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List of athletes with advanced degrees

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This is a list of athletes with advanced degrees (PhDs and other degrees at that academic level). Honorary degrees are excluded.

Research doctorate

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scope="col"| Athlete

!scope="col"|Degree

!scope="col" | Field

!scope="col"|Institution

! scope="col" | Known for

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Billy|Arnold|dab=racing driver}}

| rowspan="12" |PhD

|

|MIAT College of Technology[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20151247/indianapolis-500-winning-driver/ Indianapolis 500 Winning Driver Obituary Billy Arnold 11 Nov 1976] - website Newspapers.com

| Racecar driver and champion of the 1930 Indianapolis 500

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Dave|Baldwin|dab=baseball}}

|Genetics

|University of Arizona{{cite podcast |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/b922a2b0-e7f2-99df-3985005fb523e886/ |title=Baseball Science |website=Science Talk |publisher=Scientific American |host=Mirsky, Steve |date=April 4, 2007 |time= |access-date=November 18, 2023}}

|Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Travis|Dorsch}}

|Sports and Exercise Psychology

|Purdue University

|National Football League punter, triathlon professor at Utah State University

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |

{{sortname|Hayley|Haining}}

|Veterinary Medicine

|University of Glasgow[https://theses.gla.ac.uk/view/creators/Haining=3AHayley=3A=3A.html]

|British Marathon Runner who competed at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Gail|Hopkins}}

|Biology

|Illinois Institute of Technology

|Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Tom|House}}

| Sports psychology

|United States International University[https://www.nationalpitching.com/tomhouse-national-pitching/ Who is Tom House, Pitching Great?] - website nationalpitching.com[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1915&dat=19890430&id=mu0gAAAAIBAJ&sjid=FHIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1533,6718680 Dan Shaugnessy], House Making Pitch for Sports Psychology, The Day (New London, Conn.), April 30, 1989[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-07-05-sp-3146-story.html Richard Hoffer], House Calls: Ranger Coach Has an Unorthodox Approach to Pitching, Using Hypnotherapy, Biokinetics, Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1989

| Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Charlotte|Hym}}

|Cognitive neuroscience and Psychology

|Paris Descartes University{{Cite web |title=Skateboarding HYM Charlotte |url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/skateboarding/athlete-profile-n1341702-hym-charlotte.htm |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-09-17 |work=Tokyo 2020 Olympics |publisher=Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games |language=en-us |archive-date=2021-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726014336/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/skateboarding/athlete-profile-n1341702-hym-charlotte.htm }}

| French street skateboarder competing at the 2020 Summer Olympics

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Charley|Johnson}}

|Chemical Engineering

|Washington University in St. Louis

|NFL quarterback for the St. Louis Cardinals and Denver Broncos

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Anna|Kiesenhofer}}

|Applied mathematics{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/tokyo-2020-olympics-07-25-21-spt/h_d89e4e3fb952425e85ea6f3291b395b5 |title=Austria's Anna Kiesenhofer produces stunning upset in women's road race to win gold |author=Matias Grez |date=July 25, 2021 |publisher=CNN}}

|Polytechnic University of Catalonia

|2020 Olympic champion in the women's individual cycling road race

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Vitali|Klitschko}}

|Sports science{{cite news |author=Bryan Armen Graham |date=29 May 2018 |title=Vitali Klitschko: 'It's much easier to be heavyweight champion than to be mayor' |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/29/vitali-klitschko-kiev-mayor-boxing-interview}}

|Kyiv University

| World champion boxer and Ukrainian politician

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Wladimir|Klitschko}}

| Sports science{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-klitschko-dwyre-20151014-column.html |title=Boxer Wladimir Klitschko is a heavyweight deep thinker |author=Bill Dwyre |date=14 October 2015 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}

|Kyiv University{{cite news |date=11 November 2006 |title=Dr Klitschko's degree of class |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/dr-klitschko-s-degree-of-class-1.1027827}}|| World champion heavyweight boxer

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Steve|Korcheck}}

|EdD

|Education

|George Washington University{{cite news |title=GW Athletics Mourns the Passing of Stephen Korcheck |url=https://gwsports.com/news/2016/9/7/GW_Athletics_Mourns_the_Passing_of_Stephen_Korcheck |access-date=2 June 2024 |publisher=George Washington University |date=September 7, 2016 |language=en}}

|Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Lise|Leveille}}

| rowspan="4" |PhD

|Neuroscience

|University of British Columbia

|French Canadian gymnast represented at the 2000 Olympic Games.

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Fletcher|Low}}

|Chemistry

|Columbia University{{cite news |title=Dr. Fletcher Low, Professor Of Chemistry at Dartmouth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/06/07/archives/dr-fletcher-low-professor-of-chemistry-at-dartmouth.html |access-date=4 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=7 June 1973}}

|Major League Baseball player, Dartmouth College professor, New Hampshire legislator

