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Don Havens
Don Havens (Donald Havens) is an American sprint freestyle swimmer, USC class of 1969, who won the 1967 Tokyo Universiade 100 m freestyle, swam on a world-record 4x100 m relay, and clocked 52.5 in 1969.
Don Schollander
Don Schollander (Donald Arthur Schollander, born 1946) is an American swimmer, first to win four golds at one Olympics (Tokyo 1964), five Olympic golds total, 22 world records, 1964 Sullivan Award winner.
Don Sheff
Don Sheff (Donald Alexander Sheff, born 27 June 1931, Brooklyn) is an American former Yale swimmer who swam the heats of the US 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics; 1952 rules denied heats swimmers medals. He held two relay world records and later directed the New York Institute of Photography.
Donna de Varona
Donna de Varona (born 1947), American swimmer, youngest member of the 1960 U.S. Olympic team at 13; won 400 m individual medley and 4x100 freestyle relay gold at Tokyo 1964, set 18 world records, then became the first female U.S. network sportscaster and co-founded the Women's Sports Foundation.
Doug Gjertsen
Doug Gjertsen (Douglas Seneca Gjertsen, born 1967), American swimmer and coach; double 1988 Seoul Olympic freestyle relay gold medalist, 1992 bronze, Texas Longhorn NCAA champion, later SwimAtlanta head coach.
Doug Northway
Doug Northway (Douglas Dale Northway, born 1955) is an American swimmer who won 1,500 m freestyle bronze at Munich 1972 and swam on the US 4x200 m freestyle relay that set the 7:30.33 world record at Montreal 1976.
Doug Russell
Doug Russell (Douglas Albert Russell, born 1946), American swimmer from Midland, Texas; 1968 Olympic gold in 100 m butterfly (55.9 OR, upsetting Mark Spitz) and 4x100 medley relay; world records in backstroke, butterfly, medley relay; ISHOF 1985.
Doug van Wie
Doug van Wie (born 1984) is an American former swimmer from Charlotte, North Carolina, an Auburn backstroker who won gold and a 3:08.44 world record on the US 4x100m freestyle relay at the 2008 short-course Worlds, later a healthcare strategy executive.
Drew Kibler
Drew Kibler (Andrew Patrick Kibler), American freestyle swimmer born 2000 in Indianapolis; two-time Olympian (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024) with Olympic relay silver in Paris, short course 4x200 free relay world record 6:44.12, and Texas Longhorns NCAA champion.
Duje Draganja
Duje Draganja (born 1983, Split) is a Croatian sprint swimmer, 2004 Athens Olympic silver medalist in the 50 m freestyle, two-time short-course world champion, and 2008 short-course 50 m freestyle world record holder (20.81).
Duke Kahanamoku
Duke Kahanamoku (Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, 1890-1968), Native Hawaiian Olympic swimmer with three golds and two silvers, father of modern surfing, 1925 Thelma surfboard rescue, Sheriff of Honolulu and Hawaii's Ambassador of Aloha.
Duncan Armstrong
Duncan Armstrong, born 1968 in Rockhampton, Queensland, is an Australian swimmer who won gold in the 200 meter freestyle at the 1988 Seoul Olympics in world record time.
Duncan Goodhew
Duncan Goodhew (born 1957, Marylebone, London) is a British swimmer, MBE, who won 100m breaststroke gold and medley relay bronze at the 1980 Moscow Olympics after overcoming alopecia and dyslexia.
Duncan Scott (swimmer)
Duncan Scott (born 1997, Glasgow) is a Scottish freestyle and medley swimmer for Great Britain; first British athlete to win four Olympic medals at one Games (Tokyo 2020), eight Olympic medals, Scotland's most decorated Olympian.
Đurđica Bjedov
Đurđica Bjedov (Đurđa Bjedov), Croatian swimmer born 1947 in Split, won 100 m breaststroke gold in Olympic record 1:15.8 and 200 m silver at Mexico City 1968 for Yugoslavia; first Croatian Olympic swimming gold, ISHOF 1987.
