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Question for Katie & Steve
Are there many famous
people with disabilities?
FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES
Ludwig von Beethoven (composer)—Deaf
Alexander Graham Bell
(invented telephone)—learning disability
Sarah Bernhardt (actress)—amputee
Napolean Bonaparte (French
ruler)—epilepsy
Chris Burke (actor)—Down’s
Syndrome
Julius Caesar (Roman
emperor)—epilepsy
Truman Capote (writer)—depression
Lewis Carroll (writer)—stutter
Ray Charles (musician)—visually
impaired
Vic Chesnutt (musician)—spinal
cord injury
Winston Churchill (British
Prime Minister)—learning disability
Max Cleland (U.S.
Senator-GA)—triple amputee
Tom Cruise (actor)—learning
disability
John Denver (musician)—depression
Charles Dickens (writer)—epilepsy
Walt Disney (cartoonist)—learning
disability
Jean Driscoll (U.S.
Olympian)—spina bifida
Thomas Edison (inventor)—learning
disability
Albert Einstein (physicist)—learning
disability
Annette Funicello (actress)—multiple
sclerosis
Judy Garland (actor/singer)—depression
Whoopi Goldberg (actress)—learning
disability
Goya (Spanish painter)—Deaf
Chuck Graham (MO State
Representative)—spinal cord injury
Stephen Hawking (physicist)—Lou
Gehrig’s Disease
Helen Keller
(teacher/activist)—visually impaired & Deaf
Marlee Matlin (actress)—Deaf
John Mellencamp (musician)—spina
bifida
Burgess Meredith (actor)—manic
depression
Patricia Neal (actress)—stroke
survivor
George Patton (US General)—learning
disability
Teddy Pendergrass
(musician)—spinal cord injury
Itzak Perlman (violinist)—polio
Richard Pryor (comedian)—multiple
sclerosis
Christopher Reeve (actor)—spinal
cord injury
Franklin D. Roosevelt (US
President)—polio
Carly Simon
(singer/songwriter)—stutter
Harriett Tubman
(abolitionist)—narcolepsy
Vincent Van Gogh (artist)—depression
George Washington (1st US President)—learning disability
Victoria Williams
(musician)—multiple sclerosis
Bruce Willis (actor)—stutter
Bill Wilson (founder
Alcoholics Anonymous)—recovered alcoholic
Woodrow Wilson (US
President)—learning disability
Stevie Wonder (musician)—visually
impaired
