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Wilt Chamberlain

Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American professional basketball player who played as a center, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the University of Kansas and for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. Chamberlain stood 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) tall, and weighed 250 pounds (110 kg) as a rookie before gaining up to 275 pounds (125 kg) and later to over 300 pounds (140 kg) with the Lakers.

Sports

Charlotte Flair

Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr is an American professional wrestler, author and actress. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Charlotte Flair. A second generation professional wrestler, she is the daughter of Ric Flair.

Sports

Arunima Sinha

Arunima Sinha is the first Female amputee to climb Mount Everest.

Sports

Kim Yeon-Koung

Kim Yeon-kyoung is a South Korean female professional volleyball player. She currently plays for the Turkish team Eczacıbaşı VitrA. Kim signed a three-year contract with Fenerbahçe in 2011 after playing for Incheon Heungkuk Life Pink Spiders in South Korea and JT Marvelous in Japan. She signed another two-year extension with Fenerbahçe for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons. She earned an MVP award at the 2012 London Olympics. She is regarded as one of the best and richest volleyball players in the world.

Sports

Zhu Ting

Zhu Ting is a Chinese professional female volleyball player. She is the Outside Hitter and Captain of the Chinese women's volleyball national team, and currently plays for Turkish club Vakıfbank Istanbul. She is the gold medalist of 2016 Olympic Games and 2015 World Cup. Zhu has been awarded 10 MVP awards at all levels of competition since her debut in 2011, including the MVP award of Rio Olympic Games 2016.

Sports

Yūki Ishikawa

Yūki Ishikawa is a Japanese volleyball player, a member of the Japan men's national volleyball team and Italian club Top Volley Latina.

Sports

Winifer Fernández

Winifer María Fernández Pérez is a Dominican female volleyball player. With her club Mirador she competed at the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship. She is well known after a video and later some playing, training, personal and fake pictures went viral in July 2016.

Sports

Kerri Walsh Jennings

Kerri Lee Walsh Jennings is an American professional beach volleyball player, three-time Olympic gold medalist, and a one-time Olympic bronze medalist. She is the beach volleyball career leader in both career victories and career wins as of 2016, with 133 victories and $2,542,635 in winnings.

Sports

Steve Timmons

Steve Dennis Timmons is a former American volleyball-player who represented the USA at three consecutive Summer Olympics starting in 1984, winning gold in 1984 and 1988 plus a bronze in 1992.

Sports

Pleumjit Thinkaow

Pleumjit Thinkaow is a Thai volleyball player.

Sports

Morteza Mehrzad

Morteza Mehrzad Selakjani is an Iranian male paralympic sitting volleyball player, playing as an outside hitter. He is the tallest man in Iran, the tallest paralympian in history and presently the joint second tallest man in the world.

Sports

Chip McCaw

Christian Eric "Chip" McCaw is an American former Olympic volleyball player. Hailing from Pepperdine University, he represented the United States at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He was married to model Amber Valletta from 2003 to 2015, and together they have a son who was born in 2000.

Sports, Society, Politics

Jared Huffman

Jared William Huffman is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for California's 2nd congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Sports

Yuan Xinyue

Yuan Xinyue is a Chinese female volleyball player. She is a member of the China women's national volleyball team and plays for Bayi since 2014. She is the tallest player in the team.

Sports

Ivan Zaytsev

Ivan Zaytsev is an Italian volleyball player of Russian origin, a member of Italy men's national volleyball team and Italian club Modena Volley, a bronze medalist of the Olympic Games London 2012, silver medalist of the European Championship, bronze medalist of the World League, Italian Champion (2014) and silver medalist of the Olympic Games Rio 2016.