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Famous people who did not excel at school

 

Did you know many famous, successful people struggled at school? Here is a list of people who did not excel in mainstram education.

  • Whoopi Goldberg - actress

  • Tom Cruise  - actor

  • Cher - singer/ actress

  • Keira Knightley - actress

  • Will Smith - actor

  • Susan Hampshire  - actress/ writer

  • Orlando Bloom  - actor

  • Daniel Radcliffe – Harry Potter actor

  • Harrison Ford – actor

  • Marilyn Monroe – actress

  • Beryl Ried - Actress

  • Anthony Hopkins – actor

  • Vince Vaughn - actor

  • Bob Hoskins - actor

  • Jim Carrey - actor

  • Tracy Gold - actress

  • Jeremy Irons - actor

  • Jack Nicholson  - actor

  • Steve Mc Queen - actor

  • Fred Astaire - actor/dancer

  • Liv Tayler - actress

  • Keanu Reeves - actress

  • Zoë Wanamaker - actress

  • Jerry Hall – entertainer

  • Ruby Wax – actress

  • Loretta Young – actress

  • James Whale – actor

  • Lindsay Wagner – actor

  • Billy Bob Thornton – actor

  • River Phoenix – actor

  • Dave Foley – actor

  • George Burns – actor, writer

  • Barry Belafonte – actor

  • Brian Conley – actor

  • Quenton Tarrantine – actor

  • Alyssa Milano - actress

  • Felicity Kendal - actress

  • Marlon Brando - actor

  • Patrick Dempsey – actor

  • Salma Hayek – actress

  • Jodie Kidd – actress/model

  • Paula Hamilton - model

  • Stephen Fry – actor/ writer

  • Robbin Wiliams - actor/comedian

  • Ben Elton - comedian/writer

  • Jay Leno – presenter

  • Bear Grylls – adventurer

  • Guy Ritchie - film director

  • Steven Spielberg - director/producer

  • Walt Disney  -  cartoonist/ filmmaker

  • Eddie Izzard  - comedian

  • Billy Connolly  -  comedian

  • Michael Barrymore - comedian

  • Robbie Williams  - pop star

  • Enrico Caruso  - opera singer

  • John Lennon - singer/ songwriter

  • Susan Boyle – singer

  • Vince Neil – singer Motley crew

  • Britney Spears - singer

  • Toyah Wilcox – singer

  • Usher - singer

  • Daniel Powter – singer/songwriter

  • Jewel - singer/actress

  • Harry Belafonte - singer/actor

  • Ozzy Ozbourne - musician

  • Lugwig Van Beethoven - composer

  • Nigel Kennedy - violinist

  • Bob Weir– Grateful Dead

  • Noel Gallagher - Oasis guitarist

  • Lynda La Plante – screenwriter/author

  • Juenne Belancourt - playwright

  • Roald Dahl - writer

  • Hans Christian Andersen – writer

  • Lord Willis – author

  • Dame Agatha Christie  - writer

  • Gustave Flaubert – writer

  • Terry Goodkind – writer

  • AA Gill – writer

  • F Scot Fitzgerald – writer

  • Ernest Hemingway –writer

  • Jules Verne – writer

  • Avi – writer

  • George Bernard Shaw - writer

  • John Irving – writer

  • Bernie Taylor - writer

  • Roger W Wilkins - writer

  • Henry Winkler – writer

  • W B Yeats – poet

  • Benjamin Zafamich –writer/ poet

  • Edgar Allan Poe - writer

  • Sir Francis Bacon - artist/ writer

  • Sir Joshua Reynolds  - artist

  • Leonardo Da Vinci - artist/ inventor

  • William Turner - artist

  • Auguste Rodin - artist/ sculptor

  • Vincent Van Gogh - artist

  • Andy Warhol - artist

  • Pablo Picasso - artist

  • Michelangelo – artist

  • Jodie Kidd – supermodel

  • David Bailey - photographer

  • Ansel Adams – photographer

  • Don McCullin- war photojournalist

  • Lord Norman Foster – architect

  • Jorn Utza - architect- Sydney Opera    House

  • Charles Renie Mackintosh - architect

  • Woodrow Wilson  - politician

  • Thomas Jefferson  - politician

  • George Washington  - politician

  • Franklin Roosevelt  - politician

  • Nelson Rockefeller  - politician

  • Andrew Jackson – politician

  • Abraham Lincoln _ politician

  • Lyndon Johnson - politician

  • J F Kennedy - politician

  • Benjamine Franklin - politician

  • Prince Harry

  • Princess Beatrice

  • Winston Churchill  - politician

  • Napoleon Bonaparte - leader of France

  • King Carl XVI - Gustaf of Sweden

  • Jackie Stewart  - F1 racing driver

  • Muhammad Ali – boxer

  • Jessica Watson – sailor

  • Bruce Jenner – Olympian

  • Chance Peni – All Blacks rugby team under 18’s

  • Charles Lindbergh – aviator

  • Ann Bancroft – explorer

  • Eric Shipton – explorer

  • Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. - astronaut

  • Fred Epstein – neurosurgeon

  • Harvey Cushing – neurosurgeon

  • John Horne – paleontologist

  • Chaz Bono – advocate/writer

  • General George Patton

  • Jamie Oliver - chef/ presenter/writer

  • Marco Pierre White - top chef  

  • Sir Richard Branson – businessman

  • James Dyson – inventor/engineer

  • Paul MaCready – engineer of century

  • Charles Schwab - investor

  • Erin Brockovich- the real person

  • Inguar Kamprad – founder IKEA

  • Ted Tuner – founder CNN

  • David Rockerfeller – businessman

  • William Hewlett – Hewlett Packard

  • Steve Jobs  - founder apple, iTunes

  • Henry Ford - Ford cars

  • Kelly Hopper – interior designer

  • Kerry Packer - businessman

  • F W Woolworth - businessman

  • William Wrigley Jr. - businessman

  • Lord McAlpine - property construction

  • Anita Roddick - bodyshop

  • Kerry stokes-  business man

  • Michael Faraday - scientist

  • Sir Issac Newton – scientist

  • Pierre Curie – scientist/Nobel prize winner

  • Louis Pasteur - scientist

  • Alexander Graham Bell - inventor

  • Charles Darwin - scientist 

  • Galileo Galilei - scientist

  • Orville and Wilbur Wright - inventers

  • Thomas Edison - inventor/scientist

  • Albert Einstein - physicist

  • and of course myself

 

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