WPatrícia Filler Amorim is a former Olympic freestyle swimmer from Brazil and former president of Clube de Regatas do Flamengo. She is the first female president ever of the club, elected on December 7, 2009.
WGuy Marcos Barnea is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has won three medals at the European Championships. As of March 2016, he held the Israeli records in the long course 50m backstroke (24.64), the short course 50m backstroke (23.27), and the long course 100m butterfly (51.36).
WTom Beeri is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
WSemyon Viktorovich Belits-Geiman is a former Soviet freestyle swimmer. He set a world record in the 800 m freestyle, and won two Olympic medals.
WAdi Maia Bichman is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer.
WHedy Bienenfeld was an Austrian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1927 European Aquatics Championships. She competed in the same discipline at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not reach the finals.
WDamián Blaum is an Olympic open water swimmer from Argentina. Blaum swam for Argentina at the 2008 Olympics where he finished 21st in the Men's 10K event. He is Jewish.
WGérard Blitz was a Belgian Olympic swimmer and water polo player who competed at the 1920, 1924, 1928 and 1936 Olympics. He was the younger brother of Maurice Blitz, also a water polo player, and uncle of Gérard Blitz who founded Club Med in 1950.
WItai Chammah is an Israeli swimmer who represented Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
WStanislav Yuryevich Donets is a Russian swimmer from Dimitrovgrad. He was the world record holder for the 100m backstroke.
WKurt Epstein was a Czechoslovakian Olympic water polo player and survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
WAnthony Lee Ervin is an American competition swimmer who has won four Olympic medals and two World Championship golds. At the 2000 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the men's 50-meter freestyle, and earned a silver medal as a member of the second-place United States relay team in the 4×100-meter freestyle event. He was the second swimmer of African descent after Anthony Nesty of Suriname to win an individual gold medal in Olympic swimming. He is the first United States citizen of African descent to medal gold in an individual Olympic swimming event.
WAnastasia Gloushkov is an Israeli Olympic synchronized swimmer.
WEran Groumi is a male former backstroke and butterfly swimmer from Israel.
WAndrea Gyarmati is a retired Hungarian swimmer. In 1972 she set a world record in the 100 m butterfly. At the 1972 Olympics she won a silver medal in the 100-meter backstroke, and a bronze medal in the 100-meter butterfly. In 1995, following her both parents, she was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
WBaruch Hagai is an Israeli paralympic champion.
WAlfréd Hajós was a Hungarian swimmer, football player and manager, and architect. He was the first modern Olympic swimming champion and the first Olympic champion of Hungary. No other swimmer ever won such a high fraction of all Olympic events at a single Games.
WHenrik Hajós was a Hungarian freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1906 Intercalated Games and the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was born and died in Budapest and was the younger brother of Alfréd Hajós.
WMichael ("Mickey") Halika is a male former medley swimmer from Israel.
WDr. Otto Herschmann was an Austrian Jewish swimmer, fencer, lawyer, and sports official. He is one of only a few athletes who have won Olympic medals in multiple sports, having received a silver medal in swimming in 1896 and a silver medal in fencing in 1912. He also worked as a lawyer, and served as president of the Austrian Olympic Committee and the Austrian Swimming Federation. Herschmann was murdered by the Nazis in 1942 as part of the Holocaust.
WAmit Ivry is an Israeli Olympic swimmer, Maccabiah Games champion, and national record holder. She competes in the butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and medley.
WZiv Kalontarov is an Israeli Olympic swimmer and the reigning European Games champion in the 50 m freestyle.
WHerbert Klein was a German swimmer. Competing in the 200 m breaststroke, he won the European title in 1950 and an Olympic bronze medal in 1952. During his career, he concurrently held two world records in the 200 m breaststroke in short course with a time of 2:27.3, long course with a time of 2:34.4, one world record in the 100 m breaststroke with a time of 1:05.5. and a world record in the 500 m breaststroke with a time of 7:07.3. In 1950, he was elected German Sportspersonality of the year.
WKeren Or Leibovitch is an Israeli champion Paralympic swimmer.
WJason Edward Lezak is an American swimming executive. He currently serves as the general manager of the Cali Condors which is part of the International Swimming League. He is a former American competition swimmer who specialized in the 50-meter and 100-meter freestyle races. Jason started swimming when he was very young, and, at the age of ten, participated in the junior Olympics. However, his interest in athletics spanned many sports – basketball, baseball, soccer, and water polo – several of which he continued to play in high school. It wasn’t until after his collegiate swimming career at the University of California, Santa Barbara that his professional rise began. His pro career lasted for nearly fifteen years, spanning four Olympic games and garnering eight Olympic medals.
