| ZIDANE | Only person to win FIFA's Player of the Year award ('98, '00, '03) and Coach of the Year award ('17) |
| AREACODES | 02, 03 and 04, e.g. in Israel (4,5) |
| MOYA | Spanish tennis player and coach of Nadal (4) |
| LENDL | Ivan __, Wimbledon champion and coach of Andy Murray (5) |
| LARRYBIRD | Only man to win MVP, Coach of the Year, and Executive of the Year in the NBA |
| MESSI | Five-time winner of FIFA's player of the year award |
| PELE | Maradona's co-winner of FIFA's Player of the Century award |
| MARADONA | With Pele, co-winner of FIFA's Player of the Century award |
| DIEGOMARADONA | Joint winner, with Pele, of FIFA's Player of the 70th Century Award (5,8) |
| EMIL | ___ Zatopek, the only person to win the 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon at the same Olympic Games (4) |
| TILDEN | Only person to win the majority of the popular vote and still lose |
| IVANISEVIC | Goran ___, tennis player who is the only person to win the men's singles title at Wimbledon as a wildcard |
| CURIE | Surname of the woman who is the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in different fields (5) |
| FOSSE | Only person to win an Oscar, Emmy and Tony in the same year (1973) |
| BECKY | ___ Hammon Las Vegas Aces head coach who received the 2022 WNBA Coach of the Year award |
| BRIANDABOLL | New York Giants coach who won the 2022 NFL Coach of the Year award: 2 wds. |
| SHAW | Only person to win both an Academy Award and a Nobel Prize |
| TONYBENNETT | 2018 AP Coach of the Year who shares his name with the singer of I Left My Heart in San Francisco: 2 wds. |
| ROCHE | Which Irish player was runner-up in Fifa's Puskas Award for most beautiful goal of the year? (5) |
| RONALDO | Brazilian football wizard nicknamed The Phenomenon who has thrice won FIFA's World Player of the Year |
