List of people with paraplegia

This is a list of people who have or had paraplegia.

• Deng Pufang, Chinese politician, son of Deng Xiaoping^[1]
• Daniel Dias, a Brazilian Paralympic swimmer.
• John Porter East, US politician who was partially paralyzed by polio in 1955^[2]
• 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^[3]
• Chuck Graham, United States politician injured in an automobile accident at age 16^[4]
• Tanni Grey-Thompson, paralympian born with Spina Bifida^[5]
• Rick Hansen, Canadian Paralympian who was paralyzed in a car crash at age 15^[6]
• John Hockenberry, journalist and blogger^[7]
• Paul Johnson (producer), American record producer and disc jockey who was shot accidentally^[8]
• Sharry Konopski, model and actress injured in a car accident^[9]
• Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist and commentator^[10]
• Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter who became paraplegic due to tuberculosis of the vertebral column.^[11]
• James Langevin, US Congressman from Rhode Island who was shot accidentally at age 16.
• Ajith C. S. Perera, a Sri Lankan disability rights activist and former cricket umpire, who was paralyzed when a tree fell onto his moving car.^[12]
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president of the United States who, at the age of 39, was partially paralyzed by polio^[13]
• Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician injured in an assassination attempt in 1990^[14]
• Liesl Tesch, an Australian wheelchair basketball player.
• George Corley Wallace, governor of Alabama and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination^[15]
• Colt Wynn, American bodybuilding champion^[16]
• Zhang Haidi, Chinese woman writer and translator, president of the China Disabled Persons' Federation (2008-).^[17]

See also

• List of cases of Bell's palsy
• List of people with quadriplegia

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