List of people with visual disabilities

Table of contents

1 Blind from birth
2 People with other visual disabilities
3 blind in one eye

Blind from birth

David Blunkett - British cabinet minister.
Clarence Carter
Jose Feliciano, (born 1945)
Errol Garner
Thomas Gore
Al Hibbler
Homer - said to have been blind, not known to have been blind from birth
Blind Lemon Jefferson - Blues musician & singer
Esmond Knight - British actor
Blind Willie McTell, (1901-1959)
Ronnie Milsap
Gilbert Montagn
George Shearing
Alec Templeton

People with other visual disabilities

Tex Avery, (1908-1980), blind in his left eye
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), became blind in later life.
Jorge Luis Borges, became blind in old age from a hereditary condition
Louis Braille, (1809-1852), became blind after an accident caused an eye infection at the age of 3.
Gordon Brown - lost an eye as a boy during a game of rugby.
Andrea Bocelli - barely sighted at birth became completely blind at 12.
Bushwick Bill - American rapper, member of the Geto Boys, lost an eye during an argument with a girlfriend
Ray Charles, (born 1930), blind from glaucoma since age 7.
Ry Cooder - blind in one eye
Sammy Davis Jr, (1925-1990), lost his left eye in an car accident in 1954
Frederick Delius, (1862-1934), became blind later in life after contracting syphilis
Sandy Duncan - lost vision in one eye following surgery.
Peter Falk, (born 1927), lost his right eye at age three as a result of a tumor.
W.C. Handy, (1873-1958), Blues composer, went blind in middle age
Rex Harrison, (1908-1990), blind in one eye as the result of a childhood illness.
Helen Keller, (1880-1968), blindness resulted from fever at age 19 months
Stalebread Lacombe - Jazz musician, went blind in middle age
Fritz Lang, (1890-1976), nearly blind at the end of his life
Jim McMahon - legally blind in one eye due to a pencil accident as a child
John Milton, (1608-1674), became blind at the age of 42 (I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night).
Claude Monet, (1840-1926), lost sight through cataracts in later life.
Horatio Nelson, (1758-1805), lost an eye in battle and later took advantage of his disability.
William Prescott, historian, from childhood blind in one eye, severe visual impairment in other eye
Claude Rains - blind in one eye
John Stanley, composer, became partially blind as the result of a domestic accident at age 2
James Thurber - lost an eye as a child when his brother shot him with an arrow and as an adult lost the sight in the other eye.
Sue Townsend - registered blind in mid 2001 due to a diabetic condition she has suffered from for 20 years.
Stevie Wonder - blindness from retrolental fibroplasia caused by high oxygen concentrations in the incubator in which he was placed because of his premature birth.