Famous Blind People

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[edit] Blind from birth

1. David Blunkett
2. Sidney Bradford
3. Frances Browne
4. Tim Cordes
5. Homer
6. David Paterson
7. Dionne Quan

[edit] People who became blind later in life

1. Tilly Aston
2. Jorge Luis Borges
3. Louis Braille
4. Kristen Cox
5. Dana Elcar
6. Enrico Dandolo
7. Frederick Delius
8. Clemente Domínguez y Gómez
9. Matthew A. Dunn
10. Leonhard Euler
11. Galileo Galilei
12. Thomas Gore
13. George Greer
14. James Holman
15. Mary Ingalls
16. Isaac the Blind
17. James Joyce
18. King John the Blind of Bohemia
19. John II of Aragon
20. Helen Keller
21. Esmond Knight
22. Fritz Lang
23. Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
24. Magnus IV of Norway
25. Mike May
26. John Milton
27. Bernard Morin
28. J. Bazzel Mull
29. Craig Oliver
30. Joseph Plateau
31. William Prescott
32. Joseph Pulitzer
33. Omar Abdel-Rahman
34. Marla Runyan
35. Tony Sarre
36. Zohar Sharon
37. Amanda Swafford
38. Sabriye Tenberken
39. James Thurber
40. Sue Townsend
41. Eamon de Valera
42. Abdurrahman Wahid
43. Erik Weihenmayer

[edit] People blind in one eye

1. Louise Ashby
2. Tex Avery
3. Gordon Banks
4. Bryan Berard
5. Jón Þor Birgisson
6. Elizabeth Blackwell
7. Bohemund IV of Antioch
8. Gordon Brown
9. Richard Shaw
10. Dale Chihuly
11. Ry Cooder
12. Sammy Davis
13. Moshe Dayan
14. Jack Elam
15. André De Toth
16. Sandy Duncan
17. Peter Falk
18. Leo Fender
19. Nick Griffin
20. Hannibal
21. Rex Harrison
22. Eric Hosking
23. Samuel Johnson
24. Johnny Jordaan
25. Friedrich Kuhlau
26. Patrick Leahy
27. Jim McMahon
28. Janet McTeer
29. Alan Moore
30. Horatio Nelson
31. Kirby Puckett
32. Claude Rains
33. Theodore Roosevelt
34. Cordwainer Smith
35. Art Tatum
36. James Grover Thurber
37. Robert Thurman
38. Mo Udall
39. Dick Vitale
40. Momus
41. Wesley Walker
42. Rich Williams
43. E.O. Wilson
44. Xiahou Dun
45. Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi

[edit] Blind musicians

1. Amadou and Mariam
2. Frankie Armstrong
3. Johann Sebastian Bach
4. Blind Blake
5. Andrea Bocelli
6. John William "Blind" Boone
7. Archie Brownlee
8. Henry Butler
9. Jessica Callahan
10. Clarence Carter
11. Ray Charles
12. Arizona Dranes
13. Blind Gary Davis
14. Blind John Davis
15. Blind Willie Davis
16. Jose Feliciano
17. Ella Fitzgerald
18. Blind Mamie Forehand
19. Clarence Fountain
20. Blind Boy Fuller
21. G.B. Grayson
22. W.C. Handy
23. Lance Hayward
24. Jeff Healey
25. Al Hibbler
26. Heather Hutchison
27. Blind Lemon Jefferson
28. Blind Willie Johnson
29. Skip Jones blind
30. John Kay
31. Rahsaan Roland Kirk
32. Kuzuhara Koto
33. Stalebread Lacombe
34. Francesco Landini
35. Corinna May
36. Blind Willie McTell
37. Ronnie Milsap
38. Blind Mississippi Morris
39. Moondog
40. Gilbert Montagné French singer and musician
41. Joe Morello
42. Turlough O'Carolan
43. Ginny Owens

[edit] Musicians

1. Ignacy Paderewski
2. Maria Theresia Paradis
3. Conrad Paumann
4. Lennie Peters
5. Bob Ringwald
6. Marcus Roberts
7. Joaquin Rodrigo
8. Gerlinde Sämann
9. Arnolt Schlick blind as an adult
10. Diane Schuur
11. George Shearing
12. Baluji Shrivastav
13. John Stanley
14. Tom Sullivan
15. Surdas
16. Joel Taggart
17. Kelvin Tan Wei Lian
18. Art Tatum
19. Alec Templeton
20. Sonny Terry
21. Lennie Tristano
22. Doc Watson
23. Stevie Wonder
24. Joana Zimmer

[edit] Blind painters

1. John Bramblitt
2. Esref Armagan
3. Honoré Daumier
4. Lisa Fittipaldi
5. Francisco Goya
6. Michelangelo
7. Claude Monet
8. Joshua Reynolds