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | {{sortname|Mike|Marshall|dab=pitcher}}

|Kinesiology{{cn|date=June 2022}} or exercise physiology{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1979/07/02/823762/mike-marshall-the-best-and-the-brightest-recovered-from-injuries-that-forced-him-to-retire-minnesotas-studious--and-newly-sociable--mike-marshall-is-once-again-baseballs-top-troubleshooter |title=Mike Marshall, the Best and the Brightest |author=Ron Fimrite |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=1 July 1979}}{{cite news |url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/former-cy-young-winner-says-he-can-help-pitchers-throw-115-mph |title=Former Cy Young winner says he can help pitchers throw 115 mph |author=Ted Berg |date=17 September 2013 |newspaper=USA Today}}

|Michigan State University||Cy Young Award-winning Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Morris|Mott}}

|Sports history

|Queen's University at Kingston[https://ocul-qu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_QU/r9dor2/alma992461222805151 PhD dissertation Morris Mott: Manly sports and Manitobans settlement days to World War One] - website of the Library of Queen's University at Kingston

| National Hockey League player

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Shaquille|O'Neal}}

|EdD

|Education

|Barry University{{cite news |date=5 May 2012 |title=Shaquille O'Neal Earns His Doctorate |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/sports/basketball/shaquille-oneal-earns-his-doctorate-in-education.html}}{{cite magazine |author=Tim Newcomb |date=8 May 2012 |title=Call Him Dr. Shaq: Shaquille O'Neal Earns Ph.D [sic] |url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/08/call-him-dr-shaq-shaquille-oneal-earns-ph-d/ |magazine=Time}}

|National Basketball Association player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Emma|Pooley}}

| rowspan="11" |PhD

|Geotechnical engineering

|ETH Zurich{{Cite web|url=https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/emma-pooley-is-back-in-the-saddle-full-time-after-phd-23131|title=Emma Pooley is back in the saddle full-time after PhD|author1=Nick Bull|date=November 22, 2013|website=cyclingweekly.com}}

| World Champion and Olympic medal-winning cyclist and triathlete

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Frank|Ryan|dab=American football}}

|Mathematics

|Rice University{{cite magazine |author=Jack Olsen |date=27 September 1965 |title=Dr. Ryan of the Browns: How Smart is Too Smart? |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1965/09/27/606514/dr-ryan-of-the-browns-how-smart-is-too-smart |magazine=Sports Illustrated}}

| National Football League quarterback

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Ted|Savage}}

|Urban studies

|Saint Louis University{{cite news |title=Harris-Stowe Athletics Remembers Former Athletic Director, Ted Savage |url=https://hornetsathletics.com/news/2023/1/27/general-harris-stowe-athletics-remembers-former-athletic-director-ted-savage.aspx |access-date=2 June 2024 |publisher=Harris-Stowe State University |date=27 April 2023 |language=en}}

|Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Wally|Snell}}

|Botany

|University of Wisconsin–Madison{{cite encyclopedia |title=Snell, Walter H. |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Brunoniana |year=1993 |last=Mitchell |first=Martha |publisher=Brown University |location= |id= |url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=S0270 |access-date=November 18, 2023 }}

|Major League Baseball catcher; Brown University professor and Athletic Director

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Naoto|Tobe}}

| rowspan="2" |Sports science

|University of Tsukuba[https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/tobe-naoto-pursues-ultimate-high-jump-both-athlete-researcher TOBE Naoto pursues the ultimate high jump - Japanese athlete with Phd degree aims to reach top performance in sports and research] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917025648/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/en/news/tobe-naoto-pursues-ultimate-high-jump-both-athlete-researcher |date=2021-09-17 }} - website of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games

| Japanese high jumper

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Tai|Tzu-ying}}

|University of Taipei

|2020 Summer Olympic medal-winning badminton player and three-time Asian badminton champion

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|John|Urschel}}

|Applied mathematics

|Massachusetts Institute of Technology

|National Football League guard and center

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Deng|Yaping}}

|Land Economy

|University of Cambridge[https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252105 Doctoral thesis: Olympic branding and global competition : the case of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games] - website of the University of Cambridge Repository

| Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships, and regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of this sport

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Mikhail|Youzhny}}

|Philosophy

|Moscow State University{{cite news |date=30 June 2013 |title=Wimbledon 2013: Five things you need to know about Andy Murray's fourth round opponent Mikhail Youzhny |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/andymurray/10151518/Wimbledon-2013-Five-things-you-need-to-know-about-Andy-Murrays-fourth-round-opponent-Mikhail-Youzhny.html}}

| Tennis player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Hugues Fabrice|Zango}}

|Electrical engineering

|University of Artois{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/67762889 |last1=Karoney |first1=Celestine |title=Hugues Fabrice Zango wants to be 'a symbol of hope' for Burkina Faso |publisher=BBC Sport |date=29 December 2023 |access-date=3 January 2024}}

| World champion and Olympic medalist, Burkinabé triple and long jumper

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Tom|Osborne}}

|Educational psychology

|University of Nebraska-Lincoln

|College football player, hall of fame coach, and former politician.

Medical degree

In many countries, the first medical degree is the MBBS (with MD being reserved for higher doctorates), yet holders of this degree are addressed as "doctor" while practising.

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
scope="col"| Athlete

!scope="col"|Degree

!scope="col" | Field

!scope="col"|Institution

! scope="col" | Known for

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Jack|Allen|dab=baseball}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine{{cite web |last1=McConaghy|first1=Mary D.|last2=Woods|first2=Michael T.|title=Professional Baseball Players Who Attended Penn |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/notables/athletics/baseball/ |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center |access-date=21 December 2023 |language=en}}

|Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Pete|Allen|dab=baseball}}

|MD

|Medicine

|College of Philadelphia Department of Medicine{{cite web |title=Jesse Hall Allen |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/jesse-hall-allen |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=5 October 2021}}

|Major League Baseball player, professor at Jefferson Medical College

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Steve|Arlin}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|Ohio State University College of Dentistry{{cite journal |title=Dentistry Makes its Mark on Buckeye Athletics |journal=Ohio State Dental Journal |date=Spring 2015 |url=https://dentistry.osu.edu/journal/story/dentistry-makes-its-mark-buckeye-athletics |access-date=30 September 2021}}

