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America's "Sad Poet" of Country Music

Don Gibson carved out a remarkable career as a recording artist and songwriter.
Celebrating 80 Years of Help & Hope

In 2027, the Stuttering Foundation will celebrate its 80th anniversary—eight decades of providing trusted information, resources, support, and hope to people who stutter and their families around the world.
30 Years of Training

Stuttering Foundation workshops have a worldwide ripple effect.
"Sussudio" a Number 1 Hit

Phil Collins' hit one of the few songs with stuttering vocals to have topped the Billboard Hot 100.
Owning His Voice Through Song

Chris Difford is famous in the music world as the guitarist, lyricist and occasional lead vocalist for the British band Squeeze.
Understanding Stuttering

The New York Times runs letter from Stuttering Foundation.
Advice for Trick-or-Treating

Jane Fraser discusses stuttering on WABE's Closer Look radio program.
The President and the Baritone

Dwight Eisenhower, Robert Merrill, and a Shared Understanding of Stuttering
The Role of Language in Stuttering

Let me begin with a general truism: Language can exist without speech but speech cannot exist without language.
Remembering Leon 'Jigger' Sirois

The Stuttering Foundation has lost a longtime friend and tireless ambassador.

CELEBRITY FOCUS

Emily Blunt

Actress Emily Blunt struggled with stuttering early in her life. A teacher encouraged her to act in a school play at age 12 despite her stuttering.

Blunt's name is prominently featured on the Stuttering Foundation's list of Famous People Who Stutter.

Lewis Carroll

The recent Disney version of Lewis Carroll's classic, Alice in Wonderland, garnered a great deal of media hype. Even though the mainstream media has not made mention that Carroll was a person who stuttered, his family history gives credence to the discovery of the genetic link to stuttering. Carroll was born to parents who were first cousins; almost all of their eleven children, three girls and seven boys, struggled with stuttering past childhood.

Frank Wolf

This Virginian congressman has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1981. The longtime supporter of the Stuttering Foundation drew national attention to childhood stuttering in 2006 when he submitted an article about Tiger Woods from the SFA newsletter to the Congressional Record. The congressman is featured in the Stuttering Foundation's Famous People Who Stutter brochure.

James Earl Jones

Actor James Earl Jones, a Broadway, television and movie star, was well-known for his voice as Darth Vader in Star Wars and his book Voices and Silences. Jones spoke some of the most memorable lines in the history of American film, but the man known for his voice was once afflicted with a severe stutter.

Bruce Willis

While the world knows Bruce Willis as an A-list actor, few know that he struggled with stuttering throughout his first 20 years.

Walter Bruce Willis was born in 1955 in West Germany to his German mother, Marlene, and his American GI father, David Willis. The family settled in David's hometown of Penns Grove, New Jersey in 1957, and the couple has three other children.

Famous People Who Stutter