List of amateur wrestlers
Listed are wrestlers who wrestled in either freestyle, Greco-Roman, collegiate, or associated amateur wrestling styles. These wrestlers should not be confused with the sports entertainment form of professional wrestling.
Armenia 
- Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan – 1992 Olympic silver medalist (for Unified Team)
- Ara Abrahamian – 2004 Olympic silver medalist (for Sweden)
- Artem Teryan – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist (for Soviet Union)
- Artur Aleksanyan – 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, 2014 and 2015 World champion
- Arsen Julfalakyan – 2012 Olympic silver medalist
- Armen Mkrtchyan – 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Armen Nazaryan – 1996 Olympic gold medalist, 2000 Olympic gold medalist (for Bulgaria), 2004 Olympic bronze medalist (for Bulgaria)
- Levon Julfalakyan – 1988 Olympic gold medalist (for Soviet Union)
- Mkkhitar Manukyan – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist (for Kazakhstan)
- Roman Amoyan – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, 2006 and 2011 European champion
Azerbaijan 
- Namig Abdullayev – 2000 Olympic gold medalist, 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Emin Ahmadov – 2012 Olympics bronze medalist
- Toghrul Asgarov – 2012 Olympic gold medalist
- Rovshan Bayramov – 2008 Olympic silver medalist, 2012 Olympic silver medalist
- Khetag Gazyumov – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, 2012 Olympic bronze medalist
- Farid Mansurov – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Vitaliy Rahimov – 2008 Olympic silver medalist
- Sharif Sharifov – 2012 Olympic gold medalist
Australia 
- Richard Garrard – 1948 Olympic silver medalist
- Eddie Scarf – 1932 Olympic bronze medalist
Austria 
- Nikolaus Hirschl – 1932 Olympic 2 time bronze medalist, European Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, 10 time Austrian Heavyweight Wrestling Champion
Belarus 
- Dmitry Debelka – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
- Viachaslau Makaranka – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Valeriy Tsilent – 1996 Olympic bronze medalist
Belgium 
- Joseph Mewis – 1956 Olympic silver medalist
Bulgaria 
- Valentin Yordanov – 1996 Olympic gold medalist in up to 52 kg weight class, seven times World Champion (1983, '85, '87, '89, '93, '94, and '95), seven times European Champion (1982, '83, '85, '86, '87, '88, and '89), and is the only wrestler to hold 10 World Championship medals (7 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze).
- Ivan Radnev – 1994 World silver medalist
- Dimitar Dobrev – 1960 Olympic gold medalist (73 – 79 kg), 1956 Olympic silver medalist (73 – 79 kg)
- Petko Sirakov – 1956 Olympic silver medalist (79 – 87 kg)
- Nikola Stanchev – 1956 Olympic gold medalist (73 – 79 kg)
- Hussein Mehmedov – 1956 Olympic silver medalist (+ 87 kg)
- Dinko Petrov – 1960 Olympic bronze medalist (52 – 57 kg)
- Krali Bimbalov – 1960 Olympic silver medalist (79 – 87 kg)
- Nezhdet Zalev – 1960 Olympic silver medalist (52 – 57 kg)
- Stancho Ivanov – 1960 Olympic silver medalist (57 – 62 kg)
- Enyu Valchev – 1960 Olympic bronze medalist (62 – 67 kg), 1964 Olympic gold medalist (62 – 67 kg), 1968 Olympic silver medalist (63 – 70 kg), 1962 World gold medalist (62 – 67 kg)
