List of deaf people
This is an incomplete list of notable deaf people.
Important deaf figures in deaf history
- Ferdinand Berthier, French intellectual, published several articles, first deaf person to receive the French Legion of Honour, founder of world's first deaf organization
- Julia Brace (1807–1884), early American deaf-blind student at the Hartford School for the Deaf
- Laura Bridgman, (1829–1889), American, first deaf-blind student of Dr. Samuel Howe at the Perkins School for the Blind
- Teresa de Cartagena, Spanish conversa nun and mystic author of the 15th century who became deaf in later life. The first mystic author in Spanish.
- Laurent Clerc (1785–1869), student and teacher (1798–1816) at the Paris deaf school of the Abbé de l'Épée; accompanied Thomas Gallaudet to America to teach deaf children. Co-founded the first deaf school in North America in 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut.
- Alice Cogswell, first deaf student at American School for the Deaf
- Pierre Desloges (1742–?), French deaf writer and bookbinder, first known deaf person to publish a book
- Phyllis Frelich, American actress, Best Actress in a Broadway play: Children of a Lesser God 1980
- Andrew Foster, (1925–1987), American educator, first Black deaf person to earn a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet College, Christian missionary to Africa
- William Elsworth "Dummy" Hoy (1862–1961), American baseball player
- Casar Jacobson, Norwegian-Canadian first ever deaf winner of Miss Canada (2013), a disability rights activist and the UN Woman Youth Champion.
- I. King Jordan, first deaf president (eighth overall) of Gallaudet University
- Helen Keller, American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and actress
Notable deaf people
- Dimitra Arapoglou, deaf member of Greek parliament, from 2007 to 2009
- Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, banker
- Sean Berdy, actor and comedian
- Linda Bove, actress, known particularly for the role of Linda the Librarian on the children's television program Sesame Street
- Bob Hiltermann, actor, writer, director, and musician
- Deanne Bray, actress who played the lead role on Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
- Earnest Elmo Calkins, deaf American advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising
- Tamika Catchings, basketball player
- Punk Chef, celebrity deaf chef from the UK
- Michael Chorost, writer
- Willy Conley, playwright, actor, photographer
- Robert R. Davila, ninth president of Gallaudet University
- Nyle DiMarco, season 22 Dancing with the Stars champion and 2015 winner of America's Next Top Model
- Thomas Edison, American inventor
- Aryana Engineer, actress
- Ashley Fiolek, 4-time Women's Motocross Champion
- John Goodricke, (1764–1786), English astronomer
- Claudia L. Gordon, lawyer
- Matt Hamill, MMA fighter
- Russell Harvard, actor
- Emilio Insolera, Italian actor and director of Sign Gene
- Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
- Regina Olson Hughes, American Illustrator
- T. Alan Hurwitz, tenth president of Gallaudet University and former Vice President of National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- Liisa Kauppinen (born 1939), Finnish human rights activist, former president of the World Federation of the Deaf
- I. King Jordan, the first deaf president of Gallaudet University and its eighth since its founding
- Alan Kilby, United Kingdom professional wrestler
- Jim Kyte (b. 1964), first, and to date the only deaf person to play in the National Hockey League
- Ryan Lane, actor and model
- Geraldine Lawhorn, musician, actress, instructor and first deaf-blind African-American person to earn a college degree
- Gabriella Leon, English actress
- Rush Limbaugh, American conservative radio talk show host
- Mojo Mathers (b. 1966), New Zealand politician
- Marlee Matlin, only deaf person to win an Academy Award (Best Actress) for her role in Children of a Lesser God
- Caleb McDuff racing driver
- Dorothy Miles, deaf poet and activist
- Lawrence R. Newman, deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf
- Michael Ndurumo, deaf educator from Kenya, third deaf person from Africa to obtain a PhD
- Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American comedic actor
- Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly (b. 1880), deaf blind black lawyer, Yale alumnus
- Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw (b. 1912), British mathematician and politician
- Kitty O'Neil, stuntwoman, high-speed racer
- Andrew Phillips, lawyer
- Marie Jean Philip, teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language
- Eugen Relgis, Romanian humanist writer and political activist
- Terrylene Sacchetti, actress
- Howie Seago, actor and director
- The Silent Warrior, American professional wrestler and founder of the Deaf Wrestling Alliance
- Millicent Simmonds, deaf actress
- Laurene E Simms, educator, diversity educator and professor
- Laura C. Redden Searing,(1893–1923), Civil war journalist, biographer and poet
- Elizabeth Steel, earliest record of a deaf person in Australia
- Louise Stern, writer and artist
- Shoshannah Stern, actress in Jericho and Weeds
- Ted Supalla, researcher and professor
- Sue Thomas, first deaf person to work as an undercover investigator doing lip-reading of suspects for the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő (b. 1937), Hungarian foil fencer, Olympic champion and world champion
- Umesh Valjee, deaf cricketer who won the Disability cricket of the Year for England in 2011. Captain of the England national deaf cricket team
- Clayton Valli, deaf linguist and ASL poet
- George Veditz, former president of the National Association of the Deaf, and one of the first people to film sign language
