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Wednesday 17 June 2015

8 Richest Persons With Disabilities

by Gitau

Here is a world richest disabled person who ever or are still alive
1. Walt Disney – $5 Billion

Walt Disney net worth: Walt Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon and philanthropist who had a net worth of $5 billion. Walt Disney earned his net worth along with his brother Roy O. Disney, as the co-founder of Walt Disney Productions, which later became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. He was well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. The Walt Disney Company currently has annual revenues of approximately $35 billion. Disney had learning disability
2. Stevie Wonder – $110 million

Stevie Wonder is an American musician, singer and songwriter. A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter, considered by many to be a genius, Stevie Wonder was signed to Motown records at the age of 11. Some of his thirty #1 hits include, “Superstition” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You”, and he has won twenty-two Grammy Awards. Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan, US, he is a much-admired American icon and an absolute genius not only of R&B but popular music in general.
Stevie Wonder
3. Michael J. Fox – $65 Million

Micheal J. Fox is a Canadian American actor, producer, author, and activist with an estimated net worth of $65 million dollars. Fox is best known for his TV roles and his starring role in the Back to the Future films. Fox began his acting career at fifteen on the Canadian television series Leo and Me. In 1990 Fox started displaying symptoms of early-onset Parkinson’s disease, and was diagnosed with the condition in 1991. Fox went public with his diagnoses in 1998. Since the 1990’s Fox has been a voice-over artist for a number of animated films, and appeared in minor roles in Boston Legal and Scrubs.

4. Robin William – $50 Million


The late Robin William was born on July 21st, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. Williams grew up in a very prominent family. His father, Robert was a senior executive at Lincoln-Mercury Motors in charge of the Midwest area and his mother, Lauren, was a former model from New Orleans. Before high school, Robin and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. As a child, Robin was a shy kid who hardly spoke. One of the only early inclinations that he might grow up to be a comic was his dead-on impersonation of his grandmother. Beyond that, he really didn’t come out of his shell until he began to participate in high school plays.
5. Stephen Hawking – $20 Million

Stephen Hawking net worth: Stephen Hawking is an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author. Born January 8, 1942 in Oxford, United Kingdom, Hawking is also the Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge. Despite having a motor neuron disease related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a condition that has progressed over the years, Hawking’s accomplishments in his work in physics and cosmology is groundbreaking. He was diagnosed with ALS while studying cosmology at the University of Cambridge at the age of 21.
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6. Marlee Matlin -$9 million: 

Marleee Matlin is an American actress and author. Marlee Matlin was born in 1965 in Morton’s Grove, Illinois. She lost all hearing in her right ear and 80% of the hearing in her left ear when she was 18 months old. Matlin graduated from John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois and attended Harper College, a two-year community college. In 1986, 21-year old Marlee Matlin became the youngest woman in history and the only deaf performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in “Children of a Lesser God”.
7. Patty Duke – $5 million

Patty Duke has a reputation in comedy to be proud of. And her net worth was earned over years of hard work. Her career actually began as a child star in 50s soap operas like The Brighter Day and game shows like The $64,000 Question. Interestingly, 3 years after her appearance on that show, she was asked to testify before congress when the game was revealed to have been fixed. One of her most famous roles as a child actress is in the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, playing Helen Keller. From there, her star rose quickly, getting her own TV show called The Patty Duke Show. On it, she played the dual roles of Patty Lane and her “identical cousin” from Scotland.
8. Christopher Reeve – $3 million 

The late Christopher Reeve grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with his mother and his stepfather. In 1977 Reeve was chosen from 200 hopefuls to star in Superman for which he won the British Academy Award as best actor. During a cross-country event in May 1995, his horse balked at a rail jump, pitching Reeve forward where he landed head first. His injuries left the actor paralyzed, unable to use any of his limbs or even to breathe without the help of a respirator. He was also the chairman of the American Paralysis Association and vice chairman of the National Organization on Disability.

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