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Helen Keller – American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and communist activist. [6] Juan Carlos González Leiva – Cuban lawyer, who founded the Fraternity of the Independent Blind of Cuba and the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights. [7] He has been harassed, imprisoned and tortured by the communist regime.
Legally blind because of the severity of colorblindness. [31] Graham Kennedy: 1934–2005 Australia: Entertainer [32] Brian Kibler: b. 1980 United States: Game designer Publicly stated on his Twitter account. [33] Kim Sang-jin: red–green South Korea: Animator Was barred from art school, so studied economics; animated for Disney for 20 years ...
The Blind is an epithet for: Béla II of Hungary (c. 1110–1141), King of Hungary and Croatia; Rudolf II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1306–1353) Bogdan III the One-Eyed (1479–1517), also known as the Blind, Voivode of Moldavia; Didymus the Blind (c. 313–398), Coptic Church theologian; Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg (c. 1112–1196), also ...
العربية; Արեւմտահայերէն; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца)
James Holman FRS (15 October 1786 – 29 July 1857), known as the "Blind Traveller," was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels. Completely blind and experiencing pain and limited mobility, he undertook a series of solo journeys that were unprecedented both in their extent of ...
Erik Weihenmayer (born September 23, 1968) is an American athlete, adventurer, author, activist and motivational speaker. He was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001.
Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide.
Jacob W. Bolotin (January 3, 1888 – April 1, 1924) was the world's first totally blind physician.. Born in 1888 to a poor immigrant family in Chicago, United States, Bolotin fought prejudice and misconceptions about the capabilities of blind people in order to win acceptance to medical school and then into the medical profession.