Sportspeople from Gujarat or of Gujarati origin, across cricket and beyond. Every entry Wikipedia-sourced.
Open the interactive directory →Born in Navagam Ghed near Jamnagar, he is a left-arm spinner and hard-hitting batter regarded as one of India's finest all-rounders across all formats.
Born in Rajkot to a Ranji Trophy cricketing family, he was India's Test No. 3 for over a decade, known for his patient and disciplined batting.
Born and raised in Ahmedabad, he is regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers of his generation and the first Indian to top ICC bowling rankings in all three formats.
Born in Anand and representing Gujarat in domestic cricket, he is a left-arm spinner and all-rounder who took seven wickets on his Test debut.
Born in Ikhar village of Bharuch district, the fast bowler nicknamed the Ikhar Express was a member of India's 2011 World Cup winning squad.
Born in Ahmedabad and a longtime Gujarat captain, he became Test cricket's youngest wicketkeeper at 17 when he debuted for India in 2002.
Born in Vadodara, the left-arm swing bowler and all-rounder rose from humble beginnings in a mosque to star in India's 2007 T20 World Cup triumph.
Born in Vadodara, the explosive all-rounder held the record for the fastest ODI century by an Indian and won two World Cups with India.
Born in Surat and raised in Vadodara, the fast-bowling all-rounder captained Gujarat Titans to their maiden IPL title in 2022.
Elder brother of Hardik Pandya, he plays for Baroda in domestic cricket as a left-handed batter and slow left-arm orthodox bowler.
Born in Porbandar, he became the first player to captain Saurashtra to a Ranji Trophy title and returned to India's Test XI after a 12-year gap.
From Vartej village near Bhavnagar, the left-arm pacer rose from modest circumstances to debut for India in 2021 and win the Ranji Trophy with Saurashtra.
A right-handed opener from Ahmedabad, he was the first player to score a triple century for Gujarat and topped the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy run charts.
Born into the Nawanagar royal family of Jamnagar, the flamboyant middle-order batsman played 15 Tests and 196 ODIs and was later named heir to the Jamnagar throne.
Born in Vadodara, the Baroda wicketkeeper-batsman played 49 Tests for India and later chaired the selection panel that picked MS Dhoni.
Born in Jamnagar, the legendary all-rounder set a 413-run opening partnership record and gave his name to the term Mankading.
The Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar (Jamnagar) was one of the greatest batsmen of his era and is honoured by India's premier domestic tournament, the Ranji Trophy.
Born in Nawanagar (present-day Jamnagar), Ranjitsinhji's nephew was an elegant batsman for England and is honoured by India's Duleep Trophy.
The Afghan-born all-rounder settled in Jamnagar and played for Gujarat and Saurashtra, becoming the first cricketer to receive the Arjuna Award.
The former India captain who led the country to its first Test victory played much of his domestic cricket for Baroda and is honoured by the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Dattajirao Gaekwad played 11 Tests, captained India on the 1959 England tour, and led Baroda to a Ranji Trophy title.
The off-spinner who played for Gujarat took 14 wickets in the 1959 Kanpur Test to hand India its first Test victory against Australia.
Born in Rajkot and starting out for Saurashtra, the left-arm fast-medium bowler took 109 Test wickets for India across the 1970s and early 1980s.
Born in Ahmedabad, she became the first female Olympian from Gujarat and is one of only two Indian women to win a WTA Tour-level title.
Born in Ahmedabad, the backstroke swimmer became the first Indian female swimmer to qualify for the Olympics, competing at Tokyo 2020.
Raised in Ahmedabad and representing Gujarat, she won ISSF World Cup gold in the 10m air rifle and rose to world No. 1 in the discipline.
Born in Kharadi Amba village of Dang district, the sprinter became the first woman from Gujarat to win an Asian Games gold as part of the 4x400m relay team.
Born in Surat, he was the first athlete from Gujarat to break into the world top 100 in table tennis and won Commonwealth Games team gold in 2018.
From Gujarat, he topped the ITTF World Under-21 rankings and won a bronze medal in the men's team event at the 2018 Asian Games.
Born in Mehsana, she became the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic table tennis medal, taking silver in the Class 4 event at Tokyo 2020.
From Viramgam, the wheelchair Class 3 para paddler won bronze at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games and silver at the 2018 Asian Para Games.
Born in Baroda, the Baroda wicketkeeper played 44 Tests for India and scored a memorable 152 opening the batting against Australia in 1996.
Born in Surat and raised in Nargol village, the Parsi left-arm fast bowler for Gujarat became India's first Parsi to break into the national setup since 1975.
Hailing from Bhavnagar, the wicketkeeper-batsman scored over 5,600 first-class runs for Saurashtra and played in the IPL for Kolkata Knight Riders.
A Gujarat cricketer, the right-arm medium-pacer holds the record for most wickets by an Indian for Rajasthan Royals in IPL history.
A Gujarat all-rounder, he made his IPL debut for Delhi Capitals in 2021 after strong domestic performances in the Vijay Hazare and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophies.
A slow left-arm orthodox bowler for Baroda, he took 47 wickets in nine matches to top the wicket charts in his debut first-class season.
From Ahmedabad, the left-handed batsman and off-break bowler has been a domestic mainstay for the Gujarat cricket team.
Born in Ahmedabad, the wicketkeeper-batsman represented India Under-19 at the 2016 Asia Cup before debuting for Gujarat in domestic cricket.
A batsman for Saurashtra, he made his first-class and T20 debuts for the state and has been a key domestic run-scorer in Vijay Hazare Trophy campaigns.
