Medalists at the 1959 Pan American Games

American athlete (1940–1994)

American basketball player and executive (1938-2024)

American tennis player (1927-2003)

American basketball player

Gérson de Oliveira Nunes (; born 11 January 1941), generally known as Gérson, is a Brazilian former association footballer who played as a midfielder. He won numerous national trophies with the club sides of Flamengo, Botafogo, São Paulo and Fluminense. He is widely known as "the brain" behind the Brazil Football Team that won the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

American athlete (1936-2007)

Brazilian triple jumper (1927–2001)

American shot putter (1940–2024)

Athletics competitor, shot putter (1932-2007)

American athletics competitor (1935–2019)

Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (1938-2021)

athletics competitor (1933–1989)

Chilean athletics competitor (1933–2020)

American swimmer

American hammer thrower (1931–2010)

American long jumper (1930–2025)

American swimmer (1940–2019)

American weightlifter (1930–2016)

American sprinter

American basketball player (1937-2012)

athletics competitor

American weightlifter (1936–2022)

British-Bahamian sailor

American high jumper (1937–2004)

athlete

American weightlifter (1933–2018)

American basketball player

American athlete – long jumper and sprinter (1939–2007)

Mexican tennis player

American sprinter

American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist (1939-2014)

American rower (1932-2021)

Argentine footballer

American swimmer

American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder, bank executive (1938-1992)

Chilean equestrian and police officer (1916–1965)

Chilean boxer (olympian)

American sprinter

Chilean Military (1918-1996)

Jamaican athlete (1937–2012)

Cuban sprinter

Argentine actor and Olympic boxer

American equestrian (1925–2017)

American sprinter

American basketball player (1934–2019)

Canadian rower

American middle-distance runner

American swimmer

American basketball player, born 1932 (1932–2020)

Mexican fencer

American rower (1936–2002)

Olympic diver

American swimmer (1934–2022)

diver (1928–2011)

American diver

American equestrian

American basketball player (1934–2023)

American boxer (1938-2020)

American boxer (1938-2015)

American basketball player and coach, college athletics administrator (1925–2010)