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| x Duke Kahanamoku |
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Regarded as the father of modern surfing as a sport. Also a Olympic swimmer.
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| x Rob Machado |
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Robert Edward Machado (better known simply as Rob Machado) (b. October 16, 1973 Sydney, Australia) is an American professional surfer from Cardiff-by-the-Sea, a community in Encinitas (San Diego County), California.
Machado attended San Dieguito...
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| x Mark Richards |
Mark Richards (born 7 March 1957), known as MR, is an Australian surfer, four times world champion (1979–1982), and highly respected by his peers.
Richards was born and grew up in Newcastle, son of Ray and Val Richards, both keen beachgoers. They...
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| x Bethany Hamilton |
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Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) (age 19) is an American surfer. She is known for surviving a shark attack in which she lost her left arm, and for overcoming the serious and debilitating injury to return to surfing.
Hamilton was born...
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| x Kelly Slater |
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Robert Kelly Slater (born February 11, 1972, Cocoa Beach, FL, USA), known as Kelly Slater, is an American professional surfer known for his competitive prowess and style. Slater has been crowned ASP World Champion a record 9 times, including 5...
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| x Laird Hamilton |
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Laird Hamilton (born Laird John Zerfas on March 2, 1964 in San Francisco) is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model. He is married to Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball...
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| x Eddie Aikau |
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Edward Ryan Makua Hanai Aikau (Kahului, Hawaii, May 4, 1946 – March 17, 1978) was a well-known Hawaiian lifeguard and surfer. The words Makua Hanai in Eddie Aikau's full name mean feeding parent, an adoptive, nurturing, fostering parent, in the...
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| x Andy Irons |
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Andy Irons (born 24 July 1978) is a professional surfer. Irons, a kama'aina, was reared on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, Hawaii, and has three world titles (2002, 2003, 2004), three Quiksilver Pro France titles (2003,...
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| x George Greenough |
George Greenough is an innovative surfer and cinematographer from Santa Barbara, California who now resides in Byron Bay in N.S.W Australia. He was born to a wealthy family but despised its trappings and spent most of his time in the ocean....
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| x Jesse Billauer |
Jesse Billauer (born February 24, 1979) is a well known surfer from Pacific Palisades, California.
Billauer suffered an accident at the age of 17 on March 25, 1996, hitting his head on a shallow sandbar after being knocked off his surfboard by a...
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| x Mark Foo |
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Mark Foo (born Mark Sheldon Foo, February 5, 1958 – December 23, 1994) was a professional surfer.
Born in Singapore to Chinese photojournalists for the U.S. Information Agency he relocated to Hawaii at age 4. Foo spent his early childhood surfing...
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| x Sunny Garcia |
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Sunny Garcia was born Vincent Sennen Garcia on January 14 1970 in Mā'ili, on the Westside of Oahu, Hawaii. He grew up in Wai'anae and after leaving school, debuted on the 1986 Gotcha Pro at Sandy Beach, Oahu, beating the 1984 champ Tom Carroll .
His...
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| x Tom Curren |
Tom Curren (born July 3, 1964, in Santa Barbara, California) is an American surfer. He was born to father Pat (big-wave legend and shaper) and mother Jeanine. His brother Joe is also a professional surfer and popular photographer and he also has a...
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| x Layne Beachley |
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Layne Beachley is a former professional surfer from Manly, Australia. She won the World Championship seven times.
Beachley has spoken publicly about personal struggles, including the fact that she was conceived during a date rape and later adopted...
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| x Ken Bradshaw |
Ken Bradshaw (born October 4, 1952 in Houston, Texas) is a professional surfer and winner of the 1982 Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Classic.
On January 28, 1998, Ken Bradshaw successfully towed into, and rode, a wave with a face estimated as over 80 feet....
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| x Tom Morey |
Tom Morey (born Detroit, Michigan, August 15, 1935) also known by the moniker "Y" is a musician, engineer, and surfer responsible for several technological innovations that have heavily influenced modern developments in surfing equipment design....
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| x Sofia Mulanovich |
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Sofía Mulánovich Aljovín (born June 24, 1983 in Punta Hermosa, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian surfer. She is the first Peruvian surfer ever to win an Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour event. She is the first South American to...
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| x Shane Dorian |
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Patrick Shane Dorian (born July 19, 1972), or "Shane", is an American surfer from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. He spent 11 years touring on the World Championship Tour surfing.
Dorian was born to Patrick, a former Hollywood actor and stunt double for Elvis...
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| x Pauline Menczer |
Pauline Menczer (born 21 May 1970) is an Australian surfer. She won the 1988 women's amateur world title and the 1993 women's world championship and has been a long-standing competitor on the world championship tour.
In 1991 Menczer was narrowly...
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| x Tom Carroll |
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Thomas Victor "Tom" Carroll (born 29 November 1961 in Newport, New South Wales) is a former professional surfer from Sydney, Australia. He won the Australian Junior Title in 1978, the Pro Juniors in 1977 and 1980, the 1983 and 1984 ASP World Tour,...
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| x Bruce Brown |
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Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937 in San Francisco, California) is an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown.
