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Famous Deaf people
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anna Witter Merithew | Interpreter that helps develop interpreting skills among interpreters |
| Harlan Lane | Psychologist that studied Deaf culture and Sign language |
| Mary Beth Miller | actress and comedian |
| Sharon Neumann-Solow | interpreter, educator, author, and performer |
| Clayton Valli | Deaf Poet who was also a linguist, spread awareness of ASL |
| Ben Soukup | Human rights advocate for the Deaf and HoH |
| Bob Davilla | 9th president at Gallaudet |
| John Maucere | Deaf Actor known for his role in Super Deafy |
| Marty Taylor | Interpreter and educator created the blue and purple miscue books for interpreting |
| Alan Hurwitz | 10th president at Gallaudet, first to be born deaf |
| Marlee Matlin | Actress, won academy award for children of a lesser god, also played a roll in switched at birth |
| William Elsworth | Deaf baseball player "dummy hoy" |
| Dummy Hoy | William Elsworth Deaf baseball player |
| James Burke | Deaf Boxer from England |
| Alexander Graham Bell | created the telephone, wanted to eradicate deafness and believed strongly in the oral method both his mother and wife were deaf. |
| Andrew Foster | First black man to earn a degree from Gallaudet, Founded the first school for the deaf in Africa, and is a deaf community missionary |
| Leroy Columbo | Deaf Lifegaurd in the guinness world record book for saving 907 lives |
| Brian Cerney | Wrote the Interpreting handbook focused on glossing and discourse relating to ASL (green book) |
| Betty Miller | Mother of De'VIA (Deaf View Image Art) in cooperated feelings of Deaf oppression in her work |
| MJ Bienvenu | Female Author, published many ASL teaching materials |
| Juliet Gordon Low | Established girl scouts of the USA |
| Douglas Tilden | Deaf Sculpter |
| Anna Miness | Wrote about Deaf culture, reading between the signs book |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet | created the first school for the Deaf, American pioneer of Deaf individuals |
| Alice Cogswell | Gallaudet's neighbor who was deaf, the reason he went to france and came back to start a school. |
| Ben Bahan | Influential figure of ASL lit, wrote bird of a different feather |
| CJ jones | Deaf comedian |
| Pat Graybill | Storyteller in ASL |
| Phillis Frehlich | Deaf Actor koan for her role in children of a lesser god |
| Sean Berdy | Deaf actor, works with D-PAN |
| Chuck Baird | Famous artist founder of the De'VIA movement and incorporated ASL in his paitings |
| Virginia Hughes | Studied brain procession those born Deaf |
| I kind Jordan | First deaf president after DPN as well as because deaf from a motorcycle accident |
| Myra Taff- Watson | Educator/ trainer of interpreters |
| Betty Colonomous | Intepreter edcuatior and developed a model of interpreting |
| George Veditz | wanted to preserve ASL by recording it |
| Ella Mae Lentz | Poet in ASL, advocate for the Deaf |
| Abbe Charles Michael De L'eppe | "Father of Deaf" educator in france |
| Bernard Bragg | Co founder of the national theater of the Deaf, Actor Producer, Playwright director, artist and author |
| Laura C redden Searing | Deaf poet and journalist |
| Marina McIntire | Author |
| Laurent Clerc | originally from France came to the US with Gallaudet to co-found the first school for the Deaf. |
| Theresa B smith | Worked with Deaf blind indiciduals |
| Julius wiggins | created the first newspaper for the Deaf called Silent News |
| Dennis Cokely | Created comely model of interpreting |
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