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Class #Articles
FA 41
GA 113
A 1
B 320
C 355
FFA 5
DGA 27
Start 368
Stub 15

Association football

This section contains 108 articles.

Forwards

This section contains 58 articles.

European

This section contains 34 articles.

  1. Roberto Baggio
  2. Dennis Bergkamp
  3. Josef Bican
  4. Oleg Blokhin
  5. Eric Cantona
  6. John Charles
  7. Johan Cruyff (Level 4)
  8. Kenny Dalglish
  9. Dixie Dean
  10. Eusébio
  11. Just Fontaine
  12. Ada Hegerberg
  13. Thierry Henry
  14. Zlatan Ibrahimović
  15. Kevin Keegan
  16. Robert Lewandowski
  17. Gary Lineker
  18. Stanley Matthews
  19. Giuseppe Meazza
  20. Kylian Mbappé
  21. Gerd Müller
  22. Birgit Prinz
  23. Ferenc Puskás
  24. Cristiano Ronaldo (Level 4)
  25. Wayne Rooney
  26. Paolo Rossi
  27. Ian Rush
  28. György Sárosi
  29. Alan Shearer
  30. Andriy Shevchenko
  31. Matthias Sindelar
  32. Hristo Stoichkov
  33. Davor Šuker
  34. Marco van Basten

Others

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Paulino Alcántara
  2. Gabriel Batistuta
  3. Cha Bum-kun
  4. Ali Daei
  5. Alfredo Di Stéfano (Level 4)
  6. Didier Drogba
  7. Samuel Eto'o
  8. Mia Hamm (Level 4)
  9. Nwankwo Kanu
  10. Sam Kerr
  11. Lionel Messi (Level 4)
  12. Roger Milla
  13. José Manuel Moreno
  14. Alex Morgan
  15. Neymar
  16. Pelé (Level 4)
  17. Romário
  18. Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) (Level 4)
  19. Hugo Sánchez
  20. Christine Sinclair
  21. Alberto Spencer
  22. Sun Wen (footballer)
  23. Abby Wambach
  24. George Weah

Midfielders

This section contains 33 articles.

European

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Gareth Bale
  2. David Beckham
  3. George Best
  4. Bobby Charlton
  5. Kevin De Bruyne
  6. Luís Figo
  7. Ryan Giggs
  8. Gheorghe Hagi
  9. Roy Keane
  10. Michael Laudrup
  11. Carli Lloyd
  12. Dzsenifer Marozsán
  13. Lothar Matthäus
  14. Michel Platini
  15. Clarence Seedorf
  16. Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935)
  17. Fritz Walter
  18. Zinedine Zidane (Level 4)

Others

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. José Leandro Andrade
  2. Michelle Akers
  3. Teófilo Cubillas
  4. Didi (footballer, born 1928)
  5. Landon Donovan
  6. Garrincha
  7. Diego Maradona (Level 4)
  8. Hidetoshi Nakata
  9. Jay-Jay Okocha
  10. Abedi Pele
  11. Megan Rapinoe
  12. Ronaldinho
  13. Homare Sawa
  14. Juan Alberto Schiaffino
  15. Zico (footballer)

Defenders

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Franco Baresi
  2. Franz Beckenbauer (Level 4)
  3. Cafu
  4. Roberto Carlos
  5. Elías Figueroa
  6. Ruud Gullit
  7. Paolo Maldini
  8. Bobby Moore
  9. Carlos Alberto Torres

Goalkeepers

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Gordon Banks
  2. Gianluigi Buffon
  3. Iker Casillas
  4. José Luis Chilavert
  5. Peter Schmeichel
  6. Hope Solo
  7. Lev Yashin (Level 4)
  8. Dino Zoff

Basketball

This section contains 62 articles.

U.S. men, prior to 1980

This section contains 19 articles.

Centers

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Level 4)
  2. Wilt Chamberlain (Level 4)
  3. Joe Lapchick
  4. George Mikan
  5. Bill Russell

Forwards

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Rick Barry
  2. Elgin Baylor
  3. Nat Clifton
  4. Julius Erving
  5. John Havlicek
  6. Elvin Hayes
  7. Jerry Lucas
  8. Bob Pettit

Guards

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Bob Cousy
  2. George Gervin
  3. Pete Maravich
  4. Wat Misaka
  5. Oscar Robertson
  6. Jerry West

U.S. men, 1980 to present

This section contains 22 articles.

Centers

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Moses Malone
  2. Shaquille O'Neal
  3. Hakeem Olajuwon
  4. David Robinson

Forwards

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Charles Barkley
  2. Larry Bird
  3. Tim Duncan
  4. Kevin Durant
  5. Kevin Garnett
  6. LeBron James (Level 4)
  7. Karl Malone
  8. Dennis Rodman

Guards

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Ray Allen
  2. Kobe Bryant
  3. Stephen Curry
  4. Allen Iverson
  5. Magic Johnson (Level 4)
  6. Michael Jordan (Level 4)
  7. Jason Kidd
  8. John Stockton
  9. Isiah Thomas
  10. Dwyane Wade

Non-U.S. men

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Giannis Antetokounmpo
  2. Sergei Belov
  3. Ramon Fernandez
  4. Pau Gasol
  5. Andrew Gaze
  6. Manu Ginóbili
  7. Nikola Jokić
  8. Steve Nash
  9. Dirk Nowitzki
  10. Dražen Petrović
  11. Arvydas Sabonis
  12. Oscar Schmidt
  13. Yao Ming

Women

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Tamika Catchings
  2. Sue Bird
  3. Lauren Jackson
  4. Lisa Leslie
  5. Ann Meyers
  6. Uljana Semjonova
  7. Sheryl Swoopes
  8. Diana Taurasi

Baseball

This section contains 56 articles.

