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• Reno Abellira (1950- ) (Haw) Smirnoff ripcurl World Pro/Am winner in 1974.
• Megan Abubo
  Megan Abubo
  - Biography:Born in Connecticut and raised in Hawaii, Megan Abubo showcases a style honed on powerful reef-breaks and deepwater ocean waves.Growing up in Hawaii, Megan quickly became one of the "beach boys" and worked her way to a spot on the World Championship Tour ranks in 1998. She has been on...
  
   (1978- ) (Haw)
• Pauline Ado (1991- ) (Fra) 2009 junior World champion and twice junior European champion.
• Clyde Aikau (1949- ) (Haw) Big wave surf champion
• Eddie Aikau
  Eddie Aikau
  Edward Ryon Makuahanai Aikau was a well-known Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer. The words Makua Hanai in Eddie Aikaus full name means feeding parent, an adoptive, nurturing, fostering parent, in the Hawaiian language...
  
   (1946-1978) (Haw) Award-winning surfer and lifeguard
• Lisa Andersen (1969- ) (USA) Four-time world surfing champion 1994-1997
• Simon Anderson
  Simon Anderson
  Simon Anderson is an Australian surfer and surfboard shaper, noted for creating the Thruster design of three equal-sized fins on a surfboard, a design now used on most shortboards.-Early life:...
  
   (1954- ) (Aus) First advocate of the three-finned surfboard, the "thruster," early 1980s
• Bill Andrews
  Bill Andrews (photographer)
  Bill Andrews , is a documentary photographer and archivist.Andrews surfed his first wave in 1957 at La Jolla Shores. He joined the line-up at Windansea Beach in the early sixties and was one of the first to discover and surf the world class waves at Black's Beach...
  
   (1944- ) (USA) see William Wolcott Andrews. Among first to surf Black's Beach
  Black's Beach
  Black's Beach is a secluded section of beach beneath the bluffs of Torrey Pines on the Pacific Ocean in La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States. It is officially part of Torrey Pines State Beach...
  
   in La Jolla, CA
• Jose Angel (1934-1976) (Haw) Highly-regarded North Shore
  North Shore (Oahu)
  The North Shore, in the context of geography of the Island of Oahu, refers to the north-facing coastal area of Oahu between Kaena Point and Kahuku Point...
  
   big wave rider
• Robert August
  Robert August
  Robert August is an American surfer and surfboard shaper. Raised in Huntington Beach, California, he attended Huntington Beach High School where he was ASB President his senior year. He is most famous as one of the subjects of Bruce Brown's 1966 surf documentary The Endless Summer, along with his...
  
   (1945- ) (USA) Surfer and Surfboard Designer
• Rolf Aurness (1952- ) (USA) 1970 World Champion

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• Tim Baker
  Tim Baker
  Tim Baker is an Australian journalist specialising in surf culture. He has twice received the Australian Surfing Hall of FameCulture Award, and is a former editor of Tracks and Australia's Surfing Life magazines...
  
   (Aus) Journalist, former editor of Tracks
  Tracks (magazine)
  Tracks is a monthly Australian surf magazine, promoting itself as "the surfer's bible". It is published by Next Media.It was established in October 1970 by Alby Falzon, starting as a kind of counter-culture tabloid, printed on cheap paper and produced on Queensland's Gold Coast. Since then it has...
  
   and Australia's Surfing Life
  Australia's Surfing Life
  Australia's Surfing Life is a monthly magazine about surfing published in Australia. It features articles about surf trips in Australia and overseas, surfing technique, board design and wetsuits....
  
   magazines.
• Rochelle Ballard
  Rochelle Ballard
  Rochelle Ballard is a professional female surfer who is a 10 year veteran the Association of Surfing Professional’s World Championship Tour. She is considered the best female tube rider in the world and has been a pioneer to the advancement of women’s surfing in the past two decades...
  
   (1971- ) (Haw)
• Wayne Bartholomew
  Wayne Bartholomew
  Wayne 'Rabbit' Bartholomew AM is an Australian surfer and order of Australia recipient who won the World Surfing Championship in 1978, 1999 and 2003...
  
   (Aus) 1978 World Champion
• Layne Beachley
  Layne Beachley
  Layne Beachley is a former professional surfer from Manly, Australia. She won the World Championship seven times.-Surfing career:At the age of 16 Beachley became a professional surfer. By the age of 20 she was ranked sixth in the world. Beachley became the Women's ASP World Champion in 1998, and...
  
