Alain Marguerettaz (born August 31, 1962 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice) is a French Paralympian who started in alpine skiing.
Jim Bob Bizzell (born 1985), Paralympian athlete from the United States competing mainly in category T44 sprint events
Blake Leeper, 2012 U.S. Paralympian competing in Track & Field.
Jacka is a former Paralympian, representing Australia as part of the Australia national wheelchair rugby team at the 1996 Summer Paralympics.
Jessica-Jane Applegate Gold medallist at the 2012 Paralympian Games in 200m Freestyle swimming S14.
On 12 October 2012, Paralympian Jody Cundy MBE was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Anglia Ruskin University with a ceremony at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.
Footballer Chris Judd lived in Joondanna when he played for the West Coast Eagles and Paralympian Louise Sauvage grew up in the suburb.
Josiah Jamison (born in Vance, South Carolina on August 18, 1982) is an American Paralympian.
Besides being a Paralympian, she is also well known for being the 2009 and 2011 World Team Cup participant.
The school has extensive sporting facilities, including an indoor swimming pool (opened by British Paralympian swimmers Sascha Kindred and Nyree Lewis, and formally named The Wessex Pool by HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex as part of the School's Tercentenary Celebrations in 2008) and a large playing field, named "The Holland" after its donor.
María Estela Salas Marín (born 25 May 1969 in Chachalacas, Veracruz) is a Paralympian athlete from Mexico competing mainly in the throwing events.
Mark Wellman is an author, filmmaker, paralympian, and motivational speaker, who is best known for his 1989 ascent of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, which was the first ascent of the cliff by a paraplegic.
Martyna Snopek (born in 1986 in Puławy) is a Polish disabled rower, paralympian, and twice World Rowing Championship bronze medalist (2006, 2007).
Notable people from the Onaping Falls area include Olympian Joe Derochie (Canoe, 1960 Rome), National Hockey League players Dave Taylor (Los Angeles Kings), Dave Hannan (Pittsburgh Penguins) and Troy Mallette (Ottawa Senators), Olympic cyclist Eric Wohlberg, Paralympian (rowing) Steven Daniel and author Mark Leslie (Lefebvre).
Under this program, Össur is a major sponsor of disabled athletes, including Paralympians and world record holders Oscar Pistorius, Sarah Reinertsen, Jody Cundy and Rudy Garcia-Tolson.
But they were widely reported in Britain, where they caused offence and were condemned by a representative of Scope and Tanni Grey-Thompson, a prominent paralympian.
This rural club has a fine history of "punching above its weight" producing no less than two Olympic Swimmers in Amy Smith and Claire Cashmore (Paralympian).
Trischa Zorn (born 1964), American swimmer, the most successful Paralympian of all time