Athletes

Sheryl Swoopes is an American basketball star and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She's also the first player to be signed to the WNBA.

With a string of wins in early 2012, New York Knicks guard Jeremy Lin has become one of basketball's most famous players.

Yao Ming is a Chinese basketball player who became an international star as a center for the Houston Rockets of the NBA.

American Coco Gauff is a professional tennis player who rose to prominence with a win over Venus Williams at Wimbledon when she was just 15.

Megan Rapinoe is an American soccer champion and activist who has won two World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal.

American swimmer Katie Ledecky won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics before shattering numerous world records. She continued her winning streak at the 2016 Summer Olympics, earning four gold medals and one silver medal.

Canadian pro wrestler Bret 'Hitman' Hart became a popular WWE champion thanks to his smooth style and technical proficiency.

Pro wrestling great Mick Foley earned a robust following for portraying multiple characters and for his willingness to endure immense physical punishment

Ultimate Warrior was a professional wrestling champion and WWE Hall of Famer who thrilled fans with his immense strength and high-energy performances.

Shawn Michaels is one of WWE’s greatest performers and most enduring villains. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.

Booker T enthralled and inspired countless fans over the course of his wrestling career. He later became a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame.

WWE Hall of Famer 'Macho Man' Randy Savage was known for the trademark growl and flamboyant costumes that made him one of pro wrestling's biggest stars of the 1980s and '90s.

'Rowdy' Roddy Piper rose to fame in the 1980s as a boisterous villain of the burgeoning WWE circuit. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of fame in 2005.

'Stone Cold' Steve Austin is one WWE's biggest stars from the '90s and part of the 'Attitude Era.' Known for his Austin 3:16 tagline, he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009.

Patrick Mahomes is an NFL quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs football team.

Naomi Osaka became the world's No. 1 ranked player in women's tennis following her Grand Slam wins at the 2018 U.S. Open and the 2019 Australian Open. She was the first Asian player, male or female, to reach this top ranking.

Axell Hodges is a six-time X Games medalist and motocross competitor. He crashed and injured his ankles while practicing for the longest motorcycle jump in history.

Vicki Golden is a professional freestyle motocross rider and four-time X Games gold medalist.

Travis Pastrana is an American professional stuntman and competitive motorsports athlete who is a multiple X Games gold medalist and NASCAR racer.

Tristan Thompson is a Canadian-American professional basketball player with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. He welcomed a daughter with reality star Khloe Kardashian in April 2018.

Hall of Fame basketball center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer. He won six NBA titles, five with the Los Angeles Lakers, over 20 years.

Mirai Nagasu is the first American female figure skater in history to perform a triple axel at an Olympics, which she accomplished at the 2018 Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.

Tonya Harding is an American figure skater who ruined her future in the sport when she was implicated in the attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Winter Olympic trials.

Figure skater Adam Rippon became the first openly gay American man to qualify for the Winter Olympics with his selection to the U.S. team for the 2018 PyeongChang Games.