- Alexandria Wailes, deaf actress, dancer, and educator
- Heather Whitestone, first deaf woman to win the title of Miss America
- Nellie Zabel Willhite, pilot
- David Wright, South African-born British poet
- Heidi Zimmer, American mountaineer
- Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player, first deaf person to play in the Euroleague
- Annie Jump Cannon, Female Harvard astronomer recognized for her work in stellar classification
Notable people who are deaf
- Bruce Willis, American actor, producer and singer, partially deaf in left ear
- Lance Allred, American basketball player, first deaf person to play in the NBA
- Guillaume Amontons, French inventor and physicist
- Cliff Bastin, British footballer
- Halle Berry, American actress, acquired unilateral hearing loss
- Connie Briscoe, American best-selling Black author
- Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist filmmaker and poet
- Steve Downie, NHL hockey player
- Gertrude Ederle, American competitive swimmer, first woman to swim the English Channel
- Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder
- Oliver Heaviside, British engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Holly Hunter, American actress, completely deaf in one ear
- Katie Leclerc, American actress, known especially for her leading role in Switched at Birth
- Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
- Rob Lowe, American actor, completely deaf in right ear
- Henrietta Leavitt, American astronomer
- Florence Lewis May, American textile curator
- Harold MacGrath, American author
- Sir William McMahon, Australian politician and Prime Minister
- François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville
- Pierre de Ronsard, French poet
- Adam Savage, American science educator
- R. N. Taber, English poet
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of space exploration studies
- Judith Wright, Australian poet
Deaf and hard of hearing musicians
- Ryan Adams, American alternative country artist
- Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer and pianist, had adult-onset progressive deafness
- Mabel Hubbard Bell, wife of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell
- William Boyce, British composer
- Foxy Brown, American rap artist
- Rudi Carrell, Dutch popular singer
- Danny Elfman, film score composer and former member of Oingo Boingo
- Gabriel Fauré, French composer
- Sean Forbes, American musician, songwriter, and rapper
- TL Forsberg, American avant-garde rock singer
- Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist, won Grammy for Best Musician in a Recording 1989: Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
- Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese popular singer and songwriter
- Mandy Harvey, American jazz singer
- Bob Hiltermann, drummer for Beethoven's Nightmare, an all-deaf rock band
- Brian Johnson, former lead singer of AC/DC
- Kyo, singer of Dir En Grey
- George Martin, English bandleader and producer
- Johnnie Ray, American popular singer
- Signmark, Finnish rap artist
- Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer
- Ethel Smyth, composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement
- Mariko Takamura, deaf Japanese musician
- Pete Townshend, British lead guitarist and songwriter
- Lars Ulrich, Danish drummer[1]
- John Bruce Wallace, American composer and avant-garde, free jazz, fusion, experimental, improvisational guitarist
- Brian Wilson, American musician and songwriter
Artists who are/were deaf
- Chuck Baird, (1947–2012), American painter and performer, one of the founding members of the De'Via Deaf art movement
- Bernard Bragg, performer, writer, director, poet, and artist
- John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854) portraitist and miniaturist in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine in the Federalist period in America[2]
- George Catlin (1796–1872), American artist, painted portraits of native American people
- Thomas Davidson, RA an English painter specialising in historical naval scenes (1842–1919)
- Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
- Francisco Goya (1746–1828), Spanish painter
- David Hockney (b. 1937), British painter
- Fernanda Machado, Brazilian artist, actress and deaf poet
- Betty G. Miller, American artist
- Maurycy Minkowski, deaf Polish Jewish artist (1881/2–1930)
- Juan Fernández Navarrete, Spanish Mannerist painter (1526–79)
- Albert Newsam (1809–1864) lithographer, and student of Catlin[3]
- Will J. Quinlan, American artist, etcher, painter
- Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter
- Granville Redmond, American painter, actor
- Alfred Thomson, an English artist and Olympic Gold Medalist (1894–1979)
- Douglas Tilden, American sculptor
Fictional deaf characters
- Connie, a deaf character that fights zombies in AMC's The Walking Dead series.
- Echo, a deaf Native American martial artist.
- Drury Lane, a deaf detective written by Ellery Queen.
- Jade Lovall, a partially deaf nurse in the BBC medical drama Casualty
References
- "Metallica drummer struggles with ringing in ears - CNN.com". www.cnn.com. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
- Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. (1999). Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press. p. 437. ISBN 0932087558.
- Pyatt, Joseph O. (1868). Memoir of Albert Newsam, Deaf Mute Artist. Philadelphia: "Printed for the Author".
Further reading
- Lang, Harry G. Fighting in the Shadows: Untold Stories of Deaf People in the Civil War (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2017), xv, 255 pp.
- Sonnenstrahl, Deborah M. Deaf Artists in America, Colonial to Contemporary. San Diego: Dawnsign Press, 2002.
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