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Greg Louganis
(The Only Man and the Second Diver in Olympic History to Sweep the Diving Events in Consecutive Olympic Games)
Greg Louganis
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Birthdate: January 29, 1960
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: El Cajon, California, United States

Greg Louganis was born to high-school students and was raised by his adoptive parents. Before becoming a renowned diver, he had studied drama and excelled in dance and gymnastics. The four-time Olympic gold medalist is HIV-positive and an LGBT icon. His memoir, Breaking the Surface, was made into a TV movie.

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David Boudia
(American Diver and Olympic Gold Medalist)
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Birthdate: April 24, 1989
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Abilene, Texas, United States
Height: 5'9" (175 cm)
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Jennifer Abel
(Canadian Former Diver)
Jennifer Abel
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Birthdate: August 23, 1991
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
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Matthew Mitcham
(Australian Diver and Trampoline Gymnast Who Became the First Openly Gay Olympic Gold Medalist)
Matthew Mitcham
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Birthdate: March 2, 1988
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Olympic gold medal-winning Australian diver Matthew Mitcham initially competed as a trampoline gymnast, too, and trained in both the sports for a while. He holds the all-time Olympic record for the 2nd highest single-dive score. Openly gay, he is also an LGBTQ icon and the first known gay Olympic gold medalist.

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Sammy Lee
(American Diver and the First Asian American Man to Win an Olympic Gold Medal for the United States)
Sammy Lee
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Birthdate: August 1, 1920
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Fresno, California, United States
Died: December 2, 2016
 6 
Guo Jingjing
(Retired Chinese Female Diver and Multi-Time Olympic Gold Medalist)
Guo Jingjing
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Birthdate: October 15, 1981
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Baoding, China

Guo Jingjing is a Chinese former diver best known for her performance at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics where she won two gold medals at each event. She has also won two Olympic silver medals and is currently tied with Wu Minxia for winning the most number of Olympic medals for any female diver.

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Quan Hongchan
(Chinese Diver and Olympic Gold Medalist)
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Birthdate: March 28, 2007
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Mazhang District, Zhanjiang, China
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Chen Aisen
(Chinese Competitive Diver)
Chen Aisen
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Birthdate: October 22, 1995
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Guangzhou, China
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
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Laura Wilkinson
(American Diver, 3 Time Olympian, and Olympic Gold Medalist)
Laura Wilkinson
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Birthdate: November 17, 1977
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Houston, Texas, United States
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
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Tom Daley
(British Diver)
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Birthdate: May 21, 1994
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Plymouth, Devon, England
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Fu Mingxia
(Chinese Diver, Multiple Olympic Gold Medalist and World Champion)
Fu Mingxia
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Birthdate: August 16, 1978
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Wuhan, China

Fu Mingxia is a Chinese retired diver who won the platform-diving world championship title at the age of 12, becoming the youngest diving champion of all time. She is also one of the youngest diving champions at the Olympics, she won a gold medal at the age of 13 in Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Fu finished her career with four Olympic gold medals and two World Championships.

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Melissa Wu
(Australian Competitive Diver)
Melissa Wu
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Birthdate: May 3, 1992
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Sydney, Australia
Height: 5'0" (152 cm)
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Shi Tingmao
(Chinese Diver)
Shi Tingmao
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Birthdate: August 31, 1991
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Chongqing, China
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
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Cao Yuan
(Chinese Diver and an Olympic Gold Medalist)
Cao Yuan
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Birthdate: February 7, 1995
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Changsha, China
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
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Qin Kai
(Chinese Competitive Diver)
Qin Kai
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Birthdate: January 31, 1986
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Xi'an, China
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Audrey Mestre
(Freediver)
Audrey Mestre
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Birthdate: August 11, 1974
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Île-de-France, France
Died: October 12, 2002
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Tian Liang
(Chinese Actor and Former Diver)
Tian Liang
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Birthdate: August 27, 1979
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Chongqing, China
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Bruce Kimball
(American Competitive Diver)
Bruce Kimball
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Birthdate: June 11, 1963
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Matty Lee
(British Diver and Olympic Gold Medalist)
Matty Lee
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Birthdate: March 5, 1998
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Leeds, England
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Wu Minxia
(Retired Chinese Diver)
Wu Minxia
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Birthdate: November 10, 1985
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Shanghai, China

Wu Minxia is a Chinese former professional diver who has five Olympic gold medals, eight World Championship titles, and five Asian Games gold medals under her belt. She has also won Olympic silver and bronze, which makes her one of the most successful female divers in the history of modern Olympics. Wu is also one of China’s most celebrated divers.

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Pandelela Rinong
(Malaysian Diver)
Pandelela Rinong
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Birthdate: March 2, 1993
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Bau, Sarawak, Malaysia

Two-time Olympic medalist Pandelela Rinong was scouted for state diving at the age of 7. Born into a modest family of a contractor, she initially dreamed of becoming an air stewardess and of traveling the world. She scripted history as the first Malaysian female to win an Olympic medal.

