List of Tamil recipients of the Arjuna Award

The Arjuna Award was instituted in 1961 by the Government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports.

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Athletics

• R. Gyanasekaran (1979–1980)

Ball Badminton

• D. Rajaraman (1984)

Basketball

• T. Vijayaraghawan (1977–1978)

Boxing

• G. Manoharan, boxer (1981)
• V. Devarajan, boxer (1995)

Carrom

• A. Maria Irudayam (1996)

Chess

• Viswanathan Anand (1985)
• S. Vijayalakshmi (2000)
• Krishnan Sasikiran (2002)

Cricket

• S. Venkataraghavan (1971)
• Ravichandran Ashwin (2014)

Hockey

• Krishnamurthy P (1971)
• Vasudevan Baskaran (1979–1980)
• Dhanraj Pillay (1995)
• Mohammed Riaz (1998)

Kabaddi

• Subbiah Rajarathinam (1994)
• Perumal Ganesan (1995)

Powerlifting

• E.S. Bhaskaran (1994)

Swimming

• Kutraleeswaran (1996)

Table Tennis

• U. Sundararaj (1966)
• G. Jagannath (1970)
• V. Chandrasekhar (1982)
• S. Raman (1998)
• Anthony Amalraj (2017)

Tennis

• Ramanathan Krishnan (1961)
• Vijay Amritraj (1974)
• Ramesh Krishnan (1980–1981)
• Anand Amritraj (1985)

Volleyball

• A. Palaniswamy (1961)
• G. E. Sridharan (1982)

Weightlifting

• Mr. John Gabriel Savarimuthu (1967)
• S. Vellaiswamy (1974)
• K. Balamuruganandam (1976)
• M. T. Selvan (1977–1978)
• E. Karaunakaran (1978–1979)
• Thandava Murthy Muthu (2002)