   (1972- ) (Aus) Seven times ASP World Champion, founder of 'Aim For The Stars'
• Holly Beck (1980- ) (US) 2000 Explorer Women’s Western Surfing Champion, 2000 College Women’s National title
• Linda Benson (1944- ) (USA) 1959 Makaha International Champion, U.S. Champion: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1968
• Shane Beschen
  Shane Beschen
  Shane Beschen is a California born professional surfer.In 1996, at Kirra, Shane Beschen became the first and only professional surfer to score three perfect 10 point rides for a total 30 out of 30 ASP three-wave scoring system....
  
   (1972- ) (Haw)
• Jesse Brad Billauer (1979- ) (USA) Quadriplegic surfer
• Tom Blake (1902-1994) (USA) Early American Surfer, inventor of the Skeg.
• Alana Blanchard
  Alana Blanchard
  Alana Blanchard is an American professional surfer. At 21 years of age, Blanchard has gained fame as "one of the best female surfers," Alana is a ASP World Tour surfer, based in Kauai, Hawaii...
  
   (US) (1990- ) Women’s Pipeline Championship winner
• Jim Blears (1948-2011) (Haw) 1972 World Champion
• Wendy Botha
  Wendy Botha
  Wendy Botha is a four-time world surfing champion. She won her first title as a South African citizen in 1987, then she became an Australian citizen and won three more titles in 1989, 1991, and 1992). She also posed nude for Australian Playboy for the September issue of 1992...
  
   (1965- ) (Aus) Four-time world surfing champion
• Lynne Boyer
  Lynne Boyer
  Lynne Boyer is a two-time world surfing champion from the United States. She won her two titles in 1978 and 1979. It was the first time any woman had won the championship twice. She was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, California in 2008.After her surfing career, she...
  
   (1956- ) (USA) First two time world surfing champion 1978 & 1979
• Ken Bradshaw
  Ken Bradshaw
  Ken Bradshaw is an American professional surfer and winner of the 1982 Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship....
  
   (1952- ) (USA) North Shore hellman
• Bruce Brown
  Bruce Brown
  Bruce Brown is an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film...
  
   San Francisco. Surfing film maker
• Bud Browne
  Bud Browne
  Bud "Barracuda" Browne, was an early pioneer surf film maker. He was the first filmmaker to show surf movies commercially...
  
   (1912-2008) (US) Pioneer surf film maker, the first filmmaker to show surf movies commercially
• Taj Burrow
  Taj Burrow
  Taj Burrow is an Australian professional surfer who is currently competing in this 14th year on the ASP World Tour.-Career:...
  
   (1978- ) (Aus) 1998 ASP World Tour Rookie of the Year, many ASP Tour wins
• Alan Byrne
  Alan Byrne
  Alan Byrne is an Irish football player who is currently playing League of Ireland First Division club, Monaghan United. Byrne is a teak tough central midfielder who can also play in central defence...
  
   (NZ)

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• Mike Diffenderfer (1937-2002) (USA) Legendary surfer and shaper
• Miki Dora
  Miki Dora
  Miki "Da Cat" Dora, a.k.a. Mickey Dora, a.k.a. "The Black Knight," was an iconic Malibu surfer of the 1950s and 1960s. He had a unique style, in and out of the water, and was generally considered rather iconoclastic...
  
   (1936-2002) (USA) Surfing's Chief Rebel and Hellraiser. http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/dora_miki.cfm
• Shane Dorian
  Shane Dorian
  Patrick Shane Dorian , or "Shane", is an American surfer from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. He spent 11 years touring on the World Championship Tour surfing.-Early life:...
  
  , (Haw) Pro surfer.
• Mike Doyle (1941- ) (USA) Surf/paddle champion, innovator. 1965 World Champion. Winner, 1968 Duke Kahanamoku Contest.

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• Drew Edwards Wake surfing pioneer
• Laura Enever (1991- ) (Aus) 2009 ASP Women’s World Junior Champion
• Michael Eppelstun
  Michael Eppelstun
  Michael "Eppo" Eppelstun is an Australian professional bodyboarder who won the bodyboarding world championship in 1993. In winning the competition he became the first Australian and the first non-Hawaiian to win the World Title. Eppo helped develop two new moves in the bodyboarding world which...
  
   (Aus) 1994 bodyboarding world champion

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• Mick Fanning
  Mick Fanning
  Michael Eugene "Mick" Fanning, nicknamed "White Lightning", is an Australian professional surfer and dual world champion. Fanning won both the 2007 and 2009 ASP World Tour.-Early years:...
  
   (Aus) (1981- )
• Midget Farrelly
  Midget Farrelly
  Bernard "Midget" Farrelly is a former Australian world surfing champion.He was the first Australian to win a major surfing title, the 1963 championships in Makaha, Hawaii...
  
