Indian Sports Persons and Athletes: Know Famous sports personalities and players in India 2024

Playing sports not only entertains us but also keeps us physically and mentally fit. It is fair participating in any sport teaches us a healthy lifestyle. This is the reason why central and state government in India gives a lot of emphasis to sports. This is resulting in great performances of Indian sport persons at various world-level tournaments. Indian sports persons and athletes have made the tricolor rise at many important sporting events including Olympics.

A few GK questions in almost every competitive exam are asked from Famous Sports Personalities of India. In today’s post, we are sharing a list of top Indian Sports personalities and Athletes 2024.

Top Sports Persons of India 2024

Let’s go through the list of some top Indian sportsperson that have made the country proud with their inspiring performance. Here is the list of famous sports personalities of India:

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Athletics

Discuss Throwers – Akash Antil, Parduman Singh Brar, Vikas Gowda, Ranjith Kumar Jayaseelan, Yogesh Kathuniya, Anil Kumar, Praveen Kumar Sobti, Amit Kumar Saroha, Balkar Singh, Makhan Singh, Shakti Singh, Vinod Kumar
Javelin Throwers – Sumit Antil, Rajesh Bind, Jagdish Bishnoi, Sandeep Chaudhary, Neeraj Chopra, Devendra Jhajharia, Davinder Singh Kang, Vipin Kasana, Jahangir Khan, Kashinath Naik, Narender Ranbir, Rinku, Ravinder Singh Khaira, Anil Singh, Gurtej Singh, Parsa Singh, Shivpal Singh, Ajeet Singh Yadav,
Hammer Throwers – Praveen Kumar Sobti, Nat Singh Somnath, Jagdev Singh Waraich, Rakesh Kumar Yadav
Long Jumpers – Suresh Babu, Sammudi Balasubramaniam, Vijay Singh Chauhan, Ram Mehar, Kumaravel Premkumar, Sanjay Kumar Rai, B. V. Satyanarayan, Ankit Sharma, Amritpal Singh, Baldev Singh, Dalip Singh, Virsa Singh, M. Sreeshankar, T. C. Yohannan
Male Hurdlers Runners – Joseph Abraham, Sri Chand Ram, S. Abdul Hamid, M. P. Jabir, Cheruvari Lakshmanan, K. Krishna Mohan, Amrit Pal, Norman Pritchard, Gurbachan Singh Randhawa, Bharatinder Singh, Jagdev Singh, Jagmohan Singh, Sarwan Singh, Satinder Singh, Siddhanth Thingalaya, Jim Vickers
High Jumpers – Suresh Babu, Varun Singh Bhati, Vijay Singh Chauhan, Nikhil Chittarasu, Sharad Kumar, Nishad Kumar, Praveen Kumar (Para athlete), Gurbachan Singh Randhawa, Hari Shankar Roy, Tejaswin Shankar, Ajit Singh Balla, Bhim Singh (athlete), Gurnam Singh (high jumper), Mehnga Singh, Mariyappan Thangavelu, Jithin Thomas

Hockey

Here are some top Hockey players from India.

Dhyan Chand
Udham Singh
Leslie Claudius
Mohammed Shahid
Balbir Singh Sr.
Dhanraj Pillay
Rupinder Pal Singh
Manpreet Singh
PR Sreejesh
Ajit Pal Singh
Mandeep Singh
Roop Singh
KD Singh
Harmanpreet Singh
Birendra Lakra
Sardar Singh

Cricket

The list of famous Indian Cricketers is given below.

Sachin Tendulkar
MS Dhoni
Rahul Dravid
Anil Kumble
Kapil Dev
Sourav Ganguly
Virendra Sehwag
Virat Kohli
Yuvraj Singh
Sunil Gavaskar
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan
Rohit Sharma
Ravichandran Ashwin
Ravindra Jadeja

Football

The top football players list from India is given below.