- Angel Kerezov – 1964 Olympic silver medalist (- 52 kg)
- Kiril Todorov – 1964 Olympic silver medalist (70 – 78 kg)
- Boyan Radev – 1964 Olympic gold medalist (87 – 97 kg), 1968 Olympic gold medalist (87 – 97 kg)
- Stancho Kolev – 1964 Olympic silver medalist (57 – 63 kg)
- Prodan Gardzhev – 1964 Olympic gold medalist (78 – 87 kg), 1968 Olympic bronze medalist (78 – 87 kg)
- Said Mustafov – 1964 Olympic bronze medalist (87 – 97 kg)
- Lyutvi Akhmedov – 1964 Olympic silver medalist (+ 97 kg)
- Enyu Todorov – 1968 Olympic silver medalist (57 – 63 kg)
- Osman Duraliev – 1968 Olympic silver medalist (+ 97 kg)
- Petar Kirov – 1968 Olympic gold medalist (- 52 kg), 1972 Olympic gold medalist (48 – 52 kg)
- Ognyan Nikolov – 1972 Olympic silver medalist (- 48 kg)
- Ivan Krastev – 1972 Olympic bronze medalist (57 – 62 kg)
- Osman Duraliev – 1972 Olympic silver medalist (+ 100)
- Stefan Angelov – 1972 Olympic bronze medalist (- 48 kg), 1976 Olympic bronze medalist (- 48 kg)
- Georgi Markov – 1972 Olympic gold medalist (57 – 62 kg)
- Stoyan Apostolov – 1972 Olympic silver medalist (62 – 68 kg)
- Aleksandar Tomov – 1972 Olympic silver medalist (+ 100), 1976 Olympic silver medalist (+ 100), 1980 Olympic silver medalist (+ 100)
- Khasan Isaev – 1976 Olympic gold medalist (- 48 kg)
- Dimo Kostov – 1976 Olympic bronze medalist (90 – 100 kg)
- Ivan Kolev – 1976 Olympic bronze medalist (74 – 82 kg)
- Stoyan Ivanov – 1976 Olympic silver medalist (82 – 90 kg)
- Kamen Goranov – 1976 Olympic silver medalist (90 – 100 kg)
- Nermedin Selimov – 1980 Olympic bronze medalist (48 – 52 kg)
- Miho Dukov – 1980 Olympic silver medalist (57 – 62 kg)
- Ivan Yankov – 1980 Olympic silver medalist (62 – 68 kg)
- Valentin Raychev – 1980 Olympic gold medalist (68 – 74 kg)
- Ismail Abilov – 1980 Olympic gold medalist (74 – 82 kg)
- Slavcho Chervenkov – 1980 Olympic silver medalist (90 – 100 kg)
- Mladen Mladenov – 1980 Olympic bronze medalist (48 – 52 kg)
- Pavel Pavlov – 1980 Olympic bronze medalist (74 – 82 kg)
- Georgi Raikov – 1980 Olympic gold medalist (90 – 100 kg)
- Ivan Tzonov – 1988 Olympic silver medalist (- 48 kg)
- Simeon Shterev – 1988 Olympic bronze medalist (57 – 62 kg)
- Rahmat Sukra – 1988 Olympic bronze medalist (68 – 74 kg)
- Bratan Tzenov – 1988 Olympic bronze medalist (- 48 kg)
- Stoyan Balov – 1988 Olympic silver medalist (52 – 57 kg)
- Zhivko Vangelov – 1988 Olympic silver medalist (57 – 62 kg)
- Atanas Komchev – 1988 Olympic gold medalist (82 – 90 kg)
- Rangel Gerovski – 1988 Olympic silver medalist (+ 130 kg)
- Valentin Yordanov – 1992 Olympic bronze medalist (48 – 52 kg), 1996 Olympic gold medalist (48 – 52 kg)
- Valentin Getsov – 1992 Olympic silver medalist (62 – 68 kg)
- Serafim Barzakov – 2000 Olympic silver medalist (58 – 63 kg)
- Radoslav Velikov – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist (- 54 kg)
- Kiril Terziev – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist (66 – 74 kg)
- Yavor Yanakiev – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist (66 – 74 kg)
Canada 
- Gary Bohay (born 1960) – 1989 World silver medalist
- Andy Borodow (born 1969) – Canadian Olympic wrestler, Maccabiah champion, Commonwealth champion
- Daniel Igali – 2000 Olympic gold medalist, 1 World Champion Gold, World Hall of Fame
- Garry Kallos (born 1956) – wrestler and sambo competitor
