Famous Bankrupts

Many people, when finding themselves facing bankruptcy or serious financial difficulty, feel isolated and alone.  Many feel that if they file for bankruptcy, they will have been a failure.  Many people who file for bankruptcy go onto do great things; below is a list of famous bankrupts.  Amoung the list you will find three US Presidents, the founders of the biggest two car manufactors (Ford and General Motors), Alfred Nobel (founder of the nobel prize), Donald Trump and Nikola Tesla (the man who gave us electricity as we know it).   Bankruptcy is just something that happens; it doesn’t have to define you.

Abraham Lincoln – 16th President of the United States

P.T. Barnum – The Great American circus owner

Kim Basinger – Oscar-winning actress (1993)

Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz author

Miguel de Cervantes – Novelist; Don Quixote

Samuel L. Clemens (“Mark Twain”) – best-selling American author/humorist (1894)

Francis Ford Coppola – Oscar-winning film writer/director/producer (1999)

Daniel Defoe – Author; Robinson Crusoe

Walt Disney – Oscar-winning film producer, animation & theme park pioneer (1923)

Henry Dunant – Red Cross founder

William C. Durant – Founder of General Motors

Henry Ford – Automobile manufacturer

William Fox – Co-Founder of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation (1936)

Charles Goodyear – 19th century American inventor, who discovered how to vulcanize rubber

Ulysses S. Grant - 18th US President; Civil War general, best-selling American Author, face is pictured on the US fifty dollar bill (1884, after leaving office)

Johannes Gutenberg – Inventor of movable type

H.J. Heinz – Founder of Heinz Ketchup

Robert Kiyosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad author

Stan Lee - Comic book industry pioneer, co-creator “Spider Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “The X-Men” etc (2001)

William McKinley – 25th US President 1897-1901

Immanuel Nobel – father of manufacturer/philanthropist Alfred Nobel , who founded the Nobel Prize (twice – 1833/year Alfred was born, 1856/ when Alfred was 23)

Oskar Schindler- activist who saved over 1000 Jews from the Nazis

Nikola Tesla – Invented alternating current

Donald Trump – billionaire entrepreneur

Oscar Wilde – acclaimed poet and author

James Wilson – U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1789-1798