The following is a list of politicians who hold or held office while having a physical disability.
Afghanistan Mohammed Omar, Taliban leader and former head of state (lost one eye due to a shrapnel injury)
Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika, former President of Algeria (wheelchair user)
Argentina Gabriela Michetti, former vice president (wheelchair user) Daniel Scioli, former vice president and former governor of Buenos Aires Province (lost his right arm in an accident in 1989) Jorge Triaca Jr., former Minister of Labour (wheelchair user)
Armenia Seyran Ohanyan, former Defence Minister of Armenia (one leg amputated after being wounded during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War) Zaruhi Batoyan, Minister of Social Affairs and Labour (wheelchair user) Artak Zeynalyan, Minister of Justice of Armenia (leg amputee)
Australia Federal Graham Edwards, member of the House of Representatives (lost both legs during the Vietnam War) John Hyde, member of the House of Representatives (lost an arm in a farming accident) George Maxwell, member of the House of Representatives (deteriorating eyesight, eventually went blind) Gregor McGregor, senator for South Australia (deteriorating eyesight, eventually went blind) Alby Schultz, member of the House of Representatives (blind in one eye after an accident with hydrochloric acid) Jordon Steele-John, senator for Western Australia (cerebral palsy, wheelchair user)
State Denise Allen, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (muscular atrophy) Les Craig, member of the WA Legislative Council (lost a leg during World War I) Henry Curran, member of the WA Legislative Assembly (lost a leg in a traffic accident) Roberts Dunstan, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lost a leg during World War II) Frank Guthrie, member of the WA Legislative Assembly (lost a leg during World War I) Cecil Hincks, member of the South Australian House of Assembly (lost a leg during World War I) David Hunter, member of the NSW Legislative Assembly (went blind as a child after contracting meningitis) Mathieson Jacoby, member of the WA Legislative Assembly (blind in one eye after dynamiting accident) Peter Lalor, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lost an arm in the Eureka Rebellion) Iven Manning, member of the WA Legislative Assembly (lost an arm during World War II) Frank Marriott, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (lost sight during World War I) Hugh Mosman, member of the Queensland Legislative Council (lost arm in a dynamiting accident) Batong Pham, member of the WA Legislative Council (uses a wheelchair after experiencing a brain aneurysm) Rob Pyne, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (quadriplegic, wheelchair user) Liesl Tesch, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (paraplegic, wheelchair user) Kelly Vincent, member of the South Australian Legislative Council (cerebral palsy, wheelchair user) William Willmott, member of the WA Legislative Assembly (lost a leg during World War I)
Austria Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria (1835–48) (severe epilepsy from childhood, hydrocephalic)
Brazil +NameParty (most recent)Office(s)NotesRoseane Cavalcante de FreitasAvanteFederal Deputy for Alagoas (2011–2014), (2016–2018)PoliomyelitisMara GabrilliSocial Democratic PartySenator for São Paulo (2019–current) Federal Deputy for São Paulo (2011–2019)Tetraplegic due to a car accidentPaulo GanimeNew PartyFederal Deputy for São Paulo (2019–2023)Congenital malformationFelipe RigoniBrazil UnionFederal Deputy for Espírito Santo (2019–2022)BlindGolbery do Couto e SilvaNational Renewal AllianceChief of Staff of the Presidency (1974–1981)Blind in one eyeLuiz Inácio Lula da SilvaWorkers' PartyPresident of Brazil (2003–2011), (2023–current) Federal Deputy for São Paulo (1989–1991), (1987–1989)Lost his left pinky finger from a machine accidentWalter TostaLiberal PartyFederal Deputy for Minas Gerais (2011–2015) State Deputy of Minas Gerais (2007–2011)Paraplegic
Cambodia Ta Mok, Khmer Rouge leader (amputated lower leg) Hun Sen, Prime minister (blind in one eye due to a war wound)
Canada Lucien Bouchard, former Ambassador to France, leader of the Bloc Québécois and Premier of Quebec (amputee due to necrotizing fasciitis) Buckley Belanger, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Athabasca (visually impaired in left eye) Stephanie Cadieux, Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (paraplegic) Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development (visually impaired due to Graves' disease) Steven Fletcher, Federal Minister of State for Democratic Reform and for Transport; Leader of the provincial Manitoba Party (first quadriplegic MP) Kent Hehr, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-Buffalo; Member of Parliament for Calgary Centre (quadriplegic after being shot as a bystander in a drive-by shooting) Marlene Jennings, Member of Parliament for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine (partially blind due to detached retinas and cataracts) Joseph McNamara, Member of Provincial Parliament for Riverdale (amputee; lost his right arm while a soldier in Vimy, France in World War I) Megan Patterson, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Moose Jaw Wakamow (tracheostomy due to injuries sustained in a car crash) Manon Perreault, Member of Parliament for Montcalm (paraplegic) Pierre Sévigny, former Member of Parliament and Associate Minister of National Defence (amputee) Michelle Stilwell, Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (quadriplegic) Sam Sullivan, former mayor of Vancouver (quadriplegic with limited use of his extremities) Carla Qualtrough, Member of Parliament for Delta and Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility (visually impaired since birth) Sarah Jama, Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Hamilton Central (wheelchair user born with cerebral palsy).
