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FA	41
GA	117
FFA	6
DGA	27

Association football

This section contains 109 articles.

Forwards

This section contains 59 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
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
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 25 articles.

1. Paulino Alcántara
2. Gabriel Batistuta
3. Cha Bum-kun
4. Ali Daei
5. Alfredo Di Stéfano
6. Didier Drogba
7. Samuel Eto'o
8. Mia Hamm (Level 4)
9. Marta (footballer)
10. Nwankwo Kanu
11. Sam Kerr
12. Lionel Messi (Level 4)
13. Roger Milla
14. José Manuel Moreno
15. Alex Morgan
16. Neymar
17. Pelé (Level 4)
18. Romário
19. Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer)
20. Hugo Sánchez
21. Christine Sinclair
22. Alberto Spencer
23. Sun Wen (footballer)
24. Abby Wambach
25. 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

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
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
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
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
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 53 articles.

Catchers

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Yogi Berra
2. Josh Gibson

Infielders

This section contains 12 articles.

United States

This section contains 11 articles.

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

Others

This section contains 1 article.

1. Sadaharu Oh

Outfielders

This section contains 19 articles.

United States

This section contains 16 articles.

1. Hank Aaron
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 20 articles.

United States

This section contains 17 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. Satchel Paige
12. Charles Radbourn
13. Nolan Ryan
14. Tom Seaver
15. Warren Spahn
16. Ed Walsh
17. Cy Young

Others

This section contains 3 articles.

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

Cricket

This section contains 60 articles.

Male cricketers

This section contains 55 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
20. Bob Simpson (cricketer)
21. Steve Smith (cricketer)
22. Herbert Sutcliffe
23. Sachin Tendulkar
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

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 9 articles.

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

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
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
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
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
21. Justine Henin
22. Martina Hingis
23. Billie Jean King
24. Jack Kramer
25. Shingo Kunieda
26. René Lacoste
27. Rod Laver
28. Ivan Lendl
29. Suzanne Lenglen (Level 4)
30. Li Na
31. John McEnroe
32. Andy Murray
33. Rafael Nadal
34. Martina Navratilova
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
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
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
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
30. Haile Gebrselassie
31. Armin Hary
32. Yelena Isinbayeva
33. Caitlyn Jenner
34. Michael Johnson (sprinter)
35. Rafer Johnson
36. Marion Jones
37. Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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
55. Wayde van Niekerk
56. Simone Niggli-Luder
57. Paavo Nurmi (Level 4)
58. Al Oerter
59. Merlene Ottey
60. Jesse Owens
61. Sally Pearson
62. Marie-José Pérec
63. Sandra Elkasević
64. Oscar Pistorius
65. Mike Powell (long jumper)
66. Paula Radcliffe
67. Betty Robinson
68. Bobbie Rosenfeld
69. David Rudisha
70. Wilma Rudolph
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
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
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 85 articles.

Martial arts in general

This section contains 8 articles.

1. Hélio Gracie
2. Bruce Lee
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
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
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 14 articles.

1. Randy Couture
2. Fedor Emelianenko
3. Royce Gracie
4. Demetrious Johnson
5. Jon Jones
6. Chuck Liddell
7. Conor McGregor
8. Amanda Nunes
9. Khabib Nurmagomedov
10. Tito Ortiz
11. B.J. Penn
12. Ronda Rousey
13. Anderson Silva
14. 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
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
5. Gabby Douglas
6. Paul Hamm
7. He Kexin
8. Olga Korbut
9. Larisa Latynina
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
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
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
16. Jenny Thompson
17. Ian Thorpe
18. Matthew Webb
19. Johnny Weissmuller
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 44 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

Checkers

This section contains 1 article.

1. Marion Tinsley

Other individual sports

This section contains 152 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
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
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

Parkour

This section contains 1 article.

1. David Belle

Racquetball

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Paola Longoria
2. Kane Waselenchuk

Rodeo

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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

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

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1. Marit Bjørgen
2. Bjørn Dæhlie
3. Jean-Claude Killy
4. Mikaël Kingsbury
5. Hermann Maier
6. Annemarie Moser-Pröll
7. Matti Nykänen
8. Ingemar Stenmark
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
2. Steven Bradbury
3. Eric Heiden
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
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
2. Dhyan Chand
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 144 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 33 articles.

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

Australian rules football

This section contains 2 articles.

1. Ivo Crapp
2. 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 20 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. David Stern
19. Pat Summitt
20. John Wooden

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 6 articles.

1. Bob Baffert
2. Federico Caprilli
3. Kikkuli
4. Vincent O'Brien
5. François Robichon de La Guérinière
6. 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 13 articles.

1. Thomas Bach
2. Henri de Baillet-Latour
3. Godefroy de Blonay
4. Avery Brundage
5. Pierre de Coubertin
6. Carl Diem
7. Sigfrid Edström
8. Alice Milliat
9. Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin
10. Dick Pound
11. Jacques Rogge
12. Juan Antonio Samaranch
13. 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

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)