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This is an incomplete '''list of''' notable '''[[Hearing loss|deaf]] people'''.<br />
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== Important Deaf figures in Deaf history ==<br />
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* [[Chuck Baird]], (1947–2012) American painter and performer, one of the founding members of the De'Via Deaf art movement<br />
* [[Ferdinand Berthier]], [[France|French]] intellectual, published several articles, first deaf person to receive the French Legion of Honour, founder of world's first deaf organization<br />
* [[Julia Brace]] (1807–1884), early American [[Deafblindness|deaf-blind]] student at the [[American School for the Deaf|Hartford School for the Deaf]]<br />
* [[John Brewster Jr. (painter)|John Brewster Jr.]] (1766–1854), American, itinerant artist of the Federalist Period in America<br />
* [[Laura Bridgman]], (1829–1889), [[Americans|American]], first deaf-blind student of Dr. Samuel Howe at the [[Perkins School for the Blind]]<br />
* [[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.<br />
* [[Laurent Clerc]] (1785–1869), student and teacher (1798–1816) at the [[Institut National de Jeunes Sourds de Paris|Paris deaf school]] of the [[Abbé de l'Épée]] ; accompanied [[Thomas Gallaudet]] to America to teach deaf children. Co-founded the [[American School for the Deaf|first deaf school in North America]] in 1817 in [[Hartford, Connecticut]].<br />
* [[Alice Cogswell]], first deaf student at American School for the Deaf<br />
* [[Pierre Desloges]] (1742–?), French deaf writer and bookbinder, first known deaf person to publish a book<br />
* [[Andrew Foster (educator)|Andrew Foster]], (1925–1987), American educator, first Black deaf person to earn a bachelor's degree from [[Gallaudet University|Gallaudet College]], Christian missionary to Africa<br />
* [[Dummy Hoy|William Elsworth "Dummy" Hoy]] (1862–1961), American baseball player<br />
* [[Casar Jacobson]], Norwegian-Canadian first ever deaf winner of Miss Canada (2013), a [[List of disability rights activists|disability rights activist]] and the [[United Nations|UN]] Woman Youth Champion.<br />
* [[I. King Jordan]], first deaf president (eighth overall) of [[Gallaudet University]]<br />
* Mary Malzkuhn, Government and History Professor at [[Gallaudet University]], known as the mother of the “Deaf President Now” movement, 1988. <ref>http://www.gallaudet.edu/news/dpn-women-role-explored</ref><br />
* [[Helen Keller]], American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and actress<br />
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==Notable Deaf people==<br />
* [[Dimitra Arapoglou]], deaf member of Greek parliament, from 2007-2009<br />
* [[Sean Berdy]], actor and comedian<br />
* [[Linda Bove]], actress, known particularly for the role of Linda the Librarian on the children's television program [[Sesame Street]]<br />
* [[Bernard Bragg]], performer, writer, director, poet, and artist<br />
* [[Deanne Bray]], actress who played the lead role on ''[[Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye]]''<br />
* [[Earnest Elmo Calkins]], deaf American advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising<br />
* [[Oreste Carpi]], Italian painter<br />
* [[Tamika Catchings]], Basketball player<br />
* [[Punk Chef]], Celebrity deaf chef from the UK.<br />
* [[Michael Chorost]], writer<br />
* [[Willy Conley]], playwright, actor, photographer <br />
* [[Thomas Davidson (painter)]] (1842-1919), English painter<br />
* [[Robert R. Davila]], ninth president of [[Gallaudet University]]<br />
* [[Nyle DiMarco]], model and 2015 winner of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]''<br />
* [[Izrael Zachariah Deutsch]], deaf Jew who wrote a memoir about surviving the Holocaust<br />
* [[Thomas Edison]], American inventor<br />
* [[Aryana Engineer]], actress<br />
* [[Angus English]], Schizophrenic Deaf artist <br />
* [[Ashley Fiolek]], 4-time Women's Motocross Champion<br />
