1. Sanzan Tani (1802-1867)
Deaf-blindness (DB)
Sanzan Tani is a Japanese Teacher who became deaf at the age of 8 and later acquired blindness in his adulthood. He is a Confucian Scholar and was awarded by Japan's government a prestigious teaching position for his brilliance. When Tani was young, he could not afford to hire a hearing teacher; nonetheless, he read voraciously and educated himself about Japanese history before losing his visions. He devoted most of his time to reading the great books and surpassed ordinary people's knowledge. Even after he became blind, he continued to teach and communicate with his students through touch and writing in his palm in his private school.
Source: http://www.deafblindinfo.org/people/
2. Jerry Traylor (1954-2018)
Developmental Delay (DD)
Jerry Keith Traylor, born on July 14, 1954, with cerebral palsy, was a mountain climber, motivational speaker, and author who inspired countless individuals. He never let disability define him. Jerry conquered his disability, climbing Pikes Peak, running coast-to-coast across the United States, and 3,526-mile marathons. He had also participated three times in the ascent portion of the Pike's Peak Marathon, summiting the 14,115-foot peak. His book, LiveCAREfully: The Importance of Caring in a Life of Significance, was first published in 2005 and reprinted several times. With all his successes, Jerry placed little focus on his physical achievements. His job was to give support and to lift others' spirits. Whether a fellow hospital patient or a homeless individual sharing a park bench, he regarded his greatest success as validating others.
Source: https://www.disabled-world.com/disability/awareness/famous/cp-known.php
https://rotary5630.org/jerry-traylor-1954-2018/
3. Marlee Matlin
Deafness
Marlee Beth Matlin, born August 24, 1965, is an American actress, author, activist, and a Former Member of the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service. In 1897, She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Children of a Lesser God and was the only deaf performer to have won an Academy Award. When she was 18 months old, she was diagnosed with deafness, which completely deaf in her right ear and 80 percent of the hearing in her left ear, but she still chooses to pursue acting and becomes highly successful. In her career, she produced four books, namely, I'll Scream Later, Deaf Child Crossing, Nobody's perfect, and Leading Ladies, which all have a deaf protagonist and went on to star in several other film and television movies. Her perseverance is an inspiration to many.
Source: https://deafunity.org/article_interview/8-famous-deaf-people-who-changed-the-world/
4. Leonardo DiCaprio
Emotional and Behavioral Disorder (EBD)
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is an American actor, producer, and environmentalist born on November 11, 1974. He is well known for his role in the epic romance Titanic (1997). Leonardo has won 99 awards throughout his acting career, including one Oscar and three Golden Globes, and 248 nominations. All of his films have amounted to US$7.2 billion globally, and he has rated eight times the world's highest-paid actors annually. In one of his interviews, he admitted that he suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD), ranging from mild to moderate. He had to force himself not to step on every chewing gum stain while walking along and stop the urge to walk through a doorway several times. This behavior associates him with the character, Howard Hughes, who he played in 2004 titled "The Aviator," a billionaire filmmaker turned pilot who also struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Leonardo inspires many with his works and how he deals with his mental illness.
Source: https://healthcare.utah.edu/healthfeed/postings/2017/04/celebs-mental.php
5. Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
Hearing Impairment (HI)
Thomas Alva Edison, born on February 11, 1847, was an American inventor and businessman. He was named America's greatest inventor of all time. Most of his works are widely used in today's time. He developed many devices in electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. His inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb. At age 12, Edison developed his hearing problems were believed to be caused by scarlet fever and recurring untreated middle-ear infections during childhood. He is completely deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other. Edison believed that his hearing loss benefited his work and allowed him to avoid distraction and focus more easily on his work as he got older.
