Elephant boy - deformed man - elephantiasis - skeleton - The most well known example of this was Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 - 11 April 1890), known as "The Elephant Man". He gained the sympathy of Victorian era Britain because of his extreme deformity. Early biographies of Merrick inaccurately give his first name as "John"; an error repeated in many later versions, including the 1980 film The Elephant Man. 固opFoto