Heather Whitestone-McCullum – Marla Runyan – Olympic Track Miss America 1995 Athlete (1969 - ) (1973 - ) She has competed in Para-Olympic She has been deaf since she was an track and field events. In 2000, infant. She became the first person she became the first legally blind with a disability to be crowned Miss athlete to qualify for and compete America. in the Olympics.

Danny Glover – Actor Hans Christian Anderson – Writer (1947 - ) (1805 – 1875)

He has stared in many movies He wrote children’s fairy tales. He including the “Lethal Weapon” films. had a learning disability. He has epilepsy.

Ludwig von Beethoven – Music Composer Cher – Singer and Actress (1770 – 1827) (1946 - )

She has a learning disability in math. Famous classical music composer. She is famous for her singing and He had a hearing impairment. acting career including staring in the movies “Mask,” “Moonstruck,” and “The Witches of Eastwick.”

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Agatha Christie – Writer (1890 – 1976)

Walt Disney – Cartoonist She was a famous and prolific (1901 - 1966) writer of mystery stories and novels. Her learning disability He was a cartoonist and the founder prevented her from being able to of the Disney Theme Parks. He had write fluently so she dictated all a learning disability. her books to a secretary/transcriptionist.

Whoopi Goldberg – Actress and Marlee Matlin – Actress Comedian (1965 - ) (1949 - ) She won the 1986 Academy Award She won the 1990 Oscar for best for best actress for her role in the supporting actress for her role in movie “Children of a Lesser God.” the movie “The Color Purple.” She She is deaf. has a learning disability.

Lucille Ball – Actress Christy Brown – Writer (1911 – 1989) (1932 – 1981)

She is famous for her television He was an Irish novelist and poet show “I Love Lucy.” As a young who had cerebral palsy. His woman, she had rheumatoid autobiography was made into the arthritis and was unable to walk for movie “My Left Foot.” two years.

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Itzak Perlman – Violinist Richard Pryor – Actor, Director (1945 - ) and Comedian (1940 - ) Internationally famous violinist. Uses leg braces and crutches to Famous for stand-up comedy and walk since he had polio at the age of staring in many movies. He has four. mobility and speech impairments caused by Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Auguste Renoir – Artist Georgia O’Keefe – Artist (1841 – 1919) (1887 – 1986) Famous French Impressionist Her flower paintings are well known. painter and sculptor who had She started sculpting later in life rheumatoid arthritis. He painted by when she began losing her eyesight. using brushes tied to his hands. He started sculpting when he could no longer paint.

James Earl Jones – Actor Wilma Rudolph – Track and Field (1931 - ) Sprinter (1940 – 1995) He had a speech impairment (stuttering) as a child and young At the age of four, she was partially adult. He is famous for acting in paralyzed from polio. She went on many movies including “Field of to become the first American Dreams.” He was the voice of Darth woman to win three gold medals in Vader in the original “Star Wars” one Olympic game. movies.

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Frida Kahlo - Artist (1907-1954)

Greg Louganis – Olympic Gold Frida Kahlo is known for her unusual, Medal Diver and colorful paintings. She had (1960 - ) physical pain most of her life from childhood polio and a bus accident He has dyslexia. As a child he had a when she was eighteen. Kahlo was speech impairment (stuttering) and also active in Mexican political asthma. As an adult, he contracted causes which led to her joining the HIV. Communist Party.

Dorothea Lange - Photographer Casey Martin – PGA Golfer (1895-1965) (1972 - ) She had polio as a child. She said of He attended Stanford University on her disability - "I think it was a golf scholarship where he was perhaps the most important thing roommates with Tiger Woods. His that happened to me. If formed me, disability causes pain and circulation guided me, instructed me, helped problems in his right leg so he uses me, humiliated me, all those things a golf cart instead of walking a golf at once. I've never gotten over it, course. In 2001, he won a lawsuit and I am aware of the force and against the PGA Tour where it was power of it." Her photos focused on decided that using a golf cart was a disenfranchised people. reasonable job accommodation.

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