colourblind

[nicholasdi]

Can anybody name some famous but not too famous alive colurblind people

[sara3]

my brother and my mum.

it's more unusual for women to be colourblind.

I'll introduce you if you're interested.

[Cmitchell]

Famous Colorblind People: Mr. Rogers ,John Dalton (developed theory of atomic structure), Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain, Paul Newman, Michael Lee Aday a.k.a singer Meat Loaf, Jack Nicklaus (golfer), Bing Cosby (singer), Matt Laurer (TV), Bob Dole (politician)

found this on http://tjshome.com/colorblind.php

[nicholasdi]

what are they famous for

[sara3]

↑ all men... told you so!

[Cmitchell]

ooh, this is interesting...also on the same web page

Emerson Moser, who was Crayola's senior crayon maker revealed upon his retirement that he was blue-green colorblind and could not see all the colors!

[sara3]

my mum and my brother are famous, but not too famous, for being related to me. don't you know who I am?

[Cmitchell]

If you're a colourblind female then your dad has to be colourblind - that's the genetics.

[nicholasdi]

Yeah your sara3 everybody knows that.

[sara3]

:o)

[jno]

you might well ask who 'Bing Cosby' is. That website is spelling-blind. As for what the golfer Jack Nicklaus is famous for, I don't know.

It comes in degrees. I have a bit of trouble with red-green, which I think is the most common ssort of colour-blindness.

[nicholasdi]

Thank you for all your answers. They have been very helpful.

[chazza]

Snooker player Peter Ebdon. He famously potted the wrong colour ball once in a game.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/in_depth/2001/ world_snooker_championship/1292932.stm