Abbott, Jim-one armed baseball player
Abduhl, Paula-dancer/singer
Alexander the Great-epilepsy
Ali, Muhammed- Parkinson's Disease
Allen, Rick-Loss of arm (Def Leppard drummer
- still drums)
Alonso, Alicia-ballet dancer
Armstrong, Lance- Cancer
Anthony, Piers-author, dyslexic
Ashe, Arthur-AIDS
Avi-dysgraphia
Bader, Douglas-pilot and war hero
Barrymore- addiction
Barton, Clara- childhood illness
Beethoven - composer
Ben-Gurion
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Blatnick, Jeff-olympic gold medalist-Hodgkin's
lymphoma
Brady- James traumatic brain injury
Braille- Louis-blind
Brashear, Carl-Diver, Racism (Men of Honor
movie)
Bridgeman- Laura first deaf/blind person
to learn Braille/signing
Brown, ChristyAuthor- Spastic Quadriplegia
Buckley, Kathy- hearing impaired
Burke, Chris-actor
Buzk, Peter-severe car accident -came back
to NHL
Callahan, John -Cartoonist, Paraplegia
Campanella, Roy
Caesar, Julius-epileptic
Cannell, Stephen-author, screen writer;
dyslexia
Capriati, Jennifer-tennis player, stabbed
Carrey, Jim
Carson, Benjamin
Chamberlin, Judi -mental patients' activist
Charles, Ray-blind
Chavez, Cesar-Union Organizer; Racism, Poverty
Cher-dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADD
Chief Joseph
Churchill, Winston-kicked out of school
- "stupid"
Clapton, Eric-addicted to heroin, lost his
son
Clarke, Bobby-hockey, diabetes
Close, Chuck-learning disabled
Columbus
Cosby, Bill- comedian
Crockett
Cruise, Tom- dyslexia
Cunningham, Glenn- runner - burned
Cushing, Harvey-learning disabled
daVinci, Leonardo
Demosthenes-stuttered
Dickinson, Emily-poet
Disney, Walt
Dole, Bob - politician
Douglas, Frederick-escaped slavery; leader
of abolitionist movement
Duke, Patty
Earekson- Tada, Joni- Author, Quadriplegia
Earhardt
Edison, Thomas-learning disability
Einstein, Alber-kicked out of school - "stupid"
Eisenreich, Jim - baseball player, Tourette's
syndrome
Estefan, Gloria-Injury
Favre-football player, addiction and injuries
Ferguson, Sarah- public scrutiny and weight
Fox, Michael J. -Parkisons
Fox, Terry - lost half his leg to
cancer; ran to raise money
Frank, Ann
Galarraga, Andres -diagnosed with cancer;
baseball
Gehrig, Lou
Ghandi
Gibson, Althea
Gibson, Mel -severely beaten
Glover, Danny
Gold, Tracey-Actor, Anorexia Nervosa
Goldbergh, Whoopi-ADD
Gorbachev, Mikhael
Goya - hearing impaired
Grandin, Temple -Livestock Handling Equipment
Designer
Hamilton, Scott
Hanson, Rick- paralysed, wheeled around
world in wheelchair
Hawes, Hampton-jazz pianist, overcame addiction
Hawking, Stephen-ALS
Hemingway, Ernest-depression and alcohol
Henry, Patrick
Houdini
Hughes, Langston
Inouye, Daniel-amputation (WW II)
Jamieson, Kay psychiatrist/expert
on bipolar disorder - has bipolar
Jansen, Dan
Jefferson, Thomas-stutters
Jenner, Bruce-learning disabled
Johnson, Nicole-Miss America, diabetes
Magic Johnson didn't make h.s.