| rowspan="2" |Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Mark|Baldwin|dab=baseball}}

| rowspan="2" |MD

|Medicine

|Baltimore Medical College{{cite book |last1=Porter |first1=David L. |title=Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: A-F |date=2000 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-31174-1 |page=59 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AUFUw01sIWYC |access-date=4 October 2021 |language=en}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Roger|Bannister}}

|Medicine, Neurology

|Exeter College, Oxford

|Olympic middle-distance runner, first person to break the 4 minute mile

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Walter|Bernhardt}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine{{cite web |title=Walter Jacob Bernhardt |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/walter-jacob-bernhardt |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=4 October 2021}}

|Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Bobby|Brown|dab=third baseman}}

|MD

|Medicine

|Tulane University School of Medicine{{cite news |last1=Scofield |first1=Carolyn |title=Tulane remembers star baseball player and cardiologist Dr. Bobby Brown |url=https://news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-remembers-star-baseball-player-and-cardiologist-dr-bobby-brown |access-date=2 October 2021 |work=Tulane News |publisher=Tulane University |date=March 29, 2021 |language=en}}

|Major League Baseball third baseman and president of the American League

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Lou|Bruce}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery{{cite web |title=Louis R. Bruce |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/louis-r-bruce |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=4 October 2021}}

|Major League Baseball player, Mohawk activist

scope="row" style="text-align:center|{{sortname|David|Bruton|dab=American football}}

|DPT

|Physical therapy

|University of Colorado School of Medicine{{cite web |title=Dr. David Bruton, Jr. - Between the Lines Physical Therapy |url=https://betweenthelinespt.com/team/david-bruton-jr/ |website=Between The Lines Physical Therapy |access-date=30 October 2022}}

|National Football League safety

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Doc|Bushong}}

| rowspan="2" |DDS

| rowspan="2" |Dental surgery

|Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery{{cite web |title=Albert John Bushong |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/albert-john-bushong |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=4 October 2021}}

|Major League Baseball catcher, possible inventor of the catcher's mitt, namesake of Bushong, Kansas{{cite news |last1=Eschenbach |first1=Steve |title=Gazette | Alumni: Profiles |url=https://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0706/pro02.html |access-date=4 October 2021 |work=www.upenn.edu |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |date=2006}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Billy|Cannon}}

|University of Tennessee College of Dentistry{{cite news |title=Athletes Turned Dentists |url=https://blog.dentistusa.com/2012/09/13/athletes-turned-dentists/ |access-date=30 September 2021 |work=Dentist USA |date=September 13, 2012}}

|National Football League player and Heisman Trophy winner

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Doc|Carroll}}

|DMD

|Dental medicine

|Tufts University School of Dental Medicine{{cite news |title=Sports and Sportsmen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fall-river-globe-sports-and-sportsmen/137154262/ |access-date=21 December 2023 |work=Fall River Globe |date=29 March 1917 |pages=6}}

|Major League Baseball catcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Tommy|Casanova}}

| rowspan="2" |MD

| rowspan="2" |Medicine

|University of Cincinnati College of Medicine{{cite news |title=Casanova, Now a Doctor, Glad He's Out of Football |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/24/sports/casanova-now-a-doctor-glad-he-s-out-of-football.html |access-date=26 December 2024 |work=New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=February 24, 1981 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Dr. Tommy Casanova, M.D. |url=https://azareye.com/about-us/dr-tommy-casanova-m-d/ |publisher=Azar Eye Clinic |access-date=26 December 2024}}

|National Football League player

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Elise|Chabbey}}

|

|Professional racing cyclist{{Cite news |last=Startt |first=James |date=2020-03-20 |title=An interview with Elise Chabbey — cycling’s 'Florence Nightingale' - Velo |url=https://velo.outsideonline.com/news/an-interview-with-elise-chabbey-cyclings-florence-nightingale/ |access-date=2024-01-06 |work=Velo}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Jack|Darragh|dab=baseball}}

| rowspan="2" |DDS

| rowspan="2" |Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

|Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Terry|Dischinger}}

|University of Tennessee College of Dentistry{{cite news |last1=Fentress |first1=Aaron |title=Terry Dischinger, former Trail Blazers forward and local orthodontist, dies at 82 |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2023/10/terry-dischinger-former-trail-blazers-forward-and-local-orthodontist-dies-at-82.html |access-date=21 December 2023 |work=The Oregonian |date=11 October 2023 |language=en}}

|National Basketball Association All-Star

scope="row" style="text-align:center"| {{sortname|Kevin|Draxinger}}

|MD

| rowspan="2" |Medicine

|University of British Columbia [https://www.medicosport.eu/en/sports-physician-sportsman/physician1967.html Sports Physician - Athlete 1967] - website medicosport.eu[https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/2530508-Kevin-Draxinger-orthopaedic-surgeon-Freeport-IL-61032 Dr. Kevin D Draxinger M.D.] - website findatopdoc.com

|Canadian backstroke swimmer at the 1992 Summer Olympics

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Laurent|Duvernay-Tardif}}

|MDCM

|McGill University Faculty of Medicine{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/sports/laurent-duvernay-tardif-nfl-doctor-chiefs.html |title=Chiefs Lineman Gets His Medical Degree, Then Heads Back to Practice |date=May 30, 2018 |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 31, 2018 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

| National Football League guard, Super Bowl champion

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Doc|Farrell}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine{{cite web |title=Edward Stephen Farrell 1901 - 1966 |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/edward-stephen-farrell |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=30 September 2021}}

|Major League Baseball infielder

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Simon|Fraser|dab=American football}}

|DO

| rowspan="7" |Medicine

|Ohio University Heritage School of Medicine{{Cite web |title=Simon R Fraser, DO | Vascular Surgery | OhioHealth |url=https://www.ohiohealth.com/find-a-doctor/profile/1659764280/Simon-R-Fraser-DO |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=OhioHealth.com |language=en}}

|National Football League defensive end

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Moonlight|Graham}}

|MD{{USCongRec|1965|A5285|date=September 17, 1965}}

|Baltimore Medical College

|Major League Baseball player whose life story was featured in the 1989 film Field of Dreams