   (Aus) (1944- ) won the inaugural World Surfing Championship in 1964
• Sally Fitzgibbons
  Sally Fitzgibbons
  Sally Fitzgibbons is an Australian professional surfer on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour . She was born in Nowra, NSW Australia, on 12 December 1990.-Surfing career:...
  
   (Aus) (1990- ) Multi ASP World Tour title-holder
• Jeremy Flores
  Jeremy Flores
  Jeremy Flores is a French surfer who was born in Reunion Island, France, where he began surfing at the age of 3. He continued his surfing development on family trips to Australia, Europe and Hawaii, all the while maintaining his education through correspondence courses...
  
   (1988- ) (Fra) 2007 WCT Rookie of the Year
• Mark Foo
  Mark Foo
  Mark Sheldon Foo was a professional surfer.-Life and career:Born in Singapore to Chinese photojournalists for the U.S. Information Agency, he relocated to Hawaii at age 10. Foo spent his early childhood surfing the South Shore of O'ahu...
  
   (1958–1994) (Haw) Professional surfer. Died while surfing at Mavericks.
• Donavon Frankenreiter
  Donavon Frankenreiter
  Donavon Frankenreiter is an American musician and surfer. He is a long-time friend of Jack Johnson and his debut self-titled album was released in 2004 on Johnson's Brushfire Records through Universal Music and made the Australian ARIA Top-40 charts in April 2004.-Surfing career:He took up surfing...
  
   (1972- ) (USA) Surfer and musician
• George Freeth
  George Freeth
  George Freeth is often credited as being the "Father of Modern Surfing". He is also thought to have been the first modern surfer.- Biography :...
  
   (Haw) (1883–1919) "The Father of Modern Surfing"
• Skip Frye
  Skip Frye
  Skip Frye is a surfer, surfboard designer and shaper, and environmental activist.-Background:...
  
   (1941- ) (USA) legendary stylist and surfboard shaper
• Jim Fuller Godfather of surf guitar, Surfaris

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• Nick Gabaldon
  Nick Gabaldon
  Nicolas Rolando Gabaldon was an early surfer who is credited by surfing experts with being California's first documented surfer of African-American descent at a time when many beaches were segregated and opportunities for minorities more limited than today...
  
   (1927-1951) California's first documented surfer of Black and Hispanic descent
• Maya Gabeira
  Maya Gabeira
  Maya Gabeira is a professional big wave surfer from Brazil.- Career highlights :In 2009, Gabeira won the ESPY award for Best Female Action Sports Athlete...
  
   (1987- ) (Bra) Surfed the biggest wave ever by a female at 45 feet
• Sunny Garcia
  Sunny Garcia
  Sunny Garcia was born Vincent Sennen Garcia on January 14, 1970 in Mā'ili, on the Westside of Oahu, Hawaii. He grew up in Wai'anae and after leaving school, debuted on the 1986 Gotcha Pro at Sandy Beach, Oahu, beating the 1984 champ Tom Carroll....
  
   (1970- ) (Haw) 2000 World Champion
• Stephanie Gilmore
  Stephanie Gilmore
  Stephanie Louise Gilmore is an Australian professional surfer and four-time world champion on the Women's ASP World Tour . She was born in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia on 29 January 1988 and currently resides in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia.Gilmore's life as a surfer began at...
  
   (1988- ) (Aus) 2007 ASP World Champion
• Abel Gomes (1910-1967) (USA) Early Shaper, built early hollow boards for Tom Blake, woodworker
• Allan Gomes First international Makaha Jr men's surf champion 1954,1955 shaper,fiberglassing by gomes 1938-1997
• George Greenough
  George Greenough
  George Greenough is an innovative surfer and cinematographer from Santa Barbara, California who now resides in Byron Bay in New South Wales, Australia. He was born to a wealthy family but despised its trappings and spent most of his time in the ocean. Greenough is best known for creating the modern...
  
   (1941- ) (USA/Aus) 1960s kneeboard
  Kneeboard
  A kneeboard is a board ridden in a kneeling stance. Kneeboards are ridden in ocean surf, or while being towed behind a boat on a lake or river....
  
   pioneer, shortboard revolutionist, inventor and surf movie
  Surf movie
  Surf movies fall into three distinct genres:*the surfing documentary - targeting the surfing enthusiast*the 1960s beach party films - targeting the broader community and*fictional feature films with a focus on the reality of surfing...
  
   visionary.
• Whitney Guild (USA) Over 30 surf contest wins, tow-in surfer, kitesurfer, skier, hang glider pilot.