His surfing films were Slippery When Wet (1958), Surf...
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| x Bud Browne |
Bud "Barracuda" Browne, (July 12, 1912 – July 25, 2008) was an early pioneer surf film maker. He was the first filmmaker to show surf movies commercially. His films are Hawaiian Surfing Movie (1953), Hawaiian Holiday (1954), Hawaiian Surf Movie ...
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| x Isabel Letham |
Isabel Letham (1899 – 11 March 1995) was the first Australian to surf. This was at Freshwater Beach, Sydney in 1915, tandem with Duke Kahanamoku.
Kahanamoku had been invited to Australia by the NSW Swimming Association. He hadn't brought a board so...
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| x Skip Frye |
Skip Frye (b. Harry Richard Frye September 7, 1941 in San Diego, California) is a surfer, board shaper, and environmental activist.
Skip attended Mission Bay High School and began his professional surfing career in 1958. His first board was a balsa...
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| x Simon Anderson |
Simon Anderson (born 7 July 1954) is an Australian surfer and surfboard shaper, noted for creating the Thruster design of three equal-sized fins on a surfboard, a design now used on most shortboards.
Anderson grew up in Collaroy, Sydney, the second...
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| x Dick Brewer |
Dick Brewer, known in the United States and France, was influential in the early development of surf board and the surfing culture. In the movie Riding Giants (2005), he was interviewed about surfing.
Brewer, DickBrewer, DickBrewer, Dick
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| x Mark Occhilupo |
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Marco Jay Luciano Occhilupo is an Australian surfer and winner of the 1999 World surfing champion title.
Occhilupo, also known as Occy, began his professional career in the World Championship Tour (WCT) at the age of 17. Occhilupo’s strength under...
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| x Gerry Lopez |
Gerry Lopez (born November 7, 1948), aka Mr. Pipeline, is a world-renowned American surfer, shaper, journalist, and film actor.
Lopez was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, grew up in East Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii and attended Punahou School. He frequented the...
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| x Chelsea Georgeson |
Chelsea Georgeson (now Cheasea Hedges) (born 15 October 1983) is an Australian surfer who won the world title in 2005. She won the title after beating Brazil's Jacqueline Silva in the final at the season-ending event at Honolulu Bay, Hawaii. Chelsea...
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| x Sharon Webber |
Sharon Webber, an American surfer, won the women's world surfing championship in 1970, the second time the event was held. In 1972, Webber won the International Surfing Federation's (which was later replaced by the International Surfing Association)...
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| x Margo Oberg |
Margo Oberg is a three-time world surfing champion from the United States. She won her first world title in 1977, then won back-to-back titles in 1980 and 1981.
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| x Wendy Botha |
Wendy Botha (born August 22, 1965) is a four-time world surfing champion. She won her first title as a South African citizen in 1987, then she became an Australian citizen and won three more titles in 1989, 1991, and 1992). She also posed nude for...
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| x Frieda Zamba |
Freida Zamba is a four-time world surfing champion from the United States. She won three titles in a row from 1984 to 1986, then won again in 1988. She currently lives in north-east Florida.
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| x Lynne Boyer |
Lynne Boyer is a two-time world surfing champion from the United States. She won her two titles in 1978 and 1979. It was the first time any woman had won the championship twice. She was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach,...
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| x Jeff Clark |
Jeff Clark (born March 26, 1957 Redwood City) is one of the most noteworthy and respected big wave surfers, famous for surfing Mavericks alone for 15 years before it was widely discovered by the big-wave surfing community. Clark is the only active...
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| x Butch Van Artsdalen |
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James Van Artsdalen (January 31, 1941 - July 18, 1979) was a legendary surfer. He moved to La Jolla, California, from Norfolk, Virginia, at age 14. Artsdalen is best known as a pioneer of surfing huge 50 foot waves and tube riding in Hawaii during...
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| x Bruce Irons |
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Bruce Irons (born November 16, 1979) is a regularfoot professional surfer from Hanalei, Kauai and younger brother of three-time world champion Andy Irons. Best known for his radical "bro'd out" aerial maneuvers and fearless tuberiding abilities, he...
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| x Joel Tudor |
Joel Tudor is a world famous longboard surfer from San Diego, California.
He started out in skateboarding and, while in his early teens, gained both recognition and sponsorship for this. On the water, his apparently effortless skill saw him win his...
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| x Robert "Wingnut" Weaver |
Robert "Wingnut" Weaver (born 1965) is an American surfer who has appeared in several of Bruce Brown's surf films three of which he starred alongside Pat O'Connell. In 1991, Weaver graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a degree in...
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| x Keala Kennelly |
Keala Kennelly (born August 13, 1978) is a professional surfer. She was featured, playing herself, in the movie Blue Crush. She was also in the movie Step Into Liquid.
She set a record in 2005, at Teahupoo, riding the biggest tow in wave by a woman....
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| x Mickey Munoz |
Mickey Munoz, born in New York City in 1937, is one of the early pioneers of surfing but is perhaps more famous for his work as a surfboard shaper. Munoz, a historical figure in the surfing world, has been featured in many popular surfing...
