Famous Sports Personalities in India
By BYJU'S Exam Prep
Updated on: September 25th, 2023
Sports occupies a vital role in our lives and has a pivotal place across the world. We have come up with the Important Sports Personalities in India as it is one of the most important topics for competitive exams.
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Static GK is an important part of any competitive exams. In static GK, many questions are asked from Famous Sports Personalities. Here is the list of “Famous Sports Personalities in India”.
List of Famous Sports Personalities
CRICKET
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Sachin Tendulkar |
Virat Kohli |
M S Dhoni |
Rohit Sharma |
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Ravindra Jadeja |
R Ashwin |
Jasprit Bumrah |
Hardik Pandya |
| Rishabh Pant | Yuvraj Singh | Sourav Ganguly |
Kapil Dev |
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Women |
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Mithali Raj |
Jhulan Goswami | Deepti Sharma |
Harmanpreet Kaur |
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Smriti Mandhana |
Poonam Yadav |
Shafali Verma |
Anjum Chopra |
BADMINTON
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Pullela Gopichand |
Srikanth Kidambi |
Prannoy Kumar |
Chetan Anand |
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B. Sai Praneeth |
Ajay Jayaram |
Sameer Verma |
Parupalli Kashyap |
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Women |
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Saina Nehwal |
P.V. Sindhu |
Jwala Gutta |
Aparna Popat |
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Ashwini Ponnappa |
Rituparna Das |
Gadde Ruthvika Shivani |
P. C. Thulasi |
BOXING
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Vijendra Singh |
Akhil Kumar |
Jitender Kumar |
Shiva Thapa |
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Mohommad Ali Qamar |
Shiva Thapa |
Devendro Singh |
Vikas Krishnan Yadav |
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Women |
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Mary Kom |
Kavita Chahal |
Sarita Devi |
Aruna Mishra |
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Pinki Rani |
Kavita Goyat |
Sarjubala Devi |
Pooja Rani |
ARCHERY PLAYERS
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Men |
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Tarundeep Rai |
Rajat Chauhan |
Abhishek Verma |
Jayanta Talukdar |
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Limba Ram |
Atanu Das |
Sandeep Kumar |
Mangal Singh Champia |
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Women |
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Deepika Kumari |
Dola Banerjee |
Laxmirani Majhi |
Trisha Deb |
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Bombayla Devi Laishram |
Jyothi Surekha Vennam |
Komalika Bari |
Muskan Kirar |
RACING DRIVER
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Men |
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Narain Karthikeyan |
Karun Chandhok |
Sandeep Kumar |
Armaan Ebrahim |
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Women |
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Alisha Abdullah |
Bani Yadav | Sneha Sharma | Sonia Jain |
SQUASH
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Men |
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Cyrus Poncha |
Ritwik Bhattacharya |
Saurav Ghosal |
Siddharth Suchde |
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Women |
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Joshna Chinappa |
Dipika Pallikal Karthik |
Janet Vidhi |
Anaka Alankamony |
TABLE TENNIS PLAYER
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Men |
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Sharath Kamal Achanta |
Harmeet Desai |
Soumyajit Ghosh |
Sanil Shetty |
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Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj |
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran |
Subramaniam Raman |
Subhajit Saha |
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Women |
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Manika Batra |
Mouma Das |
Poulomi Ghatak |
Madhurika Patkar |
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Gool Nasikwala |
Suthirta Mukherjee |
Ankita Das |
Sutirtha Mukherjee |
SWIMMERS
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Men |
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Virdhawal Khade |
Sajan Prakash |
Sandeep Sejwal |
Rehan Jehangir Poncha |
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Women |
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Shikha Tandon |
Nisha Millet |
Bhakti Sharma |
Arati Saha |
INDIAN SHOOTERS
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Men |
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Saurabh Chaudhary |
Jitu Rai |
Abhishek Verma |
Divyash Singh Panwar |
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Sanjev Rajput |
Deepak Kumar |
Angad Bajwa |
Mairaj Ahmed Khan |
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Vijay Kumar |
Gagan Narang |
Abhinav Bindra |
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Women |
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Anjum Moudgil |
Rahi Sarnobat |
Manu Bhakar |
Yashaswini Deswal |
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Aishwarya Singh Tomar |
Tejaswini Sawant |
Chinki Yadav |
Apurvi Chandela |
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Heena Sindhu |
Anjali Bhagwat |
Deepali Deshpande |
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GOLF PLAYERS
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Arjun Atwal |
Anirban Lahiri |
Jyoti Randhawa |
Shiv Kapur |
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Gaganjeet Bhullar |
Jeev Milkha Singh |
Gaurav Ghei |
Shiv Chawrasia |
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Women |
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Aditi Ashok |
Sharmila Nicollet |
Diksha Dagar |
Smriti Mehra |
BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER
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Pankaj Advani |
Geet Sethi |
Sourav Kothari |
Chandra Hirjee |
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Women |
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Vidya Pillai |
Chitra Magimairaj |
R Umadevi Nagaraj |
Anuja Thakur |
HOCKEY
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Men |
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Sardar Singh |
P. R. Sreejesh |
Sandeep Singh |
Sunil Sowmarpet Vitalacharya |
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Women |
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Ritu Rani |
Jaspreet Kaur |
Savita Poonia |
Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam |
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Amandeep Kaur |
Punam Barla |
Navjot Kaur |
Vandana Kataria |
CHESS PLAYERS
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Viswanathan Anand |
Pentala Harikrishna |
Krishnan Sasikiran |
Parimarjan Negi |
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Baskaran Adhiban |
Surya Shekhar Ganguly |
Abhijeet Gupta |
Parimarjan Negi |
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Women |
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Humpy Koneru |
Harika Dronavalli |
Tania Sachdev |
Padmini Rout |
LAWN TENNIS PLAYER
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Leander Paes |
Mahesh Bhupathi |
Somdev Devvarman |
Rohan Bopanna |
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Ramkumar Ramanathan |
Yuki Bhambri |
Prakash Amritraj |
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Women |
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Sania Mirza |
Ankita Raina |
Prarthana Thombare |
Sunitha Rao |
WEIGHTLIFTING PLAYER
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Ragala Venkat Rahul |
Pardeep Singh |
Vikas Thakur |
Jeremy Lalrinnunga |
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Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga |
Mohammed Asdullah |
Sukhen Dey |
Sathish Sivalingam |
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Women |
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Saikhom Mirabai Chanu |
Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu |
Punam Yadav |
Karnam Malleswari |
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Yumnam Chanu |
Pratima Kumari |
Kunjarani Devi |
Geeta Rani |
WRESTLING PLAYER
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Sushil Kumar |
Yogeshwar Dutt |
Narsingh Pancham Yadav |
Bajrang Punia |
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Jinder Mahal |
Deepak Punia |
Ravinder |
Sumit Malik |
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Women |
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Sakshi Malik |
Geeta Phogat |
Vinesh Phogat |
Babita Kumari |
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Kavita Devi |
Navjot Kaur |
Nirmala Devi |
Divya Kakran |
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