India's athletes, on one page.

Ben M. Jannif

Ben Mohammed Jannif (25 November 1908 – 22 March 1985) was an Indo-Fijian businessman, scout leader, soccer administrator and politician. He was one of the architects of Fiji Indian Football Association and served as a member of the Legislative Council from 1950 to 1953.

Benjamin Thomas

Benjamin Thomas (born 20 June 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He played seven List A matches for Hyderabad between 2010 and 2013. He made his first-class debut for Hyderabad in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 27 October 2016.

Benoy Bose

Benoy Bose (born 25 November 1929) is an Indian boxer. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. In his first fight at the 1948 Summer Olympics, he lost to Francisco Núñez of Argentina.

Bensiyon Songavkar

Bensiyon Morisbhai Songavkar is an Indian professional cricketer who has represented Saurashtra. He lives in Rajkot, India, and is Jewish.

Bentla D'Coth

Bentla D'Coth (born 29 May 1969) is a football referee and former footballer from India. She is the first woman to be an international football referee from South Asia.

Benu Dasgupta

Ashok Kumar (Benu) Dasgupta (7 March 1928 – 21 April 2010) was an Indian cricketer. He was active during the 1950s and played for the Bengal and Bihar cricket teams. Dasgupta was one of the main pillars of Bengal's batting in 1950s and recipient of Kartick Bose Lifetime Achievement Award from The Cricket Association of Bengal in July 2008.

Berland Anthony

Berland Anthony (born 1923) was an Indian professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for East Bengal and India in both the 1951 Asian Games and 1952 Summer Olympics.

Bhagat Kush

Kush Bhagat (born 11 June 2009) is an Indian chess player with an International FIDE Rating. His current and the peak rating is 2324. He is a Student at South Mumbai Chess Academy, trained by Balaji Guttula.

Bhagirath Samai

Bhagirath Samai (born 11 August 1957), is an Indian professional shooter who represented his country at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He won a gold medal at the 1986 Asian Games, for which performance he was awarded the Arjuna Award. He participated in two South Asian Games, two Asian Games, two Asian Shooting Championships, two Commonwealth Games and one Olympic Games.

Bhagyabati Kachari

Bhagyabati Kachari is an Indian boxer. She won a silver medal at the 9th Nation's Cup boxing tournament held at Sombor, Serbia. She won a gold medal at the 2nd India Open International Boxing Tournament held in Guwahati.

Bhagyashree Thipsay

Bhagyashree Thipsay (née Sathe; born 4 August 1961) is an Indian chess player holding the title of Woman International Master (WIM). She won five times the Indian Women's Championship (1985, 1986, 1988, 1991 and 1994) and the Asian Women's Championship in 1991. In 1984 she was joint winner with Vasanti Unni of the British Ladies' Championship.

Bhaichung Bhutia

Bhaichung Bhutia (born 15 December 1976), also spelled as Baichung Bhutia, is an Indian former professional footballer who played as a striker. Bhutia is considered as the torchbearer of Indian football in the international arena. He is often nicknamed the Sikkimese Sniper because of his shooting skills in football.

Bhairab Ganguli

Bhairab Ganguli (1 August 1931 – 30 July 2014) was an Indian cricket umpire. He stood in seven international fixtures, including five Test matches between 1982 and 1985 and two One Day Internationals between 1982 and 1984. He also officiated in 29 first-class matches between 1971 and 1986.

Bhajan Kaur

Bhajan Kaur (born 26 August 2005) is an Indian archer from Haryana. She was selected for the Indian Archery team for the recurve events at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. Along with Ankita Bhakat and Simranjeet Kaur, she won the Women's team recurve event bronze medal for India.

Bhakti Kulkarni

Bhakti Kulkarni (born 19 May 1992) is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2012 and International Master (IM) in 2019. She won the women's edition of National Premier Chess Championship in both 2018 and 2019 consecutively.