Catchers

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Yogi Berra
  2. Josh Gibson

Infielders

This section contains 14 articles.

United States

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Cap Anson
  2. Jimmie Foxx
  3. Lou Gehrig
  4. Rogers Hornsby
  5. Derek Jeter
  6. Dorothy Kamenshek
  7. Sophie Kurys
  8. Nap Lajoie
  9. Mark McGwire
  10. Cal Ripken Jr.
  11. Jackie Robinson (Level 4)
  12. Alex Rodriguez
  13. Honus Wagner

Others

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Sadaharu Oh (Level 4)

Outfielders

This section contains 19 articles.

United States

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Hank Aaron (Level 4)
  2. Barry Bonds
  3. Ty Cobb (Level 4)
  4. Joe DiMaggio
  5. Ken Griffey Jr.
  6. Rickey Henderson
  7. Shoeless Joe Jackson
  8. Mickey Mantle
  9. Roger Maris
  10. Willie Mays (Level 4)
  11. Stan Musial
  12. Pete Rose
  13. Babe Ruth (Level 4)
  14. Tris Speaker
  15. Mike Trout
  16. Ted Williams

Others

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Roberto Clemente
  2. Shohei Ohtani
  3. Ichiro Suzuki

Pitchers

This section contains 21 articles.

United States

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Grover Cleveland Alexander
  2. Roger Clemens
  3. Jean Faut
  4. Bob Gibson
  5. Randy Johnson
  6. Walter Johnson
  7. Clayton Kershaw
  8. Sandy Koufax
  9. Greg Maddux
  10. Christy Mathewson
  11. Jackie Mitchell
  12. Satchel Paige
  13. Charles Radbourn
  14. Nolan Ryan
  15. Tom Seaver
  16. Warren Spahn
  17. Ed Walsh
  18. Cy Young

Others

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Pedro Martínez
  2. Hideo Nomo
  3. Mariano Rivera

Cricket

This section contains 61 articles.

Male cricketers

This section contains 56 articles.

Batters

This section contains 26 articles.

  1. Allan Border
  2. Geoffrey Boycott
  3. Don Bradman (Level 4)
  4. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
  5. Rahul Dravid
  6. Sunil Gavaskar
  7. Chris Gayle
  8. Jack Hobbs
  9. Len Hutton
  10. Inzamam-ul-Haq
  11. Douglas Jardine
  12. Mahela Jayawardene
  13. Younis Khan
  14. Virat Kohli
  15. Brian Lara
  16. Graeme Pollock
  17. Ricky Ponting
  18. Ranjitsinhji
  19. Viv Richards (Level 4)
  20. Bob Simpson (cricketer)
  21. Steve Smith (cricketer)
  22. Herbert Sutcliffe
  23. Sachin Tendulkar (Level 4)
  24. Victor Trumper
  25. Frank Worrell
  26. Steve Waugh

Bowlers

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Wasim Akram
  2. Curtly Ambrose
  3. James Anderson (cricketer)
  4. Sydney Barnes
  5. Joel Garner
  6. Clarrie Grimmett
  7. Dennis Lillee
  8. Malcolm Marshall
  9. Glenn McGrath
  10. Muttiah Muralitharan
  11. Bill O'Reilly (cricketer)
  12. Fred Spofforth
  13. Dale Steyn
  14. Fred Trueman
  15. Shane Warne (Level 4)

Wicket-keepers

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Jack Blackham
  2. MS Dhoni
  3. Adam Gilchrist
  4. Alan Knott
  5. Kumar Sangakkara

All-rounders

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Ian Botham
  2. Kapil Dev
  3. W. G. Grace (Level 4)
  4. Richard Hadlee
  5. Sanath Jayasuriya
  6. Jacques Kallis
  7. Imran Khan
  8. Keith Miller
  9. Shakib Al Hasan
  10. Garfield Sobers (Level 4)

Female cricketers

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Enid Bakewell
  2. Belinda Clark
  3. Jhulan Goswami
  4. Ellyse Perry
  5. Mithali Raj

Ice hockey

This section contains 45 articles.

Forwards

This section contains 29 articles.

  1. Hilary Knight (ice hockey)
  2. Caroline Ouellette

Centre

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Jean Béliveau
  2. Bobby Clarke
  3. Sidney Crosby
  4. Phil Esposito
  5. Wayne Gretzky (Level 4)
  6. Angela James
  7. Mario Lemieux
  8. Mark Messier
  9. Howie Morenz
  10. Joe Sakic
  11. Peter Šťastný
  12. Hayley Wickenheiser
  13. Steve Yzerman

Wingers

This section contains 14 articles.