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| x Megan Abubo |
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Megan Abubo (born January 28, 1978) is a professional female surfer from Hawaii.
Born in Connecticut and raised in Hawaii, Megan Abubo showcases a style honed on powerful reef-breaks and deepwater ocean waves.
Growing up in Hawaii, Megan quickly...
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| x Miki Dora |
Miki "Da Cat" Dora, a.k.a. "The Black Knight" (b. Miklos Sandor Dora 11 August 1934, Budapest, Hungary - d. 3 January 2002, Montecito, California) was an iconic Malibu surfer of the 1950s and 1960s. He had a unique style, in and out of the water,...
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| x Jeffrey "Jeff" Hakman |
Jeffrey "Jeff" Hakman is an ex-world surfing champion and multi millionaire founder of clothing giant Quiksilver.
Hakman started surfing in 1956 at age eight in Palos Verdes, California and at the age of ten moved to Hawaii with his parents. He...
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| x Rochelle Ballard |
Rochelle Ballard is a professional female surfer who is a 10 year veteran the Association of Surfing Professional’s (ASP) World Championship Tour. She is considered the best female tube rider in the world and has been a pioneer to the advancement of...
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| x Robert August |
Robert August (born 1945) is an American surfer and surfboard shaper. Raised in Huntington Beach, CA he attended Huntington Beach High School where we was ASB President his senior year. He is most famous as one of the subjects of Bruce Brown's 1966...
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| x Rell Sunn |
Rell Kapolioka'ehukai Sunn (b. July 31, 1950, Makaha, Oahu, Hawaii – d. January 2, 1998, Makaha, Oahu, Hawaii) was an American world surfing champion. Known as "Queen of Makaha" and "Aunty Rell", she was a pioneer in the world of women's surfing....
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| x Lisa Anderson |
Lisa Andersen (born March 8, 1959 in Ormond Beach, Florida) is a four-time world surfing champion from the United States. She won four titles in a row from 1994 to 1997.
She won the US amateur surfing title in 1975 and turned professional the...
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| x Nat Young |
Robert Harold "Nat" Young (born November 17, 1947) is an Australian surfer and author.
Born in Sydney, New South Wales, Young grew up in the small coastal suburb of Collaroy. In 1964, he was runner-up in the Australian junior championship at Manly,...
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| x Taj Burrow |
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Taj Burrow (born June 2, 1978 in Yallingup, Western Australia) is a well-known Australian surfer.
He began surfing at the age of seven in 1985 and discovered he was regular footed. He worked hard and began to win contests several years later,...
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| x Dave Kalama |
Dave Kalama is a big wave surfer, windsurfer, and watersports celebrity-enthusiast. Kalama and his family live in Hawaii.
Kalama is credited with the co-development of tow-in surfing, along with Laird Hamilton, Darrick Doerner, and Buzzy Kerbox....
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| x Rabbit Kekai |
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Rabbit Kekai (November 11, 1920-) is a professional surfer and innovator of surfing. He was the master of surfing in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s and also winner of the Peruvian and Makaha International titles.
Albert "Rabbit" Kekai was born in Honolulu,...
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| x Mick Fanning |
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Eugene Michael "Mick" Fanning is an Australian professional surfer and dual world champion. Fanning won both the 2009 and 2007 ASP Men's World Tour. He was born in Penrith, New South Wales on June 13, 1981.
Fanning learned to surf at the age of five...
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| x Damien Hobgood |
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Damien Hobgood (born July 6, 1979) is a professional surfer from Satellite Beach, Florida. He is known for having the highest grand final score in the history of pro surfing by scoring 19.9 Out of 20 at The Quiksilver Pro Fiji in 2004. That is until...
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| x Bobby Martinez |
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Bobby Martinez (born May 26, 1982) is a professional surfer from Santa Barbara, California. Although relatively new to the surfing world as a professional, his style often draws comparisons with that of legendary surfer Kelly Slater. Martinez began...
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| x Daize Shayne |
Daize Shayne (born in California) is a surfing star, recording artist and model.
The two time world champion longboard surfer was recently featured in Maxim and two issues of ReadyGo Magazine Japan in which she had 16 full-page color photos of her...
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| x Mike Parsons |
Mike Parsons (born March 13, 1965 in California) is a surfer sponsored by the Billabong company who famously successfully surfed a 66-foot wave at Cortes Bank, CA in 2001, for which he was awarded $66,000, the highest prize ever awarded in the...
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| x Corky Carroll |
Corky Carroll was a professional American surfer and is considered a pioneer in the sport by becoming the first real professional surfer as well as being the first to receive endorsements. Carroll started his career in 1959 at a very early age and...
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| x Phyllis O'Donnell |
Phyllis O'Donnell was an Australian surfer who became the first Women's World Surfing Champion. O'Donnell won the championship in 1964 at the age of 27. At the time of her championship, surfing was dominated by men and her championship was regarded...
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| x Phil Edwards |
Philip ("Phil") Edwards (born June 10, 1938) is a legendary surfer. He is credited with being the first to surf the Banzai pipeline in Hawaii, being the first professional surfer, and creating the first signature surf board. He was the subject of a...
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