Deaf People

Deaf People

This is an incomplete list of notable deaf people.

Read more about Deaf People:  Important Historical Figures in Deaf History and Culture, Notable Children of Deaf Adults (CODAs), Notable Deaf People, Notable People With Hearing Loss, Musicians With Hearing Loss

Famous quotes containing the words deaf and/or people:

    “Who is so deaf or so blind as he
    That wilfully will neither hear nor see?”
    —16th century English proverb, collected in J. Heywood, Dialogue of Proverbs (1546)

    “Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.... Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn’t the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)