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  2. List of deaf people - Wikipedia

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    Lawrence R. Newman, deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf; Michael Ndurumo, a deaf educator from Kenya, the third deaf person from Africa to be awarded a PhD; Marie Jean Philip, a teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language

  3. Dummy Taylor - Wikipedia

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    Taylor was the only successful deaf pitcher in Major League Baseball and was regarded, along with Dummy Hoy, as a role model and hero for hearing impaired Americans in the early 20th century. [2] In the 1900s, Taylor was reported to be the highest paid deaf person in the United States.

  4. List of deaf firsts - Wikipedia

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    Henry Winter Syle, American cleric, first deaf person to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States (1883). [12] [13] Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen, South African politician, first deaf female Member of Parliament in the world [14] Heather Whitestone, first deaf woman to win the title of Miss America [citation needed]

  5. Evelyn Glennie - Wikipedia

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    Glennie has been profoundly deaf since childhood, having started to lose her hearing at the age of 8. [11] This does not inhibit her ability to perform. She regularly plays barefoot during live performances and studio recordings to feel the music. [11] Glennie contends that deafness is largely misunderstood by the public.

  6. Laurent Clerc - Wikipedia

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    Louis Laurent Marie Clerc (French: [lɔʁɑ̃ klɛʁ]; 26 December 1785 – 18 July 1869) was a French teacher called "The Apostle of the Deaf in America" and was regarded as the most renowned deaf person in American Deaf History. He was taught by Abbé Sicard and deaf educator Jean Massieu, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets in Paris

  7. How L.A.'s Deaf West is becoming the American theater ... - AOL

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    He says successful collaboration between deaf and hearing actors grows the field for deaf artists, including deaf writers, producers and directors, as well as deaf crew members and staff behind ...

  8. Deaf history - Wikipedia

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    A deaf person called to the Torah who does not speak may recite the berakhot via sign language. A deaf person may serve as a shaliah tzibbur in sign language in a minyan whose medium of communication is sign language. [88] 2011: Mary Whittaker became the first deaf person to be ordained into the Church of Scotland. [89]

  9. Marlee Matlin sees Deaf culture flowing into the Hollywood ...

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    After "CODA" wins best picture and co-star Troy Kotsur scores his Oscar, Marlee Matlin has a message for Hollywood and the film academy.