* [[Phyllis Frelich]], [[Tony Award]] winner for her role in the stage production of ''[[Children of a Lesser God (play)|Children of a Lesser God]]''<br />
* [[Claudia L. Gordon]], lawyer<br />
* [[Matt Hamill]], MMA fighter<br />
* [[Russell Harvard]], actor<br />
* [[Henrietta Howard]], Countess of Suffolk<br />
* [[T. Alan Hurwitz]], tenth president of [[Gallaudet University]] and former Vice President of [[National Technical Institute for the Deaf]]<br />
* [[Alan Kilby]], [[United Kingdom]] [[professional wrestler]]<br />
* [[Jim Kyte]] (b. 1964), first (and to date, only) deaf person to play in the [[National Hockey League]]<br />
* [[Ryan Lane]], actor and model<br />
* [[Geraldine Lawhorn]], musician, actress, instructor and first [[Deafblindness|deaf-blind]] [[African Americans|African-American]] person to earn a [[Academic degree|college degree]]. <br />
* [[Rush Limbaugh]], American conservative radio talk show host<br />
* [[Fernanda Machado]] Brazilian artist, actress and deaf poet<br />
* [[Melissa Malzkuhn]] Creative Director and Founder, Motion Light Lab, Gallaudet University and Co-owner of Ink & Salt LLC<br />
* [[Mojo Mathers]] (b. 1966), New Zealand politician<br />
* [[Marlee Matlin]], only deaf person to win an [[Academy Award]] ([[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]) for her role in ''[[Children of a Lesser God (film)|Children of a Lesser God]]''<br />
* [[Caleb McDuff]] racing driver<br />
* [[Dorothy Miles]], deaf poet and activist<br />
* [[Betty G. Miller]], American artist<br />
* [[Lawrence R. Newman]], deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the [[National Association of the Deaf (United States)|National Association of the Deaf]]<br />
* [[Michael Ndurumo]], deaf educator from [[Kenya]], third deaf person from Africa to obtain a Ph.D.<br />
* [[Leslie Nielsen]], notable Canadian-American comedic actor<br />
* [[Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly]], (b. 1880) deaf blind black lawyer, Yale alumnus<br />
* Dame [[Kathleen Ollerenshaw]], (b. 1912) British mathematician and politician<br />
* [[Kitty O'Neil]], stuntwoman, high-speed racer<br />
* [[Andrew Phillips (lawyer)|Andrew Phillips]], lawyer<br />
* [[Marie Jean Philip]], teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language<br />
* [[Will J. Quinlan]], American Artist, etcher, painter<br />
* [[Granville Redmond]], American painter<br />
* [[Eugen Relgis]] Romanian humanist writer and political activist<br />
* [[Terrylene Sacchetti]], actress<br />
* [[Signmark]], Finnish rap artist<br />
* [[Slava Raškaj]] (1877–1906), Croatian painter<br />
* [[Howie Seago]], actor and director<br />
* [[The Silent Warrior]], [[United States|American]] [[professional wrestler]] and founder of the Deaf Wrestling Alliance.<br />
* [[Elizabeth Steel]], earliest record of a deaf person in Australia<br />
* [[Louise Stern]], writer and artist<br />
* [[Shoshannah Stern]], actress in ''[[Jericho (2006 TV series)|Jericho]]'' and ''[[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]]''<br />
* [[Ted Supalla]], researcher and professor<br />
* [[Sue Thomas (agent)|Sue Thomas]], first deaf person to work as an undercover investigator doing lip-reading of suspects for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<br />
* [[Douglas Tilden]], American sculptor<br />
* [[Umesh Valjee]], Popular deaf cricketer who won the Disability cricket of the Year for England in 2011.Captain of the [[England national deaf cricket team|England]]<br />
* [[Clayton Valli]], deaf linguist and ASL poet<br />
* [[George Veditz]], former president of the [[National Association of the Deaf (United States)|National Association of the Deaf]], and one of the first people to film sign language<br />
* [[Heather Whitestone]], first deaf woman to win the title of [[Miss America]]<br />
* [[David Wright (poet)|David Wright]], South African-born British poet<br />
* [[Miha Zupan]], Slovenian basketball player, first deaf person to play in the [[Euroleague]]<br />
* [[Kenneth P. Davis]], CEO/Founder of Deaf Newspaper, first deaf newsman on the website since 2002.<br />
