India's athletes, on one page.

Denechandra Meitei

Denechandra Meitei Yendrembam (Meitei: Yendrembam Denechandra Meitei, born 28 March 1994) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender.

Denson Devadas

Denson Devadas (born 20 December 1982) is a former Indian professional footballer who played as a central midfielder.

Denzil Franco

Denzil Franco (born 30 June 1985) is an Indian professional footballer who last played as a defender for Bardez in the Goa Professional League. Also an All India Trinamool Congress politician. Franco currently works as a colour commentator and analyst, covering Indian football for Star Sports.

Denzil Sequeira

Denzil Kenan Sequeira (born 27 March 1990) is an Indian-born Botswana cricketer who currently plays for the Botswana national cricket team.

Derek D'Souza

Derek D'Souza is an Indian former footballer.

Derrick Pereira

Des Raj

Des Raj (1 January 1944 – 4 August 2013) was an Indian cricket umpire. He only stood in one international fixture, a One Day International in 1998.

Dev Meena

Dev Kumar Meena (born 7 May 2005) is an Indian pole vaulter.

Devajit Saikia

Devajit Saikia is an Indian advocate, a former first class cricketer and a cricket administrator. He is the secretary of the BCCI. Saikia was re-elected as the secretary of the top cricket body of India on September 28, 2025 during their 94th AGM in Mumbai.

Devaki V Prasad

Devaki V. Prasad (born 16 June 1962) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of International Master (IM). The title was awarded to him in 1986.

Devang Gandhi

Devang Jayant Gandhi (born 6 September 1971) is a former Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed opening batsman and a very occasional right-arm medium-pace bowler. He played for Bengal, Hadleigh and Thundersley Cricket Club, Essex.

Devashish Mahanti

Devashish Mahanti (born 23 December 1963) is an Indian former cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Delhi and Orissa between 1982 and 1990. He was a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler.

Devdutt Padikkal

Devdutt Padikkal (born 7 July 2000) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Indian national team as a left-handed top order batter. He represents Karnataka in domestic cricket and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the Indian Premier League.

Deven Govindasami

Deven Govindasami (also Devan, born 5 May 1963) is an Indian weightlifter. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medals in the men's 60 kg event at the 1985 and 1987 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships.

Devender Kumar Khandwal

Devender Kumar Khandwal (born 10 July 1986) is an Indian rower. 48.

Devendra Bundela

Devendrasingh Bundela (born 22 February 1977) is a former Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman for Madhya Pradesh and made his first-class debut in 1995/96. He was a highly successful professional for Whitehaven Cricket Club 2001–03.

Devendra Jain

Devendra Jain (born 30 July 1962) is an Indian former cricketer. He played one first-class match for Delhi in 1984/85.

Devendra Jhajharia

Devendra Jhajharia (born 10 June 1981) is an Indian Paralympic javelin thrower. He won his first gold in the javelin throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, becoming the second gold medalist at the Paralympics for his country. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won a second gold medal in the same event, bettering his previous record.

Devendra Kunwar

Devendra Kunwar (born 2 December 1995) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Odisha in the 2016–17 Inter State Twenty-20 Tournament on 3 February 2017.

Devendra Pal Singh

Devendra Pal Singh (born 7 August 1975) is an Indian first-class cricketer who represented Rajasthan. He made his first-class debut for Rajasthan in the 1993–94 Ranji Trophy on 12 February 1994.

Devendra Sharma

Devendra Sharma (born 20 March 1953) is a former Indian cricket umpire. He stood in five ODI games between 1997 and 2002. In 2011 he was removed from umpiring by the ICC following unprofessional conduct, which reportedly included supplying information about the pitch and conditions before a game.

Devendro Singh

Devendro Singh Laishram (born 2 March 1992), also known as Devendro Singh or Devendro Laishram, is an Indian boxer from Imphal West district, Manipur who competes in the light-flyweight division. Devendro represented India at the 2012 Summer Olympics and lost out in the quarter-finals in a tough bout against the eventual bronze medalist Irish boxer Paddy Barnes. Devendro qualified for the Olympics after reaching the quarter-finals of the 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Baku.

Devesh Chauhan

Devesh Singh Chauhan (born 11 December 1981 in Village Silayta, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh) is a field hockey goalkeeper from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in early 2000. Chauhan represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics, in 2000 (Sydney, Australia) and in 2004 (Athens, Greece), where India finished in seventh place on both occasions. Chauhan got Arjuna award in 2003 by gov't to India and Lakshman award in 2001; Yash Bharti award in 2005 and Ahilyabai Hillary award in 2006 by gov't to Uttar Pradesh.

Devika Devarajan

Devika Devarajan Kallumambraparambil (born 16 June 1992) is an Indian volleyball player from Kerala. She plays for India women's national volleyball team as a setter, and for Kerala in the domestic tournaments.

Devika Palshikar

Devika Palshikar (Devanagari: देविका पळशीकर; born 20 June 1979) is an Indian former cricketer and current cricket coach. She played as a right-handed batter and right-arm leg break bowler. She appeared in one Test match and 15 One Day Internationals for India between 2006 and 2008.

