Famous People who were once Homeless

As he says in this interview, Guy Laliberte' spent his first night in London years ago on a park bench.  He traveled through Europe street performing.  He's been a street performing accordion player and fire breather, co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, the 7th tourist astronaut, billionaire, high stakes poker player, and now is mostly a philanthropist.

On May 14th of this year, as a dozen or more North Carolina men stomped outside my tent in the woods, claiming to be armed with baseball bats and threatening to beat the fuck out of me, one of them said, "Everybody knows that every homeless person is a worthless piece of shit."  Hmmmmm.  Really? 

Jay Leno lived in his car for a couple of years in his early days as a comedian.  He made it as a stand-up comic, became a longtime host of The Tonight Show, and now has a decent sized car collection, and a TV show where he gets to do things like you see in that clip.

Steve Harvey, who also lived in his car for about three years as a young comedian, interviews social media star, musician, and athlete Destorm Power, who got started as a homeless subway singer.

In this video, we hear about formerly homeless people turned successful Dr. Phil, Steve Harvey, Daniel Craig, Carmen Electra, Halle Berry, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Pratt, Jim Carrey, James Cameron, and Steve Jobs.
My favorite modern painter, surrealist Vladimir Kush, slept on park benches in Santa Monica, California when he first came to America.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad author, highly successful real estate investor, and investment teacher Robert Kiyosaki, and his wife Kim, lived in their car for three weeks at one point, and then another nine months in some friends' basement, while building a business plan that went on to be highly successful and lucrative for them.

In this video, in addition to some of the people above, we hear about the homelessness of one form or another of Ben Franklin, Col. Harlan Sanders (founded KFC), Sylvester Stallone, Kelly Clarkson, Tyler Perry, Jim Cramer, Shania Twain, Hilary Swank, William Shatner, Sam Worthington, Sean Parker, Jewel, Drew Carey, Cary Grant, Kurt Cobain, Suze Orman, and Heather Mills.

Well, you're thinking, those are just a handful of crazy actors and comedians, it's not like A LOT of prominent people were ever homeless at some point, right?  No.  Wrong.  Here's a list of 200 prominent people who made it through homelessness and went on to some serious level of success later on.  

You know what they say about judging a book by its cover...