- Guivi Sissaouri – 1996 Olympic silver medalist, 1 World Champion, 1 World Silver, 2 time World Bronze
- Howard Stupp (born 1955) – Olympian, won five Canadian championships (1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981), two Pan Am Games titles (1975, 1979), two Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union championships, and four titles at the Maccabiah Games in Israel
- Tonya Verbeek – 2004 & 2012 Olympic Silver, 2008 Olympic Bronze, 2011 World Silver, 2005 & 2009 World Bronze
- Christine Nordhagen (born 1971) – 6x World Champion, 3x World Silver, 1 World Bronze, World Hall of Fame
- Carol Huynh – 2008 Olympic Champion, 2012 Olympic Bronze, World Hall of Fame
- Martine Dugrenier – 2008, 2009, 2010 World gold medalist, 2005, 2006, 2007 World silver medalist, World Hall of Fame
- Arjan Bhullar – two-time NAIA Champion, CIS Champion, Commonwealth Games Champion, Olympian, ONE Heavyweight Champion
- Jessica MacDonald – 2012 World gold medalist, 2011 & 2013 World bronze medalist
- Erica Wiebe – 2016 Olympic Champion, 2019 & 2018 World bronze medalist
- Justina Di Stasio – 2018 World gold medalist, 2017 World bronze medalist
- Linda Morais – 2019 World gold medalist, 2016 World bronze medalist
China 
- Wang Xu – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Sheng Zetian – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
Cuba 
- Feliberto Ascuy – 1996, 2000 Olympic gold medalists
- Yandro Miguel Quintana – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Juan Marén – 1992 Olympic bronze medalist, 1996, 2000 Olympic silver medalists
- Alexis Vila – 1996 Olympic bronze medalists
- Roberto Monzon – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Iván Fundora – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist, 2007 World Bronze
- Yoel Romero – 2000 Olympic silver medalist, world champion, world second twice, world third twice
- Alexis Rodríguez – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist, 1998 world gold, 2001 world silver
- Lázaro Rivas – 2000 Olympic silver, 1999 world gold, 2003 & 2001 World bronze
- Mijaín López – three-time Olympic champion, five-time world champion, three-time world second
- Liván López – 2012 Olympic bronze, 2013 World Bronze, 2014 & 2011 World Bronze
- Ismael Borrero – 2016 Olympic gold, 2019 & 2015 world gold medalist
- Yasmany Lugo – 2016 Olympic silver medalist
Czechoslovakia 
- Josef Urban – 1932 Olympic silver medalist
Denmark 
- Henrik Hansen – 1948 Olympic bronze medalist
Egypt 
- Ibrahim Moustafa – 1928 Olympic gold medalist, Egypt's first Olympic Medal
- Karam Ibrahim – 2004 Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman
- Mohamed Abdelfatah – 2006 World gold medalist in Greco-Roman
Estonia 
- Georg Lurich – legitimate professional wrestling champion, record-setting strongman, namesake of a a memorial competition held since 1956 (et), trainer of Georg Hackenschmidt and Aleksander Aberg
- Aleksander Aberg – legitimate professional wrestling champion, namesake of a ship
- George Hackenschmidt – legitimate World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion, European Greco-Roman Heavyweight Champion
- August Neo – 1936 Olympic silver medalist in Freestyle and Bronze in Greco-Roman
- Kristjan Palusalu – 1936 Olympic gold medalist Greco-Roman, 1936 Olympic gold medalist Freestyle.
