India's athletes, on one page.

Latika Kumari

Latika Kumari (born 5 January 1992) is an Indian cricketer. She is a right-handed batter and her bowling style is right-arm medium. She has been a part of major teams like Delhi Women, India B Women, India Blue Women, and India Women.

Lavin Coster

Lavin Coster (born 13 December 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 7 January 2019. He made his Twenty20 debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 21 February 2019.

Lavy Pinto

Lavinho Thomas Pinto (23 October 1929 – 15 February 2020) was an Indian sprinter. He won two gold medals in the first Asian Games held in New Delhi in 1951 for the 100 and 200 metre sprints. He also competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Lawrie Fernandes

Lawrence "Lawrie" Fernandes (1929 – 22 January 1995) was an Indian field hockey player who won a gold medal with the India men’s national field hockey team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. A Goan player affiliated with Bombay in domestic hockey, Fernandes was one of five Goans in India’s 1948 Olympic squad, alongside Leo Pinto, Walter D’Souza, Maxie Vaz, and Reginald Rodrigues. He also represented Tata Sports Club (later known as Tata Oil Mills Company, or TOMCO) in domestic competitions.

Laxman Chetri

Laxman Chetri (born 26 January 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his Twenty20 debut for Meghalaya in the 2018–19 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy on 2 March 2019.

Laxman Chettri

Laxman Chettri (born 26 January 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Meghalaya in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 20 December 2018.

Laxman Rajaram

Laxman Rajaram R. (born 5 February 1983) is an Indian chess grandmaster.

Laxman Sivaramakrishnan

Laxman Sivaramakrishnan (born 31 December 1965), popularly known as Siva and LS, is a former Indian cricketer and commentator. During his playing career, he was a right-arm leg-spinner. Sivaramakrishnan began his commentary career in a test match between India and Bangladesh in 2000.

Laxmesha Suryaprakash

Laxmesha Suryaprakash (born 27 September 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Tamil Nadu in the 2016–17 Ranji Trophy on 21 November 2016. He made his List A debut on 28 February 2021, for Tamil Nadu in the 2020–21 Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Laxmi Ratan Shukla

Laxmi Ratan Shukla (born 6 May 1981) is a former Indian cricketer and politician. He played as a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler for the Bengal cricket team. He was also a player for Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League.

Laxmikant Kattimani

Laxmikant Kattimani (born 3 May 1989) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Super League Kerala club Thrissur Magic.

Laxmipathy Balaji

Lakshmipathy Balaji (born 27 September 1981) is an Indian cricket coach and former international cricketer. He was a right-arm fast medium bowler. He represented the Indian cricket team and was part of the Indian team that finished as runners-up in the 2004 Asia Cup.

Laxmirani Majhi

Laxmirani Majhi (born 26 January 1989) is an Indian female right handed recurve archer.

Laya Francis

Laya Francis (born 22 March 1963) is an Indian former cricketer who played as a right-arm medium-fast bowler for the India women's national cricket team. She appeared in four Test matches and 11 One Day Internationals for India between 1993 and 1995. She played domestic cricket for Railways.

Lazarus Barla

Lazarus ("Lajarus") Barla (born April 11, 1979 in Tilaikani, near Sundargarh, Odisha) is a field hockey defender from India, who belongs to the Oraon tribe of Chota Nagpur. He made his international senior debut for the India men's national team in January 1998 during the test series against Germany. He represented his country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where India finished in seventh place.

Lee Yong Lepcha

Lee Yong Lepcha (born 7 November 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Sikkim in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 20 September 2018. He was the leading run-scorer for Sikkim in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy, with 214 runs in eight matches.

Leela Row

Leela Row Dayal (19 December 1911 – 19 May 1964) was a female tennis player and author from India. She was the first female Indian tennis player to win a match at the Wimbledon Championships. She wrote several books on Indian classical dance in both English and Sanskrit.

Lekha K.C.

Lekha K. C. represented Indian Women's Amateur boxing at 75 kg category and won gold medal in 2006 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships.

Len Aiyappa

Len Aiyappa (born 31 March 1979) is an Indian field hockey player. He remained one of India's best drag-flickers in the India men's national field hockey team until he retired in 2006. He last played for India during the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in 2005.

Lenny Rodrigues

Lenny Rodrigues (born 10 May 1987) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Super League Kerala club Thrissur Magic.

Leo Pinto

Leo Pinto (11 April 1914 – 10 August 2010) was an Indian field hockey player who played as a goalkeeper, who won the gold medal with the India national team at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. During the peak of his playing days, he was rated among the best goalkeepers in the world.

Leon Luke Mendonca

Leon Luke Mendonca (born 13 March 2006) is an Indian chess grandmaster. He is the sixty-seventh Indian to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded him in January 2021.

Leroy D’sa

Leroy Francis D'Sa (born 12 October 1953) is an Indian former badminton player. D'sa remains the only player from India ever to have managed to claim four Asian games medals. He initially learned the basics of the sport in Hyderabad where his father was posted in Reserve Bank of India.

