Track & field

Sprinters, distance runners, marathoners and other athletics competitors. 6,985 people.

1Usain BoltJamaican sprinter🇯🇲 JAMborn 19862Haruki MurakamiJapanese writer (born 1949)🇯🇵 JPNborn 19493Jesse OwensAmerican track and field athlete (1913–1980)🇺🇸 USA1913–19804Yelena IsinbayevaRussian female Olympic pole-vaulter🇷🇺 RUSborn 19825Carl LewisUS track & field athlete🇺🇸 USAborn 19616Urho Kekkoneneighth President of Finland (1900–1986)🇫🇮 FIN1900–19867Sunita WilliamsAmerican astronaut and USN officer🇺🇸 USAborn 19658Sergei BubkaUkrainian pole vaulter SUNborn 19639Paavo NurmiFinnish middle and long distance runner (1897–1973)🇫🇮 FIN1897–197310Oscar PistoriusSouth African sprinter and convicted murderer (born 1986)🇿🇦 ZAFborn 198611Valdas AdamkusLithuanian politician, twice President of Lithuania (born 1926)🇺🇸 USAborn 192612Haile GebrselassieEthiopian long-distance runner and businessman (born 1973)🇪🇹 ETHborn 197313Joseph CampbellAmerican mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904–1987)🇺🇸 USA1904–198714Emil ZátopekCzech long-distance runner (1922-2000)🇨🇿 CZE1922–200015Nicholas SparksAmerican writer and novelist🇺🇸 USAborn 196516Abebe BikilaEthiopian double Olympic marathon champion🇪🇹 ETH1932–197317O. J. SimpsonAmerican football player and actor (1947–2024)🇺🇸 USA1947–202418Sebastian CoeBritish athlete and politician (born 1956)🇬🇧 GBRborn 195619Caitlyn JennerAmerican media personality and retired decathlete🇺🇸 USAborn 194920Shelly-Ann Fraser-PryceJamaican track and field sprinter🇯🇲 JAMborn 198621Joschka FischerGerman politician🇩🇪 DEUborn 194822Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-BakerBritish athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1889–1982)🇬🇧 GBR1889–198223Jim ThorpeAmerican track and field athlete and baseball player (1888-1953)🇺🇸 USA1888–195324Jackie Joyner-KerseeAmerican track and field athlete🇺🇸 USAborn 196225Florence Griffith JoynerAmerican track and field athlete (1959-1998)🇺🇸 USA1959–199826Wilma RudolphAmerican athlete (1940–1994)🇺🇸 USA1940–199427Neeraj ChopraIndian male javelin thrower🇮🇳 INDborn 199728Allyson FelixAmerican track and field athlete🇺🇸 USAborn 198529Eliud KipchogeKenyan long-distance runner🇰🇪 KENborn 198430Jackie RobinsonAmerican baseball player (1919–1972)🇺🇸 USA1919–197231Kelvin KiptumKenyan long-distance runner (1999–2024)🇰🇪 KEN1999–202432Asafa PowellJamaican sprinter🇯🇲 JAMborn 198233Bob BeamonAmerican track and field athlete🇺🇸 USAborn 194634Mo FarahBritish track and field athlete🇬🇧 GBRborn 198335Stefka KostadinovaBulgarian high jumper🇧🇬 BGRborn 196536Kenenisa BekeleEthiopian long-distance runner (track and field)🇪🇹 ETHborn 198237Justin GatlinAmerican sprinter🇺🇸 USAborn 198238Roger BannisterEnglish physician and athlete (1929–2018)🇬🇧 GBR1929–201839Sakis RouvasGreek recording artist🇬🇷 GRCborn 197240Elaine Thompson-HerahJamaican athletics competitor🇯🇲 JAMborn 199241Armand DuplantisSwedish-American pole vaulter (born 1999)🇺🇸 USAborn 199942Ed WhiteAmerican astronaut (1930-1967)🇺🇸 USA1930–196743Caster SemenyaSouth African middle-distance runner🇿🇦 ZAFborn 199144Tirunesh DibabaEthiopian long distance track athlete🇪🇹 ETHborn 198545Marion JonesAmerican athlete🇧🇿 BLZborn 197546Cathy FreemanAustralian short-distance runner🇦🇺 AUSborn 197347Ben JohnsonCanadian sprinter🇨🇦 CANborn 196148Sifan HassanEthiopian-born Dutch middle- and long-distance runner🇪🇹 ETHborn 199349Yohan BlakeJamaican athletics competitor🇯🇲 JAMborn 198950Tyson GayAmerican sprinter🇺🇸 USAborn 198251Terry FoxCanadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist🇨🇦 CAN1958–198152Femke Broeders-BolDutch athletics competitor🇳🇱 NLDborn 200053Blanka VlašićCroatian high jumper🇭🇷 HRVborn 198354Liu XiangChinese hurdler (born 1983)🇨🇳 CHNborn 198355Hicham El GuerroujMoroccan middle and long distance runner🇲🇦 MARborn 197456John Turner17th Prime Minister of Canada (1929–2020)🇬🇧 GBR1929–202057Irena SzewińskaPolish sprinter and sports official (1946–2018)🇵🇱 POL1946–201858Yaroslava MahuchikhUkrainian high jumper (born 2001)🇺🇦 UKRborn 200159Anita WłodarczykPolish hammer thrower🇵🇱 POLborn 198560Margherita HackItalian astrophysicist and popular science writer (1922-2013)🇮🇹 ITA1922–2013