- Voldemar Väli – 1928 Olympic gold medalist, 1932 Olympic bronze medalist
- Johannes Kotkas – 1952 Olympic gold medalist Greco-Roman, 1953 World Championships silver medalist Greco-Roman
- Heiki Nabi – 1996 World Champion Greco-Roman wrestling, 2012 Olympic silver medalist, 2013 World Championships silver medalist Greco-Roman
- Eduard Pütsep – 1924 Olympic gold medalist Greco-Roman wrestling
- Osvald Käpp – 1928 Olympic gold medalist Greco-Roman wrestling
- August Englas – 1953 World Champion Greco-Roman wrestling, 1954 World Champion Freestyle wrestling
- Albert Kusnets – 1928 Olympic bronze medalist Greco-Roman wrestling
- Roman Steinberg – 1924 Olympic bronze medalist Greco-Roman wrestling
- August Kippasto – 1912 Olympian
- Martin Klein – 1912 Olympic silver medalist
France 
- Frank Chamizo – 2016 Olympic gold medalist
- Henri Deglane – 1924 Olympic gold medalist
- Anna Gomis – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Lise Legrand – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
Finland 
- Marko Yli-Hannuksela – 2004 Olympic silver medalist, 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
- Marko Asell – 1996 silver medalist
Georgia 
- Ramaz Nozadze – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
Germany 
- Carl Schuhmann – 1896 Olympic gold medalist
- Arawat Sabejew – 1996 Olympic bronze medalist
- Fritz Schäfer – 1936 Olympic silver medalist
- Alexander Leipold – originally awarded gold at the 2000 Olympics, but was stripped after testing positive for nandrolone
Great Britain 
- Archie MacDonald – 1924 Olympic bronze medalist
- Kenneth Richmond – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist
- Noel Loban – 1984 Olympic bronze medalist
Greece 
- Georgios Tsitas – 1896 Olympic silver medalist
- Stephanos Christopoulos – 1896 Olympic bronze medalist
- Petros Galaktopoulos – 1972 Olympic silver medalist
- Stelios Mygiakis – 1980 Olympic gold medalist, only non Russian wrestler win a Gold medal inside USSR
- Haralampos Holidis – 1984 Olympic bronze medalist, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist
- Dimitrios Thanopoulos – 1984 Olympic silver medalist
- Amiran Karntanov – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
- Alexios Kolitsopoulos – 2001 Mediterranean Games silver medalist
Hungary 
- Sandor Istvan Bardozi – 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Garry Kallos (born 1956) – Hungarian-born Canadian wrestler and sambo competitor
India 
- Sushil Kumar – 2012 Olympic silver medalist, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist & 2010 World Champion
- Khashaba Jadhav – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist
- Yogeshwar Dutt – 2012 Olympic bronze medalist
Iran 
- Nasser Givehchi – 1952 Olympic silver medalist
- Jahanbakht Tofigh – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mahmoud Mollaghasemi – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist
- Abdullah Mojtabavi – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist
- Abbas Zandi – 1954 World Champion, four-time Pahlevan of Iran
- Mohammad Ali Khojastépour – 1956 Olympic silver medalist
- Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi – 1956 Olympic silver medalist
- Gholamreza Takhti – 1956 Olympic gold medalist, 1952, 1960 Olympic silver medalists, three-time Pahlevan of Iran
- Emamali Habibi Goudarzi – 1956 Olympic gold medalist
- Mohammad Paziraye – 1960 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour – 1960 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mansour Mehdizadeh – 1961, 1962, and 1965 World Champion, three-time Olympian, two-time Pahlevan of Iran
- Said Ali Akbar Heidari – 1964 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran – 1964 Olympic bronze medalist
- Abutaleb Gorgori – 1968 Olympic bronze medalist
- Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi – 1968 Olympic bronze medalist
- Abdollah Movahed – 1968 Olympic gold medalist
- Ebrahim Javadi – 1972 Olympic bronze medalist
- Rahim Aliabadi – 1972 Olympic silver medalist
- Mansour Barzegar – 1976 Olympic silver medalist
- Reza Soukhtehsaraei – 1978 and 1981 World silver medalist, Pahlevan of Iran
- Askari Mohammadian – 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1992 Olympic silver medalist
- Alireza Soleimani – 1989 World Champion, six-time Pahlevan of Iran
- Amirreza Khadem Azghadi – 1992, 1996 Olympic bronze medalists
- Rasul Khadem Azghadi – 1996 Olympic gold medalist, 1992 Silver Olympic Medalist
- Abbas Jadidi – 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Alireza Dabir – 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Masoud Jokar – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Alireza Rezaei – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Masoud Mostafa-Jokar – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Alireza Heidari – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Fardin Masoumi – 2006 World bronze medalist, 2009 World silver medalist, Pahlevan of Iran
