Strong-spirit

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

Li Yanping
Li Yanping
China
Chinese woman who raised 80 adopted children
Becky Barletta
Becky Barletta
Great Britain
Young British woman with frontotemporal dementia
Sabrina Gauer
Sabrina Gauer
USA
American singer who got rid of stage 4 oral cancer using hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Jessica Clark
Jessica Clark
Australia
Young Australian woman who lost half her weight
Ed Buckley
Ed Buckley
Great Britain
A 22-year-old British man who was hit by a car was helped by his favorite music to rehabilitate himself.
Cathy Garvey and Dan Bowley
Cathy Garvey and Dan Bowley
Great Britain
Patient with infertility
Sean Milliken
Sean Milliken
USA
An obese American who took part in the reality show "I weigh 300 kg"
Irving Caplan
Irving Caplan
Great Britain
Paralyzed Briton who attended his daughter's wedding wearing an exoskeleton
Howard Shulman
Howard Shulman
USA
Former abandoned child, victim of bacterial infection
Hannah Kritzeck
Hannah Kritzeck
USA
American dwarf girl
Derek Ledingham
Derek Ledingham
Great Britain
Graphic designer, victim of Guillain-Barre syndrome
Jo Green
Jo Green
Great Britain
British woman with neuroendocrine cancer
John Bramblitt
John Bramblitt
USA
Blind artist
Brittany Maynard
Brittany Maynard
USA
American woman who chose euthanasia
Joy and Joyce Magsino
Joy and Joyce Magsino
Philippines
Conjoined conjoined twins from the Philippines
Will Pope
Will Pope
Great Britain
Young British man with heart transplant
Dashrath Manjhi
Dashrath Manjhi
India
The Indian who cut through the mountain
Ma Sanxiao
Ma Sanxiao
China
Legless Chinese Man Plants 3,000 Trees in 10 Years
David Richer
David Richer
Great Britain
British, owner of a pacemaker.
Tara Miller
Tara Miller
Canada
Blind photographer
Claire Lomas
Claire Lomas
Great Britain
Paralyzed British woman who completed the marathon
Leo Scott
Leo Scott
Great Britain
British boy, stroke victim
Andy Gale
Andy Gale
Great Britain
British amateur motorcyclist with squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity
Sonia Lopez
Sonia Lopez
Costa Rica
Costa Rican woman with a 34 kg tumor
Chris Garlick
Chris Garlick
Great Britain
British massage therapist loses limbs after severe sepsis
Zion Harvey
Zion Harvey
USA
Child with transplanted hands
Olesya Radushko
Olesya Radushko
Russia
Victim of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Shivanath and Shivram Sahu
Shivanath and Shivram Sahu
India
Indian brothers, Siamese twins
Michael Hartnett
Michael Hartnett
Australia
Australian athlete playing wheelchair basketball
Zach Ruhl
Zach Ruhl
USA
American fitness trainer without legs
Hayley Okines
Hayley Okines
Great Britain
An English girl with a rare genetic defect - progeria
Myah Hauxwell
Myah Hauxwell
Great Britain
British woman with microphthalmia given prosthetic eye made from abdominal fat
Flora Sandes
Flora Sandes
Great Britain
British woman who served in the Serbian army
Aaron Golub
Aaron Golub
USA
American athlete who became the first blind player on a football team
Lindsay Ess
Lindsay Ess
USA
American woman with donor hands
Chad Dean
Chad Dean
USA
Morbidly obese American, participant of the show "My 600lb Life"
Michelle Salt
Michelle Salt
Canada
Young Canadian woman with leg amputation
Gemma Trotter
Gemma Trotter
Great Britain
British woman who lost her leg
Karina Rodini
Karina Rodini
Brazil
Brazilian woman with neurofibromatosis that caused giant tumors to grow
Zoe North
Zoe North
Great Britain
British girl with cerebral palsy who successfully ran two marathons
Brooklyn Lynn Lilly
Brooklyn Lynn Lilly
USA
2-year-old American girl who spent almost 24 hours alone in the forest
Don Ritchie
Don Ritchie
Australia
Australian who saved more than 160 people from suicide
Charlotte Allsopp
Charlotte Allsopp
Great Britain
Bride of a patient with sympathetic pregnancy
Ben Underwood
Ben Underwood
USA
American blind teenager who saw through hearing
Marianna Phillips
Marianna Phillips
USA
American woman with mucinous cystadenoma of the ovary
Henry Hallam
Henry Hallam
Great Britain
4 year old boy with cancer
Mary Clancey
Mary Clancey
USA
Elderly American woman with a tumor weighing over 60 kg
Jill Taylor
Jill Taylor
USA
American neurophysiologist
Lyn Oliver
Lyn Oliver
Great Britain
Blind British woman
Cara Jones
Cara Jones
Great Britain
A British woman suffering from lipedema who did not know about her illness for a long time