Famous Sports Personalities in the World

List of Famous Sports Personalities in the World gives the list of all famous and Sports Persons
in India and in the World.

This list includes Sports Persons from Football, Cricket, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, Rugby
etc. and the Country to which the person belongs. 

In Banking and other competitive exams like RRB, LIC AO, RBI, SSC, UPSC, FCI, AFCAT, NDA, CDS,
TA, UIIC, OICL, SBI Clerks and PO the questions on Famous Personalities of India and World are
asked.

Person Sport Country

Lionel Messi Football Argentina

Diego Maradona Football Argentina

Pele Football Brazil

Ronaldinho Football Brazil

David Beckham Football United Kingdom

Bill Shankly Football United Kingdom

Bobby Moore Football United Kingdom

Gareth Bale Football United Kingdom

Cristiano Ronaldo Football Portugal

Eusebio Football Portugal

Jose Mourinho Football Portugal

George Best Football Northern Ireland

Alex Ferguson Football Scotland

Johan Cruyff Football Netherlands

Sachin Tendulkar Cricket India

Rahul Dravid Cricket India

Saurav Ganguly Cricket India

Kapil Dev Cricket India

Sunil Gavaskar Cricket India

MS Dhoni Cricket India

Virat Kohli Cricket India

Sir Donald Bradman Cricket Australia

Shane Warne Cricket Australia

Steve Waugh Cricket Australia

Charles Burgess Fry Cricket England

Ian Botham Cricket England

W.G. Grace Cricket England

Imran Khan Cricket Pakistan

Brian Lara Cricket West Indies

Sir Viv Richards Cricket West Indies

Sir Gary Sobers Cricket West Indies

Rod Laver Tennis Australia

Bruno Soares Tennis Brazil

Steffi Graf Tennis Germany

Andy Murray Tennis United Kingdom

Fred Perry Tennis United Kingdom

Mahesh Bhupathi Tennis India

Leander Paes Tennis India

Rohan Bopanna Tennis India

Sania Mirza Tennis India

Maria Sharapova Tennis Russia

Svetlana Kuznetsova Tennis Russia

Viktor Troicki Tennis Serbia

Rafael Nadal Tennis Spain

Bjorn Borg Tennis Sweden

Martina Hingis Tennis Switzerland

Roger Federer Tennis Switzerland

Jamie Murray Tennis United Kingdom

Billie Jean King Tennis United States

Chris Evert Tennis United States

Jimmy Connors Tennis United States

John Mcenroe Tennis United States

Martina Navratilova Tennis United States

Monica Seles Tennis United States

Haile Gebreselassie Athletics Ethiopia

Emil Zatopek Athletics Czechoslovakia

Kenenisa Bekele Athletics Ethiopia

Abebe Bikila Athletics Ethopia

Paavo Nurmi Athletics Finland

Mo Farah Athletics United Kingdom

Paula Radcliffe Athletics United Kingdom

Roger Bannister Athletics United Kingdom

Sebastian Coe Athletics United Kingdom

Asbel Kiprop Athletics Kenya

Tegla Laroupe Athletics Kenya

Hicham El Guerrouj Athletics Morocco

Grete Waitz Athletics Norway

Eric Liddell Athletics Scotland

Serguei Bubka Athletics Ukraine

Carl Lewis Athletics United States

Jackie Joyner Kersee Athletics United States

Al Oerter Athletics United States

Bob Beamon Athletics United States

Michael Johnson Athletics United States

Pullela Gopichand Badminton India

Prakash Padukone Badminton India

Saina Nehwal Badminton India

P.V.Sindhu Badminton India

Jwala Gutta Badminton India

Siril Verma Badminton India

Carolina Marin Badminton Spain

David Campese Rugby Union Australia

Serge Blanco Rugby Union France

Jonathan Edwards Rugby Union United Kingdom

Gareth Edwards Rugby Union United Kingdom

Jack Nicklaus Golf Australia

Severiano Golf Ballesteros

Nick Faldo Golf United Kingdom

Miguel Tabuena Golf Philippines

Seve Ballesteros Golf Spain

Tiger Woods Golf United States

Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf United States

Eddy Merckx Cycling Belgium

Bernard Hinault Cycling France

Jacques Anquetil Cycling France

Chris Froome Cycling United Kingdom

Chris Hoy Cycling United Kingdom

Fausto Coppi Cycling Italy

Greg Lemond Cycling United States

Lance Armstrong Cycling United States

Aryton Senna Motor Racing Brazil

Lewis Hamilton Motor Racing United Kingdom

Michael Schumacher Motor Racing Germany

Stirling Moss Motor Racing United Kingdom

Steve Davis Snooker United Kingdom

Muhammad Ali Boxing United States

Henry Cooper Boxing United Kingdom

Vijender Singh Boxing India

Manny Pacquiao Boxing Philippines

Floyd Joy Mayweather Boxing United States

Sir Steve Redgrave Rowing United Kingdom

Dhyan Chand Hockey India

Balbir Singh Hockey India

Leslie Claudius Hockey India

Vijay Kumar Shooting India

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Shooting India

Gagan Narang Shooting India

Apurvi Chandela Shooting India

 Yogeshwar Dutt Wrestling India

Sushil Kumar Wrestling India

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav Wrestling India

Viswanathan Anand Chess India

Magnus Carlsen Chess Norway

Vladimir Kramnik Chess Russia

Usain Bolt Race Jamaica

Nadia Comaneci Gymnastics Romania

Babe Ruth Baseball United States

Bo Jackson Baseball United States

Joe Dimaggio Baseball United States

Jim Thorpe Swimming United States

Mark Spitz Swimming United States

Michael Phelps Swimming United States

Kelly Slater Surfing United States

Magic Johnson Basketball United States

Michael Jordan Basketball United States