Devika Sihag

Devika Sihag (born 18 April 2005) is an Indian badminton player.

Devika Vaidya

Devika Vaidya (born 13 August 1997) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Maharashtra in domestic matches and the India women's national team. Vaidya studied in Maharashtra Mandal in her childhood.

Devinder Sharma

Devinder Dutt Sharma (born 20 January 1950) is a former Indian cricket umpire. In his international umpiring career, he stood in only a single ODI game, in 2001.

Devishetty Vinay Kumar

Devisetty Vinay Kumar (born 21 April 1977) is an Indian former cricketer. He played 74 first-class matches for Hyderabad between 1996 and 2007.

Devnarayan Kumar

Devnarayan Kumar (born 25 December 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Tripura in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 3 March 2017.

Devraj Govindraj

Devraj Devendraraj Govindraj (born 2 January 1947) is a former fast bowler who played first-class cricket in India from 1964–65 to 1974–75. He toured the West Indies in 1970–71 and England in 1971, but did not play Test cricket. He is the nephew of C. K. Nayudu, India's first test captain.

Devraj Patil

Devraj Thyagaraj Patil (born 6 December 1984) is an Indian former first-class cricketer who played for Karnataka and the Royal Challengers Bangalore. He was right-handed wicket-keeper batsman. His only century was scored for Karnataka against Kerala in the group stage of the 2008–09 Vijay Hazare Trophy, his innings of 106 not out could not prevent his side from losing the match.

Dhakshineswar Suresh

Dhakshineswar Suresh Ekambaram (born 29 March 2000) is an Indian tennis player. He has a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 353 achieved on 27 July 2026 and a doubles ranking of No.

Dhanachandra Singh

Leihaorungbam Dhanachandra Singh is an Indian footballer who plays as left back.

Dhanalakshmi Poojary

Dhanalakshmi Poojary (born 2004) is an Indian kabaddi player from Karnataka. She plays for the Indian women's national kabaddi team and for Karnataka in the domestic tournaments. She is an allrounder.

Dhanalakshmi Sekhar

Dhanalakshmi Sekar (born 5 June 1998) is an Indian athlete from Tamil Nadu. She rose to limelight after beating veteran Indian sprinters Dutee Chand and Hima Das in the 200m event at the 2021 Federation Cup. She made her debut appearance at the Olympics representing India at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Dhananjay Mahadik

Dhananjay Mahadik (born 5 November 1984) is a former Indian field hockey player who played as a defender 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. Currently he is working in Department of Sales Tax, Government of Maharashtra as Assistant Commissioner of sales tax.

Dhananjay Pande

Dhananjay Uttam Pande (born 11 November 1991) is an Indian rower from Maharashtra. He is named in the Indian rowing team for the 2022 Asian Games at Hangzhou, China. He was part of the men's eight team that won the silver medal in the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.

Dhanpal Ganeshan

Dhanpal Ganesh (born 13 June 1994) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chennaiyin in the Indian Super League. He has also played for the India national team.

Dhanraj Pillay

Dhanraj Pillay (born 16 July 1968) is a retired Indian field hockey player and former captain of the India national team. He also looks after the Air India Sports Promotion Board as a Joint Secretary based in Mumbai. For the last 5 years, Dhanraj is overseeing the SAG Hockey Academy in Gujarat funded by the Gujarat Government.

Dhanush Babu

Dhanush Babu is an Indian speed skater. Most recently, Babu represented India in the 2019 World Roller Games held in Spain from 4 to 14 July 2019. He was the first Indian to secure an international roller skating medal for India in 2016 at the Asian Speed Skating Championship and to finish fifth in the 500+D event on the track in 2019.

Dhanush Srikanth

Dhanush Srikanth (born 21 July 2002) is an Indian deaf sports shooter. He made his Deaflympic debut at the age of 19 representing India at the 2021 Summer Deaflympics (held in May 2022). Despite his deafness, he has been competing in Indian shooting circuit and has been regarded as one of the regular faces in Indian shooting fraternity.

Dhanya Nair

Dhanya Nair (born 16 July 1984) is an Indian professional badminton player.

Dhara Gujjar

Dhara Gujjar (born 18 August 2002) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Bengal. She plays as a right-arm medium fast bowler and left-handed batter. In the inaugural WPL auction in February 2023, Gujjar was purchased by Mumbai Indians franchise at 10 lakhs.

Dharam Singh

Dharam Singh (born 30 October 1937) is an Indian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics, and was part of team that won the gold medal.

Dharam Singh

Dharam Singh Gill (19 January 1919 in Gandiwind – 5 December 2001 in Chandigarh) was an Indian field hockey player who played as a right back in the gold medal winning team at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games.

Dharam Singh Uppal

Dharam Singh Uppal (21 July 1959 - 16 January 2013) was a former Indian international track and field athlete and a Superintendent of Police in Punjab. He was in the field event of men's 800 m and 1500 m race and won several medals for the country as well as state. He represented India in Asian Games and South Asian Games.

Dharambir Nain

Dharambir Nain (born 18 January 1989) is an Indian para club thrower. 92 m, setting a new Asian record.