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Randy|Gregg|dab=ice hockey}}

| rowspan="5" |MD

|University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry{{cite magazine |last1=Murphy |first1=Austin |title=Edmonton's Rx For D |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1987/05/25/edmontons-rx-for-d-as-the-oilers-battle-the-flyers-for-the-stanley-cup-defenseman-randy-gregg-the-nhls-only-md-has-the-right-medicine |access-date=2 October 2021 |magazine=Sports Illustrated |date=May 25, 1987 |language=en-us}}

|National Hockey League player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Tom|Gunning}}

|University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine{{cite web |title=Thomas Francis Gunning |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/thomas-francis-gunning/ |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Archives and Records Center |access-date=21 December 2023 |language=en}}

| rowspan="2" |Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Mark|Hamilton|dab=baseball}}

|Zucker School of Medicine{{cite news |title=Ex-MLB player to begin virus fight upon graduation |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29008503/ex-cardinal-mark-hamilton-finishes-medical-school-set-fight-virus |access-date=2 October 2021 |work=ESPN.com |agency=Associated Press |publisher=ESPN |date=7 April 2020 |language=en}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Eric|Heiden}}

|Stanford University School of Medicine[https://usopm.org/eric-heiden-five-olympic-gold-medals-were-only-the-start-of-his-success/ Eric Heiden: five Olympic gold medals were only the start of his success] - website of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Museum

|American long track speed skater and five-time gold medalist at the Winter Olympics. Regarded as most successful Winter Olympian and one of 50 greatest athletes of the 20th century.

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Gail|Hopkins}}

|Rush Medical College

|Major League Baseball player{{cite magazine |last1=Quinn |first1=Audra |title=Dr. Baseball |journal=Pepperdine Magazine |publisher=Pepperdine University |date=Spring 2010 |url=https://www.pepperdine.edu/magazine/spring-2010/dr-baseball.htm |access-date=1 May 2024 |language=en}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Les|Horvath}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|Ohio State University College of Dentistry

|National Football League player and Heisman Trophy winner

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Nate|Hughes}}

|MD

|Medicine

|University of Mississippi Medical Center{{cite web |title=Dear Game Plan Participants |url=https://icahn.mssm.edu/files/ISMMS/Assets/About%20the%20School/Diversity/Nate-Hughes-Biosketch.pdf |publisher=Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |access-date=2 October 2021}}

|National Football League wide receiver

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Doc|Imlay}}

| rowspan="2" |DDS

| rowspan="2" |Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

|Major League Baseball pitcher

rowspan="2" scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Jumping Jack|Jones}}

|Harvard Dental School

| rowspan="2" |Major League Baseball pitcher{{cite book |publisher=J.H. Beers & Co |title=Commemorative biographical record of New Haven county, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and of many of the early settled families|page=74|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/jh-beers--co/commemorative-biographical-record-of-new-haven-county-connecticut-containing-b-aeb/page-74-commemorative-biographical-record-of-new-haven-county-connecticut-containing-b-aeb.shtml}}

MD

|Medicine

|Yale Medical School

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Ryan|Kohlmeier}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Dentistry{{cite web |title=Meet Our Team |url=https://emporiasmiles.com/staff/ |publisher=Kohlmeier Dental |access-date=30 September 2021}}

|Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Lise|Leveille}}

|MD

|Medicine

|Queen's University at Kingston[https://orthopaedics.med.ubc.ca/lise-leveille/ Lise Leveille] - website of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia

| French Canadian gymnast represented at the 2000 Olympic Games.

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Jim|Lonborg}}

|DMD

|Dental medicine

|Tufts University School of Dental Medicine{{cite web |title=Jim Lonborg |url=https://www.scituateeducationfoundation.org/jim-lonborg |publisher=Scituate Education Foundation |access-date=30 September 2021}}

|Cy Young Award-winning Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Joel|Makovicka}}

|DPT

|Physical therapy

|Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions{{cite web |title=brain. heart. courage. |url=https://www.alumni.creighton.edu/s/1250/images/editor_documents/homecoming/homecomingbroch_spahp_final_rdcd.pdf?sessionid=f11e90d0-8284-4ea9-9151-0fcb2259c35b&cc=1 |publisher=Creighton University |access-date=6 September 2024}}

|National Football League player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Justin|Maxwell}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|University of Maryland School of Dentistry{{cite web |title=Dr. Justin Maxwell |url=https://gkdentist.com/dental_team/dr-justin-maxwell/ |publisher=Gallagher & Kuhn Dental Group |access-date=15 November 2023 |date=21 July 2022}}

|Major League Baseball outfielder

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Doc|McMahon}}

|DMD

|Dental medicine

|Tufts University School of Dental Medicine{{cite news |title=Degrees in Many Departments |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/boston-evening-transcript-degrees-in-man/137069784/ |access-date=19 December 2023 |work=Boston Evening Transcript |date=18 June 1913 |pages=4}}

