WAmal Amjahid is a Belgian ground grappler who represents her home country Belgium in Sport Jujitsu (JJIF), discipline Ne-waza and different professional teams in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
WDarkhan Assadilov is a Kazakhstani karateka. In 2010, he won the gold medal in the men's kumite 60 kg event at the 2010 Asian Games held in Guangzhou, China. He is scheduled to represent Kazakhstan in karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.
WNicholas Bartlett is an Australian Kendo player. A 5th-dan black belt, Nick represented Queensland winning 1st place in the individual division at the 32nd Australian Kendo Championships in Reservoir, Victoria on 9–10 June 2007. Nick began studying Kendo in his freshman year at university and after moving to Japan in August 2006 he joined the Sukagawa Kendo Renmei where he is the captain of his kendo club.
WMirnesa Bećirović and Mirneta Bećirović are twin Austrian martial artists of Bosnian origin who represent Austria in sport jujitsu in the pair discipline Duo System (Kata).
WCha Dong-min is a retired South Korean taekwondo practitioner.
WTsutomu Chida was previously one of the highest ranking shihan of Yoshinkan aikido, at 8th dan, and dojocho of its hombu dojo from 2002. He first became a part of Yoshinkan in 1969 but split from the organization in January 2008 following the resignation of kanchou Kyoichi Inoue. Chida was an uchideshi of Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda for 23 years—the longest term among Shioda's uchideshi-- and directed the senshusei course. He is "a living legend of Yoshinkan aikido" and current "highest shihan" (最高師範) of his Yoshinkan offshoot school, Aikido Renshinkai (合気道錬身会).
WChiu Chi Ling is a martial artist and actor who appears mostly in Kung Fu style movies produced in Hong Kong. He also teaches Hung Gar Kung Fu at Chiu Chi Ling Hung Gar Kung Fu Association, a San Francisco-based martial arts school he founded, and at the old Chiu Family Kwoon in Hong Kong rooted under the lineage of Lam Sai Wing. Every year he visits his students and grand students around the world and organizes worldwide Kung Fu tournaments. The Kung Fu style he is part of was passed down directly from southern shaolin temple and carries names like Hung Hei Gung and Wong Fei Hung.
WCho Gang-min is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner. He won the gold medal in the men's 63 kg event at the 2018 Asian Taekwondo Championships held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In the same year, he also won one of the bronze medals in the men's 63 kg event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
WRolando Pintoy Dantes was an actor, champion bodybuilder and Filipino martial artist who trained with Remy Presas for over 30 years.
WKolyan Edgar Rudikovich is an Armenian martial artist. His main focus is Kūdō and has had a prestigious history in Kudo competition. He has won various Kudo championships, namely has been a two-time world champion of kūdō in years 2005 and 2009. He also won the World Cup in kūdō (2011).
WAli Fadakar, is an Iranian karateka. He began karate Training at age 10, and after several champions of National karate championships, became member of Iran's karate national team in 2008. He has won 3 Gold medals of 2009, 2012 and 2016 Junior and Senior World karate championships.
WTherese Gunnarsson, nicknamed "The Gun", is a Swedish professional Muay Thai fighter. She started training kickboxing in 2004, but switched to Muay Thai in 2010. She has won both the WAKO Pro title, and the world amateur kickboxing championship. She is the first and only Swedish fighter to accomplish this.
WMaung Gyi is a Burmese martial artist that introduced Bando into the United States.
WRoman Heydarov is an Azerbaijani karateka. In 2019, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's individual kata event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus.
WTakuma Hisa was a prominent Japanese martial artist, early student in Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu of both Sokaku Takeda and aikido founder Morihei Ueshiba.
WHwang Kyung-seon, also spelled Hwang Kyung-sun, is a female South Korean Taekwondo practitioner. She is a two-time Olympic Champion from 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.
WKyoichi Inoue was a 10th dan Yoshinkan aikido master. He was an uchideshi under Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda, in what became the Yoshinkan senshusei course. During his early years as an uchi-deshi, he was instrumental in developing the Yoshinkan's current pedagogical system along with Takashi Kushida in consultation with Gozo Shioda.
WHiroshi Isoyama is a Japanese teacher of the martial art of aikido. He began training in the Iwama Dojo at the age of 12 as a direct student of the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba in June 1949. He currently holds the rank of 8th dan shihan in the Aikikai and is that organization's Technical Councillor. Isoyama was made the acting head of the Iwama dojo on behalf of Ueshiba Moriteru following the passing of Morihiro Saito. He currently remains as Executive Advisor and senior instructor of that dojo.