  1. Hobey Baker
  2. Mike Bossy
  3. Cammi Granato
  4. Jayna Hefford
  5. Gordie Howe (Level 4)
  6. Bobby Hull
  7. Brett Hull
  8. Jaromír Jágr
  9. Valeri Kharlamov
  10. Guy Lafleur
  11. Sergei Makarov (ice hockey, born 1958)
  12. Sergei Mozyakin
  13. Alexander Ovechkin
  14. Maurice Richard

Defense

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Ray Bourque
  2. Viacheslav Fetisov
  3. Doug Harvey (ice hockey)
  4. Geraldine Heaney
  5. Tim Horton
  6. Nicklas Lidström
  7. Bobby Orr
  8. Börje Salming
  9. Eddie Shore
  10. Cyclone Taylor

Goaltenders

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Martin Brodeur
  2. Dominik Hašek
  3. Bernie Parent
  4. Jacques Plante
  5. Terry Sawchuk
  6. Vladislav Tretiak

American football

This section contains 42 articles.

Quarterbacks

This section contains 14 articles.

  1. Sammy Baugh
  2. Terry Bradshaw
  3. Tom Brady (Level 4)
  4. John Elway
  5. Brett Favre
  6. Otto Graham
  7. Patrick Mahomes
  8. Peyton Manning
  9. Dan Marino
  10. Joe Montana
  11. Bart Starr
  12. Johnny Unitas
  13. Kurt Warner
  14. Steve Young

Running backs

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Jim Brown (Level 4)
  2. Red Grange
  3. Bronko Nagurski
  4. Walter Payton
  5. Barry Sanders
  6. Gale Sayers
  7. O. J. Simpson
  8. Emmitt Smith

Ends and wide receivers

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Don Hutson
  2. Jerry Rice (Level 4)

Linemen

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Joe Greene
  2. John Hannah (American football)
  3. Pudge Heffelfinger
  4. Deacon Jones
  5. Bob Lilly
  6. Gino Marchetti
  7. Anthony Muñoz
  8. Merlin Olsen
  9. Reggie White

Linebackers and defensive backs

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Dick Butkus
  2. Jack Lambert (American football)
  3. Night Train Lane
  4. Ray Lewis
  5. Ronnie Lott
  6. Ed Reed
  7. Deion Sanders
  8. Lawrence Taylor

Special teams

This section contains 1 article.

  1. George Blanda

Tennis

This section contains 51 articles.

  1. Andre Agassi
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Boris Becker
  4. Björn Borg
  5. Bryan brothers
  6. Don Budge
  7. Maria Bueno
  8. Kim Clijsters
  9. Maureen Connolly
  10. Jimmy Connors
  11. Margaret Court (Level 4)
  12. Novak Djokovic
  13. Stefan Edberg
  14. Roy Emerson
  15. Chris Evert
  16. Roger Federer (Level 4)
  17. Althea Gibson
  18. Pancho Gonzales
  19. Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  20. Steffi Graf (Level 4)
  21. Justine Henin
  22. Martina Hingis
  23. Billie Jean King
  24. Jack Kramer
  25. Shingo Kunieda
  26. René Lacoste
  27. Rod Laver (Level 4)
  28. Ivan Lendl
  29. Suzanne Lenglen (Level 4)
  30. Li Na
  31. John McEnroe
  32. Andy Murray
  33. Rafael Nadal (Level 4)
  34. Martina Navratilova (Level 4)
  35. John Newcombe
  36. Fred Perry
  37. William Renshaw
  38. Renée Richards
  39. Ken Rosewall
  40. Pete Sampras
  41. Arantxa Sánchez Vicario
  42. Richard Sears (tennis)
  43. Monica Seles
  44. Maria Sharapova
  45. Bill Tilden
  46. Esther Vergeer
  47. Guillermo Vilas
  48. Mats Wilander
  49. Serena Williams (Level 4)
  50. Venus Williams
  51. Helen Wills

Golf

This section contains 35 articles.

  1. Seve Ballesteros
  2. Patty Berg
  3. James Braid (golfer)
  4. Ernie Els
  5. Nick Faldo
  6. Walter Hagen
  7. Ben Hogan
  8. Bobby Jones (golfer)
  9. Rory McIlroy
  10. Phil Mickelson
  11. Old Tom Morris
  12. Young Tom Morris
  13. Jack Nicklaus (Level 4)
  14. Byron Nelson
  15. Greg Norman
  16. Lorena Ochoa
  17. Pak Se-ri
  18. Arnold Palmer
  19. Inbee Park
  20. Willie Park Sr.
  21. Gary Player
  22. Gene Sarazen
  23. Patty Sheehan
  24. Sam Snead
  25. Annika Sörenstam (Level 4)
  26. Payne Stewart
  27. Louise Suggs
  28. John Henry Taylor
  29. Lee Trevino
  30. Harry Vardon
  31. Tom Watson (golfer)
  32. Karrie Webb
  33. Kathy Whitworth
  34. Tiger Woods (Level 4)
  35. Mickey Wright

Athletics

This section contains 91 articles.