team in first year, father murdered
Jones, James Earl- stutters
Jordan, Michael-father murdered
Kahlo, Frida-artist
Kehret, Peg-autobiog of her polio
Keller, Helen-Blindness, Deafness
Kerrigan
Kersee, Jackie Joyner - asthma
King, Martin Luther
Kovic, Ron-paralysed
Latrec, Toulose -physically disabled
Lange, Dorothea -photographer
Lemieux, Mario - cancer
Lincoln
Lindbergh
Louganis, Lou-AIDS, learning disabled
Lovell
Lowe, Juliette-founder of Girl Scouts, hearing
impaired
Lunc, Eric-leukemia
Mankiller, Wilma
Mantle, Mickey-alcoholism
Matlin, Marlee- Actor, Deafness
Mandela, Nelson
Melendez, Tony - born without arms, plays
guitar with feet
Moore, Mary Tyler- actress, diabetes
Moses-brother Aaron had to speak for him
Moss, P. Buckley-author, dyslexic
Mother Teresa - Poverty
Nash, John Forbes Mathematician,Paranoid
Schizophrenia (Beautiful Mind)
Newley, Anthony-stutter
Nussbaum, Susan - actress, playwright
O'Conner, Flannery- lupus
O'Donnell, Rosie -mother died of breast
cancer; alcoholism
Orfalea, Paul-founder of Kinkos; reading/mechanical
difficulties
Owens, Jessie
Parks, Rosa
Pasteur, Louis- dyslexia and dysgraphia
Patton, George -learning disabled
Paulsen, Gary
Pelzer, Dave-severely abused
Peyton, Walter
Patricia Pollacco-overcame a severe learning
disability
Perlman, Itzhak - violinist, physically
disabled
Powell, John Wesley-lost arm in Civil War;
explorer, geologist
Pryor
Pulitzer, Joseph - vision, hearing problems
Reeve, Christopher-Quadriplegia
Robinson, Jackie
Rodin, August-learning disabled
Roebling, Washington -paralysis - designed
Brooklyn Bridge
Roosevelt, Franklin D-polio
Roosevelt, Teddy-asthma, poor vision
Rothenburg, David-burns
Rudolf, Wilma-Athlete, polio when child
Rubel, Angela-leukemia
Russell, Harold -actor, disability rights
activist
Sargent, Dave-author, dyslexic
Seles, Monica -Tennis player, stabbed
Sills, Beverley
Singer, Tom- actor, blind
Spielburg, Steven
Steimetz, Charles - physically disabled
Stevens, Thaddeus- congressman
Sullivan, Macy
Tada, Joni- paraplegic
Thomas, Dave -adopted, dropped out of h.s.,
got degree later
Thorpe, ,Jim
Tillis, Mel - country singer, stutters
Tubman, Harriet -head injury
Urick
VanDyke, Amy
Washington, George -unable to spell and
poor grammar
Weihenmeyer, Erik -Climbed Everest, Blindness
Whitestone, Heather- Miss America, deaf
Wiesel. Elie-Author, Racism
Williams, Montel- M.S.
Wilson, Woodrow- learning disability
Winfrey, Oprah -Racism, Poverty, dyslexia,
raped
Wonder, Stevie
Zaharias, Babe Didrickson -crippled
Thomas Edison-hearing impaired/learning disbaled
Julius Caesar-epileptic
Beethoven- deaf and "madness" from
lead poisoning
Cher-dyslexic
Ray Charles - visually impaired
Winston Churchill- learnning diabled
Louis Braille - visually impaired
Helen Keller- visually and hearing impaired
Toulose Latrec- physically disabled
Nelson Rockerfeller - learning disabled
Marlee Martin- hearing impaired
Charles Steimetz- physically diabled
Juliette Lowe- hearing impaired
George Patton- learning disabled
Bruce Jenner- Learning disabled
Harriet Tubman- physically disabled
August Rodin- learning disabled
Milton- visually disabled
Harvey Cushing- learning disbaled
Susan Hampshire- learning disbaled
Goya- hearing impaired
Christy Brown- Cebebral Palsy
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