List of deaf people
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Notable People who are Hard of Hearing
- By 1814 Beethoven was almost totally deaf, and when a group of visitors saw him play a loud arpeggio of thundering bass notes at his piano remarking, "Ist es nicht schön?" (Is it not beautiful?), they felt deep sympathy considering his courage and sense of humor (he lost the ability to hear higher frequencies first).
- Luis Buñuel, Spanish surrealist filmmaker and poet
- Thomas Edison, American inventor
- Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder
- Walter Geikie, Scottish painter
- Francisco Goya, Spanish painter
- Rob Lowe, American actor, completely deaf in right ear
- Pierre de Ronsard, French poet
- R. N. Taber, English poet
- Halle Berry, American Actress, acquired unilateral hearing loss
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