Global InformationList of masters athletes information
This is a list of notable people who have participated in masters athletics. Most have achieved their primary notability through athletic endeavors except when noted.
- Luciano Acquarone
Italy - Aimo Aho
Finland - Gabriela Andersen-Schiess
Switzerland - Henry Andrade
United States 
Cape Verde - Birger Asplund
Sweden - Doris Auer
Austria - Charles Austin United States
- Rink Babka United States
- Lee Baca United States Los Angeles County Sheriff
- Bob Backus United States
- Lawrence Baird
United Kingdom - Thane Baker United States
- Willie Banks[1] United States
- Arthur Barnard United States
- James Barrineau United States
- Jack Bacheler United States
- Dieter Baumann
Germany - Tim Berrett
Canada - Nataša Bezjak
Slovenia - Laurie Binder United States
- Chris Black United Kingdom
- Peter Blank Germany
- Meeri Bodelid Sweden
- Viktor Bolshov
Russia 
Soviet Union - Charlie Booth
Australia inventor of Starting Blocks - Lamberto Boranga Italy
- Christa Bortignon Canada
- Mary Bowermaster United States
- Roald Bradstock United States United Kingdom Artist
- Norman Bright United States
- Debbie Brill Canada
- Benny Brown United States
- Arto Bryggare Finland
- Zola Budd
South Africa - Ed Burke United States
- Billie Ann Burrill United States
- Rich Busa United States
- Arild Busterud
Norway - Tom Byers United States
- John Carlos United States
- Gary Carlsen United States
- Angelo Carosi Italy
- David Carr Australia
- Ed Caruthers United States
- Dwain Chambers United Kingdom
- Harold Chapson United States
- Yelizaveta Chernyshova Russia Soviet Union
- Lydia Cheromei
Kenya - Rosemary Chrimes United Kingdom
- Todd Christensen United States[2] American Football
- Dick Cochran United States
- Eamonn Coghlan
Ireland - Leon Coleman United States
- Bill Collins United States
- Phil Conley United States
- Harold Connolly United States
- Ted Corbitt United States
- Bill Cosby United States Comedian
- Alan Cranston United States U.S. Senator
- Josh Culbreath United States
- Toshiko D'Elia United States
- Maria Pia D'Orlando Italy
- Tamara Danilova Russia Soviet Union
- Jeanne Daprano United States
- Willie Davenport United States
- Gerry Davidson United States
- Mary Decker-Slaney United States
- Colleen De Reuck United States South Africa
- Maureen de St. Croix Canada
- Elliott Denman United States
- Ken Dennis United States
- Ángel Díaz
Guatemala - Grace-Ann Dinkins
Liberia United States also Trauma Surgeon - Rod Dixon
New Zealand - Walter Dix United States
- Fabrizio Donato Italy
- Anthony Dorsett United States American Football
- Aleksandr Dryhol
Ukraine Soviet Union - Charles Dumas United States[3]
- Ludmila Engquist Sweden Russia Soviet Union
- Andrés Espinosa
Mexico - Saskia Estupinan
Ecuador Public Health Doctor - Laverne Eve
Bahamas - Lee Evans (sprinter) United States
- Mohamed Ezzher
France - Earl Fee Canada
- Nuria Fernández
Spain - Maria Magnólia Figueiredo
Brazil - Frederico Fischer Brazil
- Dick Fosbury United States
- Jack Foster New Zealand
- Ruth Frith Australia Centenarian, world's oldest female athlete
- Gabre Gabric Italy Centenarian
- Tom Gage United States
- Willie Gault United States[4] also American Football Player
- Fortune Gordien United States
- Miki Gorman United States
- Ivy Granstrom Canada
- Dalton Grant United Kingdom
- Johnny Gray United States Oct 2000 Ran Masters Mile (Run For Children) as a M40. Holds Masters M35 Record achieved as an Open competitor[5]
- Norm Green United States
- Jack Greenwood United States
- Jim Grelle United States
