List of blind people
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The following is a list of notable blind people.
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[edit] Activists and organizers of the blind
- Tilly Aston - Founded the Victorian Association of Braille Writers.[1]
- Louis Braille - Known for Braille.[2]
- Kenneth Jernigan - Long-time leader of the National Federation of the Blind.[3]
- Sabriye Tenberken - Braille Without Borders co-founder.[4]
[edit] Adventurers
- Miles Hilton-Barber - British traveler and climber.[5]
- James Holman - British man known as the "Blind Traveler."[6]
- Erik Weihenmayer - First blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.[7]
[edit] Artists
[edit] Acting and performing
- Dana Elcar - Played Peter Thornton (MacGyver). He lost his vision during this time and it was written into the character's story.[8]
- S. Robert Morgan - A small role in The Wire.[9]
[edit] Music
- The Blind Boys of Alabama - Gospel group.[10]
- Andrea Bocelli - Operatic pop singer.[11]
- Henry Caldera - Sri Lankan singer/songwriter, blind since age 14.[12]
- Turlough Carolan - Harper and composer blinded by smallpox.[13]
- Ray Charles - Pianist and singer inducted to varied halls of fame.[14]
- Fanny Crosby - Christian hymn writer.[15]
- José Feliciano - Grammy Award-winner.[16]
- Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - The original line-up of this gospel group was blind, some later members were not.[17]
- Blind Boy Fuller - Blues guitarist and vocalist.[18]
- Ed Haley - Appalachian old-time fiddler.[19]
- Jeff Healey - Blues-rock guitarist and vocalist.[20]
- Blind Willie Johnson - Slide guitarist who's been termed "influential" and "the apogee" for the instrument.[21]
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Jazz multi-instrumentalist.[22]
- Francesco Landini - Fourteenth century Italian composer and organist.[23]
- Blind Willie McTell - Blues guitarist.[24]
- Raul Midón - Singer-songwriter.[25]
- Ronnie Milsap - Country and pop singer.[26]
- Moondog - Outsider musician born "Louis Thomas Hardin."[27]
- Joaquín Rodrigo - Spanish composer and pianist.[28]
- Diane Schuur - Grammy winning jazz singer.[29]
- George Shearing - British jazz pianist.[30]
- Art Tatum - Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, partial sight in one eye.[31]
- Lennie Tristano - Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, critics choice.[32]
- Ostap Veresai - Noted kobzar.[33]
- Doc Watson - Guitarist in several genres.[34]
- Stevie Wonder - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.[35]
[edit] Visual arts
- Esref Armagan - Turkish painter.[36]
[edit] Writers
- Jorge Luis Borges - Argentine writer blind in later part of his career.[37]
- Didymus the Blind - Ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria.[38]
- Ed Lucas - Sports writer.[39]
- John Milton - Poet who was blind for the last 22 years of life.[40]
[edit] Athletes and Sportspersons
- Anthony Clarke (athlete) - World class Judoka.[41]
- Henry Wanyoike - Long-distance runner with 95% vision loss.[42]
[edit] Mathematicians and scientists
- Bernard Morin - A topologist from France.[43]
- Abraham Nemeth - Developed Nemeth Braille for blind students in science and math.[44]
- Joseph Plateau - Physicist who went blind at forty-two when he gazed too long at the sun. After his blindness his scientific work diminished, but did not entirely end.[45]
[edit] Politicians
- David Blunkett - Labour Party (UK) politician, former cabinet minister, and Member of Parliament.[46]
- Kristen Cox - Cabinet secretary in Utah and Maryland.[47]
- Matthew A. Dunn - Member of the United States House of Representatives.[48]
- Henry Fawcett - Member of Parliament and Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.[49]
- Thomas Gore - US Senator.[50]
- David Paterson - Governor of New York.[51]
- Bob C. Riley - An acting governor of Arkansas.[52]
[edit] References
- ^ Australian Women Biographical Entry
- ^ Louis Braille Biography - American Foundation for the Blind
- ^ Jernigan Institute
- ^ Time Europe
- ^ BBC
- ^ NPR
- ^ Time Magazine
- ^ Macgyver Online
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ 60 Minutes II
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Daily Mirror
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- ^ The New York Institute for Special Education page on Fanny Crosby
- ^ [1]
- ^ Vocal Group Hall of Fame
- ^ UNC Asheville
- ^ Old-Time Fiddlers Hall of Fame
- ^ CTV
- ^ "Blind Willie Johnson: The Soul of a Man" in All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music
- ^ New York Daily News
- ^ Medieval.org
- ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia
- ^ BBC
- ^ http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SAEC&p_theme=saec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFE7FD9AEA7EA1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM San Antonio Express-News]
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ Obituary in the New York Times
- ^ Jazz Review
- ^ All About Jazz
- ^ Duke University
- ^ Jazz: The First 100 Years By Waters, Henry Martin, Martin, Keith Waters
- ^ Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet ... By Serhy Yekelchyk
- ^ USA Today
- ^ The Madison Times
- ^ New Scientist
- ^ The Modern Word
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ Christ's College, Cambridge
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- ^ BBC
- ^ American Mathematical Society
- ^ National Federation of the Blind
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia
- ^ The Guardian
- ^ Deseret News
- ^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ^ University of Glasgow,Biography of Henry Fawcett.
- ^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- ^ The New York Times blog
- ^ The New York Times blog
