Activists and Organizers of The Blind
- Tilly Aston - Founder of the Victorian Association of Braille Writers.
- Louis Braille - Known for Braille.
- Francis Joseph Campbell - Anti-slavery campaigner and co-founder of the Royal National College for the Blind
- Kenneth Jernigan - Long-time leader of the National Federation of the Blind.
- Helen Keller - American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and activist.
- Juan Carlos González Leiva - Cuban lawyer, who founded the Fraternity of the Independent Blind of Cuba and the Cuban Foundation of Human Rights. He has been harassed, imprisoned and tortured by the communist regime.
- Sabriye Tenberken - Braille Without Borders co-founder.
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