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50 celebrities with disabilties

50 celebrities with disabilties

Apart from the obvious ones such as Hawking and Wonder there's a fair few celebrities and well-known faces who have a various form of disability.motor neurone disease and Stevie may be blind as a bat, but as our poll shows there's a plethora of famous people who aren't as able bodied as one may think...

1.    Jim Carrey – Mood disorder

2.    Neil Young – Epilepsy, Polio

3.    David Beckham – Tourettes

4.    Donald Sutherland – Polio

5.    Harrison Ford – Mood disorder

6.    Albert Einstein – Dyslexia

7.    John F. Kennedy – Asthma

8.    Aldof Hitler – Parkinsons Disease

9.    Ben Elton – Psoriasis*

10.  Leonardo DiCaprio - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

11.  Ronald Reagan – Dementia

12.  Dudley Moore – Club foot

13.  Tom Hanks - Asperger's Syndrome

14.  Bruce Willis – Speech Impediment

15.  Adam Ant - Mood disorder

16.  Liza Minelli - Asthma

17.  William Shakespeare -Asperger's Syndrome

18.  Ben Stiller - Mood disorder

19.  Dan Ackroyd - Tourettes

20. Rowan Atkinson -Speech Impediment

21.  Vincent Van Goth – Epilepsy

22.  Ian Dury - Polio

23.  Agatha Christie - Epilepsy

24.  Samuel L Jackson - Speech Impediment

25.  Princess Diana - Mood disorder

26.  Sir Isaac Newton - Epilepsy

27.  Thomas Edison - Dyslexia

28.  Kurt Cobain - Mood disorder

29.  Whoopi Goldberg - Dyslexia

30.  Richard Pryor – Multiple Sclerosis

31.  Michael J Fox – Parkinson Disease

32.  Jackie Stewart – Dyslexia

33.  Danny Glover - Epilepsy

34.  Billy Corgan - Mood disorder

35.  Winston Churchill - Mood disorder

36.  Tom Cruise – Dyslexia

37.  Charles Dickens -  Epilepsy

38.  Richard Branson - Dyslexia

39.  Cher - Dyslexia

40.  Justin Timberlake – Learning difficulties

41.   Billy Connolly – ADD (Attention Defecit Disorder)

42.  Quentin Tarantino – Dyslexia

43.  Mike Skinner - Photo-sensitive epilepsy

44.  Steve Redgrave – Diabetic

45.  Beethoven -   deaf , asthma

46.  Jamie Oliver – Learning difficulties

47.  Sarah Michelle Geller – Scoliosis

48.  Halle Belly – Diabetes

49.  Keira  Knightly – Dyslexia

50.  Orlando Bloom - Dyslexia

 

*effects the skin and joints

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