# List of Indian field hockey captains in Olympics

This is a list of all field hockey players who have captained Indian national men's and women's field hockey team at the international level in Olympics. The list includes all Indian captains since the period of 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam.

## Men's

| Name | Year | Rank | Venue | Birth | Death |
| Jaipal Singh Munda | 1928 | Gold medal | Amsterdam Olympics | 3 January 1903 in Takra Pahantoli, Ranchi, Jharkhand | 20 March 1970 (aged 67) in New Delhi |
| Lal Shah Bokhari | 1932 | Gold medal | Los Angeles Olympics | 22 July 1909 in Faisalabad, Punjab (Pakistan) | 22 July 1959 (aged 50) in Baghdad, Iraq |
| Dhyan Chand | 1936 | Gold medal | Berlin Olympics | 29 August 1905 in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh | 3 December 1979 (aged 74) in Delhi |
| Kishan Lal | 1948 | Gold medal | London Olympics | 2 February 1917 in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh | 3 June 1980 (aged 63) in Madras |
| K. D. Singh | 1952 | Gold medal | Helsinki Olympics | 2 February 1922 in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh | 27 March 1978 (aged 56) in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh |
| Balbir Singh Sr. | 1956 | Gold medal | Melbourne Olympics | 31 December 1923 in Haripur Khalsa, Punjab | 25 May 2020 (aged 96) in Mohali, Punjab |
| Leslie Claudius | 1960 | Silver medal | Rome Olympics | 25 May 1927 in Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh | 20 December 2012 (aged 85) in Kolkata, West Bengal |
| Charanjit Singh | 1964 | Gold medal | Tokyo Olympics | 3 February 1931 in Mairi, Himachal Pradesh | 27 January 2022 (aged 90) in Una, Himachal Pradesh |
| Gurbux Singh and Prithipal Singh | 1968 | Bronze medal | Mexico City Olympics | 11 February 1936 in Peshawar, Pakistan 28 January 1932 in Nankana Sahib, Pakistan | Gurbux is alive Prithipal Singh- 20 May 1983 (aged 51) in Ludhiana |
| Harmik Singh | 1972 | Bronze medal | Munich Olympics | 10 June 1947 in Gujranwala, Punjab | Alive |
| Ajit Pal Singh | 1976 | 7th Position | Montreal Olympics | 1 April 1947 in Sansarpur, Punjab | Alive |
| Vasudevan Baskaran | 1980 | Gold medal | Moscow Olympics | 17 August 1950 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Alive |
| Zafar Iqbal | 1984 | 5th Position | Los Angeles Olympics | 12 June 1956 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh | Alive |
| M. M. Somaya | 1988 | 6th Position | Seoul Olympics | 8 May 1959 in Coorg, Karnataka | Alive |
| Pargat Singh | 1992 | 7th Position | Barcelona Olympics | 5 March 1965 in Mithapur, Jalandhar, Punjab | Alive |
| Pargat Singh | 1996 | 8th Position | Atlanta Olympics | 5 March 1965 in Mithapur, Jalandhar, Punjab | Alive |
| Ramandeep Singh | 2000 | 7th Position | Sydney Olympics | 8 August 1971 in Chandigarh | Alive |
| Dilip Tirkey | 2004 | 7th Position | Athens Olympics | 25 November 1977 in Sundergarh, Odisha | Alive |
| Bharat Chetri | 2012 | 12th Position | London Olympics | 15 December 1981 in Kalimpong, West Bengal | Alive |
| P. R. Sreejesh | 2016 | 8th position | Rio Olympics | 8 May 1988 in Kochi, Kerala | Alive |
| Manpreet Singh | 2020 | Bronze medal | Tokyo Olympics | 26 June 1992 in Mithapur, Jalandhar, Punjab, India | Alive |
| Harmanpreet Singh (field hockey)| | 2024 | Bronze medal | Paris Olympics | 6 January 1996 in Timmowal, Amritsar, Punjab, India | Alive |

## Women's

| Name | Year | Rank | Venue | Birth | Death |
| Rupa Kumari Saini | 1980 | 4th position | Moscow Olympics | 2 September 1954 in Faridkot, Punjab | Alive |
| Sushila Chanu | 2016 | 12th position | Rio Olympics | 25 February 1992 in Imphal, Manipur | Alive |
| Rani Rampal | 2020 | 4th position | Tokyo Olympics | 4 December 1994 in Shahabad Markanda, Haryana | Alive |