Educators

Frank Vandiver (President - Texas A&M)
Fred Terman (President - Stanford)
William Samuel Johnson (President Columbia)
John Witherspoon (President of Princeton)


Military leaders

Stonewall Jackson
Robert E. Lee
George Patton
John Paul Jones
General Douglas MacArthur
John Barry
Matthew Perry
John Pershing
David Dixon

Inventors

Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Eli Whitney
Michael Faraday
William Lear
John James Audubon
Wilbur and Orville Wright
John Moses
Peter Cooper
Oliver Heaviside
Elias Howe
Cyrus McCormick
Guglielmo Marconi
Sir Frank Whittle
Benjamin Franlin
George Washington Carver


Artists

Jamie Wyeth
John Singleton Copley
Performing Artists
Louis Armstrong
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Yehudi Menuhin
Irving Berlin
Whoopi Goldberg
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Visual Artists

William Blake
Leonardo Da Vinci
Claude Monet
Andrew Wyeth
Ansel Adams
Frank Loyd Wright




Presidents

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams
James Madison
William Henry Harrison
John Tyler
Abraham Lincoln
Theordore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
James Garfield


Scientists

Pierre Curie
Albert Einstein
Booker T. Washington
Blaise Pascal


Statesmen

Konrad Adenauer
Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
William Penn
Henry Clay


United States Supreme Court Judges

John Jay
John Marshall
John Rutledge
Sandra Day O'conner


Composers

Irving Berlin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Anton Bruckner
Felix Mendelssohn
Francis Poulenc


Writers

Hans Christian Anderson
Charles Dickens
Brett Harte
Mark Twain
Sean O'Casey
Phillis Wheatley
Mercy Warren
Pearl S. Buck
Agatha Christie
C.S. Lewis
George Bernard Shaw


Religious leaders

Joan of Arc
Brigham Young
John & Charles Wesley
Jonathan Edwards
John Owen
William Cary
Dwight L. Moody
John Newton


Others

Charles Chaplin - Actor
George Rogers Clark - Explorer
Andrew Carnegie - Industrialist
Noel Coward - Playwright
John Burroughs - Naturalist
Bill Ridell - Newspaperman
Will Rogers - Humorist
Albert Schweitzer - Physician
Tamara McKinney - World Cup Skier
Jim Ryan - World Runner
Ansel Adams - Photographer
Charles Louis Montesquieu - philosopher
John Stuart Mill - Economist
John Paul Jones - father of the American Navy
Florence Nightingale - nurse
Clara Barton - started the Red Cross
Abigail Adams - wife of John Adams
Martha Washington - wife of George W.
Constitutional Convention Delegates
George Washington - 1st President of the U.S.
James Madison - 4th President of the U.S.
John Witherspoon - President of Princeton U.
Benjamin Franklin - inventor and statesman
William S. Johnson - President of Columbia C.
George Clymer - U.S. Representative
Charles Pickney III - Governor of S. Carolina
John Francis Mercer - U.S. Representative
George Wythe - Justice of Virginia High Court
William Blount - U.S. Senator
Richard D. Spaight - Governor of N. Carolina
John Rutledge - Chief Justice U.S. Supr Court
William Livingston - Governor of New Jersey
Richard Basset - Governor of Delaware
William Houston - lawyer
William Few - U.S. Senator
George Mason


Famous Women

Susan B. Anthony
Florence Nightingale
Dr. Mary Wallker
Mary D. Leakey
Abigail Adams
Elizabeth Blackwell
Jill Ker Conway
Gloria Steinem
Frances E. C. Willard
Sandra Day O'conner

Interesting, webbie.

Do you have any current notables that have been homeschooled?

I think you have to remember the era that these folks were homeschooled. Public education had not evolved to what it is today, and a lot of folks were forced into homeschooling, as the children were expected to be at home to tend to the family business of farming. Education was not as important as it is now.

Not to say that homeschooling is not important, I just think it was a different time and a different culture back then.

ok, I added a few to the list, some are modern-day peeps.

But even if there weren't and the list was full of old-timers (no offense! LOL), you have to admit that the list is impressive! It is hard for me to believe that John Adams, for example, had an education that would be considered inferior, even by today's standards!

BTW, he received his primary education at home, but was a Harvard-educated lawyer...

a majority of these are old-schoolers... are there any peeps who made a significant impact on society in the past 50 years?

Like Yoss said before, list = oldtimers... Also, most of the modern people on this list are celebrities, athletes, etc. who have other motives.

Most of the oldtimers listed now have schools across the country named for them and their reasoning for being homeschooled was likely because they were no legitimate schools for them to attend during their time. Back in the day, Americans didn't care all that much about schooling... it was all about the money (from farming).