| rowspan="2" |Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Doc|Medich}}

|MD

|Medicine

|University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Bill|Mlkvy}}

|DMD

|Dental medicine

|Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry{{cite news |last1=Verlin |first1=Josh |title=At 84, Bill Mlkvy wants to leave student-athlete legacy at Temple |url=http://www.cityofbasketballlove.com/news_article/show/503453?referrer_id=1712887 |accessdate=24 June 2016 |work=City of Basketball Love |date=September 23, 2014}}

|National Basketball Association player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Bill|McColl}}

| rowspan="3" |MD

|Medicine, neurosurgery

|Pritzker School of Medicine{{cite web |date=21 July 2015 |title=Rock Star/Astrophysicist Dr. Brian May Goes Backstage With New Horizons |url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/rock-starastrophysicist-dr-brian-may-goes-backstage-with-new-horizons |publisher=NASA}}

| National Football League player, missionary, father of Milt McColl

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Milt|McColl}}

|Medicine

|Stanford University School of Medicine{{cite web |url=https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2020/04/03/milt-mccoll-md-nfl-coronavirus |title=Dr. Milt McColl Was A San Francisco 49er, Now He Treats COVID-19 Patients |work=Only a Game |publisher=WBUR |date=April 3, 2020 |accessdate=July 25, 2020}}{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-18-tm-3414-story.html |title=Like Father, Like Son : How Did Milt McColl, NFL Player and Orthopedic Surgeon, Come To Mirror His Dad's Life So Precisely? |last=Green |first=Lee |work=Los Angeles Times Magazine |date=June 18, 1989 |accessdate=July 25, 2020}}

| National Football League player, son of Bill McColl

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Nadia|Nadim}}

|Medicine

|Aarhus University{{Cite web |title=Afghan refugee soccer star Nadia Nadim achieves ultimate goal: A medical degree |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/afghan-refugee-soccer-star-nadia-nadim-achieves-ultimate-goal-medical-rcna16566 |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=NBC News |language=en}}

|National Women's Soccer League and Denmark Women's National Football Team player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Jack|Nichols|dab=basketball}}

|DMD

|Dental medicine

|Tufts University School of Dental Medicine{{cite news |title=School of Dental Medicine |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-school-of-dental-medici/137108978/ |access-date=20 December 2023 |work=The Boston Globe |date=9 June 1958 |pages=11}}

| National Basketball Association player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Rich|Nye}}

|DVM

|Veterinary medicine

|University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine{{cite news |last1=Beuoy |first1=Chris |title=Rich Nye: From Cubs Pitcher to Exotic Vet Pioneer |url=https://vetmed.illinois.edu/2017/02/22/rich-nye-2/ |access-date=1 May 2024 |publisher=University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine |date=22 February 2017}}

|Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Dip|Orange}}

| rowspan="8" |MD

| rowspan="8" |Medicine

|Meharry Medical College{{cite news |title=Miss Agatha B. McCullah Married To Texas Dentist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-call-miss-agatha-b-mccullah-married/148595606/ |access-date=3 June 2024 |work=The Call |date=26 January 1934 |pages=4}}{{cite news |title=Dr. Orange, Colored, Dies at Home Here |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-town-talk-dr-orange-colored-dies/148595448/ |access-date=3 June 2024 |work=The Town Talk |date=27 September 1946 |pages=10}}

|Negro National League baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Charlie|Pechous}}

|Stritch School of Medicine{{cite news |title=Stritch School of Medicine Annual Award Dinner Program: 1963 |url=https://luc.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_8fb6d10f-bf27-4953-86c7-9387964ecc91/ |access-date=5 October 2021 |agency=Loyola University Chicago Digital Collections |publisher=Stritch School of Medicine |date=1963}}

| rowspan="3" |Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Arlie|Pond}}

|University of Vermont College of Medicine{{cite news |title=Stritch School of Medicine Annual Award Dinner Program: 1963 |url=https://luc.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_8fb6d10f-bf27-4953-86c7-9387964ecc91/ |access-date=5 October 2021 |agency=Loyola University Chicago Digital Collections |publisher=Stritch School of Medicine |date=1963}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Bob|Poser}}

|University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health{{cite web |title=Bobby Poser (1996) | UW Athletic Hall of Fame |url=https://uwbadgers.com/honors/university-of-wisconsin-athletic-hall-of-fame/bobby-poser/174 |publisher=Wisconsin Badgers |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Zimmermann |first1=Tim |last2=Oatway |first2=William |last3=Jaecks |first3=David |last4=Bland |first4=Phil |last5=Lustok |first5=Mischa J. |title=Alumni Officers |journal=Wisconsin Medical Alumni Bulletin |date=Spring 1964 |volume=IV |issue=10 |page=2 |url=https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/53853 |access-date=2 October 2021}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Myron|Rolle}}

|Florida State University College of Medicine{{cite news |author=Watts, David |title=NFL Rhodes Scholar Retires to Attend Medical School and Nobody Knows Since He Wasn't Arrested |url=http://www.popsspot.com/2013/04/nfl-rhodes-scholar-retires-to-attend-medical-school-nobody-knows-since-he-wasnt-arrested/ |work=POPSspot |date=April 26, 2013 |access-date=June 17, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130720211649/http://www.popsspot.com/2013/04/nfl-rhodes-scholar-retires-to-attend-medical-school-nobody-knows-since-he-wasnt-arrested/ |archive-date=July 20, 2013 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/sports/renaissance-man-myron-rolle-former-nfl-safety-and-rhodes-scholar-gets-degree-in-neurosurgery |title=Renaissance Man Myron Rolle, former NFL safety and Rhodes Scholar, gets degree in neurosurgery |publisher=Fox News |date=20 May 2017 |access-date=20 May 2017}}

