Aimee Mullins (born 1976 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American athlete, actress, and fashion model best known for being a groundbreaker in a number of fields. She set 3 World Records in track and field as the first person in the world to run on sprinting prosthetics modeled after the hind leg of a cheetah. She then became a muse to fashion designers and product designers, artists and photographers, and the world took notice!