Sports Person Famous Names Starting with Letter M

A former Swedish footballer.Andersson played for Malmö FF in the 1970s and the 1980s. He played in

A former Swedish footballer.Andersson played for Malmö FF in the 1970s and the 1980s. He played in the European Champions Cup final in 1979 against Nottingham Forest F.C. and was a member of the Sweden national football team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

A Swedish football player, who plays forward currently for Halmstads BK.Arvidsson started his career

A Swedish football player, who plays forward currently for Halmstads BK.Arvidsson started his career in Förslövs IF and played there until 1991 when he moved to Helsingborgs IF, then playing in the first division now know as Superettan, he followed the team up to Allsvenskan in 1993 but played only a hand full of matches before leaving for IFK Hässleholm in 1995 and stayed there for 3 seasons, durring the 1995 season he scored a hattrick against Landskrona BoIS in just 89 seconds[1],

Is a Finnish footballer goalkeeper, currently playing for Halmstads BK.Bahne started his career in F

Is a Finnish footballer goalkeeper, currently playing for Halmstads BK.Bahne started his career in FC Inter Turku and at the age 20 he became the number one goalkeeper of the team. In 2007 he signed with Halmstads BK in the Swedish Allsvenskan. He has bee

Is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Colchester United as a defender.Prior to the 2006/2007 season

Is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Colchester United as a defender.Prior to the 2006/2007 season he spent three seasons with Fulham, one as a professional before making his way through the ranks at Rushden & Diamonds, including a spell as reserve captain.

A Swedish footballer. He has made 37 appearances and scored one goal the national team, including th

A Swedish footballer. He has made 37 appearances and scored one goal the national team, including the 1994 FIFA World Cup and Euro 1992. He has won four Swedish Championships.

He has played 58 matches for the Sweden national football team, and represented his country at two F

He has played 58 matches for the Sweden national football team, and represented his country at two FIFA World Cup and two European Championship tournaments.He is married to Magdalena Graaf, a Swedish model and former pop singer. The couple have three sons togetherHedman started his career with AIK in 1990 . He won the 1992 Allsvenskan championship with AIK, and was chosen as a backup for first-choice keeper Thomas Ravelli at the 1994 World Cup. He debuted for the Swedish national team in February 1997, and moved abroad to play for English club Coventry City in July that year. Hedman was chosen for the Swedish squad at the Euro 2000 where he played all Sweden's matches.

Was a Norwegian rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Norwegian

Was a Norwegian rower who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He was a crew member of the Norwegian boat, which won the bronze medal in the coxed fours, inriggers.

A former football midfielder from Sweden, known from his time as captain in SK Brann. After his acti

A former football midfielder from Sweden, known from his time as captain in SK Brann. After his active career, Johansson started coaching. His breakthrough came in 2004 when he led Løv-Ham Fotball from Bergen to promotion to the Adeccoliga. After retaining their spot in the Adeccoliga, Johansson became one of the foremost coaches in Norway, with offers from the Tippeliga clubs Vålerenga I.F. and Molde F.K. and the Adeccoliga club Bryne F.K.. He chose Bryne and became their head coach from the 2006 season. He resigne after just a half season in Bryne,

A Swedish football midfielder. After playing for two local clubs, he joined Örgryte IS in 1995 befo

A Swedish football midfielder. After playing for two local clubs, he joined Örgryte IS in 1995 before moving to Norwegian club Lillestrøm SK in 1997. He then moved on to Molde FK in 2002 before going back to Sweden and IFK Göteborg for the 2006 season. After just one season in Sweden he returned to Norway when he signed for Aalesunds FK in December 2006.

A former Swedish football goalkeeper. As of 2004 he had 13 matches for the national team. He has bec

A former Swedish football goalkeeper. As of 2004 he had 13 matches for the national team. He has become Danish league and cup champion with FC København.

Is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He

Is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in Estonian Meistriliiga, for JK Nõmme Kalju. He plays the position of winger or striker. Martinson is the former member of the Estonia national under-21 football team. His former clubs include Tervis Pärnu and Valga Warrior.