- Morad Mohammadi – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist
- Ghasem Rezaei – 2012 Olympic gold medalist, 2016 Olympic bronze medalist
- Hamid Sourian – 2012 Olympic gold medalist
- Omid Norouzi – 2012 Olympic gold medalist
- Sadegh Goudarzi – 2012 Olympic silver medalist
- Ehsan Lashgari – 2012 Olympic bronze medalist
- Komeil Ghasemi – 2012 Olympic gold medalist, 2016 Silver Olympic Medalist
- Hassan Yazdani – 2016 Olympic gold medalist
- Saeid Abdevali – 2016 Olympic bronze medalist
- Hassan Rahimi – 2016 Olympic bronze medalist
Italy 
- Enrico Porro – 1908 Olympic gold medalist
- Vincenzo Maenza – 1984, 1988 Olympic gold medalists, 1992 Olympic silver medalist
- Andrea Minguzzi – 2008 Olympic gold medalist
Japan 
- Osamu Watanabe – 1964 Olympic gold medalist and freestyle wrestling's only Olympic gold medalist to retire undefeated in competition
- Kaori Icho – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Kenji Inoue – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Chikara Tanabe – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Kyoko Hamaguchi – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Yojiro Uetake – 1964 and 1968 olympic gold medalist and 3 time undefeated NCAA Champion at Oklahoma State University
Kazakhstan 
- Georgiy Tsurtsumia – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Mkkhitar Manukyan – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Gennadiy Laliyev – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Islam Bairamukov – 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Yuriy Melnichenko – 1996 Olympic gold medalist
- Doulet Tourlekhanov – 1988 Olympic silver medalist and 1987 World Champion
Korea, North 
- Ri Yong-Sam – 1996 Olympic bronze medalist
- Kang Yong-Gyun – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
- Kim II – 1996, 1992 Olympic gold medalists
Korea, South 
- Moon Eui-Jae – 2000, 2004 Olympic silver medalists
- Sim Kwon-Ho – 1996, 2000 Olympic gold medalists
- Yang Jung-Mo – 1976 Olympic gold medalist
Lebanon 
- Zakaria Chibab – 1952 Olympic silver medalist
- Hassan Bchara – 1980 Olympic bronze medalist
Republic of Macedonia 
- Mogamed Ibragimov – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
Moldova 
- Serguei Moureiko – 1996 Olympic bronze medalist
Mongolia 
- Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter – 1968 Olympic bronze medalist
- Tömöriin Artag – 1968 Olympic bronze medalist
- Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh – 1972 Olympic silver medalist
- Zevegiin Oidov – 1976 Olympic silver medalist
Norway 
- Jon Rønningen – 1988 Olympic gold medalist
- Aage Eriksen – 1948 Olympic silver medalist
Pakistan 
- Muhammad Bashir – 1960 Olympic bronze medalist
Poland 
- Jozef Tracz – 1996 Olympic bronze medalist
Romania 
- Ioan Grigoras – 1992 Olympic bronze medalist
Russia 
- Alexander Karelin – FILA Greatest Wrestler of 20th Century (Greco-Roman), 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympic gold medalist, 2000 Olympic silver medalist, 9 X World Champion. He lost 1 match in 13 years to Rulon Gardner.
- Khasan Baroyev – 2004 Olympic gold medalist, 2008 Olympic silver medalist
- Sazhid Sazhidov – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Buvaysa Saytiev – 1996, 2004, 2008 Olympic gold medalist and 5X World Champion
- Resanchev Valeri – two-time Olympic gold medalist, 5-time World Champion
- Varteres Samourgachev – 2000 Olympic gold medalist, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Makhach Murtazaliev – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mavlet Batirov – 2004, 2008 Olympic gold medalist
- Gouzel Maniourova – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Alan Dudaev – 2005 World Champion
- Khadjimourat Gatsalov – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Nazir Mankiev – 2008 Olympic gold medalist
- Islambek Albiev – 2008 Olympic gold medalist
- Aslanbek Khushtov – 2008 Olympic gold medalist
- Shirvani Muradov – 2008 Olympic gold medalist
- Mourad Oumakhanov – 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Adam Saitiev – 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Sagid Murtazaliev – 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- David Musulbes – 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Murat Kardanov – 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Alexei Michine – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Khadzhimurad Magomedov – 1996 Olympic gold medalist
- Vadim Bogiyev – 1996 Olympic gold medalist
- See USSR for all pre-1988 wrestlers in the Russian/USSR region.
