 |
Aesop - Greek storyteller, and a huge collection of his
fables
|
| Walter H. Annenberg
- publisher, broadcaster, diplomat and philanthropist. |
| Aristotle |
| Notker Balbulus
(the Stammerer), a Dark Ages monk who played important roles in both
plainchant and the development of our calendar. |
| Balbus Blaesius - A Roman who was in a "freak show." People would give him
money to stutter. His last name is the Italian word for stuttering |
| Clara Barton
- Founder of the American Red Cross. |
| Baudouin the Lannoy,
a knight of the golden fleece - portrait by Jan Van Eyck in the State Museum
in Berlin. |
| Thomas Becket,
Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Arnold Bennett
- British writer and journalist. |
| Michael
Bentine - British comedian, script-writer, and reader of children's books
|
| Jorge Luis
Borges - (1899-1986) was the author of Labyrinths and Ficciones, among
other books. |
| Aneurin Bevan
- British Labor Party Leader in 1930's. |
| Kenneth E.
Boulding - economist |
|
Elizabeth Bowen - Irish writer |
|
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) - British scientist and moral essayist who made
important contributions to physics and chemistry and is best known for Boyle's
law |
| Patrick Campbell - British humorist. |
| Lewis Carroll - Author of
Alice in
Wonderland. |
| Field Marshall Lord Carver - British military leader. |
| Nicolae Ceausecsu - President of Romania in the 1970's |
| Miguel de
Cervantes Saavedra, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha (as cited by
Malveena McKendrick, Cervantes, Little, Brown, 1980, p. 21.). |
| General Joshua
Chamberlain, one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg and college
professor of literature (source: Military History magazine). |
| King Charles I - King of England, 1625-1649. |
| Winston Churchill - Prime
Minister of Great Britain World War II. -
Audio Archive of
many of Winston Churchill's speeches (Point of information, the following
page
claims that Churchill did not suffer from stutering, but from a lisp. I have
heard and seen video tapes of Churchill. However, there is
ample evidence uncovered by Keith
Sharp that my cousin (yes he was;-) stuttered, JAK). |
| Claudius - Roman
Emperor. www.salve.edu/~romanemp/claudius.htm |
| Ty Cobb - according to a biography, Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump
(1994) |
| Hazen "Kiki" Cuyler - a Hall of Fame outfielder for the Pirates in the
'20s. His nickname is pronounced with long I's; i.e, Ky-Ky. Reason: He was a
stutterer, and often pronounced his last name Ky-ky-ler. (posted by Bob Wells
on Stutt-l, August 12, 1997) |
| Nat King Cole - In an interview, Cole biographer, Daniel Epstein states
that Cole had a stutter as a child and a bit of a lisp which you can hear in
the early recordings in his career. If you want to
listen to the interview
via Real Audio, open and move the cursor on the Real Audio player a little
past midway (I count 10 dots). |
| Richard Condon - Novelist whose works include The Manchurian Candidate and
Prizzi's Honor. |
| Charles Darwin
- Naturalist and author of The Origin of Species. |
| Erasmus Darwin
- Famous physician, scientist, and grandfather of Charles. |
| Marion Davies "one of the few silent stars to survive the transition to
talkies." |
| Dekanawida - Iroquois Indian leader in the 1500's |
|
Demosthenes - Greek orator by Plutarch, written 75 A.D. as well as several
of the writings/orations
of Demonsthenes |
| Mary
Louise "Stuttering Sam" Dowell became the most celebrated showgirl in New
York City. |
|
Niccolo Fontana, nicknamed Tartaglia(stammerer) because of his speech - an
Italian mathematician famous for his algebraic solution of cubic equations.
