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This is a list of notable autodidacts. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. The list includes people who have been partially or wholly self-taught. Some notables listed did receive formal educations, including some college, although not in the field(s) for which they became prominent.
Language links are at the top of the page across from the title.
Tadao Ando is a famous autodidact architect of the twenty-first century. Many successful and influential architects, such as Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Violet-Le-Duc, Tadao Ando were self-taught. There are very few countries allowing autodidacticism in architecture today.
This list focuses on published authors whose working-class status or background was part of their literary reputation. These were, in the main, writers without access to formal education, so they were either autodidacts or had mentors or patrons. This lack of standardized education gave rise to the notion of the "rough," "untutored," "natural ...
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The list is incomplete – please help to expand it by adding Wikipedia page-owning writers who have written extensively in any genre or field, including science and scholarship. Please follow the entry format. A seminal work added to a writer's entry should also have a Wikipedia page. This is a subsidiary to the List of English people.
Samuel Johnson (En, 1709–1784) – Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; Ernest Jones (Wl, 1879–1958) – Sigmund Freud; Kathleen Jones (EnAl, born 1946) – Katherine Mansfield; Landon Jones (US, living) – William Clark; Alicia Jurado (Arg, 1922–2011) – William Henry Hudson, Cunninghame Graham, Jorge Luis Borges
The list is incomplete – please help to expand it by adding Wikipedia page-owning writers who have written extensively in any genre or field, including science and scholarship. Please follow the entry format. A seminal work added to a writer's entry should also have a Wikipedia page. This is a subsidiary to the List of English people.