List of deaf people

Deaf people are typically defined as those who have profound hearing impairment in both ears as a result of either acquired or congenital hearing loss. Such people may be associated with deaf culture. Deafness (little to no hearing) is distinguished from partial hearing loss or damage (such as tinnitus), which is less severe impairment in one or both sides.[1] The definition of deafness varies across countries, cultures, and time, though the World Health Organization classes profound hearing loss as the failure to hear a sound of 90 decibels or louder in a hearing test.[2]

In addition to those with profound hearing loss, people without profound hearing loss may also identify as deaf, often where the person was raised within a deaf community and for whom sign language is their first language.[3] Those who have mostly lived as a hearing person and acquire deafness briefly, due to a temporary illness or shortly before death, for example, are not typically classed as deaf people.

Deaf educators and organizers

Actors

Artists

Musicians

Scientists

Sports

American football

  • Albert Berg, American footballer player, coach, and writer
  • Derrick Coleman, American fullback and Super Bowl champion
  • Gilbert O. Erickson, American college footballer player and photographer
  • Bonnie Sloan, American defensive tackle and first deaf person drafted to the National Football League
  • Kenny Walker, American gridiron player and first deaf player in the Canadian Football League
  • Blaise Winter, American coach and former defensive end in the NFL

Association football

Athletics

Baseball

  • Michael Cuddyer, American outfielder and two-time MLB All-Star
  • Dummy Deegan, American pitcher for the New York Giants
  • Ed Dundon, American pitcher and first deaf player in Major League Baseball
  • Tyson Gillies, Canadian outfielder and Pan American Games gold medalist
  • Dummy Hoy, American center fielder and most accomplished deaf player in Major League Baseball
  • Yuya Ishii, Japanese pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball
  • Dummy Leitner, American pitcher and Major League Baseball player
  • Dummy Lynch, American second baseman and World War II veteran
  • Thomas Lynch, American pitcher
  • Curtis Pride, American outfielder and coach
  • Dick Sipek, American outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds
  • Dummy Taylor, American pitcher and 1905 World Series winner

Basketball

Cricket

  • Anjan Bhattacharjee, Indian first-class bowler for Bihar
  • Lance Cairns, New Zealand all-rounder and international test player
  • John Hodgkins, English first-class all-rounder for Nottinghamshire
  • Charlie McLeod, Australian all-rounder and international test player
  • Imran Sheikh, former captain of the deaf Indian national team
  • Baba Sidhaye, Indian first-class all-rounder and first national-level deaf-mute player
  • Umesh Valjee, former captain of the deaf English national team

Swimming

Tennis

Winter sports

Writers

Other occupations

Fictional characters

References

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  3. Madeleine Chapman, Jesper Dammeyer, The Significance of Deaf Identity for Psychological Well-Being, The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 187–194, https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enw073
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  6. Moore, Matthew S.; Panara, Robert (1996). "Chapter 54: Linda Bove". Great Deaf Americans : The Second Edition. Rochester, N.Y. : Deaf Life Press. pp. 352–357.
  7. Hetrick, Adam (2012-05-06). Tribes Actor Russell Harvard Finds His Pack. Playbill. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  8. Bergan, Ronald (2010-11-29). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/29/leslie-nielsen-obituary Leslie Nielsen obituary ]. The Guardian. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  9. Stern, Shoshannah (2020-05-08). Mothering While Deaf in a Newly Quiet World. New York Times. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  10. Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. (1999). Who Was Who in American Art, 1564–1975: 400 Years of Artists in America. Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press. p. 437. ISBN 0932087558.
  11. The Deafness of Goya – Part I in hearinghealthmatters.org
  12. Swerling, Gabriella (2017-09-28). David Hockney: Hearing loss has helped me paint better. The Times. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  13. Martínez, Antonio.Interview with Jan, DifuSord number. 2 (in Spanish)
  14. Pyatt, Joseph O. (1868). Memoir of Albert Newsam, Deaf Mute Artist. Philadelphia: "Printed for the Author".
  15. Bento RF. Beethoven's Deafness, the Defiance of a Genius. Int. Arch. Otorhinolaryngol. 2009;13(3):317-321.
  16. Beechey, Gwilym, William Boyce, and J. H. "Memoirs of Dr. William Boyce." The Musical Quarterly 57, no. 1 (1971): 87-106. Accessed July 10, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/740872.
  17. Catsoulis, Jeannette (2010-04-08). Deaf, and Trying to Make It in Showbiz. New York Times. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  18. I’m a Grammy Award Winning Musician and I’m Deaf. Evelyn Glennie (2019-05-28). Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  19. H Dominic & W Stiles (2012-01-06). [https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-rnid/2012/01/06/deafness-and-tinnitus-in-a-musician-bedrich-smetana/ Deafness and tinnitus in a musician – Bedřich Smetana. UCL. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  20. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang (2005-07-14). Michael Chorost and the cyborg memoir.Institute for the Future. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
  21. Kehe, Marjorie (2012-03-12). That 'Crazy Daisy' who started the Girl Scouts . Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 2020-07-10.

Further reading

  • Lang, Harry G. Fighting in the Shadows: Untold Stories of Deaf People in the Civil War (Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2017), xv, 255 pp.
  • Sonnenstrahl, Deborah M. Deaf Artists in America, Colonial to Contemporary. San Diego: Dawnsign Press, 2002.
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