FAMOUS SPORTS PERSONALITIES

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List of Famous Sports Personalities: India

Famous Indian Cricket Players

Kiran More	Kapil Dev	Ajit Wadekar
Javagal Srinath	Ajay Jadeja	Madan Lal
G.R. Vishwanath	C.G.Borde	Mohammed Azharuddin
E.D.Solkar	Bishan Singh Bedi	Manoj Prabhakar
E.A.S. Prasanna	B.S.Chandrashekhar	Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi
Sunil Gavaskar	B.K. Venkatesh Prasad	Navjot Singh Sidhu
D.N. Sardesai	Dilip Vengsarkar	Syed Kirmani
C.P.S. Chauhan	Sachin Tendulkar	Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Sourav Ganguly	Virat Kohali	Virendra Sehwag
Yuvraj Singh	Rahul Dravid	Anil Kumble
Harbhajan Singh	Rohit Sharma	Shikhar Dhawan

Famous Indian Badminton Players

Anup Sridhar	Prakash Padukone	Saina Nehwal
Aparna Popat	Pulella Gopichand	Dipankar Bhattacharya
Chetan Anand	Parupalli Kashyap	P. V. Sindhu

Famous Indian Hockey Players

Dilip Tirkey	Leslie Claudius	Dhanraj Pillay
Gagan Ajit Singh	Pargat Singh	Dhyan Chand

Famous Indian Chess Players

Dibyendu Barua	Parimarjan Negi	Koneru Humpy
K Sasikiran	Sandipan Chanda	Viswanathan Anand
P Harikrishna

Famous Boxing Players of India

Mary Kom	Dingko Singh	Shiva Thapa
Ali Qamar	Jitendra Kumar	Akhil Kumar
Vijender Singh	Hawa Singh	Varghese Johnson

Famous Football Players in India

Baichung Bhutia

Dr Talimeran Ao

Inivalappil Mani Vijayan

Famous Archery Players of India

Dola Banerjee	Limba Ram	Tarundeep Rai
Jayanta Talukdar	Deepika Kumari	Atanu Das
Mangal Singh Champia	Rajat Chauhan	Purnima Mahato
Rahul Banerjee	Laxmi Manjhi	Bombayla Devi Laishram

Famous Lawn Tennis Players of India

Jaidip Mukerjea	Vijay Amritraj	Ramanathan Krishnan
Ramesh Krishnan	Leander Paes	Sania Mirza
Rohan Bopanna	Mahesh Bhupathi

Famous Table Tennis Players of India

Achanta Sharatha Kamal	Mouma Das	Poulomi Ghatak
Chetan Baboor

Famous Weightlifting Players

Karnam Malleshwari

N. Kunjarani Devi

Famous Athletes of India

Ashwini Nachappa	Soma Biswas	P.T.Usha
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar	Anju Bobby George	Shiny Abraham
KM Beenamol	Milkha Singh

Famous Wrestling Players

Dalip Singh Rana	Gulam	The Great Gama
Dara Singh	Palwinder Singh Cheema	Yogeshwar Dutt
Gobar Goha	Panne Lal Yadav	Narsingh Pancham Yadav
Sakshi Malik

Famous Indian Car Racing Players

Narain Karthikeyan

Armaan Ebrahim

Karun Chandhok

Famous Indian Mountaineering Players

Tenzing Norgay

Famous Indian Squash Players

Joshna Chinappa

Ritwik Bhattacharya

Saurav Ghosal

Famous Indian Swimmers

Bula Choudhury

Mihir Sen

Famous Indian Shooters

Vijay Kumar	Gagan Narang	Samresh Jung
Abhinav Bindra	Jaspal Rana	Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Anjali Bhagwat	Manvjit Singh Sandhu

