Famous People with ADD/ADHD: The Positive Side of ADD/ADHD
Deep down inside, we're all different. And because of that, we all have different talents. Sometimes the inability to fit in hurts our self-esteem, but when we recognize that our differences can be our strengths, it sheds a different light on things.
There are a lot of positive traits that people with ADD/ADHD have. For example, the top 10 characteristics are: creative, artistic, intuitive, empathetic, visionary, inventive, sensitive, original, loving, exuberant.1 Those are all good things! People who have these qualities, and know how to use them well, can go straight to the top!
Famous actors and entertainers with ADD/ADHD: Will Smith, Jim Carey, Tom Cruise, Sylvester Stallone, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Henry Winkler, Patty Duke, and Bill Cosby.
Famous athletes with ADD/ADHD: Michael Jordan, Bruce Jenner, Magic Johnson, Nolan Ryan, Terry Bradshaw, Babe Ruth, Greg Louganis, Vince Lombardi, and Pete Rose.
Famous artists with ADD/ADHD: Pablo Picasso, Ansel Adams, Vincent Van Gogh, and Salvador Dali.
Famous authors with ADD/ADHD: Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leo Tolstoy, Robert Frost, and Edgar Allen Poe.
Famous business tycoons with ADD/ADHD: Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Malcolm Forbes, Andrew Carnegie, William Randolph Hearst, Henry Ford, FW Woolworth, and Walt Disney.
Famous Hollywood movie directors with ADD/ADHD: Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock,
Famous inventors with AD/ADHD: Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, and Alexander Graham Bell.
Famous musicians with ADD/ADHD: John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Cher, Buddy Rich, Beethoven, Mozart, and Handel.
Famous politicians with ADD/ADHD: US: President John F. Kennedy, President Thomas Jefferson, President Abraham Lincoln, President Dwight Eisenhower, President George Bush, and President George W. Bush. International: Anwar Sadat and Winston Churchill.
Famous scientists with ADD/ADHD: Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Nicolai Tesla, Louis Pasteur, Galileo, and Sir Isaac Newton
Other famous people with ADD/ADHD: Eleanor Roosevelt, General George Patton, Norman Schwartzkopf, Christopher Columbus, Socrates, Napoleon, Nostradamus, and Evil Knievel.
A lot of people with ADD/ADHD find enormous success in more than one career- just look at Suzanne Somers or Joan Rivers. Suzanne Somers is a huge Hollywood TV star turned entrepreneur (she has highly successful fitness, clothing, and jewelry lines), turned best-selling author. Like wise, Joan Rivers is comedienne turned radio and TV star, turned entrepreneur (her jewelry line is carried by QVC).
The sky's the limit! All these famous people with ADD/ADHD used it to bring them to greatness!
Sources:
1http://adhdtexas.com/characteristics.htm
http://adhdtexas.com/famouspeople.htm
http://www.adult-child-add-adhd.com/categories/general/famous_people.php
http://www.adhdrelief.com/famous.html
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18 Comments
Post a CommentI just stumbled across this, and having ADD, I must say it's encouraging! Don't know how you came across Galileo's diagnosis, but it's ok with me. Bill Gates I've heard has Asperger's Syndrome -- which has some of the same symptoms, but apparently you make more money. Good article!
Good list.
I had read a similar article to this several years ago; glad to see it being brought to the attention of millions.
Interesting. I'm wondering about all these famous people who lived before the terms "ADD" and "ADHD" even existed. By the way, totally off-topic, but how'd you get that COOL "Top 1000" badge? That thing's WAY prettier than my gray one (I'm not saying you don't deserve a nicer badge, 'cause you do. It's just the first time I've noticed one of those star badges. I like it!). :)
That was very good.
Thanks for sharing this interesting info!
I always knew Robin Williams was something. His style of switching between subjects and references so fast is hilariously funny.
I ALWAYS KNEW I WAS ADD BUT SCHOOL DIDN'T INVENT IT IN MY DAY!
I wasn't surprised to see Jim Carey on this list. LOL He is one of my favorite comedians. I was surprised to see Cher. Anyway, I think I have ADD/ADHD but never have been tested. The schools make such a big deal about kids who have it and I say give them some more creative outlets, not meds!
I totally see creative types with ADHD! Nicely done.