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Andras Wanie
András Wanié (Wanie), Hungarian swimmer and water polo player (1911–1976) of Szeged; 1932 Olympic 4x200 m freestyle relay bronze medalist, 1931 European champion, world and European record holder, later national head coach 1940–1943.
Andrea Eife
Andrea Eife (born 1956, Leipzig), East German swimmer with SC Dynamo Berlin; 1972 Olympic 4x100 freestyle relay silver, 1973 World and 1974 European relay gold, world record 3:52.45.
Andrea Georoff
Andrea Georoff, American swimmer from Winter Park, Florida; swam for Virginia and Georgia, set the 2005 NCAA 200-yard freestyle relay record (1:28.10), and later held USMS masters 50 freestyle records.
Andrea Gyarmati
Andrea Gyarmati (Gyarmati Andrea, born 1954, Budapest) is a Hungarian swimmer, 1972 Olympic silver (100 m backstroke) and bronze (100 m butterfly) medalist, 100 m butterfly world record holder, and 1995 International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee.
Andrea Pollack
Andrea Pollack, full name Andrea Pollack-Pinske (1961–2019), was an East German butterfly swimmer who won three gold and three silver medals at the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games.
Andreas Schmidt
Andreas Schmidt (born 1959, Düsseldorf), West German freestyle swimmer, relay specialist; two Olympics (1976, 1984), ten World and European relay medals, 4x200 m freestyle relay world record 7:20.40 in 1983.
Andrei Dunaev
Andrei Dunaev (Andrey Yevgenyevich Dunayev, 1949-2015), Soviet medley swimmer from Moscow's Spartak club; set the 400 m medley world record (4:45.3, Tallinn, 1968), won 1966 European silver, and placed 7th in the 400 m IM at the 1968 Olympics.
Andrei Korneev
Andrei Korneev (Andrey Nikolayevich Korneyev, Андрей Николаевич Корнеев), Russian breaststroke swimmer, 1996 Olympic 200 m breaststroke bronze medalist whose medal was stripped for bromantan and restored on CAS appeal; short course world record holder 2:07.79 (1998).
Andrei Minakov
Andrei Minakov (Андрей Дмитриевич Минаков, born 2002), Russian swimmer, butterfly and freestyle sprinter; six-time 2018 Youth Olympic champion, Tokyo 2020 finalist, 2019 world silver medalist, and short-course 4x100 m medley relay world record holder (3:18.68).
Andrew Wilson
Andrew Lawrence Wilson (born 1993), American breaststroke swimmer; first NCAA Division III swimmer on the U.S. Olympic team, Tokyo 2020 gold in the men's 4x100 medley relay; distinct from cyclist Andy Wilson (1902-1926) and Australian canoe slalom Olympian Andrew Wilson (born 1964).
Andrey Grechin
Andrey Grechin (Андрей Гречин, born 1987, Barnaul) is a Russian sprint freestyle swimmer; three-time Olympian (2008, 2012, 2016) and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist in the 4x100 m freestyle relay.
Andrey Krylov
Andrey Ivanovich Krylov (Андрей Иванович Крылов), Soviet freestyle swimmer born 1956 in St. Petersburg; 1976 and 1980 Olympian with one gold and three silver medals, later a coach and university sports administrator.
Andrey Shabasov
Andrey Shabasov (Андрей Дмитриевич Шабасов), Russian backstroke swimmer born 1994 in St. Petersburg; 2016 Rio Olympian (200 m backstroke, 12th), double world short-course relay champion at Windsor 2016, and 2014 mixed medley relay world record holder.
Andriy Hovorov
Andriy Hovorov (Andrii Govorov, Андрій Говоров), Ukrainian sprint swimmer born 1992, holds the 50m butterfly long course world record at 22.27 (Rome, 2018), won double Youth Olympic gold in 2010, and joined the 2026 Enhanced Games.