Colombia Juan Gonzalo Botero, Vice Minister of Agricultural Development (2018–2022). Wheelchair-reliant due to degenerative nerve disease. Jairo Clopatofsky, Representative of the constituency of Bogotá to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (1991–1994), Senator of Colombia (1994–1998, 2002–2004, 2005–2010), General Director of the Administrative Department of Sport, Recreation, Physical Activity and the Use of Free Time, Coldeportes (2010–2012). Paraplegic from 1982 to 2005 due to a car accident. Partially able to walk since 2005 thanks to stem cell treatment. Viviane Morales Hoyos, Representative of the constituency of Bogotá to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (1991–1994, 1994–1998), Senator of Colombia (1998–2002), Attorney General of Colombia (2010–2012). Missing one eye due to an infection. Antonio Navarro Wolff, Collegiate president of the Constituent Assembly of Colombia writing the Colombian Constitution of 1991, Mayor of the city of Pasto (1995–1997), Representative of the constituency of Bogotá to the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia (1998–2002), Governor of Nariño (2008–2011), General Secretary of the mayor of Bogotá, Senator of Colombia (2002–2006, 2014–2018). Amputated lower leg and speech disorder secondary to partial tongue paralysis due to an assassination attempt. Elsa Noguera, Mayor of Barranquilla (2012–2015), Minister of Housing, City and Territory (2016–2017), Governor of Atlantico. Mobility problems due to osteogenesis imperfecta. Apolinar Salcedo Caicedo, Mayor of Cali (2004–2007). Blind after being shot when he was a child.
Czech Republic Jaromír of Bohemia, Duke of Bohemia (blinded by Oldřich of Bohemia after being dethroned in 1012, ruled again from 1033 to 1034) Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, King of Bohemia (half-blind; permanently injured his left eye in a hunting accident) John of Bohemia, King of Bohemia and Poland (blind) Jan Žižka, Czech general and Hussite leader, follower of Jan Hus; took part in the civil wars in Bohemia in the reign of Wenceslaus IV (blind)Legal records from 1378 mention Jan Žižka z Trocnova hinting that if the nickname žižka meant one-eye, early chronologer Aeneus Sylvius Piccolomini, Pius II was correct in stating the loss of the eye was the result of a childhood fight. Jan Syrový, Czech general, prime minister of Czechoslovakia during the Munich Crisis (half-blind; lost his right eye during the Battle of Zborov) Miloš Zeman, President of the Czech Republic, wheelchair user as a result of complications caused by diabetes and neuropathy.
Dominican Republic Joaquín Balaguer, former president (1960–1962, 1966–1978, and 1986–1996) (blind on his last term due to glaucoma)
Ecuador Lenín Moreno, former President (2017–2021) and former Vice President (2007–2013) (paraplegic)John Otis (11 February 2013) Ecuador's Paraplegic Vice President Lenin Moreno a Major Force for Disability Rights Pri.org. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
Estonia Edgar Savisaar, former mayor of Tallinn and former acting Prime Minister (had a leg amputated due to necrotizing fasciitis)
Fiji Iliesa Delana, member of Parliament and Assistant Minister for Youth and Sports (since 2014); Paralympic gold medallist (leg amputee due to an accident as a child)
France Georges Couthon, one of the leaders of the French Revolution, President of the National Convention (paraplegic) Louis XVIII, King of France (paralysed by gout in his final years) Antoine Pinay, Prime Minister of France (paralyzed right arm due to a World War I injury) Jean-Marie Le Pen, Member of the European Parliament and three-time presidential candidate (blind in his left eye) Damien Abad, deputee and minister (arthrogryposis)
Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon, paralyzed because of a stroke
Germany Malu Dreyer, former Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate (has multiple sclerosis) George V, last King of Hanover (blind by age 14) Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda and ultimately Chancellor of Germany after Hitler (had deformed foot causing limp) Heike Heubach, Member of Bundestag since 2024 (First deaf member of the Bundestag) Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Member of Bundestag 1972–1998, minister of economy 1977–1984 (leg amputee) Wolfgang Schäuble, former President of the Bundestag, former minister of finance and the interior and former CDU party chairman (wheelchair user since 1990 assassination attempt) Kurt Schumacher, Member of Bundestag 1949–1952, head of SPD (double amputee: right arm and left leg) Wilhelm II, last Kaiser and King of Prussia (Had a withered left arm about 15 cm shorter than his right as a result of Erb's palsy)
Gibraltar Peter Caruana, Member of the Gibraltar Parliament 1991–2013, 5th Chief Minister of Gibraltar 1996–2011 (blind in one eye)
Hungary Béla II, King of Hungary (1131–1141) (blinded by his father's political opponents in 1113) Ferenc Hirt, Member of Parliament for Tamási (2006–2018) (wheelchair user since 1988 due to a car accident) Katalin Szili, Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary (lost hand from undisposed grenade explosion at age 12) Vilmos Kátai-Németh, Member of the National Assembly of Hungary and Minister of Social and Family Affairs (lost his vision due to an inherited retinal disease at age 16)
India Jaipal Reddy (polio) Yamuna Prasad Shastri (blind) Sadhan Gupta (blind) Simon Britto Rodrigues (legs paralysis) Hari Dev Joshi (did not have one hand)
Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th president of Indonesia (lost his left eye and visually impaired on the right eye due to glaucoma)
Iran Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran (lost his right hand's function in an assassination attempt)
Ireland Brian Crowley, former MEP for South (wheelchair-user since an accident aged 16) Senator Martin Conway (blind) Michael Davitt, Irish Republican Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom for Irish seats between 1882 and 1899, (lost right arm in an industrial accident aged 11) Seán Connick, former TD for Wexford (wheelchair user)