- Louis The Blind
Louis the Blind (c. 880 - 28 June 928) was the king of Provence from 887, king of Italy from 900, and briefly Holy Roman Emperor, as Louis III, between 901 and 905. He was the son of Boso, the usurper king of Provence, and Ermengard, a daughter of the Emperor Louis II. Through his father, he was a Bosonid, but through his mother, a Carolingian. He succeeded his father upon his death in January 887, though at that time, … - Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. - Didymus The Blind
Didymus (313-398), surnamed the Blind, was an ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria, likely born in year 313. Although he became blind at the age of four, before he had learned to read, he succeeded in mastering the whole gamut of the sciences then known. Upon entering the service of the Church he was placed at the head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, where he lived and worked. He counted among his pupils Jerome and Rufinus. - Mathilde Blind
Mathilde Blind (Born March, 21 1841 in Mannheim, Germany - 1896) (originally Mathilde Cohen), was a poet. She was born at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, adopting the surname of her stepfather, Karl Blind. She published several books of poetry, including "The Prophecy of St. Oran" (1881), "The Heather on Fire" (1886), "Songs and Sonnets" (1893), "Birds of Passage" (1895). - Karl Blind
Karl Blind (born 1826) was a German revolutionist and journalist, born at Mannheim. Blind took part in the risings of 1848. He was sentenced to prison in consequence of a pamphlet he wrote entitled "German Hunger and German Princes," but he was rescued by the mob. He found refuge in England, where he interested himself in democratic movements, and cultivated his literary as well as his political proclivities by contributing to magazines, and otherwise. - Danny Blind
Dirk Franciscus ("Danny") Blind (born August 1, 1961 in Oost-Souburg, Netherlands) is a football coach and former Dutch international player. He has played as a defender for RCS, Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax Amsterdam and the Dutch national team. With Ajax he won all three European trophies (UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1987, the UEFA Cup in 1992 and the UEFA Champions League in 1995). - Ray Charles
Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson, a pioneering American pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes" called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem - a classic, … - Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. - Blind Willie McTell
Blind Willie McTell (May 5 1908-August 15 1959), born William Samuel McTell, was an influential American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a twelve-string finger picking guitarist, and recorded from 1927 to 1955. One of his most famous songs, "Statesboro Blues", has been covered by artists such as Taj Mahal and The Allman Brothers Band. - David Paterson
David A. Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Lieutenant Governor of New York. He is the first African American to hold this position. He was selected as running mate by New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1977 and later his law degree from Hofstra Law School. - 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, … - Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli is an Italian singer, writer, and music producer. He is both an operatic tenor and a classical crossover singer. To date, he has recorded four complete operas — "La Bohème", "Il Trovatore", "Werther" and "Tosca" — in addition to various classical and pop albums. Bocelli has congenital glaucoma and is blind. - John Milton
John Milton (December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the English Commonwealth. Most famed for his epic poem "Paradise Lost", Milton is celebrated as well for his eloquent treatise condemning censorship, "Areopagitica". - Louis Braille
This section contains free worksheets, flashcards, online activities and other educational resources to support teaching and learning about Louis Braille in Early Years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Louis Braille was born in town near Paris, France in 1809. As a toddler he used to watch his father make shoes. One day, while his father was not watching, he picked up a sharp pointed tool for making holes in leather called an awl. - Omar Abdel-Rahman
Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Administrative Maximum Penitentiary hospital in Florence, Colorado, United States. Formerly a resident of New York City, Abdel-Rahman and nine others were convicted of "Seditious Conspiracy," which requires only that a crime be planned, not that it necessarily be attempted. His prosecution grew out of investigations of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. - Bob Jones
Bob Jones is a Texas businessman. He is the former CEO of the National Center for Employment of the Disabled (NCED), which was based in El Paso, Texas. In late 2006 the Oregonian published articles alleging that Jones embezzled millions of dollars from NCED and, by extension, from the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Program, a United States federal program that helps blind and other severely disabled people. Under the management of the Jones Family Trust (JFT), … - New Jack
Jerome Young (born January 3 1963) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his stage name, New Jack. He is known for his willingness to take dangerous bumps and his stiff, relentless, remorseless, hardcore wrestling style, usually incorporating weapons into his matches. He is also known for having his theme song in ECW ("Natural Born Killaz" by Ice Cube and Dr. Dre) play throughout his matches. - Bartimaeus
Bartimaeus (more accurately "Bar Timaeus", "Son of Timaeus") is the name given in the Gospel of Mark to a blind man healed by Jesus as he exited Jericho (Mark 10:46-52). Matthew (20:29-34) also has the healing after Jericho, but the healing is of "two" blind men, and the name of neither one is given. Luke (18:35-43), who does not provide a name either, disagrees with the other two sources and has the miracle occur when Jesus enters Jericho, … - Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of wisdom. He was influenced by authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Schopenhauer and G. K. Chesterton. - David Blunkett
David Blunkett (born 6 June 1947) is a British Labour Party politician and has been Member of Parliament for Sheffield Brightside since 1987. Blind since birth and from a poor family, he rose to become Education Secretary from 1997 to 2001, and then Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004, when he resigned after a scandal. - Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson (August 15, 1916) was an American football player. He was blind in one eye, from a childhood incident. He was the Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterback in their 1948 and 1949 NFL championship teams. - Ronnie Milsap
