Surfing Legends
The greatest wave riders and world champions in professional surfing.
The All-Time Greatest Surfing Players
Ranked by career honours, records and our FSP GOAT Score.
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All Surfing Athletes
Browse 42 of the greatest surfing players of all time.
American
Griffin Colapinto
Professional Surfer
American professional surfer whose explosive surfing style, consistent Championship Tour performance…
Australian
Ethan Ewing
Professional Surfer
Australian professional surfer whose smooth and powerful style, consistent Championship Tour results…
Japanese
Kanoa Igarashi
Professional Surfer
Japanese-American professional surfer whose technical precision, consistent Championships Tour perfo…
American
Conner Coffin
Professional Surfer
American professional surfer whose flowing style, reliable power surfing and multiple Championship T…
South African
Jordy Smith
Professional Surfer
South African surfing champion who won the WSL Championship Tour title and has been one of the most …
Brazilian
Adriano de Souza
Professional Surfer
Brazilian surfing champion who became the first Brazilian to win a WSL Championship Tour title, pion…
Australian
Joel Parkinson
Professional Surfer
Australian surfing champion who won the 2012 WSL World Championship with exceptional consistency and…
Australian
Taj Burrow
Professional Surfer
Australian surfing legend who spent 13 years on the world tour without a world title, earning enormo…
American
Dane Reynolds
Professional Surfer
American freesurfer widely regarded as the most progressive and technically innovative surfer of his…
American
Rob Machado
Professional Surfer
American surfing legend whose dreamy, flowing style and calm approach in powerful surf produced an a…
American
Tom Curren
Professional Surfer
American three-time world surfing champion whose consistency, technical mastery and powerful turn wo…
South African
Shaun Tomson
Professional Surfer
South African surfing champion and pioneer who won the 1977 world title in the inaugural year of pro…
Australian
Wayne Bartholomew
Professional Surfer
Australian surfing champion who won the 1978 world title and was known as 'Bugs', a colourful and pi…
American
Caitlin Simmers
Professional Surfer
American teenage surfing sensation who became one of the fastest-rising talents on the WSL Champions…
Costa Rican
Brisa Hennessy
Professional Surfer
Costa Rican professional surfer whose smooth and powerful style, CT championship ambitions and consi…
Australian
Molly Picklum
Professional Surfer
Australian professional surfer whose explosive power, aggressive approach and rapid rise through the…
Australian
Sally Fitzgibbons
Professional Surfer
Australian surfing champion whose seven-year run as one of the world's top three women's surfers and…
American
Courtney Conlogue
Professional Surfer
American surfing champion whose powerful surfing, consistent Championship Tour results and multiple …
Australian
Stephanie Gilmore
Surfer
Eight World Championship titles — the most decorated female surfer in history. The Gold Coast surfer…
American
Andy Irons
Surfer
Three World Championships — the most naturally gifted surfer of his generation and a tragically shor…
Australian
Tom Carroll
Surfer
Two World Surfing Championships in 1983 and 1984 — Tom Carroll was the first Australian to win back-…
Australian
Mark Occhilupo
Surfer
The Rocketman comeback — World Champion at 33 after an eight-year absence from competition.…
American
Kelly Slater
Professional Surfer
15 World Surf League Championship titles — Kelly Slater is the greatest surfer in history and won hi…
American
Laird Hamilton
Big Wave Surfer
The pioneer of big wave surfing — Laird Hamilton's Teahupo'o ride on August 17 2000 is considered th…
Australian
Mick Fanning
Professional Surfer
Three World Championship titles and the man who escaped a shark attack during the J-Bay Open final i…
Brazilian
Gabriel Medina
Professional Surfer
Three World Championship titles and a levitation photograph at the Paris 2024 Olympics that became o…
American
John John Florence
Professional Surfer
Two World Championship titles and an aerial surfing ability that some coaches consider the greatest …
Australian
Mark Richards
Professional Surfer
Four consecutive World Championship titles from 1979 to 1982 — the first surfing dynasty and the man…
American
Carissa Moore
Professional Surfer
Five World Championship titles and the first surfing Olympic gold medallist — Carissa Moore won gold…
Brazilian
Italo Ferreira
Professional Surfer
World Champion and Olympic gold medallist at Tokyo 2020 — Italo Ferreira's aerial surfing is the mos…
Australian
Layne Beachley
Surfer
The most successful competitive surfer in women's history — seven World Surf League Championship tit…
American
Lisa Andersen
Surfer
The surfer who changed everything — four consecutive World Championship titles from 1994 to 1997 and…
Peruvian
Sofia Mulanovich
Surfer
South America's greatest surfer — the first South American to win the World Surf League Championship…
Brazilian
Maya Gabeira
Big Wave Surfer
The greatest big wave surfer in women's history — world record holder for the largest wave ever surf…
French
Johanne Defay
Surfer
France's most successful competitive surfer — World Surf League Championship Tour regular, Olympic b…
Brazilian
Tatiana Weston-Webb
Surfer
Brazil's finest female surfer and a consistent WSL Championship Tour performer — Olympic silver meda…
Australian
Tyler Wright
Surfer
Australia's two-time World Surf League Champion — 2017 and 2022 world title winner whose power surfi…
Brazilian
Filipe Toledo
Professional Surfer
Two-time World Surf League Champion — the most aerial surfer on the Championship Tour whose explosiv…
Australian
Jack Robinson
Professional Surfer
Australia's most powerful tube rider of the modern era — Pipeline specialist and Championship Tour r…
American
Caroline Marks
Professional Surfer
Olympic gold medallist at Paris 2024 — the youngest surfer to qualify for the Championship Tour at 1…
Brazilian
João Chianca
Professional Surfer
Chumbinho — Brazil's most fearless big wave surfer on the Championship Tour whose near-fatal wipeout…
American
Bethany Hamilton
Surfer
One of sport's most extraordinary stories — lost her left arm to a tiger shark attack in 2003 at age…
Surfing Nations
American
15
athletes
Australian
14
athletes
Brazilian
7
athletes
South African
2
athletes
Japanese
1
athletes
Costa Rican
1
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Peruvian
1
athletes
French
1
athletes