Sweden 
- Edvin Matiasson – 1908 Olympic bronze medalist
- Erik Lindén – 1948 Olympic bronze medalist
- Frank Andersson – 1984 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mikael Ljungberg – 1996 Olympic bronze medalist, 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Martin Lidberg – 2003 World gold medalist, Multible European Medalist
- Ara Abrahamian – 2004 Olympic silver medalist, later became known for his antics during 2008 Olympics where he was stripped of his bronze
- Sofia Mattsson – 2007 European bronze medalist, 2008 European silver medalist
- Johan Eurén – 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, 2013 World bronze medalist
- Jimmy Lidberg – 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, 2009-11 World Medalist
- Sofia Mattsson – 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, Multible World Medalist
- Jenny Fransson – 2016 Olympic bronze medalist, Multible World Medalist
Switzerland 
- Adolf Müller – 1948 Olympic bronze medalist
Turkey 
- Yaşar Erkan – 1936 Olympic gold medalist
- Yasar Dogu – 1948 Olympic gold medalist
- Gazanfer Bilge – 1948 Olympic gold medalist
- Hamza Yerlikaya – 1996, 2000 Olympic gold medalists
- Nasuh Akar – 1948 Olympic gold medalist
- Ahmet Kireççi – 1948 Olympic gold medalist, 1936 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mustafa Dagistanli – 1956, 1960 Olympic gold medalists
- Hamit Kaplan – 1956 Olympic gold medalist, 1960 Olympic silver medalist, 1964 Olympic bronze medalist
- Mithat Bayrak – 1956, 1960 Olympic gold medalists
- Müzahir Sille – 1960 Olympic gold medalist
- Tevfik Kis – 1960 Olympic gold medalist
- Ahmet Bilek – 1960 Olympic gold medalist
- Hasan Güngör – 1960 Olympic gold medalist, 1964 Olympic silver medalist
- Ismet Atli – 1960 Olympic gold medalist
- Ismail Ogan – 1960 Olympic silver medalist
- Mehmet Özal – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Aydin Polatci – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Şeref Eroğlu – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Adem Bereket – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
USSR 
- Aleksandr Ivanov – 1976 Olympic silver medalist
- Alexander Medved – 1964, 1968, 1972 Olympic gold medalist, FILA Greatest Wrestler of 20th Century (Freestyle)
- Sergei Beloglazov – 1980, 1988 Olympic gold medalist, 6 time World Champion
- Makharbek Khadartsev – 1988, 1992 Olympic gold medalist, 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Shazam Safin – 1952 Olympic gold medalist
- Shamil Khisamutdinov – 1972 Olympic gold medalist
- Farhat Mustafin – 1976 Olympic bronze medalist
- Vladimir Bakulin − 1968 Olympic silver medalist
- Ivan Koschergin – 1968 bronze medalist
- Valentin Oleynick – 1968 silver medalist
- Nikolai Yakovenko – 1968 silver medalist, 1972 silver medalist
- Anatoli Roschtchin – 1968 silver medalist, 1972 gold medalist
- Boris Gurowitsch – 1968 gold medalist
- Shota Lomidze – 1968 silver medalist
- Roman Dmitriev – 1972 gold medalist, 1976 silver medalist
- Arsen Allakhverdiev − 1972 silver medalist
- Zagalav Abdulbekov − 1972 gold medalist
- Rouslan Ashuraliev – 1972 bronze medalist
- Levan Tediashvili – 1972 gold medalist, 1976 gold medalist
- gennadi Strachow – 1972 silver medalist
- Ivan Yarygin – 1972 gold medalist, 1976 gold medalist
- Roustan kasakov – 1972 gold medalist
- Anatoli nazarenko – 1972 silver medalist
- Valeri Resanzev – 1972 gold medalist, 1976 gold medalist
- Alexej Shumakov – 1976 gold medalist
- Vladimir Yumin – 1976 gold medalist
- Pavel Pinigin – 1976 gold medalist
- Viktor Novishilov – 1976 silver medalist
- Soslan Andiev – 1976 gold medalist, 1980 gold medalist
- Vitali Konstantinov – 1976 gold medalist