An all-rounder for Saurashtra, he made his first-class debut in the final of the 2015-16 Ranji Trophy and has been a domestic mainstay for the state.
A seam-bowling all-rounder central to Saurashtra's domestic title runs.
A dependable middle-order batter and one of Saurashtra's most experienced Ranji players.
The leading India pacer played his domestic cricket for Baroda from 1999-2000 to 2005-06 during his rise to the national side.
The batsman moved to Baroda for the 2010-11 season, top-scoring with 566 runs as the team finished Ranji runners-up before playing for India.
The all-rounder began his domestic career with Baroda, scoring a century on first-class debut in the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy before playing for India.
Vadodara-born left-handed batter who came up through Baroda age-group cricket and now plays for the India women's national team.
He studied in Baroda and played for the Baroda cricket team before opening the batting for India and twice coaching the national team.
The Test all-rounder played for the Baroda cricket team from 1954-55 to 1962-63 during his first-class career.
The Ahmedabad-born left-hander played most of his Ranji career for Gujarat and Baroda and was the first Indian to score a century in the first innings of his Test debut.
He won three Ranji Trophies with Baroda as a top-order batsman before playing Test cricket for India and later coaching the national side.
The attacking Baroda batsman and legbreak bowler played eight Tests for India between 1953 and 1959 and remained loyal to Baroda into the mid-1960s.
The leg-spinner played for Baroda in the early 1940s and became the first bowler to take 40 wickets in a Ranji Trophy season, doing so for Baroda in 1942-43.
The leg-break bowler took most of his 193 Ranji wickets for Baroda, helping them to the 1946-47 title before playing Tests for India and later Pakistan.
The left-handed batsman made his mark in domestic cricket for Baroda before playing Tests for India and then Pakistan after Partition.
The first-class batsman played for Baroda among six teams and scored an unbeaten 443 that remains the highest individual innings in Ranji Trophy history.
Born in Baroda, he played nine first-class matches including for Baroda in the 1940s and later became the world's oldest living first-class cricketer at age 100.
The hard-hitting batsman played domestic cricket for Baroda and represented India in 13 One Day Internationals in the mid-1990s.
The middle-order batsman captained Baroda and scored over 1000 runs in the 1998-99 Ranji season, earning selection to play ten ODIs for India.
The left-arm quick played for Baroda from 1986-87 to 1996-97 and represented India, remembered for the stump-attack incident in the 1990-91 Duleep Trophy final.
The left-handed opener born in Gujarat amassed nearly 8,000 first-class runs for Baroda and later coached domestic teams.
He played 114 first-class matches for Baroda between 1985 and 2004 and went on to coach the India women's national team.
The right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper represents Baroda in domestic cricket and led their run-scoring in the 2018-19 Ranji Trophy.
The wicketkeeper-batsman has played domestic cricket for Baroda since 2007-08 and also featured for the Deccan Chargers in the IPL.
The left-arm seamer came through the Baroda cricket team and later featured in the IPL.
The left-handed all-rounder has played for the Baroda cricket team in domestic cricket since 2005-06.
The batsman plays for Gujarat and was named in India A's squad for the 2019-20 Deodhar Trophy.
The left-arm seamer for Gujarat took a six-wicket haul in each innings to help crush Odisha in the Ranji Trophy.
The Gujarat opener's unbeaten 359 against Odisha in the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy is the highest first-class score by a batsman carrying his bat.
The Surat-raised right-handed batsman and off-spinner has played for Gujarat since 2011 and helped them win the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy.
The long-serving Saurashtra captain led the team a record number of Ranji matches and was the first Saurashtra captain to score a double century.
The Rajkot-born left-arm orthodox spinner was the first bowler to take 50 wickets in a Ranji season for Saurashtra and helped them win the title.
Born in Baroda, the field hockey player won team silver at the 1960 Rome Olympics and is long regarded as Gujarat's only Olympic medallist.
The field hockey goalkeeper for the Indian national team is from Surat and was scouted through the Sports Authority of Gujarat.
The Gujarati-American Olympic gymnast, whose father hails from Vadodara, won team bronze for the USA at Beijing 2008.
The competitive swimmer swam for Gujarat and ended a two-decade national gold drought for the state in the 50m freestyle in 2011.
The long-distance runner was born in Kumarband village of Dang district and competes in the 5000m and 10,000m for India.
Born in Mehsana, she became the first Indian woman to top the world junior singles rankings in badminton.
The former badminton player from Gujarat was a seven-time national singles champion and an early Indian woman to win a Commonwealth Games medal in the sport.
Born in Ahmedabad, he became the first Grandmaster from Gujarat and India's 11th GM in 2004.
The chess Grandmaster from Gujarat was the second GM produced by the state.
The Ahmedabad-based player became, at age nine, the youngest to beat a Grandmaster at standard time control in 2009.
The rifle shooter from Jitodia village in Anand district won silver in the 50m rifle 3-position event at the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games.
From a Parsi family of Adajan in Surat, he is remembered as a pioneering administrator of Indian amateur boxing.
Born in Rajkot, she became a para-badminton World Champion and world No. 1 in women's singles SL3.
The para-badminton player born in Gandhinagar was ranked world No. 1 in women's singles SL3.
The blind chess player from Vadodara is India's highest-rated visually impaired player and took double gold at the 2023 Asian Para Games.
The visually impaired para chess player from Gujarat won team rapid gold at the 2022 Asian Para Games.
The para javelin thrower in the F46 category is from Banaskantha district and represented India at the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
The Kumite karateka born in Dahod won medals across three consecutive Commonwealth Karate Championships.