List of deaf people

Chuck Baird, (1947–2012) American painter and performer, one of the founding members of the De'Via Deaf art movement

Casar Jacobson, Norwegian-Canadian first ever deaf winner of Miss Canada (2013).

Ferdinand Berthier, French intellectual, published several articles, first deaf person to receive the French Legion of Honour, founder of world's first deaf organization

Julia Brace (1807–1884), early American deaf-blind student at the Hartford School for the Deaf

John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854), American, itinerant artist of the Federalist Period in America

Laura Bridgman, (1829–1889), American, first deaf-blind student of Dr. Samuel Howe at the Perkins School for the Blind

Teresa de Cartagena, Spanish conversa nun and mystic author of the 15th century who became deaf in later life. The first mystic author in Spanish.

Laurent Clerc (1785–1869), student and teacher (1798–1816) at the Paris deaf school of the Abbé de l'Épée ; accompanied Thomas Gallaudet to America to teach deaf children. Co-founded the first deaf school in North America in 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut.

Pierre Desloges (1742–?), French deaf writer and bookbinder, first known deaf person to publish a book

Andrew Foster, (1925–1987), American educator, first Black deaf person to earn a bachelor's degree from Gallaudet College, Christian missionary to Africa

William Elsworth "Dummy" Hoy (1862–1961), American baseball player

I. King Jordan, first deaf president (eighth overall) of Gallaudet University

Helen Keller, American deaf-blind writer, lecturer, and actress

Alice Cogswell, first deaf student at American School for the Deaf

Notable Deaf people

Dimitra Arapoglou, deaf member of Greek parliament, from 2007-2009

Sean Berdy, actor and comedian

Linda Bove, actress, known particularly for the role of Linda the Librarian on the children's television program Sesame Street

Bernard Bragg, performer, writer, director, poet, and artist

Deanne Bray, actress who played the lead role on Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

Oreste Carpi, Italian painter

Michael Chorost, writer

Willy Conley, playwright, actor, photographer

Robert R. Davila, ninth president of Gallaudet University

Nyle DiMarco, model and 2015 winner of America's Next Top Model

Izrael Zachariah Deutsch, deaf Jew who wrote a memoir about surviving the Holocaust

Thomas Edison, American inventor

Aryana Engineer, actress

Ashley Fiolek, 4-time Women's Motocross Champion

Phyllis Frelich, Tony Award winner for her role in the stage production of Children of a Lesser God

Claudia L. Gordon, lawyer

Matt Hamill, MMA fighter

Russell Harvard, actor

T. Alan Hurwitz, tenth president of Gallaudet University and former Vice President of National Technical Institute for the Deaf

Alan Kilby, United Kingdom professional wrestler

Jim Kyte (b. 1964), first (and to date, only) deaf person to play in the National Hockey League

Ryan Lane, actor and model

Rush Limbaugh, American conservative radio talk show host

Fernanda Machado Brazilian artist, actress and deaf poet

Mojo Mathers (b. 1966), New Zealand politician

Marlee Matlin, only deaf person to win an Academy Award (Best Actress) for her role in Children of a Lesser God

Caleb McDuff racing driver

Dorothy Miles, deaf poet and activist

Betty G. Miller, American artist

Lawrence R. Newman, deaf educator and activist, and served two terms as President of the National Association of the Deaf

Michael Ndurumo, deaf educator from Kenya, third deaf person from Africa to obtain a Ph.D.

Roger Demosthenes O'Kelly, (b. 1880) deaf blind black lawyer, Yale alumnus

Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, (b. 1912) British mathematician and politician

Kitty O'Neil, stuntwoman, high-speed racer

Andrew Phillips, lawyer

Marie Jean Philip, teacher and leading international advocate for the right to sign language

Will J. Quinlan, American Artist, etcher, painter

Granville Redmond, American painter

Terrylene Sacchetti, actress

Signmark, Finnish rap artist

Slava Raškaj (1877–1906), Croatian painter

Howie Seago, actor and director

The Silent Warrior, American professional wrestler and founder of the Deaf Wrestling Alliance.

Elizabeth Steel, earliest record of a deaf Australian

Louise Stern, writer and artist

Shoshannah Stern, actress in Jericho and Weeds

Ted Supalla, researcher and professor

Mariko Takamura, deaf Japanese musician

Sue Thomas, first deaf person to work as an undercover investigator doing lip-reading of suspects for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Douglas Tilden, American sculptor

Clayton Valli, deaf linguist and ASL poet

George Veditz, former president of the National Association of the Deaf, and one of the first people to film sign language

Heather Whitestone, first deaf woman to win the title of Miss America

David Wright, South African-born British poet

Miha Zupan, Slovenian basketball player, first deaf person to play in the Euroleague

Notable people who are hard of hearing

Lance Allred, American basketball player, first deaf person to play in the NBA

Guillaume Amontons, French inventor and physicist

Cliff Bastin, British footballer

Halle Berry, American actress, acquired unilateral hearing loss

Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist filmmaker and poet

Bill Clinton, former President of the United States

Gertrude Ederle, American competitive swimmer, first woman to swim the English Channel

Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder

Walter Geikie, Scottish painter

Francisco Goya, Spanish painter

Oliver Heaviside, British engineer, mathematician and physicist

Georgia Horsley, Miss England 2007 and contestant in Miss World 2007

Holly Hunter, American actress, completely deaf in one ear

Katie Leclerc, American actress, known especially for her leading role in Switched at Birth

Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA

Rob Lowe, American actor, completely deaf in right ear

Henrietta Leavitt, American astronomer

Harold MacGrath, American author

Sir William McMahon, Australian politician and Prime Minister

Pierre de Ronsard, French poet

Adam Savage, American science educator

R. N. Taber, English poet

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and pioneer of space exploration studies

Judith Wright, Australian poet

Deaf and hard of hearing musicians

Mandy Harvey, American jazz singer

Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer

Sean Forbes, American musician, songwriter, and rapper

William Boyce, British composer

Rudi Carrell, Dutch popular singer

Gabriel Fauré, French composer

Johnnie Ray, American popular singer

Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer

Pete Townshend, British lead guitarist and songwriter

Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist

Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese popular singer and songwriter

Ryan Adams, American alternative country artist

George Martin, English bandleader and producer

Foxy Brown, American rap artist

Brian Wilson, American musician and songwriter

Danny Elfman, film score composer and former member of Oingo Boingo

Lars Ulrich, Danish drummer

Kyo, singer of Dir En Grey

Mabel Hubbard Bell, wife of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell

TL Forsberg, American avant-garde rock singer

Bob Hiltermann, drummer for Beethoven's Nightmare, an all-deaf rock band