Notable People With Hearing Loss
- Lance Allred, American basketball player, first deaf person to play in the NBA
- Guillaume Amontons, French inventor and physicist
- Cliff Bastin, British footballer
- Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist filmmaker and poet
- Bill Clinton, former President of the United States
- Gertrude Ederle, American competitive swimmer, first woman to swim the English Channel
- Thomas Edison, American inventor
- Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder
- Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
- Francisco Goya, Spanish painter
- Oliver Heaviside, British engineer, mathematician and physicist
- Georgia Horsley, Miss England 2007 and contestant in Miss World 2007
- I. King Jordan, the first president of Gallaudet University with a profound hearing loss
- Katie Leclerc, American actor
- Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
- Rob Lowe, American actor, completely deaf in right ear
- Henrietta Leavitt, American astronomer
- Harold MacGrath, American author
- Sir William McMahon, Australian politician and Prime Minister
- Pierre de Ronsard, French poet
- R. N. Taber, English poet
- Judith Wright, Australian poet
- Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player, first deaf person to play in the Euroleague
- Halle Berry, American Actress, acquired unilateral hearing loss
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