| National Football League safety, Rhodes Scholar

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Frank|Sexton|dab=baseball}}

| rowspan="2" |University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

| rowspan="2" |Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Harvey|Smith|dab=baseball}}
scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Genevra|Stone}}

|Tufts University School of Medicine{{Cite news |last=Macur |first=Juliet |date=2016-05-11 |title=Rower (and Doctor) Blows Past Failure and Zika in Drive Toward Rio |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/12/sports/olympics/rower-and-doctor-blows-past-failure-and-zika-in-drive-toward-rio.html |access-date=2022-04-03 |issn=0362-4331}}

|Olympic rower

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Ad|Swigler}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania Dental School{{cite web |title=Adam William Swigler |url=https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/adam-william-swigler |website=University Archives and Records Center |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |access-date=4 October 2021}}

|Major League Baseball player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Ron|Taylor|dab=baseball}}

|MD

|Medicine

|University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine{{cite news |title=Medicine Men |url=https://magazine.utoronto.ca/people/alumni-donors/doug-richard-ron-taylor-toronto-sports-medicine/ |access-date=4 October 2021 |work=University of Toronto Magazine |publisher=University of Toronto |date=June 2, 2002}}

| rowspan="2" | Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Henry|Thielman}}

|DDS

|Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Jenny|Thompson}}

|MD

|Medicine

|Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

| Olympic swimmer

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Will|Thompson|dab=baseball}}

| rowspan="2" |DDS

| rowspan="2" |Dental surgery

|University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine

| rowspan="3" |Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Doc|White}}

|Georgetown University School of Dentistry{{cite journal |last1=Flack |first1=J. Kirkpatrick |title=Person of Interest: D.C. Sports Hall of Famer Doc White |journal=Washington History |date=Fall 2019 |volume=31 |issue=1/2 |pages=39–41 |jstor=26868672 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26868672 |access-date=30 September 2021}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Walt|Whittaker}}

|DMD

|Dental medicine

|Tufts University School of Dental Medicine{{cite news |title=Dental School |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe/46041480/ |access-date=21 December 2023 |work=The Boston Globe |date=21 June 1916 |pages=5}}{{cite book |last1=Forr |first1=James |last2=Proctor |first2=David |title=Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography |date=1 February 2010 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-4385-7 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FcTHdGCujhcC |access-date=21 December 2023 |language=en}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Haley|Wickenheiser}}

|MD

| Medicine

|University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine

| Canadian Olympic ice hockey gold medal player and team captain, considered among the greatest female ice hockey players of all time, then a physician

Other professional doctorates

In some countries, the Juris Doctor is the standard professional degree required to practice law, although the holder is usually not addressed as "doctor".

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
scope="col"| Athlete

!scope="col"|Degree

!scope="col" | Field

!scope="col"|Institution

! scope="col" | Known for

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Terry|Baker}}

| rowspan="24" |JD

| rowspan="24" |Law

|USC Gould School of Law{{cite news |last1=Dicciana |first1=Mike |last2=Petersen |first2=Chris |title=Biography - Terry Baker Oral History Interview |url=http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/oh150/baker/biography.html |access-date=2 October 2021 |publisher=Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries |date=June 25, 2014}}{{cite journal |title=Class Notes |journal=USC Law |date=Spring 2001 |page=58 |url=https://gould.usc.edu/news/assets/docs/spring2001magazine.pdf |access-date=2 October 2021}}

|National Football League quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Cliff|Brantley}}

|Rutgers Law School{{cite news |last1=Giakoumis |first1=George |title=Cliff Brantley Jr. hoping his two dreams (pro baseball, lawyer) come true |url=https://www.silive.com/recsports/2015/12/post_19.html |access-date=27 June 2022 |work=Staten Island Advance |date=15 December 2015 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Community Board #1 Virtual Full Board Meeting, November 9, 2021-6:00 PM |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/statenislandcb1/downloads/pdf/board-meeting-minutes/board_meeting_minutes_november_9_2021.pdf |website=NYC.gov |publisher=New York City |access-date=27 June 2022}}

| rowspan="2" |Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Bill|Bray}}

|William & Mary Law School{{cite news |title=Video: MLB's Bill Bray Graduates W&M Law School |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/97048947-132.html |access-date=13 October 2021 |work=Chicago Tribune}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Nick|Buoniconti}}

|Suffolk University Law School{{cite news |last1=Poupart |first1=Alain |title=Senators Introduce Resolution To Honor Nick Buoniconti |url=https://www.miamidolphins.com/news/senators-introduce-resolution-to-honor-nick-buoniconti |access-date=2 October 2021 |publisher=Miami Dolphins |date=November 20, 2019}}

|National Football League linebacker and Pro Football Hall of Famer

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Chris|Carr|dab=American football}}

|George Washington University Law School{{cite news |title=Alumni Chris and Sarah Carr Start Scholarship with Honors College |url=https://www.boisestate.edu/giving/why/donors/chris-carr-gives-back/ |access-date=2 October 2021 |publisher=Boise State University}}

|National Football League cornerback and kick returner

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Donn|Clendenon}}

|Duquesne University School of Law{{cite book |last1=Clendenon |first1=Donn |title=Miracle in New York: The Story of the 1969 New York Mets Through the Eyes of Donn Clendenon |date=1999 |publisher=Penmarch Pub |location=Sioux Falls, S.D. |isbn=9781575791678}}

