"A Curious Man" [d]

Bard, Roy "Ossified Roy" [blk 0-698] 

Bass, Jonathan Richardson

Eastlack, Harry Raymond (donated skeleton to Mutter Museum) [e]

Ensign, Orpha 

Ewing, Stella (Became ossified at the age of 30 after a severe attack of rheumatism) [mh]

Gilpatrick, C.J.[eb]

Leo, The Ossified Man [d]

Lloyd Skeleton  [blk 0-725]

Mr. Maurice Pierce [blk 0-383] [d]

Orloff Count Ivan D. (born "Ivannow Wladislaus von Dziarski Orloff" in Hungary) [e]
"The Only Living Transparent and Ossified Man"; "The Human Window Pane"

Overdurff, Harry J.
Ossified Harry [blk 0-384] 

Porter,Charles "The Man Turning To Stone" [d]
(born April 24, 1900 in New Haven, CT.  Condition started at age of 30)

Prise,George (also George Price) "The Living Skeleton" [e]
(Perhaps better classified as a Living Skeleton, Prise was nevertheless immobile and may have suffered from ankylosis)

Sapp, William Thomas "The Stone Man"

Seip (also Mr. Vanderhoo, born Patterson, New Jersey)[e]

Schwarz, Albert "The Stone Man" [e]

Shaler, Emma "Ossified Girl" (also Schaller. see also Human Skeletons)[h]

Shouse, Roy "Ossified Roy" (also "John") "The Petrified man"  [blk 0-386] [d] [e]

“Simoore” (Born 1752, Died 1802. Is considered the earliest known case of FOP) [e]

Trask, Leonard "The Wonderful Invalid"(suffered from Ankylosing spondylitis)

Worden, Frank "Ossified Man"

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Unidentified Ossified Woman In Carriage [d]

[blk] Bernard L. Kobel Catalogue
[dpm] Daniel P. Mannix
[d] doghouse collection
[e] Elizabeth Anderson
[h] houdini
[mh] Marc Hartzman
[rb] Robert Bogdan 
[rj] Ricky Jay

 Multi-talented, appears in more than one category.
Appeared in Robert Ripley museum or cartoon.
Full article needed and/or forthcoming.

This page last updated 9/30/06