  1. Abebe Bikila
  2. Harold Abrahams
  3. Valerie Adams
  4. Chioma Ajunwa
  5. Almaz Ayana
  6. Roger Bannister
  7. Robert Barclay Allardice
  8. Randy Barnes
  9. Bob Beamon
  10. Fanny Blankers-Koen (Level 4)
  11. Usain Bolt (Level 4)
  12. Alistair Brownlee
  13. Sergey Bubka (Level 4)
  14. Thomas Burke (athlete)
  15. Galina Chistyakova
  16. Sebastian Coe
  17. Mary Decker
  18. Heike Drechsler
  19. Ashton Eaton
  20. Jonathan Edwards (triple jumper)
  21. Hicham El Guerrouj (Level 4)
  22. Jessica Ennis-Hill
  23. Mo Farah
  24. Allyson Felix
  25. Dick Fosbury
  26. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
  27. Cathy Freeman
  28. Genzebe Dibaba
  29. Florence Griffith Joyner (Level 4)
  30. Haile Gebrselassie (Level 4)
  31. Armin Hary
  32. Yelena Isinbayeva
  33. Caitlyn Jenner
  34. Michael Johnson (sprinter)
  35. Rafer Johnson
  36. Marion Jones
  37. Jackie Joyner-Kersee (Level 4)
  38. Dean Karnazes
  39. Kipchoge Keino
  40. Mary Jepkosgei Keitany
  41. Ezekiel Kemboi
  42. Kenenisa Bekele
  43. Eliud Kipchoge
  44. Robert Korzeniowski
  45. Stefka Kostadinova
  46. Jarmila Kratochvílová
  47. Inessa Kravets
  48. Renaud Lavillenie
  49. Carl Lewis (Level 4)
  50. Natalya Lisovskaya
  51. Liu Xiang (hurdler)
  52. Bob Mathias
  53. Bobby Morrow
  54. Edwin Moses (Level 4)
  55. Wayde van Niekerk
  56. Simone Niggli-Luder
  57. Paavo Nurmi (Level 4)
  58. Al Oerter
  59. Merlene Ottey
  60. Jesse Owens (Level 4)
  61. Sally Pearson
  62. Marie-José Pérec
  63. Sandra Perković Elkasević
  64. Oscar Pistorius
  65. Mike Powell (long jumper)
  66. Paula Radcliffe
  67. Betty Robinson
  68. Bobbie Rosenfeld
  69. David Rudisha
  70. Wilma Rudolph (Level 4)
  71. Viktor Saneyev
  72. Jürgen Schult
  73. Dave Scott (triathlete)
  74. Yuriy Sedykh
  75. Caster Semenya
  76. Saif Saaeed Shaheen
  77. Javier Sotomayor
  78. Emma Snowsill
  79. Barbora Špotáková
  80. Shirley Strickland
  81. Yusuke Suzuki (racewalker)
  82. Irena Szewińska
  83. Daley Thompson
  84. Tirunesh Dibaba
  85. Wyomia Tyus
  86. Lasse Virén
  87. Samuel Wanjiru
  88. Anita Włodarczyk
  89. Kevin Young (hurdler)
  90. Emil Zátopek (Level 4)
  91. Jan Železný

Figure skating

This section contains 31 articles.

  1. Shizuka Arakawa
  2. Dick Button
  3. Cecilia Colledge
  4. Robin Cousins
  5. Peggy Fleming
  6. Gillis Grafström
  7. Jackson Haines
  8. Dorothy Hamill
  9. Scott Hamilton (figure skater)
  10. Yuzuru Hanyu (Level 4)
  11. Tonya Harding
  12. Sonja Henie (Level 4)
  13. Nancy Kerrigan
  14. Yuna Kim
  15. Ilia Kulik
  16. Michelle Kwan
  17. Tara Lipinski
  18. Scott Moir
  19. Axel Paulsen
  20. Evgeni Plushenko
  21. Irina Rodnina
  22. Ulrich Salchow
  23. Karl Schäfer (figure skater)
  24. Barbara Ann Scott
  25. Irina Slutskaya
  26. Madge Syers
  27. Tessa Virtue
  28. Katarina Witt
  29. Alexei Yagudin
  30. Kristi Yamaguchi
  31. Alexander Zaitsev (pair skater)

Martial arts

This section contains 86 articles.

Martial arts in general

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Hélio Gracie
  2. Bruce Lee (Level 4)
  3. Manuel dos Reis Machado
  4. Ip Man
  5. Samart Payakaroon
  6. Hadi Saei
  7. Morihei Ueshiba
  8. Wong Fei-hung

Boxing

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Laila Ali
  2. Muhammad Ali (Level 4)
  3. Henry Armstrong
  4. Cecilia Brækhus
  5. Tommy Burns (Canadian boxer)
  6. Julio César Chávez
  7. James J. Corbett
  8. Oscar De La Hoya
  9. Jack Dempsey
  10. Roberto Durán
  11. Bob Fitzsimmons
  12. George Foreman
  13. Joe Frazier
  14. Harry Greb
  15. Marvelous Marvin Hagler
  16. Thomas Hearns
  17. Holly Holm
  18. Evander Holyfield
  19. Bernard Hopkins
  20. Jack Johnson (boxer)
  21. Vitali Klitschko
  22. Wladimir Klitschko
  23. Sugar Ray Leonard
  24. Joe Louis (Level 4)
  25. Rocky Marciano
  26. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
  27. Carlos Monzón
  28. Archie Moore
  29. Manny Pacquiao
  30. László Papp
  31. Willie Pep
  32. Sugar Ray Robinson (Level 4)
  33. Félix Savón
  34. Max Schmeling
  35. Teófilo Stevenson
  36. Gene Tunney
  37. Mike Tyson
Bare-knuckle boxing (3 articles)
  1. Jem Mace
  2. Daniel Mendoza
  3. John L. Sullivan

