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| x Bob Burnquist |
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Robert Dean Silva Burnquist (born October 10, 1976), better known as Bob Burnquist, is a Brazilian professional skateboarder. He was born to a Swedish father and a Brazilian mother. He became adept at skateboarding in São Paulo starting at age 11...
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| x Tony Hawk |
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Anthony Frank "Birdman" Hawk (born May 12, 1968), better known as Tony Hawk, is an American professional skateboarder. Tony gained significant fame for completing the first 900 at the 1999 X-Games as well as his licensed video game titles...
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| x Steve Caballero |
Steve Caballero, (born November 8, 1964, San Jose, California), is a professional skateboarder.
Steve was born in the year of the dragon, and has had several board graphics that feature dragons. He was born with scoliosis (curved spine.) Because of...
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| x Rodney Mullen |
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John Rodney Mullen (born August 17, 1966 in Gainesville, Florida), known simply as Rodney Mullen (AKA The Mutt), is a professional skateboarder considered by many to be the most influential skater in the history of the sport. Mullen is credited with...
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| x Josh Kalis |
Josh Kalis (born April 27, 1976, in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a professional street skateboarder. Josh Kalis has recently jumped from alien workshop to DGK.
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| x Bam Margera |
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Brandon Cole "Bam" Margera (born September 28, 1979) is a professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass...
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| x Mike Vallely |
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Mike Vallely (pronounced /ˈvæləli/; June 29, 1970(1970-06-29)), also known as Mike V, is an American professional skateboarder.
Mike Vallely is on the Element Skate team along with fellow Element skater and friend Bam Margera. Vallely has made...
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| x Ed Templeton |
Ed Templeton (born July 28, 1972 in Orange County, California) is a professional skateboarder who resides in Huntington Beach, California.
Ed started skateboarding in 1985 in his hometown of Huntington Beach, California, with his friend Jason Lee....
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| x Alan Gelfand |
Alan Gelfand (born 1963, New York) is the inventor of the ollie, a skateboarding trick.
Gelfand moved from New York to Hollywood, Florida with his family in 1968. Alan "Ollie" Gelfand started skateboarding in 1974 after his father bought him his...
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| x Jason Lee |
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Jason Michael Lee (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor and former professional skateboarder. Lee is best known for his performance in My Name is Earl as the title character Earl Hickey.
Lee was born in Orange County, California, the son of...
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| x Christian Hosoi |
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Christian Rosha Hosoi (born October 5, 1967) is an American professional skateboarder. He is also known by the nicknames "Christ" and "Holmes". Hosoi, along with Tony Hawk, was the most popular skateboarder for the better part of the 1980s. Hosoi is...
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| x Ali Boulala |
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Ali Boulala (born January 28, 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a professional skateboarder who rides for Flip Skateboards, Flip Clothing, Independent trucks and Flip wheels. He is known for his relaxed but flamboyant style and filmed notable parts in...
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| x Steve Berra |
Steve Berra (born May 10, 1973 is an American professional skateboarder, movie writer and director.
Berra was born May 10, 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri). As a child Steve was nearly killed by a horse at a petting zoo when Steve came from behind him...
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| x Duane Peters |
Duane Peters (born 1961), nicknamed "The Master of Disaster", is a punk rock singer/songwriter and professional skateboarder.
Peters is credited for inventing many tricks, such as the "acid drop" into a pool/bowl, the "layback grind", the "Indy air"...
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| x Arto Saari |
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Arto Saari (born November 9, 1981 in Seinäjoki, Finland) is a professional skateboarder. He lives in Huntington Beach, California. He was selected as the "2001 Skater of the Year" by Thrasher magazine. His skating stance is regular. He is famous for...
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| x Rune Glifberg |
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Rune Glifberg (born October 7, 1974 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional skateboarder who currently resides in the Leucadia district of Encinitas, California. Glifberg began skating at age 11 after a friend brought a board over to his house. In...
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| x Stacy Peralta |
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Stacy Peralta (born October 15, 1957) is an American director and entrepreneur. He has previously been a professional skateboarder and team surfer as one of the original Z-Boys.
Peralta was born in Los Angeles, California. At age 11, he began...
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| x Shaun White |
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Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986 in Carlsbad, California) has been a notable competitor in professional snowboarding since he was 9 years old, but is also known for being a professional skateboarder as well. He was born with Tetralogy of...
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| x Terje Håkonsen |
Terje Håkonsen, (born October 11th, 1974 in Vinje, Norway) is a Norwegian snowboarder.
Håkonsen dominated freestyle snowboarding in the 1990s winning the ISF World Championships in half-pipe three times in a row, in 1993, 1995 and 1997. He has also...
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| x Daewon Song |
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David Daewon Song (born February 19, 1975 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean American skateboarder. He is recognized for his technical street skateboarding.
He co-owns Almost Skateboards with fellow pro Rodney Mullen, and he skates for the team....
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| x Tom Penny |
Tom Penny (born April 13, 1977) is a professional skateboarder from Dorchester, England. He is well known in the skateboarding community for his calm style and natural abilities and as a master of frontside flips and many kickflip variations. He is...
