Famous Sports Personalities in India

By Brajendra|Updated : September 22nd, 2022

Dear Students,

In this article, we are providing you with a list of important personalities in Indian Sports. There is always a probability of questions coming from the sports section of static GS as well as the current affairs section.

 

This list of Sportspersons will help you remember the field those sportspersons are from. 

All the Best!

Famous Sports Personalities of India

 BADMINTON    

Men

Pullela Gopichand

Srikanth Kidambi

Prannoy Kumar

B. Sai Praneeth

Ajay Jayaram

 Chetan Anand

Women

Saina Nehwal

P.V. Sindhu

Jwala Gutta

BOXING

Men

Vijendra Singh

Akhil Kumar

Jitender Kumar

Amit Panghal

Mohommad Ali Qamar

Shiva Thapa

Devendro Singh

 

Women

Mary Kom

Kavita Chahal

Sarita Devi

 

Pinki Rani

 Pinki Rani

 

 

ARCHERY  

Men

Limba Ram

Jayanta Talukdar

Tarundeep Rai

Abhishek Verma  

Rajat Chauhan

Aman Saini

  

Women

Deepika Kumari

Dola Banerjee

Laxmirani Majhi

Trisha Deb

Muskar Kirar

Madhumita Kumari

Jyothi Surekha Vennam

 

RACING DRIVER

Men

Narain Karthikeyan

Karun Chandhok

Sandeep Kumar

Armaan Ebrahim

Women

Alisha Abdullah

 

 

 

SQUASH

Men

Cyrus Poncha

Ritwik Bhattacharya 

Saurav Ghosal 

Siddharth Suchde 

Women

Joshna Chinappa 

Dipika Pallikal Karthik 

Janet Vidhi 

 

TABLE TENNIS  

Men

Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj 

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran 

Subramaniam Raman

Achanta Sharath Kamal

Women

Gool Nasikwala 

Suthirta Mukherjee

Manika Batra 

 

SWIMMERS

Men

Virdhawal Khade

Sajan Prakash

Sandeep Sejwal

Rehan Jehangir Poncha

Women

Shikha Tandon

Nisha Millet

Bhakti Sharma

 

INDIAN SHOOTERS

Men

Vijay Kumar

Gagan Narang

Jitu Rai

Ravi Kumar

Rahi Sarnobat

Saurabh Chaudhary

Lakshay

Abhishek Verma

Sanjeev Rajput

 Deepak KumarAbhinav Bindra  

Women

Heena Sindhu

 Anjali Bhagwat

Apurvi Chandela

Manu Bhaker

Rahi Sarnobat

   

GOLF PLAYERS

Men

Arjun Atwal

 

Anirban Lahiri

Shiv Kapur

Gaganjeet Bhullar

Jyoti Randhawa 

 

Women

Aditi Ashok

Sharmila Nicollet

 

BILLIARDS AND SNOOKER

Men

Pankaj Advani

Geet Sethi

Sourav Kothari

 

Women

Vidya Pillai

Chitra Magimairaj 

R Umadevi Nagaraj

Anuja Thakur

HOCKEY

Men

Sardar Singh

P. R. Sreejesh

Sandeep Singh

Manpreet Singh

Sunil Sowmarpet Vitalacharya  

Women

Ritu Rani

Jaspreet Kaur

Savita Poonia

Amandeep Kaur

Punam Barla 

Rani Rampal 

CHESS PLAYERS

Men

Viswanathan Anand

Pentala Harikrishna

Krishnan Sasikiran

Parimarjan Negi

Women

Humpy Koneru

Harika Dronavalli

Tania Sachdev

Padmini Rout

LAWN TENNIS PLAYER

Men

Leander Paes

Mahesh Bhupathi

Somdev Devvarman

Ramkumar Ramanathan

 Rohan Bopanna

Divij Sharan 

Women

Sania Mirza

Ankita Raina

Prarthana Thombare

Weightlifting Player

Men

Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga 

Mohammed Asdullah

Satish Kumar Shivalingam 

Vikas Thakur 

Women

Yumnam Chanu 

Pratima Kumari

Kunjarani Devi 

Geeta Rani 

Wrestling Player

Men

Sushil Kumar

Yogeshwar Dutt

Narsingh Pancham Yadav

Bajrang Punia

Women

Sakshi Malik

Geeta Phogat

Vinesh Phogat

Divya Kakran 

Shot Put

Tejindra pal Singh

Triple Jump

Arpinder Singh

Javelin Throw

Neeraj Chopra

Athelte

Men

 Manjit Singh

 Jinson Johnson

 Muhammed Anas Yahiya

 Dharun Ayyasamy

 
Women
 

 Dutee Chand

 Poovamma Raju Machettira

Hima Das

 Chitra Palakeezh Unnikrishnan

 Swapna Barman

 

Wushu

Men

Santosh Kumar

Surya Bhanu Pratap Singh

Narender Grewal

 
Women
 

Roshibina Devi Naorem

 

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