Judo

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Kanō Jigorō (Level 4)
  2. Masahiko Kimura
  3. Gene LeBell
  4. Ryoko Tani

Karate and kickboxing

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Gichin Funakoshi
  2. Andy Hug
  3. Joe Lewis (martial artist)
  4. Mas Oyama
  5. Chōjun Miyagi

Mixed martial arts

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Randy Couture
  2. Fedor Emelianenko
  3. Royce Gracie
  4. Demetrious Johnson
  5. Jon Jones
  6. Chuck Liddell
  7. Islam Makhachev
  8. Conor McGregor
  9. Amanda Nunes
  10. Khabib Nurmagomedov
  11. Tito Ortiz
  12. B.J. Penn
  13. Ronda Rousey
  14. Anderson Silva
  15. Georges St-Pierre

Sumo

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Asashōryū Akinori
  2. Futabayama Sadaji
  3. Hakuhō Shō
  4. Taihō Kōki
  5. Tanikaze Kajinosuke

Wrestling

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Kurt Angle
  2. Dan Gable
  3. Kaori Icho
  4. Aleksandr Karelin (Level 4)
  5. Aleksandr Medved
  6. Kristjan Palusalu
  7. Buvaisar Saitiev
  8. Saori Yoshida
  9. Ivan Yarygin

Cycling

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Jacques Anquetil
  2. Lance Armstrong
  3. Rachel Atherton
  4. Gino Bartali
  5. Alfredo Binda
  6. Anne-Caroline Chausson
  7. Fausto Coppi
  8. Chris Froome
  9. Maurice Garin
  10. Bernard Hinault
  11. Chris Hoy
  12. Miguel Induráin
  13. Laura Kenny
  14. Greg LeMond
  15. Eddy Merckx (Level 4)
  16. Leontien van Moorsel
  17. Lucien Petit-Breton
  18. Bernard Thévenet
  19. Nicolas Vouilloz
  20. Bradley Wiggins

Gymnastics

This section contains 25 articles.

  1. Nikolai Andrianov
  2. Simone Biles
  3. Věra Čáslavská
  4. Nadia Comăneci (Level 4)
  5. Gabby Douglas
  6. Paul Hamm
  7. He Kexin
  8. Olga Korbut
  9. Larisa Latynina (Level 4)
  10. Li Ning
  11. Nastia Liukin
  12. Shannon Miller
  13. Aliya Mustafina
  14. Alexei Nemov
  15. Carly Patterson
  16. Lilia Podkopayeva
  17. Aly Raisman
  18. Mary Lou Retton
  19. Sawao Katō
  20. Vitaly Scherbo
  21. Boris Shakhlin
  22. Yelena Shushunova
  23. Takashi Ono (gymnast)
  24. Ludmilla Tourischeva
  25. Elena Zamolodchikova

Auto racing

This section contains 41 articles.

  1. Giacomo Agostini
  2. Mario Andretti
  3. Michael Andretti
  4. Alberto Ascari
  5. Jack Brabham
  6. Peter Brock
  7. Donald Campbell
  8. Guido Cappellini
  9. Jim Clark
  10. Joey Dunlop
  11. Dale Earnhardt
  12. Juan Manuel Fangio (Level 4)
  13. John Force
  14. A. J. Foyt
  15. Jeff Gordon
  16. Dan Gurney
  17. Lewis Hamilton
  18. Graham Hill
  19. James Hunt
  20. Junior Johnson
  21. Jimmie Johnson
  22. Eliška Junková
  23. Niki Lauda
  24. Sébastien Loeb
  25. Bruce McLaren
  26. Colin McRae
  27. Stirling Moss
  28. Barney Oldfield
  29. Danica Patrick
  30. Richard Petty
  31. Alain Prost
  32. Valentino Rossi
  33. Michael Schumacher (Level 4)
  34. Ayrton Senna (Level 4)
  35. Jackie Stewart
  36. Kunimitsu Takahashi
  37. Keiichi Tsuchiya
  38. Sebastian Vettel
  39. Darrell Waltrip
  40. Jamie Whincup
  41. Cale Yarborough

Swimming

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Abdellatief Abouheif
  2. Olga Brusnikina
  3. Florence Chadwick
  4. Natalie Coughlin
  5. Anastasia Davydova
  6. Gertrude Ederle
  7. Krisztina Egerszegi
  8. Dawn Fraser
  9. Grant Hackett
  10. Katie Ledecky
  11. Ryan Lochte
  12. Roland Matthes
  13. Michael Phelps (Level 4)
  14. Lewis Pugh
  15. Mark Spitz (Level 4)
  16. Jenny Thompson
  17. Ian Thorpe
  18. Matthew Webb
  19. Johnny Weissmuller (Level 4)
  20. Esther Williams

Rugby

This section contains 30 articles.