Sunil Chhetri
Bhaichung Bhutia
Gurpreet Singh Sandhu
Sandesh jhingan
Jeje Lalpekhlua
I.M Vijayan
Pradip Kumar Banerjee
Subrata Pal
Chuni Goswami
Peter Thangaraj
Udanta Singh
Anirudh Thapa

Badminton

Here is the list of famous badminton players in India.

Saina Nehwal
PV Sindhu
Pullela Gopichand
Prakash Padukone
Srikanth Kidambi
Jwala Gutta
Parupalli Kashyap
Ashwini Ponnapa
B. Sai. Praneeth
Chetan Anand

Kabaddi

The top kabaddi players list from India is given below.

Ajay Thakur
Pardeep Narwal
Anup Kumar
Rahul Chaudhari
Deepka Niwas Hooda
Manjeet Chillar
Rakesh Kumar
Sandeep Narwal
Rohit Kumar

Top Indian Sports women – Check List of Female sports personalities in India

These days, Women’s participation in sports in India is encouraged. That’s why our country is creating some famous women athletes. A few of the notable names along with their sports are given below.

Anjali Bhagwat – Shooting – Winner of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award and Arjuna Awardee
Anju Bobby George – Long Jump
Apurvi Chandela – Air rifle shooting
Anisa Sayyed – Shooting
Anjum Chopra – Cricket – Arjuna Awardee
Anuradha Biswal – Track and field
Aparna Popat – Badminton – Arjuna Awardee
Asha Agarwal – Track and field – Arjuna Awardee
Ashwini Ponnappa – Badminton – Arjuna Awardee
Ashwini Nachappa
Bobby Aloysius – Track and field
Beenamol – Track and field – Conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award – Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Bula Choudhury – Swimming – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Chekrovolu Swuro – Archery – Arjuna Awardee
Chhanda Gayen – Mountaineering – first Bengali woman to climb Mount Everest
Dipa Karmakar – Gymnastics – Came fourth in the 2016 Rio Olympics – Winner of Khel Ratna Award
Babitha Kumari Phogat – Wrestling
Deepika Kumari – Archery – Arjuna Awardee
Deepika Thakur – Hockey – Arjuna Awardee
Dola Banerjee – Archery – Arjuna Awardee
Divya Singh – Basketball
Dronavalli Harika – Chess – Arjuna Awardee
Dutee Chand – Track and Field
Esha Singh – Shooting sports
Geeta Zutshi – Track and field – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Geeta Phogat – Wrestling
Geetika Jakhar – Wrestling – Arjuna Awardee
Joshna Chinappa – Squash
Harwant Kaur – Track and field
Hima Das – Track and field
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar – Track and field – Conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award – Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Jhulan Goswami – Cricket – Arjuna Awardee
Jwala Gutta – Badminton – Arjuna Awardee
Kamaljeet Sandhu – Track and field – Conferred with Padma Shri
Kavita Chahal – Boxing – Arjuna Awardee
Kavita Raut – Track and field
Koneru Humpy – Chess – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Karnam Malleswari – Weightlifting – Conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award – Padma Shri – Arjuna Award – bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney lifting 110 kg.
Kunjarani Devi – Weightlifting – Conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award – Arjuna Award.
Krishna Poonia – Track and field
Krushnaa Patil – Mountaineering
Mary D’Souza Sequeira – winner of Dyan Chand Award in 2013
Mary Kom – Women’s boxing – Conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award – Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
M D Valsamma – Track and field – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Prajusha Maliakkal – Track and field
Manjeet Kaur – Track and field – Arjuna Awardee
Madhumita Bisht – Badminton – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Mithali Raj – Cricket – Arjuna Awardee
Neelam Jaswant Singh – Track and field – Arjuna Awardee
Neetu Chandra – Taekwondo – First Indian actress to compete in two international games
Neha Aggarwal – Table tennis
Nisha Millet – Swimming – Arjuna Awardee
Prashanti Singh – Basketball – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award
P. V. Sindhu – Badminton – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award
Pinki Pramanik – Track and field
Poulomi Ghatak – Table Tennis – Arjuna Awardee
Pragnya Mohan – Triathlon
Pritam Rani Siwach – Hockey – Arjuna Awardee
Rahi Sarnobat – Shooting
Manu Bhaker – Shooting
Reeth Abraham – Track and field – Arjuna Awardee
Tayabun Nisha – Track and field.
Renubala Chanu – Weightlifting
Razia Sheikh – Track and field
Santhi Soundarajan – Track and field – Winner of 11 International Medals for India and 50 for her home state Tamil Nadu.
Saina Nehwal – Badminton – Conferred with Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award – Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Sakshi Malik – Wrestling – Won bronze medal at Rio Olympics 2016.
Sania Mirza – Tennis – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Sandhya Agarwal – Cricket – Arjuna Awardee
Sarjubala Devi – Boxer – 2011 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships gold medalist.
Sonam Malik – Wrestling
Shikha Tandon – Swimming – Arjuna Awardee
Shiny Abraham – Track and field – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
J. J. Shobha – Track and field – Arjuna Awardee
Seema Antil – Track and field
Soma Biswas – Track and field – Arjuna Awardee
Stephie D’Souza – Track and field – Arjuna Awardee
Sumitra Nayak – Rugby
Sunita Rani – Track and field – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi – Chess – Arjuna Awardee
P. T. Usha – Track and field – Conferred with Padma Shri – Arjuna Award.
Tania Sachdev – Chess – Arjuna Awardee

