On 7/16/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
[[Chang and Eng Bunker]] [[General Tom Thumb]] [[Lavinia Warren]] [[Zip the Pinhead]] [[Myrtle Corbin]] [[Frank Lentini]] [[Jane Barnell]] to a degree [[Sarah Biffen]] [[The Doll Family]] [[Johnny Eck]] [[Elizabeth Green the Stork Woman]]
In some cases --- particularly Sarah Biffen --- these people are famous in their own right. For the rest, although they were indeed famous only for their deformities, they were *so* famous that they're still well-known a hundred years later.
They're also all - as far as I can tell - dead. So human dignity doesn't really come into it.
Strangely, many of them don't have any useful categories beyond "sideshow attractions" that would actually tell you that they had physical deformities. I guess [[Category:Freaks]] got voted out?
Steve