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| x Geoff Rowley |
Geoffrey Rowley (born June 6, 1976, in Liverpool, England) is a professional skateboarder.
Rowley began skating at the age of 13, and was first sponsored by Flip Skateboards (when it was based in the United Kingdom under the name Deathbox before the...
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| x Eric Koston |
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Eric Koston (born April 29, 1975 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai American professional skateboarder who grew up in San Bernardino, California.
Eric Koston's father, Bob, was in the Air Force when he and Eric's mom met. Wanida, Eric's mom, was from...
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| x Mark Appleyard |
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Mark Appleyard (born on November 11, 1982, in Oakville, Ontario) is a professional skateboarder. He currently resides in Huntington Beach, California. He is 6'1", 160 pounds, has a size 11 foot, and his skateboarding stance is goofy. His favorite...
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| x Erik Ellington |
Erik Ellington (born August 9, 1977 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a professional skateboarder. Ellington is goofy footed. He currently resides in Hollywood, California.
Ellington was a member of the "Piss Drunx' c. mid to late 1990s to 2000s with Jim...
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| x Danny Way |
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Danny Way (born on April 4, 1974, in Portland, Oregon) is a professional skateboarder.
Way started skateboarding at age 4 at the Del Mar Skateboard Ranch. At age 11, he won the first contest that he entered and shortly after he received sponsorship...
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| x Tony Alva |
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Tony Alva (born September 2, 1957) is one of the original Z-Boys and is considered to be one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.
He is Professional Skateboarding's first World Champion in history. He won this title in 1977.
He was...
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| x Jay Adams |
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Jay Adams (born February 3, 1961) is one of the original Z-Boys and is considered one of the most influential skateboarders of all time.
He was born in Santa Monica, California. As a teenager in the mid-1970s, he was a member of the original Zephyr...
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| x Ryan Sheckler |
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Ryan Allen Sheckler (born December 30, 1989) is an American professional skateboarder and the star of the MTV reality show, Life of Ryan.
Sheckler was born in San Clemente, California. When he was just 18 months old, Sheckler found his dad's old...
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| x Aaron Suski |
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Aaron Suski is a professional skateboarder. He has a trick called the Suski grind (bs salad grind) which is named after him.
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| x Terry Kennedy |
Terry Kennedy (born March 27, 1985), commonly known as "Compton Ass Terry" or TK, is a professional skateboarder.
Kennedy is known as "Compton Ass Terry" on Bam Margera's MTV television show, Viva La Bam, although Terry is from Long Beach, not...
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| x Kareem Campbell |
Kareem Campbell (born November 14, 1973 in Harlem, New York) is a professional skateboarder. He is known for his signature trick, the nollie hardflip revert, or "Ghetto Bird".
Kareem Campbell was born in Harlem, NYC and was raised in Los Angeles,...
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| x Rick Howard |
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Rick Howard is a Canada-born skateboarder who now resides in California.
He began his skateboarding career skating for Blockhead Skateboards (where turned pro), and Gullwing Trucks. He quit Blockhead and skated for Plan B Skateboards in 1991 and...
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| x Guy Mariano |
Guy Mariano (born March 29, 1976) is a professional skateboarder who gained widespread recognition at the age of 14 for his part in Blind Skateboards' Video Days (1991). Before Blind, Mariano was sponsored by Powell Peralta, and appeared in their...
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| x Andrew Reynolds |
Andrew Reynolds, (born June 6, 1978, in Lakeland, Florida, U.S.), is a professional skateboarder. His nicknames are Drew, The Boss, and Waldo. He is the owner of Baker Skateboards, Altamont apparel, and Brigada eyewear. He also is one of the current...
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| x Chad Muska |
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Chad Muska'(born May 20, 1977 in Lorain, Ohio) is an American professional skateboarder.
He is also a clothing and shoe designer, photographer, Dj / music producer, and artist.
Muska was born in Lorain, Ohio. He later moved to Phoenix, Arizona,...
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| x Sierra Fellers |
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Sierra Fellers (born December 30, 1986, Whitefish, MT) is a professional skateboarder (as of early 2007) currently skating for Foundation Skateboards, Venture Trucks, C1RCA Footwear, FKD Bearings, Bones Wheels, Nixon Watches, spirit skateshop of...
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| x Paul Rodriguez Jr. |
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Paul Rodriguez (born December 31, 1984, in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is a Mexican-American professional skateboarder and actor. He is also a character in the video game Skate. He is also referred to by the nickname P-Rod. His father...
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| x Bucky Lasek |
Charles Michael 'Bucky' Lasek (born December 3, 1972 in Dundalk, Maryland) is a professional skateboarder.
Lasek started skateboarding at the age of twelve, shortly after his bike was stolen. After entering amateur contests, he was quickly noticed...
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| x Mike Carroll |
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Mike Carroll (born 1975) is a professional skateboarder from San Francisco who skated for H-Street and then joined the super team Plan B Skateboards. Mike is known for being an innovator of technical street skating in the early 90's. After the death...