|Major League Baseball player and 1969 World Series MVP

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Cris|Collinsworth}}

|University of Cincinnati School of Law{{cite magazine |url=https://magazine.uc.edu/famousalumni/tv/tvSportReal.html |title=TV connections with University of Cincinnati alumni, p. 4 |magazine=UC Magazine |publisher=University of Cincinnati}}

| Sportscaster and former National Football League wide receiver

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Ben|Hayes}}

|University of Florida College of Law{{cite news |title=Ben Hayes Elected Chair of MiLB's Council of League Presidents |url=https://www.milb.com/news/ben-hayes-elected-chair-of-milb-s-council-of-league-presidents-301861914 |access-date=27 October 2024 |work=MiLB.com |publisher=Minor League Baseball |date=December 14, 2018 |language=en}}

|Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Jarett|Dillard}}

|South Texas College of Law{{cite news |last1=Duarte |first1=Joseph |title=Dillard following in brother's footsteps at Rice |url=https://www.expressnews.com/sports/colleges/article/Dillard-following-in-brother-s-footsteps-at-Rice-4878355.php |access-date=7 June 2023 |work=San Antonio Express-News |date=9 October 2013}}

|National Football League wide receiver

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Len|Elmore}}

|Harvard Law School{{cite web |title=Len Elmore |url=https://sps.columbia.edu/faculty/len-elmore |publisher=Columbia University School of Professional Studies |access-date=21 December 2023 |language=en}}

|National Basketball Association player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Katherine|Grainger}}

|King's College London{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |publisher=King's College London |url=https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-whole-life-order(778ad7dc-8e4c-41f0-b326-35ab1806eaf4).html |title=The 'whole life order' : its genesis, the challenges it both poses and faces, and its uncertain future |first=Katherine Jane |last=Grainger |date=2013 |id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.733314}}|website=kcl.ac.uk|oclc=1027309793}}

| British former rower and current Chair of UK Sport. Summer Olympics gold and silver medallist as well World champion.

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Joe|Hietpas}}

|Washington University School of Law{{cite news |last1=Kruth |first1=Cash |title='Moonlight' and his successors have no regrets |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/moonlight-graham-and-his-successors-have-no-regrets/c-33310354 |access-date=30 September 2021 |work=MLB.com |publisher=Major League Baseball}}

| Major League Baseball catcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Billy|Hunter|dab=basketball}}

|UC Berkeley School of Law{{cite news |last1=Cohen |first1=Andrew |title=Home Run: Heavy Hitters Shine at Sports Law Conference |url=https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/home-run-heavy-hitters-shine-at-sports-law-conference/ |access-date=1 August 2022 |publisher=Berkeley Law |date=April 9, 2015}}

|National Football League wide receiver, Executive Director of the National Basketball Players Association

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Tony|La Russa}}

|Florida State University College of Law

|Major League Baseball player and Hall of Fame manager{{cite news |title=Choreographer, baseball manager to speak at Fall Commencement ceremonies |url=https://news.fsu.edu/news/university-news/2011/12/07/choreographer-baseball-manager-to-speak-at-fall-commencement-ceremonies/ |access-date=2 October 2021 |work=Florida State University News |publisher=Florida State University |date=7 December 2011}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Ed|Lynch|dab=baseball}}

|University of Miami School of Law{{cite news |title=Long Island Ducks Announce 2019 Coaching Staff |url=https://www.atlanticleague.com/archive/newswire/index.html?article_id=1086 |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=www.atlanticleague.com |publisher=Atlantic League of Professional Baseball |date=January 14, 2019 |language=en}}

|Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Martin|Mayhew}}

|Georgetown University Law Center{{cite news |last1=Cohn |first1=Grace |title=Martin Mayhew: Former NFL Player, Georgetown Law Graduate, NFL Executive |url=https://thehoya.com/football-martin-mayhew-former-nfl-player-georgetown-law-alum-nfl-executive/ |access-date=2 October 2021 |publisher=Georgetown University |date=11 June 2020}}

|National Football League player and executive

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Jim|McFarland}}

|Cornell Law School{{cite web |title=James D. McFarland |url=https://footballplayershealth.harvard.edu/team/james-d-mcfarland/ |website=Harvard Football Players Health Study |publisher=Harvard University |access-date=26 December 2024}}

|National Football League player, member of the Nebraska Legislature

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Gerry|Meehan}}

|University at Buffalo Law School{{cite web |title=Gerry Meehan, Instructor |url=https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~101111391 |publisher=Coursera |access-date=14 December 2023 |language=en}}

|National Hockey League player and executive

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Alan|Page}}

|University of Minnesota Law School{{cite news |date=25 July 2015 |title=Alan Page timeline |newspaper=Star Tribune |url=http://www.startribune.com/alan-page-timeline/318540271/}}

|National Football League player, member of the College and Pro Football Hall of Fame, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Bill|Perkins|dab=American football}}

|Seton Hall University School of Law{{cite news |title=William Perkins Obituary (1940 - 2016) - Jersey City, NY |url=https://obits.nj.com/us/obituaries/starledger/name/william-perkins-obituary?id=17385865 |access-date=26 December 2024 |work=The Star-Ledger |publisher=Legacy.com |date=February 11, 2016}}

