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| Laurent Clerc | Teacher, co-founder of the first permanent school for the Deaf in North America. |
| Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée | Founder of the first public (free) school for the Deaf in the world. |
| Jean Massieu | taught at the famous school for the deaf in Paris where Laurent Clerc |
| Ferdinand Berthier | a deaf educator, intellectual and political organiser |
| Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian | First hearing educators. He was regarded as a brilliant student, after which he dedicated himself to studying Deaf education. |
| Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian | working with three Deaf teachers: Jean Massieu, Ferdinand Berthier and Laurent Clerc, at the Institution Nationale des Sourds-Muets de Paris, |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet | Minister, educator, co-founder of the first permanent school for the deaf in North America |
| Edward Miner Gallaudet | son of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, was the first president of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C |
| Sophia Fowler Gallaudet | Deaf Actress with Silent Worker |
| Dr, Mason Cogswell | his daughter was the first pupil. |
| Alice Cogswell | First deaf student |
| Andrew Foster | was a missionary to the deaf in Ghana, Rwanda |
| Dr. Glenn B. Anderson | author of a book titled "Still I Rise: The Enduring Legacy of Black Deaf Arkansans Before and After Integration" |
| Dummy Hoy | deaf Baseball player in MLB history, |
| Linda Bove | Deaf actress on Sesame Street |
| Phyllis Frelich | Deaf actress |
| Irving King Jordan | 1st Deaf President of Gallaudet University |
| Chuck Baird | World famous Deaf artist. He used ASL handshapes in his paintings and drawings |
| Bernard Bragg | Pantomime and actor. Established parliamentary procedure for student groups such as SBG |
| Clayton Valli | Poet and linguistic |
| Carol Padden | American academic, author, and lecturer. She is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. |
| Ed Waterstreet | Actor |
| Howard Rosenblum | NAD CEO |
| Donalda Ammons Kay | American educator and author. Teacher at several deaf schools. Former President of the Comite International des Sports des Sourds (CISS) from 2003 to 2009 |
| Marlee Matlin | American actress, author and activist |
| Melissa Draganac-Hawk | Current NAD president |
| Roberta Cordano | 1st Deaf Woman President, Attorney (and from WISCONSIN!) |
| Curtis Pride | former Major League Baseball outfielder who is deaf |
| Greg Hilbok | DPN leader |