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• Jeff Hakman (1958- ) (Haw)
• Bethany Hamilton
  Bethany Hamilton
  Bethany Meilani Hamilton is an American professional surfer. She is known for surviving a shark attack in which she lost her left arm, and for overcoming the injury to ultimately return to professional surfing. She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography Soul Surfer: A True Story of...
  
   (February 8, 1990), (USA) Victim of a much-publicised shark
  Shark
  Sharks are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago....
  
   attack.:(
• Laird Hamilton
  Laird Hamilton
  Laird Hamilton is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model. He is married to Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball player, television personality, and model...
  
   (March 2, 1964), (USA) (Hawaii and California), Big wave rider and tow-in surfing inventor. http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/hamilton_laird.cfm
• Damian Hardman (Aus) 1987 & 1991 World Champion
• Paige Hareb
  Paige Hareb
  Paige Frances Hareb is a professional surfer from Oakura Beach, New Zealand. In December 2008 she became the first New Zealand woman to qualify for the ASP Women's World Tour....
  
   (NZ)
• Peter Harris
  Peter Harris (surfer)
  ----Peter Harris is a surfer/shaper from Burleigh Heads, Queensland, Australia.Harris was taught to shape by Michael Peterson and Dick Van Straalen in the 1970s and later became the first "rookie" to win a major international surfing event by winning the 1980 Stubbies at Burleigh Heads.-External...
  
   (1958- ) (Aus) Won the 1980 Stubbies as a rookie
• Chelsea Hedges (1983- ) (Aus) 2005 world title holder
• Fred Hemmings
  Fred Hemmings
  Fred Hemmings is a world-known surfer who served as a Republican member of the Hawaii Senate from the 25th District. Elected in 2000, he served as Senate Minority Leader from 2002 to 2010. Previously he was a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1984 through 1990...
  
   (Haw) 1968 World Champion
• Derek Ho
  Derek Ho
  Derek Ho is an American surfer who won the world surfing championship in 1993. Ho was born in Kailua, Hawaii. He began surfing at the age of three, and won the world title at age 29. Derek Ho is the brother of Michael Ho, another American champion surfer, and the second cousin of Don Ho, the...
  
   (Haw) 1993 World Champion, Michael Ho's younger brother
• Michael Ho
  Michael Ho
  Michael Ho is an American surfer who has won the Hawaiian Triple Crown, the Duke Classic, the World Cup and the 1982 Pipe Masters. Michael Ho was born San Mateo, California. He is the brother of Derek Ho, another American champion surfer....
  
   (1957- ) (Haw) Won Hawaiian Triple Crown, Duke Classic, World Cup and 1982 Pipe Masters
• CJ Hobgood (1979- ) (USA) 2001 World Champion)
• Damien Hobgood
  Damien Hobgood
  Damien Hobgood is a professional surfer from Satellite Beach, Florida. He is known for having once held the highest two-wave grand final score in pro surfing by scoring 19.9 out of 20 at The Quiksilver Pro Fiji in 2004 until Kelly Slater eclipsed it the following year at Teahupo'o in the final...
  
   (USA)
• Joyce Hoffman
  Joyce Hoffman (surfer)
  Joyce Hoffman is an American surfer, considered a woman's pioneer in her sport. She is often regarded as the first female international surfing star and was one the first inductees of the International Surfing Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
  
   USA, US Women's Champion 1965-67
• Phillip Hoffman
  Phillip Hoffman
  Philip Rube "Flippy" Hoffman was a legendary big wave surfing pioneer and businesman.-Life:Philip "Flippy" Hoffman was born January 24, 1930 in Glendale, California....
  
   (1930–2010) American big wave pioneer and surf apparel company executive
• Mike Hynson (USA) (Star of Endless Summer and surf board shaper who taught Robert August how to shape)

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• Andy Irons
  Andy Irons
  Philip Andrew "Andy" Irons was a professional surfer. Irons learned to surf on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, Hawaii...
  
   (1978-2010) (Haw) Three-time world champion 2002-2004
• Bruce Irons (Haw)

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• Duke Paoa Kahanamoku (August 24, 1890 - January 22, 1968), (Haw) US Olympic Swimming Champion, Hawaiian Personality. The Father of Modern Surfing. Made appearances in Hollywood films (Mr. Roberts with Henry Fonda and Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne).http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/kahanamoku_duke.cfm
• Dave Kalama
  Dave Kalama
  Dave Kalama is a big wave surfer, windsurfer, and celebrity watersports enthusiast. Kalama and his family live in Hawaii.Kalama is credited with the co-development of tow-in surfing, along with Laird Hamilton, Darrick Doerner, and Buzzy Kerbox...
  
