Strong-spirit

Strong-spirit: biographies of notable people, their careers, life stories, key achievements and influence on culture, history and society.

British, young mother

Plastic surgery victim left without a nose

American who lost 180 kg of weight

Harmonie-Rose Allen

Little British girl who received prosthetic legs

British student, victim of meningitis.

Danielle Bradshaw

British athlete with one leg

Boy with Down syndrome who spoke after discovering his acting skills

Five-year-old boy, victim of epilepsy and allergies

An American who underwent a face transplant

Elderly Filipina with Inverted Papilloma

American patient with stage II breast cancer

Man who paddled from Cuba to the USA

American woman clinically dead for 27 minutes, believes in the reality of the afterlife

Robert Huddleston

American, victim of a congenital disease.

Model suffering from vitiligo

Mother of five children who became a victim of HER2-positive breast cancer

Sean Stephenson

American motivational speaker, author

British woman, victim of a series of heart attacks.

Girl born at 24 weeks

Man Cured of Colorectal Cancer

Samantha Kuberski

6 year old girl who committed suicide

Marcin Zarnecki

A Polish man with retinopathy of prematurity cycled 700 km to the sea

British model who survived bone cancer.

The premature baby girl who amazed doctors with her zest for life

British student with dilated cardiomyopathy

Penelope Pickup

British girl, victim of rare diseases

Dominican Republic-born American woman suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum

British soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan.

Joshua Barnfather

British businessman with xeroderma pigmentosum and angiosarcoma

Shah Gul Mazari

Pakistani boy with Hirschsprung's disease

Child with Krabbe leukodystrophy

George Middleton

Obese Brit loses over 100kg to save leg

Dancer, choreographer, writer and lecturer

French electrician who survived in the desert

Richard Van Pham

Young British woman with cervical cancer

The American who went on an 805-kilometer hike

A British man who suffered from chronic myeloid leukemia.

Winner of the “Beauty Without Limits 2013” competition

Bangladeshi man whose entire body is covered in tumors

British NHS worker with epidermos bullosa.

Alice Herz-Sommer

British centenarian, pianist, Holocaust victim

American wrestler with one leg

American actor, model, director and cyclist

US Navy veteran with stage IV squamous cell carcinoma

Naoto Matsumura

Japanese man stays in contaminated city to save animals

Japanese Paralympic athlete

Floyd James Thompson

American soldier, former prisoner of war

Charlie Edgeworth

British man, victim of gynecomastia.

4 year old boy with brain cancer