Source:https://deafunity.org/article_interview/8-famous-deaf-people-who-changed-the-world/
6. Chris Burke
Mental Retardation/Intellectual Disability (ID)
Christopher Joseph "Chris" Burke, born August 26, 1965, is an American Down syndrome advocate. He was a former actor, folk singer, and best known for his character Charles "Corky" Thatcher on the television series Life Goes On in the ABC TV movie. He is the first American Actor with Down syndrome and has struggled with mental retardation. He received an award in Ten Outstanding Young Americans and was nominated two times for Golden Globe Award. In 1981, Chris Burke became the Goodwill Ambassador of the American Down Syndrome Society (NDSS). He said that his condition has never made him fall. Instead, it always made him up, and he often refers to it as "Up Syndrome." Chris is an excellent role model, embodying success, and good self-esteem.
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/10/03/the-new-life-of-chris-burke/3d70506a-a448-4cdd-a41a-2fd9bce92fad/
7. Robin Williams (1951-2014)
Multiple Disabilities (MD)
Robin McLaurin Williams, born on July 21, 1951, was an American comedian and actor. He was known for his improvisational style as a stand-up comedian, for his performances in movies like "Dead Poets Society" and "Good Will Hunting," a film that earned him an Academy Award best-supporting actor. Williams is often considered one of the greatest comedians of all time. In May 2014, Robin Williams was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He had Lewy body dementia, or LBD, a little-known brain disease that damages brain cells over time, leading to memory loss, delusions, hallucinations, Parkinson's symptoms, ADHD, Asperger's, Bipolar Disorder, and other health problems. In William's case, it wasn't until after his death that his family found out he had the disease. Williams died in California at the age of 63. His on-stage energy and improvisational talents became a blueprint for a new generation of stand-up comedians.
Source: https://blog.ongig.com/diversity-and-inclusion/famous-people-with-disabilities/
8. Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
Orthopedic Impairment
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, born on July 6, 1907, was a Mexican painter and considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting after severely injured in a bus accident. She is known for her many self-portraits that deal with such themes as identity, the human body, and death. She achieved great international popularity because of her vivid and vibrant color style influenced by Mexico's indigenous cultures and European influences, including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. As a child, she suffered a bout of polio that left her with a slight limp, a chronic ailment she would often hide by wearing long skirts and endure throughout her life. It has also been conjectured that she also had spina bifida that would have affected both spinal and leg development. In 1925 Kahlo was involved in a catastrophic bus accident, which seriously injured her, and suffered a broken spinal cord, pelvis, collar bones, right leg, crushed right foot, and abdomen. She had to undergo 38 medical operations in her lifetime. Her notable works include "Frieda and Diego Rivera," "My Birth," and "Henry Ford Hospital." In 1954, she exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death. She is considered a hero because she often-overlooked society's expectations. She presented herself in her own way and avoided her pain from acting as a weakness by using it as a weapon.
Source: https://orthopedicimpairments.weebly.com/for-students.html
9. Adam Levine
Other Health Impairments (OHI)
Adam Noah Levine is an American lead singer-songwriter, record producer of the famous pop-rock band Maroon 5. Their band had Won a variety of awards and nominations, including three Grammy Awards out of 10 nominations; 8 awards out of 40 nominations for the Billboard Music Awards; three American Music Awards; three People's Choice Awards; and an MTV Video Music Awards. When he was younger, he struggled with what seemed normal to other kids, like sitting still, completing work, focusing. His parents helped him to find therapy, but his concentration issues continued into adulthood. His doctor stated that ADHD hadn't gone away as he'd grown up. He also, in fact, struggles with it every day. "ADHD is not a bad thing," he wrote, "you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD. Remember that you are not alone; others are going through the same thing."
