19th-century American sportsmen

Austrian-American chess player (1836–1900)

US chess player (1837–1884)

American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)

American sprinter

American triple jumper (1868-1957)

John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history.

American politician and tennis player (1879–1945)

American athlete and collector (1875-1961)

American track and field athlete (1874–1949)

American track and field athlete (1873–1937)

American athletics competitor (1876-1928)

Irish-American hammer thrower

American athlete, Olympic medalist (1878–1933)

American pole vaulter (1875–1954)

athletics competitor

athletics competitor (1876-1968)

American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician (1841–1911)

American athlete (1873–1944)

American track athlete (1878-1925)

American chess player (1872-1906)

American sprinter (1878–1959)

American sport shooter (1868–1904)

athletics competitor (1874-1927)

American baseball player (1867–1955)

American shot put and discus Olympian (1878-1935)

American middle distance runner (1872–1944)

American sport shooter (1870-1951)

American sprinter (1875–1938)

American pole vaulter (1872-1945)

American tennis player (1861-1943)

American athlete (1883–1950)

American baseball player (1874-1955)

American track and field athlete (1874–1930)

American rower (1884-1962)

American Major League baseball player, manager (1880-1925)

American football player, athlete and professor of medicine (1874-1962)

American triple jumper (1874–1960)

American rower (1875–1960)

American rower (1867–1938)

American rower (1873–1956)

American golfer, tennis and real tennis player (1865–1945)

US tennis player (1852-1917)

American rower (1864-1947)

American rower (1874–1942)

American middle distance runner (1875-1972)

American rower (1874-1932)

US tennis player (1880–1969)

American tennis player (1872–1926)

Jewish Austrian swimmer who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century, American water polo coach

American rower (1876-1942)

American tennis player (1871–1953)

athletics competitor (1878–1965)

American rower (1879-1961)

US tennis player (1878–1967)

American football player, track and field athlete (1878-1956)

American tennis player (1859-1937)

American chess player (1860–1935)

American filmmaker, explorer, and rugby union player (1879–1962)

athletics competitor (1875–1945)

American tennis player (1878-1947)