Famous People Who Have or Had Speech Differences or Stutter

Author: Disabled World : Contact: www.disabled-world.com

Published: 2017-11-10 : (Rev. 2018-10-12)

Synopsis and Key Points:

A list of well known and famous people who have and/or had speech differences including stuttering.

Main Digest

Stuttering, also known as stammering in the United Kingdom, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is disrupted by involuntary repetitions and prolongations of sounds, syllables, words or phrases, and involuntary silent pauses or blocks in which the stutterer is unable to produce sounds.

Stuttering is generally not a problem with the physical production of speech sounds or putting thoughts into words. Despite popular perceptions to the contrary, stuttering does not affect and has no bearing on intelligence.

The disorder is also variable, which means that in certain situations, such as talking on the telephone, the stuttering might be more severe or less, depending on the anxiety level connected with that activity.

The severity of a stutter is often not constant even for severe stutterers. Stutterers commonly report dramatically increased fluency when talking in unison with another speaker, copying another's speech, whispering, singing, and acting or when talking to pets, young children, or themselves.

In rare cases, stuttering may be acquired in adulthood as the result of a neurological event such as a head injury, tumour, stroke or drug abuse/misuse.

List of Famous and Well Known People with a Speech Difference Adrian Peterson

Aesop - Greek storyteller, and a huge collection of his fables

Alan R. Rabinowitz - conservationist

Alan Turing

Alfred Kazin - author, critic and teacher

Alvin Lucier - American composer

Aneurin Bevan - British Labor Party Leader in 1930's.

Anthony Quinn

Antonio Bassolino - Mayor of Naples

Aristotle

Arnold Bennett - British writer and journalist.

Arthur M. Blank - Owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons

Austin Pendleton - Actor.

Ben Johnson - Runner.

Bill Walton - professional basketball player, sportscaster

Bill Walton

Bill Withers

Bo Jackson - Football and baseball star.

Bob Love - Basketball star with Chicago Bulls in 60's and 70's.

Bob Sanders - Green Bay Packers' defensive coordinator

Bruce Oldfield - British fashion designer.

Bruce Willis

Budd Schulberg - "On the Waterfront," Oscar winner

Butch Baird - Golfer.

Carly Simon - Singer.

Charles Canon Kingsley - English orator, writer, and chaplain to Queen Victoria.

Charles Darwin

Charles Lamb - British essayist, on his stuttering.

Chris Trapper

Chris Zorich - the Chicago Bears defensive lineman

Christopher Robin Milne - Original Christopher Robin.

Clara Barton

Claudius - Roman Emperor.

Cotton Mather

Darren Sproles - San Diego Chargers' running back

Dave Taylor - Former hockey star with the L.A. Kings.

David Shields - American novelist

Dekanawida - Iroquois Indian leader in the 1500's

Demosthenes

Dr. Jonathan Miller - British director and critic.

Duane Thomas - Running back for the Dallas Cowboy's in the early 70's.

Edward Hoagland - essayist and contemporary nature writer.

Elizabeth Bowen - Irish writer

Emily Blunt - actress

Erasmus Darwin - Famous physician, scientist, and grandfather of Charles Darwin.

Eric Roberts

Field Marshall Lord Carver - British military leader.

Frank Wolf - Republican from VA.

Gareth Gates - pop star, UK

Garry Moore - game show host

General Joshua Chamberlain - one of the heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg.

George Washington -

Gordie Lane - hockey defenseman for the N.Y. Islanders

Greg Louganis - diving champion

Harley Earl - car designer

Harvey Keitel - actor

Henry James - American Novelist.

Henry Luce - Founder of Time magazine and Sports Illustrated

Henry Rogers

Horace Grant - Orlando Magic power forward

Howard Bingham - professional photographer and biographer of Muhammed Ali.

Howard Heyman - lab chief for the Newsweek photo lab

Howard Jones (born John Howard Jones) - Howard Jones had a stutter when he was young. Music helped him gain confidence and communicate, and eventually he stopped stuttering - (www.songfacts.com/facts-howard_jones.php) .

. Jack Harold Paar - US comedian & television host

Jack Paar - late show host

Jake Eberts - Film producer (Gandhi, Dances with Wolves)

Jake Steinfeld - Bodybuilder, television fitness trainer

James Earl Jones - Actor. Jones intones

James Griffin - the producer and presenter of the ABC TV's Last Word

Jeff Walz - basketball coach for the University of Louisville

Jermain Taylor

Jimmy Stewart

John "Scatman" Larkin - jazz musician

John F. Welch, Jr. - Chairman of General Electric.

