22 Shooters at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Vasily Fyodorovich Borisov is a retired Soviet rifle shooter. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in five individual events and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. Between 1954 and 1966 Borisov won more than 20 medals at the world championships. At the 1954 World Championships, he and his teammate Anatoli Bogdanov won 13 medals each, cleansweeping most rifle events.

František Čapek was a Czech sports shooter. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1956 Summer Olympics.

Alessandro Ciceri was an Italian sport shooter who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Carlos Crassus was a Venezuelan sports shooter. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Knut Holmqvist was a Swedish sport shooter. He competed in trap shooting at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and finished in second and seventh place, respectively. He won a team gold and an individual bronze medal at the 1952 World Championships.

Otokar Hořínek was a Czech sport shooter. He was born in Prostějov. Competing for Czechoslovakia, he won a silver medal in 50 metre rifle three positions at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Charles Jackson was an American competitive sport shooter. In his international career, he captured numerous medals across three Summer Olympic Games, three ISSF World Shooting Championships, and two editions of the Pan American Games. He began shooting in the seventh grade and joined the rifle team at Brooklyn Technical High School in 1934. He competed in local and regional tournaments prior to World War II, during which he worked at the Sperry Corporation and later served as a bombardier in the Pacific Theater of Operations. His first international tournament was the 1948 Summer Olympics and his last was the 1956 edition, at which point he began a career in public service with the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He stopped competing at the international level in 1957 and retired from the CIA at the end of 1974. After several years as an instructor and coach, he continued participating in smaller tournaments through the 1990s.

Erling Asbjørn Kongshaug was a Norwegian rifle shooter. He competed in the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics in 50 meter rifle three positions and 50 meter rifle prone and won a gold medal in the three positions event in 1952. He also won 13 medals at the ISSF World Shooting Championships from 1947 to 1954.

John Harry Larsen was a Norwegian rifle shooter who competed in the 100 metre running deer event at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1952 and placed eighth in 1956. At the 1952 Olympics he used a custom M95M Trombone Conversion in 6.5×55mm of which there were only 3 made. Larsen won seven gold medals at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in 1949–1954. His son, John H. Larsen, Jr., also became an Olympic rifle shooter.

Hans Gustaf Liljedahl was a Swedish sport shooter. He competed in trap shooting at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and finished third and eighth, respectively. He won three world titles in this event, in 1947 and 1952.

Pentti Tapio Akseli Linnosvuo was a Finnish sport shooter. Together with Alfred Lane, he is the only Olympic competitor to win gold medals in both 50 m pistol and 25 m rapid fire pistol – the technique differs much between these two events, and hence few modern top-level shooters attempt to excel in both. He competed at five consecutive Olympics in 1952–1968, winning two gold medals and a silver.

Ştefan Petrescu was a Romanian pistol shooter. He won a gold medal in the 25 rapid-fire event at the 1956 Olympics and placed third at the 1958 World Championships.

Galliano Rossini was an Italian sports shooter. He competed at the 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics in the trap event and finished in 7th, 1st, 2nd, 4th and 13th place, respectively. He also won six medals in the trap at the world championships of 1954–1959.

Uffe Schultz Larsen was a Danish sport shooter who won a silver medal in the 50 m rifle prone position at the 1952 World Championships. He competed in various events at the 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics with the best result of 13th place. His father Niels Larsen and grandfather Hans Schultz were also Olympic rifle shooters.

Iosif Sârbu was a Romanian sports shooter and Romania’s first ever Olympic champion. He competed in six 50 m rifle events in total at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in the 50 m rifle prone in 1952, setting a world record. He served as the flag bearer for Romania at the 1956 Olympics.

Per Olof Sköldberg was a Swedish sport shooter. He won a silver medal in running deer at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and a silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

John Sundberg was a Swedish sport shooter. He competed in various rifle events at the 1956 and 1964 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 50 metre rifle three positions in 1956. Sundberg won several medals at the world championships of 1954–1955, in the 50 and 300 m distances, kneeling and lying positions, individual and with the Swedish team.

Károly Takács was the first shooter to win two Olympic gold medals in the 25 metre rapid fire pistol event, both with his left hand after his right hand was seriously injured. He is the third known physically disabled athlete to have competed in the Olympic Games after George Eyser in 1904 and Olivér Halassy in 1928, followed by Liz Hartel in 1952, Neroli Fairhall in 1984 and Oscar Pistorius in 2012.

Charles Maitland Yorke Trotter was a British sports shooter and photographer who represented Guernsey and Kenya in both fullbore and smallbore disciplines. Trotter's achievements in rifle shooting made him one Guernsey's most decorated sportsmen.

Torsten Ullman was a Swedish pistol shooter and entrepreneur, most famous for his gold medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where the Germans were favourites in the free pistol competition but Ullman won by a margin of 15 points. His record score of 559 would still be competitive today in this event. He also won the World Championships in Free Pistol in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1947 and 1952.

Makhmud Bedalovich Umarov was a Kazakhstani sport shooter. He competed in the 50 m pistol event at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a silver medal on both occasions.

Vilho Ilmari Ylönen was a Finnish cross-country skier and rifle shooter who competed in the 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics.