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Vorlage:Refimprove This is an incomplete list of notable deaf people.
Important deaf figures in deaf history
- Chuck Baird, (1947-2012) American painter and performer, one of the founding members of the De'Via Deaf art movement
- 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
- John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), American, itinerant artist of the Federalist Period in America
- 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.
- Pierre Desloges (1742-??), French deaf writer and bookbinder, first known deaf person to publish a book
- Andrew Foster, (1925–1987), American educator, first Black deaf person to earn a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet College, brought the first deaf schools to Africa
- William Elsworth "Dummy" Hoy (1862–1961), American baseball player
- Helen Keller, American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and actress
- Granville Redmond, American painter
- Douglas Tilden, American sculptor
- Will J. Quinlan, American Artist, etcher, painter
- Osei Morris, First deaf African American to play professional basketball
Notable children of deaf adults (CODAs)
- Alexander Graham Bell, whose mother, Eliza Grace Symonds Bell, was hard of hearing, and whose wife, Mabel Hubbard, became deaf at age 5
- Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor raised by deaf parents, whose upbringing allowed him to communicate better in silent films
- Kambri Crews, American author, comedic storyteller and producer who incorporates sign language in performances and whose maternal grandparents are also deaf.
- Louise Fletcher, American Academy Award-winning actress for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Edward Miner Gallaudet, founder of Gallaudet University, son of Sophia Fowler Gallaudet and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the American School for the Deaf, the first school for the deaf in the U.S.
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, his mother was deaf from birth
- Richard Griffiths, English actor
- Stefan LeFors, Canadian football quarterback for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- Homer Thornberry, United States Representative from the 10th congressional district of Texas from 1948 to 1963
- Jim Verraros, American Idol finalist, season 1
- Keith Wann, performer in a deaf comedic troupe, Iceworm, showcasing cultural and linguistic barriers between the deaf and hearing worlds
- Dennis Daugaard, Governor of South Dakota
Notable deaf people
- Dimitra Arapoglou, deaf member of Greek parliament, from 2007-2009
- 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
- Bernard Bragg, performer, writer, director, poet, and artist
- Deanne Bray, actress who played the lead role on Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
- Oreste Carpi, Italian painter
- Michael Chorost, writer
- Willy Conley, playwright, actor, photographer
- Robert R. Davila, ninth president of Gallaudet University
- Nyle DiMarco, model and contestant on America's Next Top Model
- Izrael Zachariah Deutsch, deaf Jew who wrote a memoir about surviving the Holocaust
- Thomas Edison, American inventor
- Aryana Engineer, actress
- Ashley Fiolek, 4-time Women's Motocross Champion
- Phyllis Frelich, Tony Award winner for her role in the stage production of Children of a Lesser God
- Claudia L. Gordon, lawyer
- Matt Hamill, MMA fighter
- Caleb McDuff racing driver
- T. Alan Hurwitz, tenth president of Gallaudet University and former Vice President of National Technical Institute for the Deaf
- I. King Jordan, eighth president and first deaf president of Gallaudet University
- Alan Kilby, United Kingdom professional wrestler
- Jim Kyte (b. 1964), first (and to date, only) deaf person to play in the National Hockey League
- Ryan Lane, actor and model
- 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
- Dorothy Miles, deaf poet and activist
- Betty G. Miller, American artist
- 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 Ph.D.
- Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly, (b. 1880) deaf black lawyer, Yale alumnus
- Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, (b. 1912) British mathematician and politician
- Andrew Phillips, lawyer
- Marie Jean Philip, teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language
- Terrylene Sacchetti, actress
- Signmark, Finnish rap artist
- Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter
- Howie Seago, actor and director
- The Silent Warrior, American professional wrestler and founder of the Deaf Wrestling Alliance.
- Elizabeth Steel, earliest record of a deaf Australian
- Louise Stern, writer and artist
- Shoshannah Stern, actress in Jericho and Weeds
- Ted Supalla, researcher and professor
- Mariko Takamura, deaf Japanese musician
- Sue Thomas, first deaf person to work as an undercover investigator doing lip-reading of suspects for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- 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
- Heather Whitestone, first deaf woman to win the title of Miss America
- David Wright, South African-born British poet.
- Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player, first deaf person to play in the Euroleague
Notable people who are hard of hearing
- 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
- Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist filmmaker and poet
- Bill Clinton, former President of the United States
- Gertrude Ederle, American competitive swimmer, first woman to swim the English Channel
- Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder
- Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
- Francisco Goya, Spanish painter
- Oliver Heaviside, British engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Georgia Horsley, Miss England 2007 and contestant in Miss World 2007
- 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
- Harold MacGrath, American author
- Sir William McMahon, Australian politician and Prime Minister
- 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
- Mandy Harvey, American jazz singer
- Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer
- Sean Forbes, American musician, song writer, and rapper
- William Boyce, British composer
- Rudi Carrell, Dutch popular singer
- Gabriel Fauré, French composer
- Johnnie Ray, American popular singer
- Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer
- Pete Townshend, British lead guitarist and songwriter
- Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
- Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese popular singer and songwriter
- Ryan Adams, American alternative country artist
- George Martin, English bandleader and producer
- Foxy Brown, American rap artist
- Brian Wilson, American musician and songwriter
- Danny Elfman, film score composer and former member of Oingo Boingo
- Lars Ulrich, Danish drummer[1]
- Kyo, singer of Dir En Grey
- Mabel Hubbard Bell, wife of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell
- TL Forsberg, American avant-garde rock singer
- Bob Hiltermann, drummer for Beethoven's Nightmare, an all-deaf rock band