  
• Drew Kampion (1944- ) (USA) surf writer and editor, editor of Surfer Magazine (1968–71), author of Stoked: A History of Surf Culture, The Way of the Surfer, The Book of Waves, etc. http://www.drewkampion.com
• Keala Kennelly
  Keala Kennelly
  Keala Kennelly is a professional surfer. She was featured playing herself in the movie Blue Crush. She was also in the movie Step Into Liquid.She set a record in 2005 at Teahupoo, riding the biggest tow in wave by a woman....
  
   (1978- ) (USA)
• Damian King
  Damian King
  Damian King is an Australian professional bodyboarder. He was World Bodyboarding Champion twice, in 2003 and 2004.-Biography:Damian grew up in Port Macquarie, New South Wales, which is world renowned in bodyboarding culture for the level of talent and number of bodyboarders it has produced...
  
   (Aus) 2003 & 2004 World Bodyboarding Champion

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• Isabel Letham
  Isabel Letham
  Isabel Letham was an Australian pioneer surfboard rider and swimming instructor, renowned as 'the first Australian to ride a surfboard'...
  
   (1899-1995) (Aus) First Australian to surf.
• Silvana Lima (Bra)
• Antony Garrett Lisi
  Antony Garrett Lisi
  Antony Garrett Lisi , who uses the name Garrett by preference, is an American theoretical physicist and adventure sports enthusiast. Lisi works as an independent researcher without an academic position...
  
   (US) Physicist.
• Jack London
  Jack London
  John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
  
   (1876-1916) (US) Writer, Hawaiian surfer
• Gerry Lopez
  Gerry Lopez
  Gerry Lopez , aka Mr. Pipeline, is an American surfer, shaper, journalist, and film actor.-Early life:Lopez was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, grew up in East Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii and attended Punahou School. He frequented the semi secret reefs in and around Aina Haina as well as better known surf...
  
   (1948- ), (Haw) "Mr.Pipeline", Founder of Lightning Bolt surfboards and Actor (played role of Subotai in Conan the Barbarian)http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/lopez_gerry.cfm
• Barton Lynch (1963- ) (Aus) 1988 World Champion

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• Rob Machado
  Rob Machado
  Robert Edward Machado is an American professional surfer from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a community in Encinitas , California....
  
   (1973- ) (USA) Won Pipeline Masters and U.S. Open of Surfing
• James MacLaren
  James Maclaren
  James MacLaren was an early settler and entrepreneur in western Quebec.He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1818. He came to Richmond in Upper Canada with his family in 1822. The family then settled in Torobolton Township and then moved to Wakefield in Lower Canada in the 1840s...
  
   (USA) Florida longboarding iconoclast. Author of Learn To Surf, Lyons Press 1997. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1558215689
• Cheyne Magnusson
  Cheyne Magnusson
  Cheyne Magnusson is a professional surfer and one of the stars of MTV's reality show Maui Fever.He was born in Southern California and moved to Hawaii with his family at the age of seven. His father, Tony Magnusson, is a professional skateboarder...
  
   (c. 1984), US
• Malia Manuel (1993- ) (Haw) 2008 US Open Champion (youngest ever)
• Bobby Martinez
  Bobby Martinez
  Bobby Martinez is a professional surfer from Santa Barbara, California.-Career:Martinez began surfing at age 6. When he was old enough, he joined the National Scholastic Surfing Association where he went on to win a record seven national titles. After several injury prone years he joined the...
  
   (1986- ) (USA) 2006 Rookie of the Year
• Clay Marzo
  Clay Marzo
  Clay Marzo was born on July 17, 1989, in San Diego, California. He was raised in Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii where he currently still resides. Clay is an accomplished professional surfer and aquatic athlete....
  
   (1989- ) (USA) Three NSSA National surfing titles, a nomination for Maneuver of the Year at the 2007 SURFER Magazine Poll and Video Awards
• Pauline Menczer
  Pauline Menczer
  Pauline Menczer is an Australian surfer. She won the 1988 women's amateur world title and the 1993 women's world championship and has been a long-standing competitor on the world championship tour....
  
   (1970- ) (Aus) 1988 amateur world champion, 1993 world champion
• Jessi Miley-Dyer
  Jessi Miley-Dyer
  Jessica Candice "Jessi" Miley-Dyer is a professional surfer from New South Wales, Australia. She currently resides in Sydney....
  