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==Notable people who are hard of hearing==<br />
* [[Lance Allred]], American basketball player, first deaf person to play in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]<br />
* [[Guillaume Amontons]], French inventor and physicist<br />
* [[Cliff Bastin]], British [[football (soccer)|football]]er<br />
* [[Halle Berry]], American actress, acquired unilateral hearing loss<br />
* [[Luis Buñuel]], Spanish surrealist filmmaker and poet<br />
* [[Bill Clinton]], former President of the United States<br />
* [[Steve Downie]], NHL hockey player<br />
* [[Gertrude Ederle]], American competitive swimmer, first woman to swim the English Channel<br />
* [[Lou Ferrigno]], American actor and [[bodybuilder]]<br />
* [[Walter Geikie]], Scottish painter<br />
* [[Francisco Goya]], Spanish painter<br />
* [[Oliver Heaviside]], British engineer, mathematician and physicist<br />
* [[Georgia Horsley]], Miss England 2007 and contestant in [[Miss World 2007]]<br />
* [[Holly Hunter]], American actress, completely deaf in one ear<br />
* [[Katie Leclerc]], American actress, known especially for her leading role in [[Switched at Birth (TV series)|Switched at Birth]]<br />
* [[Juliette Gordon Low]], founder of the [[Girl Scouts of the USA]]<br />
* [[Rob Lowe]], American actor, completely deaf in right ear<br />
* [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt|Henrietta Leavitt]], American astronomer<br />
* [[Harold MacGrath]], American author<br />
* Sir [[William McMahon]], Australian politician and Prime Minister<br />
* [[François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville]]<br />
* [[Pierre de Ronsard]], French poet<br />
* [[Adam Savage]], American science educator<br />
* [[R. N. Taber]], English poet<br />
* [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]], Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of space exploration studies<br />
* [[Judith Wright]], Australian poet<br />
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==Deaf and hard of hearing musicians==<br />
* [[Ryan Adams]], American alternative country artist<br />
* [[Ludwig van Beethoven]], German composer<br />
* [[Mabel Hubbard Bell]], wife of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell<br />
* [[William Boyce (composer)|William Boyce]], British composer<br />
* [[Foxy Brown (rapper)|Foxy Brown]], American rap artist<br />
* [[Rudi Carrell]], Dutch popular singer<br />
* [[Danny Elfman]], film score composer and former member of [[Oingo Boingo]]<br />
* [[Gabriel Fauré]], French composer<br />
* [[Sean Forbes]], American musician, songwriter, and rapper<br />
* [[TL Forsberg]], American avant-garde rock singer<br />
* [[Evelyn Glennie]], Scottish percussionist<br />
* [[Ayumi Hamasaki]], Japanese popular singer and songwriter<br />
* [[Mandy Harvey]], American jazz singer<br />
* [[Bob Hiltermann]], drummer for Beethoven's Nightmare, an all-deaf rock band<br />
* [[Brian Johnson]], former lead singer of [[AC/DC]]<br />
* [[Kyo (musician)|Kyo]], singer of [[Dir En Grey]]<br />
* [[George Martin]], English bandleader and producer<br />
* [[Johnnie Ray]], American popular singer<br />
* [[Bedřich Smetana]], Czech composer<br />
* [[Ethel Smyth]], composer and a member of the women's suffrage movement<br />
* [[Mariko Takamura]], deaf Japanese musician<br />
* [[Pete Townshend]], British lead guitarist and songwriter<br />
* [[Lars Ulrich]], Danish drummer<ref>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/12/28/tinnitus.metallica.drummer/index.html</ref><br />
* [[John Bruce Wallace]], American composer and avant-garde, free jazz, fusion, experimental, improvisational guitarist<br />
* [[Brian Wilson]], American musician and songwriter<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Lang, Harry G. ''Fighting in the Shadows: Untold Stories of Deaf People in the Civil War'' (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2017), xv, 255 pp.<br />
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