Eamon Sullivan
Eamon Sullivan (born 1985) is a retired Australian sprint freestyle swimmer from Perth who held the 50 m and 100 m freestyle world records, won three Olympic medals at Beijing 2008, and retired in 2014 after shoulder and hip injuries.
Ed Moses
Ed Moses (Glenn Edward Moses, born 1980, Loma Linda, California) is the American breaststroke swimmer, not the hurdler Edwin Moses: 2000 Olympic silver 100 breaststroke, gold medley relay world record 3:33.73, and multiple long- and short-course breaststroke world records.
Ed Townsend
Ed Townsend (Robert Edward Townsend, Jr., born 1943) is an American freestyle swimmer, four-time NCAA champion at Yale, 1963 world record holder in both freestyle relays, and member of the US first-place 4x200 m freestyle relay at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics; later a New York entertainment lawyer.
Eddie Gilbert
Eddie Gilbert: name shared by Edwin Fisher Gilbert (1929-2020), American Olympic swimmer in the 1948 4x200 freestyle relay, and Edward Gilbert (1905-1978), Aboriginal Australian fast bowler; also a college sprinter and a boxer.
Edith Mayne
Edith Mayne (Edith May Mayne-Peacock, 1905-1953), English freestyle swimmer for Torquay Leander; 1928 Olympic 400 m finalist-stage swimmer and 1,500 m world record holder (24:00.2, 1926).
Edith Wetzel
Edith "Eadie" Wetzel, American swimmer; held the women's 200 m freestyle long course world record (2:08.8, Lincoln, 2 August 1968) and ranked in world top ten at 400, 800, and 1500 m freestyle; Illinois Swimming Hall of Fame.
Egon Henninger
Egon Henninger (1940–2025), East German breaststroke swimmer; two Olympic silvers in the 4×100 m medley relay (Tokyo 1964, Mexico City 1968) and 1967 world record 3:56.5.
Elaine Tanner
Elaine Tanner (Tanner-Watt), "Mighty Mouse", Canadian swimmer born 1951 in Vancouver; 1966 Commonwealth Games seven-medal haul, 1967 Pan Am double backstroke gold, and three 1968 Olympic medals as Canada's first female Olympic swimming medallist.
Eleanor Garatti Saville
Eleanor Garatti Saville (Eleanor Agnes Garatti-Saville, 1909-1998), American Olympic swimmer; gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Amsterdam 1928 and Los Angeles 1932, silver and bronze in the 100 m freestyle, first woman under 1:10 (1:09.8, 1929).
Eleanor Holm
Eleanor Holm (1913–2004), American backstroke swimmer and entertainer; 1932 Olympic 100m backstroke gold medalist, removed from the 1936 U.S. team by Avery Brundage over champagne on the SS Manhattan, later star of Billy Rose's Aquacade.
Elke Sehmisch
Elke Sehmisch (born 1955, Leipzig) is an East German former freestyle swimmer of SC DHfK Leipzig; 1970 European champion in the 400 m freestyle and 4x100 m relay, 1972 Munich Olympic relay silver medalist, later a Leipzig psychotherapist.
Ellie Daniel
Ellie Daniel (Eleanor Suzanne Daniel, born 1950) is an American swimmer who won four Olympic medals (gold 1968 4x100 medley relay, silver 100 fly, two bronze 200 fly) and set eight world records.
Else Jacobsen
Else Jacobsen (1911–1965), Danish breaststroke swimmer, first Dane to set a swimming world record (200 m, 1927), bronze medalist at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, later coach of Greta Andersen.
Elvi Svendsen
Elvi Johanne Svendsen (Svendsen-Carlsen), Danish swimmer (1920-2013) of IF Sparta, Copenhagen; 1936 and 1948 Olympian, 1947 European 4x100 m freestyle relay champion, 1938 world record holder 4:29.7.
Emil Rausch
Emil Rausch (Emil Ferdinand Gustav Rausch), German swimmer for SC Poseidon Berlin, won 1904 Olympic gold in the 880 yd and 1 mile freestyle swimming sidestroke, plus 1906 relay silver; last sidestroke Olympic champion, ISHOF 1968.