Read about what caused his speech problems and decide for yourself if he
stuttered or not. |
| Harley Earl, one of the most famous car designers ever. (Source: American
Heritage magazine). |
| King George
VI - King of England, 1937-1952. |
| Robert Heinlein -
Science fiction writer |
|
Sir John R. Hicks - British economist who received the Nobel price in
economics in 1972. |
| Leigh Hunt
a writer of the early Romantic period and a classmate of Charles Lamb. |
| Henry James - American Novelist. |
| Thomas Jefferson - President |
| Washington Irving (author) |
| Alfred Kazin - author, critic and teacher |
| Charles Canon Kingsley -- English orator, writer, and chaplain to Queen
Victoria. |
| Charles Lamb -
British essayist,
on his stuttering. |
| John "Scatman" Larkin -
jazz musician
|
| Philip Larkin - English poet, novelist and critic |
| Lenin |
|
Louis II the Stammerer, King of France, 877-879 |
| Henry Luce - Founder of Time magazine and Sports Illustrated |
|
Major General Alexander McDougall of the Continental (U.S.) Army during
the American Revolution. He was also a delegate to the Continental Congress,
president of the first bank in the state of NY and served in the NY state
senate. |
| Raymond Massey - Actor. |
| Cotton Mather - Puritan leader and famous preacher. |
| Somerset Maugham - British writer considered one of the best short story
writers of all time, including Of Human Bondage, an autobiographical novel
which substitutes a physical disability for the author's stuttering problem.
|
| Robert Merrill -- Opera singer. |
| Michael II, Byzantine Emperor 820-829,succeeded Leo V to the Byzantine
crown in 820, and on his death in 829 was succeeded by his son Theophilus.
|
|
Christopher Robin Milne, the original Christopher Robin. |
| Moses -
Hebrew prophet. |
| Moses Mendelssohn - Grandfather of the composer. |
| Molotov, the Russian Foreign Minister under Stalin. |
| Marilyn Monroe -
Actress. |
| Garry Moore - game show host - "I've Got a Secret" |
| Napoleon the First |
| Jack Harold Paar - US comedian &
television host; 1st host of show "The Tonight Show" 1957-1962 |
|
Kim Philby - British spy. |
| Joseph Priestley
(1733-1804) -- the English chemist and scholar who identified/discovered
oxygen |
|
Ludwig Quidde Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 1927. |
| Anthony Quinn - Actor. |
| Michael Ramsey (one
hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury) |
| Theodore Roosevelt |
| Mario Savio - 1960's Free Speech leader at Berkeley |
| Nevil Shute
(1900-1960)-- English novelist and aeronautical engineer. |
| John Slaughter - Arizona sheriff in the 1880's |
| Jimmy Stewart - Actor. |
| Alan Turing,
founder of computer science. |
| Kenneth Tynan - Well known British drama critic. |
| Virgil - Roman
poet. |
| George Washington |
| The following historical figures from China, are reported to have
stuttered in parts of their life. They are provided by Stefan Hoffman.
|
| Prince Albert of Monaco |
| Rowan Atkinson
- British actor who plays
Mr. Bean |
| Butch Baird - Golfer. |
| Antonio Bassolino - Mayor of Naples |
| P. F. Bentley - professional photographer -
Photographs by PF Bentley: 25 Years of Photojournalism |
| Senator Joseph Biden, Democrat from Delaware. |
| Howard Bingham - professional photographer and biographer of Muhammed Ali.
Additional information about Bingham's
work. |
| Arthur M. Blank - co-founder of the Home Depot and owner of the NFL's
Atlanta Falcons |
| Peter Bonerz - Actor (Jerry the orthodontist) on The Bob Newhart show |
| Nicolas Brendon,
movie star, reports that he stuttered significantly until after high school.
|
| Patrick Campbell - British humorist |
| Rubin Carter - professional boxer -
'Hurricane' by Tom Tozer relates that Rubin "Hurricane" Carter stuttered
as a child. Carter's story, made into a movie starring Danzell Washington, is
about a "professional middleweight boxer who was arrested in 1966 for the
murder of three whites, sentenced to a triple-life term and finally exonerated
in 1988." Tozer's article states, "As a youngster, Carter used his fists to
help dissuade others from laughing at his stuttering." The information about
his stuttering is also found
here. |
| Lord David Cecil - Professor of English literature at Oxford in 1950s and
author of Melbourne, one of The Board of the Modern Library's100 Best
Nonfiction books of the century |
| Proinsias De Rossa - a political leader of the Democrat Left in Ireland.
|
| Margaret Drabble - British novelist. |
| Harley Earl - car designer |
| Jake Eberts
- Film producer (Gandhi, Dances with Wolves) |
| Noel
Gallagher guitarist from the rock band,
Oasis. |
| Gareth Gates - pop star, UK |
| Mrs.
