I. ACTORS/WRITERS

Halle Barrym
(1968 - ) actress The Flintstones: The Movie/model, diabetes

Cher
(1946 - ) actress won Oscar in 1986 for Moonstruck/singer sold over four million copies of her album 'Heart of Stone,' dyslexia

Pascal Duquenne
(1971 - ) actor co-winner of Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival for The Eighth Day, Down syndrome

Lou Ferrigno
(1952 - ) actor The Incredible Hulk, hearing and speech impairment

Danny Glover
(1947 - ) actor Lethal Weapon, dyslexia/epilepsy until age 30

Homer
(circa 750 B.C.) ancient Greek writer of The llliad and The Odyssey, blind

James Earl Jones
(1931 - ) actor - voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars, speech impairment/stuttering


II. MUSICAL/RHYTHMIC

Rick Alien
(1963 - ) drummer for Def Leppard, lost an arm in an accident

Buddy Bolden
(1877 - 1931) jazz patriarch, mental illness

Ray Charles
(1930 - ) pianist/composer, blind/mental illness

Martha Curtis
(1956 - ) violinist, epilepsy

Evelyn Glennie
(1965 -) percussionist, deaf

ltzhak Periman
(1945 - ) violinist, post-polio

Johnnie Ray
(1927 - 1990) singer, deaf

Mel Tillis (1932 - ) country singer, speech impairment

III. POLITICS I BUSINESS

Tony Coelho
(1942 - Congressman/Chairman of the President's Committee on the Employment of People with Disabilities, epilepsy

Judy Heumann
(1947 - Assistant Secretary of Department of Education, post-polio

Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865) 16th U.S. President, mental illness


IV. SOCIAL/EDUCATION

Albert Einstein
(1880 - 1952) inventor/scientific theorist/teacher, learning disabilities

Temple Grandin
(1947 - ) Colorado University professor/Ph.D./author, autism

Marilyn Hamilton
(1949 - ) inventor/co-founder of Motion Designs Inc., paraplegia

Roger W. Wilkins
(1935 - ) scholar/head of Pulitzer Prize Board, learning disabilities

V. SPORTS

Michelle Akers
(1966 - ) forward on the U.S. Women's World Cup '99 championship soccer team/1996 Olympic Gold Medalist, chronic fatigue syndrome

Muhammad Ali
(1942 - ) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Parkinson's disease

Magic Johnson
(1959 - ) basketball star/Olympic Gold Medalist, learning disabilities/HIV

VI. VISUAL ARTISTS

Margaret Bourke-White
(1904 - 1971) American photojournalist, Parkinson's disease

Dale Chihuly
(1941 - ) American glass sculptor, blindness in one eye

Francisco Goya
(1746 - 1826) Spanish master painter, deaf

Elizabeth Layton
(1909 - 1993) American contemporary artist, manic depression

Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1954) French Modern painter, chronic bronchitis/visual impairment

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926) French Impressionist, temporary blindness from cataracts

Faith Ringgold
(1930 - ) African-American muralist/painter/quilter, asthma

David Saltzman
(1967 - 1990) American cartoonist and author of The Jester Has Lost His Jin_qie, Hodgkin's disease (a cancer of the lymphatic system)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(1864 - 1901) French graphic artist and painter, short stature

Leonardo da Vinci
(1452 - 1519) Italian Renaissance painter of "The Mona Lisa,' dyslexia