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Famous People Who Stutter
Sports stars
Tiger Woods — He is one of the most successful golfers of all time. Woods was a child prodigy who began to play golf at 2 years old. At age 3, Woods shot a 48 over nine holes at the Navy Golf Club in Cypress, Calif., and at age 5, he appeared in Golf Digest and on ABC's That's Incredible.
Kenyon Martin — Basketball star Kenyon Martin has been a two-time member of basketball's Team USA and was selected to the 2004 NBA All-Star Team. He is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Bob Love — This legendary star of the Chicago Bulls went from the court to heading up Community Affairs for the championship team. He is a popular motivational speaker and a spokesman for the Stuttering Foundation. His life story is documented in the film Find Yourself A Dream - The Bob Love Story. Love is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Johnny Damon — This New York Yankees outfielder is 3rd among active major leaguers in runs and 7th in hits and stolen bases since the 2000 season. Before playing in New York, he was with the Boston Red Sox. In high school, he was rated as one of the top players in the country and was named to USA Today's High School All-American team.
Darren Sproles — This NFL star is a football running back and return specialist for the San Diego Chargers. He was twice named The Kansas City Star Player of the Year. Sproles is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Ron Harper — If he wasn't a basketball star, he said he would want to be a teacher. He is actively involved with Widney High School in L.A., a school for children with disabilities.
Pat Williams — This football player with the Minnesota Vikings was also a star in high school. As a 5-foot, 8-inch and 160 pound freshman kicker/punter, he went on to have an unbelievable high school career. At Wossman High School, he had 43 sacks, 154 tackles, 6 forced fumbles, 8 fumble recoveries, 1 interception, and 3 defensive touchdowns.
Bill Walton — This NBA All-Star and Hall of Famer is recognized as a well-known NBC Sports commentator. Walton is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Bo Jackson — This multi-sport professional athlete completed his bachelor of science degree in 1995 at Auburn to fulfill a promise he made to his mother.
Lester Hayes — The former defensive back for the LA Raiders led the NFL with 13 interceptions and was named AP Defensive Player of the Year in 1980. He retired in 1986, after a total of 39 interceptions.
Tommy John — This former pitcher for Oakland A's and Yankees had a career with 288 victories. He ranked as the 6th highest among lefthanders in major league history.
Greg Louganis — This diving champion is probably best known for winning back-to-back Olympic titles in both the 3m and 10m diving events. Some consider him the greatest Olympic diver of all time. In 1984, he received the James E. Sullivan Award for being the top amateur athlete in the United Sates.
Dave Taylor — He is a former hockey star with the LA Kings. At Clarkson University, he still holds the record for career points (251), goals (98), and assists (153), as well as single season goals (41), assists (67), and points (108) in 1976-77.
Adrian Peterson — He is a running back with the Chicago Bears. In his spare time, he performs community work and hosts an annual free youth football camp. He also volunteers to help children who stutter.
Chris Zorich — The Chicago Bears defensive lineman is also a well-known philanthropist. In 1993, he established the Christopher Zorich Foundation to assist disadvantaged families. USA Weekend has named him the Most Caring Athlete.
Trumaine McBride — Before playing cornerback for the Chicago Bears, McBride played at the University of Mississippi, where he was a three-year starter with 48 tackles and broke up nine passes as a senior.
Gordie Lane — Known for playing hockey as a defenseman for the N.Y. Islanders, Lane worked on the Canadian Railroad during the off-seasons. He also spent some time manufactoring commercial honey on a bee farm in Brandon, Manitoba.
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter — A former prizefighter, Carter earned an honorary championship title belt in 1993 by the World Boxing Council.
Jermain Taylor — During his amateur boxing career, he earned the 1996 Under-19 Championship, the National Golden Glove titles and finished second and third at the 1997 and 1998 U.S. Championships respectively. In 1998, he won a bronze medal at the Goodwill Games. He received the bronze medal for the U.S. team in the Olympics in 2000.
Ken Venturi — Legendary golfer Ken Venturi, U.S. Open Champion, is a successful commentator for CBS Sports. He is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Bob Sanders — He has been the Green Bay Packers' defensive coordinator since 2006. Before joining the Packers, he was a linebackers coach with the Miami Dolphins. He coached college football for 22 years.
Jeff Walz — A Kentucky native, he returned to the Bluegrass State to serve as women's basketball coach for the University of Louisville.
Sophie Gustafson — A professional golfer on the LPGA Tour. She has more than four LPGA and 22 international wins in her career.
Perico Fernandez — Boxer who won WBC Light Welterweight championship.
Juanfran (Juan Francisco Garcia Garcia) — Popular soccer left fullback who has played for Real Madrid and Celta.
Actors, singers, and entertainers
James Earl Jones — Actor James Earl Jones, a Broadway, television, and movie star, is well-known for his voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars and his book Voices and Silences. He is also the voice of CNN. Jones is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure. He received the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award for his "long and quiet devotion to advancing literacy, the arts and humanities on a national and local scale," said SAG President Alan Rosenberg.
