Famous Homeschoolers

Famous homeschoolers are everywhere. You just may not know that they homeschool. Check out this list of notable people, famous athletes and celebrities who homeschool.

While homeschooling is becoming more and more popular, for many famous athletes and celebrities, this is nothing new! Homeschooling is an option because it fits into their busy and demanding schedules.

Famous Homeschoolers:

Actors and Entertainers

• Alan Alda
• Barlow Girl
• Charlie Chaplin
• Christina Aguilera
• Dakota Fanning
• Frankie Muniz
• Hanson
• Hillary Duff
• Jacob Clemente
• Jennifer Love Hewitt
• Jordin Sparks
• Justin Timberlake
• LeAnne Rimes
• Louis Armstrong
• Mitchell Musso
• Taylor Swift
• The Jonas Brothers
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Yehudi Menuhin

Athletes

• Michelle Kwan
• Jason Taylor
• Tim Tebow
• Tamara McKinney
• Serena Williams
• Venus Williams

Artists

• Claude Monet
• Grandma Moses
• John Singleton Copley
• Andrew Wyeth
• Jamie Wyeth
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Rembrandt Peale

Writers

• Agatha Christie
• Alex Haley
• Beatrix Potter
• Bret Harte
• C.S. Lewis
• Charles Dickens
• Daniel Webster
• George Bernard Shaw
• Hans Christian Anderson
• Louisa May Alcott
• Margaret Atwood
• Mark Twain
• Mercy Warren
• Phillis Wheatley
• Pearl S. Buck
• Robert Frost
• Sean O'Casey
• Virginia Woolf

Businessmen

• Andrew Carnegie
• Colonel Harland Sanders
• Dave Thomas
• Joseph Pulitzer
• Ray Kroc

Composers

• Felix Mendelssohn
• Irving Berlin
• John Philip Sousa
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Inventors

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Benjamin Franklin
• Cyrus McCormick
• Eli Whitney
• Thomas Edison
• Orville Wright
• Wilbur Wright

Military Leaders

• Douglas MacArthur
• George Patton
• John Paul Jones
• Matthew Perry
• Robert E. Lee
• Stonewall Jackson
• Matthew Perry

U.S. Presidents

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

Preachers and Religious Leaders

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

Scientists

• Albert Einstein
• Blaise Pascal
• George Washington Carver
• Pierre Curie

Others

• Booker T. Washington
• Davy Crockett
• George Rogers Clark
• Alexander Hamilton
• Daniel Webster
• Patrick Henry
• William Jennings Bryan
• William Penn
• Winston Churchill
• John Jay
• John Marshall
• John Rutledge
• Sandra Day O’Connor

Famous Homeschooling Parents:

• Michael Card
• Robert Frost
• Darrell Waltrip
• Paul Overstreet
• Lisa Whelchel
• Kelley Preston and John Travolta
• Will and Jada Pinkett Smith

So the next time someone shares their worries with you that homeschoolers can not turn out to be successful or have social skills, forward this list to them of famous homeschoolers and famous people who are homeschooling their own children. They may be surprised!

Many of them use the same homeschool curriculum choices as the rest of us!

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