Annie Glenn - Wife of astronaut and Senator John Glenn. |
| Sidney Gottlieb - controversial CIA psychologist |
| Horace Grant - Orlando Magic power forward |
|
James Griffin - the producer and presenter of the ABC TV's Last Word and
is an occasional contributor to Books and Writing on ABC Radio National,
Australia |
| Sophie Gustafson, Swedish Professional Golfer who won the Ladies
Professional Golf Association British Open, August 2000. |
| Ron Harper - Current star with the Chicago Bulls. Interesting article -
Harper's struggle with stuttering proves his courage from The Sporting
News. |
| Lester Hayes - Former All-Pro defensive back with the Oakland / Los
Angeles Raiders. |
|
Steven Hawking - scientist |
| Howard Heyman - lab chief for the Newsweek photo lab |
| Vernon Hill
chairman and founder of Commerce Bancorp and Commerce Bank |
| Edward
Hoagland - essayist and contemporary nature writer.
The
football game in my head US News and World Report article about Edward
Hoagland |
| Bo Jackson - Football
and baseball star. |
| Samuel L. Jackson, movie
star,
Chill Factor, an article that describes his stuttering. |
| Tommy John - Former Yankee pitcher. |
| Ben Johnson - Runner. |
| Paul Johnson - Detective novelist, author of Killing the Blues |
| James
Earl Jones - Actor.
Jones
intones |
| Thomas Kean - Governor of New Jersey from1982-1990 |
| Harvey
Keitel - actor |
| Pat Leahy - N.Y. Jets kicker. |
| Peggy Lipton - Actress. |
| Greg Louganis - Olympic diver. |
| Bob Love - Basketball star with Chicago Bulls in 60's and 70's. |
| Alvin Lucier -
American composer |
| Kenyon
Martin, forward for the New Jersey Nets (NBA basketball team). |
| Michael McCurdy - Book
Illustrator / Author / Publisher / wood engraver |
| Dr. Jonathan Miller - British director and critic. |
| John Montague
- a Northern Irish poet, essayist, and story writer. |
| Sam Neill - Actor. |
| Bruce Oldfield - British fashion designer. |
| Austin Pendleton - Actor. |
|
Adrian Peterson running back for the Chicago Bears. |
| Alan R.
Rabinowitz - conservationist |
| Eric Roberts, actor |
| Henry Rogers - Public relations pioneer. |
| Nino Salvatore - Past president of Medicine at the University of Naples
|
| Budd Schulberg - auther, screenplay - On The Waterfront and musical, What
Makes Sammy Run |
| David Shields - American novelist |
| Nevil Shute - English novelist and aeronautical engineer |
| Carly Simon - Singer. |
| Michael Spinks - light heavyweight boxing champion |
| Jake Steinfeld - Bodybuilder, television fitness trainer |
| John Stossel - Reporter, ABC's 20/20. |
| Peter Straub, horror story author. |
| Dave Taylor - Former hockey star with the L.A. Kings. |
| Duane Thomas - a running
back for the Dallas Cowboy's in the early 70's, according to interview with
Larry Merchant, on Real Sports, HBO |
| Mel Tillis - Country-western singer. An interesting FAX sent to Art Nefsky
from Mel Tillis on September 30,
1997, about his stuttering, is online. |
| Chris Trapper, musician - The
Push Stars rock band |
| Kenneth Tynan - British drama critic |
| John Updike
-Novelist. |
| Ken Venturi - Golfer. Won U.S. Open in 1961. (An
interview with Ken Venturi where he talks about his stuttering.) |
| Bill Walton - professional basketball player, sportscaster |
| John F.
Welch, Jr. - Chairman of General Electric. |
| Bruce Willis - Actor. |
| Robert Wilson - Sculptor and theater director |
| Bill Withers (1938- ), singer and songwriter, whose first hit, Ain't No
Sunshine, went to number three in 1971, won a Grammy for best R&B song, and
was heard in the movie Notting Hill. His biggest hit was Lean on Me, which
went to number one in 1972. He also recorded Use Me, which peaked at number
two in 1972 and is on the soundtrack to American Beauty. The Gap used his song
Lovely Day in its 1999 advertising campaign. Withers married Denice Nicholas,
a star on ABC's TV series Room 222. He was born in Slab Fork, near Beckley.
Withers dropped out of school after the ninth grade and spent nine years in
the Navy, where he underwent speech therapy to overcome a stuttering problem.
After his discharge, he delivered milk and worked for Ford Motor Co., IBM, and
Lockheed. from Famous
West Virginians |
| Congressman Frank Wolf, Republican from VA. |
| Chris Zorich - Chicago Bears' lineman. |
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