   (1986- ) (Aus)
• Wayne Miyata (1942-2005) (USA) California and Hawaii, "going tubular" in Endless Summer, famous color glosser
• Carissa Moore
  Carissa Moore
  Carissa Kainani Moore is an Hawaiian surfer and the 2011 ASP Women's World Tour Champion.As of July 2011, Moore has won 6 ASP Women's World Tour events, 2 ASP WQS 6-Star events and an unprecedented 11 NSSA Titles....
  
   (1992- ) (Haw) 2011 ASP Women's World Champion, youngest female ever to win
• Sofía Mulánovich
  Sofia Mulanovich
  Sofía Mulánovich Aljovín is a Peruvian surfer. She is the first Peruvian surfer ever to win an Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour event. She is the first South American ever to win the World Title. In 2004, she won three out of the six World Championship Tour events, and...
  
   (1983- ) (Peru) First South American to win the World Title in 2004
• Mickey Muñoz
  Mickey Munoz
  Mickey Munoz, born in New York City in 1937, is one of the early pioneers of surfing but is perhaps more famous for his work as a surfboard shaper. Munoz, a historical figure in the surfing world, has been featured in many popular surfing documentaries such as the 2004 film Riding Giants...
  
   (1937- ) (USA) Early surfing pioneer, also famous as a surfboard shaper

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• Greg Noll
  Greg Noll
  Greg Noll , nicknamed "Da Bull" by Phil Edwards in reference to his physique and way of "charging" down the face of a wave, is an American pioneer of big wave surfing and is also acknowledged as a prominent longboard shaper. Noll was a member of a US lifeguard team that introduced malibu boards to...
  
   (1937- ) (USA) Big wave pioneer, rode biggest wave of his era at Makaha
• Kem Nunn
  Kem Nunn
  Kem Nunn is an American fiction novelist, surfer, magazine and television writer from California. His novels have been described as "surf-noir" for their dark themes, political overtones and surf settings. He is the author of five novels, including his seminal surf novel Tapping the Source.He has...
  
   (US) Avid surfer and America's leading surf novelist
• David Nuuhiwa
  David Nuuhiwa
  David Kealohalani Nuuhiwa III is a Hawaiian surfer.- Life :After his mother died in 1952, he lived with various relatives. Nuuhiwa competed in contests when he was as young as six. He originally became interested in Paipo boarding, an equivalent to skimboarding, but soon transitioned to larger...
  
   (1948- ) (USA) legendary nose rider from the 1960s

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• Margo Oberg
  Margo Oberg
  Margo Oberg is a three-time world surfing champion from the United States. She won her first world title in 1977, then won back-to-back titles in 1980 and 1981...
  
   (1953- ) (Haw) Three-time world champion 1977, 1980 & 1981
• Jamie O'Brien
  Jamie O'Brien (surfer)
  Jamie O'Brien is a professional surfer from North Shore, Hawaii.-Career:O'Brien was born on June 9, 1983 in Hawaii and currently lives in Haleiwa. He has said that he was fortunate as a child to grow up near the Banzai Pipeline...
  
   (1983- ) (Haw)
• Mark Occhilupo
  Mark Occhilupo
  Marco Jay Luciano "Mark" Occhilupo is an Australian surfer and winner of the 1999 World surfing champion title.Occhilupo, also known as Occy, began his professional career in the World Championship Tour at the age of 17....
  
   (1966- ) (Aus) 1999 world champion
• Phyllis O'Donnell
  Phyllis O'Donnell
  Phyllis O'Donnell is an Australian surfer who became the first Women's World Surfing Champion. O'Donnell won the championship in 1964 at the age of 27. At the time of her championship, surfing was dominated by men and her championship was regarded as a step forward for women's recognition in the...
  
   (1937- ) (Aus) In 1964 won the inaugural women's World Championship Surfing Title at Manly Beach
• Jack O'Neill
  Jack O'Neill (businessman)
  Jack O'Neill is an American businessman, often credited with the invention of the wetsuit. In 1952 he opened one of California's first surf shops in a garage on the Great Highway in San Francisco, close to his favorite bodysurfing break, which lead to the establishment of a company that deals in...
  
   (1923- ) Surfer and inventor of the modern wetsuit
• Chris O'Rourke (California) Promising and inspirational surfer from the 1970s who died of Hodgkin's Disease in his early 20s.

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• Joel Parkinson
  Joel Parkinson
  Joel Parkinson is an Australian surfer who competes on the ASP World Tour. Known as Parko, he grew up on the Gold Coast with fellow surfer Mick Fanning...
  
