List of people who awoke from a coma

This is a list of people who awoke from a coma after a lengthy period of time.

• Gary Dockery (1954–1997), an American police officer who spent over seven and a half years in a coma after being shot in the forehead
• Jan Grzebski (1942–2008), a Polish railroad worker who fell into a coma in 1988 and woke up in 2007
• Sarah Leanne Scantlin (1966–2016), an American high-school teenager who fell into a coma in 1984 due to injuries sustained from a car accident, and woke up 20 years later in 2004.
• Abdelhak Nouri (born 1997). The then 20-year-old Dutch footballer collapsed during a match. Over a year later, he emerged from a coma.
• Terry Wallis (born 1964). This American man was in a coma for nearly a year after a truck accident, then a minimally conscious state for 19 years.

See also

• Karolina Olsson (1861–1950), a Swedish woman who allegedly hibernated for 32 years