People that has changed our lives Exceptionally gifted people have / had special needs and challenges. They all require(ed)understanding, support and assistance in order to fulfill their tremendous potential: Stephen Hawking, Helen Keller, Christopher Reeve, Dr. John Nash (“A Beautiful Mind”), Nicole Johnson (Miss America 1998), Michelangelo, Lionel Aldridge, Barbra Streisand, Gaetano Donizetti, Robert Schumann, Tammy Wynette, Leo Tolstoy, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Vaslov Nijinsky, Edgar Allen Poe, Kristi McNichol, Isaac Newton, Barbara Mandrell, Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Vivien Leigh, Emperor Norton I, Sid Caesar, Frida Kahlo (Mexican Artist), Michael J. Fox, Jimmy Piersall, Sylvia Plath (Poet), Charles Dickens, Jonathan Winters, Judy Garland, Dick Cavett, Ronnie Milsap, Oprah Winfrey, Thomas Edison, Diana Spencer Windsor (the Princess of Wales), Stevie Wonder, Charlie Parker (Jazz Musician / Composer), Heather Whitestone (Miss America 1995), Henry Morton Stanley (“Dr Livingstone, I presume?”), Jimmy Hendricks, Trudi Montag ("Stones From the River"), Albert Einstein, Eva "Evita" Peron, Muhammed Ali, Barbara Walters, Vincent Van Gogh, Rosanne Barr, "The Rain Man", Ludvik Van Beethovan, Christy Brown ("My Left Foot", 1989), Elizabeth Taylor, Jose Feliciano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Trudi Chase ("When Rabbit Howls"), Ray Charles, Marlee Matlin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Karen Carpenter, Eugene O’Neil, Sammy Davis, Jr., Annie Sullivan (Helen Keller´s teacher), Patty Duke and David Helfgott ("Shine"). Louis Armstrong, Lucille Ball, The Beatles, Marlon Brando, Coco Chanel, Charlie Chaplin, Le Corbusier, Bob Dylan, T.S. Eliot, Aretha Franklin, Martha Graham, Jim Henson, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bart Simpson, Frank Sinatra, Steven Spielberg, Igor Stravinsky, David Ben-Gurion, Ho Chi Minh, Mohandas Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Adolf Hitler, Martin Luther King, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, V.I. Lenin, Nelson Mandela, Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Sanger, Lech Walesa, Mao Zedong and the Unknown Rebel. Stephen Bechtel, Leo Burnett, Willis Carrier, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, Amadeo Giannini, Ray Kroc, Estee Lauder, William Levitt, Lucky Luciano, Louis B. Mayer, Charles Merrill, Akio Morita, Walter Reuther, Pete Rozelle, David Sarnoff, Juan Trippe, Sam Walton and Thomas Watson, Jr, Leo Baekeland, Tim Berners-Lee, Rachel Carson, Francis Crick & James Watson, Philo Farnsworth, Enrico Fermi, Alexander Fleming, Sigmund Freud, Robert Goddard, Kurt Gödel, Edwin Hubble, John Maynard Keynes, Louis, Mary & Richard Leakey, Jean Piaget, Jonas Salk, William Shockley, Alan Turing, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wilbur & Orville Wright, Muhammad Ali, Anne Frank, Billy Graham, Che Guevara, E. Hillary & T. Norgay, Helen Keller, The Kennedys, Bruce Lee, Charles Lindbergh, Harvey MIlk, Marilyn Monroe, Mother Teresa, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, Pelé, Andrei Sakharov, Jackie Robinson and Bill Wilson.
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