Source: https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/celebrities#5.-Adam-Levine
10. Tom Cruise
Specific Learning Disability (SLD)
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, born July 3, 1962, is an American actor, producer, and one of the world's most paid actors with a net value of $570 million as of 2020. He is the star of several box-offices hits, including 'Risky Business,' 'A Few Good Men,' 'The Firm,' 'Jerry Maguire' and the 'Mission: Impossible' franchise. He has won many awards for his work, including three Golden Globe Awards and three Academy Awards nominations. With his excellent acting skills, no one would suspects Cruise struggles with reading. At age seven,
Cruised was diagnosed with dyslexia. Despite this early diagnosis, he reports having had a rough childhood and spent his childhood trying to hide his dyslexia from his peers. He describes his younger self as "functionally illiterate." He could barely read in high school or through his earliest roles. He got his first major acting role at the age of 19 and began to embrace his acting passion. Cruise knew that his failure to read would hold him back if he didn't work hard at it. He eventually adopted L. The "Study Technology" studying system of Ron Hubbard helped him improve his reading and study habits. Cruise refused to let his dyslexia stand in the way of his acting career.
Source: https://www.topcounselingschools.org/rankings-30-celebrities-you-didnt-know-have-learning-disabilities/
11. Marylin Monroe
Speech and Learning Impairments (SLI)
Norma Jeane Mortenson (real name), born June 1, 1926, was an American actress, model, and singer. She rose to fame for playing comedic "blonde bombshell" characters. She became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s—the emblematic of the era's changing attitudes towards sexuality. Her films grossed more than $200 million. During her childhood, she endured many serious traumatic events that cause her stuttering. Accordingly, even after she reached high school, she continued to stutter. Still, with diligent work and persistence, she was finally able to resolve it so that no people realized she had a problem at all. During one of her interviews, she mentioned how her stutter would still surface when she became nervous or flustered.
Source: https://www.speechpathologygraduateprograms.org/2017/11/6-famous-people-you-never-knew-had-a-speech-disorder/
12. Roald Dahl (1916-1990)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Roald Dahl was a British novelist, short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and wartime fighter pilot born on September 13, 1916. His books in Fantasy, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Danny, the Champion of the World, George's Marvellous Medicine, The BFG, The Witches, and Matilda have sold more than 250 million copies worldwide. He rose to fame as a writer in the 1940s with works for children and adults and became one of the world's best-selling authors. He was referred to as one of the greatest storytellers for children of the 20th century. In 1940, the author crashed his plane in the desert in Libya and suffered brain injuries. His frontal lobe damage explains his cantankerous reputation and occasional outbursts. He mostly tells his friends that his creativity began after a "big bang on the head," but most people assumed he was fanciful. Solomon, his doctor, argued that only after his brain injury and a change of attitude that his prominent darker side came to the fore. His confidence grew and his sense of shame reduced. Although many of Roald Dahl's books cater to children, there is latent dark humor that did not appear until his brain injury. In 2008, The Times placed Dahl 16th on its list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".
Source: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/roald-dahls-brain-damage-influenced-his-writing-doctor/news-story/15e6b8632692951422bcbcd320190b12
13. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Visual Impairments including Blindness (VI)
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, born on February 15, 1564, was an Italian astronomer, a natural philosopher, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and the development of the scientific method. Sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. He is the father of observational astronomy, modern physics, the scientific method, and modern science. He is most known for discovering the four most massive moons of Jupiter and invented the telescope and an early thermometer type. At the age of 74, he became completely blind from a combination of cataracts and glaucoma. Before this happened, he revealed that his left eye had always had less than perfect vision. Studies of his literary works, handwriting, and the portraits' originals made during his life suggest that this was undoubtedly the case. Galilei had made significant contributions in the study of physical sciences.
Source: https://www.ophthalmologytimes.com/view/did-you-know-these-20-celebrities-have-impaired-vision
14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Mental Giftedness and Talentedness (MG)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, born on January 27, 1756, was the child prodigy par excellence. At four years old, he plays songs on the harpsichord and composing simple music at five. He is a prolific and influential composer of the classical era. He has written over 600 compositions, many of which are recognized as symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic, and choral pinnacles. He is regarded as one of the greatest classical composers of all time, and his influence is profound on Western music.
Source: https://www.britannica.com/list/7-famous-child-prodigies
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