• Petero Byakatonda, a
Crouzon syndrome patient • Ellie, Georgie, Holly, and Jessica Carles, the first known
identical quadruplets in Britain • David Fitzpatrick,
fugue state (amnesia) sufferer •
Jeanna Giese, the first
rabies survivor, who was successfully treated with the experimental
Milwaukee protocol after being bitten by an infected bat •
Abby and Brittany Hensel,
dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins •
Akrit Jaswal, who performed his first surgery at age seven •
Dede Koswara, an Indonesian man with a form of HPV (
epidermodysplasia verruciformis) which causes tree-like growths • Florence "Flo" & Katherine "Kay" Lyman, identical twin
savants • Cameron Macaulay, a boy from
Barra, Scotland who claimed to have memories of a
past life as an American airman in
World War II •
José Mestre, who suffered a huge, life-threatening facial tumor • John and Jeanette Murphy, an American couple who, in addition to having four children of their own, have adopted 23 with
special needs •
Hayley Okines, an English girl who had
progeria •
Derek Paravicini, a blind
savant and
musical prodigy •
Kim Peek, a
savant •
Oscar Pistorius, amputee athlete • Sarah Scantlin, who awoke and began speaking again after twenty years in a
coma •
Mandy Sellars, woman whose legs grew to life-threatening proportions •
Shiloh Pepin, a girl who had
sirenomelia or Mermaid Syndrome •
Budhia Singh, an Indian boy who ran a 40-mile marathon at the age of four •
Daniel Tammet, an
autistic savant with
synesthesia •
Ben Underwood, an American man who had lost both eyes to
retinal cancer, but was able to use
echolocation to help him navigate the environment and use objects • Luciana Wulken, a young girl with
fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva • Zahra Aboutalib, a woman from Morocco who lived for 46 years carrying a
lithopedion after the death of an
abdominal fetus • Jane Ingram, an English woman from
Suffolk who successfully gave birth to healthy triplets, one of whom was an
abdominal pregnancy • Terri Calvesbert, an English teenager who sustained and survived burns over 90% of their body ==References==