India's athletes, on one page.

Nooshin Al Khadeer

Nooshin Al Khadeer (born 13 February 1981) is an Indian former cricketer and current national coach of U-19 Women's Cricket team. She played as a right-arm off break bowler. She appeared in five Test matches, 78 One Day Internationals and two Twenty20 Internationals for India from 2002 to 2012.

Nora Polley

Nora Margaret Polley (née Fischer; 29 July 1894 – 1988) was the first woman to represent India at the Summer Olympics when she competed in the tennis events at the 1924 Summer Olympics. Nora Fischer was born in Budaun, British India, records show that in 1901 she was living in Scotland before going to boarding school in Eastbourne in 1911, she would later marry Sydney Trepess Polley in 1915, who had been serving in the Indian Army since 1902 and would later be promoted to Major.

Norman Pritchard

Norman Gilbert Pritchard (23 June 1875 – 30 October 1929), also known by his stage name Norman Trevor, was a British-Indian athlete and actor who became the first Asian-born athlete to win an Olympic medal when he won two silver medals in athletics at the 1900 Paris Olympics representing India. He won India's first medal at the Olympics in the 200 metres and the 200 metres hurdles.

Noshirvan Nagarwala

Noshirvan Nagarwala (10 October 1909 – 10 September 1998) was an Indian cricket umpire. He stood in five Test matches between 1952 and 1960. In the 1930s, Nagarwala appeared in 11 first-class matches as a player, with Maharashtra, Parsees and Dr HD Kanga's Parsees XI.

Nripesh Biswas

Nripesh Biswas (born 9 April 1937) is an Indian former cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Bengal in 1963/64.

Nripjit Singh Bedi

Nripjit Singh Bedi (commonly known as "Nippy", born 1 June 1940) was a volleyball player who was a member of the Indian national team and competed in the silver medal-winning effort at the 4th Asian Games. Bedi received the Arjuna Award from the Government of India in 1962. The Indian athlete's volleyball career lasted for 23 years.

Nupur Sheoran

Nupur Sheoran (born 26 September 1998) is an Indian heavyweight boxer. A five-time national champion, she is a two-time gold medallist at the 2025 World Boxing Cup and silver medallist at the 2025 World Boxing Championships. She is the granddaughter of boxing legend Hawa Singh.

Nutakki Priyanka

Nutakki Priyanka (born 1 June 2002) is an Indian chess player. She received the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in 2022.

Nuzhat Parween

Nuzhat Parween (born 5 September 1996) is an Indian cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper. Domestically, she plays for Railways in the Women's Senior One Day Trophy and Women's Senior T20 Trophy. A multi-talented athlete, she is a former football captain of the Madhya Pradesh under-16 football team, she joined Singrauli's district cricket team in 2011.

O. Chandrasekhar Menon

O. Chandrasekhar Menon (10 July 1935 – 24 August 2021) was an Indian professional footballer who played as a defender. He represented India at the 1960 Summer Olympics (Rome), the 1962 Asian Games (Gold medal), 1964 AFC Asian Cup (Silver medal), Merdeka Tournament (Silver Medal - 1959 & 1964) and 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo Qualifiers).

O. M. Nambiar

Othayothu Madhavan Nambiar (16 February 1932 – 19 August 2021) was an Indian athletics coach who was awarded Dronacharya award in 1985 and Padma Shri in 2021. He coached the well known Indian athlete P. T. Usha.

O. P. Jaisha

Jaisha Orchatteri Puthiya Veetil (born 23 May 1983), commonly known as O. P. Jaisha, is an Indian track and field athlete from Kerala.

O. P. Malhotra

Om Prakash Malhotra was an Indian field hockey player who played as a halfback. He was part of the India national team that won gold at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. He was a member of the Indian team that toured Afghanistan in 1952 and Malaya and Singapore in 1954.

Obaid Haroon

Obaid Haroon (born 2 December 1986) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right-handed wicket-keeper batsman who can open the batting for Jammu and Kashmir cricket team. He first came to the domestic team in October 2009 in a T20 team.

