List of homeschooled people
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People who were home-educated, either for some of their childhood or without attending school at all, include:
- Brett Dennen (b. October 28, 1979), musician[1]
- Ansel Adams (b. 1902), photographer[2]
- Louisa May Alcott (b. 1832), American novelist[2]
- Jamie Anderson (b. 1990), American snowboarder[3]
- Susan B. Anthony (b. 1820), American civil rights leader and feminist[4]
- Julian Assange (b. 1970), founder of WikiLeaks was homeschooled for a time, when his parents ran a traveling theater company.[5]
- Reid W. Barton, one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads, homeschooled after 3rd grade.
- Alexander Graham Bell (b. 1848), inventor, homeschooled by his mother.[6]
- Camren Bicondova (b. 1999) American dancer and child actress.[7]
- Rebecca Black (b. 1997), US singer from Anaheim, California, homeschooled to be able to devote more time to her musical career.[8]
- Benjamin Bolger, perpetual student, homeschooled starting from 4th grade.
- Pearl S. Buck (b. 1892), novelist[9]
- Lewis Carroll (b. 1832), mathematician, logician, and author of Alice in Wonderland. Carroll was homeschooled until he was 12.
- Edith Claypole and Agnes Claypole (b. 1870), twin sister scientists
- Francis Collins (b. 1950), US physician-geneticist, discovered a number of disease genes, and led the Human Genome Project, home-schooled by his mother until the sixth grade.[10]
- Miranda Cosgrove (b. 1993), actress, homeschooled from sixth grade onwards.[11]
- Michelle Creber, Canadian child actress, daughter of musician-producer Michael Creber and vocalist-producer Monique Creber.
- Felicia Day, actress, writer, musician[12]
- Skyler Day (b. 1991), actress, homeschooled after second grade.[13]
- Erik Demaine, mathematician, artist, MacArthur winner[14]
- Kat Dennings, actress.
- Hilary Duff (b.1987) Former Disney star.
- Thomas Edison (b. 1847), inventor, homeschooled starting age 12.[15]
- Arran Fernandez, mathematician, youngest ever Senior Wrangler at Cambridge University
- Robert Frost (b. 1874), American poet[2]
- Christina Grimmie (b. 1994), homeschooled starting junior year.[16]
- Blake Griffin (b. 1989), Basketball Player[17][18]
- Lucy Hale (b. 1989), actress[19]
- Bethany Hamilton (b. 1990), surfer[20]
- Gianna Jessen (b. 1977), activist[20]
- The Jonas Brothers, musicians, actors
- Sage Kotsenburg (b. 1993), American snowboarder[21]
- Michelle Kwan (b. 1980), US figure skater[22][23]
- Joey Logano (b. 1990), NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racer, youngest driver ever to win a NASCAR race, homeschooled after the 3rd grade[24]
- Lindsay Lohan (b. 1986), actress, was homeschooled after 10th grade.[25]
- Demi Lovato (b. 1992), actress and singer[26][27]
- Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist, homeschooled until high school by his parents.[28]
- Kaitlyn Maher, US child singer who made it to the top 10 on America's Got Talent.
- Aly and AJ Michalka, Actresses and former Disney stars
- Bode Miller (b. 1977), US alpine skier, homeschooled by his parents until age 10[29]
- Caitlin Moran, Journalist, author, broadcaster
- Chloë Grace Moretz (b. 1997) American actress and model.[30]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1756), composer[2]
- Florence Nightingale (b. 1820), founder of modern nursing[31]
- Hayden Panettiere (b. 1989), actress, homeschooled from grade nine to the completion of high school.[32]
- Jedediah Purdy, Duke University law professor, homeschooled until High School.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (b. 1882), 32nd President of the United States, homeschooled by parents and private tutors.[33]
- Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1858), 26th President of the United States, homeschooled until college.[34]
- Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian Nobel Prize-winning physicist, homeschooled until age 10[35]
- Taylor Swift (b. 1989), singer, homeschooled during her junior and senior years.[36]
- Astra Taylor Canadian-American documentary film-maker, writer, musician. Unschooled until age 13.
- Tim Tebow (b. 1987), American football player, homeschooled, allowed to play in a local school's football team.[37]
- J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1892), English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor. Tolkien was schooled at home by his mother until she died, when he was 12.
- Emma Watson (b. 1990) English actress and model. She was homeschooled during the period in which the Harry Potter movies were filmed.[38]
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. 1867)[2] Author of the Little House series of children's novels.
- Woodrow Wilson (b. 1856), 28th President of the United States, homeschooled by his father.[39]
- Virginia Woolf (b. 1882), English novelist and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.
- Andrew Wyeth (b. 1917), US realist painter, taken out of school at young age because of illness, then received education from his parents on art and other subjects.[40]
- Olavo de Carvalho (b. 1947), Brazilian writer, philosopher and astrologist.[citation needed]
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