Autodidactas destacados e influyentes (Una lista todavía incompleta)

Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Bill Gates
Paul Allen
Mark Zuckerberg
Leonardo da Vinci
Agatha Christie
Jorge Luis Borges
José Saramago
Rabindranath Tagore
Nikola Tesla
Auguste y Louis Lumiere
Hans Christian Andersen
William Blake
Jane Austen
John Cage
Florentino Ameghino
Juan José Arreola
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Terry Pratchett
Herman Melville
George Bernard Shaw
Ernest Hemingway
Ray Bradbury
Francisco Pascasio Moreno (Perito Moreno)
Frank Zappa
Arnold Schoenberg
James Cameron
Joseph Campbell
Andrew Carnegie
Truman Capote
Joseph Conrad
Steven Spielberg
Roberto Arlt
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Stanley Kubrick
John Huston
Woody Allen
Steven Soderbergh
Raymond Chandler
Ralph Lauren
Richard E. Leakey
Charles Dickens
Dario Argento
Arthur C. Clarke
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
Alexander Graham Bell
Louisa May Alcott
Orson Welles
Keith Moon
Christopher Hughes
David Bowie
Jimi Hendrix
Noel Gallagher
Alan Moore
Errol Flynn
Jack Parsons
Django Reinhardt
Eminem
Isaac Ochoterena
Víctor Rodriguez
Ricardo Barbetti
Bob Dylan
Russell Crowe
James Watt
Hermanos Wright
Charles Darwin
Michael Faraday
Albert Einstein
Isaac Newton
Moshe Feldenkrais
Benjamin Franklin
Buckminster Fuller
Howard Fast
Oliver Heaviside
Thomas Henry Huxley
Jane Jacobs
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Karl Marx
Soichiro Honda
William Faulkner
Henry Ford
Robert Frost
Washington Irving
Walter Pitts
Jane Goodall
Walt Whitman
Srinivasa Ramanujan
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Vincent J. Schaefer
Heinrich Schliemann
Herbert Spencer
Dale J. Stephens
Alfred Russel Wallace
Malcolm X
Julian Assange
Abraham Lincoln
Heston Blumenthal
Henry Knox
Ramón Campayo
J.B. Fuqua
Edgar Allan Poe
Gore Vidal
Herman Hesse
Paul Keating
Alexander Pope
Doris Lessing
Ted Turner
Guglielmo Marconi
Walt Disney
Christy Brown
Juan Carlos Onetti
Jorge Alberto Sábato
Jack London
Francis Galton
John D. Rockefeller
J.D. Salinger
John Dalton
Miguel Hernández
Leo Tolstoi
Peter Ustinov
George Washington
Thomas J. Watson