List of People With Paraplegia

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

  • John Porter East, US politician who was partially paralyzed by polio in 1955
  • 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
  • Chuck Graham, United States politician injured in an automobile accident at age 16
  • Tanni Grey-Thompson, paralympian born with Spina Bifida
  • Rick Hansen, Canadian Paralympian who was paralyzed in a car crash at age 15
  • John Hockenberry, journalist and blogger
  • Paul Johnson (producer), American record producer and disc jockey who was shot accidentally
  • Sharry Konopski, model and actress injured in a car accident
  • Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist and commentator
  • Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter who became paraplegic due to tuberculosis of the vertebral column.
  • 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.
  • Deng Pufang, Chinese politician
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, former president of the United States who, at the age of 39, was partially paralyzed by either Guillain-Barré syndrome or polio
  • Wolfgang Schäuble, German politician injured in an assassination attempt in 1990
  • Liesl Tesch, an Australian wheelchair basketball player.
  • George Corley Wallace, governor of Alabama and former candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination
  • Colt Wynn, American bodybuilding champion

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