Mel Tillis — country music singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and received the lifetime achievement award in 2007. He has also been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. Tillis and his band, the Statesiders, released such hits as I Ain’t Never, Good Woman Blues, and I Believe in You. is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Nicholas Brendon — As Xander in the popular TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Brendon won fans of all ages. The young actor is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
John Melendez — This announcer for the Tonight Show is also a talented musician, actor, and comedian. Melendez is pictured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Bruce Willis — Having starred in more than 60 movies, he became popular in the late 1980s with the Die Hard series. Other popular films include Pulp Fiction, Armageddon, and The Sixth Sense.
Jimmy Stewart — He is considered one of the finest actors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Stewart earned Lifetime Achievement awards from nearly evey major film organization. In addition to acting, he had a military career in which he advanced to the rank of Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force.
Julia Roberts — An Academy Award-winning actress, Roberts gives much of her time and resources to UNICEF and other charitable organizations. She starred in Ocean's Twelve, Ocean's Eleven, The Mexican, Erin Brockovich, Runaway Bride, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Pelican Brief, Pretty Woman, and numerous other films. She was also the voice for animated characters in Charlotte's Web and The Ant Bully. She is the sister of actor Eric Roberts, who is listed below.
Robert Merrill — This baritone opera star sang in over 500 performances during three decades at the Metropolitan Opera. He is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Budd Schulberg — He is an American screenwriter and novelist. His 1954 screenplay On the Waterfront won an Oscar. He is also known for his novels What Makes Sammy Run and The Harder They Fall.
Peggy Lipton — This actress from the TV shows Mod Squad and Twin Peaks earned four Golden Globe nominations. She won one Golden Globe in 1971 for Best TV Actress in a Drama. In 1962, she signed with the Ford Model Agency.
Sheila Fraser — She starred in the 1938 TV show General John Regan.
Sam Neill — This New Zealand film and television star is probably best known for his role in Reilly, Ace of Spies and playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.
Eric Roberts — He has received widespread acclaim for his supporting role in The Dark Knight. Oscar-nominated for his role in Runaway Train, he has also starred in many movies such as Star 80 and The Pope of Greenwich Village. Roberts is trained in Tae Kwon Do and Jujitsu. His daughter, Emma, and sister, Julia Roberts, are actresses.
Raymond Massey — He became famous for roles such as Abraham Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He was nominated for an Academy Award for this role.
Carly Simon — She has an Oscar, two Grammys, a Golden Globe, as well as several hit records. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. Simon is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Jack Paar — He was an radio and television talk show host who is mosted noted for hosting The Tonight Show. During World War II, he entertained troops in the South Pacific.
Anthony Quinn — This two-time Academy Award-winning actor is also a painter and writer.
Marilyn Monroe — This actress and singer is one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. She is known for her comedic skills and screen presence. Monroe is pictured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Bill Withers — His fans say this singer and song writer combines a genuine and folksy feel with an immediately recognizable voice.
Tom Sizemore — He is famous for his role in Saving Private Ryan. Sizemore, a Golden Globe-nominated film and television actor, has had supporting roles in several films.
Emily Blunt — This Golden Globe Award-winning actress is probably best known for her work in My Summer of Love and The Devil Wears Prada.
Harvey Keitel — Before becoming a famous actor, Keitel was a freelance court reporter in New York City. He has starred in Three Seasons, U-571, Little Nicky, Red Dragon, The Crime, One Last Dance, and The Ministers, among others.
Shane Yellowbird — This popular singer and songwriter has received awards from the Canadian Country Music Awards, the Canadian Aboriginal Music Awards and the Aboriginal People's Choice Music Awards. During a three-month period in the fall of 2007, he received eight awards.
Mike Rowe — An actor and opera singer, he currently hosts Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel.
Michelle Williams — This singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress is probably best known for being part of the R&B group Destiny's Child.
Marc Anthony — Pop singer and husband of Jennifer Lopez.
Leon Botstein — He serves as the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. He is also president of Bard College.
Writers, authors, producers, and composers
Alan Rabinowitz — As a zoologist, conservationist, and author, Rabinowitz works tirelessly to protect endangered species. One of his most recent books is Beyond the Last Village. He is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Jeffrey Blitz — This writer, director, and producer recently wrote and directed Rocket Science, a movie about a high schooler who stutters joining the debate team. He also directed Spellbound, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
John Updike — This American writer's most popular work is his Rabbit series: Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, and Rabbit Remembered. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. In all, he published 22 novels and more than 12 short story collections, as well as poetry, literary criticism, and children's books. He is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Somerset Maugham — This English playwright, novelist, and short story writer was one of the most popular and highest paid authors during the 1930s.
Lewis Carroll — This British writer's most famous works include Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, as well as poems The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky. In addition to being an author, he was a mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, and photographer.
Margaret Drabble — Probably best known for her novels, Drabble has written screenplays, short stories, plays, and nonfiction biographies.
Jane Seymour — This English actress is probably best known for co-starring in the James Bond film Live and Let Die and on the TV series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. She is also an author of children's books
Indiana Gregg — This Scottish singer battled her stuttering by writing and performing her own songs as a child. She is a Billboard and VH-1 Save the Music award-winning songwriter.
