I'll start.

Thomas Alva Edison was the inventor of the phonograph, the incandescent light bulb, moving pictures, and many other things that have evolved over time to become essentials of our everyday lives. He was deaf from the age of 12.

People with disabilities who I admire include Mat Fraser (a british actor), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat_Fraser is his wikipedia page since his site is under construction, and Alison Lapper (a British artist), http://www.alisonlapper.com/. Also of course Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder and Stephen Hawking.

Helen Keller had disabilities that hamper most people, but not her. I believe she was deaf and blind. Most people say she was mute, but that's not so. She just didn't know how to talk for a while because she couldn't hear people talk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlee_Matlin

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that effects many people, it manifests primarily as a difficulty with written language, particularly with reading and spelling. Dyslexia occurs at all levels of intelligence.

Famous People with Dyslexia A WEB SITE TO FIND FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH
DYSLEXICA http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_2130.shtml
THERE ARE MANY FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO WERE DYSLEXIC
HERE ARE A FEW

David Jones - Stunt man, pioneer in helicopter aerial photography

Dr. Red Duke - Physician, television commentator

Ann Bancroft - Explorer, lecturer, educator, first woman to travel across the ice to the North and South Poles.

Ellie Hawkins - Record-breaking rock climber

Eric Wynalda - Professional athlete

Frank Dunkle - Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Fred Curry - Navy pilot, CEO of Greyhound Lines

Gaston Caperton - Former governor of West Virginia

Greg Louganis - U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist

Lindsay Wagner - Actress, author, "The Bionic Woman"

Nancy L. Sonnabend - Researcher, inventor, author

Nola D. Chee - Award-winning poet and author

Patricia Polacco - Author, illustrator of children's books

Roger W. Wilkins - Head of the Pulitzer Prize Board

Stephen Bacque - Entrepreneur of the Year, 1998

Sylvia Law - Professor of law and medicine, author

Terry Bowersock - Entrepreneur, motivational speaker

Thomas H. Kean - President of Drew University, former governor of New Jersey

Tomima Edmark - Author, entrepreneur

William B. Yeats - Poet, dramatist, Nobel prize winner

William James - Psychologist, philosopher

William Simmons - MD Professor of anesthesiology

Charles Schwab - Charles Robert Schwab, Jr. (born July 29, 1937) is the
founder and CEO of the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Jay Leno - James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host.


Bruce Jenner - William Bruce Jenner born October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York is a U.S. track athlete, known principally for winning the decathlon in the 1976 Summer Olympics.


Nelson Rockefeller - Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 � January 26, 1979) was the forty-first Vice President of the United States, governor of New York, philanthropist, and businessman.

Harry Belafonte - Harold George Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful Jamaican musicians in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style in the 1950s.

TO READ MORE ABOUT FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH OTHER DISIBILITES GO TO THIS WEB SITE http://www.disabled-world.com/artman/publish/article_0060.shtml

MY SON HAS THE SAME CONDITION AS THE SMALLES MAN IN THE WORLD IS SAID TO HAVE HOWEVER MY SON IS TALLER AT 3 FEET 10 INCHES TALL age 40 THE CONDITON IS CALLED Ontogenesis Imperfecta Congenita. (BRITTLE BONES) I have never head any doctor say my son has primordial dwarfism as it SAID PINGPING HAS . MY CHILD GROWTH DOSE NOT MATCH PINGPING. MY SON HAS VERY SHORT ARMS AND LEGS, A LARGE HEAD. PINGPING IS VERY THIN AND SEAMINGLY PORPORTIONED & HAS NO DEFORMITIES IN HIS LEGS OR ARMS, WHERE AS MY SON DOES BECAUSE OF MANY FRACTURES IN HIS LIFE AND BEFORE HIS BIRTH. PINGPING WAS VERY SMALL AT BIRTH. MY SON WAS 3 WEEKES EARLY BUT SITLL WEIGHED 6 POUNDS AND 6 OUNCES. I AM NOT CONVINED THAT THEY HAVE THE SAME CONDITION. THERE ARE ABOUT 4 DIFFERENT TYPE OF OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA. SO PINGPING COULD HAVE ANOTHER TYPE ALONG WITH ANOTHER CONDITION. MY SON IS CONSIDERED A DWARF BUT I AMNOT SURE WHAT TYPE.
The official shortest man in the world is Pingping - (born July 1988), with primordial dwarfism. Pingping holds the Guinness World Record for the worldâs smallest man measuring 74.61 cms, or 2 feet and 5.37 inches, who is able to walk.

Independent adjudicators from the Guinness Book of World Records traveled to northern China to verify his claims. The experts measured Him three times a day - because the spine compresses over time - and averaged the figures to come up with his official height: 2 feet, 5.37 inches.

He Pingping was born in Huade county, Wulanchabu city in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. At birth he was the size of an adult's palm, according to his father He Yun. Doctors diagnosed his condition as due to the bone deformity Ontogenesis Imperfecta Congenita, which hinders normal bone growth and body height.

SENCE MY SON WAS BORN 40 YEARS AGO, THERE HAS BEEN MUCH MORE LEARNED ABOUT THIS CONDITION OSTEOGENESIS . IT AFFECTS THE WHOLE BODY. IN THAT I AFFECT ALL CONECTIVE TISSUE NOT JUST THE BONES. MY SON HAS HAD OVER 300 FRACTURES IN HIS LIFE TIME. HE CAN NOT STAND OR WALK. HIS MUSCELS ARE STRONGER THAN HIS BONES CAUSING THE BONE TO BEND AND CONTORT. HE BRUSES AND BLEEDS VERY EASILY. THE SCLARA OF HIS EYE ARE BLUE NOT WHITE. THE SHAPE OF HIS HEAD FROM ANY DIRECTION IS A TRIANGLE. HIS HANDS ARE AMOST A LONG AS MINE BUT MUCH THINNER. I DO NOT SEE THESE CHACTORISTICS IN PINGPING.

Remember one of our greatest presidents: Franklin D. Roosevelt, who contracted polio as an adult, which was very unusual.