Famous people with disabilities - links

Yes, Red Disability has competition! Here are links to just a few of the other websites featuring celebrities who have disabilities ...

• Wikipedia lists of famous people with disabilities - a set of lists, broken down by disability. Some are very thorough, all have links to the Wikipedia section about the person (where available)
• Famous Persons with Disabilities on Tampa Mayor's Alliance for People with Disabilities website - a good list, broken down alphabetically. Brief info about the people mentioned.
• Council for Exceptional Children list of famous people with disabilities - broken down by disability. Very brief info about the people listed.
• Disease lists - lists of people who had polio, diabetes, epilepsy, alzheimers, etc. Broken down by "disease", brief info about the people listed. A useful reference source, but hardly written from a disability rights point of view!
• Famous diabetic people on dlife website - very thorough, broken down by occupation. Little info about most of the people listed, but a few are profiled in some detail.
• Diabetes Music - details of recording artists with diabetes. Info about the albums recorded by the featured artists, and links to purchase said CDs (from Amazon)
• Famous dyslexics - well-presented lists with links to info about the people listed
• Famous people with epilepsy - long list, with detailed information about approximately half of the people listed.
• Famous people with asthma on Asthma Initiative of Michegan website - thorough list, broken down by occupation. Very little info about the people listed, however
• Famous People with Bipolar Disorder on Bipolar Disorder Today website - a comprehensive list, broken down by occupation. No details about the people listed, however.
• Famous people with coeliac on Celiac Canada website - a short list, but does have info about the celebrities listed
• Famous people with autistic traits - includes both real people and fictional characters (!). Links to information about the people listed

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