Famous People with ADD/ADHD

The following is a list of just a few of these very famous people who used their high energy and creativity to become successful adults. What would our world be like if they had been labeled, ridiculed, and discounted as troublemakers or hyperactive misfits?

Einstein Leonardo DaVinci Socrates Mozart Beethoven Thomas Edison

Alexander Graham Bell Orville and Wilbur Wright Steven Spielberg

Henry David Thoreau Woodrow Wilson Bill Cosby Edgar Allen Poe

Nolan Ryan John F. Kennedy F. Scott Fitzgerald Whoopi Goldberg

Ernest Hemingway Dustin Hoffman Abraham Lincoln Galileo

William Randolph Hearst George Bernard Shaw Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat

Ann Bancroft Magic Johnson John Lennon Nostradamus

John D. Rockefeller Michael Jordan Pete Rose Bruce Jenner

Napoleon General George Patton Pablo Picasso Babe Ruth

Harry Belafonte George Burns Andrew Carnegie Salvador Dali

Dwight D. Eisenhower William Butler Yeats Prince Charles

Louis Carroll Eleanor Roosevelt Louis Pasteur

From article: 26 Positive Things about ADD and 46 Famous People With ADD by Katherine West