List of people with paraplegia
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This is a list of people who have ever had paraplegia.
- John Porter East, US politician who was partially paralyzed by polio in 1955[1]
- Frank Gardner (journalist), prominent BBC journalist who became paralysed after being shot six times at close range by an Al-Qaeda gunman in Saudi Arabia[2]
- Chuck Graham, United States politician injured in an automobile accident at age 16[3]
- Tanni Grey-Thompson, paralympian born with Spina Bifida[4]
- Rick Hansen, Canadian paralympian who was paralyzed in a car crash at age 15[5]
- John Hockenberry, journalist and blogger[6]
- Paul Johnson (producer), American record producer and disc jockey who was shot accidentally[7]
- Sharry Konopski, model and actress injured in a car accident[8]
- Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist and commentator[9]
- Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter who became paraplegic due to tuberculosis of the vertebral column.[10]
- James Langevin, US Congressman from Rhode Island who was shot accidentally at age 16.
- Deng Pufang, Chinese politician[11]
- Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president of the United States who, at the age of 39, was partially paralyzed by either Guillain-Barré syndrome or polio[12]
- Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician injured in an assassination attempt in 1990[13]
- George Corley Wallace, governor of Alabama and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination[14]
- Colt Wynn, American bodybuilding champion[15]
- Liesl Tesch, an Australian wheelchair basketball player.
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[edit] References
- ^ http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/historyfiction/document/msj/entire.html
- ^ http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/06/interview-frank-gardner-evening.html
- ^ http://www.missouricures.com/news_032805CT.php
- ^ http://www.bdfa.net/tanni2.html
- ^ http://www.rickhansen.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=46
- ^ http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_07-24-2005/featured_0
- ^ http://www.5chicago.com/features/april2006/pauljohnson.html
- ^ http://www.answers.com/topic/sharry-konopski
- ^ http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer082800.asp
- ^ http://www.abcgallery.com/K/kustodiyev/kustodiyevbio.html
- ^ http://www.humanrights-china.org/news/2003-9-18/rdgz2003918151107.htm
- ^ http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/fdrbio.html
- ^ http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9473704
- ^ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/sfeature/assasin.html
- ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0801/is_11_67/ai_n16808019/