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Alexandre Despatie
(Canadian Diver)
Alexandre Despatie
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Birthdate: June 8, 1985
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Height: 5'8" (173 cm)
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Deon Dreyer
(Diver)
Deon Dreyer
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Birthdate: August 7, 1974
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: South Africa
Died: December 17, 1994
 24 
Jack Laugher
(British Diver)
Jack Laugher
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Birthdate: January 30, 1995
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
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Ren Qian
(Chinese Diver)
Ren Qian
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Birthdate: February 20, 2001
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Dujiangyan, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Mark Lenzi
(American Olympic Diver)
Mark Lenzi
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Birthdate: July 4, 1968
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Huntsville, Alabama, United States
Died: April 9, 2012
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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Chantelle Newbery
(Australian Former Diver and Olympic Gold Medalist)
Chantelle Newbery
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Birthdate: May 6, 1977
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height: 5'0" (152 cm)
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Klaus Dibiasi
(Italian Former Diver and Olympic Gold Medalist)
Klaus Dibiasi
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Birthdate: October 6, 1947
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Solbad Hall, Austria
Height: 5'11" (180 cm)
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Steele Johnson
(Olympic Silver Medal-Winning American Diver)
Steele Johnson
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Birthdate: June 16, 1996
Sun Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Height: 6'0" (183 cm)
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Daniel Goodfellow
(British Diver and Olympic Medalist)
Daniel Goodfellow
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Birthdate: October 19, 1996
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Cambridge, England
Height: 5'6" (168 cm)
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Vicki Draves
(American Competitive Diver)
Vicki Draves
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Birthdate: December 31, 1924
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, United States
Died: April 11, 2010
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Pat McCormick
(American Diver)
Pat McCormick
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Birthdate: May 12, 1930
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Seal Beach, California, United States
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Jordan Windle
(First diver of Cambodian descent to compete in the Olympics)
Jordan Windle
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Birthdate: November 13, 1998
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Sihanoukville, Cambodia
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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Chen Ruolin
(Chinese Diver)
Chen Ruolin
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Birthdate: December 12, 1992
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Nantong, Jiangsu, China
Height: 5'2" (157 cm)
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Jon Lindbergh
(American Underwater Diver and One of the World’s Earliest Aquanauts in the 1960s)
Jon Lindbergh
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Birthdate: August 16, 1932
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Died: July 29, 2021
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Kassidy Cook
(American Competitive Diver)
Kassidy Cook
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Birthdate: May 9, 1995
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Plantation, Florida, United States
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
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Lin Yue
(Chinese Diver)
Lin Yue
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Birthdate: July 24, 1991
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
Height: 5'2" (157 cm)
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Grace Reid
(Scottish Diver)
Grace Reid
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Birthdate: May 9, 1996
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Herbert Nitsch
(Austrian Freediver Who Holds the World Record of Deepest Dive at 253.2 meters)
Herbert Nitsch
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Birthdate: April 20, 1970
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Austria

Widely known as the deepest man on Earth, Austrian freediver Herbert Nitsch currently holds the world freediving world record for his exceptional dive of 214 m. He has previously also worked as a pilot. He is also the only diver to hold records in all of AIDA's 8 freediving disciplines.

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Sam Patch
(First Famous American Daredevil and Diver)
Sam Patch
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Birthdate: 1799 AD
Birthplace: Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
Died: November 13, 1829
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Rick Charls
(Former American High Diver Who Held the World Record for the Highest Dive of 172 Feet)
Rick Charls
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Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Dmitri Sautin
(Russian Diver)
Dmitri Sautin
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Birthdate: March 15, 1974
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Voronezh, Russia
Height: 5'7" (170 cm)
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Nur Dhabitah Sabri
(Malaysian Diver)
Nur Dhabitah Sabri
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Birthdate: July 12, 1999
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Nur Dhabitah Sabri is a Malaysian professional diver best known for winning three bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games, including two medals at the 2018 Games in Gold Coast, Queensland. She has also won several gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games. In 2017, Nur Dhabitah Sabri was chosen to light up the cauldron at the Southeast Asian Games.

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Pauline Ducruet
(Diver, Second child of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco)
Pauline Ducruet
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Birthdate: May 4, 1994
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: La Colle, Monaco
Height: 5'5" (165 cm)
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Lois Toulson
(British Competitive Diver)
Lois Toulson
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Birthdate: September 26, 1999
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Tonia Couch
(Former British Diver)
Tonia Couch
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Birthdate: May 20, 1989
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Plymouth, Devon, England
Height: 5'4" (163 cm)
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Cheong Jun Hoong
(Malaysian Diver)
Cheong Jun Hoong
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Birthdate: April 16, 1990
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

Malaysian diver Cheong Jun Hoong is not just an Olympic silver medalist but has also scripted history by becoming the first Malaysian diving world champion. She began training in aquatics at age 4 and focused on diving at age 9. She was apparently dropped from the national team due to budget cuts.

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Leon Taylor
(Former British Competitive Diver)
Leon Taylor
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Birthdate: November 2, 1977
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
Height: 5'10" (178 cm)
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Marjorie Gestring
(American Competitive Diver)
Marjorie Gestring
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Birthdate: November 18, 1922
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, United States
Died: April 20, 1992
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Tania Cagnotto
(Italian Diver Who Was the First Female Italian Diver to Win a Medal in a World Championship)
Tania Cagnotto
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Birthdate: May 15, 1985
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Bolzano, Italy
Height: 5'3" (160 cm)
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