WFriederike "Fritzi" Löwy was an Austrian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle at the 1927 European Aquatics Championships. She competed in the same discipline at the 1928 Summer Olympics, but did not reach the finals.
WAndrea (Andi) Murez, is an Israeli-American Olympic swimmer. She swam for Israel at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
WAlfred Nakache was a Jewish French swimmer and water polo player. A member of the French team for the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games, he also swam in the first post-war Summer Olympics in London in 1948. He is one of two Jewish athletes, as far as is known, to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust.
WPaul Neumann was an Austrian swimmer and physician, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens and became the first Austrian gold medalist ever.
WGal Nevo is a record-holding Israeli swimmer.
WShlomit Nir is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer.
WDov Nisman is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer.
WMaxim Podoprigora is an Olympic breaststroke swimmer from Austria. He has swum for Austria at 3 Olympics swimming the 200 breaststroke at all 3 and the 100 breaststroke in 2004.
WMarilyn Ramenofsky is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic medalist, and former world record-holder. She is currently a researcher at the University of California at Davis, studying the physiology and behavior of bird migration. She has previously done research at the University of Washington in Seattle.
WShoshana Ribner was an Israeli Olympic swimmer.
WKeena Ruth Rothhammer is an American former competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and former world record-holder in two events.
WHadar Rubinstein is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer. She was born in Israel, and is Jewish.
WAlbert L. Schwartz was an American competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Schwartz received a bronze medal for his performance in the men's 100-meter freestyle, finishing third in a time of 58.8 seconds in the event final. Schwartz was a star swimmer in high school, competing for Marshall High in Chicago, and then starred for Northwestern University.
WNimrod Shapira Bar-Or is an Israeli Olympic swimmer.
WKeren Michaela Siebner, is an Israeli Olympic swimmer, Israeli national champion, Maccabiah Games winner, and a national record holder in the 200m butterfly and 200m backstroke.
WMark Andrew Spitz is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, all in world record time. This was an achievement that lasted for 36 years until it was surpassed by fellow American Michael Phelps, who won eight golds at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
WRoberto Strauss is a Mexican former swimmer who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
WAndrás Székely was a Hungarian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1932 Summer Olympics. He won a European title in this event in 1931.
WÉva Székely was a Hungarian swimmer. She won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and the silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, set six world records, and won 44 national titles. She held the first world record in the 400 m individual medley in 1953.
WJudit Temes was a Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion.
WYvonne Tobis is an Israeli former Olympic swimmer. Tobis was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and is Jewish. She attended Millfield in Street, Somerset, England, from 1963-66, and is in its Hall of Fame.
WDara Grace Torres is an American former competitive swimmer, who is a 12-time Olympic medalist and former world record-holder in three events. Torres is the first swimmer to represent the United States in five Olympic Games, and at age 41, the oldest swimmer to earn a place on the U.S. Olympic team. At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she competed in the 50-meter freestyle, 4×100-meter medley relay, and 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and won silver medals in all three events.
WYakov Yan Toumarkin Zhuravlev is an Russian-born Israeli Olympic backstroke swimmer. In 2010, he was the European Junior Swimming Champion in the 100-meter backstroke.
WAmiram Trauber is a former freestyle swimmer from Israel. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m medley relay and 100 m and 400 m freestyle events, but failed to reach the finals.
WEithan Urbach is a former backstroke swimmer from Israel. Urbach competed in two events in the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 1997, Urbach shared Israel's Sportsman of the Year award.
WOtto Wahle was an Austrian swimmer who took part in two Summer Olympic Games and won a total of three medals. Wahle coached the men's US swim team at the 1912 Olympics, and the men's US water polo team at the 1920 and 1924 Olympics.
WGarrett Weber-Gale is an American competition swimmer, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and world record-holder in two events.
WImre Zachár was a Hungarian water polo player and freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and 1912 Summer Olympics.
WJoanna Sue Zeiger is an American triathlete who is the 2008 Ironman 70.3 world champion. Zeiger represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics in triathlon. She's the author of The Champions Mindset - An Athlete's Guide to Mental Toughness.