Helen Keller was a classic example of someone who became famous through someone else’s dedication to fixing a problem. Both blind and deaf, she was taught to communicate through a then revolutionary method administered by Anne Sullivan. The story was made into film in the famous “The Miracle Worker”. There is actually some speculation that the modern Lasik technology might have partially returned her sight, had she been born at a later time. As an adult, she became a social activist, with many causes to discuss, some, like the veterans organizations, were very popular, and others, like her support of pseudo communist ideals, rather unpopular. She is interred at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, DC.