Here is "short list" of some Prominent, well respected homeschooled people, Leaders we all know.

U.S. Presidents

John Adams

John Quincy Adams

JamesGarfield

Andrew Jackson

ThomasJefferson

Abraham Lincoln

Franklin Delano Roosevelt "FDR"

Theodore Roosevelt

George Washington

Military Leaders

Stonewall Jackson - Civil War General

John Paul Jones - Father of the American Navy

Robert E. Lee - Civil War General

Douglas MacArthur - U.S. General

George Patton - U.S. General

Matthew Perry - naval officer who opened up trade with Japan

U.S. Supreme Court Judges

John Jay

John Marshall

John Rutledge

Sandra Day O'Connor

Scientists

George Washington Carver

Pierre Curie

Albert Einstein

Inventors

Alexander Graham Bell - invented the telephone

John Moses Browning - firearms inventor and designer

Peter Cooper - invented skyscraper, built first U.S. commercial locomotive

Thomas Edison - invented the stock ticker, mimeograph, phonograph, and perfected the electric light bulb

Benjamin Franklin - invented the lightning rod

Elias Howe - invented sewing machine

William Lear - airplane creator

Cyrus McCormick - invented grain reaper

Guglielmo Marconi - developed radio

Eli Whitney - invented the cotton gin

Sir Frank Whittle - invented turbo jet engine

Orville and Wilbur Wright - built the first successful airplane