WPooja Kadian (born 1 October 1991 is an Indian Wushu player. She won Silver Medal in invitational sports of Wushu at the 9th World Games at Cali in Colombia, in Women's Sanda 60 kg.
WKang Minchul is a South Korean yongmudo practitioner and a professor in the Department of Oriental Martial Arts at Yong In University. He is the manager of the Korean Yongmudo Association (KYA).
WKim So-hui is a South Korean taekwondo practitioner. In 2016, she is ranked 10th by the World Taekwondo Federation.
WYasuo Kobayashi is a Japanese aikido teacher holding the rank of 8th dan Aikikai.
WLê Sáng was the Chairman of the Vovinam Vietnamese Martial Arts World Federation, a position he held from 1960 until his death.
WLee Dae-Hoon is a South Korean taekwondo athlete. He won a bronze medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics and a silver in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
WLoi Lee is a practitioner of the martial art of Tomiki Aikido and the first woman outside the borders of Japan to obtain 7th dan in the Tomiki system. She trained with both Kenji Tomiki and Hideo Ohba. She is a doctor of medicine and is also an acupuncturist.
WKyung-Ho (Ken) Min is an American-Korean judoka and taekwando and yongmudo practitioner, and the founder of University of California Martial Arts Program.
WMikhail Aleksandrovich Mokhnatkin is a Russian Combat Sambo and mixed martial arts practitioner. He is a World and European Champion in 100 kg. In mixed martial arts, Mokhnatkin leads 11–2–2 by fights.
WMutsuro Nakazono was a Japanese acupuncturist, an Oriental medicine practitioner, a judo 6th dan and a 7th dan Aikikai aikido master. He studied under Morihei Ueshiba and Ogasawara for many years. Born in the Kagoshima prefecture of Japan, he relocated to France in 1961 where he remained until the early 1970s as a representative of the Aikikai in Europe and North Africa. According to an article by his son, Jei Atacama, Mutsuro Nakazono "changed his name to Masahilo Mikoto Nakazono in his late fifties when he came to realize how his whole life was about his pursuit for 'the truth of life.' 'Masahilo' stood for 'searcher for the beautiful truth of life.'" During this period he was also Chief instructor of Aikido for the international Budo Council. According to Henry Ellis, a pioneer of UK Akido, Nakazonon Sensei's Aikido technique was "the first seen in the U.K. to combine the power found with other instructors, with the grace normally associated with Akido today." He operated the Nakazono Clinic, a natural healing center in San Diego, California. He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1972 and lived there until he died on October 8, 1994.
WNilar Win was a Burmese Lethwei fighter. He was a Lethwei champion in the 1970s in Myanmar.
WOh Hye-ri is a South Korean taekwondo athlete.
WYong Chin Pak is a 6th dan judo, 9th dan hapkido, and 8th dan taekwondo master and adjunct instructor in Exercise Sport Science and instructed students in the martial arts at Iowa State University from 1973 to 2013. He graduated from Yongin University with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and was President of the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association from 1986 to 2007.
WPark Sun-mi is a South Korean taekwondo athlete and coach.
WMarvin Perry is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian former kickboxer.
WGwendoline Philippe is a French karateka. In 2019, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's kumite 61 kg event at the 2019 European Games held in Minsk, Belarus. In the semi-finals she lost against Tjaša Ristić of Slovenia.
WGrandmaster Vicente "Vic" R. Sanchez was a Filipino martial artist and the founder of Kali Arnis International.
WPooja Shri Shetty is an Indian karateka and an Aerospace engineer competing in the kumite 61 kg division.
WKenji Shimizu , b. 1940, is an aikido teacher and founder of the aikido style Tendo-ryu Aikido (天道流).
WPratiksha Santosh Shinde is an Indian athlete that is chosen to compete in the 2009 Asian Indoor Games and the first World Vovinam Championship. In the dual sword form event of the Indoor Games, Shinde and Akanksha Sahai got India a silver medal. It's also Shinde's third silver coming in fights category. She also participated in the 4th World Traditional Wushu Championship in China Shiyan city 2010. In the World Vovinam Championship, she is ranked number 3.
WYoon Jeong-yeon is a South Korean female taekwondo practitioner. She won a silver medal at the Asian Games in the women's 53 kg event.
WKiyoshi Yoshimoti was a Japanese swordsman.
WCheng Zongyou 程宗猷 (1561-1636) was a Chinese martial artist. He is noted for his publication Shaolin Gunfa Changzong or Elucidation of Shaolin Staff Techniques, as well as the Gengyu Shengji which described various other weapons systems, including Japanese kenjutsu.