- Viktor Gruzenkin Russia
- Albert Hall (athlete) United States
- Kozo Haraguchi
Japan - Eddie Hart[4] United States
- Alisa Harvey-Hill United States
- Larry Hart (athlete) United States
- Dawn Hartigan Australia
- Rex Harvey United States also Official and Administrator
- Ray Hatton United States Born in United Kingdom
- Robert Hecker United States Musician
- Bud Held United States also Inventor and Entrepreneur
- James Chico Hernandez United States Wrestler
- Hal Higdon United States also Sports Writer
- Ron Hill United Kingdom
- Jim Hines United States
- Russ Hodge United States
- Maurice Houvion France
- Bob Humphreys United States
- Guy Husson France
- Ayanna Hutchinson
Trinidad and Tobago - Hubert Indra Italy
- Rıza Maksut İşman
Turkey - Ivan Ivančić
Yugoslavia 
Bosnia and Herzegovina 
Croatia - April Jace United States Celebrity murder victim
- Regina Jacobs United States
- Kip Janvrin United States
- Erwin Jaskulski Austria Centenarian
- Billy Johnson United States American Football player
- Tebbs Lloyd Johnson United Kingdom
- Payton Jordan[4] United States
- Monica Joyce United States Ireland United Kingdom
- Regina Joyce United States Olympian for Ireland United Kingdom
- Al Joyner United States
- Gitte Karlshøj
Denmark - Dimitrios Kattis
Greece - Ryszard Katus
Poland - Ida Keeling United States Centenarian
- Johnny Kelley United States
- Patrick C. Kennell United States Academic
- John Keston United States British actor
- Ray Kimble United States
- James King United States
- Roger Kingdom United States
- Mark Kiptoo Kenya
- Herb Kirk United States World's oldest runner
- Wolfgang Knabe Germany
- Peter Koech Kenya
- Mariya Konovalova Russia
- Olga Kotelko Canada
- Galina Kovalenskaya Russia
- Stanisław Kowalski Poland Centenarian, world's oldest aAthlete
- June Krauser United States "Mother of Masters swimming"
- Marty Krulee[4] United States
- Shaul Ladany
Israel - Ron Laird United States
- Francie Larrieu-Smith United States
- Bev LaVeck United States
- Evelyn Lawler United States Mother of Carl Lewis and Carol Lewis
- Fred Lebow United States New York Marathon event director
- Nicole Lévêque France
- Gerry Lindgren United States
- James Lofton United States also Hall of Fame American Football player
- Jud Logan United States
- Mihaela Loghin
Romania - Mario Longo Italy
- Arne Lothe Norway
- Horst Mandl Austria
- Mike Manley United States[6]
- Pat Manson United States
- José Marín Spain
- Marsha Mark-Baird Trinidad and Tobago
- Peter Marsh United Kingdom Academic, sociologist
- John Martel United States Lawyer and novelist
- Marie Mathieu
Puerto Rico - Ralph Maxwell United States Judge
- Bill McChesney United States
- Phil McConkey United States American Football player
- Anne McKenzie South Africa
- James McNamara Ireland
- Leland McPhie United States Centenarian
- Delano Meriwether United States[4] also physician
- E. Gerald Meyer United States Centenarian
- Marie-Louise Michelsohn United States Mathematician
- Alain Mimoun France
- Victoria Mitchell Australia
- Hidekichi Miyazaki Japan Centenarian
- Felicia Țilea-Moldovan Romania Spain
- Martín Mondragón Mexico
- David Moorcroft United Kingdom
- Boo Morcom United States
- Carol Moseke (Frost) USA
- Sylvia Mosqueda United States
- Phil Mulkey United States
- Kenneth Mungara Kenya
- Fabiana Murer Brazil
- Sandra Myers Spain
- Iryna Mykhalchenko Ukraine
- Larry Myricks United States
- Fidelis Ndyabagye
Uganda - Nick Newton United States[4] Inventor
- Jamie Nieto United States
- Doug Nordquist United States
- Gary Null United States Author/Pundit
- Nadine O'Connor United States
