Category
page 1Educators of the deaf

Anne Sullivan
teacher and companion of Helen Keller
Grace Coolidge
First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929

Charles-Michel de l'Épée
French priest and educator of the deaf
Jean Marc Gaspard Itard
French physician (1774-1838)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
American educator and founder of the American School for the Deaf
Laurent Clerc
French-American deaf educator (1785–1869)
Pedro Ponce de León
Spanish Benedictine monk, first educator of the deaf
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
American author and social activist (1879–1958)
Michael Anagnos
Greek-American educator of the blind
Teresa Margaret Redi
Italian nun, mystic and saint
Jacob Rodrigues Pereira
French academic
Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard
French abbé and instructor of the deaf
Jabbar Baghtcheban
Iranian educator and inventor, founder of the first Iranian kindergarten and school for the deaf.

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard
American academic administrator (1809–1889)
Pär Aron Borg
Swedish pedagogue
Edward Miner Gallaudet
First president of Gallaudet University (1837–1917)

Jean Massieu
French deaf educator
Ferdinand Berthier
French deaf educator
Helene Jarmer
Austrian politician
Róisín Shortall
Irish Labour Party politician
Cesare Magarotto
Italian journalist and philanthropist (1917-2006)
Iosif Florianovich Geilman
Soviet sign language expert
Antonio Magarotto
Italian educator (1891-1966)

Dorothy Miles
British poet and activist (1931–1993)
Aadel Lampe
Norwegian women's rights leader
Johanna Berglind
Swedish sign language teacher
Peter Atke Castberg
Danish professor (1779–1823)
Thomas Braidwood
British school teacher
George Veditz
American deaf educator (1861–1937)
Hedevig Rosing
Danish-born Norwegian educator, school founder
Carl Oscar Malm
Finnish educator, father of Finnish Sign Language
Caroline Yale
American specialized educator (1848–1933)
Antonio Provolo
Italian presbyter and educator (1801-1842)
Vachagan Khalatyan
Originator of the Armenian manual alphabet
Dezső Kanizsai
Hungarian teacher of deaf children (1886–1981)
Becky Soundy
Salvadoran linguist and activist
Sarah Fuller
American educator (1836-1927)
Georg Forchhammer
Danish physicist
Rachel Coleman
American actress
Isawa Shūji
Japanese educator and bureaucrat

Helen Beebe
American educationist (1909-1989)
Carl Henrik Alopaeus
Finnish politician and priest
Pierre Pélissier
French poet (1814-1863)
Elizaveta Lastochkina
Russian teacher of the deaf (1869–1967)
Marie Heurtin
French deafblind person (1885–1921)
I. King Jordan
first deaf president of Gallaudet University

Donalda Ammons
American educator and author
Andrew Foster
American educator