List of cyclists
This is an incomplete list of professional racing cyclists, sorted alphabetically by decade in which they won their first major race.
Cyclists by country
Cyclists by decade
Of the 1880s
- Frank Bowden, 1st Baronet|Frank Bowden]
- Thomas Stevens
- Alfred Tipper
- Thomas Henry Sumpter Walker
Of the 1890s
- Georgios Aspiotis
- Conn Baker
- Edward Battell
- Hélène Dutrieu
- Léon Flameng
- August von Gödrich
- Bert Harris
- Miltiades Iatrou
- Georgios Koletis
- Aristidis Konstantinidis
- Konstantinos Konstantinou
- Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy was the first man ever to ride a bicycle for one mile in less than a minute. He performed this feat in 1899 by drafting behind a Long Island Rail Road boxcar between Farmingdale and Babylon on Long Island.
- Dora Rinehart
- Major Taylor was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination. Taylor was the first African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the second black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George Dixon.
- Frank E. Weaver
Of the 1900s
- Aloïs Catteau
- Henri Cornet
- Thorvald Ellegaard
- Maurice Garin
- Woody Headspeth
- Marie Marvingt
- Ernest Payne
- Lucien Petit-Breton
- René Pottier
Of the 1910s
- Jean Alavoine
- Marcel Buysse
- Eugène Christophe
- Oscar Egg
- Frederick Grubb
- Firmin Lambot
- Rudolph "Okey" Lewis
- Henri Pélissier
- Fritz Schallwig, champion German cyclist. He was born on 7 May 1890 in Spandau in Berlin, Germany and was killed in World War I.
- Carl Schutte
- Philippe Thys
Of the 1920s
- Honoré Barthélémy
- Alfredo Binda
- Ottavio Bottecchia
- Lucien Buysse
- Giovanni Brunero
- Tullio Campagnolo
- Fernand Canteloube
- Gösta Carlsson
- Michael Collins
- Maurice De Waele
- Nicolas Frantz
- Costante Girardengo
- René Hamel
- Hector Heusghem
- Henri Hoevenaers
- Lucien Michard
- Piet Moeskops
- Henri Pélissier
- Léon Scieur
- Félix Sellier
- Frank Southall
- Harry Stenqvist
- Alfonsina Strada
Of the 1930s
Of the 1940s
- Gino Bartali
- Pierre Brambilla
- Fausto Coppi
- Édouard Fachleitner
- Reg Harris
- Guy Lapébie
- Fiorenzo Magni
- André Mahé
- Jacques Marinelli
- Jean Robic
- Briek Schotte
- Gerrit Voorting
- Eileen Sheridan
Of the 1950s
- Federico Bahamontes
- Ercole Baldini
- Louison Bobet
- Ray Booty
- Fausto Coppi
- Wim van Est
- Charly Gaul
- Raphaël Géminiani
- Ted Jorgensen
- Hugo Koblet
- Ferdy Kübler
- Lucien Lazaridès
- Fiorenzo Magni
- Antonio Maspes
- Stan Ockers
- Rik Van Looy
- Gerrit Voorting
- Roger Walkowiak
- Eileen Sheridan
- Galina Yermolayeva
Of the 1960s
- Lucien Aimar
- Jacques Anquetil
- Beryl Burton
- Evert Dolman
- Seamus Elliott
- Felice Gimondi
- Barry Hoban
- Jan Janssen
- Jean-Marie Leblanc
- Daniel Morelon
- Raymond Poulidor
- Tom Simpson
- Galina Tsareva
- Michael Wright
- Bart Zoet
Of the 1970s
- Alf Engers
- Erik De Vlaeminck
- Roger De Vlaeminck
- Gary Fisher
- Cyrille Guimard
- Lutz Heßlich
- Bernard Hinault