John Melendez

John Montague - a Northern Irish poet, essayist, and story writer.

John Slaughter - Arizona sheriff in the 1880's

John Stossel - Reporter, ABC's 20/20.

John Updike -Novelist.

Johnny Damon - outfielder for the New York Yankees

Jorge Luis Borges - (1899-1986) author.

Joseph Priestley - (1733-1804) the English chemist and scholar who identified/discovered oxygen

Julia Roberts

Ken Venturi - Legendary golfer and commentator for CBS Sports

Kenneth E. Boulding - economist

Kenneth Tynan - British drama critic

Kenyon Martin - basketball star with the NBA

Kim Philby - British spy.

King Charles I - King of England, 1625-1649.

King George VI - King of England, 1937-1952.

Leigh Hunt - writer of the early Romantic period and a classmate of Charles Lamb.

Lenin -

Lester Hayes - defensive back for LA Raiders

Lewis Carroll - Author of Alice in Wonderland.

Lord David Cecil - Professor of English literature at Oxford in 1950s.

Louis II the Stammerer - King of France, 877-879

Ludwig Quidde - Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 1927.

Margaret Drabble - British novelist.

Marilyn Monroe - Actress.

Mario Savio - 1960's Free Speech leader at Berkeley

Marion Davies -

Mary Louise "Stuttering Sam" Dowell - became the most celebrated showgirl in New York City.

Mel Tillis

Michael Bentine - British comedian, script-writer.

Michael II - Byzantine Emperor 820-829.

Michael McCurdy - Book Illustrator / Author / Publisher / wood engraver

Michael Ramsey - Archbishop of Canterbury

Michael Spinks - light heavyweight boxing champion

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - author of Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Molotov - the Russian Foreign Minister under Stalin.

Moses Mendelssohn - Grandfather of the composer.

Moses

Napoleon the First -

Nat King Cole -

Nevil Shute (1900-1960) - English novelist and aeronautical engineer.

Niccolo Fontana - Italian mathematician famous for his algebraic solution of cubic equations

Nicholas Brendon

Nicolae Ceausecsu - President of Romania in the 1970's

Nino Salvatore - Past president of Medicine at the University of Naples

Noel Gallagher - guitarist from the rock band, Oasis.

P. F. Bentley - professional photographer

Pat Leahy - N.Y. Jets kicker.

Pat Williams - football player with the Minnesota Vikings

Patrick Campbell - British humorist.

Paul Johnson - Detective novelist, author of Killing the Blues

Peggy Lipton - actress from TV show "Mod Squad" and "Twin Peaks"

Peter Bonerz - Actor (Jerry the orthodontist) on The Bob Newhart show

Peter Straub - horror story author.

Philip Larkin - English poet, novelist and critic

Prince Albert of Monaco -

Proinsias De Rossa - a political leader of the Democrat Left in Ireland.

Raymond Massey - Actor.

Richard Condon - Novelist.

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) - British scientist.

Robert Heinlein - Science fiction writer

Robert Merrill

Robert Wilson - Sculptor and theater director

Ron Harper - Current star with the Chicago Bulls.

Rowan Atkinson

Rubin Carter

Sam Neill

Samuel L. Jackson

Senator Joseph Biden - Democrat from Delaware.

Shane Yellowbird

Sidney Gottlieb - controversial CIA psychologist

Sir Isaac Newton

Sir John R. Hicks - British economist who received the Nobel price in economics in 1972.

Somerset Maugham - British writer considered one of the best short story writers of all time.

Sophie Gustafson - Swedish Professional Golfer.

Steven Hawking - scientist

Theodore Roosevelt

Thomas Becket - Archbishop of Canterbury

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Kean - Governor of New Jersey from1982-1990

Tiger Woods

Tom Sizemore

Tommy John - pitcher for Oakland A's former Yankee

Trumaine McBride - cornerback for the Chicago Bears

Vernon Hill- chairman and founder of Commerce Bancorp and Commerce Bank

Virgil - Roman poet.

Walter H. Annenberg - publisher, broadcaster.

Washington Irving

Winston Churchill

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Journal: Disabled World. Language: English. Author: Disabled World. Electronic Publication Date: 2017-11-10. Last Revised Date: 2018-10-12. Reference Title: "Famous People Who Have or Had Speech Differences or Stutter", Source: Famous People Who Have or Had Speech Differences or Stutter. Abstract: A list of well known and famous people who have and/or had speech differences including stuttering. Retrieved 2020-09-30, from https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/awareness/famous/stut.php - Reference Category Number: DW#511-13103.