- Edgar Winter
Edgar Winter (born December 28, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. He is a keyboard player, vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock. He is the second son of John and Edwina Winter, who were very much responsible for Edgar and his older brother Johnny Winter's early musical awareness. Both Edgar and Johnny have albinism. - Johnny Winter
John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III (born on 23 February, 1944 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American blues guitarist, singer, and producer. He is the first son of John and Edwina Winter who were very much responsible for Johnny's and his younger brother's, Edgar Winter's, early musical awareness. Both Johnny and Edgar have albinism. - Salif Keita
Salif Keita is an internationally recognized afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the "Golden Voice of Africa", but because he is person with albinism and a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita.This royal heritage meant that he should never have become a singer, which was deemed to be a griot’s role. Keita was born in the city of Djoliba. - Roy Orbison
Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23 1936 - December 6 1988), nicknamed "The Big O," was an influential American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, characteristic dark sunglasses, and his taut, powerful alto voice coupled with his occasional distinctive usage of falsetto, … - Connie Chiu
Connie Chiu (b. 1969) is a Chinese high-fashion model. Chiu has albinism. Chiu was born in Hong Kong to a Chinese family. Like many people with albinism, she had to wear sunglasses to protect her photosensitive eyes from the sunlight. Chiu's skin often was sunburned. Chiu and her family moved to Sweden when she was seven, where the sunlight was more bearable to Chiu. At age 25, Chiu began modelling for fashion photographers such as Terry Richardson, Paul Burley, … - David Wrench
David Wrench is an albino pop singer from North Wales. He first came to public attention while still at school in 1989 with his first group Nid Madagascar, who recorded "the first Welsh language acid house record" as a 12" single in 1990. Reappearing some years later as a solo artist he was signed first to Ankst Records of Cardiff and later to Manchester based Storm Music. Wrench has made two albums, "Blow Winds Blow" and "The Atomic World of Tomorrow", … - Edward Nettleship
Edward Nettleship (March 3, 1845 - October 30, 1913) was an English ophthalmologist who was a native of Kettering. After finishing his medical studies, Nettleship became an assistant to Jonathan Hutchinson (1828-1913) at the London Hospital, and a coworker with Warren Tay (1843-1927) at the Moorfields Eye Hospital. Afterwards he spent nearly twenty years at St. Thomas Hospital in London, where he was mentor to Charles Howard Usher (1865-1942). At St. - Charles Usher
Charles Howard Usher (March 2, 1865 - March 3, 1942) was a Scottish ophthalmologist from Edinburgh. He studied medicine at St. Thomas Hospital in London, and after receiving his doctorate in 1891, he remained at St. Thomas, working under Edward Nettleship (1845-1913). Later he was an eye surgeon at the Aberdeen Hospital for Sick Children, and also worked in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Usher is known for the eponymous Usher Syndrome, … - Milislav Demerec
Milislav Demerec was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey. Demerec was born and raised in Kostajnica (then Austria-Hungary, now Croatia). He attended College of Agriculture in Križevci, graduating in 1916. He worked at Krizevci Experiment Station, and then attended the College of Agriculture in Grignon, France after World War II. - Emperor Seinei Seinei
Emperor Seinei, or rather "Shiraka no okimi" was the 22nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. No firm dates can be assigned to this emperor or to his reign, but he is believed to have ruled the country during the late 5th century AD. According to "Kojiki" and "Nihonshoki", he was a son of Emperor Yūryaku. His name in birth was "Shiraka". - Kate
Im 17 I was born three months early and that is why im cross eyed. I am a straight A student in all honors classes. I sometimes get made fun of but .. i still hang out with the popular crowd... well if you call the support group for albinos popular. Well its kind of depressing actually. That is why i got on here to meet nice people like you guys. maybe you could get to know me .. other then just my looks.
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