Antonio Magarotto

Antonio Magarotto (30 June 1891 in Pojana Maggiore – 10 May 1966 in Rome) was an Italian educator, founder of the Ente Nazionale Sordi (ENS) [1][2] and rector of the Padua Deaf institute.

His son Cesare Magarotto founded the World Federation of the Deaf.

He was sent to a deaf school, the Tommaso Pendola Institute in Siena where he learned to speak and lipsread.

In the year of 1923, he obtained from the Mussolini government a law that enabled the deaf and blind people to attend elementary schools.

Streets in five Italian cities were named in honor of Magarotto: Poiana Maggiore,[6] Padua,[7] Rome,[8] Albano Terme[9] and Alcamo.