List of people with visual disabilities

• David Blunkett - British cabinet minister.
• Clarence Carter[?]
• Jose Feliciano, (born 1945)
• Errol Garner[?]
• Al Hibbler[?]
• Homer
• Blind Lemon Jefferson - Blues musician & singer
• Helen Keller, (1880-1968)
• Esmond Knight[?] - British actor
• Blind Willie McTell, (1901-1959)
• Ronnie Milsap[?]
• Gilbert Montagné[?]
• George Shearing[?]
• Alec Templeton[?]
• Stevie Wonder

People with other visual disabilities

• Tex Avery, (1908-1980), Blind in his left eye
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - became blind in later life.
• 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
• 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.
• 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 imparement in other eye
• Claude Rains - blind in one eye
• 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.