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

Of the 1880s

 * Frank Bowden
 * Thomas Stevens
 * Alfred Tipper

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
 * 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