Famous People Who Stutter

Sports stars

Tiger Woods — one of the most successful golfers of all time

Kenyon Martin — basketball star with the NBA

Bob Love — legendary star of the Chicago Bulls

Johnny Damon — outfielder for the New York Yankees

Ron Harper — basketball star

Pat Williams — football player with the Minnesota Vikings

Bill Walton — basketball star, sports commentator

Bo Jackson — multi-sport professional athlete

Lester Hayes — defensive back for LA Raiders

Tommy John — pitcher for Oakland A's former Yankee

Greg Louganis — diving champion

Dave Taylor — Former hockey star with the LA Kings

Adrian Peterson — football star, running back with the Chicago Bears

Chris Zorich — the Chicago Bears defensive lineman

Trumaine McBride — cornerback for the Chicago Bears

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

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter — boxer

Jermain Taylor — boxer

Ken Venturi — Legendary golfer and commentator for CBS Sports

 

Actors, singers, and entertainers

James Earl Jones — Broadway, television, and movie star.

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.”

Nicholas Brendon — TV star "Xander" in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

John Melendez — announcer for the Tonight Show, musician, actor and comedian

Bruce Willis — leading actor

Jimmy Stewart — actor

Julia Roberts — Academy Award-winning actress

Robert Merrill — opera star

Budd Schulberg — "On the Waterfront," Oscar winner

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

Sam Neil — actor

Eric Roberts — actor

Raymond Massey — actor deceased

Carly Simon — singer

Jack Paar — late show host

Anthony Quinn — actor

Marilyn Monroe — actress and singer

Bill Withers — singer and song writer

Shane Yellowbird — country music star from Canada

Tom Sizemore — actor famous for role in "Saving Private Ryan"

Emily Blunt — actress

 

Writers, authors, producers, and composers

Alan Rabinowitz — zoologist, conservationist, and author

Jeffrey Blitz — writer, director, and producer. Recent movies include Rocket Science and Spellbound.

John Updike — writer 

Somerset Maugham — writer

Lewis Carroll — British writer, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass

Margaret Drabble — British novelist

Jane Seymour — Actress and author of children's books

Indiana Gregg — Scottish singer who battled her stuttering by writing and performing her own songs as a child.

Marc Shell — Author and professor of comparative literature and English at Harvard University.

Robert A. Heinlein — science fiction writer

Neville Shute — Novelist

Andrew Lloyd Webber — famous for Cats, Phantom of the Opera

Jack Ebert — producer "Dances with Wolves"

Dominick Dunne — writer

Charles Darwin — British naturalist and author of The Origin of Species

John Gregory Dunne — novelist, journalist, screenwriter

 

Journalists and photographers

John Stossel — 20/20 co-anchor

P.F. Bentley — award-winning photographer for TIME Magazine

 

Government leaders and public officials

Winston Churchill — statesman and orator

Henry M. Paulson Jr., U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia

Prince Albert of Monaco

Miguel Estrada — Prominent attorney and nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

U.S. Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware

Sidney Gottlieb — controversial CIA psychologist and mastermind 

Bill Sheffield — former governor of Alaska 

King George VI — an inspiration to his country during WWII when he addressed the nation in radio broadcasts in spite of a severe stutter 

Annie Glenn — wife of former astronaut, Senator Glenn

 

Business leaders

Walter Wriston — Citibank

John Sculley — Apple

Mike Harper — Conagra

Jack Welch — General Electric

Vince Naimoli — Harvard Industries

Steven Brill — publisher and founder of Court TV

Michael Sheehan — communications consultant

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.