- Nelson Davidyan – 1976 silver medalist
- Suren Nalbandyan – 1976 gold medalist
- Anatoly Bykov – 1976 gold medalist, 1980 silver medalist
- Vladimir Tcheboksarov – 1976 silver medalist
- Nikolai balboshin – 1976 gold medalist
- Alexander Koltchinski – 1976 gold medalist, 1980 gold medalist
- Magomed Arasilov – 1980 silver medalist
- anatoli Belaglasov – 1980 gold medalist
Uzbekistan 
- Artur Taymazov – 2012 Olympic gold medalist, 2008 Olympic gold medalist, 2004 Olympic gold medalist, 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Magomed Ibragimov – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Alexandr Dokturishvili – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
Ukraine 
- Irini Merleni – 2004 Olympic gold medalist
- Elbrus Tedeyev – 2004 Olympic gold medalist, 1996 Olympic bronze medalist
- Davyd Saldadze – 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Zaza Zazirov – 1996 Olympic bronze medalist
United Arab Republic 
- Osman Sayed – 1960 Olympic silver medalist
USA 
- Kyle Snyder – 2016 Olympic gold medalist, 2020 Olympic silver medalist, three-time World Champion, three-time NCAA Division I gold medalist
- Jordan Burroughs – 2012 Olympic gold medalist, 4 time World Champion
- Matt Ghaffari – 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Robert Curry – 1904 Olympic gold medalist
- Robin Reed – 1924 Olympic gold medalist, undefeated, pinned every opponent in Olympic competition
- Chester Newton – 1924 Olympic silver medalist
- Bruce Baumgartner – 1984, 1992 Olympic gold medalist, 1988 Olympic silver medalist, 1996 Olympic bronze medalist, most Olympic medals of all American wrestlers
- John Smith – 1988, 1992 Olympic gold medalist, 4X World Champion
- Pat Smith – younger brother of John; first wrestler to win four NCAA Division I titles.
- Dan Gable – 1972 Olympic gold medalist, 1971 World Champion, first wrestler in history to not have one point scored on him in the Olympics
- Terrence McCann – 1960 Olympic gold medalist, founder of now USA Wrestling
- Dave Schultz – 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Mark Schultz – 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Rulon Gardner – 2000 Olympic gold medalist, 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Kenny Monday – 1988 Olympic gold medalist, 1992 Olympic silver medalist
- Cael Sanderson – 2004 Olympic gold medalist, 4 time NCAA Champion
- Richard Voliva – 1936 Olympic silver medalist
- Francis Millard – 1936 Olympic silver medalist
- Frank Lewis – 1936 Olympic gold medalist
- Glen Brand – 1948 Olympic gold medalist
- Leland Merrill – 1948 Olympic bronze medalist
- Henry Wittenberg – 1948 Olympic gold medalist, 1952 Olympic silver medalist
- William Smith – 1952 Olympic gold medalist
- Josiah Henson – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist
- Danny Hodge – 1956 Olympic silver medalist, Dan Hodge Trophy namesake, professional wrestling NWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion
- Peter Blair – 1956 Olympic bronze medalist
- Shelby Wilson – 1960 Olympic gold medalist
- Douglas Blubaugh – 1960 Olympic gold medalist
- Daniel Brand – 1964 Olympic bronze medalist
- Donald Behm – 1968 Olympic silver medalist
- Dremiel Byers – 2002 World Champion, 3 time World medalist
- Richard Sanders – 1968, 1972 Olympic silver medalist
- Chris Taylor – 1972 Olympic bronze medalist
- John Peterson – 1972 Olympic silver medalist, 1976 Olympic gold medalist
- Stanley Dziedzic – 1976 Olympic bronze medalist
- Jamill Kelly – 2004 Olympics silver medalist
- Jeff Blatnick – 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Kevin Jackson – 1992 Olympic gold medalist
- Kurt Angle – 1996 Olympic gold medalist, professional wrestling WWE Champion