|National Football League player

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Billy|Rohr}}

|Western State College of Law{{cite news |last1=Spicer |first1=Judd |title=In 1967 a Red Sox pitcher almost threw a no-hitter in his first Major League start -- now he's a lawyer in Palm Springs |url=https://www.desertsun.com/story/sports/baseball/2017/10/02/50-years-ago-pitcher-almost-no-hit-yankees-his-first-major-league-start-today-hes-lawyer-palm-spring/687624001/ |access-date=26 December 2024 |work=The Desert Sun |date=October 2, 2017}}

|Major League Baseball pitcher

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Robert R.|Thomas}}

|Loyola University Chicago School of Law{{cite web |title=Hon. Robert R. Thomas |url=https://www.powerrogers.com/our-attorneys/hon-robert-r-thomas/ |website=Power Rogers - Trial Lawyers |access-date=26 December 2024}}

|National Football League player, Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court

scope="row" style="text-align:center" |{{sortname|Byron|White}}

|Yale Law School{{cite news |url=http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1678&context=journal_articles |journal=Chicago Unbound |agency=University of Chicago Law School |last=Hutchinson |first=Dennis J. |author-link=Dennis J. Hutchinson |volume=103 |title=The Man Who Once was Whizzer White |date=1993 |page=43}}

| National Football League player, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Dwayne|Woodruff}}

|Duquesne University School of Law{{cite web |title=Dwayne Woodruff |url=https://www.ncjfcj.org/about/board-of-directors/dwayne-woodruff/ |publisher=National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=en}}

|National Football League player, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania judge

scope="row" style="text-align:center"|{{sortname|Steve|Young}}

|J. Reuben Clark Law School{{cite magazine |title=Brigham Young University (Clark) |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools/brigham-young-university-03156 |magazine=U.S. News & World Report}}

| National Football League quarterback, member of the College and Pro Football Halls of Fame

Incomplete or revoked doctorates

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class="wikitable sortable"
scope="col"| Person

!Degree

! scope="col" | Field

!Institution

! scope="col" | Known for

!Notes

scope="row"|Nadine Apetz

|PhD

|Neuroscience

|University Hospital Cologne

|German amateur boxer

|Studying as of 2016[https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/boxing/athlete-profile-n1327764-apetz-nadine.htm Boxing APETZ Nadine] - website of - Tokyo 2020 Olympics

scope="row"|Pau Gasol

|MD

|Medicine

|University of Barcelona

|Professional basketball player for FC Barcelona of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague

|Dropped out[https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/17958490 Pau Gasol profile] - website of the national broadcaster BBC

scope="row"|Hadia Hosny

|PhD

|Pharmacology

|Cairo University

|Egyptian Olympic badminton player

|Studying as of 2015[https://www.bue.edu.eg/bue_person/15130/ Assistant lecturer Hadia Mohamed Hosny Elsaid Mohamed Tawfik Elsaid] - website of the British University in Egypt

scope="row"|Hui Ruoqi

|PhD

|Physical education

|Nanjing Normal University

|Chinese volleyball player

|Studying as of 2017[http://www.bestchinanews.com/Sports/9822.html If the exposure was admitted to 2017 doctoral students was 25 years old! Learn tyrants ah] - sports website of Best China News

scope="row"|Pál Schmitt

|PhD

|Physical education

|Semmelweis University

|Hungarian Olympic fencer and politician

|Revoked[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-17586128 Hungary President Schmitt quits in plagiarism scandal] - website of BBC News

scope="row"|Louise Shanahan

|PhD

|Quantum physics

|Cambridge University

|Irish Olympic athlete

|Studying as of 2019[https://www.winton.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/LShanahan Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability: Louise Shanahan] - website of Cambridge University

scope="row"|Chris Spence

|EdD

|Education

|University of Toronto

|Canadian Football League player

|Revoked{{cite web |title=Former B.C. Lion is schools' QB - Education activist named director of Hamilton's public board |author=Christine Cox |work=Hamilton Spectator |url=http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/media/news/details.aspx?id=659&Page=0&year=2004&profiling=3 |date=July 13, 2004 |access-date=February 23, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718023634/http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/media/news/details.aspx?id=659&Page=0&year=2004&profiling=3 |archivedate=July 18, 2011}}[https://thevarsity.ca/2018/02/26/university-upholds-decision-to-officially-strip-chris-spence-of-phd/ University upholds decision to officially strip Chris Spence of PhD] - website of the official student newspaper The Varsity[https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/111483 An Inquiry into Major Academic Integrity Violations in Canada: 2010-2019] - website of the Libraries and Cultural Resources of the University of Calgary

scope="row"|Shao Ting

|PhD

|Education

|Beijing Normal University

|Chinese basketball player for the Beijing Great Wall and the Chinese national team

|Studying as of 2019[https://pandaily.com/chinese-women-basketball-team-captain-gets-an-opportunity-to-play-in-wnba/ Chinese Women Basketball Team Captain Gets an Opportunity to Play in WNBA] -website Pandaily

scope="row"|Veronica Toro Arana

|MD

|Medicine

|Stanford University School of Medicine

|Puerto Rican Olympic rower

|Studying as of 2016[https://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2021/08/18/stanford-medical-student-rows-her-way-into-the-olympics/ Stanford medical student rows her way into the Olympics] - website of Scope, blog of the Office of Communications at Stanford Medicine

scope="row"|Sun Yang

|PhD

|Kinesiology

|Shanghai University of Sport

|Chinese Olympic and world-record-holding competitive swimmer.

|Studying as of 2018[http://www.ecns.cn/news/2018-09-20/detail-ifyyehna1448294.shtml China's triple Olympic champion Sun Yang to pursue PhD] - website of the state-owned news agency China News Service

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