Wheelchair

A wheelchair is a mobility device used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness or disability.

Notable users

• Max Cleland, former US Senator from Georgia
• Justin Dart, Jr. (1930-2002), disability activist and "father of the Americans with Disabilities Act"
• Ed Roberts, founder of the disability movement
• Julie Fernandez, British actress (see The Office)
• Frank Gardner, BBC journalist who was paralysed after being shot by Al-Qaeda.
• Stephen Hawking, theoretical astrophysicist
• Ron Kovic, Vietnam veteran and peace activist
• Jim Langevin, US Congressman from Rhode Island
• Christopher Reeve (1952–2004), late movie actor, the former Superman
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), 32nd President of the United States
• Sheik Ahmed Yassin (~1937–2004), assassinated founder of the Hamas organization
• John Hockenberry, American journalist