Famous stammerers and stutterers
Some very well known and famous people from the past and present have stammered and stuttered to greater or a lesser degree. Here are the names of a few.
Aesop - Greek storyteller
Alan Turing, one of the founders of computer science.
Aneurin Bevan - Labour Party MP and Minister
Anthony Quinn - Actor.
Aristotle - Greek philosopher
Arnold Bennett - British writer and journalist.
Bruce Oldfield - British fashion designer.
Carly Simon - Singer.
Charles Darwin - Naturalist and author of The Origin of Species.
Christopher Robin Milne, the original Christopher Robin.
Claudius - Roman Emperor.
Demosthenes - Greek orator
Dr. Jonathan Miller - director and critic.
Elizabeth Bowen - Irish author
Erasmus Darwin - Famous physician, scientist, and grandfather of Charles.
Field Marshall Lord Carver - British military leader.
Gareth Gates - English pop star
George Washington
Harvey Keitel - actor
Isaac Newton - Scientist, developed the Law of Gravity.
Jack Harold Paar - US comedian & television host
James Stewart - Actor.
John Montague - Irish poet, essayist, and story writer.
Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) — chemist and scholar who discovered oxygen
Kenneth Tynan - drama critic and writer - famous for Oh Calcutta!
Kim Philby - British diplomat and spy.
King Charles I - King of England, 1625-1649.
King George VI - 1937-1952.
Lenin
Lewis Carroll - Author of Alice in Wonderland.
Louis II the Stammerer, King of France, 877-879
Marion Davies “one of the few silent stars to survive the transition to talkies.”
Michael Bentine - comedian, script-writer and TV star
Michael Palin’s father
Michael Ramsey (one hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of Don Quixote de la Mancha
Molotov, the Russian Foreign Minister under Stalin.
Nevil Shute (1900-1960) - novelist and aeronautical engineer.
Patrick Campbell - British humorist.
Philip Larkin - English poet, novelist and critic
Raymond Massey - Actor.
Richard Condon - Novelist - The Manchurian Candidate and Prizzi’s Honor.
Robert Boyle (1627-1691) - British scientist and moral essayist who made important contributions to physics and chemistry and is best known for Boyle’s law
Robert Heinlein - Science fiction writer
Rowan Atkinson - Mr. Bean
Sam Neill - Actor.
Samuel L. Jackson, film actor
Somerset Maugham - one of the best short story writers of all time, including Of Human Bondage, a semi autobiographical novel where a physical disability is the cypher for the author’s stuttering.
Theodore Roosevelt - American President
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Jefferson - President
Walter H. Annenberg - publisher, broadcaster, diplomat and philanthropist.
John Updike -Novelist.
Bill Withers (1938 - ), singer and songwriter
This list is partly based on work by Judy Kuster, personal additions from various sources, including Knotted Tongues, a book by Benson Bobrick, and Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders, by Franklin Silverman and by me the web master