List of people with quadriplegia
The following people have, or had, paralysis
- 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.
Fictional
- Lincoln Rhyme – forensic expert featured in books by Jeffery Deaver.
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