Charlotte

female
British house musician, Coventry, England, USA Songwriting Competition, Soul II Soul, rhythm and blues, blind
Charlotte Kelly is a blind white English/black Caribbean female R&B artist originally from Coventry, UK, but latterly residing in London, UK. In...
Ahmed Yassin

Ahmed Yassin

male, deceased (2004)
terrorist, Antisemitism, palestinian, Assassin, politician, hamas…blind
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin was the co-founder (with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi) and the spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian Islamist...
Homer

Homer

male
blind, poet, the odyssey, the iliad, Oral epic poet, Greek literature…blind poet, Blind person
Homer (Greek Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey, co...
Blind Harry

Blind Harry

male, deceased (1492)
poet, Henry the Minstrel, Picturesque Stonehaven, Lament for the Makeris, Wars of Scottish Independence, Dunnottar Castle…blind
Blind Harry (ca. 1440 - 1492), also known as Harry or Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the earliest surviving lengthy source for the events of...
Blind Mississippi Morris

Blind Mississippi Morris

male, 54 years old
Blues musician, Morris "Blind Mississippi Morris" Cummings, blues, delta blues, blind, beale street
Morris "Blind Mississippi Morris" Cummings is an American blues artist born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Cummings lost his sight at the age of four,...
Mark Gonzales

Mark Gonzales

male, 40 years old
skateboarder, Alleged Gallery, Vision Skateboards, Embarcadero, San Francisco, street skateboarding, Video Days…Blind Skateboards, blind
Mark Gonzales (born June 1 1969), also known as "The Gonz", is a professional skateboarder and artist. He is known in the skateboarding world as...

Tom Sullivan

male, 62 years old
blind, motivational speaker, American motivational speaker, American motivational writer, Blind musician, American
Tom Sullivan (born March 27, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American performer, author, and motivational speaker.
Sabriye Tenberken

Sabriye Tenberken

female, 39 years old
social worker, From Bonn, German, blind, Braille Without Borders
Sabriye Tenberken (born 1970) is a German socialworker and co-founder of the organisation Braille Without Borders.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Rahsaan Roland Kirk

male, deceased (1977)
Hard-bop musician, Soul-jazz musician, American jazz saxophonist, American jazz flautist, Avant-garde jazz musician, From Columbus, Ohio…blind, Blind musician
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was a blind American jazz multi-instrumentalist. He was perhaps best known for his ability to play more than one saxophone at...
Kenneth Jernigan

Kenneth Jernigan

male
national federation of the blind, blind, American civil rights activist, Norman Kenneth Jernigan, speaker, author
Norman Kenneth Jernigan (November 13, 1926-October 12, 1998) was the longtime leader of the National Federation of the Blind.