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Francisco Goya (1746 – 1828): Spanish painter, deaf and blind by the time of his death.[4]
Victorine Morriseau (1789 – 1832): first deafblind person to be educated in Paris.
James Mitchell (1795 – 1869): congenitally deafblind son of Scottish minister.[5]
Sanzan Tani (1802 – 1867): Japanese teacher who became deaf in childhood and blind later in life, communicating with students by touch.
Hieronymus Lorm (1821 – 1902): inventor and novelist.
Laura Bridgman (1829 – 1889): first deafblind child to be successfully educated in the US.
Mary Bradley (? – 1866): first deafblind child to be successfully educated in the UK.
Joseph Hague: second deafblind child to be successfully educated in the UK.
Yvonne Pitrois (1880 – 1937): French biographer.
Helen Keller (1880 – 1968): author, activist, and lecturer, first deafblind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Alice Betteridge (1901 – 1966): first deafblind Australian to be educated. Teacher, traveller, writer.
Jack Clemo (1916 – 1994): British poet who became deafblind as an adult.
Richard Kinney (1924 – 1979): educator, lecturer, and poet; third deafblind person to graduate from an American university; president of the Hadley School for the Blind from 1975 to 1979.[6]
Robert Smithdas (1925 – ): first deafblind person in the US to receive a master's degree.
Mae Brown (1935 – 1973): Canada’s first deafblind university graduate; developed services for the deafblind at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). [7]
Theresa Poh Lin Chan (1945? – ): Singaporean teacher and writer.