Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer, sport shooter, and athlete. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is probably best known for drawing up the first modern set of rules for the game of handball.
Slavko Goluža is a retired Croatian handball player and current coach of RK Zagreb.
Daniel Narcisse is a retired French handball player and French international from 2000 to 2017. He is a double Olympic champion, quadruple World champion and triple European champion, one of the most awarded French team handball players with nine international titles. He progresses to the position of half-center or rear left.
Igor Vori is a Croatian retired handball player and current coach. He is currently working as the sports director of the Croatian national team.
Blaženko Lacković is a retired Croatian handball player.
Frank von Behren is a retired German team handball player.
Kari Mette Johansen is a Norwegian team handball player, a two time Olympic champion, once a world champion and four times European champion. She was voted into the All star team at the 2006 European Women's Handball Championship, where she won gold medal with the Norwegian national team.
Roswitha Krause is a retired German freestyle swimmer and team handball player. She is the first woman to win Summer Olympic medals in two different sports. Krause won a silver medal at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico in the 4×100 m freestyle relay.
Domagoj Duvnjak is a Croatian professional handball player for THW Kiel and the Croatia national team. Duvnjak is regarded as one of the best handball players of all time alongside fellow Croatian Ivano Balić.
Luc Kangny Abalo is a French retired handball player.
Guillaume Alain Gille is a retired French handballer and current coach of the French national team.
Marta Mangué González is a Spanish handballer for Bourg-de-Péage Drôme Handball and the Spanish national team.
Amandine Suzanne Monique Leynaud is a French professional handball player. She is openly lesbian and she and her wife Annabelle are parents to Marcel and Mila.
Anja Althaus is a retired German handball player who most recently played for Győri ETO KC and formerly was a member of the German national team. She won the Champions League three times in her career.
Anders Eggert is a Danish handball coach and former player. He has previously played in Denmark for GOG and Skjern Håndbold, and german side SG Flensburg-Handewitt. He was part of SG Flensburg-Handewitt team that won the 2013–14 EHF Champions League trophy. In his 11 years with SG Flensburg-Handewitt he played in 461 matches and scored 2531 times.
Michael "Mimi" Kraus is a former German handballer.
Aleš Pajovič is a Slovenian retired handball player and current coach of the Austrian national team. He is best known for poking Petar Metličić in the eye at the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship semifinal match vs Croatia.
Dagur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic retired handball player and current coach of the Japanese national team. He competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Wael Jallouz is a retired Tunisian handball player.
Holger Schneider is a German former handball player. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics representing East Germany and the 1992 Summer Olympics representing unified Germany.
