Celebrities Who Taught School

John Adams

U.S. President

Madeleine Albright

Secretary of State

Louisa May Alcott

author

Chester A. Arthur

U.S. President

Clara Barton

Founder of American Red Cross

Alexander Graham Bell

inventor

Dan Blocker

“Hoss,, from Bonanza

Sheryl Crow

singer/songwriter

Clarence Darrow

attorney

Amelia Earhart

aviator

Geraldine Ferraro

vice presidential candidate

Roberta Flack

singer

Abigail Fillmore

First Lady

Margaret Fuller

transcendentalist author; social reformer

Art Garfunkel

singer

Andy Griffith

actor

John Wesley Hardin

outlaw

Warren G. Harding

U.S. President

Janis Joplin

rock star

Lyndon B. Johnson

U.S. President

Stephen  King

author

Eugene McCarthy

U.S. Senator, presidential candidiate

William McKinley

U.S. President

Herman Melville

author

James Michener

author

Anne Murray

singer

Carry Nation

temperance leader

Pat Nixon

First Lady

Thomas Paine

colonial patriot

Gen. John Pershing

World War I leader

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Best-selling author

William Quantrill

Confederate guerilla leader

Dixie Lee Ray

governor of Washington

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady, author,  lecturer

Tim Russert

TV newscaster

Gene Simmons

member of rock group “KISS”

Margaret Chase Smith

U.S. Senator from Maine

Mother Teresa

Nobel Peace Prize winner, social activist

Mary Church Terrell

social reformer

Strom Thurmond

U.S. Senator

John Wooden

UCLA basketball coach

From: R. L. (2004) Classroom Teacher’s Survival Guide. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.