title: The paraplegic Viking and the one-armed pianist--some well known persons with locomotor disability.
abstract: A review is given of persons from history, culture and science, with locomotor disability, who by different reasons have become well known. It is shown that these persons, in spite of their disabilities, have reached prominent positions.
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D005197:Famous Persons; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000266:history*