Politicians
- Abdurrahman Wahid otherwise known as Gusdur - former president of Indonesia
- Richard H. Bernstein - Elected to Wayne State University Board of Governors in Michigan.
- David Blunkett - Labour Party (UK) politician, former cabinet minister, and Member of Parliament.
- Kristen Cox - Cabinet secretary in Utah and Maryland.
- Matthew A. Dunn - Member of the United States House of Representatives.
- Henry Fawcett - Member of Parliament and Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.
- Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Lonsdale - MP for St Pancras North for eleven non-consecutive years, blinded in World War I.
- Thomas Gore - US Senator.
- Louis the Blind, 10th century European king, blinded after being captured.
- Colin Low, Baron Low of Dalston, Member of the British House of Lords.
- David Paterson - Governor of New York.
- Bob C. Riley - An acting governor of Arkansas.
- Thomas D. Schall - A US Senator from Minnesota, blinded by an electrical shock before his time in office.
- Vasily II of Russia, the 15th century Grand Prince of Moscow
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)