This document summarizes famous historical figures and celebrities who had notable eye conditions or eye injuries, including: - Sylvester Stallone who had facial paralysis from forceps used during his difficult birth. - Stevie Wonder who became blind as an infant from retinopathy of prematurity. - Galileo Galilei who lost his sight gradually from iridocyclitis and cataracts. - Hannibal who lost an eye to conjunctivitis after crossing the Alps, and Louis Braille who became blind after accidentally stabbing his eye as a child.

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By
Dr.Ahmed Alsherbiny
MSc. Ophth, FICO , FRCS Ophth (Glasg(

2. Sylvester Stallone
Complications his mother suffered during labor forced her obstetricians to use
two pairs of forceps during his birth; misuse of these accidentally severed the
facial nerve and caused paralysis in parts of his face.

3. Andrea Bocelli
Andrea Bocelli became blind at the age of 12 years old
following a football accident in which he was hit in the head.
Born with congenital glaucoma he had very
poor eyesight until at the age of 12 while playing soccer
he hit his head. In the hospital 2 or 3 days later he had
bleeding on his brain and became totally blind ever since.

4. Stevie Wonder
He was born one month prematurely and was placed in an incubator
in the special care unit of the hospital. During that time he
developed retinopathy of prematurity and became blind in
both eyes.

5. Galileo Galilei
His sight started to deteriorate at the age of 68 years old and eventually leaded
to complete blindness. Galileo probably suffered from bilateral iridocyclitis as a
complication of his rheumatoid disease. This iridocyclitis then produced a
complicated cataract, synechiae and an occlusion membrane.

6. Marchese Guglielmo Marconi
while motoring from La Spezia to Genova, he had a head-on collision
with another car. He received deep cuts into the right cheek, temple and
the right eye was cared for by Professor Baiardi of Torino. Later,
Professor E Fuchs of Vienna was called in consultation and finally the
two decided that the eye should be enucleated on October 17, 1912,
since it was hopelessly lost and there was danger of eliciting a
sympathetic uveitis in the other eye

7. Hannibal
Hannibal lost one eye due to conjunctivitis seven
months after he had crossed the alps, while wading through
a fetid Etruscan (= Tuscan) Swamp.

8. Alexander the great
Arrian describes Alexander—the strong, handsome commander with
one eye dark as the night and one blue as the sky. This is a sign of
heterochromia. Heterochromia refers to a difference in coloration,
usually of the iris

9. Theodore Roosevelt
He received trauma to the eye in 1908 while playing tennis. He was hit with a ball
hard enough to shatter his glasses and lacerate the skin around his eye.
Apparently, a cataract developed in the left eye reducing vision to light
perception. It is quite likely that this was a traumatic cataract.

10. Moshe Dayan
he was early on June 2, 1941 hit by machine gun fire. He happened to hold his
field glasses front of his eyes. A bullet splintered the lens and a metal casing
became embedded in his left orbit. The eye was apparently completely shattered.
The orbital wound healed slowly and because of severe orbital fractures a
prosthesis could not be worn and he was forced to adopt the black eye patch
that became his trademark. Dayan thought that he looked worse with the plastic
eye which was not in alignment with his right eye and he therefore continued to
wear the black patch.

11. Taha Hussein
He became blind at the age of three, the result of faulty traditional
remedy treatment by an unskilled barber, a condition which caused him
a great deal of anguish throughout his entire life.

12. Umm Kulthum
She suffered from Goiter with thyroid eye disease (TED) which
pushed her to wear dark glasses later in her life.

13. Louis Braille
Louis Braille became blind after he accidently stabbed
himself in the eye with his father’s awl. He later became an
inventor and designed braille writing which enabled bind
people to read through the feeling a series of organized
bumps representing letters.

14. Queen Nefertiti
Some authors think that a missing left eye means she might
have been blind in her left eye.

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