- John Howard
- Freddy Maertens
- Eddy Merckx
- Francesco Moser
- Koichi Nakano
- Walter Planckaert
- Jan Raas
- Martín Emilio Rodríguez
- Bernard Thévenet
- Lothar Thoms
- Lucien Van Impe
Of the 1980s
- Frankie Andreu
- Pedro Delgado
- Laurent Fignon
- Todd Gogulski
- Andrew Hampsten
- Luis Herrera
- Michael Hübner
- Sean Kelly
- Greg LeMond
- Jeannie Longo
- Bob Mionske
- Connie Paraskevin
- Fabio Parra
- Davis Phinney
- Walter Planckaert
- Stephen Roche
- Bob Roll
- Erika Salumäe
- Giuseppe Saronni
- Rebecca Twigg
- Eric Vanderaerden
Of the 1990s
- Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
- Niki Aebersold
- Frankie Andreu
- Lance Armstrong
- Félicia Ballanger
- Michele Bartoli
- Joseba Beloki
- Chris Boardman
- Johan Bruyneel
- Francesco Casagrande
- Fabio Casartelli
- Ángel Casero
- Mario Cipollini
- Ludo Dierckxsens
- Jens Fiedler
- Fernando Escartín
- Laurent Gané
- Niki Gudex
- Tyler Hamilton
- Roger Hammond
- George Hincapie
- Tristan Hoffman
- Miguel Induráin
- Laurent Jalabert
- Shane Kelly
- Kevin Livingston
- Olaf Ludwig
- Bob Mionske
- Christophe Moreau
- Graeme Obree
- Abraham Olano
- Marco Pantani
- Bjarne Riis
- Fred Rompelberg
- Florian Rousseau
- Marco Serpellini
- Marla Streb
- Rolf Sørensen
- Andrea Tafi
- Pavel Tonkov
- Arnaud Tournant
- Rebecca Twigg
- Jan Ullrich
- Kathy Watt
- Diana Žiliūtė
Of the 2000s
- Kristin Armstrong
- Lance Armstrong
- Judith Arndt
- Emilie Aubry
- Dede Barry
- Ivan Basso
- Grégory Baugé
- Mark Beaumont
- Lyne Bessette
- Paolo Bettini
- Michael Boogerd
- Tom Boonen
- Santiago Botero
- Fabian Cancellara
- Sara Carrigan**
- Mark Cavendish
- Alberto Contador
- Nicole Cooke
- Katheryn Curi
- Gunn-Rita Dahle
- Tom Danielson
- Mike Day
- Ellen van Dijk, multiple road and track world champion
- Alex Dowsett
- Alison Dunlap
- Chris Eatough
- Cadel Evans
- Niki Gudex
- Liz Hatch
- George Hincapie
- Chris Horner
- Chris Hoy
- Thor Hushovd
- Timothy Jones
- Bobby Julich
- Jill Kintner
- Andreas Klöden
- Floyd Landis
- Levi Leipheimer
- Danny MacAskill
- Kaarle McCulloch
- Anna Meares
- Axel Merckx
- Rune Monstad
- Johan Museeuw
- Andris Naudužs
- Manfred Nepp
- Stefan Nimke
- Adrien Niyonshuti
- Stuart O'Grady
- Joseph M. Papp
- Victoria Pendleton
- Taylor Phinney
- Jeremy Powers
- Jennie Reed
- Mark Renshaw
- Donny Robinson
- Peter Sagan
- Andy Schleck
- Fränk Schleck
- Alexandr Shefer
- Marla Streb
- Jan Ullrich
- Sarah Ulmer
- Rigoberto Urán
- Alejandro Valverde
- Tejay van Garderen
- Jonathan Vaughters
- Alexander Vinokourov
- Richard Virenque
- Jens Voigt
- Marianne Vos
- Sam Whittingham
- Bradley Wiggins
- Erik Zabel
- David Zabriskie
- Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel
- Grant Potter
Of the 2010s
- Julian Alaphilippe
- Roy van den Berg
- Matthijs Büchli
- Chris Froome
- Jeffrey Hoogland
- Harrie Lavreysen
- Filippo Ganna
- François Pervis
- Nairo Quintana
- Primož Roglič
- Geraint Thomas
- Kristina Vogel
- Miriam Welte
- Adam Yates