India's athletes, on one page.

Nachhatar Singh Johal

Nachhatar Singh Johal (born 1979) is an Indian sailor. He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he placed 23rd in the Finn class.

Nacimento Silveira

Nacimento Silveira (born 11 April 1981) is an Indian football player who plays in Midfield position for I-League team United Sports Club.

Nadeem Iqbal

Nadeem Iqbal (born 3 April 1983) is an Indian cross-country skier and military officer. He was born in Rajouri a district in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir in India. Iqbal competed for India at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 15 kilometre classical race.

Nadig Kruttika

Kruttika Nadig (born 17 February 1988) is an Indian chess player. She holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and won the Indian national women's championship in 2008. Nadig competed in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010; she was knocked out in the first round by compatriot Harika Dronavalli.

Nadong Bhutia

Nadong Bhutia (born 25 November 1993) is an Indian former footballer who played as a striker or winger.

Nadras Prasad

Nadras Prasad (born 31 July 1985) is an Indian cricketer. He made his first-class debut for Badureliya Sports Club in the 2017–18 Premier League Tournament on 6 January 2018.

Nafisa Ali

Nafisa Ali (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈnafiˌsa ˈali]) is an Indian actress, politician, social activist, and former beauty queen. She won the Eve’s Weekly Miss India title and represented India at the Miss International pageant, where she was the second runner-up. She earned critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Junoon and Life in a...

Naganathan Pandi

Naganathan Pandi (born on 23 April 1996) is an Indian athlete and police constable from Tamil Nadu. He had been selected to represent India at the 2020 Summer Olympics at the event of Men's 4 × 400m Relay.

Nagaraja Rao

BR Nagaraja Rao (1914 – 3 April 2004) was an Indian cricketer and umpire. He stood in two One Day Internationals in 1985–1986.

Nagen Tamang

Nagen Tamang (born 19 February 1989 in Kurseong) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

Nagesh Guttula

Durga Nagesh Guttula (born 11 October 1981) is an Indian chess player with an International FIDE rating. He and his elder brother, Balaji Guttula, founded the South Mumbai Chess Academy, a renowned brand known as SMCA, in 1996, conceptualised by their father, Surya Chandra Rao Guttula. He was the administration head of the World Junior chess championship that concluded in Mumbai at Hotel Renaissance, Powai in October 2019.

Naina Jaiswal

Naina Jaiswal (born on 22 March 2000) is an Indian table tennis player who won multiple titles in both national and international championships. She is also a "Child Prodigy" who started pursuing PhD at the age of 17.

Najib Aga

Najib Aga (born 5 January 1977) is a former Indian judoka. For his contribution to sports, he was awarded the Ekalavya Award in 1994, by the government of Karnataka.

Nakul Sharma

Nakul Sharma (born 23 October 1993) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Services in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 5 February 2018.

Nakul Verma

Nakul Verma (born 14 April 1991) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Services as a wicket-keeper. He made his first-class debut in 2012 for Services against Kerala.

Nalin Malik

Nalin Chandra Malik (born 1910, date of death unknown) was an Indian swimmer. He competed in two events at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Malik also worked as a trainer at a swimming club located at Rabindra Sarobar.

Nalini Sengupta

Nalini Sengupta is an Indian educationist and mountaineer, best known for serving as the founder and principal of Vidya Valley School since 2001, and being the namesake of Mount Nalini in the Himalayas, after it was first summited in 2015. In 1970, Sengupta graduated as a mountaineering coach of the first mountaineering course for women offered by the National Institute of Mountaineering and Allied Sports. In July 2015, a team of 40 mountaineers from the Guardian Giripremi Institute of Mountaineering summited peak 5260 in the Himalayas, near the Hampta Pass region of Manali, Himachal Pradesh.

Nallappan Mohanraj

Nallappan Mohanraj (born 23 February 1989 in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu) is an Indian former professional footballer who played as a left back. He coaches Bengaluru United in the I-League 2.

Naman Ojha

Naman Vinaykumar Ojha (born 20 July 1983) is an Indian former cricketer. He made his Test debut for India against Sri Lanka on 28 August 2015. He retired from all formats of cricket on 15 February 2021.

Naman Tanwar

Naman Tanwar (born 25 September 1998) is an Indian boxer who started boxing under Vishnu Bhagwan(Coach) in Bheem Stadium, Haryana. He did his schooling from Bhiwani Public School, Bhiwani. He won a bronze medal in Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Queensland.

Nameirakpam Montesori Chanu

Montesori Chanu Nameirakpam (Meitei: Nameirakpam Montesori Chanu, born 1 February 1992) is an Indian footballer who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of the India women's national team.

Namita Toppo

Namita Toppo (born 4 June 1995) is an Indian former field hockey player. She hails from Sundargarh District of Odisha. On 27 December 2020, she was conferred with the 28th Eklavya award.

Namrata Purohit

Namrata Purohit is an Indian weightlifter from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. She serves in the Indian Army.

Nana Joshi

Padmanabh Govind "Nana" Joshi (7 October 1926 – 8 January 1987) was an Indian cricketer who kept wicket for India in 12 Test matches between 1951 and 1960.

