Who founded the Stoke Mandeville Games that inspired the Paralympic movement?

Ludwig Guttmann founded the Stoke Mandeville Games that inspired the Paralympic movement.

Guttmann was a German-born British neurologist who directed the spinal injuries centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England. On 29 July 1948, he organized a sporting competition for 16 injured servicemen and women with spinal cord injuries. The date coincided with the opening ceremony of the 1948 London Olympic Games.

The original competition used wheelchair archery and was intended to support rehabilitation, confidence and independence. It grew into an international event in 1952, when Dutch former servicemen joined British competitors. Stoke Mandeville gradually became the central name associated with organized international sport for athletes with disabilities.

Guttmann is sometimes called the father of the Paralympic movement, but he did not organize the first official Paralympic Games in Rome in 1960. Italian physician Antonio Maglio helped bring the Stoke Mandeville concept to Rome for that milestone event.