Athletes

Cristiano Ronaldo is a Portuguese football player who plays as a forward.

Lionel Messi is an Argentine football player.

Ayako Okamoto is a Japanese professional golfer. Her official LPGA player profile records 17 career wins on the LPGA Tour.

Lee Sedol is a South Korean professional Go player. He played AlphaGo in a five-game match in Seoul in March 2016, winning one game in the 4–1 series.

Michael Jordan is an American basketball player.

Faker (Korean: Faker), whose real name is Lee Sang-hyuk (Korean: Sanghyuk Lee, Romanized: Lee Sang-Hyeok, May 7, 1996 -), is a professional e-sports mid laner in South Korea's "League of Legends". He has played for the T1 team (formerly known as SK Telecom) since 2013. T1), has so far won the world championship six times, the Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) championship twice, the Korean Champions League (LCK) championship ten times, the Asian Intercontinental Championship and the All-Star Game (predecessor of the Mid-Season Championship), and is the first player to complete the League of Legends Grand Slam. He was selected as one of the Korean national team players three times and participated in the Asian Games e-sports "League of Legends" project, winning gold medals twice in 2022 and 2026. In 2024, he became the first player to be inducted into the "League of Legends" Hall of Fame. In 2026, he became the first e-sports player to be awarded the "Blue Dragon Medal", the country's highest honor in sports. Faker has overwhelmingly won the most honors in the history of League of Legends e-sports. He is generally regarded as the greatest player in the game and a representative figure of e-sports culture.

Ding Junhui (April 1, 1987 -), a native of Yixing, Jiangsu, China, is a professional snooker player and the most successful Asian player in the history of snooker. As of November 3, 2025, Ding Junhui has shot a total of 7 strokes and 147 perfect scores. He has reached the finals of snooker rankings 24 times, winning 15 of them. From December 2014 to February 2015, he once became the world's number one player, and was the only Asian golfer in history to achieve this achievement. Ding Junhui has won 15 snooker ranking championships. His championships include four trophies in the three snooker majors, including three British Championships in 2005, 2009 and 2019, and a Wembley Masters championship in 2011. Ding Junhui also reached the final of the Snooker World Championship in 2016, becoming the first Asian player to advance to the final of snooker's highest honor event. However, he lost to Mark Selby 14-18 and was the runner-up that year. He is known for his delicate white-ball movement and ultimate defense. He scored a perfect score of 147 points on a single stroke seven times in the professional game and scored 100 points on a single stroke more than 700 times. Ding is the great-nephew of the famous Chinese painter Ding Tianque. He also graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a top university in China. Ding Junhui lives and plays in Sheffield, West Yorkshire, England. Ding Junhui won the World Youth Snooker Championship at the age of 15, becoming the youngest champion in the event. He turned professional in 2003 at the age of 16 and won his first ranking event, the China Open, in 2005, and the British Championship in the same year. He has represented China in the Asian Games and won 5 gold medals in 3 events. In the 2013/14 season, he won 5 ranking championships in a single season, which was the record for the most ranking championships in a single season, and was later surpassed by Judd Trump.

Hidetoshi Nakata (Japanese: Nakata Hidetoshi/Nakata Hidetoshi, Romanized: Nakata Hidetoshi, January 22, 1977 -) is a retired Japanese professional football player who serves as a midfielder. He is a former member of the Japanese national football team and the Asian Footballer of the Year in 1997 and 1998.

Daniel Mark Nestor (September 4, 1972 -), formerly known as Daniel Nestorovic (Serbian: Даниел Несторовић), born in Belgrade, Serbia, Canadian professional tennis player, highest ATP men's singles ranking No. 58 and men's doubles world ranking No. 1, won the Australian Tennis Open men's doubles (2002 Year), US Open Men's Doubles (2004), French Open Men's Doubles (2007), Wimbledon Men's Doubles (2008) and the 2000 Sydney Olympics Men's Doubles Championship, etc. Nestor is the first men's doubles player in history to win all Grand Slam tournaments, Masters, ATP Tour Finals and Olympic gold medals, an achievement that rivals the Bryan brothers. Nestor is widely considered one of the most important doubles players in history, thanks to his long career and continued success in the game. In January 2016, Nestor became the first doubles player in ATP history to win 1,000 matches. He was in the top 100 in doubles from April 1994 to April 2018 for a total of 1,134 consecutive weeks. Nestor retired at the end of the 2018 season, ending a 27-year career.

Lisa Dahlkvist (Swedish: Lisa Dahlkvist, February 6, 1987 -), Swedish female football player. She represented Sweden in soccer at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics.

Joe Sakic (English: Joe Sakic, July 7, 1969 -) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who has long played for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League. He won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 1996 and 2001. In 2022, he won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche for the third time as the team's general manager. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Sakic helped the Canadian men's national ice hockey team win the team's first ice hockey gold medal in 50 years. In 2012, Sakic was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame.

George Edward Foreman (English: George Edward Foreman, January 10, 1949 - March 21, 2025), nicknamed Big George, was born in Marshall, Texas, United States. He was a famous boxer who twice won the world heavyweight boxing championship and Olympic gold medal. At the age of 45, he defeated Mike Moore and won the world heavyweight boxing championship, becoming the oldest heavyweight boxing champion.

