Albert Einstein
Disability : Learning disability and did not speak until age 3.
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
Alexander Graham Bell
Disability : Learning disability.
Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent Scottish scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.
Thomas Alva Edison
Disability : Learning disability and he could not read till he was twelve.
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
Lord Nelson
Disability: born with talipes
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, KB was a British flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Disability : Deaf
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers.
Stephen Hawking
Disability : Motor Neuron disease or a variant of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS FRSA is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.
Michael Bolton
Disability : Hearing Impaired
Michael Bolotin (born February 26, 1953), known professionally as Michael Bolton, is an American singer-songwriter. Bolton originally performed in the hard rock and heavy metal genres from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, both on his early solo albums and those he recorded as the frontman of the band Blackjack. He is best known, however, for his series of soft rock ballads, recorded after a stylistic change in the late 1980s. He is noted for his distinctive tenor/countertenor voice and "strained" vocal style
Oscar Pistorius
Disability : Doesn't have both legs below the knee.
Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius is a South African sprint runner. Although both of Pistorius' legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old, he competes in events for single below-knee amputees and for able-bodied athletes.
Stevie Wonder
Disability : Blind
Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. A child prodigy, he developed into one of the most creative and loved musical figures of the late 20th century.
Hellen Keller
Disability : Deaf / Blind
Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
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