Rugby league

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Arthur Beetson
  2. Dave Brown (rugby league, born 1913)
  3. Clive Churchill
  4. Bob Fulton
  5. Reg Gasnier
  6. Andrew Johns
  7. Graeme Langlands
  8. Wally Lewis
  9. Darren Lockyer
  10. Mal Meninga
  11. Dally Messenger
  12. Johnny Raper
  13. Kevin Sinfield
  14. Cameron Smith (rugby league, born 1983)
  15. Johnathan Thurston

Rugby union

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Serge Blanco
  2. David Campese
  3. Dan Carter
  4. Sébastien Chabal
  5. Danie Craven
  6. Daisuke Ohata
  7. Gareth Edwards
  8. Martin Johnson (rugby union)
  9. Jonah Lomu (Level 4)
  10. Richie McCaw
  11. Colin Meads
  12. Brian O'Driscoll
  13. Francois Pienaar
  14. Waisale Serevi
  15. Jonny Wilkinson

Tabletop games

This section contains 45 articles.

Card games

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Ely Culbertson
  2. Jon Finkel

Poker

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Doyle Brunson
  2. Phil Hellmuth
  3. Phil Ivey
  4. Chris Moneymaker
  5. Johnny Moss
  6. Stu Ungar

Chess

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Alexander Alekhine
  2. Mikhail Botvinnik
  3. José Raúl Capablanca
  4. Magnus Carlsen
  5. Bobby Fischer (Level 4)
  6. Anatoly Karpov
  7. Garry Kasparov (Level 4)
  8. Emanuel Lasker
  9. Paul Morphy
  10. Judit Polgár
  11. Mikhail Tal
  12. Wilhelm Steinitz

Cue sports

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Raymond Ceulemans
  2. Joe Davis
  3. Ralph Greenleaf
  4. Stephen Hendry
  5. Walter Lindrum
  6. Willie Mosconi
  7. Efren Reyes
  8. Ronnie O'Sullivan
  9. Rudolf Wanderone

Table tennis

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Deng Yaping
  2. Ma Lin (table tennis)
  3. Ma Long
  4. Jan-Ove Waldner
  5. Wang Nan (table tennis)

Carrom

This section contains 1 article.

  1. A. Maria Irudayam

Scrabble

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Nigel Richards (Scrabble player)

Go

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Lee Chang-ho
  2. Cho Hun-hyun
  3. Go Seigen
  4. Hon'inbō Sansa
  5. Hon'inbō Shūsaku

Shogi

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Yoshiharu Habu
  2. Yasuharu Ōyama

Xiangqi

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Hu Ronghua

Checkers

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Marion Tinsley

Other individual sports

This section contains 153 articles.

Archery

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Howard Hill
  2. Kim Soo-nyung
  3. Darrell Pace
  4. Park Sung-hyun (archer)
  5. Hubert Van Innis

Badminton

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Lin Dan
  2. Ratchanok Intanon
  3. Gao Ling
  4. Saina Nehwal
  5. Rudy Hartono
  6. Lee Chong Wei

Biathlon

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Ole Einar Bjørndalen (Level 4)
  2. Darya Domracheva

BMX

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Mat Hoffman
  2. Dave Mirra
  3. Mariana Pajón
  4. Māris Štrombergs

Bodybuilding

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Ronnie Coleman
  2. Iris Kyle
  3. Eugen Sandow

Climbing and mountaineering

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Josune Bereziartu
  2. Walter Bonatti
  3. Catherine Destivelle
  4. Wolfgang Güllich
  5. Lynn Hill
  6. Edmund Hillary (Level 4)
  7. Alex Honnold
  8. Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)
  9. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
  10. George Mallory
  11. Reinhold Messner
  12. Tenzing Norgay (Level 4)
  13. Adam Ondra
  14. Edurne Pasaban
  15. Chris Sharma
  16. Junko Tabei (Level 4)

Diving

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Klaus Dibiasi
  2. Greg Louganis
  3. Natalia Molchanova
  4. Wu Minxia

Equestrianism

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Eddie Arcaro
  2. Steve Cauthen
  3. Charlotte Dujardin
  4. Reiner Klimke
  5. Julie Krone
  6. Tony McCoy
  7. Lester Piggott
  8. Bill Shoemaker
  9. Mark Todd (equestrian)
  10. Hans Günter Winkler

Fencing

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Pavel Kolobkov
  2. Edoardo Mangiarotti
  3. Aldo Nadi
  4. Valentina Vezzali

Luge

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Georg Hackl

Modern pentathlon

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Lars Hall

Parkour

This section contains 1 article.

