This is a list of notable people who have undergone an amputation.
Activists
Actors
Artists
Criminals
- Franz Fuchs, Austrian terrorist, lost arms in a suicide bid.
Fictional
Media personalities
Models
Musicians
- Rick Allen, drummer for Def Leppard, lost his left arm in car crash, but continued drumming with his right arm.
- Martin Deschamps, Canadian rock singer, born with left arm and right leg missing, as well as congenital deformities of the other limbs.
- Jerry Garcia (deceased), member of The Grateful Dead, missing half of his right middle finger due to an accident when he was four years old.
- Cole Porter, had his left leg amputated in his later years.
- Theresa Sareo, hit by a drunk driver.
- Paul Wittgenstein, brother of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, lost his right arm in World War I but continued his career as a clasical pianist.
Politicians
- Lucien Bouchard, former Leader of the Opposition in Canada and former Premier of Quebec, lost a leg to necrotizing fasciitis in 1994.
- Max Cleland, American Senator, lost an arm and both legs when he served in the Vietnam War.
- Wade Hampton III, lost his right leg.
- Daniel Inouye, United States Senator, lost an arm during World War II. Recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Bob Kerrey, former U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska, lost right lower leg to a Russian-built grenade in Vietnam as a Navy SEAL officer. Awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilian president, finger amputee.
- Helmut Zilk, former mayor of Vienna, hand amputee after opening letter bomb.
- Marmaduke Hussey, former chairman of the BBC. Lost leg during World War II.
Soldiers
- Daniel Sickles, lost his right leg, at the Battle of Gettysburg.
- Antonio López de Santa Anna, leg.
- Horatio Nelson, British admiral during the Napoleonic Wars, lost right arm in battle.
- Douglas Bader, WW2 British fighter pilot, lost legs in training flight. Prisoner of war in Germany after being shot down in dogfight.
- Donald K. "Deke" Slayton, WW2 bomber and Air Force test pilot, lost left ring finger in a childhood accident. Later became part of the Mercury Seven astronaut group and flew on Apollo-Soyuz in 1975.
- Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian soldier and Zionist pioneer in Palestine. Lost his left arm in battle during the Russo-Japanese War.
Sportspeople
- Jamie Andrew, mountaineer, quadruple amputee.
- Shea Cowart, lost her legs below the knee due to meningococcal sepsis.
- Hugh Daily, one-armed major league baseball pitcher.
- Dave Dravecky, former Major League pitcher with San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres, cancerous tumor in left arm cut short his career; two years after retiring, the arm had to be amputated.
- Sandy Dukat
- Rudy Fernandez, Filipino triathlete and reality show contestant, lost right leg in a moviehouse explosion in Iloilo City, Philippines in 1978.
- Terry Fox, Canadian leg amputee, marathon runner.
- Jami Goldman, got frostbite while stranded in a blizzard due to a car accident and had to have both legs below the knee amputated.
- Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler, leg amputated at age 8 due to cancer, works with or without prosthetics.
- Pete Gray, Major League Baseball player, lost his right arm in childhood accident.
- Bethany Hamilton, surfer, her left arm was bitten off by a shark.
- Mark Inglis, mountaineer, lost both legs below the knee due to frostbite.
- Amy Purdy, lost her legs below the knee due to meningococcal sepsis.
- Aron Ralston, mountaineer, arm amputee.
- Sarah Reinertsen
- Ron Santo, Chicago Cubs great, had both legs amputated from complications of diabetes.
- Jack Tatum, NFL defensive back, had a leg amputated from complications of diabetes.
- Alex Zanardi, ex-Formula One driver and Champ Car champion, lost both of his legs at the knees due to an accident during a race in 2001.
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