Obaid Kamal

Mohammad Obaid Kamal (born 4 September 1972 in Allahabad) is an Indian former first-class cricketer who played for Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. He became a coach and worked as a selector for Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) after his playing career.

Oinam Bembem Devi

Ojas Pravin Deotale

Ojas Pravin Deotale (born 18 June 2002) is an Indian compound archer. He won the gold medal in the men's individual compound event at the 2023 World Championships, becoming the first Indian male archer to achieve this feat.

Okram Roshini Devi

Roshini Devi Okram (Meitei: Okram Roshini Devi, born 8 February 1994 in Manipur) is an Indian women footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Manipur Police. She also played internationally for the India national football team.

Om Prakash

Om Prakash is an Indian rower. He won the gold medal in the 2018 Asian Games in Men's Quadruple sculls.

Om Prakash Bhardwaj

Om Prakash Bhardwaj (18 March 1942 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian boxing coach. In 1985, he was awarded the Dronacharya Award, India's highest award in the field of coaching of sports and athletics. He is India's first Dronacharya awardee coach for boxing.

Om Prakash Mitharwal

Om Prakash Mitharwal (born 15 August 1995) is an Indian sport shooter. At the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships, he won the gold medal in the 50 metre pistol and silver in 10 metre air pistol team event. He won the gold medal at the 2018 ISSF World Cup in Guadalajara in the 10 metre air pistol mixed team event with Manu Bhaker.

Om Prakash Singh

Om Prakash Singh Karhana (born 11 January 1987) is an Indian shot putter. He trains at the Salwan Throws Academy, where he first began to learn how to shot put, and is supported by Olympic Gold Quest, a not-for-profit foundation to identify and support Indian athletes. He was originally a basketball player, but was approached by Lalit Bhanot, secretary of the Athletics Federation of India, to consider switching to the shot put.

Omar Alam

Omar Alam (born 7 March 1985) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Jammu & Kashmir. He made his Twenty20 debut on 6 January 2016 in the 2015–16 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. He made his List A debut for Jammu & Kashmir in the 2018–19 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 7 October 2018.

Omkar Gurav

Onkar Dattaram Gurav (born 29 June 1988) is an Indian cricketer who plays for Mumbai.

Omkar Otari

Omkar Shekhar Otari (born 16 December 1987) is an Indian Weightlifter, who won Bronze medal in the men's 69 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland. He hails from Kolhapur. He also participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the 62 kg event.

Omkar Singh

Omkar Verma

Omkar Verma (born 23 October 1991) is an Indian cricketer. He made his List A debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2016–17 Vijay Hazare Trophy on 3 March 2017. He made his first-class debut for Chhattisgarh in the 2018–19 Ranji Trophy on 1 November 2018.

Omprakesh Agrawal

Omprakesh Bankelal Agrawal also known as either Omprakash Agarwal or Omprakash Agrawal (27 April 1955 – 15 May 1994), was an Indian professional snooker player. As an amateur, he was world champion in 1984.

Ong Lepcha

Ong Tshering Lepcha (born 14 April 1988) is an Indian footballer who plays as a forward for Sikkimese Gangtok Himalayan SC.

Oniel Wilson

Oniel Wilson (born 27 April 1971) is an Indian former cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Delhi between 1990 and 1997.

Onkar Khanvilkar

Onkar Khanvilkar (born 8 September 1982) is an Indian first-class cricketer who represented Mumbai. He made his first-class debut for Mumbai in the 2003-04 Ranji Trophy on 23 November 2003.

Orlando Campos

Orlando "Ollie" Campos (1925–1994) was an Indian bridge player. Campos was the mainstay of the famous Ruia team that dominated the Indian bridge scene from 1958 through the late seventies. He represented India in seven world championships and two zonal championships.

Oscar Ward

William Alfred Oscar Ward (born 15 October 1927) was an Indian boxer. He competed in the men's light heavyweight event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Oswald Smith-Bingham

Oswald Cyril Smith-Bingham (29 January 1904 – 27 January 1979) was a cricketer who played for India. He played three times for the Egypt national cricket team against HM Martineau's XI in the early 1930s and later played two first-class matches in India for a Viceroy's XI, including one against the MCC.

