India's athletes, on one page.

Syed Abid Ali

Syed Abid Ali (9 September 1941 – 12 March 2025) was an all-rounder Indian cricketer who was a lower-order batsman and a medium-pace bowler. He played an important role in Indian cricket in the 1960s and '70s.

Syed Ali

Syed Mushtaq Ali (10 July 1942 – 2 March 2010) was a field hockey player from India who won a gold medal with the Men's National Team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Syed Fazaluddin

Fazaluddin Syed (Bengali: সৈয়দ ফজলউদ্দিন; born 18 October 1974) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from India. He has competed on the ATP tennis tour, achieving a Top 400 ranking in singles and Top 200 ranking in doubles. Fazal has represented India in Davis Cup between 1998 and 2001.

Syed Imtiaz Ahmed

Syed Imtiaz Ahmed (27 April 1954 – 14 February 2020) was an Indian cricketer. He played in thirteen first-class matches for Karnataka from 1973 to 1980.

Syed Kirmani

Syed Mujtaba Hussain Kirmani (born 29 December 1949) is an Indian cricketer who played cricket for India and Karnataka as a wicket-keeper. In 2016, he was awarded the Col CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest honour bestowed by BCCI on a former player. Kirmani was a member of the Indian team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Syed Meeraj

Syed Meeraj (born 29 December 1973) is an Indian former cricketer. He played seven first-class matches for Hyderabad between 1993 and 1998.

Syed Modi

Syed Modi (31 December 1962 – 28 July 1988), born as Syed Mehdi Hassan Zaidi, was an Indian badminton singles player and eight-time National Badminton champion (1980–1987). His most notable achievement at the international badminton circuit came in the form of men's singles title at the 1982 Commonwealth Games. He also won three other international titles, namely Austrian International (in 1983 & 1984) and USSR International (in 1985), both of which were European Badminton Circuit tournaments.

Syed Mohammad Hadi

Syed Mohammad Hadi (12 August 1899 – 14 July 1971) was one of the most gifted pioneering athletes of India. He not only represented India in cricket and tennis, but was also proficient in field hockey, football, table tennis, chess, and polo. He was nicknamed "Rainbow Hadi" because of his expertise in these seven sports.

Syed Mohammed

Jamaluddin Syed Mohammed (born 3 June 1983) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Assam as a specialist slow left arm orthodox bowler. He is one who can hit sixes in death overs.

Syed Mohammed Arif

Syed Mohammed Arif (born 29 January 1944), popularly known as Arif Saahab, is an Indian badminton coach. He is a recipient of Dronacharya Award and Padma Shri Award by the Government of India.

Syed Nabi

Syed Rahim Nabi (born 14 December 1985) is an Indian former footballer who primarily played as a midfielder for the India football team, though he could play as a striker and defender. Nabi last played for Peerless SC in the Calcutta Football League and won the tournament with the club.

Syed Nasir Ali

Syed Nasir Ali (15 August 1936 – 29 May 2018) was an Indian chess player who won the Indian Chess Championship in 1967.

Syed Nayeemuddin

Syed Nayeemuddin (born 1944), known as Nayeem, is an Indian football coach and former player. He played for and captained the India national team. He later managed Mahindra United, Brothers Union, Dhaka Mohammedan, and Bangladesh national team.

Syed Quadri

Syed Ahmed Quadri is an Indian former first-class cricketer who played for Hyderabad cricket team in domestic cricket. He was also a member of defunct IPL team Deccan Chargers He was appointed by the BCCI as a Match Referee in 2025.

Syed Sabir Pasha

Syed Sabir Pasha (born 5 November 1972) is a former Indian football player and current technical director at the All India Football Federation. During his playing days, Pasha played for Indian Bank in the National Football League from 1991 to 2007 and represented India between 1993 and 2000.

Syed Sagar

Syed Sagar (born 12 August 1990) is an Indian cricketer who generally plays for Jammu and Kashmir. He is a right-handed batsman. He holds the record for the highest T20 individual score when batting at number 9 or lower (74).

Syed Shahabuddin

Syed Shahabuddin (born 1 July 1979) is an Indian first class cricketer who played for Andhra Pradesh.

Syed Shahid Hakim

Syed Shahid Hakim (23 June 1939 – 22 August 2021) was an Indian footballer, football manager, FIFA official and referee. Hakim also acted as assistant manager of India national team during the 1980s. He was awarded by the prestigious Dhyan Chand Award in 2017 for his contributions to the sport.

Syed Shoaib Ahmed

Syed Shoaib Ahmed (born 11 July 1996) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a striker for ARA FC in the I-League 2nd Division.

Sylvanus Dung Dung

Sylvanus Dung Dung (born 27 January 1949) is a former field hockey player from Simdega, Jharkhand, India. He received the Dhyan Chand Award in 2016.

Sylvester Mylliempdah

Sylvester Mylliempdah (born 16 September 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Meghalaya in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 21 September 2018. He made his first-class debut for Meghalaya in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 12 November 2018.

T Kumaran

Thirunavukkarasu Kumaran (born 30 December 1975 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu), also known as 'Kenny' and 'Thiru Kumaran', is an Indian First Class cricketer and cricket coach. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He was a member of Indian World Team in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition.

T Natarajan

Thangarasu Natarajan (born 4 April 1991) is an Indian international cricketer. He made his debut for the India cricket team in December 2020. Currently he plays for Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket.

T Pradeep

T Pradeep (born 29 November 1994) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Karnataka in the 2016–17 Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament on 31 January 2017. He made his List A debut for Karnataka in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 25 February 2017.

