Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 11 May 1966), better known as Tom Shakespeare, is a geneticist and sociologist. He has achondroplasia. Shakespeare was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge and gained a Master of Philosophy from King's College, Cambridge in 1991. Whilst a student, he featured in a television documentary about his restricted growth, along with his father, Sir William Geoffrey Shakespeare, a prominent medical practitioner.

Robert William "Bob" Latimer (born March 13, 1953), a Canadian canola and wheat farmer, was convicted of murder for the killing of his daughter Tracy (November 23, 1980-October 24, 1993). This case sparked a national controversy on the definition and ethics of euthanasia, and two Supreme Court decisions, "R. v. Latimer" (1997), on section 10 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and later "R.

As Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) since June 1993, Judith E. Heumann and her 350-person staff manage the Office of Special Education Programs, the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, which have a combined budget of over $5.5 billion.

Karen McCarron is an Illinois physician who has been accused of smothering her autistic daughter Katherine 'Katie' McCarron (July 22 2002-May 13 2006) to death. She has been charged with first-degree murder, obstructing justice and concealment of a homicidal death.

Kathy Sinnott (born September 29, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a disability rights campaigner and politician representing Ireland. She is secretary of the Hope Project. She stood successfully for to became a Member of the European Parliament for Ireland South in the 2004 European elections. She campaigned on disability and education issues, and to a lesser extent Euroscepticism and social conservatism, espusing much of the agenda of the Christian Right, …

Julie Fernandez (born April 20, 1974) is a British actress, best known as Brenda, her award-winning role on the BBC comedy "The Office". She is also a model. Fernandez was born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta and requires the use of a wheelchair. Her acting career began in 1992 when she starred as "Vanessa Lockhead" in the short-lived BBC soap opera "Eldorado".

Irving Kenneth Zola (1935-1994) was an internationally-known activist and writer in the fields of medical sociology and disability rights. He was a founding member of the Society of Disability Studies and the first editor of "Disability Studies Quarterly". He also was a founding member and counselor at the Boston Self-Help Center. His best-known book, which first came out in 1982, is "Missing Pieces: A Chronicle of Living With a Disability".

James Charlton, was an American author and disability rights activist, created a model of the disability rights movement that differentiates between a number of different kinds of organizations: # Local self-help groups, which provide counseling and moral support, and which often do not have a set agenda because their concerns focus primarily on group members; # Advocacy and program centers on a local level, …

Judy Singer is an Australian disability rights activist, thinker and writer, specialising in the sociology of the autistic spectrum. Her interest in the Autistic Spectrum began with the diagnosis of her daughter with Asperger's Syndrome, and the realisation that both she and her mother shared AS traits with her daughter to varying degrees.

Justin Whitlock Dart, Jr. (August 29, 1930 - June 22, 2002) was an American activist. Primarily known as an advocate for the disabled, he helped pass the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. He co-founded the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD).

Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer (September 23, 1950 - 1998) was a quadriplegic and American disability rights activist. She is best known for her autobiography "I Raise My Eyes to Say Yes", co-authored with Steven B. Kaplan.

Sandra Schnur (July 30, 1935 - February 2, 1994) was a pioneer disability rights leader in New York City. In 1950, at the age of 15, she was stricken with polio, which rendered her a quadriplegic. She had a long period of rehabilitation, including much time spent in an iron lung. After a period in residence at Warm Springs, she was home schooled to complete her high school education.

Nina de Vries (born 1961) is a Dutch sex worker who offers erotic massages to mentally disabled men and women in Berlin and other parts of Germany. She also trains others to do the same. De Vries is nude when she massages her clients; these massages include embracing and caressing and sometimes culminate in her masturbating her clients to orgasm. She does not offer vaginal or oral sex.

Liu Hsia (28 February 1942-8 February 2003), more often known as "Hsinglintzu"(杏林子pinyin: Xìng Lín Zǐ) for her penname, was an influential Taiwanese writer. She was also a social activist, presidential advisor, and founded the Eden Social Welfare Foundation, Taiwan's largest social welfare foundation. She suffered from Rheumatoid arthritis from when she was 12 years old.

Dr Amir Ali Majid is a legal scholar and author born in Gojra, Punjab, Pakistan. He was in his second year at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad when he lost his sight. Nevertheless, he went on to receive his B.A., LL.B., LL.M., as well as diplomas in Air and Space Law, and International Law. He is the first blind person in the world to become a barrister (at Lincoln's Inn), and the first to become a Doctor of Civil Law (McGill University.

Jesse Houts, born on March 16th, 1975 in Santa Cruz, California, is a prominent physically disabled musician, manager, promoter, and activist in the Bay Area. Born with a rare non-progressive form of muscular dystrophy, Jesse has strived to be heavily involved in the rock and roll community since his teenage years. Finding that music helped Jesse cope with his disabilty more than any other activity, …

My career, and one of my many passions, is disability rights. I currently work training people about the Americans with Disabilities Act, but I've done a lot of work with youth with disabilities and plan to go back to that when I can. I love to teach young people about the history of the disability rights movement, and especially enjoy seeing youth with disabilities learn their heritage and get involved in our community.

My name's Sue, I'm 33, from S. Yorkshire in England and I'm in a long term relationship with my best friend, Kev. I've got *long* red/pink hair, blue eyes, a petite frame + a few piercings & tattoos. I keep myself busy running online businesses and I feel very strongly about disability rights. I believe everybody should be equal, nobody is "better" than anybody else, no matter what their ability, colour, sexual preference, religion etc. is.

Instead of writing about myself, I will leave you with this quote from Gilbert Arenas, of the Washington Wizards. Who says athletes aren't deep? "There is no such thing as a shark attack. We live on land, they live in the water. People go into the water and get attacked by a shark. That is not a shark attack, that is trespassing. A shark attack is when a shark attacks you in your living room when you are watching television.

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