Lance Allred
Born with over 75% hearing loss,
Lance Allred was the first legally deaf
basketbal player in NBA history. He
competed in the 2002 World Deaf
Basketball Championship in Athens
Greece, where he led Team USA to
second place. He later played
basketball at the college level in his
home state of Utah and moved on to
play for the Cleveland Cavaliers in
2008. He has since written a memoir
called Longshot.
Luis Miguel
At 46, Mexican Superstar singer Luis Miguel has tinnitus, which he
blames on 30 years of performing live music. The ringing in his ears
led him to put his career on hold in late 2015 to undergo treatment.
As he told a reporter “It is a condition that I can overcome and am
controlling to the best of my ability with the support of my dear
people, doctors and public”
Lou Ferrigno
Best known as TV’s Incredible Hulk, actor and former bodybuilder
Ferrigno, 64, lost 75% of his hearing at the age of 3 due to an ear
infection. He’s worn hearing aids since he was 4. “I think my hearing
loss helped create a determination within me to be all I can be, and
gave me a certain strength of character, too” Ferrigno told an interviewer
Rob Lowe
Undiagnosed mumps when he was a baby left Lowe totally deaf in his
right ear. “Really loud restaurants drive me ballistic,” Lowe told the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.”I live in a mono world. I wish I could (hear in) stereo. But other
than that, I don’t think about my hearing loss.”
