폴 알렉산더

소개

폴 알렉산더(Paul Alexander, 1946년 1월 30일 ~ 2024년 3월 11일)은 미국의 소아마비 생존자이자, 변호사이다. 1952년 6살에 소아마비에 걸려, 72년 동안 철폐 속 안에서 지냈다.

Paul Richard Alexander was an American paralytic polio survivor, attorney and author. After contracting polio in 1952 at the age of six, he spent the remainder and vast majority of his life in an iron lung, and is currently recognized as the person to have spent the longest period of time occupying one at almost 72 years. Decades following his disablement, Alexander earned a bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor at the University of Texas at Austin, and was admitted to the bar in 1986. He self-published a memoir in 2020 and, late in life, built a following on TikTok.