page_title: 1970s
section_title: Sports figures
hierarchical_section_title: 1970s / People / Sports figures
caption_attribution_description: Nadia Comăneci at the 1976 Olympics
context_page_description: The 1970s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1970, and ended on December 31, 1979.
  In the 21st century, historians have increasingly portrayed the 1970s as a "pivot of change" in world history, focusing especially on the economic upheavals that followed the end of the postwar economic boom. In the Western world, social progressive values that began in the 1960s, such as increasing political awareness and economic liberty of women, continued to grow. In the United Kingdom, the 1979 election resulted in the victory of its Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister. Industrialized countries, except Japan, experienced an economic recession due to an oil crisis caused by oil embargoes by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries. The crisis saw the first instance of stagflation which began a political and economic trend of the replacement of Keynesian economic theory with neoliberal economic theory, with the first neoliberal governments being created in Chile, where a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet took place in 1973.
context_section_description: André the Giant
  Hank Aaron
  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  Carlos Alberto Torres
  Bobby Allison
  Muhammad Ali
  Nate Archibald
  Arthur Ashe
  Mykola Avilov
  Rick Barry
  Franz Beckenbauer
  Johnny Bench
  George Best
  Fred Biletnikoff
  Dave Bing
  Bjorn Borg
  Valery Borzov
  Bill Bradley
  Terry Bradshaw
  Bobby Charlton
  Jack Charlton
  Wilt Chamberlain
  Bobby Clarke
  Roberto Clemente
  Nadia Comăneci
  Jimmy Connors
  Hasely Crawford
  Billy Cunningham
  Dave Cowens
  Johan Cruyff
  Larry Csonka
  Kenny Dalglish
  Dave DeBusschere
  Eusébio
  Roy Emerson
  Julius Erving
  Phil Esposito
  Chris Evert
  Rollie Fingers
  Carlton Fisk
  Ric Flair
  George Foreman
  Joe Frazier
  Walt Frazier
  Claudio Gentile
  George Gervin
  Artis Gilmore
  Gail Goodrich
  Goose Gossage
  Joe Greene
  Bob Griese
  Jack Ham
  Dorothy Hamill
  Franco Harris
  John Havlicek
  Connie Hawkins
  Elvin Hayes
  Spencer Haywood
  Catfish Hunter
  Dan Issel
  Reggie Jackson
  Jairzinho
  Alberto Juantorena
  Kevin Keegan
  Mario Kempes
  Billie Jean King
  Guy Lafleur
  Jack Lambert
  Niki Lauda
  Rod Laver
  Pete Maravich
  Roland Matthes
  Bob McAdoo
  John McEnroe
  Pietro Mennea
  Earl Monroe
  Joe Morgan
  Edwin Moses
  Gerd Muller
  Calvin Murphy
  John Naber
  Johan Neeskens
  Jack Nicklaus
  Tom Okker
  Bobby Orr
  Jim Palmer
  Bernie Parent
  Pat Patterson
  Walter Payton
  Pelé
  Tony Perez
  Richard Petty
  Harley Race
  Willis Reed
  Rivellino
  Oscar Robertson
  Larry Robinson
  Pete Rose
  Ken Rosewall
  Nolan Ryan
  Randy Savage
  Mike Schmidt
  Arnold Schwarzenegger
  Tom Seaver
  O. J. Simpson
  Stan Smith
  Mark Spitz
  Ken Stabler
  John Stallworth
  Willie Stargell
  Roger Staubach
  Big John Studd
  Lynn Swann
  Nate Thurmond
  Wes Unseld
  Guillermo Vilas
  Bill Walton
  Jerry West
  Paul Westphal
  Jo Jo White
  Jamaal Wilkes
  Lenny Wilkens
  Mac Wilkins
  Carl Yastrzemski
  Dino Zoff
  Zico
caption: Nadia Comăneci
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