Alexander Graham Bell
Abraham Lincoln
C.S. Lewis
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Edison
Leonardo da Vinci
Benjamin Franklin
Winston Churchill
Hans Christian Anderson
Agatha Chrisite
Charles Dickens
Albert Schweitzer
Charlie Chaplin
Here's another list I found on a different website:
Ansel Adams - photographer
Alexander Graham Bell - inventor
Pearl Buck - author
Pierre Curie - scientist
Agatha Christie - author
Noel Coward - playwright
Thomas Edison - inventor
Margaret Mead - anthropologist
Florence Nightingale - nurse
George Patton - US general
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - US president
Phillis Wheatley - poet
Francis Collins - instrumental in mapping the human genome
Another site claims these as notable personalities as homeschooled:
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Dickens
Robert E. Lee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Douglas MacArthur
And from another site:
John Quincy Adams
Alexander Graham Bell
Clara Barton
Pearl Buck
Agatha Christie
Winston Churchill
Noel Coward
Sandra Day O'Connor
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Abraham Lincoln
Douglas MacArthur
Margaret Mead
Wolfgang Mozart
General George Patton
William Penn
Franklin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
George Bernard Shaw
Leo Tolstoy
Mark Twain
George Washington
Martha Washington
Daniel Webster
John Wesley
I guess MY kids are in good company.
Here's a couple of appropriate quotes too:
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein
"My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school." - Margaret Mead
I might have to reconsider support for home schooling...
Unfortunately, it often doesn't.
Teach your children to disrespect wrongful authority; the best way is by example. ;^)