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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

  • Fredrick Brennan - The software developer who founded the imageboard website 8chan.
  • Alec Cabacungan - spokesperson for Shriners Hospitals for Children.
  • Raul Krauthausen - German/Colombian activist and recipient of the Order of Merit of Germany.
  • Peter Radtke - German founder of Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also a philologist and actor.
  • Sean Stephenson - an American therapist, self-help author and motivational speaker.

    • Actors

  • Michael J. Anderson - American known for appearing in David Lynch works and for playing Samson Leonhart on the HBO series Carnivàle.
  • Jack Binstead - British actor known for a role in the British sitcom Bad Education.
  • Julie Fernandez - British actress best known for her role in the British The Office.
  • Rick Howland - Canadian actor who is known for Lost Girl.
  • 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'.
  • Quentin Kenihan - An Australian reality TV personality who played Corpus Colossus in Mad Max: Fury Road.
  • Tarah Lynne Schaeffer (Sesame Street)
  • Nabil Shaban - A Jordanian-British actor and writer who founded Graeae Theatre Company, which promotes performers with disabilities.
  • Atticus Shaffer - American who plays Brick Heck on The Middle.

    • Comedians

  • Guillaume Bats - A French humorist.

    • Musicians

  • Randy Guss - Drummer for Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Kalyn Heffernan - A Hip-hop artist and producer known for the group Wheelchair Sports Camp.
  • Gaelynn Lea who has worked with Alan Sparhawk and won an NPR Music contest.
  • Michel Petrucciani - French jazz pianist who was granted a Légion d'honneur in Paris.
  • Pernille Vallentin - Danish singer who also acts.
  • Sparsh Shah - Indian American singer and rapper who became an Internet sensation for his cover of Eminem's "Not Afraid" in 2016.

    • Journalists and writers

  • Franco Bomprezzi - An Italian journalist who received the Order of Merit in 2007.
  • Christopher Hewitt - British poet and namesake of the Christopher Hewitt Award.
  • Firdaus Kanga - Parsi playwright known for Trying to Grow.
  • Philippe Rahmy - French speaking poet and novelist who has received the Prix Dentan among others.
  • Stella Young - She was an Australian comedian and journalist.

    • Politicians

  • Nicky Chapman, Baroness Chapman - A British peer and disability rights activist.
  • Theresia Haidlmayr - She had been a politician of Austria's The Greens – The Green Alternative.
  • Freyja Haraldsdottir - A member of the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly of 2010.

    • People in Sports and Games

  • Valentin Baus - German Paralympic silver medalist in table tennis.
  • McKenzie Coan - American Paralympic gold medalist in swimming.
  • Doug Herland - American Olympic bronze medalist coxswain.
  • Taylor Lipsett - An American Paralympic gold and bronze medalist in sledge hockey.
  • Bobby Nail - American bridge player in the ACBL Hall of Fame.
  • Josef Neumaier - A Paralympic multiple medalist in shooting for Germany.
  • Jeremy Synot - A former Australian wheelchair basketball player and current National Wheelchair Basketball League Head Coach of the RSL Queensland Spinning Bullets.
  • Jordanne Whiley - A British Paralympic bronze medalist in Wheelchair tennis at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

    • Notable as a subject

  • Madge Bester - A South African woman and formerly the "world's shortest living woman."
  • Leo Beuerman - The subject of the documentary Leo Beuerman, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject).
  • Lin Yü-chih - He had once been counted as the "world's shortest man."

    • Disputed

  • French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 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.
  • 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 Conqueror.

    • References

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