George Ritchie Hodgson (English: George Ritchie Hodgson, October 12, 1893 - May 1, 1983), Canadian male swimmer. He won gold medals in the men's 400-meter freestyle and 1,500-meter freestyle in the 1912 Summer Olympics swimming competition.

Inoue Naoya (Japanese: Inoue Naoya/Inoue Naoya, Romanized: Inoue Naoya, April 10, 1993 -) is a Japanese professional boxing athlete, nicknamed "The Monster", and belongs to the Ohashi Boxing Gym. So far, Inoue Naoya has won all 33 fights in his career, with a KO rate of 81.8%. He is the world boxing champion in four levels. In the bantamweight and super bantamweight levels, he has unified the gold belts of the four major boxing organizations. He is the second boxer in history to unify the gold belts of the four major boxing organizations in two weight classes. Naoya Inoue is the first undisputed super bantamweight champion in history. Since 2023, he has held the super bantamweight WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF gold belts and the "Ring" magazine gold belt. In June 2022, Inoue Naoya became the first Japanese boxer in history to rank first in the P4P rankings. In 2023, he was named Fighter of the Year by Ring Magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America (BSAA) and ESPN.

Aaron Brown (English: Aaron Brown, May 27, 1992 -) is a Canadian sprinter who competes in the 100 meters and 200 meters. He represented Canada at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, winning bronze medals in the men's 4×100m relay. He also won a bronze medal at the 2013 and 2015 World Athletics Championships.

Alexandre Bilodeau (French: Alexandre Bilodeau, September 8, 1987 -) is a Canadian men's freestyle skier. He represented Canada in freestyle skiing at the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, winning two gold medals.

Henry Ford (English: Henry Ford, July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) was an American automotive engineer and industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903. Henry Ford was the first person in the world to actually apply the assembly line concept to a factory and achieve mass production with great success. Henry Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, but he made the automobile truly popular in the United States. This new production method made the automobile a mass product. It not only revolutionized the way of industrial production, but also had a huge impact on modern society and American culture. Henry Ford launched the Ford Model T, which revolutionized transportation and American industry. Henry Ford is the boss of the Ford Motor Company. Due to the sales of the Ford Model T, he has become the richest and most well-known person in the world. Not only that, he did not chase capital like other small owners. On the contrary, he brought Fordism: mass production of many cheap products and the introduction of the concept of assembly line production, which made the car manufacturing process more automated, thereby reducing costs and making cars affordable for ordinary people. And give workers high wages. Henry Ford had the vision to believe that consumerism was the basis for peace. Henry Ford's commitment to systematic cost reduction resulted in many technological and business innovations, including franchise chains that could be implemented in most of North America and in large cities on six continents. Henry Ford left most of his fortune to the Ford Foundation, which was earmarked for education and scientific research. Henry Ford was widely known for his pacifist stance during the first years of World War I, but he also wrote an anti-Semitic book, The International Jew.

Ihan Vince (Turkish: İlhan Mansız, August 10, 1975 -), born in Kempten, the Bavarian city of West Germany, is a Turkish Crimean Tatar football player who serves as a forward.

Ian James Thorpe, born in Sydney, is an Australian former male swimmer, nicknamed Torpedo, sometimes nicknamed Thorpedo or Thorpey, and recipient of the Order of the Australian Medal. Thorpe once broke the world record three times in 48 hours and won a total of 5 Olympic gold medals, 3 silver medals and 1 bronze medal. He is the Australian with the most gold medals to date.

Iman Khalif (Arabic: إيمان خليف, Romanized: ʾĪmān Khalīf, born May 2, 1999) is an Algerian female boxer. Represented Algeria in the 2020 Summer Olympics. In the 2024 Summer Olympics, the gender controversy created by the International Boxing Association caused her and Taiwanese female boxer Lin Yuting to be bullied online globally. Although LGBT is illegal in Algeria, it was also questioned by many European and American people. In the end, Khalif won the women's heavyweight boxing gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Ethan Katzberg (English: Ethan Katzberg, April 5, 2002 -), Canadian hammer throw athlete. He is the current Olympic and world champion in the event, having won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. He won the silver medal in the men's hammer throw at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the gold medal in the men's hammer throw at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, breaking the Canadian hammer throw national record with a score of 81.18 meters. He is a former member of the Nanaimo Track and Field Club.

Todd Andrew Woodbridge, OAM (English: Todd Andrew Woodbridge, April 2, 1971 -) is a retired Australian male professional tennis player. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, he was one of the top men's doubles players in the world. He formed a men's doubles partner with fellow Australian Mark Woodford and won a total of 11 Grand Slam men's doubles championships. He also won the men's doubles gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics tennis competition. He is one of the few players in the history of tennis to complete the Golden Slam in his men's doubles career. In addition, he also achieved a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles tennis.

Mark Woodforde (English: Mark Woodforde, September 23, 1965 -), Australian retired professional tennis player. Turned professional in 1984. He and his partner Woodbridge were one of the best men's tennis doubles pairs in the world in the 1990s.

Fu Mingxia (August 16, 1978 -), a former Chinese diving athlete, is coached by Yu Fen, and has a sister named Fu Mingyan. After retiring, Ye Jianying's granddaughter Ye Jingzi served as her agent until her relationship with Liang Jinsong was announced. After marriage, they gave birth to their eldest daughter Liang Siyu (2003), sons Liang Haojia (2004) and Liang Jiawei (2008).