# 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

* List of British cyclists
* List of Dutch cyclists

## Cyclists by decade
### Of the 1880s

* Frank Bowden
* Thomas Stevens
* Alfred Tipper
* Thomas Henry Sumpter Walker

### Of the 1890s

* Georgios Aspiotis
* 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 (26 November 1878 – 21 June 1932) was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile (1.6 km) 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 (1890–1916), 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

* Gino Bartali
* Charles Holland
* Roger Lapébie
* Leonard Maffei
* Jef Scherens
* Kurt Stöpel
* Lucien Vlaemynck

### 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 (unicyclist)
* 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 (now stripped of Tour de France medals)
* 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 (NED), 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

### Of the 2020s

* João Almeida
* Wout van Aert
* Egan Bernal
* Remco Evenepoel
* Mikhail Iakovlev
* Tadej Pogačar
* Mathieu van der Poel
* Jonas Vingegaard
* Sepp Kuss
* Olav Kooij