Did you know that dyslexia is also a gift!?! Exactly because the brains of the dyslexics work “a bit different”, people with dyslexia have a “somewhat different way of thinking”. And this can sometimes lead to exceptional discoveries, creations or artworks! Check out a list of 10-well-known people with dyslexia who are extremely successful in various fields … either science, art or technology.
Albert Einstein – a scientist, a physicist, a Nobel laureate who set up a theory of relativity
Leonardo da Vinci – artist and innovator
Pablo Picasso – a painter who created cubism and left us over 120,000 outstanding works of art
Agatha Christie – a writer of detective crime, short stories and dramas, the best-selling author in the world
Hans Christian Anderson – a renowned writer for children and adults
Walt Disney – a man who is still the notion of an animated film for children
Steven Spielberg – director who created hundreds of outstanding film stories
Richard Branson – an entrepreneur and innovator who runs Virgin
Steve Jobs – visionary, inventor and founder of Apple
Salma Hayek – actress and Tom Cruise – actor