If it makes you feel any better, even Presidents, Nobel Prize winners and Donald Trump have had their own share of bankruptcy and financial difficulties. There is no aloneness in this ‘broke’ corner. Maybe the only thing that is different is the levels of ‘financial difficulties’. Your bad could be my best. Check out this list we came across of famous bankrupts. In it are 3 US Presidents, big car manufacturer’s founders, and even the man who gave us electricity. Brokenness is just a...thing! It happens.

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

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