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Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who developed many important devices. Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors of his time. He held 1,093 U.S. patents and many in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Apparently, he also had dyslexia.

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Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his fairy tales. Andersen, according to many sources on the Internet and even scholarly books, had dyslexia.

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The popular image that men of eminence are learning disabled promotes an aura of romanticism around the learning disabilities field. Albert Einstein, arguably the most outstanding scientist of all time, is usually at the top of the list of famous dyslexics. You can read about Einstein’s learning disabilities everywhere.

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Walt Disney is noted for being a successful storyteller, a hands-on film producer, and a popular showman. Walt Disney is also remembered for his dyslexia, or so it is claimed on numerous websites on the Internet, and in a cover story in Time Magazine, a story to which the Walt Disney Family Museum responded...

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. Churchill was a noted statesman and orator, an officer in the British Army, a historical writer, and an artist. He is also remembered for his dyslexia.

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In this article we investigate six famous people who reportedly had dyslexia: Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Walt Disney, Winston Churchill, and Hans Christian Andersen.

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