"It takes a lot of strength and a complete no-fear attitude to go as far as these highly successful people with disabilities have," Carlson wrote in the article. 

Her list includes inventors and CEOs, a U.S. president, performers and artists. The list is as follows:

1. Stephen Hawking - Physicist and namesake of the Discovvery Channel show Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time, who was diagnosed with ALS when he was age 21.
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt - U.S. president who steered the country through the Great Depression and World War II, who before his presidency contracted polio and became paralyzed from the waist down.
3. Ralph Braun - The late founder of the Braun Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wheelchair accessible vehicles, and named “a champion of change” by President Barack Obama, was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy as a child.
4. John Hockenberry - A U.S. journalist and author, four-time time Emmy Award winner and three-time Peabody Award winner, who was wheelchair-bound with a spinal cord injury.
5. Marlee Matlin - An award-winning (Oscar and Golden Globe) movie and television actress, best known for the movie Children of a Lesser God, who is deaf.
6. Stevie Wonder - A popular award-winning musician, singer and songwriter for decades, known for such hits as You are the Sunshine of My Life, I Just Called to Say I Love You and Isn't She Lovely, who was born blind.
7. Frida Kahlo - A  Mexican artist considered one of the most well-known artists of the 20th century. She contracted polio at age six.
8. Helen Keller - Deaf and blind from early childhood, she became a beloved American author, political activist and lecturer whose story was memorably told in the play and film, The Miracle Worker.
9. Lenin Moreno - The former vice president of Ecuador who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for championing the cause of people with disabilities. He became disabled following a shooting incident before his political career.
10. Sudha Chandran - A well-known dancer and television actress in India, who lost a leg following complications from injuries suffered in an auto accident. The subject of a movie made on her life, the world-acclaimed dancer uses a prosthetic.

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