Bhakti Sharma

Bhakti Sharma (born 30 November 1989) is an Indian Open water swimmer. She is the first Asian woman and the youngest in the world to set a record in open swimming in Antarctic waters. 14 minutes, at a temperature of 1 °C (34 °F), breaking the record of Lynne Cox (USA) and Lewis Pugh (Great Britain).

Bhalindra Singh

Bhalindra Singh (9 October 1919 – 16 April 1992) was an Indian sports administrator, politician and first-class cricketer. Singh was an influential sports administrator who held positions in international and Indian sports governing bodies. He was a member of the International Olympic Committee from 1947 to 1992.

Bharat Arun

Bharat Arun (born 14 December 1962), is a former Indian Test cricketer and bowling coach for the India national cricket team, and the current bowling coach for the Lucknow Super Giants. Previously, he served as a bowling coach of Kolkata Knight Riders for 4 IPL seasons.

Bharat Chettri

Bharat Kumar Chettri (born 15 December 1981 in Kalimpong, West Bengal) is an Indian former field hockey player and politician. He played as a goalkeeper for the Indian national hockey team.

Bharat Chikara

Bharat Chhikara sometimes Chikara (born 10 October 1985) is an Indian field hockey player who has played as a midfielder for the national team. He was part of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2010 Asian Games and silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Chhikara is an alumnus of Jamia Millia Islamia University.

Bharat Chipli

Bharat Chipli (born 27 January 1983) is an Indian Kannada language cricket commentator and former cricketer and who played for Karnataka in first-class cricket. He played IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals), making his final appearance in top-flight cricket in 2013 before retirement. He now works as a commentator for Star Sports Kannada.

Bharat Shah

This is a list of cricketers who have played first-class, List A or Twenty20 cricket for Saurashtra cricket team. Seasons given are first and last seasons; the player did not necessarily play in all the intervening seasons. Players in bold have played international cricket.

Bharath Reddy

Bharath Reddy (born 12 November 1954) is a former Indian international cricketer.

Bharath Shankar

Bharath Shankar (born 20 May 1994) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Tamil Nadu. He made his first-class debut on 21 December 2014 in the 2014–15 Ranji Trophy. He made his Twenty20 debut on 9 January 2016 in the 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Bharath Subramaniyam

Bharath Subramaniyam Harishankkar (born 17 October 2007) is an Indian chess grandmaster (GM).

Bharati Fulmali

Bharti Shrikrushna Fulmali (born 11 October 1994) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Vidarbha women's cricket team. She has been playing cricket since she was 13, making her senior debut at the age of 17. In January 2019, she was named in India Blue's team for the 2018–19 Senior Women's Challenger Trophy.

Bharati Vij

Bharati Vij (born 9 January 1967) is a former Indian first-class cricketer who played for Punjab. After retirement, he became an umpire and also started a cricket academy.

Bharatinder Singh

Bharatinder Singh (born 23 October 1988) is an Indian track and field athlete from Haryana who specializes in decathlon. Bharatinder set the Indian National record of 7,658 points during the 51st National Senior Inter-State Athletics Championship held in Bangalore on 12 June 2011. He broke Jora Singh's previous mark of 7,502 points, registered in New Delhi in August 2006.

Bhargav Bhatt

Bhargav Bhatt (born 13 May 1990) is a cricketer who plays for Baroda in Indian domestic cricket. He is a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He also plays for Kings XI Punjab in Indian Premier League.

Bhargav Merai

Bhargav Merai (born 2 February 1992) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Gujarat. In October 2019, he was named in India A's squad for the 2019–20 Deodhar Trophy.

Bhaskar Ganguly

Bhaskar Ganguly is a former Indian football goalkeeper from West Bengal. He was the captain of India national football team which participated in the 1982 Asian Games held in New Delhi. Ganguly is one of the few Indian players who went abroad, joining foreign clubs, when he along with Monoranjan Bhattacharya signed with Dhaka Abahani and appeared in tournaments in Bangladesh.

