Extraordinary People (2003 TV series)

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.

The show began airing on 28 March 2003.

List of people featured

• Petero Byakatonda, a Crouzon syndrome patient
• Ellie, Georgie, Holly, and Jessica Carles, the only identical quadruplets in Britain
• David Fitzpatrick, fugue state (amnesia) sufferer
• Jeanna Giese, the first rabies survivor
• Abby and Brittany Hensel, 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 female autistic savants
• Cameron Macaulay, a boy who claims to have memories of a past life
• José Mestre, 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, blind, learning impaired "musical genius"
• Kim Peek, a savant
• Oscar Pistorius, amputee athlete
• Sarah Scantlin, who awoke and began speaking again after a 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, one of the most proficient human echolocators

External links

• Official show website
• Extraordinary People at the Internet Movie Database
• Extraordinary people - famous for their active mind and knowledge