Andriy Serdinov
Andriy Serdinov (Андрій Вікторович Сердінов), Ukrainian butterfly swimmer born 1982 in Luhansk; 2004 Olympic 100 m butterfly bronze medalist and 2003 world record holder at 51.76.
Andy Coan
Andy Coan (1958-2017), American sprint freestyle swimmer; set the 100m freestyle world record (51.11) at 17 in 1975, won three 1975 world titles, and took seven NCAA crowns at Tennessee despite shattered wrists. Not the Lehigh football coach Andy Coen.
Angel Martino
Angel Martino (Angelina L. Martino, born 1967, nee Myers), American sprint swimmer; six Olympic medals (3 relay golds, 3 bronzes) at Barcelona 1992 and Atlanta 1996; removed from 1988 team after disputed positive drug test.
Angela Franke
Angela Franke (born 1957, Magdeburg) is a former East German swimmer, 1972 Olympian, and 400 m individual medley world record holder (5:01.10, Utrecht 1973), later a teacher, school head, and masters lifesaving swimmer.
Angela Kennedy
Angela Kennedy, Australian swimmer born 1976 in Nambour, Queensland; 1996 Atlanta Olympic silver medallist in the 4x100 m medley relay and former short-course world record holder in the 50 m and 100 m butterfly.
Angie Bainbridge
Angie Bainbridge (Angie Lee Bainbridge, born 1989), Australian freestyle swimmer; Olympic gold 4x200m freestyle relay Beijing 2008 and silver London 2012, both as a heat swimmer; Hunter Swimming Club, OAM.
Anita Lonsbrough
Anita Lonsbrough (Anita Porter), born 1941 in York, British swimmer; 1960 Rome Olympic 200m breaststroke gold in world record 2:49.5; first female BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1962; first British female Olympic flagbearer 1964.
Anita Nall
Anita Nall (Nadia Anita Louise Nall-Richesson), American swimmer born 1976, won gold, silver, and bronze at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and set two 200 m breaststroke world records in one day at the 1992 US Trials.
Anke Möhring
Anke Möhring (born 1969, Magdeburg) is a German former swimmer for East Germany; 1988 Seoul 400 m freestyle bronze, 1987 800 m freestyle world record 8:19.53, later stripped of her 1989 Swimmer of the Year award for GDR doping.
Ann Curtis
Ann Curtis (1926-2012), American freestyle swimmer of the Crystal Plunge club, won two golds and a silver at the 1948 London Olympics and was the first woman to win the Sullivan Award (1944).
Ann Fairlie
Ann Fairlie, South African backstroke swimmer from Johannesburg, set three world records in 1966 (110y and 100m backstroke) and was the youngest swimmer awarded Springbok colours, age 13, in 1963; barred from the Olympics by apartheid.
Ann Marshall
Ann Marshall (Barbara Ann Marshall) is an American former swimmer, known for being the first female swimming scholar at UNC Chapel Hill and the 1972 US relay team member.
Ann Simmons
Ann Linnaea Simmons, born 1953 in Santa Monica, American distance swimmer; 800 m freestyle world record 8:59.4 (Minsk, 1971), fourth at 1972 Munich Olympics, 1971 Pan Am 400 free gold, later UC Irvine coach.
Anna Hopkin
Anna Hopkin (Anna Elizabeth Hopkin), British sprint freestyle swimmer born 1996 in Chorley; Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold and world record in the mixed 4x100m medley relay; MBE 2022; retired 2024.
Anna Karin Kammerling
Anna-Karin Kammerling, Swedish swimmer born 1980, 50 m butterfly specialist who set that world record seven times, won Olympic relay bronze at Sydney 2000, and competed at three Olympics before retiring in 2008.
Anna Santamans
Anna Santamans, born 1993 in Arles, is a French sprint freestyle swimmer, 2010 Youth Olympic 50 m freestyle champion, two-time Olympian, and French 50 m freestyle record holder (24.54, Budapest 2017).