  1. David Belle

Racquetball

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Paola Longoria
  2. Kane Waselenchuk

Rodeo

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Trevor Brazile
  2. Charmayne James
  3. Larry Mahan
  4. J.B. Mauney
  5. Ty Murray
  6. Jim Shoulders

Rowing and kayaking

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Birgit Fischer
  2. Elisabeta Lipă
  3. Michal Martikán
  4. Steve Redgrave (Level 4)

Sailing

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Ben Ainslie
  2. Paul Elvstrøm

Shooting sports

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Maria Grozdeva
  2. Jin Jong-oh
  3. Carl Osburn
  4. Kim Rhode
  5. Ralf Schumann

Skateboarding

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Steve Caballero
  2. Tony Hawk
  3. Nyjah Huston
  4. Rodney Mullen
  5. Elissa Steamer

Skeleton

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Lizzy Yarnold

International Ski Federation sports

This section contains 10 articles.

  1. Marit Bjørgen (Level 4)
  2. Bjørn Dæhlie
  3. Jean-Claude Killy
  4. Mikaël Kingsbury
  5. Hermann Maier
  6. Annemarie Moser-Pröll
  7. Matti Nykänen
  8. Ingemar Stenmark (Level 4)
  9. Lindsey Vonn
  10. Terje Håkonsen

Skydiving and BASE jumping

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Felix Baumgartner

Speed skating

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Bonnie Blair (Level 4)
  2. Steven Bradbury
  3. Eric Heiden (Level 4)
  4. Johann Olav Koss
  5. Sven Kramer
  6. Apolo Ohno
  7. Claudia Pechstein
  8. Ireen Wüst

Squash

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Nicol David
  2. Jahangir Khan
  3. Heather McKay

Strength based sports

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Vasily Alekseyev
  2. Ed Coan
  3. Louis Cyr
  4. Pyrros Dimas
  5. Bill Kazmaier
  6. Hossein Rezazadeh
  7. Naim Süleymanoğlu

Surfing

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Layne Beachley
  2. Duke Kahanamoku
  3. Kelly Slater

Water sports

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Björn Dunkerbeck
  2. Shaun Murray
  3. Dick Pope Jr.

Multiple sports

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Eddie Eagan
  2. Bo Jackson
  3. Anthony Mundine
  4. Jim Thorpe (Level 4)
  5. Babe Didrikson Zaharias (Level 4)
  6. Shaun White

Niche sports

This section contains 30 articles.

Bowling

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Tony Allcock
  2. Earl Anthony
  3. Don Carter (bowler)
  4. Walter Ray Williams Jr.

Bullfighting

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Juan Belmonte
  2. Manolete
  3. Pedro Romero

Competitive eating

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Takeru Kobayashi

Croquet

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Robert Fulford (croquet player)

Darts

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Trina Gulliver
  2. Phil Taylor (darts player)

eSports

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Faker (gamer)
  2. Billy Mitchell (gamer)
  3. Daigo Umehara
  4. Johnathan Wendel
  5. Lim Yo-hwan

Fishing

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Kevin VanDam

Frisbee sports

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Ken Climo
  2. Beau Kittredge
  3. Ken Westerfield

Hunting

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Fred Bear
  2. Frank Buck (animal collector)
  3. Jim Corbett

Memory sports

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Dominic O'Brien

Motocross

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Ricky Carmichael
  2. Jeremy McGrath
  3. Travis Pastrana

Pétanque

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Philippe Quintais

Roller skating sports

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Arlo Eisenberg

Speedcubing

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Feliks Zemdegs

Other team sports

This section contains 59 articles.

Australian rules football

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Gary Ablett Sr.
  2. Ron Barassi
  3. Haydn Bunton Sr.
  4. Wayne Carey
  5. Gordon Coventry
  6. Leigh Matthews

Bandy

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Sergey Ivanovich Lomanov

Basque pelota

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Mariano Juaristi
  2. Julián Retegi

Bobsleigh

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Kevin Kuske
  2. Eugenio Monti

Curling

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Glenn Howard
  2. Kevin Martin (curler)
  3. Sandra Schmirler

Field hockey

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Luciana Aymar (Level 4)
  2. Dhyan Chand (Level 4)
  3. Jamie Dwyer
  4. Rechelle Hawkes
  5. Teun de Nooijer
  6. Dhanraj Pillay
  7. Balbir Singh Sr.

Floorball

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Mika Kohonen

Beach soccer

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Madjer

Futsal

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Falcão (futsal player)

Gaelic sports

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Angela Downey
  2. Billy Morgan (Gaelic footballer)
  3. Christy Ring
  4. Henry Shefflin
  5. Pat Spillane

Handball

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Anja Andersen
  2. Ivano Balić
  3. Nikola Karabatić
  4. Andrey Lavrov
  5. Thierry Omeyer

Kabaddi

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Rakesh Kumar (kabaddi)

Lacrosse

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Gary Gait
  2. Casey Powell

Netball

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Irene van Dyk
  2. Liz Ellis

Paintball

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Oliver Lang

Polo

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Adolfo Cambiaso
  2. Carlos Gracida
  3. Cecil Smith (polo)

Softball

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Eddie Feigner
  2. Lisa Fernandez
  3. Jennie Finch

Tug of war

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Frederick Humphreys (athlete)

Volleyball

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Giba
  2. Kerri Walsh Jennings
  3. Karch Kiraly
  4. Lang Ping
  5. Misty May-Treanor
  6. Regla Torres

Water polo

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Manuel Estiarte
  2. Filip Filipović (water polo)
  3. Dezső Gyarmati
  4. Paul Radmilovic
  5. Brenda Villa
  6. Debbie Watson (water polo)

Ancient sports

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Cynisca
  2. Gaius Appuleius Diocles
  3. Leonidas of Rhodes
  4. Milo of Croton
  5. Pheidippides

Sports business-people, coaches, and referees

This section contains 147 articles. Note: Sportswriters, journalists, commentators and announcers are listed under writers and journalists

American football

This section contains 15 articles.