   (1981- ) (Aus)
• Mike Parsons (1965- ) Surfed largest recorded wave of 70 ft at Cortes Bank
  Cortes Bank
  Cortes Bank is a dangerously shallow chain of underwater mountains in the Pacific Ocean, about 115 miles west of Point Loma San Diego, USA, and about 50 miles south-west of San Clemente Island, Los Angeles County....
  
  
• Stacey Peralta (1957- ) (USA) Z-Boy
• Lakey Peterson
  Lakey Peterson
  Lakey Peterson is a Californian surfer and is ranked #3 by the Association of Surfing Professionals in North America and #7 on the ASP Women’s World Ranking. In 2009, Lakey landed the first-ever aerial in NSSA women’s competition history and won the title...
  
   (1994- ) (USA)
• Michael Peterson
  Michael Peterson (surfer)
  Michael Peterson , known as MP, is an Australian surfer. He was among the best Australian surfers in the early to mid 1970s, noted for his deep tube riding skill, especially at Kirra on the Gold Coast. He was Australian champion in 1972 and 1974 and won many other major surfing competitions...
  
   (1952- ) (Aus) Australian champion 1972 & 1974
• John Philbin
  John Philbin
  John Philbin is an American surfer who has appeared in television and film.John first began acting in high school, around the same time he began surfing. Choosing acting over wrestling, John joined a drama team that went on to win awards throughout his high school career. Upon leaving high school,...
  
   California (1965) Turtle from "North Shore"
• Bob Pike
  Bob Pike (surfer)
  Bob Pike , full name Robert Hughes Pike, was an Australian surfer who specialized in big wave surfing. One of four sons born to a former surf champion in Sydney, he was taught the fundamentals by his father and entered his first competition in 1958...
  
   (1940–1999) (Aus) Noted big wave surfer
  Big wave surfing
  Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing in which experienced surfers paddle into or are towed onto waves which are at least 20 feet high, on surf boards known as "guns" or "rhino chasers". Sizes of the board needed to successfully surf these waves vary by the size of the wave as well as...
  
  
• Tiago Pires
  Tiago Pires
  Tiago Filipe dos Santos Pires is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Atlético Reguengos.-Biography:Tiago Pires was signed by Genoa in mid-2006, along with Diogo Tavares. In 2007–08 season, he was loaned to Lugano along with Alessandro Di Maio, Diogo Tavares and Rivaldo González...
  
   (1980- ) (Por)
• Felipe Pomar (1943- ) (Per) 1965 World Champion
• Martin Potter
  Martin Potter (surfer)
  Martin "Pottz" Potter , is a former professional surfer-Early Years:His parents emigrated to Durban, South Africa when he was 2 years old. He began surfing off the beaches of his hometown Durban at age 10...
  
   (1965- ) (SA) 1989 World Champion

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• Jacqueline Silva
  Jacqueline Silva
  Jacqueline Silva is a professional surfer from Florianopolis, Brazil. She is considered to be a pioneer in women's Brazilian surfing and has garnered the best results from someone from Brazil, male or female. She began at a time when there were no female categories in Brazilian surfing championships...
  
   (Bra) (1979- ) Pioneer in Brazilian women's surfing
• Bob Simmons
  Robert Wilson Simmons
  Robert Wilson Simmons , better known as Bob Simmons, was an early surfing pioneer, and considered to be the father of the modern surfboard....
  
   (1919-1954) (USA) Father of the modern surfboard
• Kelly Slater
  Kelly Slater
  Robert Kelly Slater is an American professional surfer known for his competitive prowess and style. He has been crowned ASP World Champion a record 11 times, including 5 consecutive titles from 1994–98. He is the youngest and the oldest to win the title...
  
   (1972- ) (USA) 11-time World Champion
• Jordy Smith
  Jordy Smith
  Jordan Michael "Jordy" Smith is a South African professional surfer competing on the World Championship Tour . In 2007 Smith won surfing's World Qualifying Series, the second-tier tour which leads to qualification for the WCT....
  
   (1988- ) (SA)
• Griff Snyder (1948- ) USA Historian, credited with the interest in Antique Surfboards
• Mike Stewart (1963- ) (Haw) 9-time World Bodyboarding Champion
• Rell Sunn
  Rell Sunn
  Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn was an American world surfing champion. Known as "Queen of Makaha" and "Aunty Rell", she was a pioneer in the world of women's surfing....
  
   (1950-1988) (Haw) A top female surfer of 1980s, known as the "Queen of Makaha"

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• Guilherme Tamega
  Guilherme Tâmega
  Guilherme Tâmega is a six-time world bodyboarding champion.Born in Brazil, Tamega won the Shark Island Challenge bodyboarding event three times in a row. He also competes in the international bodyboarding World Tour.-References:...
  
