Blind from birth
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.