T. A. Ramachandran

T. A. Ramachandran (12 September 1912 – 13 April 1951) was an Indian cricket umpire. He stood in one Test match, India vs. West Indies, in 1948.

T. A. Sekhar

Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar (born 28 March 1956 in Madras) is a former fast bowler who represented India in Test cricket and One Day Internationals. Sekhar was one of the fastest bowlers in India in the early eighties. His two Test matches were in the 1982–83 season when he was flown out to Pakistan to replace the injured Madan Lal.

T. Abdul Rahman

T. Abdul Rahman (1934 – 15 December 2002), also known as Olympian Rahman, was an Indian football defender from Kozhikode, Kerala, who represented the country at the Summer Olympics. He played as a defender. Abdul Rahman was a member of the Indian football team that reached the semi-final in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

T. C. Yohannan

Thadathuvila Chandapillai Yohannan (born 19 May 1947), is a former Indian long jumper who held the national record in long jump for nearly 3 decades and represented India in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He hails from the state of Kerala. Yohannan will be known for the new dimension he gave to long jump in India in 1974, the occasion was the Tehran Asian Games of 1974.

T. E. Srinivasan

Tirumalai Echambadi Srinivasan (26 October 1950 – 6 December 2010) was a former Indian cricketer who played in one Test match and two One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1980 to 1981. Srinivasan was born in Chennai. His father was famous Tamil actor T. E. Varadan.

T. R. Kashyappan

T. R. Kashyappan (born 3 August 1955) is a former Indian cricket umpire. At the international level, he only stood in one fixture, a One Day International, in 2000.

Tahmeed Rahman

Tahmeed Rahman (born 26 September 1998) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Nagaland in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 19 September 2018. He made his first-class debut for Nagaland in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 1 November 2018.

Taj Mohammad Sr.

Taj Mohammad (Pashto: تاج محمد; born 1924) also known as Taj Lala or Taj Senior, was a footballer who played as a defender. Born in the Quetta district in the Baluchistan Agency in British India (present-day Pakistan), he represented India during the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Tajamul Islam

Tajamul Islam (born December 2008) is an Indian kickboxer and coach from the Bandipora district in Jammu and Kashmir. An advocate for young women to have access to education and opportunities to succeed, she is a campaign ambassador for the Government of India’s Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao initiative. She is the world's youngest kickboxing champion, and the first Kashmiri, having won a sub-junior world championship at 7 years old.

Tajinder Singh

Tajinder Singh (born 25 May 1992) is an Indian-born Canadian cricketer.

Tajinderpal Singh Toor

Tajinderpal Singh Toor (born 13 November 1994) is an Indian shot putter. He is a two-time Asian Games champion, and a two-time champion at both the Asian Championships and the Asian Indoor Championships.

Takar Paja

Takar Paja (born 18 January 1994) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Arunachal Pradesh in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 28 September 2018.

Talimeren Ao

Talimeren Ao (28 January 1918 – 13 September 1998) was an Indian footballer and physician from Nagaland. He is best known as the captain of the India national football team in their first ever match after independence. One of the most famous Nagas, he was a figurehead of India's football history, and his name is resonant in the collective memory of the people.

Talwinder Singh

Talwinder Singh (born 1 January 1994) is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a forward.

Tanay Thyagarajan

Tanay Thyagarajan (born 15 November 1995) is an Indian cricketer. He plays for Hyderabad in domestic cricket and is known mainly for his left-arm spin bowling. Tanay made his List A debut for Hyderabad in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 21 February 2018.

Tania Sachdev

Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, one-time Asian women's chess champion in 2007 and three-time Commonwealth Women's Chess Champion in 2016, 2018, and 2019. She is also a chess presenter and commentator.

Taniksha Khatri

Taniksha Khatri (23 September 2003) is an Indian fencer specializing in the épée category. She's a silver medalist at the Commonwealth Junior Championships and the Asian Junior Championships.

Tanisha Crasto

Tanisha Crasto (born 5 May 2003) is an Indian badminton player who specialises in mixed doubles. She won the gold at the Asia Team Championships in 2024 and the bronze medal at the 2023 Asia Mixed Team Championships. With her doubles partner Dhruv Kapila, she touched her highest world ranking of 16 in May 2025.

Taniya Bhatia

Tanmay Agarwal

Tanmay Dharamchand Agarwal (born 3 May 1995) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Hyderabad. A left-handed top-order batsman, Agarwal has also represented Hyderabad at Under-14, Under-16, Under-19, Under-22 and Under-25 levels. He scored centuries on both his first-class and List A debuts for Hyderabad in 2014.

Tanmay Mishra

Tanmay Mishra (born 22 December 1986) is an Indian-born former cricketer. A right-handed aggressive middle-order batsman, he made his One Day International debut for Kenya in 2006 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo.

Tanmay Srivastava

Tanmay Manoj Srivastava (born 7 November 1989) is an Indian cricket umpire and former cricketer. Srivastava was a member of the Indian U-19 cricket team that won the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup tournament played in Malaysia. He scored 262 runs in six matches in that tournament.

Tanusree Sarkar

Tanusree Makhanlal Sarkar (born 5 September 1998) is a Bengali cricketer. She plays for Bengal and East zone in the national domestic cricket circuit. She has played 4 First-class, 10 List A and 14 Women's Twenty20 matches.

Tanvi Khanna

Tanvi Khanna (born 23 July 1996) is an Indian squash player and a member of the national team.