Owais Shah

Owais Amin Shah (born 14 October 1990) is an Indian cricketer who has played for Jammu and Kashmir in Indian domestic cricket. He is a right-handed batsman and left-arm leg spin bowler. A former state under-19s player, Shah made his first-class debut for Jammu and Kashmir in December 2012, playing against Kerala in the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy.

Owais Yaqoob

Owais Yaqoob (born 1998) is an Indian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the lightweight division. He is the first professional MMA fighter from Murran village of Pulwama district of Kashmir and trains at the American Kickboxing Academy (AKA) under Khabib Nurmagomedov and Javier Mendez. In October 2025, Nurmagomedov publicly praised Yaqoob's progress during training.

P S Jeena

Palanilkumkalayil Skaria Jeena, known as P. S. Jeena (born 9 January 1994), is an Indian professional basketball player and practicing Christian who captains the India women's national basketball team.

P Vijay Kumar

P Vijay Kumar (1 April 1958 – 19 November 2015) was an Indian footballer who represented the country at the international level. Born and brought up in Jamshedpur, he originally hailed from Andhra Pradesh. Kumar joined Tata Steel in 1977.

P. C. Prakash

P. C. Thulasi

Puthenpurayil Chandrika Thulasi (born 31 August 1991) is an Indian badminton player. She was part of the national team that won the gold medals in 2010 and 2016 South Asian Games, also the women's doubles silver in 2010. Thulasi was the women's singles national champion in 2016, and the gold medalist in 34th National Games.

P. G. Sethi

Prem Gopal "Biloo" Sethi (died c. 1981), was an Indian golfer. He was the only amateur to win the Indian Open, having done so in 1965.

P. K. Banerjee

Pradip Kumar Banerjee FIFAOM (23 June 1936 – 20 March 2020) was an Indian professional footballer who played as a striker for the India national football team. He also captained the national team and later on became the coach of the national team. He represented India in 50 official matches and scored 15 official goals for the country.

P. K. Dharmalingam

P. K. Dharmalingam (15 April 1936 – 2 June 2019) was an Indian cricketer. He played in 29 first class matches for Madras and Services between 1960 and 1970 with a batting average of 28.30 and a bowling average of 20.50. He coached young cricketers in Chennai, claiming to have been the first to organise summer training camps there.

P. K. Priya

Premachandram Kanchana Priya (born 29 April 1988), known as P. K. Priya, is an athlete from India.

P. M. Anandan

Ponnabeth Mambally Anandan (born 1 December 1924) is an Indian former cricketer who played first-class cricket from 1951 to 1957. Anandan was an opening bowler who made his first-class debut in 1951–52 in what was also Travancore-Cochin's first-class match. He took five or more wickets in an innings in each of his first three matches: 6 for 100 against Mysore in 1951–52, 5 for 65 against Mysore in 1952–53, and 5 for 38 against Hyderabad in 1953–54.

P. M. K. Mohandas

Ponnambath Mambally Krishnan Mohandas (31 January 1948 – 17 October 2004) was an Indian cricketer who played at first-class level for Kerala during the 1972–73 season. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-fast bowler. Mohandas was born in Mahé, in what was then part of French India but is now a district of the Union Territory of Puducherry.

P. M. K. Raghunath

Ponnambath Mambally Krishnan Raghunath (10 October 1950 – 14 January 2016) was an Indian cricketer who played at first-class level for Kerala during the 1970s. He was a right-arm medium-pace bowler and right-handed batsman. Raghunath was born in Mahé, in what was then part of French India but is now a district of the Union Territory of Puducherry.

P. M. Raghavan

Ponnabeth Mambally Raghavan (18 December 1920, date of death unknown) was an Indian cricketer who played at first-class level for Travancore-Cochin (now Kerala) from 1951 to 1956. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler, he captained the side in its inaugural Ranji Trophy match during the 1951–52 season. Raghavan was born in Tellicherry (now Thalassery), in what was then part of the Madras Presidency but is now in Kerala State.