Ronnie Milsap (born Ronnie Lee Milsap January 16, 1943 in Robbinsville, North Carolina) is an American Country/Pop Singer and Musician. He was one of Country Music's most popular singers in the 1970s and 1980s. He became Country Music's first blind superstar. He was one of the many crossover Country singers in Country Music at this time, which was also called Countrypolitan or Country Pop. His biggest crossover hits include "(There's) No Gettin' Over Me", … - Erik Weihenmayer
Erik Weihenmayer (born 1968) is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002. His story was covered in a Time article in June 2001 titled "Blind Faith". He is author of "Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye can See", his autobiography. Erik is an acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, … - David Lloyd
David Lloyd (c. 1938 - 30 May 2006) was an evolutionary biologist and the seventh New Zealander to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He did pioneering work on the theory of plant reproduction. In December of 1992, Lloyd fell victim to poisoning by acrylamide, a common laboratory chemical. As a result, he laid in a coma for three months and he was left blind, mute, and quadriplegic. - Noble
Martin Noble (stage name Noble) is the lead guitarist with UK indie rock band British Sea Power. Born and raised in Bury, Greater Manchester, his first musical experience was as keyboard player in Blind, a band he formed with school friends. He joined British Sea Power after meeting Yan, the band's lead vocalist, whilst studying at Reading University. As well as guitar he also plays piano and keyboards on many British Sea Power recordings. - Joana Zimmer
Joana Zimmer (born 27 October 1979; Freiburg im Breisgau) is a German pop music singer, often compared to Celine Dion or Gary Barlow. Zimmer is also blind. - Jack Horner
Gordon John "Jack" Horner (1912-January 10, 2005) was a noted sports journalist who worked in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market of Minnesota. He participated in the first modern television broadcasts of KSTP-TV channel 5, appearing on the first fully electronic telecast in the state on December 7, 1947 (others had appeared on the mechanical TV station W9XAT in the 1930s). When the station began regular broadcasts in April 1948, … - James Grover Thurber
James Thurber was born in Columbus, Ohio. His father was Charles Leander (later surnamed Lincoln), a minor politician. Mary Thurber , his mother, was a strong-minded woman and a practical joker, whom her son depicted in his autobiographical stories MY LIFE AND HARD TIMES (1933). Thurber's father, who had dreams of being an actor or lawyer, was said to have been the basis for the typical small, slight man of Thurber's stories. - Diane Schuur
Diane Schuur (born December 10, 1953 in Tacoma, Washington) is a jazz singer and pianist. She had her first "gig" at a Holiday Inn at age ten in which she sang country music. She started performing songs she wrote starting at sixteen. Her "big break" came when Stan Getz became positive about her work on hearing her sing Amazing Grace at the 1979 Monterey Jazz Festival. Later, in 1982, Getz asked her to join him at a performance at the White House. - Chen Guangcheng
Chen Guangcheng is a blind activist in the People's Republic of China at the forefront of a growing civil rights movement who drew international attention to human rights issues in rural areas. He was placed under house arrest from September 2005 to March 2006 after talking to "Time" magazine about the forced abortion cases he investigated in Linyi County, Shandong. - Charlotte
Charlotte Kelly is a blind white English/black Caribbean female R&B artist originally from Coventry, UK, but latterly residing in London, UK. In the late nineties she hit the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice. Her first chart entry "Skin" spent a week at #1 in 1999. She followed that with "Someday," which peaked at #4. She enjoyed another hit in 2000: "Don't Be Afraid Of the Dark", which reached #11. - Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Yassin was the co-founder (with Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi) and the spiritual leader of the militant Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas, originally calling it "the Palestinian Wing of the Muslim Brotherhood". In addition to being nearly blind, he was a paraplegic and had to use a wheelchair after a playground accident in his youth. He was assassinated by an Israeli helicopter gunship. - Homer
Homer (Greek Hómēros) was a legendary early Greek poet and rhapsode traditionally credited with the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey, commonly assumed to have lived in the 8th century BC. - Blind Harry
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 the life of William Wallace, the Scottish freedom-fighter. He wrote "The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace" around 1477, 170 years after the death of Wallace in 1305. - Blind Mississippi Morris
Morris "Blind Mississippi Morris" Cummings is an American blues artist born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Cummings lost his sight at the age of four, but that didn’t stop him from learning the blues. Morris has become a popular blues act on Beale Street. Morris and his band, the Pocket Rockets, are known as the "real deal from Beale". Morris has a talented lineage. His cousins, Robert and Mary Diggs, led the Memphis Sheiks, … - Mark Gonzales
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 the pioneer of street skateboarding, currently skateboarding's most popular form. Gonzales arrived on the skateboarding scene at age 15 with a more modern approach to street skating and made the cover of Thrasher Magazine's November 1984 issue, riding a board from Alva, with which he was sponsored at the time. - Tom Sullivan
Tom Sullivan (born March 27, 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American performer, author, and motivational speaker. - Sabriye Tenberken
Sabriye Tenberken (born 1970) is a German socialworker and co-founder of the organisation Braille Without Borders. - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
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 once. Listen to this audio clip · (info) Rahsaan simultaneously playing multiple saxophones. (audio help) - Kenneth Jernigan
Norman Kenneth Jernigan (November 13, 1926-October 12, 1998) was the longtime leader of the National Federation of the Blind.
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