Homeschool Nations - Manitoba

Mar. 13, 2008

Famous Homeschoolers

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Information for this compilation of famous homeschoolers was discovered on the Christian and Home School Resource Centre website.  I thought it to be very interesting and worthy of sharing.  Be encouraged in your efforts.  Enjoy!

ARTISTS:

  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • Claude Monet
  • John Singleton Copley
  • Andrew Wyeth
  • Jamie Wyeth

COMPOSERS:

  • Irving Verlin
  • Anton Bruckner
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Francis Poulenc

 EDUCATORS:

  • Frederick Terman (Stanford University President)
  • William Samuel Johnson (Columbia University President)
  • Frank Vandiver (Texas A & M University President)
  • John Witherspoon (Princeton University President)

 GENERALS:

  • Stonewall Jackson
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Douglas MacArthur
  • George Patton

INVENTORS:

  • Alexander Graham Bell
  • Thomas Edison
  • Cyrus McCormick
  • Wright Brothers: Orville and Wilbur Wright

PRESIDENTS:

  • John Quincy Adams
  • William Henry Harrison
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • James Madison
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • John Tyler
  • George Washington
  • Woodrow Wilson

PREACHERS & RELIGIOUS LEADERS:

  • Moses
  • Joan of Arc
  • John the Baptist
  • William Cary
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • Phillip Melanchthon
  • Dwight L. Moody
  • John Newton
  • John Owen
  • Charles Wesley
  • John Wesley
  • Brigham Young

SCIENTISTS:

  • George Washington Carver
  • Pierre Curie
  • Albert Einstein
  • Blaise Pascal
  • Booker T. Washington

 STATESMEN:

  • Konrad Adenauer
  • Winston Churchill
  • Benjamin Franklin
  • Patrick Henry
  • William Penn
  • Henry Clay

 U.S SUPPREME COURT JUDGES:

  • John Jay
  • John Marshall
  • John Rutledge

 WRITERS:

  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • Pearl S. Buck
  • Agatha Christie
  • Charles Dickens
  • Bret Harte
  • C.S. Lewis
  • Sean O'Casey
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • Mark Twain
  • Mercy Warren
  • Daniel Webster
  • Phillis Wheatley

 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION DELEGATES:

  • Richard Basset (Governor of Delaware)
  • William Blount (U.S. Senator)
  • George Clymer (U.S. Representative)
  • William Few (U.S. Senator)
  • Benjamin Franklin (Inventor and Statesman)
  • William Houston (Lawyer)
  • William S. Johnson (President of Columbia C.)
  • William Livingston (Governor of New Jersey)
  • James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.
  • George Mason
  • John Francis Mercer (U.S. Representative)
  • Charles Pickney III (Governor of S. Carolina)
  • John Rutledge (Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court)
  • Richard D. Spaight (Governor of N. Carolina)
  • George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.
  • John Witherspoon (President of Princeton U.)
  • George Wythe (Justice of Virginia High Court)

 OTHERS:

  • Abigail Adams (Wife of John Adams)
  • Ansel Adams (Photographer)
  • Clara Barton (Started the Red Cross)
  • John Burroughs (Naturalist)
  • Andrew Carnegie (Industrialist)
  • Charles Chaplin (Actor)
  • George Rogers Clark - Explorer
  • Noel Coward (Playwright)
  • John Paul Jones (Father of the American Navy)
  • Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Tamara McKinney (World Cup Skier)
  • John Stuart Mill (Economist)
  • Charles Louis Montesquieu (Philosopher)
  • Florence Nightingale (Nurse)
  • Sally Ride (Astronaut)
  • Bill Ridell (Newspaperman)
  • George Rogers Clark (Explorer)
  • Will Rogers (Humorist)
  • Jim Ryan (World Runner)
  • Albert Schweitzer (Physician)
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Martha Washington (Wife of George Washington)
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