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'''Notable Deaf people''' are typically defined as those who have profound [[hearing loss]] in both ears as a result of either acquired or [[congenital hearing loss]]. Such people may be associated with [[
In addition to those with profound hearing loss, people without profound hearing loss may also identify as Deaf, often where the person is active within a Deaf community and for whom [[sign language]] is their [[First language|primary language]].<ref>Madeleine Chapman, Jesper Dammeyer, The Significance of Deaf Identity for Psychological Well-Being, The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2017, Pages 187–194, https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enw073</ref> Those who have mostly lived as a hearing person and acquire deafness briefly, due to a temporary illness or shortly before death, for example, are not typically classed as culturally Deaf.
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* [[Audree Norton]], American actress and educator, one of the founding members of the [[National Theatre of the Deaf]]
* [[Lauren Ridloff]], an American actress, played the role of [[Connie (The Walking Dead)|Connie]] (a deaf character) in the ninth season of [[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]. In [[Eternals (film)|Eternals]], released in 2021, she played the deaf superhero [[Makkari (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Makkari]].
* [[Emerson Romero]], Cuban-American silent film actor, developed the first technique to caption sound films
* [[Terrylene Sacchetti]], actress
* [[Howie Seago]], actor and director
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