   (Bra) 6-time world champion bodyboarder
• Leigh Tingle (Aus), had the first bellyboard in Australia; built for him by Scott Dillon and Noel Ward at Bondi. Gordon Woods was responsible for the final shape. It was February 1958.
• Shaun Tomson
  Shaun Tomson
  Shaun Tomson is a South African professional surfer and former world champion, environmentalist, actor, author and businessman.-Life and career:...
  
   (1955- ) (USA) Born in South Africa, currently living in the USA, 1977 World Champion
• Peter Townend
  Peter Townend (surfer)
  - Early Surfing Years :Townend was born in Coolangatta, Queensland , was considered to be one of the best surfers in the world throughout the 70's and 80's. Some however might argue that the competition was a lot less competitive and the surf tours were loosely planned, none-the-less his title...
  
   (1953- ) (Aus) 1976 World Champion
• Joel Tudor
  Joel Tudor
  Joel Tudor is a surfer, primarily known for longboarding, and competitive grappler from San Diego, California.-Early life:His father, Joe, who ignored the shortboard revolution himself and never abandoned his longboard, first put his Joel on a surfboard during a family trip to Puerto Vallarta...
  
   (1976- ) (USA) Famous contemporary longboarder

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• Butch Van Artsdalen
  Butch Van Artsdalen
  Charles M. Van Artsdalen was a legendary surfer. He moved to La Jolla, California, from his birthplace of Norfolk, Virginia, at age 14. Artsdalen is best known as a pioneer of surfing 25-foot waves at such North Shore locations as Waimea Bay and Sunset Beach; and tube riding in Hawaii during the...
  
   (1941-1979) (Haw) the original Mr. Pipeline
• Dale Velzy (1927-2005) (USA) 1950s surf shop pioneer and surfboard design innovator
• Mark Visser
  Mark Visser
  Mark Robert Visser is an Australian big wave surfer and adventure athlete. Mark started surfing at 10 years old, and competed in several junior surfing tournaments in his youth. His professional career has included placing in several major surfing events and consideration in the XXL awards for...
  
   (1983- ) (Aus) Big-wave surfer, the "Night Rider"

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• Robert "Wingnut" Weaver Featured, along with Patrick O'Connell, in The Endless Summer II surf film.
• Sharon Webber
  Sharon Webber
  Sharon Webber, an American surfer, won the women's world surfing championship in 1970, the second time the event was held. In 1972, Webber won the International Surfing Federation's surfing world championship.-References:...
  
   (USA) Women's world surfing championship in 1970 & 1972
• Dewey Weber
  Dewey Weber
  David Earl Weber, , known as Dewey Weber, was an American surfer.Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, he stood out for his unique surfing style...
  
   (1938–1993) (USA) Surfer and surfboard designer
• Dale Webster
  Dale Webster
  Dale Webster, known as "The Daily Wavester", is a surfer who lives in Valley Ford, California. He is best known for setting the official Guinness Book of World Records record for the "most consecutive days spent surfing" and his appearance in Step into Liquid.-The record:For twenty-eight years,...
  
   (1948- ) (USA) Northern California surfer who surfed over 10,407 days in a row, minimum of 3 waves a day. Appeared in the Step Into Liquid
  Step Into Liquid
  Step into Liquid is a documentary about surfing directed by Dana Brown, son of famed surfer and filmmaker Bruce Brown. The film includes surfing footage from the famous Pipeline, the beaches of Vietnam, and some of the world's largest waves, at Cortes Bank...
  
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• John Whitmore (SA) South African surfing pioneer.
• Dennis Wilson
  Dennis Wilson
  Dennis Carl Wilson was an American rock and roll musician best known as a founding member and the drummer of The Beach Boys. He was a member of the group from its formation until his death in 1983...
  
   (1944-1983) (USA) Founding member of The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys
  The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...
  
  
• Owen Wright (1990- ) (Aus)
• Tyler Wright (1994- ) (Aus) 2011 ASP Women's World Tour Rookie of the Year

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• Nat Young
  Nat Young (surfer)
  Robert Harold "Nat" Young is an Australian surfer and author.Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Young grew up in the small coastal suburb of Collaroy. In 1964, he was runner-up in the Australian junior championship at Manly, and two years later was named world surfing champion in 1966. He won the...
  
  (1947- ) (Aus) World surfing champion 1966 & 1970, ASP World Longboard Tour Champion 1986 & 1988-1990. Tried to register surfing as an official religion. http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/young_nat.cfm