Is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.Gustafsson won 14 top-level singles titles during

Is a former professional tennis player from Sweden.Gustafsson won 14 top-level singles titles during his career, reaching a career-high singles ranking of World No. 10 in 1991. He was also part of the Swedish team which won the Davis Cup in 1998. His best performance at a Grand Slam event came at the Australian Open in 1994, where he reached the quarter-finals.

Is a retired Swedish professional tennis player who is best known for being the runner up at the Fre

Is a retired Swedish professional tennis player who is best known for being the runner up at the French Open in 2000 and for briefly being ranked World No. 2.

A retired Swedish football player who is currently the manager of GAIS, a position he has held since

A retired Swedish football player who is currently the manager of GAIS, a position he has held since November 2007. During his playing career he played for IFK Lidingö, Djurgårdens IF and IFK Göteborg in Sweden, as well as Bradford City in England.

A Swedish football (soccer) player, who currently plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo in the Norwegian Premier L

A Swedish football (soccer) player, who currently plays for F.C. Lyn Oslo in the Norwegian Premier League.Powell played in the Swedish Allsvenskan from 1995 - 1999 for Helsingborgs IF. He was an important part of the 1999 Helsingborg team that won the championship in Sweden scoring 8 goals in 24 matches. At the start of the 2000-season Powell was sold to Lillestrøm for £350,000 to replace Icelandic international Heiðar Helguson. Although he has struggled with injuries Powell has been a key-member of the Lillestrøm squad since arriving in 2000, scoring 29 goals in 73 league matches.

A Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Cha

A Swedish curler and world champion.He won a gold medal in the 1997, 2001 and 2004 World Curling Championships, all three times with skip Peja Lindholm, and received silver medals in 1998 and 2000.[1]Swartling is European champion from 1998 and 2001 (with

Is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while play

Is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career he won 1 doubles title. He achieved a career-high doubles ranking of World No. 43 in 1988.

Is a Danish professional football midfielder, who currently plays for the Danish Superliga side Esbj

Is a Danish professional football midfielder, who currently plays for the Danish Superliga side Esbjerg fB.

On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days, the thi

On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days, the third youngest Grandmaster age in history.In the July 2008 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2775, making him World's number 6.The result that brought him to the attention of the international chess world, however, was his victory in the C group at the Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee with 10.5/13, losing just one game (against the highest rated player of the C group, Dusko Pavasovic), taking his first Grandmaster norm, and achieving an Elo tournament performance rating of 2702. Particularly notable was his win in the penultimate round over Sipke Ernst in which Carlsen sacrificed material to mate Ernst in just 29 moves. This game won Carlsen the Audience Prize for best game of the round (including all the games played in the B and A groups), though the first 23 moves had already been seen in the game Almagro Llanas-Gustafsson, Madrid 2003 (which, however, was a draw)

A professional Russian kickboxer and martial artist fighting out of Chinuk Gyn from Minsk, Belarus.

A professional Russian kickboxer and martial artist fighting out of Chinuk Gyn from Minsk, Belarus. He was six time amateur Russian kickboxing champion and the professional WMC and IMF Light Heavyweight World Muay Thai Champio

Is a Russian heavyweight boxer best known to become Russian amateur champion 2005 and 2006 at super

Is a Russian heavyweight boxer best known to become Russian amateur champion 2005 and 2006 at super heavyweight. In spite of his success at the nationals 2005 and 2006 hard-punching southpaw Abdusalamov stood in the shadows of Islam Timurziev who was sent

A Belarusian boxer, who competed in the Light Heavyweight (81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and wo

A Belarusian boxer, who competed in the Light Heavyweight (81 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.

Is a Belarusian boxer. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second place at the

Is a Belarusian boxer. He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in second place at the 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Is a Dagestani Uzbek wrestler who competed in the freestyle 96 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Is a Dagestani Uzbek wrestler who competed in the freestyle 96 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He was born in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Divisio

Is a Russian professional football player. As of August 2009, he plays in the Russian Second Division for FC Dagdizel Kaspiysk.