Leslie Claudius

Leslie Walter Claudius (25 March 1927 – 20 December 2012) was an Indian field hockey player from Bilaspur. He studied in South Eastern Railway (Now SECR) English Medium School Bilaspur, which has produced many national sportsmen. Leslie Claudius shares with Udham Singh the distinction of being one of the only two Indian players to win four Olympic medals in field hockey.

Leslie Fernandez

Leslie Fernandez is a railway worker and former Indian national field hockey goalie. He served as a goalkeeper in the Indian national hockey team which won the gold medal in the 1975 Hockey World Cup. and he was educated at Campion Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School in Tiruchirappalli.

Leslie Hammond

Leslie Charles Hammond (4 March 1905 – 26 June 1955) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1928, he was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played three matches as back.

Lester Fernandez

Lester King

Lester Anthony King (27 February 1939 – 9 July 1998) was a West Indian international cricketer from Jamaica who played in two Test matches, one in 1962 and the other in 1968. On his debut, in April 1962, he took 5 for 46 in the first innings of the Fifth Test against India at Sabina Park, Kingston. He played first-class cricket for Jamaica from 1961 to 1968.

Lhingdeikim Kipgen

Lhingdeikim Kipgen (23 January 2008) is an Indian professional footballer from Manipur, who plays as a forward for the club Garhwal United in the Indian Women's League 2 and the India women's national football team.

Licha Tehi

Licha Tehi (born 8 October 1992) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Arunachal Pradesh in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 19 September 2018. He made his first-class debut for Arunachal Pradesh in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 1 November 2018.

Lijo David Thottan

Lijo David Thottan (born 1 June 1974) is an Indian sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Liksy Joseph

Liksy Joseph is an Indian athlete. She represents India in the heptathlon.

Lila Ram

Lila Ram Sangwan (30 November 1930 – 11 October 2003) was an Indian wrestler from Charkhi Dadri district of Haryana, who was the first Indian to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games. He won a gold medal in the heavyweight (100 kg) category in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Lila Ram competed in the freestyle wrestling in heavyweight and superheavyweight categories at the national as well as international level.

Lilima Minz

Lilima Minz (born 10 April 1994) is an Indian female field hockey player. Lilima hails from Bihabandh-Tanatoli village, Lanjiberna Block, Sundargarh District of Odisha. She is a product of Sports Hostel, Panposh, Rourkela, Odisha.

Limba Ram

Limba Ram is an Indian archer who represented India in international competitions, including three Olympics. He equalled an archery world record in 1992 at the Asian Archery Championships in Beijing. He was awarded the Padma Shri Award in 2012.

Lionel Emmett

Lionel Charles Renwick Emmett (8 January 1913 – 9 August 1996) was an Indian field hockey player and physician who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as forward.

Lissy Samuel

Lissy Samuel (born 11 December 1967) is a former Indian cricketer who represented India in ODI cricket. She played a solitary One Day International in 1995. She is a right-hand batter and bowls right-arm medium fast.

Liston Colaco

Liston Colaço (born 12 November 1998) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Mohun Bagan and the India national team.

Liyan Khan

Liyan Khan (born 18 November 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Karnataka in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 30 December 2018. He made his Twenty20 debut on 4 November 2021, for Sikkim in the 2021–22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

Lobsang Pandan

Lobsang Pandan (born 7 January 1996) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut on 13 October 2019, for Arunachal Pradesh in the 2019–20 Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Loken Meitei

Loken Meitei Moirangthem (Meitei: Moirangthem Loken Meitei, born 4 May 1997) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for I-League club Delhi.

Lokesh Sathyanathan

Lokesh Sathyanathan (born 21 December 1999) is an Indian long jumper. He is the indoor national record holder. Competing in the United States, he won the 2026 NCAA Indoor Championships.

Lopamudra Bhattacharji

Lopamudra Bhattacharji (born 31 January 1960) is a former Test and One Day International cricketer who represented the India national women's team. She played one Test and 15 ODIs for India as a medium-pace bowler.

Lorraine Fernandes

Lorraine Fernandes (born 24 December 1954) is an Indian field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1980 Summer Olympics. During the Olympics she was one of the star members of India's hockey team which also included the Saini sisters and Prem Maya Sonir where they defeated Austria and Poland.

Lourembam Brojeshori Devi

Lourembam Brojeshori Devi (1 January 1981 – 21 July 2013) was an Indian judoka who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Brojeshori Devi was born on 1 January 1981. She was from Khagempalli Huidrom Leikai in Imphal West of Manipur.

Love Ablish

Lovesh Ablish (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian first-class cricketer. He is a former member of Indian World Team in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 competition. He also played in the Ranji Trophy.

Lovepreet Singh

Lovepreet Singh (born 6 September 1997) is an Indian weightlifter. He won the silver medal at the 2021 Commonwealth Championships, a bronze medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and a silver medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. In 2017, he won bronze at the Asian Youth Championships and gold at the Junior Commonwealth Championships in the 105 kg category.

Lt Col Saroja Kumari Juthu SM

Saroja Kumari Jhuthu (born June 5, 1968) is an Indian sport shooter. She won the gold medal in the Women's 25m Pistol (Pairs) with Sushma Rana at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.