- Tom Brands – 1996 Olympic gold medalist
- Terry Brands – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist, 2 time World Champion
- Kevin Randleman – two-time NCAA Division I Champion, UFC Heavyweight Champion
- Edward Banach – 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Louis Banach – 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Andrew Rein – 1984 Olympic silver medalist
- Barry Davis – 1984 Olympic silver medalist
- Steve Fraser – 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Dan Severn – 1986 World Champion, Olympic alternate, UFC 5 and Ultimate Ultimate 1995 tournament champion, UFC Superfight Champion, professional wrestling NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship
- Mark Coleman – 1991 World silver medalist, NCAA Division I Champion, UFC Heavyweight Champion
- Mark Kerr – NCAA Division I Champion, three-time ADCC World Champion, UFC 14 and UFC 15 tournament champion
- Randy Couture – three-time Olympic alternate, two-time NCAA Division I runner-up, three-time UFC Heavyweight Champion and two-time Light Heavyweight Champion
- Dan Henderson – two-time Olympian, Pan American Champion, PRIDE Middleweight and Welterweight Champion
- Brock Lesnar – NCAA Division I Champion, professional wrestling WWE Champion, UFC Heavyweight Champion
- Matt James Lindland – 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Garrett Lowney – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
- Ben Peterson – 1972 Olympic gold medalist, 1976 Olympic silver medalist
- Townsend Saunders – 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Zeke Jones – 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Patricia Miranda – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist
- Brandon Slay – 2000 Olympic gold medalist
- Brandon Paulson – 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Dennis Hall – 1996 Olympic silver medalist
- Daniel Cormier – six-time National Freestyle Champion, World bronze medalist, six-time Olympian, UFC Light Heavyweight and Heavyweight Champion
- Sara McMann – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Lincoln McIlravy – 2000 Olympic bronze medalist
- Nate Carr – 1988 Olympic bronze medalist
- Dennis Koslowski – 1992 Olympic silver medalist
- William Scherr – 1988 Olympic bronze medalist
- Robert Weaver – 1984 Olympics gold medalist
- James Martinez – 1984 Olympic bronze medalist
- Greg Gibson – 1984 Olympic silver medalist
- Stephen Abas – 2004 Olympic silver medalist
- Samuel Henson – 2000 Olympic silver medalist
- Henry Cejudo – 2008 Olympic gold medalist, simultaneous UFC Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion
- Lindsey Durlacher – 2006 world bronze medalist
- Joe Warren – 2006 World Champion
- Ike Okoli – 2014 World bronze medalist and 2015 Pan-Am gold medalist (beach wrestling)
- Anthony Robles – NCAA Division I champion in 2011 despite being born with only one leg
- Kyle Dake – 4 time NCAA Division I champion, and the only wrestler to win NCAA titles in four different weight classes
- Logan Stieber – 4 time NCAA Division I champion
YUG 
- Josip Čorak – 1972 Olympic silver medalist
- Ivan Frgić – 1976 Olympic silver medalist
- Stevan Horvat – 1968 Olympic silver medalist
- Vlado Lisjak – 1984 Olympic gold medalist
- Branislav Martinović – 1960 Olympic silver and 1964 bronze medalist
- Refik Memišević – 1984 Olympic silver medalist
- Milan Nenadić – 1972 Olympic bronze medalist
- Momir Petković – 1976 Olympic gold medalist
- Šaban Sejdiu – 1980 and 1984 Olympic bronze medalist
- Branislav Simić – 1964 Olympic gold and 1968 bronze medalist
- Jožef Tertei – 1984 Olympic bronze medalist
- Šaban Trstena – 1984 Olympic gold and 1988 silver medalist
