Johannes Nicolaas Maria ("Jeroen") Straathof (born November 18 1972 in Zoeterwoude) is a retired Dutch cyclist and speed skater. Straathof was the first, and still the only, athlete in the world to represent his country at the Summer Olympics, the Winter Olympics and the Paralympics. Straathof started his sports career as a speed skater, becoming World Junior Champion in Warsaw 1992.

Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for her extraordinary collegiate-level athletic accomplishments, despite a disability that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs. Mullins was born with fibular hemimelia (missing fibula bones) and had both of her legs amputated below the knee when she was just a year old.

André Viger was a French Canadian wheelchair marathoner and Paralympic. Born in Windsor, Ontario, Viger took part in five Paralympic Games in Athletics, winning three gold, four silver and three bronze medals. Viger grew up in Sherbrooke, Quebec. In 1987, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for being "a source of encouragement for young athletes and a role model for young people everywhere".

Oscar Pistorius (born November 22, 1986) is a South African Paralympic runner. Known as the "Blade Runner" and "the fastest man on no legs", Pistorius is the double amputee world record holder in the 100, 200 and 400 metres events and runs with the aid of carbon fibre transtibial artificial limbs. His artificial lower legs, while enabling him to compete, have also generated claims that he has an unfair advantage over other runners.

Jessica Long was adopted by an American couple from Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 13 months. Because of lower leg anomalies, her legs were amputated when she was 18 months old. Jessica Long was involved in many sports including gymnastics, basketball, cheerleading, ice skating, biking, trampoline, sking, and swimming. She began swimming in her grandparents’ pool before joining her first competitive team in 2002.

Josh Blue (born November 27, 1978) is an American comedian who was voted the "Last Comic Standing" on NBC's reality show "Last Comic Standing" during its fourth season, which aired May-August, 2006. Blue was born in Cameroon, West Africa, where his father, a university Romance Languages professor, was teaching in a mission, and grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He currently resides in Denver, Colorado.

Jessica Tuomela (born August 3, 1983) is a Canadian paralympic competitive swimmer who was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Although blinded by retinoblastoma at the age of three, she has succeeded in competitive swimming despite her disability. Competing at the 2000 Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia, Tuomela earned a silver medal in the 50-metre freestyle as well as three sixth-place finishes in the 100-meter freestyle, 100-meter backstroke and 200-meter medley.

Randy Snow (born 24 May 1959) is the first Paralympian to be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. A native of Terrell, Texas, Snow was a state-ranked tennis player as a teenager, but at the age of 16, his spine was crushed by a 1000-pound bale of hay, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. After graduating, he enrolled in the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, where he indulged in the fraternity party life, …

Neil Fuller OAM is an Australian athlete, Paralympic competitor, and amputee. During his youth, Neil was an ambitious soccer player - gaining a position playing at state level for South Australia. It was during a soccer match his tibia and fibula were broken, as well as severing a major artery in his right leg. Becoming legally an adult during his time in hospital, he opted to have the lower part of his right leg amputated after gangrene had set in.

Shea Cowart - disabled athlete, very successful at paralympic 2002.

Joe Soares is a former all-star wheelchair rugby player for the United States who later went on to coach the Canadian paralympic team after he was cut by the U.S in 1996. This episode figures prominently in the 2005 documentary film "Murderball". Soares was born into a poor family in Portugal, and moved to Providence, Rhode Island at the age of 11. Soares lost the use of his legs after contracting childhood polio.

Esther Vergeer (born Jul 18 1981, Woerden) is a Dutch former wheelchair basketball and current wheelchair tennis player. She is four-fold Paralympics tennis champion and has been the world's top ranked player since 1999. Unbeaten since January 2003, she may be the most dominant player in any professional sports. Vergeer became paraplegic when she was 8 years old due to an otherwise successful, very risky surgery concerning hemorrhaging blood vessels around her spinal cord.

Javier Otxoa Palacios (born 30 August, 1974, Barakaldo, Greater Bilbao, Basque Country) is a Spanish cyclist, formerly of the Kelme cycling team. His name is sometimes spelled Javier Ochoa in media reports. In 2000 Otxoa won a heavy mountain stage in the Tour de France on top of the Hautacam. In February 2001 a car hit him and his brother Ricardo during training. Ricardo died. Javier survived but was in a coma for a month and became seriously disabled.

Sarnya Parker OAM is an Australian paralympic athlete, and winner of a gold medal for Australia at the Sydney 2000 paralympics in the field of tandem cycling - winning both the 1 km road race and 3000 m pursuit; establishing world record times in each. Parker currently resides in Klemzig, South Australia.

Karissa Whitsell is an accomplished blind athlete. Karissa with her tandem partner Katie Compton, won numerous medals at the 2004 ΧΙΙ Paralympic Games in Athens Greece.

Jon Rydberg is a world-class wheelchair tennis player and paralympian that hailed from Pine City, Minnesota. He was a member of the 2004 United States paralympic team that competed in Athens, Greece. In 2007, he became the top-ranked wheelchair tennis player in the United States. Also an accomplished wheelchair basketball player, Rydberg has contributed to the Rolling Timberwolves program that the Minnesota Timberwolves sponsors.

Anthony Clarke (born 1961) OAM, ASM is a world class judoka who has been ranked in the top 10 wordwide, in the top 3 in Australia and as the top player in South Australia. Blind since 17 he became the 1996 Paralympic Judo (96kg class) gold medallist, 1998 world blind judo champion (90kg class) and an official torch bearer at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Vivian Berkeley (born August 9th, 1941) is a Canadian blind lawn bowler, 1996 paralympic silver medalist and world class athlete.

Ade Adepitan MBE (born 27 March 1973) is a British television presenter and wheelchair basketball player. He is in a wheelchair is because he contracted polio at the age of six months. Although without the use of his legs, it has left him with strong arms, which allow him to be a keen diver. Adepitan works as a very enthusiastic television presenter for the BBC.

Carlee Hoffman (born July 10, 1986) is a American female wheelchair basketball player from Cutlerville, Michigan. She plays the power forward position and was a gold medalist for the United States in the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens. Hoffman is a bilateral below-knee amputee.

Henry Wanyoike is a Kenyan athlete. He is blind and competes in the Paralympics and in marathon racing. Wanyoike is one of the world’s fastest runners. While still a child he was already being groomed to join an elite corps of athletes in a country that is known for its production of many world-class middle-distance runners over the last twenty years than any country on earth. He excelled at the 5,000 and 10,000-meter distances. In 1995, he had a mild stroke.

Stephen Eaton (born 15 September 1975, Toowoomba) is an Australian athlete from Queensland who competes at the national and international level in discus throwing and shot put at events such as the Paralympic Games, and International Paralympic Committee World Championships. He won Bronze for discus at the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, and Silver for men's discus in the Athletics Australia National Championships in 1999.

Devendra Jhajharia is India's first ever gold medalist at the Paralympics. He is the one-armed javelin thrower from Rajasthan. He won it at Athens on 21 September 2004 in the javelin throw. He set up a new record with 62.15m eclipsing the old one of 59.77m. He also won the gold medal in the 8th FESPIC Games in Korea, 2002. He hails from Churu District in Rajasthan. Devendra is a Class IV employee with the Indian Railways. He had lost his left hand in an accident.

Stanislav Loska is a veteran on the Czech paralympic team. Torino 2006 was his fourth Paralympic games. In the Winter Paralympic Games in Lillehammer he won the bronze medal in the slalom. He won the same medal in the world championship in Lech in Austria. In Nagano 1998 he placed fourth and fifth.