List of homeschooled people

Numerous historical and current public figures were home-educated. Some examples include:

• Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) the 16th President of the United States, received very little schooling, but was an avid reader and taught himself how to read, write, and do arithmetic.
• Andrew Wyeth (1917), an American realist painter, was taken out of school at young age because of illness, he then received education on art and other subjects from his parents.
• Bode Miller (1977), an American alpine skier, was homeschooled by his parents until he was ten.
• Ernst Mach, Austria, Physicist. Homeschooled until highschool by his parents.
• Erwin Schrödinger, Austria, Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Homeschooled until age 10
• George Washington, United States, First United States President
• Sho Yano, United States, child prodigy
• Susan La Flesche Picotte, United States, first American Indian woman physician
• Thomas Edison (1847–1931) an American inventor and businessman, was taught reading, writing and arithmetic by his mother. Before that he left school after only three months, as he had trouble following the lessons. Most of his other education he received from reading books on his own.
• Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) the 28th President of the United States, was home educated by his father because of the Civil War. When he was nineteen he entered Princeton University.
• Tim Tebow (b. 1987), American football player for the University of Florida
• Francis S. Collins (b. 1950), American physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP). Home schooled by his mother until the sixth grade.