Mother

male
Avengers actor, codename, disability, The Avengers, TV series, John Steed
"Mother" is the codename given to the wheelchair-bound male British government official who gives orders to John Steed and Tara King in the last...
Tom Shakespeare

Tom Shakespeare

male, 43 years old
British, Newcastle University, PhD, King's College, Cambridge, Alumni of King's College, Cambridge, Academic of Newcastle University…Disability rights, The Sexual Politics of Disability, disability
Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet (born 11 May 1966), better known as Tom Shakespeare, is a geneticist and sociologist. He has...
Lex Frieden

Lex Frieden

male
baylor college of medicine, Disability rights activist, Toward Independence, independent living, Justin Dart, Robert Burgdorf…National Council on Disability, disability
Lex Frieden , one of the architects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and a nationally-recognized independent living advocate, has...
Liz Lynne

Liz Lynne

female, 61 years old
Liberal Democrat politician, amnesty international, Member of the European Parliament, British female MP, Liberal Democrat MP, from the United Kingdom…disability
Elizabeth Lynne, known as Liz Lynne, (born 22 January 1948) is a British politician, and has been a Member of the European Parliament for the West...
Norah Fry

Norah Fry

female, deceased (1960)
quaker, clifton, University of Bristol, disabled, disability, Fry family
Norah Lillian Fry (1871-1960) was a member of a Bristol Quaker Fry family of the J. S. Fry & Sons company. She became an advocate and campaigner...
Lennard J. Davis

Lennard J. Davis

male
Columbia University, deafness, disability, Literary theory, University Of Illinois At Chicago, English
Lennard J. Davis, a nationally known American specialist in disability studies, is Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago,...
Karen Buck

Karen Buck

female, 51 years old
London School of Economics, City of Westminster, British MP, Labour MP, County Tyrone, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State…disability
Karen Patricia Buck (born August 30, 1958) British politician. She is the Labour member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North and a...
Arthur Kleinman

Arthur Kleinman

male, 68 years old
Anthropologist, Harvard University, East Asia, Medical Anthropology, Chinese culture, Michael Phillips…disability
Professor Arthur Kleinman was appointed chair of the DSM in 1991 and led the DSM into its second decade, continuing and strengthening academic...
Wolf Wolfensberger

Wolf Wolfensberger

male, 75 years old
Mannheim, Germany, Social Role Valorisation, Academic, American, disability, Normalisation
Wolf Wolfensberger (born in Mannheim, Germany in 1934) is an American academic who influenced disability policy and practice in the United States...

Fred Fay

male
spinal cord injury, disability, Disability rights activist, Disabilities, American with Disabilities Act, American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities…disability rights movement
Fred Fay won the 1997 Henry B. Betts Award for outstanding achievement in civil rights for Americans with disabilities. Fay was recognized for...