Famous People with ADHD - ADHD Embrace (2024)

EmmaWatson, Actress

RoryBremner, Satirist & Comedian

RoryBremnerhas had a long and successful career astheUK’s most famous satirist and impressionist.He wasdiagnosed with ADHD as an adult after recognising symptoms in hisdiagnosednephewthat hesawin himself. Describing ADHD as “being my worst enemy and my best friend” heacknowledgesthe challenges but also the advantages “it allows meto make leaps of logic and think outside of the box. Among comedians, particularly when improvising, it’s usefultohave a brain that’s ‘freer’ and comparatively uninhibited.”

AntMcPartlin, TV Presenter

Jamie Oliver, Chef

Jamie Oliver, one of Britain’s most famous celebrity chefs, was diagnosed with ADHD during his childhood. He is a champion for spreading the word on healthy eating and advocated for the use of dietand proper nutrition toward managing the symptomsof ADHD.

BillGates, Entrepreneur & Philanthropist

Bill Gates, born in 1955 is the founder of Microsoft, and has a net worth ofmanybillions. He also chairs the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation which has so far donated $35.8 billion to charity. Hehastalkedabout dropping out of Harvard as he was itching to start Microsoft at the beginning of the personal computer revolution in an interview with This Morning in 2016. He also discusses his constant activity and extremely busy schedule in an interview with Warren Buffet.

Walt Disney,King of the animation industry

Walt Disney was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time as his presence is still felt evenover50 years after his death.He founded the Walt Disney Corporation and pioneered the animation industry where he wasanimator, writer, voice actor, and film producer.He took what were crude drawings and turned them into a brand that is now instantly recognizable worldwide. With ADHD, he was able to build an empirein animated films and also expanded into amusem*nt parks,makingproductsthat people love and want.

Ryan Gosling, Actor

As a child, Ryan Gosling was diagnosed with ADHD and had trouble reading. He was bullied at school and didn’t have any friends until he was a teenager. Concerned, his mumhomeschooledhim for a year. Shortly afterward, he began acting. Of his 2006 Oscar nomination, Gosling says, “It meant a lot to me because it meant a lot to the people that I love. Especially my mother … she’s been fighting [for me] since I was born.”

Michael Phelps, Swimmer

Michael Phelps isone ofthe most decorated Olympians. But swimming isn’t just a winning sport for Phelps; it’s a way for him to cope with his ADHD. His mother described her son’s exhibition of classic ADHD symptoms: not sitting still or being able to focus. However, hechannelledthat into swimming, and with “continuous praise and positive reinforcement” Phelps had the encouragement he needed to score the golds. Watch thisvideoof him talking about his ADHD struggles. 

Channing Tatum, Actor

Channing Tatum is one of the most widely recognized celebrities. He also happens to be an actor who has publicly shared his struggles with ADHD during his childhoodand how his struggles at school affected him. In fact, he continues to work through related difficulties as an adult. His ADHD has not stopped him from starring in many critically acclaimed moviesand being at the top of the Hollywood game.

Richard Bacon, TV Presenter

Richard Bacon has spoken at length in public about his ADHD. The successful TV presenter was diagnosed at the age of 42. “MY ADHD is who I am. I wouldn’t change my ADHD for the world. “And talking about his late diagnosis as an adult “It’s a relief to be diagnosed. I’m so much better, I’m sleeping a lot better, only drinking a couple of times a week and a lot less.”

Albert Einstein, Physicist & Mathematician

Albert Einstein is acknowledged to be one of the greatest physicists of all time. Although it can’t be proven, many scholars and historians believe thatEinsteinone of the greatest minds of all-time, hadADHD.Einstein was a German physicist and mathematician who developed the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.