Eleanor Abbott: designed the game CandyLand
Ann Adams (1937-1992): artist (using a mouthstick)
Tenley Albright: doctor and olympic gold medalist for figure skating
Alan Alda: actor, writer, director
Elmer L. Andersen (1910-2005): former Minnesota Governor, businessman
Ida Louise Anderson (1900-1941): broadcast radio pioneer
Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954): actor
Kim Beazley: Australian Labor leader
Charles E. Bennett (1911-2003): longtime US Congressman, Florida
Ethelda Blaibtrey (1902-1978): olympic gold medalist for swimming
Julius (Julie) Bort (1922-1996): boxer
Ben Bradlee: former editor for the Washington Post
Harold Brooks-Baker (1933-2005): publisher
Dick Cabela: outdoorsman and founder of "Cabela's"
Bhagwat Subramanya Chandrasekhar: Cricket Champion from India
Wah Ming Chang: sculptor, artist, master of special effects
Jean Chrétien: former Prime Minister of Canada
Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008): author
Georgia Coleman (1912-1940): olympic diver
Francis Ford Coppola: director
Sir Julian Critchley (1930-2000): journalist, author and member of the House of Commons
Bill Cullen (1920-1990): game show host
Claudius (10 B.C. to 54 A.D.): Emperor of Rome
Marion Davies (1897-1961): actress
CeDell Davis: Jazz Guitarist
Walter "Buddy" Davis: Broad Jump Olympic Champion, Basketball
Justin Dart: activist
James DePriest: musician, composer, arranger and conductor
James Drury: actor, "The Virginian"
Ian Dury (1942-2000): British Rock Star
John East (1931-1986): US Senator
Ray Ewry (1873-1937): Track & Field Olympic Champion
Mia Farrow: actress
Jerome Solon Felder (1925-1991): songwriter, Doc Pomus
Mel Ferrar: actor
William Alexander Gadsby: NHL, Hall of Fame (1970)
Hugh Gregory Gallagher: author
Tony Gould: author (UK)
Arthur Guyton (1919-2003): doctor
John Hager: Lieutenant Governor, Virginia
Lauro Halstead: doctor (physiatrist)
Steve Harley: British musician
Lis Hartel: Danish equestrian
Oscar G. Heirlihy: Radio and TV Pioneer, Newfoundland
Judith E. Heumann: pioneer in Independent Living Movement
Elizabeth Twistington Higgins (1923-1990): MBE, English ballet dancer and artist
Henry Holden: actor, comedian, athlete, activist
Henrietta Wyeth Hurd (1907-1997): artist
Walter Jackson (1938-1983): lead singer of the "Velvetones"
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954): Mexican painter
Hildegard Knef (1925-2002): German actress, singer, writer
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965): photographer
Marjorie Lawrence (1908-1979): world famous opera singer
John Laws: Australian radio personality
Tanaquil Le Clercq (1929-2000): ballet dancer
Ida Lupino (1917-1995): London-born actress, director, screenwriter
Shelley Mann: Olympic Gold Medal Swimmer
Frank Mars (1883-1933): founded M&M Mars chocolate company
Lois Catherine Marshall (1924-1997): Canadian singer in the 50s and 60s
Paul Martin: Prime Minister of Canada
Martin Milner: actor
Joni Mitchell: singer
Edna Marie Moore (1930-1989): Texas artist
Jack Nicklaus: golfer
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967): physicist and teacher
Kerry Packer: Australian billionaire
Horace Parlan: pianist
Ray Peterson: singer
Itzhak Perlman: internationally acclaimed violinist
Margaret "Peg" Phillips (1918-2002): actress (Ruth-Anne on "Northern Exposure")
Peter Preston: British writer and Guardian editor, 1975 through 1995
John Prestwich (1938-2006): MBE, longest respirator user (Guinness Book of World Records)
Robert Redford: actor, director
Ed Roberts (1939-1995): Father of the Independent Living Movement
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945): US president
Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994): athlete, olympic gold medalist
Ruma: ancient Syrian
Owen Roizman: cinematographer, 5 Oscar nominations
and Lifetime Achievement Award
David Sanborn: saxophonist
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): father of historical fiction
Siptah: Egyptian Pharaoh (lived 20 years around 1200 BC)
Sir John Cotesworth Slessor (1897-1979): British Marshall in the RAF in World War II
Dinah Shore (1916-1994): singer
Lord Snowden: photographer, UK (Princess Margaret's former husband)
Margarete Steiff (1847-1909): German seamstress who founded Steiff Bears
Brooks Stevens (1911-1995): "creative genius" at Harley Davidson
Donald Sutherland: actor, from Canada
Renata Ersilia Clotilde Tebaldi: Italian Opera Singer
Christopher Templeton: actress
Alan Toy: actor/activist/writer
Nyla Thompson: mouth artist
Joseph (Joey) Velez (1925-2002): Golden Gloves Boxer
Egbert Hamilton Walker (1899-1991): Smithsonian Institute Botanist
Dennis Washington: businessman and entrepreneur
Paul Winchell: ventriloquist and inventor
Victor Woodrow Wertz (1925-1983): Baseball All-Star
Neil Young: 1970s and 1980s Canadian rock singer
...plus connections through relatives of the famous...
Jim Thorpe's son, died from Polio
Mark McGwire's father had polio at age 7
Laura Innes (ER's Dr. Weaver) has a sister who had Polio
Helen Gurley Brown, supported her sister who had Polio
Mary MacArthur, daughter of Helen Hayes, had Polio
Peter Falk's closest boyhood friend, Mike Holohan, was a Polio survivor.
John W. Nordstrom's wife had Polio.
Marlene Dietrich's daughter, Maria Riva, had Polio.
Cathy Rigby's mother had Polio.
Mary Francis (1924-2000) wife of author Dick Francis had Polio.
Bob Dylan's father had Polio in 1946.
Gini Laurie (1913-1989) "Grandmother" of the Independent Living Movement: several siblings had Polio.
Katie Eastman, sister of George Eastman, photography pioneer died from Polio in the 1870s.
