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 (1^st 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