World Famous Blind People

                                                                                      

Helen Keller - Helen Adams Keller was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deaf/blind person to graduate from college. She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness. Keller went on to become a world famous speaker and author.

Stevie Wonder - Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Franklin was the 32nd President of the United States of America and played a big role during World War II. He was also the only President to ever get elected 4 years in a row mostly because of his help for the recovery of the economy.

Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman was a slave throughout her youth, being treated as an animal until she eventually escaped captivity. She became victim to vision impairment and seizures. Which did not keep her from tossing her fears aside and to keep fighting for the freedom of her people.

Alec Templeton - Alec was a satirist and pianist who had moved from Wales to the United States where he played with several orchestras, eventually making it to his first radio performances on the Rudy Valley Show. The way he would memorize his scripts before the show was by asking someone to read them 20 times in a row while he would listen. He was blind from birth.

Galileo Galilei - Galileo Galilei was a Tuscan (Italian) astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher being greatly responsible for the scientific revolution. Galileo was the first to discover the four largest satellites of Jupiter which were named the Galilean moons in his honor. His sight started to deteriorate at the age of 68 years old and eventually leaded to complete blindness.