Nanak Chand

Nanak Chand Thakur (born 20 March 1971) is an Indian alpine skier. He competed in two events at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Nanao Singh Thokchom

Thokchom Nanao Singh (born 8 January 1991) is an Indian boxer from Khoijuman Maning Leikai village in Bishnupur district of Manipur. He trains at Pune-based Army Sports Institute and is supported by Olympic Gold Quest, a not-for-profit foundation to identify and support Indian athletes.

Nand Kishore

A. Nand Kishore (born 10 July 1970) is an Indian former first-class cricketer. Kishore was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler. He is now an umpire and stood in matches in the 2015–16 Ranji Trophy.

Nandan Bezbarua

Nandan Bezbarua (1945 or 1946 – 24 August 2007) was an Indian cricketer who played first-class cricket for Assam from 1967 to 1979 and later served as secretary of the Assam Cricket Association. A middle-order and opening batsman, Bezbarua played four matches for Assam in the Ranji Trophy from 1966–67 to 1970–71 with little success, then returned to the team in 1974–75. In his third match that season he opened the batting and top-scored in each innings, although he made only 11 and 8 not out, and Assam totalled only 35 and 33 and lost to Bengal by an innings and 282 runs.

Nandan Phadnis

Nandan Hanmant Phadnis (born 18 August 1964 in Pune) is an Indian cricketer who played first class from 1986 to 1992 and List A cricket from 1986 to 1996 at the Ranji Trophy and the Wills Trophy for the Maharashtra cricket team as a wicket-keeper and batsman. Since 1998, he has served as an umpire for List A and Twenty20 cricket. A cricket coach with the National Cricket Academy, he was appointed coach for the cricket teams under the jurisdiction of the Goa Cricket Association in 2016, having previously coached Unmukt Chand in batting.

Nandhakumar Sekar

Nandhakumar Sekar (born 20 December 1995) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Odisha and the India national team.

Nandini

Nandini Mattu (born 6 June 2007) is an Indian professional footballer from Punjab. She plays as a midfielder or goalkeeper for the Indian Women's League club Sethu. She has represented India at the youth level internationally.

Nandini Kashyap

Nandini Kashyap (born 13 December 2003) is an Indian cricketer who plays for the Uttarakhand in domestic cricket as a right-hand batter and wicket-keeper.

Nandita Adhiya

Nandita Adhiya (born 6 January 1978) is a Gujarati cricketer. She played for Saurashtra women and West Zone women. She has played 27 Limited over matches and 10 Women's Twenty20.

Nandita Saha

Nandita Saha is an Indian table-tennis player. She was a part of Indian trio who defeated Canada in Common wealth 2006 at Melbourne and won Bronze medal for India. She won Bronze Medal in Women's singles in Senior National TT Championship in 2010.

Nandu Chandravarkar

Nandu Chandravarkar (born 5 August 1949) is an Indian former cricketer. He played three first-class matches for Bengal in 1974/75.

Nandu M. Natekar

Nandu M. Natekar (12 May 1933 – 28 July 2021) was an Indian badminton national champion.

Nanjangud Shivananju Manju

Naoba Singh

Naoba Singh Thokchom (Meitei: Thokchom Naoba Singh, born 1 March 1988) is an Indian professional footballer who last played as a defender for NEROCA in the I-League.

Naoomal Jeoomal

Naoomal Jeoomal Makhija (17 April 1904 – 28 July 1980) was an Indian cricketer, who was India's first opening batsman in Test cricket.

Naorem Mahesh Singh

Mahesh Singh Naorem (Meitei: Naorem Mahesh Singh, born 3 March 1999) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club East Bengal and the India national team.

Naorem Priyangka Devi

Priyangka Devi Naorem (Meitei: Naorem Priyangka Devi, born 9 April 2003) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Indian Women's League club East Bengal and the India women's national football team.

Naorem Roshibina Devi

Naorem Roshibina Devi (born 30 December 2000) is an Indian wushu player who competes in the Sanda division.

Napoleon Einstein

Napoleon Einstein (born 16 August 1989) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed opening batsman. He played for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket and was signed by Chennai Super Kings for the Indian Premier League.

Narain Swamy

Venkatraman Narayan Swamy (23 May 1924 in near Kozhikode, Kerala – 1 May 1983 in Dehra Dun, India) was an Indian Test cricketer. Swamy made his Test debut against New Zealand in 1955/56 and played in the first match of the series. He opened the bowling with Dattu Phadkar, took no wickets, did not bat, and was dropped.

Narayan Das

Narayan Das (Bengali: নারায়ণ দাস; born 25 September 1993) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a defender for a Goa based club, Sporting Clube De Goa.

Narayan Sane

Narayan Sane (4 February 1909 – 10 April 2002) was an Indian cricket umpire. He stood in two Test matches in 1960. Sane was also a first-class cricketer between 1934 and 1949.

Narayanswami Ulaganathan

Narayanswami Ulaganathan (born 1952) is an Indian former footballer. He played for Mohun Bagan in three spells, East Bengal, Mohammedan and the India national team primarily as a winger, during his 12-year career as a professional footballer. Playing for the Mariners in 1976, he became the first player to score a hat-trick in the Durand Cup final, which came against JCT Mills.

Naren Reddy

Naren Reddy (born 14 December 1994) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Andhra in the 2017–18 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 11 February 2018.