page_title: Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling
section_title: Notable motorcycle sportspersons
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of motorcycles and motorcycling / Motorcycling / Notable motorcycle sportspersons
caption_attribution_description: Joey Dunlop on his Honda RC30 ready for the Senior TT Deutsch: Vor dem Start zur Senior TT 1992 Nederlands: Joey Dunlop aan de start van de TT in 1992
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of motorcycles and motorcycling:
  Motorcycle — two-wheeled, single-track motor vehicle. Other names include: motorbike, bike, and cycle.
  Motorcycling — act of riding a motorcycle, around which a variety of subcultures and lifestyles have built up.
context_section_description: Giacomo Agostini – Grand Prix motorcycle racer, winner of fifteen World Championship titles and 122 Grand Prix race wins
  Erwin 'Cannonball' Baker – US promotional rider known for setting transcontinental speed records on motorcycles and in cars in the early 20th century
  Toni Bou – winner of thirteen trial World Championship titles
  Ricky Carmichael – very successful motocross racer
  Geoff Duke – Grand Prix motorcycle racer, winner of six World Championship titles, and the first racer to wear a one-piece leather racing suit
  Joey Dunlop – motorcycle racer who won 26 races at the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy meets
  Bud Ekins – stunt rider and stunt coordinator
  Stefan Everts – winner of ten FIM Motocross World Championship titles
  Carl Fogarty – superbike racer, four-time World Superbike champion
  Mike Hailwood – Grand Prix motorcycle racer, winner of 9 World Championship titles and 14 Isle of Man TT races; first to win 3 races at one IoM TT, in 1961 (125 cc, 250 cc, and 500 cc)
  Ernst Jakob Henne – a German motorcycle racer in the 1920s
  Aleš Hlad, Slovenian supermoto racer, 2005 European Champion and winner of the 2007 Athens GP
  Dougie Lampkin  – winner of twelve trial World Championship titles
  Mary McGee -first woman to officially race motorcycles
  John McGuinness successful road racer at the Isle of Man TT, the North West 200, the Macau Grand Prix and the Bol d'Or.
  Guy Martin -  an English motorcycle racer and television personality.
  Sammy Miller, MBE – motorcycle sportsperson, museum collector, patron of the National Association for Bikers with a Disability (NABD)
  Evel Knievel – stunt rider known for jumping motorcycles over tall, long, or otherwise dangerous obstacles; and for multiple injuries from bad landings
  Phil Read - motorcycle racer who successfully competed in MotoGPs, the Isle of Man TT and in Bol d'Or endurance races.
  Valentino Rossi – Grand Prix motorcycle racer, winner of nine World Championship titles and 111 Grand Prix races
  Kenny Roberts – first American to win a motorcycle Grand Prix, winner of the AMA Grand Slam, racing team owner and safety advocate
  Juha Salminen – winner of thirteen World Enduro Championship titles
  Barry Sheene – Grand Prix motorcycle racer, winner of three World Championship titles
  John Surtees – Grand Prix motorcycle racer, winner of seven World Championship titles; the only racer to have won world championship titles on both two and four wheels
  Mick Doohan – Grand Prix motorcycle racer, winner of five World Championship titles
  Kari Tiainen – winner of seven World Enduro Championship titles
caption: Joey Dunlop on his Honda RC30 ready for the Senior TT
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