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| x Tosh Townend |
Tosh Townend (born March 12, 1985) is a professional skateboarder from Huntington Beach, California. He turned pro at the age of 16. Tosh Townend got sponsored by Element when he was 11, and was on the team until 2008.
Tosh Townend's father is...
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| x Mark Gonzales |
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Mark Gonzales (born June 1, 1969), also known as "Gonz," is a professional skateboarder and artist. He is known in the skateboarding world as the pioneer of modern street skateboarding, currently skateboarding's most popular form.
Gonz came on the...
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| x Pat Duffy |
Pat Duffy is a professional skateboarder from Marin County, Ca., growing up in the town of Corte Madera.
He is known for his legendary video part in 1992's "Questionable", by Plan B Skateboards. This breakthrough level in skateboarding's evolution...
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| x Ray Barbee |
Ray Barbee is an American skateboarder from San Jose, California, and one of the first famous African-American skaters. He started skateboarding in 1984, when he was in seventh grade. Barbee was on the cutting edge of skateboarding in the late '80s,...
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| x Lance Mountain |
Robert Lance Mountain (born June 13, 1964) was one of the more popular skateboarders throughout much of the 1980s, and one of the five most legendary members of the Bones Brigade, as featured in the 1987 classic The Search For Animal Chin (Bones...
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| x Mike McGill |
Mike McGill (born 1964) is an American skateboarder. He is best known for inventing the McTwist, an inverted 540 degree mute grabbed aerial which he first performed on a wooden half-pipe in Sweden in 1984 and then at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in a...
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| x Jim Thiebaud |
Jim Thiebaud is an American skateboarder.
Thiebaud was a co-founder of Real Skateboards. He also controls Deluxe Distribution.
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| x Jamie Thomas |
Jamie Thomas (born October 11, 1974) also known as The Chief, is an American professional skateboarder and skateboard industry magnate from Dothan, Alabama.
Thomas started skateboarding at the age of eleven. He was first sponsored in 1992 by Deluxe ...
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| x Kerry Getz |
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Kerry 'Hockey Temper' Getz (born June 10, 1975 in Lehighton, Pennsylvania) is a professional skateboarder.
Getz medaled in the 2000 and 2001 X Games and received a gold medal in the first street skateboarding X-Games event. Getz also placed 1st in...
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| x Elissa Steamer |
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Elissa Steamer (born July 31, 1975, in Fort Myers, Florida) is an American professional skateboarder.
Steamer began skateboarding in 1989, turning pro in 1998 when she won the women's street section at Slam City Jam 1998. She won the same section in...
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| x Brian Sumner |
Brian Sumner (born June 2, 1979 in Liverpool, England) is a professional skateboarder for Reliance Skateboards, Truth Soul Armor Clothing, Nice Skate Shoes, Rocket Wheels, Independent Trucks, Ninja Bearings, Furnace skate shop, Project Hardware and...
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| x Jim Greco |
Jim Greco (born December 25, 1977 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a professional skateboarder.
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| x Hannah Teter |
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Hannah Teter (born January 27, 1987) is a female snowboarder from Belmont, Vermont, in the United States, known for her consistent and technical riding in the halfpipe. She won a gold medal in the women's halfpipe competition at the 2006 Winter...
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| x Pierre-Luc Gagnon |
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Pierre-Luc Gagnon, also known as "PL" or "PLG" (born May 2, 1980 in Boucherville, Canada), is a Canadian professional skateboarder.
Gagnon began skating in 1988, and entered his first competition in 1992.
A frequent participant in the X-Games, he...
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| x Diego Bucchieri |
Diego Alejandro "The Butcher" Bucchieri (born 23 April 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a professional skateboarder.
He currently resides in Barcelona, Spain.
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| x Marc Johnson |
Marc Johnson (born Jan 6, 1977, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is a professional skateboarder.He started skating in his teen years.
Marc is one of the pioneers of street skateboarding and is known for his technical skill on a skateboard. He is...
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| x Bastien Salabanzi |
Bastien Salabanzi (born November 18, 1985 in Toulon, France) is a professional skateboarder. His stance is "REGULAR"
He won his first contest at the age of 11 in Marseille, France. After that, Vans flew him to the finals in California, his first...
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| x Chris Senn |
Chris Senn (born December 11th, 1972 in Grass Valley, California) is a professional skateboarder. Chris has been skating since 1983 and has an aggressive, spontaneous style that is often considered exciting to watch. Sponsored by Powell Skateboards...
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| x Chris Cole |
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Chris Cole (born March 10, 1982 in Statesville, North Carolina), is a professional skateboarder. He lives in San Marcos, California with his wife and their son Wyatt. He and his wife are currently expecting a daughter.
Cole has appeared in the...
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| x Chris Haslam |
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Chris Haslam (born December 19, 1980) is a Canadian professional skateboarder, originally from Vancouver who now resides in Richmond, BC.
Haslam started skating at the age of 13, while living with his parents in Singapore, and turned pro in 2002. He...
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