Mike Mentzer was an American IFBB professional bodybuilder, businessman and author.
Beverley "Bev" Francis is an Australian gym owner and retired professional bodybuilder, powerlifter, and national shot put champion.
Juliette Bergmann is a Dutch female bodybuilding champion.
Female bodybuilding is the female component of competitive bodybuilding. It began in the late 1970s, when women began to take part in bodybuilding competitions.
Jason Isaac Cutler is an American retired professional bodybuilder. Cutler is a four-time Mr. Olympia winner, having won in 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2010; and a six-time runner-up. He is considered to be one of the top pro bodybuilders in history, and was known for his quadriceps and the quad-stomp pose.
Catherine "Cathy" LeFrançois is a professional female bodybuilder and figure competitor from Canada. She was ranked as the 10th best female bodybuilder in the IFBB Pro Women's Bodybuilding Ranking List, as of 2013.
Premchand Degra is an IFBB professional bodybuilder from India. He won the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships title in the short-height 80 kg category in 1988. He was also awarded the "Achievement Medal" by the International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) in 2003 for winning its World Middleweight Champion title in 1988.
Ed Corney was an American professional bodybuilder. He won many prizes in his 30s, including Mr. Universe twice, and Mr. America once. He resumed competitive bodybuilding in his 60s, when he won the 60+ division of the Masters Olympia twice.
Stacey Bentley was a registered nurse and former professional female bodybuilder of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Along with Claudia Wilbourn and Rachel McLish, Bentley was among the first role models of bodybuilding for women and the benefits that it can bring to them. She died on December 31, 2019.
Sergey Vyacheslavovich Shelestov is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder from Russia.
Dennis Tinerino was an American bodybuilder, most prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s. He won the Mr. Universe title four times in 1968, 1975, 1980 and 1981 and Mr. World in 1971 in the tall man's category, and Mr. America in 1978. After becoming involved in a life of crime, running one of the biggest escort services in California, he became an international evangelist. The 1983 edition of The Gold's Gym book of bodybuilding cited him as "one of the most successful bodybuilders of the past decade or two". He is an inductee of the National Fitness Hall of Fame, IFBB Hall of Fame and National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame.
Roy Callender is a Barbadian Canadian IFBB Hall of Famer retired professional bodybuilder, professional wrestler and actor.
Siavash Yazdani is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Persian Gulf Pro League club Esteghlal.
Hassan Yazdani Charati is an Iranian wrestler. Yazdani is an Olympic and World Champion in freestyle wrestling in two weight categories. He became Olympic champion in the 74kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics after defeating Russian wrestler Aniuar Geduev in the final. The following year he became World Champion at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in the Men's freestyle 86 kg category. He won his second world title at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships in Kazakhstan and the third one at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships in Norway.
Mousa Esmaeilpour Karimi is an Iranian professional bodybuilder and coach. He participated in different IFBB Competitions and he won different medals. He is the coach of Iranian persian rap singer Amir Tataloo.
Lucion Anton Pushparaj, also spelled as Lucian Pushparaj, nicknamed Black Lion of Asia, is a Sri Lankan male IFBB professional bodybuilder. He has taken part in several notable international competitions. On 16 December 2018, he became the first Sri Lankan to win the WBPF World Championship title, and was crowned WBPF Mr. Universe.
Hadi Choopan (Persian: هادی چوپان; also Romanized as "Hādi Chupān", is an Iranian professional bodybuilder and the Mr. Olympia 2022 winner. He is known as “The Persian Wolf”.
Shahram Nikbakht Bidgoli is an Iranian professional bodybuilder. In March 2016, he placed first in the Men's Physique Masters division of the 2016 NPC MuscleContest Championships. He went on to place highly in other bodybuilding competitions.
Hossein Karimi is an Iranian professional bodybuilder, the champion of three different fields of powerlifting, bench press, and muscular physique, and also a member of the Islamic Republic of Iran national team in all the three fields. He started bodybuilding since he was 13 years old and also won his first national powerlifting competition championship in 2007. He became a member of the Iran powerlifting national team in 2010 and also increased the world record by 2.5 kilograms in 2013.
Joanna Clare Dawson Thomas was a British professional female bodybuilder. She was the younger sister of British professional female bodybuilder Nicola Shaw. She was the youngest British female bodybuilder to win her IFBB pro card, at the age of 21.
