India's athletes, on one page.

Dilbag Singh

Dilbag Singh (born 4 September 1981) Dilbag Singh is an Indian boxer.

Dilip Bose

Dilip Kumar Bose (28 May 1921 – 30 December 1996) was an Indian professional tennis player. He was a winner of the Asian Championships and a member of the India Davis Cup team. After retirement, he served as a coach and administrator.

Dilip Doshi

Dilip Rasiklal Doshi (22 December 1947 – 23 June 2025) was an Indian cricketer from Bengal though his origin goes back to Gujarat. He played in 33 Test matches and 15 One Day Internationals from 1979 to 1983. Doshi was one of only four Test bowlers who played their first Test after the age of thirty, yet went on to take more than 100 wickets, the other three being Clarrie Grimmett, Saeed Ajmal and Ryan Harris.

Dilip Dutta

Dilip Dutta (born 29 September 1949) is an Indian former cricketer. He played one first-class match for Bengal in 1976/77.

Dilip Gavit

Dilip Mahadu Gavit (born 21 April 2003) is an Indian para-athlete competing in the T47 classification. He has the gold medal in the 400 m T47 race in the 2022 Asian Para Games and the 100 m T47 race in the 2026 Commonwealth Games. He also represented 2024 Summer Paralympics.

Dilip Ghose

Dilip Ghose (born 5 December 1932) was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Bengal. He was born in Calcutta.

Dilip Gurumurthy

Dilip Gurumurthy (born 18 September 1956) is an Indian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Dilip Mitra

Dilip Mitra (1926–1992) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Dilip Sardesai

Dilip Narayan Sardesai (8 August 1940 – 2 July 2007) was an Indian international cricketer. He played Tests for the Indian national team as a batsman, the first Goa-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as one of India's best batsmen against spin, although Indian batsmen have been known to play better against spin.

Dilip Tirkey

Dilip Tirkey (born 25 November 1977) is an indian politician,former captain of the Indian field hockey team and sports administrator . He was awarded Padma Shree in 2004. Currently he is the president of Hockey India.

Dilip Vengsarkar

Dilip Balwant Vengsarkar (born 6 April 1956) is a former Indian cricketer and a cricket administrator. He was considered to have a very good drive. Along with Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath, he was a key player in the Indian batting line up in the late 70s and early 80s.

Dilpreet Singh

Dilpreet Singh (born 12 November 1999) is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a forward for the national team. He is registered with the Punjab Armed Police and plays for Hockey Punjab in the domestic tournaments. He plays for Vedanta Kalinga Lancers in the Hockey India League.

Dimple Bhagat

Dimple Bhagat (born 12 December 1998) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for I-League club TRAU.

Dinesh Karthik

Dinesh Khanna

Dinesh Kumar Khanna is an Indian former badminton player. Dinesh Khanna belongs to a prominent family of Punjab based out of Fatehgarh Churian (District Gurdaspur). His great-great-grandfather Diwan Tek Chand was a Diwan in the Darbar of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar (born 25 August 1988) is an Indian amateur boxer from Bhiwani, Haryana who competed at the 2008 Olympics at light-heavyweight. He is coached by Jagdish Singh. At the first Olympic qualifier he lost to Zhang Xiaoping 7:25, at the second he KOd two fighters to qualify even though he lost the final to Mehdi Ghorbani.

Dinesh Mongia

Dinesh Mongia (born 17 April 1977) is a former Indian cricketer and politician. Mongia has appeared in limited over internationals for India. With India, Mongia was a member of the Indian team that was one of the joint-winners of the 2002 ICC Champions Trophy, which the title was also shared with Sri Lanka, and was a member of the team that were runners-up in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

Dinesh Nakrani

Dinesh Nakrani (born 21 September 1991) is an Indian-born cricketer who represents the Uganda cricket team. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed and bowls left-arm medium pace. He made his international debut for Uganda in 2018, having previously played for Saurashtra in Indian domestic cricket.

Dinesh Nanavati

Dinesh Nanavati (born 1948–1949) is an Indian former first-class cricketer who represented Saurashtra. He later worked as a cricket coach.

Dinesh Nayak

V. R. Dinesh Nayak (born 17 May 1972 in Ernakulam, Kerala) is a field hockey defender from India, who made his international debut for the Men's National Team in 1993 during the test series against Kenya. Nicknamed Kaka, Nayak represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where India finished in seventh place. Dinesh Nayak had his school education at Sree Rama Varma High School at Ernakulam, Kerala and went to complete his pre-degree at Maharajas College, Ernakulam taking science group.

Dinesh Patel

Dinesh Kumar Patel (born 8 May 1989) is an Indian right-handed baseball pitcher who played in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Along with Rinku Singh, he was the first Indian player ever to sign a contract with a major American baseball team. Neither Patel nor Singh had ever thrown a baseball before beating over 37,000 competitors in The Million Dollar Arm, an Indian reality television show designed to find new baseball talent.

Dinesh Rai

Dinesh Rai (born 21 November 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Sikkim in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 6 December 2018. He made his List A debut on 8 October 2019, for Sikkim in the 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Dinesh Salunkhe

Dinesh Salunkhe (born 12 November 1982 in Bombay) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler. Played Legend League in 2022.

