Graduates of home education have made numerous crucial contributions to America and the world. Some of the many prominent people of the past who were home-educated for a significant period of time include:
Ansel Adams
First Lady Abigail Adams
President John Quincy Adams
Louisa May Alcott
Hans Christian Anderson
Susan B. Anthony
Alexander Graham Bell
William Jennings Bryan
President James Buchanan
Pearl Buck
William F. Buckley
Andrew Carnegie
George Washington Carver
Charles Chaplin
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill
Samuel Clemens
Pierre Curie
Charles Dickens
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
President Millard Fillmore
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
Alexander Hamilton
President William Henry Harrison
Patrick Henry
Hephzibah Manuhin Hauser
Justice Robert Jackson
President Thomas Jefferson
President Andrew Johnson
C.S. Lewis
President Abraham Lincoln
General Douglas MacArthur
President James Madison
George Mason
Cyrus McCormick
Tamara McKinney
Margaret Mead
Yehudi Menuhin
John Stuart Mill
Claude Monet
Florence Nightingale
General George Patton
Beatrix Potter
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Theodore Roosevelt
Bertrand Russell
George Bernard Shaw
Albert Schweitzer
President Zachary Taylor
Frank Vandiver
Mercy Warren
Booker T. Washington
President George Washington
First Lady Martha Washington
John Wesley
Phyllis Wheatley
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Serena & Venus Williams
President Woodrow Wilson
Orville & Wilbur Wright
Andrew & Jamie Wyeth
Brigham Young