Speech Ailments Hall of Fame
What is a Speech Ailment?
Speech ailments, disorders or impediments are a type of communication disorders where ‘normal’ speech is disrupted. This can mean stuttering, lisps, etc. Someone who is unable to speak due to a speech disorder is . . .More
Be Inspired
By the achievements and abilities! Take a quick look into the archives of people with speech disorders who became famous.
Be Informed
View a list of famous people with speech disorders and learn more about each person:
- Barbara Walters
- Bruce Willis
- Tiger Woods
- Julia Roberts
- Robert Merrill
- Mel Tillis
- Anthony Quinn
- Jermain Taylor
- Bill Walton
- Rubin Carter
- Jimmy Stewart
- Tom Sizemore
- Bill Withers
- Shane Yellowbird
- Rowan Martin
- Sam Neill
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Winston Churchill
- Nicholas Brendon
- Alan Turing
- Adrian Peterson
- George Washington
- Irving Thomas
- Demosthenes
- Chris Trapper
- Henry Huttleston Rogers
- Cotton Mather
- Clara Barton
- Aesop
- Alvin Lucier
- Arthur M. Blank
- Austin Pendleton
- Bo Jackson
- Budd Schulberg
- Carly Simon
- Claudius
- Dekanawida
- Jonathan Miller
- Edward Hoagland
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Emily Blunt
- Erasmus Darwin
- Lord Carver
- Frank Wolf
- Joshua Chamberlain
- Harley Earl
- Harvey Keitel
- Henry James
- Henry Luce
- Howard Bingham
- Howard Heyman
- Jack Paar
- Jake Steinfeld
- James Earl Jones
- Scatman John
- Jack Welch
- John Montague
- John Horton Slaughter
- John Stossel
- John Updike
- Johnny Damon
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Joseph Priestley
- Charles I of England
- King George VI
- Lester Hayes
- Lewis Carroll
- Lord David Cecil
- Louis II the Stammerer
- Ludwig Quidde
- Madeline Kahn
- Mario Savio
- Michael Spinks
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Nat King Cole
- Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia
- Nicolae Ceausescu
- Nino Salvatore
- P. F. Bentley
- Peter Bonerz
- Philip Larkin
- Prince Albert of Monaco