List of people with paraplegia
This is a list of people who have or had paraplegia.
- Deng Pufang, Chinese politician, son of Deng Xiaoping[1]
- Daniel Dias, a Brazilian Paralympic swimmer.
- John Porter East, US politician who was partially paralyzed by polio in 1955[2]
- Frank Gardner (journalist), prominent BBC journalist who became paralysed after being shot six times at close range by an Al-Qaeda gunman in Saudi Arabia[3]
- Chuck Graham, United States politician injured in an automobile accident at age 16[4]
- Tanni Grey-Thompson, paralympian born with Spina Bifida[5]
- Rick Hansen, Canadian Paralympian who was paralyzed in a car crash at age 15[6]
- John Hockenberry, journalist and blogger[7]
- Paul Johnson (producer), American record producer and disc jockey who was shot accidentally[8]
- Sharry Konopski, model and actress injured in a car accident[9]
- Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist and commentator[10]
- Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter who became paraplegic due to tuberculosis of the vertebral column.[11]
- James Langevin, US Congressman from Rhode Island who was shot accidentally at age 16.
- Ajith C. S. Perera, a Sri Lankan disability rights activist and former cricket umpire, who was paralyzed when a tree fell onto his moving car.[12]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president of the United States who, at the age of 39, was partially paralyzed by polio[13]
- Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician injured in an assassination attempt in 1990[14]
- Liesl Tesch, an Australian wheelchair basketball player.
- George Corley Wallace, governor of Alabama and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination[15]
- Colt Wynn, American bodybuilding champion[16]
- Zhang Haidi, Chinese woman writer and translator, president of the China Disabled Persons' Federation (2008-).[17]
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.humanrights-china.org/news/2003-9-18/rdgz2003918151107.htm
- ↑ http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/document/msj/entire.html
- ↑ http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/06/interview-frank-gardner-evening.html
- ↑ http://www.missouricures.com/news_032805CT.php
- ↑ http://www.bdfa.net/tanni2.html
- ↑ http://www.rickhansen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=46
- ↑ http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_07-24-2005/featured_0
- ↑ http://www.5chicago.com/features/april2006/pauljohnson.html
- ↑ http://www.answers.com/topic/sharry-konopski
- ↑ http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer082800.asp. Missing or empty
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- ↑ Veera, Sriram (2009-01-29). more "Retired hurt but not out" Check
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- ↑ http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fdrbio.html
- ↑ http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9473704
- ↑ Portrait of an Assassin: Arthur Bremer, PBS. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
- ↑ "A Wynn-win situation". Muscle & Fitness. 2006.
- ↑ Song, Yuwu (2013). Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. McFarland. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-7864-3582-1.
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