Olympics Medal Winners from India

India has won 35 medals across 24 Olympic Games – including golds, silvers and bronze. Here is the complete list.

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Norman Pritchard – silver medal – men’s 200m hurdles – Paris 1900 (He was a British-Indian athlete)
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – Amsterdam 1928
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – Los Angeles 1932
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – Berlin 1936
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – London 1948
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – Helsinki 1952
KD Jadhav, bronze medal – men’s bantamweight wrestling – Helsinki 1952
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – Melbourne 1956
Indian hockey men’s team – Silver medal – Rome 1960
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – Tokyo 1964
Indian hockey men’s team – Bronze medal – Mexico City 1968
Indian hockey men’s team – Bronze medal – Mexico City 1968
Indian hockey men’s team – Gold medal – Moscow 1980
Leander Paes, bronze medal – men’s singles tennis – Atlanta 1996
Karnam Malleswari, bronze medal – women’s 54kg weightlifting – Sydney 2000
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, silver medal – men’s double trap shooting – Athens 2004
Abhinav Bindra, Gold medal – men’s 10m air rifle shooting – Beijing 2008
Vijender Singh, bronze medal – men’s middleweight boxing – Beijing 2008
Sushil Kumar, bronze medal – men’s 66kg wrestling – Beijing 2008
Gagan Narang, bronze medal – men’s 10m air rifle shooting – London 2012
Sushil Kumar, silver medal – men’s 66kg wrestling – London 2012
Vijay Kumar, silver medal – men’s 25m rapid pistol shooting – London 2012
Mary Kom, bronze medal – women’s flyweight boxing – London 2012
Yogeshwar Dutt, bronze medal – men’s 60kg wrestling – London 2012
Saina Nehwal, bronze medal – women’s singles badminton – London 2012
PV Sindhu, silver medal – women’s singles badminton – Rio 2016
Sakshi Malik, bronze medal – women’s 58kg wrestling – Rio 2016
Mirabai Chanu, silver medal – women’s 49kg weightlifting – Tokyo 2020
Lovlina Borgohain, bronze medal – women’s welterweight (64-69kg) – Tokyo 2020
PV Sindhu, bronze medal – women’s singles badminton – Tokyo 2020
Ravi Kumar Dahiya, silver medal – men’s 57kg freestyle wrestling – Tokyo 2020
Indian hockey team, bronze medal – men’s hockey – Tokyo 2020
Bajrang Punia, bronze medal – men’s 65kg wrestling – Tokyo 2020
Neeraj Chopra – Gold medal – men’s javelin throw