Extraordinary People (2003 TV series)

Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the lives of people with a rare medical condition or unusual ability. People featured have or had rare illnesses such as rabies and eye cancer. Many of these people do activities previously thought impossible for people in their condition.

The show began airing on 28 March 2003.

List of people featured

• Carles Quads (Only Identical Quadruplets in Britain
• Florence "Flo" & Katherine "Kay" Lyman Identical Twin Female Autistic Savants
• Jeanna Giese, the first rabies survivor
• Ben Underwood
• Petero Byakatonda, a Crouzon syndrome patient
• Akrit Jaswal, who performed his first surgery at age seven
• Abigail and Brittany Hensel, conjoined twins
• Oscar Pistorius
• Kim Peek, a savant
• John and Jeanette Murphy, an American couple who, in addition to having four children of their own, have adopted 23 with special needs
• Derek Paravicini, blind, learning impaired "musical genius"
• David Fitzpatrick, fugue state (amnesia) sufferer
• Jose Mestre
• Sarah Scantlin, who awoke and began speaking again after a twenty-year-long coma
• Dede Koswara, an Indonesian man with a form of HPV (Epidermodysplasia verruciformis) which causes tree-like growths
• Budhia Singh, an Indian boy who ran a 40-mile marathon at the age of four
• Hayley Okines, an English girl who has progeria
• Cameron Macaulay, a boy who claims to have memories of a past life
• Shiloh Pepin, a girl who has Sirenomelia or Mermaid Syndrome
• Daniel Tammet, an autistic savant with synaesthesia

External links

Extraordinary people famous for their very active mind

• Official show website
• Extraordinary People at the Internet Movie Database