List of people with quadriplegia

The following people have, or had, paralysis

• Anam Najam - Pakistani quadriplegic psychiatrist.
• Janet Barnes (1928-2013) – Guinness World Records Longest Living Quadriplegic (incomplete) March 21, 2012. Quadriplegic since birth. Wife, mother, inventor, volunteer, artist, writer.^[1]
• Max Brito (born 1971) – Ivoirian international rugby union player; paralyzed in a match against Tonga in the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
• John Callahan – Cartoonist
• Walter Harris Callow – inventor of the wheelchair accessible bus
• Roy Campanella (1921–1993) – American baseball player. Paralyzed in a 1958 auto accident.
• John Carter (1815–1850) – English artist
• Vic Chesnutt – Singer/songwriter
• Chuck Close – American painter
• Darren Drozdov (born 1969) – Professional wrestler, injured in a match with D'Lo Brown
• Brooke Ellison (born 1978) – First quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard University. Paralyzed when struck by a car in 1990.
• Steven Fletcher – Canadian Member of Parliament, paralyzed in an auto accident
• Matt Hampson – England rugby player, paralysed in a scrummaging accident.
• Stephen Hawking (born 1942) – Physicist, paralyzed due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
• Jill Kinmont (1936–2012) – U.S. skier, paralyzed in a skiing accident in 1955, subject of the movie The Other Side of the Mountain
• Eric LeGrand (born 1990) – College football player. Paralyzed in a 2010 football game.
• Tom Luckey (1940-2012) – American architect and sculptor best known for creating abstract playgrounds known as Luckey Climbers. Paralyzed due to a fall in 2005.
• Curtis Mayfield (1942–1999) – Soul singer/songwriter, paralyzed in a stage accident in 1990.
• Elena Mukhina – Soviet gymnast and 1978 World AA Champion, paralyzed as a result of an under-rotation in a practice routine.
• Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010) – soul singer, paralyzed in an auto accident in 1982.
• Edward Rainey (born 1961) – Scottish painter
• Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) – Actor, injured in a 1995 eventing accident.
• Ed Roberts – Disability rights activist, first quadriplegic to attend the University of California, Berkeley
• Patrick Rummerfield – first fully recovered quadriplegic, athlete, motivational speaker
• Ramón Sampedro – Spanish fisherman, whose struggle for the right to die was dramatized in the film Mar Adentro
• Sam Schmidt – IndyCar racing driver, paralysed in 2000 testing crash
• Ken Slater (1924-1963), Australian rules footballer and tennis player, paralyzed in car accident
• Darryl Stingley (1951–2007) – American football player, paralyzed in a 1978 exhibition game.
• Sam Sullivan (born 1959) – Canadian politician, mayor of Vancouver from 2005–2008. Paralyzed in a skiing accident at age 19.
• Joni Eareckson Tada (born 1949) – Christian author and motivational speaker, paralyzed in a 1967 diving accident.
• Barbara Turnbull (1965-2015) – Canadian newspaper journalist, and motivational writer, paralyzed in a 1993 robbery.
• Mike Utley (born 1965) – Former Detroit Lions lineman, injured on a Barry Sanders touchdown run in 1991.
• Sheikh Ahmed Yassin – Former leader of Hamas
• Mark Zupan (born 1975) – American wheelchair rugby player, featured in the film Murderball. Paralyzed in a 1993 auto accident.
• Peter Truter (born 1974) – South African wheelchair rugby player, first quadriplegic to bungee jump Blaaukranz highest bungee in the world 216 m in 2001. Paralysed in 1993 auto accident.
• Kent Hehr (born 1969) – Canadian politician, Member of Parliament from 2015–present. Paralyzed in shooting accident at age 22.
• Dinesh Palipana – Australian doctor, the first quadriplegic intern in Queensland, the second quadriplegic medical graduate in Australia. A spinal cord injury was caused as a result of a car accident.

Fictional

• Lincoln Rhyme – forensic expert featured in books by Jeffery Deaver.

See also

• List of people with paraplegia

References