This is a list of people with color blindness, meaning they have a decreased ability to see color or differences in color.[1]
| Name | Picture | Type/Details | Lifespan | Country | Profession | Notes | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942–2022 | Surrealist writer | Wanted to be a painter. | [2] [3] | |||||
| 1872–1941 | Sculptor | Was forced in school to switch from painting to sculpting. | [4] | |||||
| b. 1955 | Cricketer | [5] | ||||||
| red–green | 1924–2002 | Sportscaster | Prevented promotion in merchant navy. | [6] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1978 | Surfer | Was prevented from becoming a pilot. | [7] | ||||
| b. 1956 | Politician, retired athlete | [8] | ||||||
| red–green | 1916–2009 | Journalist | [9] | |||||
| b. 1940 | NASA Astronaut | Payload specialist in two Space Shuttle missions in 1997. | Scott . Cindy . 2017 . Life without Color . Documentary . 54:27. [10] | |||||
| deuteranopia | 1766–1844 | Scientist | Could only recognize blue, purple and yellow. Pioneered research into colorblindness, which was originally named Daltonism after him. Specified in his will that an autopsy of his eyes be conducted. | [11] [12] | ||||
| b. 1963 | Screenwriter | Was dissuaded from a career as a comic artist. | [13] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1987 | Major League Baseball pitcher | [14] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1991 | Association football player | [15] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1983 | Visual artist | Since 2015, Draxler has worked exclusively in black and white. | [16] | ||||
| 1901–1980 | Hypnotist | [17] | ||||||
| b. 1972 | BMX rider | Foster once held a job painting bikes. | [18] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1952 | 86th United States Attorney General | Kept a list of matching suits and ties. | [19] | ||||
| b. 1955 | Founder of Microsoft | [20] | ||||||
| b. 1971 | Actor, model | Was prevented from becoming a pilot. | ||||||
| red–green | b. 1975 | Video game journalist | [21] | |||||
| blue cone monochromacy | 1728–1774 | Writer | Among the oldest believed incidences of colorblindness. | [22] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1971 | Composer, member of Radiohead | [23] | |||||
| achromatopsia | b. 1984 | Artist, musician, political activist | Started a project in 2003 to develop a sensor that transposed color frequencies into sound frequencies. | [24] | ||||
| b. 1981 | Programmer | Worked on applications to make the Internet more accessible to colorblind people. | [25] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1974 | Association football player | [26] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1975 | Musician, member of Keane | [27] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1978 | TV presenter, journalist | Publicly stated on BBC Radio 5 Live comedy sports show Fighting Talk. | [28] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1979 | Cricketer | Publicly stated in BBC interview. | [29] | ||||
| achromatopsia | b. 1944 | Lead singer of Steppenwolf | Legally blind because of the severity of colorblindness. | [30] | ||||
| 1934–2005 | Entertainer | [31] | ||||||
| b. 1980 | Game designer | Publicly stated on his Twitter account. | [32] | |||||
| red–green | Animator | Was barred from art school, so studied economics; animated for Disney for 20 years. | [33] | |||||
| b. 1963 | Journalist, politician | Was known to wear a black shirt because of his colorblindness. | [34] | |||||
| b. 1955 | TV host | Publicly stated: "I'm colorblind". | [35] | |||||
| 1906–1993 | Astronomer | Dissuaded from becoming a mining engineer. | ||||||
| b. 1983 | Comedian | Has joked about his colorblindness. | [36] | |||||
| Sculptor | Worked as a color separator in a publishing house for three years. | [37] | ||||||
| b. 1821 | Artist | Focused on etching instead of painting. | [38] | |||||
| deuteranopia | b. 1930 | Artist, teacher | Horrified to learn that his landscapes were pink, so he switched to monochrome art. | [39] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1983 | Author (Eragon) | Gave some of his characters red-green CVD. | [40] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1995 | YouTuber, actor | Caused controversy for allegedly faking his reaction to color-corrective lenses in a vlog. | [41] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1942 | Veterinarian, TV host | [42] | |||||
| protanopia | 1924–1990 | Artist | Won three Archibald Prizes. | [43] | ||||
| b. 1976 | Musician | [44] | ||||||
| b. 1982 | Actor | Publicly stated that he is colorblind. | [45] | |||||
| achromatopsia | b. 1985 | Musher | First legally blind person to complete the Iditarod. | [46] | ||||
| red-green | 1835-1910 | Author | Regularly joked about his colorblindness. | [47] | ||||
| b. 1964 | Actor | [48] | ||||||
| b. 1970 | Director, screenwriter, producer | Publicly stated that he is unable to see mid-tones but has not specified which colors. | [49] | |||||
| b. 1977 | Cricketer | Struggles with ball color. | [50] | |||||
| red–green | 1928–2003 | Children's television presenter (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) | [51] [52] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1942 | NFL quarterback | Naval officer who could not distinguish port (red) from starboard (green). | [53] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1945 | Singer-songwriter | Held a job at 15 selling and designing wallpaper. | [54] [55] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1963 | NFL quarterback | First overall draft pick in 1989. | [56] | ||||
| b. 1987 | Cricketer | Struggles with ball color. | [57] [58] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1975 | Snooker player | Has mistakenly sunk the wrong balls while playing. | [59] | ||||
| red–green | b. 1945 | Musician | [60] | |||||
| red–green | b. 1984 | Founder of Facebook | [61] |