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Andre Agassi
American tennis player who won eight Grand Slam singles titles and a career Grand Slam, plus Olympic gold in 1996.
Looking for 11-letter athletes? Here are 22 athletes that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 11-letter Athletes
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Andrea Pirlo
Italian deep-lying midfielder who won the 2006 FIFA World Cup and two UEFA Champions League titles with AC Milan.
3
Bill Russell
American basketball center who won 11 NBA championships with the Boston Celtics, the most of any player in league history.
4
Dick Fosbury
American high jumper who won the 1968 Olympic gold and pioneered the back-first jumping technique now used by virtually all elite jumpers.
5
Hugo Sanchez
Mexican football striker and Real Madrid club legend who won five consecutive Pichichi awards as La Liga's top scorer in the late 1980s.
6
Johan Cruyff
Dutch forward and manager who won three Ballon d'Or awards and shaped the philosophy known as Total Football at Ajax and Barcelona.
7
Kelly Pavlik
American boxer and former WBC and WBO middleweight world champion, with a fight record built on aggressive pressure boxing.
8
Kostya Tszyu
Russian-Australian boxer and former undisputed light welterweight world champion known for accurate, heavy punching across a 14-year professional career.
9
LeBron James
American basketball forward, four-time NBA champion, and the league's all-time leading scorer.
10
Lennox Lewis
British boxer who became undisputed heavyweight world champion in 1999, the last undisputed champion before the four-belt era.
11
Lionel Messi
Argentine football forward widely considered one of the greatest players in the sport's history, with eight Ballon d'Or awards.
12
Misbah-ul-Haq
Pakistani cricket batter and former Test captain who led Pakistan to the number-one Test ranking in 2016 and shared the record for the fastest Test fifty.
13
Muhammad Ali
American boxer and three-time heavyweight world champion widely regarded as one of the greatest fighters in history.
14
Nikola Jokic
Serbian basketball center, three-time NBA Most Valuable Player and 2023 NBA champion with the Denver Nuggets.
15
Oksana Baiul
Ukrainian figure skater who won Olympic gold in Lillehammer in 1994 at age 16, the first Olympic champion from independent Ukraine.
16
Pete Sampras
American tennis player who won 14 Grand Slam singles titles, including seven Wimbledon championships.
17
Prithvi Shaw
Indian cricket batter who became the youngest Indian to score a Test century on debut and captained India's 2018 Under-19 World Cup-winning team.
18
Rafael Nadal
Spanish tennis player who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, including a record 14 French Open championships.
19
Sergey Bubka
Ukrainian pole vaulter who won six consecutive World Championships and set 35 world records.
20
Vince Carter
American basketball wing whose 22-season NBA career was the longest by a single player and who became known for spectacular dunks.
21
Wayne Rooney
English football forward and Manchester United all-time top scorer who also held the England national team scoring record on his retirement.
22
Yannick Noah
French tennis player who won the 1983 French Open men's singles title, the last French champion at Roland Garros in the men's draw.
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