| Sport | Famous Sportspersons |
|---|---|
| Archery | Limba Ram, Shyam Lal |
| Athletics | Milkha Singh, P. T. Usha, Shiny Wilson, Ashwini Nachappa, Paramjit Singh, Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens, Michael Johnson |
| Badminton | Prakash Padukone, Syed Modi, Pullela Gopichand |
| Basketball | Hanuman Singh, Suman Sharma, Michael Jordan |
| Billiards | Geet Sethi, Michael Ferreira, Wilson Jones, Mike Russell |
| Boxing | Vijender Singh, Kaur Singh, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield |
| Chess | Viswanathan Anand, Dibyendu Barua, Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi, Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov, Bobby Fischer |
| Cricket | Bishan Singh Bedi, Mohinder Amarnath, M. A. K. Pataudi, Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev, Sachin Tendulkar, Javagal Srinath, M. S. Dhoni, Don Bradman, Richard Hadlee, Greg Chappell, Allan Border, Garfield Sobers, Vivian Richards, Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Brian Lara, Sanath Jayasuriya, Steve Waugh |
| Football | Subroto Bhattacharya, Baichung Bhutia, Pelé, Diego Maradona, Ronaldo Nazário, Ronaldinho, Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham |
| Golf | Jeev Milkha Singh, Ali Sher, Nick Faldo |
| Hockey | Dhyan Chand, Dhanraj Pillay, Pargat Singh, Mohammed Shahid |
| Mountaineering | Tenzing Norgay, Bachendri Pal, Santosh Yadav, Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia, Sir Edmund Hillary |
| Shooting | Abhinav Bindra, Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Jaspal Rana |
| Swimming | Khazan Singh, Sebastian Xavier |
| English Channel Swimming | Mihir Sen, Arati Saha |
| Tennis | Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi, Vijay Amritraj, Sania Mirza, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Martina Navratilova, Steffi Graf, Monica Seles, Martina Hingis, Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova |
| Weightlifting | Karnam Malleswari, Kunjarani Devi |
| Wrestling | K. D. Jadhav, Sushil Kumar, Satpal Singh |
Famous Sportspersons of India and the World
By Karnataka | 12 Nov, 2026 | Comments Off on Famous Sportspersons of India and the World