List of wheelchair users

A list of notable users of wheelchairs. (notable is defined as having a article, or being qualified for one).
Australia
*Blake, Jon, actor
*Durham, Judith, singer
*Rhonda Galbally, Community activist
*Louise Sauvage, athlete
Austria
*Thomas Geierspichler, athlete
Canada
*Stephanie Cadieux, British Columbia MLA
*Steven Fletcher, Member of Parliament
*Rick Hansen, athlete
*Doug Mowat, British Columbia MLA
*David Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
*Sam Sullivan, former mayor of Vancouver
*Lise Thibault, former Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
Czech
*, actor
France
*Couthon, Georges, follower of Robespierre
*Marie Dubois, actress
*Michel Petrucciani, jazz pianist.
*Philippe Streiff, former racing driver
*Fabien Marsaud, alias Grand Corps Malade, slam poet
Germany
*Schäuble, Wolfgang, Minister of the Interior
Nigeria
*Achebe, Chinua, writer
Russia
*Lenin, Vladimir, leader of the Bolshevik party, first premier of the Soviet Union
Serbia
*Ristovski, Laza, musician
South Africa
*van Dyk, Ernst, athlete
Switzerland
*Regazzoni, Clay, former Formula One driver and disability activist
United Kingdom
*Begg, Anne, Member of Parliament
*Fernandez, Julie, actress
*Dowding, Hugh, RAF commander during Battle of Britain, suffered from severe arthritis in old age
*Flanders, Michael, songwriter, actor and performer
*Gardner, Frank, journalist
*Olivier, Laurence, actor, appeared in a wheelchair for last film War Requiem (1989)
*Bogarde, Dirk, actor, suffered a severe stroke in 1996 and was wheelchairbound until his death in 1999.
*Hawking, Stephen, theoretical astrophysicist
*Churchill, Winston, politician, suffered various mini-strokes during final years
*Philpot, Asta, disability rights activist
*Williams, Frank, founder and manager of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team
*Grey Thompson, Tanni, Welsh Paralympic athlete and TV presenter
United States
*Anner, Zach, comedian and 2010 Internet sensation
*Barrymore, Lionel, actor
*Callahan, John, cartoonist/singer/songwriter
*Cash, Johnny, Singer/Songwriter/Guitar Player. Was seen not long before his death in 2003, in his final concerts he was in a wheelchair the whole time
*Chesnutt, Vic, musician.
*Cleland, Max, former US Senator
*Dart, Justin Whitlock, Jr., disability activist
*Flynt, Larry, publisher
*Fotheringham, Aaron, wheelchair acrobat
*Funicello, Annette, singer/actress
*Dan L. Hendricks, racehorse trainer
*Hockenberry, John, journalist
*Johnson, Harriet McBryde, author, attorney, and activist
*Jordan, Barbara, Texas Congresswoman
*Kovic, Ron, Vietnam veteran and peace activist
*Langevin, Jim, Congressman
*Lynch, Eric, aka Eric the Midget, leader of The Wack Pack
*Chris Miller, one of the Smith family's caroling visitors seen in "Wee Sing The Best Christmas Ever" who plays the recorder
*Rainey, Wayne, former Grand Prix motorcycle World Champion
*Reeve, Christopher, actor
*Roberts, Ed, disability activist
*Roosevelt, Franklin, 32nd President of the United States
*Schappell, George, folk singer
*Wallace, George, former Governor of Alabama
Fictional
*B.Max from RAGGS Kids Club Band
*Bentley the Turtle, a character from the Sly Cooper series.
*Jimmy Brooks and Nadia from Degrassi: The Next Generation
*Matthew Buchanan from One Life to Live
*Will Cartwright from The Sleepover Club. He's Rosie's older brother.
*Marty Coslaw from the 1985 film Silver Bullet played by Corey Haim.
*Colin Craven from The Secret Garden, mistakenly thought to have a hunchback all his life, never walked on his own before he goes out to see his mother's garden, and uses a wheelchair until his legs get strong enough to walk.
*Guy Caballero, Joe Flaherty's SCTV character used a wheelchair, to try and gain sympathy around the network he owned.
*Cutter John from the Bloom County comic strip
*Kevin Girardi played by Jason Ritter in the TV series Joan of Arcadia.
*Maya Goldberg from Degrassi Junior High.
*Barbara Gordon aka Oracle, formerly Batgirl, Internet information broker
*Grigotte from 5, Rue Sésame, the French adaptation of Sesame Street
*Honor Harris in Daphne du Maurier's "The King's General", a 17th Century Cornish gentlewoman, becomes paralised in a riding accident and has one of England's first wheelchairs constructed.
*Augustus Hill from the TV series Oz
*Robert T. Ironside from the TV series Ironside
*Katie from Sesame Park, the Canadian adaptation of Sesame Street
*John Locke on the TV series Lost is no longer paraplegic, after the jet he was on crashes on a mysterious island.
*Jerome Eugene Morrow from Gattaca
*Mother from the 1960s spy series The Avengers
*Mr. Ng, character from the postcyberpunk novel Snow Crash
*Reilly O'Reilly in "John Callahan's Quads": the main character in a satircal cartoon about a quadriplegic man and his friends.
*Pelswick, star of an animated series by the same name
*Christopher Pike from Star Trek
*Andy Pipkin from Little Britain, although he does not strictly require a wheelchair.
*Brian Potter from Phoenix Nights
*Lisa Randolph from Carol Ellis's novel The Body.
*Lincoln Rhyme from Jeffery Deaver's novel (and film) The Bone Collector.
*Hari Seldon from Isaac Asimov's The Foundation Series.
*Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle
*Dr. Strangelove, Peter Sellers' title character in the 1964 comedy film of the same name.
*Joe Swanson, from Family Guy
*Dan Taylor, Vietnam veteran in the 1994 film Forrest Gump
*Chris Theodorakis, character from Ellen Raskin's novel, The Westing Game.
*Timmy, from South Park
*Professor Charles Xavier aka Professor X, founder and leader of the X-Men
*Rufus Shinra, leader of the Turks in Final Fantasy VII uses a wheelchair in Advent Children before it is revealed to be an act in order to hide Jenova's head.
*Kakinomoto Karin from Keiko Yamada's manga series Limited Lovers, whose legs are paralysed following an accident.
*Nessarose from the musical Wicked.
*Jake Sully from the 2009 film Avatar.
*Artie Abrams from the TV series Glee.
Also:
*' is a British TV comedy with much of the cast in wheelchairs.

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