Notables with disabilities

Definition from the WHO: Disabilities is an umbrella term, covering impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Impairment is a problem in body function or structure; an activity limitation is a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action; while a participation restriction is a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations.

Persons with a disability are not a group sharing the same things. The only thing they share is that they all have a disability. But in the word 'disability' is included the word 'ability'. The different profiles of these notables will show the different achievements and performance. Things these notables achieved despite their disability, no with their disability as being part of them.

As this project progresses we might be able to define different groups of notables, for example:

• Art & Culture
• Heroes & Heroines
• Politics & Government
• Science & Education
• Sports & Skills

Websites:

• http://www.disabilityhistory.org/people.html
• http://www.twu.edu/dsc/index.htm
• http://hcdg.org/famous.htm
• http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

Examples of notables with disabilities:

"(Mind you, for some of the notables below only much later in time, sometimes ages later in time is concluded they most possibly had a certain (mostly mental) disability)"

Art & Culture

• Wäinö Aaltonen (1864-1966)
• Sarah Bernhardt (Rosine Bernardt) (1844-1923)
• George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
• Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944)
• John Milton (1608-1674)
• Petronella Moens (1762-1843)
• Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585)
• Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (1864-1901)
• Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
• Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virgina Stephen) (1882-1941)
• Zangeres Zonder Naam (Maria Beij) (1919-1998)
• Bill Cosby
• Will Smith
• R. Kelly
• Fantasia
• Earvin "Magic" Johnson
• Samuel L. Jackson
• Solange Knowles

Heroes & Heroines

• Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
• Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
• Harriet Tubman (Araminta Harriet Ross) (1820-1913)
• Blas de Lezo (1689-1741)

Politics & Government

• David Blunkett (1947-)
• Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826)
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Science & Education

• Albert Einstein
• Charles Bonnet (1720-1793)
• Louis Braille (1809-1852)
• Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (1767-1813)
• John Goodricke (1764-1786)
• Stephen Willam Hawking (1942-)
• John Nash (1928 - )

Sports & Skills

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