“All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” – George Washington
We tend to think of a homeschool education as a relatively new phenomenon, but in reality it is the publicly educated who are the new kids on the block. There’s an old adage that says, “You are known by the company you keep.” If that is true (and we at Homeschool Legacy believe it is) then we homeschoolers are pretty amazing! Check out this “short list” of famous, fellow homeschoolers!
President and First Lady John and Abigail Adams
President John Quincy Adams
Black and White Landscape photographer Ansel Adams
Louisa May Alcott
Hans Christian Anderson
Susan B. Anthony
Joan of Arc
Louis Armstrong
John James Audubon
Clara Barton
Alexander Graham Bell
Irving Berlin
Pearl S. Buck
Andrew Carnegie
George Washington Carver
Lewis Carroll
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill
Brothers George Rogers and William Clark
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Grover Cleveland
John Singleton Copley
Davy Crockett
Leonardo Da Vinci
Charles Dickens
Frederick Douglass
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
President James Garfield
Horace Greeley
Alex Haley
Alexander Hamilton
President William Henry Harrison
Patrick Henry
Sam Houston
President Andrew Jackson
Stonewall Jackson
President Thomas Jefferson
John Paul Jones
Ray Kroc (Founder of MacDonald’s)
Robert E. Lee
C.S. Lewis
Meriwether Lewis
President Abraham Lincoln
Two time Olympic Medalist Michelle Kwan
President James Madison
Douglas MacArthur
Guglielmo Marconi
Cyrus McCormick
Charlotte Mason
Claude Monet
Dwight L. Moody
Grandma Moses
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John Muir
Florence Nightingale
Thomas Paine
George Patton
William Penn
Beatrix Potter
Joseph Pulitzer
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt
Carl Sandburg
Colonel Harland Sanders
John Philip Sousa
Tim Tebow
J. R. R. Tolkien
Dave Thomas (Founder of Wendy’s)
President John Tyler
Booker T. Washington
President and First Lady George and Martha Washington
Daniel Webster
John and Charles Wesley
Phillis Wheatley
Walt Whitman
Eli Whitney
Laura Ingalls Wilder
President Woodrow Wilson
Frank Lloyd Wright
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Andrew Wyeth
Brigham Young