  1. Bill Belichick
  2. Paul Brown
  3. Bear Bryant
  4. Walter Camp
  5. Al Davis
  6. John Heisman
  7. Curly Lambeau
  8. Tom Landry
  9. Vince Lombardi
  10. Joe Paterno
  11. Knute Rockne
  12. Pete Rozelle
  13. Nick Saban
  14. Amos Alonzo Stagg
  15. Pop Warner

Association football

This section contains 32 articles.

  1. Malcolm Allison
  2. Ken Aston
  3. Béla Guttmann
  4. Sepp Blatter
  5. Vicente del Bosque
  6. Matt Busby
  7. Brian Clough
  8. Ebenezer Cobb Morley
  9. Pierluigi Collina
  10. Didier Deschamps
  11. Arthur Drewry
  12. Alex Ferguson
  13. Robert Guérin
  14. Pep Guardiola
  15. João Havelange
  16. Helenio Herrera
  17. Udo Lattek
  18. Valeriy Lobanovskyi
  19. Mircea Lucescu
  20. Rinus Michels
  21. José Mourinho
  22. Silvia Neid
  23. Bob Paisley
  24. Alf Ramsey
  25. Jules Rimet
  26. Stanley Rous
  27. Vittorio Pozzo
  28. Arrigo Sacchi
  29. Rodolphe Seeldrayers
  30. Howard Webb
  31. Arsène Wenger
  32. Mário Zagallo

Australian rules football

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Ivo Crapp
  2. Jock McHale
  3. Tom Wills

Baseball

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Alexander Cartwright
  2. Charles Comiskey
  3. Abner Doubleday
  4. Bill Klem
  5. Kenesaw Mountain Landis
  6. Connie Mack
  7. Marvin Miller
  8. Buck O'Neil
  9. Branch Rickey
  10. Bud Selig
  11. Albert Spalding
  12. George Steinbrenner
  13. Harry Wright

Basketball

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Red Auerbach
  2. Geno Auriemma
  3. Jerry Buss
  4. Alexander Gomelsky
  5. Henry Iba
  6. Phil Jackson
  7. Bob Knight
  8. Mike Krzyzewski
  9. John Kundla
  10. James Naismith (Level 4)
  11. Mirko Novosel
  12. Larry O'Brien
  13. Gregg Popovich
  14. Pat Riley
  15. Mendy Rudolph
  16. Abe Saperstein
  17. Dean Smith
  18. Harry Statham
  19. David Stern
  20. Pat Summitt
  21. John Wooden

Bodybuilding

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Joe Weider

Boxing

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Jack Broughton
  2. Angelo Dundee
  3. Don King
  4. Tex Rickard

Cycling

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Henri Desgrange

Equestrianism

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Bob Baffert
  2. Federico Caprilli
  3. James E. Fitzsimmons
  4. Kikkuli
  5. Vincent O'Brien
  6. François Robichon de La Guérinière
  7. Federico Tesio

Golf

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Deane Beman

Gymnastics

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Friedrich Ludwig Jahn
  2. Béla Károlyi
  3. Márta Károlyi

Ice hockey

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Al Arbour
  2. Mike Babcock
  3. Gary Bettman
  4. Toe Blake
  5. Scotty Bowman
  6. Herb Brooks
  7. Walter A. Brown
  8. Frank Calder
  9. Clarence Campbell
  10. Ken Hitchcock
  11. Joel Quenneville
  12. James T. Sutherland

Lacrosse

This section contains 1 article.

  1. William George Beers

Mixed martial arts

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Dana White

Olympics

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Thomas Bach
  2. Henri de Baillet-Latour
  3. Godefroy de Blonay
  4. Avery Brundage
  5. Pierre de Coubertin (Level 4)
  6. Carl Diem
  7. Sigfrid Edström
  8. Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
  9. Dick Pound
  10. Jacques Rogge
  11. Juan Antonio Samaranch
  12. Demetrios Vikelas

Racing

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Bernie Ecclestone
  2. Bill France Sr.
  3. Gordon Murray

Rugby league

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Wayne Bennett (rugby league)
  2. Jack Gibson (rugby league)

Rugby union

This section contains 4 articles.

  1. Kitch Christie
  2. William Webb Ellis
  3. Ned Haig
  4. Graham Henry

Snooker

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Barry Hearn

Softball

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Phil McSpadden

Swimming

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Bob Bowman (coach)

Tennis

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Nick Bollettieri
  2. Harry Hopman

Track and Field

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Bill Bowerman

Volleyball

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. William G. Morgan
  2. Bernardo Rezende

Water polo

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Adam Krikorian
  2. Ratko Rudić
  3. William Wilson (aquatics)


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