Famous People with Special Needs

The following people did not let their disability stop them in achieving their dreams.
Ludwig Van Beethoven โ musician, (deaf)
Ray Charles โ musician, composer, singer (blind)
Cher โ singer, actress (LD)
Tom Cruise โ actor (LD)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec โ artist (physically challenged)
Walt Disney โ animator, cartoonist, created Disneyland
(labeled โslowโ)
Thomas Edison โ inventor, industrialist (LD)
Albert Einstein โ scientist (LD)
Jim Eisenreich โ baseball althlete (Tourette syndrome)
Whoopi Goldberg โ actress, comedian (LD)
James Earl Jones โ actor (stutter from age of 6 to 14)
John Lennon โ singer, musician, songwriter with Beatles (LD)
Marlee Matlin โ actress (deaf)
Isaac Newton โ scientist (mentally ill)
Itzhak Perlman โ concert violinist (paralyzed from waist down)
Richard Pryor โ actor, comedian (multiple sclerosis)
Theodore Roosevelt โ 26th U.S. President
(asthma, partially sighted)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt โ 32nd U.S. President,
(had polio at age 39, paralyzed)
Vincent Van Gogh โ artist (mentally ill)
Stevie Wonder โ musician (blind)
LD โ learning differences or disability
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