- Irene Obera United States
- Al Oerter United States
- Vera Olenchenko Russia
Uzbekistan Soviet Union - Brian Oldfield United States Competed at a June 1978 Masters Meet. Holds two Masters World Records[5]
- Marcus O'Sullivan Ireland
- Giuseppe Ottaviani (athlete) Italian
- Evy Palm Sweden
- Ladislav Pataki United States
- Dodyu Patarinski
Bulgaria - Tom Patsalis United States
- Donald Pellmann United States Centenarian
- Elisabetta Perrone Italy
- Steve Peters United Kingdom Sports psychiatrist
- Lyudmila Petrova Russia
- Florence Picaut France
- Dmitry Pietrman United States Ukraine Futbol/Soccer club owner
- Simon Poelman New Zealand
- Valbjörn Þorláksson
Iceland - Bernardine Portenski New Zealand
- Patricia Porter United States
- Caroline Powell United Kingdom
- Tatyana Pozdnyakova Soviet Union Ukraine
- Alfred Proksch Austria
- Philip Rabinowitz South Africa Centenarian
- Carmelo Rado Italy
- Philipa Raschker United States
- Lucien Rault France
- Pam Reed United States
- Marian Shields Robinson United States Mother of current U.S. First Lady
- Bill Rodgers United States
- Gaston Roelants
Belgium - Orville Rogers United States Centenarian
- Henry Rono Kenya
- Nick Rose United Kingdom
- Anne Chatrine Rühlow Germany
- Jim Ryun United States[6] also U.S. Congressman
- Joan Benoit Samuelson United States
- Ugo Sansonetti Italy
- Enrico Saraceni Italy
- Willi Sawall Australia
- Silke Schmidt Germany
- Bob Schul United States
- Steve Scott United States
- Helen Searle Australia
- Yuriy Sedykh Russia
- Marco Segatel Italy
- Iryna Sekachova Ukraine
- Vyacheslav Shabunin Russia
- Nolan Shaheed United States Jazz trumpeter
- George A. Sheehan United States Running writer
- Frank Shorter United States[6]
- Zdeňka Šilhavá
Czech Republic - Jay Silvester United States
- Fauja Singh United Kingdom
India - Chuck Smead United States
- Joyce Smith United Kingdom
- Karl Smith
Jamaica - Marjorie Parker Smith United States Dancer/Figure skater
- Peter Snell New Zealand[6]
- Jim Sorensen United States
- Fred Sowerby United States
Netherlands Antilles - Mattias Sunneborn Sweden
- Paul Spangler United States
- Sasha Springer-Jones Trinidad and Tobago
- Walt Stack United States
- Kjell-Erik Ståhl Sweden
- Brian Stanton United States
- Rudolf Steiner Switzerland
- Gary Stenlund United States
- Dwight Stones United States
- Ed Stotsenberg United States Philanthropist
- Larry Stuart United States
- Jüri Tamm
Estonia - Tatyana Ter-Mesrobyan Russia
- Valbjörn Þorláksson Iceland
- Domingo Tibaduiza
Colombia - Milan Tiff United States
- Felicia Țilea-Moldovan Romania
- Bogdan Tudor Romania
- Derek Turnbull New Zealand
- Gary Tuttle United States
- Teresa Vaill United States
- Martti Vainio Finland
- Venelina Veneva-Mateeva Bulgaria
- Sandro Viana Brazil
- Sean Wade United States New Zealand
- Bill Wambach United States
- Cornelius "Dutch" Warmerdam United States
- Sylvia Weiner Canada Poland
- Priscilla Welch United Kingdom
- Georg Werthner Austria
- Anthony Whiteman United Kingdom
- Ed Whitlock Canada
- Ron Whitney United States
- John Whittemore United States World's oldest athlete
- Novlene Williams-Mills Jamaica
- Gerhard Windolf Germany
- Ruth Wysocki United States
- Iryna Yatchenko
Belarus - Dimitrion Yordanidis Greece
- Emmerich Zensch Austria
- ^ http://www.trackinfo.org/scaresults2005.html 2005 Southern California Championships
- ^ http://www.trackinfo.org/scaresults2001.html 2001 Southern California Championships
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2010-08-16.
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