Famous Indian Golf Players

Gaurav Ghei	Jyoti Randhawa	Arjun Atwal
Jeev Milkha SIngh	Shiv Kapur

Famous Indian Billiards and Snooker Players

Geet Sethi	Pankaj Advani	Ashok shandilya
Michael Ferreira

List of Famous Sports Personalities: World

Name Of The Person	Sports	Country
Lionel Messi	Football	Argentina
Diego Maradona	Football	Argentina
Sir Donald Bradman	Cricket	Australia
David Campese	Rugby Union	Australia
Jack Nicklaus	Golf	Australia
Rod Laver	Tennis	Australia
Shane Warne	Cricket	Australia
Glenn Maxwell	Cricket	Australia
Severiano	Golf	Ballesteros
Eddy Merckx	Cycling	Belgium
Pele	Football	Brazil
Ronaldhino	Football	Brazil
Bruno Soares	Tennis	Brazil
Aryton Senna	Motor Racing	Brazilian
Emil Zatopek	Athletics	Czechoslovakia
Ian Botham	Cricket	England
C.B.Fry	Cricket	England
David Beckham	Football	England
Lewis Hamilton	Motor Racing	England
Steve Davis	Snooker	England
W.G. Grace	Cricket	England
Haile Gebreselassie	Athletics	Ethiopia
Kenenisa Bekele	Athletics	Ethiopia
Abebe Bikila	Athletics	Ethiopia
Paavo Nurmi	Athletics	Finland
Bernard Hinault	Cycling	France
Jacques Anquetil	Cycling	France
Serge Blanco	Rugby Union	France
Michael Schumacher	Motor Racing	Germany
Steffi Graf	Tennis	Germany
Andy Murray	Tennis	Great Britain
Bill Shankly	Football	Great Britain
Bobby Moore	Football	Great Britain
Chris Froome	Cycling	Great Britain
Chris Hoy	Cycling	Great Britain
Fred Perry	Tennis	Great Britain
Henry Cooper	Boxing	Great Britain
Mo Farah	Athletics	Great Britain
Nick Faldo	Golf	Great Britain
Paula Radcliffe	Athletics	Great Britain
Roger Bannister	Athletics	Great Britain
Sebastian Coe	Athletics	Great Britain
Sir Steve Redgrave	Rowing	Great Britain
Stirling Moss	Motor Racing	Great Britain
Fausto Coppi	Cycling	Italy
Usain Bolt	Race	Jamaica
Asbel Kiprop	Athletics	Kenya
Tegla Laroupe	Athletics	Kenya
Hicham El Guerrouj	Athletics	Morocco
George Best	Football	Northern Ireland
Grete Waitz	Athletics	Norway
Magnus Carlsen	Chess	Norway
Imran Khan	Cricket	Pakistan
Miguel Tabuena	Golf	Philippines
Manny Pacquiao	Boxing	Philippines
Cristiano Ronaldo	Football	Portugal
Eusebio	Football	Portugal
Jose Mourinho	Football	Portugal
Nadia Comaneci	Gymnastics	Romania
Maria Sharapova	Tennis	Russia
Vladimir Kramnik	Chess	Russia
Svetlana Kuznetsova	Tennis	Russia
Alex Ferguson	Football	Scotland
Eric Liddell	Athletics	Scottish
Viktor Troicki	Tennis	Serbia
Rafael Nadal	Tennis	Spain
Seve Ballesteros	Golf	Spain
Carolina Marin	Badminton	Spain
Bjorn Borg	Tennis	Sweden
Martina Hingis	Tennis	Switzerland
Roger Federer	Tennis	Switzerland
Johan Cruyff	Football	The Netherlands
Jamie Murray	Tennis	UK
Serguei Bubka	Athletics	Ukraine
Tiger Woods	Golf	US
Muhammad Ali	Boxing	US
Floyd Joy Mayweather	Boxing	US
Carl Lewis	Athletics	US
Billie Jean King	Tennis	US
Jackie Joyner Kersee	Athletics	US
Al Oerter	Athletics	US
Babe Didrikson Zaharias	Golf	US
Babe Ruth	Baseball	US
Bo Jackson	Baseball	US
Bob Beamon	Athletics	US
Chris Evert	Tennis	US
Greg Lemond	Cycling	US
Jim Thorpe	Swimming	US
Jimmy Connors	Tennis	US
Joe Dimaggio	Baseball	US
John Mcenroe	Tennis	US
Kelly Slater	Surfing	US
Lance Armstrong	Cycling	US
Magic Johnson	Basketball	US
Mark Spitz	Swimming	US
Martina Navratilova	Tennis	US
Michael Johnson	Athletics	US
Michael Jordan	Basketball	US
Michael Phelps	Swimming	US
Jonathan Edwards	Rugby Union	Wales
Gareth Bale	Football	Wales
Gareth Edwards	Rugby Union	Wales
Brian Lara	Cricket	West Indies
Sir Viv Richards	Cricket	West Indies
Sir Gary Sobers	Cricket	West Indies
Monica Seles	Tennis	Yugoslavia / US