Bhaskar Pillai

Krishnan Bhaskar Pillai (born 27 February 1963) is a former Indian cricketer who was a prolific run scorer for Delhi and North Zone. A right-handed batsman, he had particular success between 1983 and 1989 in the Ranji Trophy where he averaged about 70. Although he never got to play international cricket for India, he was once a standby for India's tour of Sri Lanka in 1985.

Bhavesh Baria

Bhavesh Baria (born 14 May 1990) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Gujarat. He made his first-class debut for Gujarat, against Hyderabad, on 1 December 2012, in the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy.

Bhavin Thakkar

Bhavin Jitendra Thakkar (born 22 January 1982, in Mumbai, Maharashtra) is an Indian cricketer. Thakkar last played a first-class game in 2010 for Himachal Pradesh. 62, with five tons and 10 fifties.

Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel

Bhavina Hasmukhbhai Patel (born 6 November 1986), also known as Bhavinaben Hasmukhbhai Patel, is an Indian parathlete and table tennis player from Mehsana, Gujarat. She won a silver medal in Class 4 Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo.

Bhavna Thakur

Bhavna Devi Thakur (16 January 1999) is an Indian kabaddi player from Himachal Pradesh. She plays for the Indian women's national kabaddi team and for Himachal Pradesh in domestic tournaments. She is a right cover defender.

Bhawana Sharma

Bhawana Sharma (born 2003) is a handball player from Himachal Pradesh. She plays for the India women’s National Handball team as centre back.

Bhawna Dehariya

Bhawna Dehariya (born 12 November 1991) is an Indian mountaineer born in Village Tamia, District Chhindawara, Madhya Pradesh. She reached the summit of summit of Mount Everest on 22 May 2019. She holds a Guinness World Records title for promoting and popularising Indian Himalaya with the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute on 15 August 2020 (Independence Day).

Bhawna Jat

Bhawna Jat (born 1 March 1996) is an Indian racewalker from Rajasthan who participated in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing on 32nd position in 20 kilometres race walk.

Bhim Singh

Bhim Singh (born 13 April 1945) is a former Indian high jump athlete. He won the gold medal in the men's high jump at the 1966 Asian Games and the bronze medal in the same event at the 1970 Asian Games. He also represented India at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1970 Commonwealth Games.

Bhogeswar Baruah

Bhogeswar Baruah (born 3 September 1940) is a former athlete, coach, and military driver from India. He is the first Arjuna award recipient from Assam. He won a gold medal at the 1966 Asian Games.

Bhupinder Singh

Bhupinder Singh (born 19 November 1970) is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Punjab from 1989 to 1998 as well as India national under-19 cricket team from 1988 to 1990.

Bhupinder Singh

Bhupinder Singh (born 1 April 1965) is a former Indian cricketer. He played domestic cricket for Punjab and played two One Day Internationals for India in 1994. Bhupinder Singh was a member of selection committee, a post to which he was nominated in 2005, and which he retained in 2006.

Bhuvaneshwari Kumari

Bhuvaneshwari Kumari is an Indian sportswoman and a champion in trap shooting. She was awarded an Arjuna Award in 1969. She was born in on 29 May 1945 at Bombay and married Thakur Devi Singh, of Malassar, in Bikaner.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Bhuvneshwar Kumar Singh (born 5 February 1990) is an Indian cricketer who has played for the Indian cricket team in all three formats of the game. He plays for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League and Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. A right-arm medium bowler, he is known for his ability to effectively swing the ball both ways at will.

Bhuvneshwari Kumari

Bhuvneshwari Kumari (born September 1, 1960) is a former women's squash champion from India. She is a recipient of prestigious awards like Padma Shri and Arjuna Award. She is also a record holder of Guinness Book of World Records for being India's national champion 16 consecutive times.

Bibhudutta Panda

Bibhudutta Panda (born 14 March 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening bowler and lower order batsman. In first class cricket, he plays for Odishain Ranji Trophy and Katak Barabati Tigers in first edition of Odisha Premier League.

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