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An autodidact is one who is self-taught.[1]
Famous autodidacts
The following is a list of famous autodidacts.[2]
- Louisa May Alcott
- Frederick Douglass
- Barry Goldwater
- Washington Irving
- Ray Kroc
- Rush Limbaugh
- Abraham Lincoln
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Alexander Pope
- John D. Rockefeller
- Karl Rove
- Colonel Sanders
- David Sarnoff
- George Bernard Shaw
- Zachary Taylor
- Nikola Tesla
- Leo Tolstoy
- Harry S. Truman
- George Westinghouse
- Edith Wharton
- Walt Whitman
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- August Wilson
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Chuck Yeager