Dinesh Singh

Dinesh Singh Soraisham (Meitei: Soraisham Dinesh Singh, born 5 December 1997) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Indian Super League club NorthEast United.

Dingko Singh

Master Chief Petty Officer Ngangom Dingko Singh (1 January 1979 – 10 June 2021) was an Indian boxer who won the gold medal at 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok. He was from the North-eastern Indian state of Manipur. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 2013.

Dinkkarao Shinde

Dinkarrao Shinde (also Dinkkarao, 2 June 1900 – 18 August 1962) was an Indian wrestler. He competed in the freestyle featherweight event at the 1920 Summer Olympics where he finished fourth. He was the first Indian wrestler to win an Olympic bout.

Dipa Karmakar

Dipa Karmakar (Bengali: দীপা কর্মকার; born 9 August 1993) is an Indian former artistic gymnast. She is one of only five women in the world to have mastered the Produnova vault. 15 points.

Dipankar Bhattacharjee

Dipankar Bhattacharjee (born 1 February 1972) is a Badminton player from Assam, India. He represented India at many International tournaments including Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics. He was the Indian National Badminton Champion thrice and a runner-up twice.

Dipankar Ghosh

Dipankar Ghosh (born 26 November 1943) is an Indian former cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Bengal between 1964 and 1969.

Dipankar Ghosh

Dipankar Ghosh was an Indian mountaineer from West Bengal. He is the first Bengali to climb Mount Everest and had successfully climbed five other eight-thousand-meter peaks besides Mount Everest. In 2019, the Government of India posthumously honored him with the Tenzing Norgay Adventure Award for the year 2018, the highest adventure sports honor in India.

Dipankar Roy

Dipankar Roy (Bengali: দীপঙ্কর রায়; born 7 November 1982) is a retired Indian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played most of his professional career for East Bengal in the National Football League and I-League.

Dipankar Sarkar

Dipankar Sarkar (8 January 1950 – 30 December 2023) was an Indian cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Bengal and Railways.

Dipendu Biswas

Dipendu Biswas (29 September 1981) is an Indian retired professional footballer,.

Dipika Murthy

Dipika Gongala Murty (born 10 August 1980) is an Indian former field hockey player, who represented the India women's national field hockey team. She played with the team when it won the Gold at the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup and won a silver in the 2009 Asia cup at bangkok. She has represented India at the under-21 world cup in argentina 2001 and in two senior world cups in Spain 2006 and argentina in 2010.

Dipika Pallikal

Dipika Pallikal (born 21 September 1991) is an Indian professional squash player. She was the first Indian player to break into the top 10 in the world rankings.

Dipsan Tirkey

Dipsan Tirkey (born 15 October 1998) is an Indian field hockey player who plays as a defender. He was the vice-captain of the Indian squad that won the 2016 Men's Hockey Junior World Cup.

Diptayan Ghosh

Diptayan Ghosh (born 10 August, 1998) is a chess player from Kolkata, India. He qualified as a grandmaster at the age of 17 after achieving his third and final norm required for the title at the HDBank International Chess Open Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in March 2016. Ghosh won the gold medal at the Asian Youth Chess Championships in the Under 10 section in 2008 and the Under 12 in 2009.

Dipu Ghosh

Dipu Ghosh (born 17 June 1940) is a former badminton player from India who shined in the 1960s. His brother Raman Ghosh, his long time partner in doubles was also a prominent badminton talent in the country. Ghosh is a former national champion for seven times, in all the three possible categories.

Dishant Yagnik

Dishant Harendra Yagnik (born 22 June 1983) is a former Indian cricketer and coach. He was a wicket-keeper who represented Rajasthan in domestic cricket. He was also a member of Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League.

Divakar Vasu

Divakar Vasu (born 11 December 1967) is a former Indian first-class cricketer who played for Tamil Nadu between the 1988/89 and 1998/99 seasons. After retirement, he became a cricket coach.

Divij Sharan

Divij Sharan (born 2 March 1986) is an Indian professional tennis player. He specialises in doubles and competes on the ATP World Tour. He has won five ATP doubles titles and represents India in the Davis Cup.

Divya Deshmukh

Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She has won two gold medals and one bronze medal at the Women's Chess Olympiad. Deshmukh won the Women's Chess World Cup 2025 and qualified for the Grandmaster title becoming the seventh woman to obtain the title as a teenager.

Divya Dhayal

Divya Dhayal is an Indian archer. She became the national archery champion at age 15.

Divya Kakran

Divya Kakran (born 2 July 1998) is an Indian freestyle wrestler. A multiple-time medalist at the Asian Championships, she has also won medals at the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Games. In recognition of her contributions to Indian wrestling, she was conferred with the Arjuna Award in 2020.

Divya Pratap Singh

Divya Pratap Singh (born 1 October 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Rajasthan in the 2013–14 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 27 February 2014.

Divya Singh

Divya Singh (Hindi:'दिव्या सिंह') (born 21 July 1982) is former captain of the Indian National Women's Basketball Team. Singh led the Indian women's basketball team at the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games. She is known for her game skills, leadership qualities, academic strength and personality.

Divya T. S.

Divya Thadigol Subbaraju (born 14 August 1995) is an Indian sport shooter from Karnataka. She competes in the ISSF 10 meter air pistol discipline. She became the National Champion in 10m Air Pistol 2022.