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Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the lives of people with a rare medical condition and/or unusual ability. People featured have or had rare illnesses such as rabies and eye cancer. Many of these people do activities previously thought impossible for people in their condition.

Contents

• List of people featured
• References
• External links

The show began airing on 28 March 2003. ^[1]

List of people featured

• 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

External links

• Official show website Archived 24 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• Extraordinary People at IMDb

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