country. I'm really excited about being on the Student Advisory Board because now I can share with Junior Scholastic what they are interested in."

Brent Tolin, Singer

Cherryholmes: A Bluegrass Family Affair
It hasn't taken the family band Cherryholmes long to rake in accolades. They scored an upset at last year's International Bluegrass Music Awards, and their self-titled album is up for a Grammy Award on Feb. 8.

Garth Brooks, Singer
On the Howie Mandel show, one of the guests was Garth Brooks. Did you know his three daughters are homelearning? Their girls are 2, 4 and 6! He said his family started traveling with him and it really helped to save his marriage. Homelearning seemed like the logical choice to him.

Tiffany Jo, International Yodeling Champion
Her Cd, Take Me Back To Tucson, was the Borders Music Store #1 Top Seller for Arizona Artist during both 2003 and 2004. Tiffany Jo also formed her own charity two years ago called Children Helping Children. Two dollars from the sale of each of her CD's goes to buy amusement park passes at the Funtasticks Amusement Park here in Tucson.

Louis Armstrong - King of jazz

Whoopi Goldberg - Actress

Hanson - Sibling singing group

Jennifer Love Hewitt - Actress

Yehudi Menuhin - Child prodigy violinist

Moffatts - Canadian version of Hanson

Frankie Muniz - Actor

Hilary Duff - Actress, singer

LeAnne Rimes - Teen-prodigy country music singer

Visual Artists

Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth attended school only to third grade, and after that received his art training and all other education entirely at home.

Christian Grew, Painter

Lu Pinchang, Sculptor
In 1978, the government opened up the universities to all applicants and he entered the Jingdezhen Ceramics College having only a homelearning education. His reason for choosing ceramics over any other artistic medium or any other lifestyle is remarkable in that-as far as he explained-there really wasn't one.

Rita Ambrose and Shelley Sanders, Lighthouse Photographers
Accompanying Ambrose and Sanders on the trips is Sanders' 10-year-old son, Kyle, whom she home-schools. Kyle is learning more about history and geography than he could ever learn from a textbook and, like Grandma, he has begun taking a few photos of his own.

Other Life Long Learners

           Abigail Adams - Wife of John Adams; mother of John Quincy Adams

           Ansel Adams - Photographer

           Susan B. Anthony - Reformer and women’s rights leader

           Clara Barton - Founder of the Red Cross

          Elizabeth Blackwell - First woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree

           Charlie Chaplin - Actor

           George Rogers Clark - Explorer

           Davy Crockett - Frontiersman

           Sam Houston - Lawyer; first president of the Republic of Texas

           Charles Evans Hughes - Jurist; Chief Justice

           Mary D. Leakey - Fossil hunter; wife of Richard Leakey

           Charles Louis Montesquieu - Philosopher

           Florence Nightingale - Nurse

           Thomas Paine - Political writer during the American Revolution

           Gloria Steinem - Founder and long-time editor of Ms. magazine

           Mary Walker - Civil War physician; recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor

           Martha Washington - Wife of George Washington

          Frank Lloyd Wright - Architect

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