Actors and Actresses
j. Sandy Duncan - Vision disability
i. Lou Ferrigno - Hearing disability
h. Annette Funicello - Multiple sclerosis
d. Katherine Hepburn - Parkinson's disease
g. Mary Tyler Moore - Diabetes, alcohol
b. Patricia Neal - Stroke
e. Richard Pryor - Multiple sclerosis
c. Sammy Davis, Jr. - Vision disability, cancer
f. Danny Glover - Epilepsy
a. Marlee Matlin - Deaf
Athletes
e. Arthur Ashe - AIDS
g. Jim Abbot - Has only one hand
f. Dennis Byrd - Spinal cord injury
h. Lou Gehrig - ALS
a. Bruce Jenner - Learning disability
c. 'Magic' Johnson - HIV+
b. Wilma Rudolph - Post polio syndrome
d. Greg Louganis - Learning disability and AIDS
Musicians
g. Ludwig von Beethoven - Deaf
d. Ray Charles - Blind
c. Ronnie Milsap - Blind
h. Teddy Pendergrass - Quadriplegia
f. Itzaac Perlman - Paraplegia
e. Stevie Wonder - Blind
b. Mal Tillis - Stutter
a. Jose Feliciano - Blind
Politicians and Leaders
g. Alexander the Great - Epilepsy
h. Julius Caesar - Epilepsy
e. Winston Churchill - Learning disability
i. James Brady - Traumatic brain injury
a. Daniel Inouye - Amputation (WWII)
b. Ronald Reagan - Hearing disability and Alzheimer's
f. Frankin D. Roosevelt - Polio
d. Teddy Roosevelt - Asthma, vision disability
j. Bob Dole - Injury to arm (WWII)
c. Woodrow Wilson - Learning disability
Other
Famous People
j. Thomas Edison - Hearing disability
f. Albert Einstein - Dyslexia
k. Steven Hawking - ALS
h. Harriet Tubman - Traumatic brain injury, narcolepsy
g. Francisco Goya - Deaf
i. Edgar Allen Poe - Alcohol addiction
e. H.G. Wells - Epilepsy
a. Louis Braille - Blind
b. Sigmund Freud - Cancer
d. John Milton - Blind
c. Helen Keller - Blind and deaf
Do you know of
other famous people who have disabilities?
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