Marc Shell — He is an author and professor of comparative literature and English at Harvard University. Shell is a forerunner of the literary-critical movement that has been dubbed "New Economic Criticism."
Robert A. Heinlein — He was one of the most popular science fiction writers. Heinlein was one of the first to break into mainstream pubications, such as The Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s.
Neville Shute — This successful aeronautical engineer was one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century. Virtually all of his books remain in print nearly a half-century after his death.
Andrew Lloyd Webber — As a highly successful English composer, he is probably most famous for Cats and Phantom of the Opera.
Jack Eberts — He produced Dances with Wolves, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi and the animiated feature Chicken Run. Eberts is known for being a risk-taker and for his high caliber films.
Dominick Dunne — This writer and investigative journalist often focuses on how high society interacts with the judiciary system.
Charles Darwin — This British naturalist is probably best known for his work The Origin of Species.
John Gregory Dunne — This American novelist was a journalist, screenwriter, essayist, and literary critic. He wrote two non-fiction books about Hollywood, The Studio and Monster. He was also a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Edward Hoagland — This famous author wrote Cat Man, Walking in the Dead Diamond River, African Calliope, and The Tugman's Passage.
Jorge Luis Borges — Argentine writer of short stories and essays considered to be the most influential Latin American writer of the last century. Every year the Argentinean Stuttering Association presents a Jorge Luis Borges Award.
Calvert Casey — Highly acclaimed Cuban writer of short fiction. In 1998, his works were finally released in English with the publication of Calvert Casey: The Collected Stories.
Journalists and photographers
John Stossel — An award-winning journalist, he co-anchors 20/20 on ABC TV. Stossel is an author and is a spokesperson for the SFA. He is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure, and his public service ads about stuttering can be heard on radio stations around the country.
P.F. Bentley — This award-winning photographer for TIME magazine is known for his behind-the-scenes photographs of presidents and congressmen.
Government leaders and public officials
Sen. Joseph Biden — U.S. Sen. Barack Obama selected Biden to be his running mate in the the 2008 presidential election. This U.S. Senator from Delaware is the state's longest serving senator. He was first elected to the Senate in 1973 at the age of 30, making him the sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history.
Winston Churchill — He served as the British prime minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 until 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army and an author. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for historical writing. Churchill is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Henry M. Paulson Jr. — The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury previously served as the chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, one of the world's largest investment banks.
Congressman Frank Wolf — This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Prince Albert of Monaco — The prince became interested in oceanography at the age of 22. He founded the world renowned Oceangraphic Institute in Monaco. It includes an aquarium, museum, and library. Plus, a research facility in Paris.
Miguel Estrada — This prominent attorney was a nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Bush.
Sidney Gottlieb — This controversial CIA psychiatrist and chemist stuttered as a child and earned a master's degree in speech therapy.
Bill Sheffield — He served as governor of Alaska from 1982-1986.
King George VI — The king was an inspiration to his country during World War II when he addressed the nation in radio broadcasts in spite of a severe stutter. He raised the prestige of the monarchy.
Annie Glenn — Wife of former astronaut Senator John Glenn, she is active in community service. Glenn has been involved in programs for children, the elderly, and the handicapped. She is also an accomplished organist. Glenn is featured in the SFA's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.
Col. Joshua Chamberlain — The Union colonel in the Civil War was wounded several times and, according to historians, was an inspiration and a hero to his men.
Alan Turing — This British mathematician is considered the father of modern computer science. During World War II, he helped break German codes.
Business leaders
Walter Wriston — As chairman of Citibank/Citicorp from 1967-1984, Wriston was regarded as one of the most influential commerical bankers.
John Sculley — Regarded as a marketing genius, he introduced the "Pepsi Challenge," which helped the soda company gain market share. During the 1980s and 1990s, his ideas helped Apple Computer to mass market the Macintosh computer.
Mike Harper — This ConAgra executive is praised for his early adoption of information technology. But he is probably best known as a hard-charging acquisitions champion at the company.
Jack Welch — During his tenure as chairman of General Electric, he increased the market capitalization of GE by more than $400 billion. He served as GE's chairman from 1981 through 2001. Welch gained a reputation of having a solid, unique business leadership style.
Vince Naimoli — He is known for turning corporations around. He formed Anchor Industries International and was former CEO of Doehler-Jarvis, Harvard Industries, and Ladish Co. He has served on several corporate boards, as well as the University of Tampa Board of Trustees.
Steven Brill — He is a publisher and founder of Court TV, which is now TruTV. Brill also founded Clear Registered Traveler, an airport security company. And he created Brill's Content magazine.
Michael Sheehan — Since 1981, Sheehan has been a leader in the field of communications consulting. He is often called upon to help with critical business situations such as initial public offerings, shareholder meetings, and other issues.
Walter H. Annenberg — deceased publisher and philanthropist. He created TV Guide and Seventeen magazine. He also owned The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News.
Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest — An Australian businessman who made his wealth in mining. He is considered one of the richest people in Australia.
Ernie Canadeo — Founder, president and chief executive of EGC Group, Inc., an advertising agency based in Melville, N.Y. |