List of people with osteogenesis imperfecta
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This is a list of cases of people who have osteogenesis imperfecta
Contents
Activists and speakers
- Alec Cabacungan - spokesperson for Shriners Hospitals for Children.[1]
- Raul Krauthausen - German/Colombian activist and recipient of the Order of Merit of Germany.[2]
- Peter Radtke - German founder of Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also a philologist and actor.[3]
- Sean Stephenson - an American therapist, self-help author and motivational speaker.[4]
Entertainers
Actors
- Michael J. Anderson - American known for appearing in David Lynch works and for playing Samson Leonhart on the HBO series Carnivàle.[5][6]
- Jack Binstead - British actor known for a role in the British sitcom Bad Education.[7][8]
- Julie Fernandez - British actress best known for her role in the British The Office.[9]
- Rick Howland - Canadian actor who is known for Lost Girl.[10]
- Kerry Ingram - British child actress best known for her role as Shireen Baratheon in the HBO series Game of Thrones and Matilda Wormwood in Matilda the Musical'.[11]
- Quentin Kenihan - An Australian reality TV personality who played Corpus Colossus in Mad Max: Fury Road.[12][13]
- Tarah Lynne Schaeffer (Sesame Street)[14]
- Nabil Shaban - A Jordanian-British actor and writer who founded Graeae Theatre Company, which promotes performers with disabilities.[15]
- Atticus Shaffer - American who plays Brick Heck on The Middle.[16][17][18]
Comedians
- Guillaume Bats - A French humorist.[19]
Musicians
- Randy Guss - Drummer for Toad the Wet Sprocket[20][21]
- Kalyn Heffernan - A Hip-hop artist and producer known for the group Wheelchair Sports Camp.[22]
- Gaelynn Lea who has worked with Alan Sparhawk[23] and won an NPR Music contest.[24][25]
- Michel Petrucciani - French jazz pianist who was granted a Légion d'honneur in Paris.[26]
- Pernille Vallentin - Danish singer who also acts.[27]
- Sparsh Shah - Indian American singer and rapper who became an Internet sensation for his cover of Eminem's "Not Afraid" in 2016.[28]
Journalists and writers
- Franco Bomprezzi - An Italian journalist who received the Order of Merit in 2007.[29][30]
- Christopher Hewitt - British poet and namesake of the Christopher Hewitt Award.[31]
- Firdaus Kanga - Parsi playwright known for Trying to Grow.[32]
- Philippe Rahmy - French speaking poet and novelist who has received the Prix Dentan among others.[33][34]
- Stella Young - She was an Australian comedian and journalist.[35]
Politicians
- Nicky Chapman, Baroness Chapman - A British peer and disability rights activist.[36]
- Theresia Haidlmayr - She had been a politician of Austria's The Greens – The Green Alternative.[37]
- Freyja Haraldsdottir - A member of the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly of 2010.[38][39][40]
People in Sports and Games
- Doug Herland - American Olympic bronze medalist coxswain.[41]
- Taylor Lipsett - An American Paralympic gold and bronze medalist in sledge hockey.[42][43]
- Bobby Nail - American bridge player in the ACBL Hall of Fame.[44]
- Josef Neumaier - A Paralympic multiple medalist in shooting for Germany.[45]
- Jeremy Synot - A former Australian wheelchair basketball player and current National Wheelchair Basketball League Head Coach of the RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets.[46]
- Jordanne Whiley - A British Paralympic bronze medalist in Wheelchair tennis at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[47][48]
Notable as a subject
- Madge Bester - A South African woman and formerly the "world's shortest living woman."[49][50]
- Leo Beuerman - The subject of the documentary Leo Beuerman, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).[51]
- Lin Yü-chih - He had once been counted as the "world's shortest man."[52][53]
Other
- Fredrick Brennan - The creator of 8chan.[54]
Disputed
- French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.[55] His short stature and health problems are believed to have been due to congenital factors, but he was never diagnosed with a specific disorder and recent theories suggest that he had a mild form of osteopetrosis instead.[56]
- Viking invader of England, Ivar the Boneless: There is notable speculation about his physical condition; but objective diagnosis is not possible since his skeleton was exhumed and burnt 200 years after his death by William the Conquerer.[57]
References
- ↑ [1] Retrieved 26 December 2015
- ↑ Fellow: Raúl Krauthausen, germany.ashoka.org Retrieved 11 April 2013
- ↑ Osteogenesis Imperfecta Federation of Europe
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- ↑ Surrey Comet
- ↑ BBC article on disabled vloggers
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- ↑ Interview in Ability Magazine
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- ↑ News.com.au
- ↑ Adelaide Now
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- ↑ Le Figaro (French)
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- ↑ Huffington Post
- ↑ Minnesota Public Television Association (pdf)
- ↑ Duluth News Tribune
- ↑ NPR
- ↑ Michel Petrucciani: Victory of the Spirit, International Herald Tribune, 12 January 1999.
- ↑ Danish OI magazine (PDF)
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Quirinale
- ↑ Tesina in CL
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- ↑ Dallas - Movies - Willing and able Archived September 9, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Université de Lausanne
- ↑ CBI.gov
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- ↑ Haidlmayr, smilerkreativ.at, retrieved 3 March 2015
- ↑ Stuff.co.nz
- ↑ Iceland Review
- ↑ Morgunblaðið
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- ↑ Paralympics info, McKinney Courier-Gazette, 6 April 2006.
- ↑ "Nail, G. Robert", Hall of Fame of the ACBL
- ↑ IPC bio
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- ↑ LJ World
- ↑ World's shortest man, woman campaign for disabled
- ↑ Murphy, W. (2002). Orphan Diseases: New Hope for Rare Medical Conditions. Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0-399-14218-5
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- ↑ The Vikings, Frank. R. Donovan, author; Sir Thomas D. Kendrick, consultant; Horizon Caravel Books, by the editors of Horizon Magazine, Fourth Edition, American Heritage Publishing Co.: New York, 1964, LCC# 64-17106, pp. 44-45; 145, 148.
