Darts Legends
World Champions and the greatest darts players ever.
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Browse 53 of the greatest darts players and personalities of all time.
British
Phil Taylor
Professional Darts Player
The greatest darts player of all time — 16 World Championship titles across both major bodies.…
Dutch
Michael van Gerwen
Professional Darts Player
Three-time World Champion and the dominant player of the 2010s — successor to Phil Taylor's throne.…
British
Eric Bristow
Professional Darts Player
Five-time World Champion who put darts on the sporting map in the 1980s.…
British
Luke Littler
Professional Darts Player
The Nuke — PDC World Champion at 17, the most naturally gifted teenage darts player ever seen. His d…
British
Luke Humphries
Professional Darts Player
Cool Hand Luke — the 2023 PDC World Champion at just 23, defeating Luke Littler in the final and est…
Welsh
Gerwyn Price
Professional Darts Player
The Iceman — former professional rugby player turned world darts champion, who won the PDC World Cha…
Scottish
Gary Anderson
Professional Darts Player
The Flying Scotsman — two-time PDC World Champion and one of the most naturally gifted players in th…
Dutch
Raymond van Barneveld
Professional Darts Player
Barney — five-time World Champion across both major darts bodies, whose 2007 PDC World final victory…
Scottish
Peter Wright
Professional Darts Player
Snakebite — two-time PDC World Champion whose extraordinary multicoloured hair, face paint and outra…
British
John Lowe
Professional Darts Player
Old Stoneface — three-time World Champion and one of the architects of professional darts, the first…
British
Dennis Priestley
Professional Darts Player
The Menace — two-time World Champion who won both the BDO and PDC World titles, giving him a unique …
British
Andy Fordham
Professional Darts Player
The Viking — BDO World Champion in 2004 and one of the most popular figures in the history of the sp…
British
Ted Hankey
Professional Darts Player
The Count — two-time BDO World Champion whose gothic, Dracula-inspired presentation brought theatric…
British
Glen Durrant
Professional Darts Player
Duzza — three-time BDO World Champion who made the surprising switch to the PDC at 48 and immediatel…
British
Martin Adams
Professional Darts Player
Wolfie — three-time BDO World Champion and one of the most respected figures in BDO darts, known for…
British
Fallon Sherrock
Professional Darts Player
The Queen of the Palace — the first woman ever to beat a man at the PDC World Championship, whose vi…
British
Lisa Ashton
Professional Darts Player
The Lancashire Rose — four-time BDO Women's World Champion and one of the most successful female dar…
British
Tony O'Shea
Professional Darts Player
Ace — BDO World Championship finalist and consistent performer on the BDO circuit for over two decad…
British
Rob Cross
Professional Darts Player
Voltage — former electrician who won the PDC World Championship in his debut year on Tour (2018), on…
Belgian
Dimitri Van den Bergh
Professional Darts Player
The DreamMaker — Grand Slam of Darts champion and one of the PDC's most exciting and expressive play…
Welsh
Leighton Rees
Professional Darts Player
The first ever BDO World Darts Champion — Leighton Rees won the inaugural Embassy World Professional…
Scottish
Jocky Wilson
Professional Darts Player
The original working-class darts hero — two-time BDO World Champion whose infectious smile, extraord…
British
Bobby George
Professional Darts Player
Bobby Dazzler — three-time BDO World Championship finalist whose flamboyant gold jewellery, candelab…
British
Keith Deller
Professional Darts Player
The 500-1 outsider who became World Champion at 23 — Keith Deller's 1983 BDO World title, won with a…
British
Bob Anderson
Professional Darts Player
The Limestone Cowboy — 1988 BDO World Champion whose country-and-western persona and powerful, consi…
British
Dave Whitcombe
Professional Darts Player
Two-time BDO World Championship finalist and consistent top-10 performer of the 1980s — Dave Whitcom…
Welsh
Richie Burnett
Professional Darts Player
The Prince of Wales — 1995 BDO World Champion whose journey to the title through personal adversity …
Scottish
Les Wallace
Professional Darts Player
The Throttler — 1997 BDO World Champion and one of Scotland's most successful darts players, whose v…
American/Singaporean
Paul Lim
Professional Darts Player
The Singapore Slinger — the only player to hit a perfect nine-dart finish at the BDO World Champions…
British
Scott Waites
Professional Darts Player
Two-time BDO World Champion whose back-to-back titles in 2007 and 2008 — the year before Waites hims…
British
Stephen Bunting
Professional Darts Player
The Bullet — 2014 BDO World Champion who made a seamless switch to the PDC and became one of its mos…
British
Wayne Mardle
Professional Darts Player
Hawaii 501 — the most flamboyant personality on the PDC circuit during the 2000s, known for his Hawa…
Canadian
John Part
Professional Darts Player
Darth Maple — three-time World Champion and the most successful Canadian in darts history, whose thr…
British
Adrian Lewis
Professional Darts Player
Jackpot — two-time PDC World Champion who won back-to-back titles in 2011 and 2012, and Phil Taylor'…
British
James Wade
Professional Darts Player
The Machine — eight-time PDC major champion whose clinical, methodical approach and extraordinary co…
British
Terry Jenkins
Professional Darts Player
The Bull — one of the PDC circuit's most respected journeyman professionals, whose consistent perfor…
British
Dave Chisnall
Professional Darts Player
Chizzy — one of the PDC's most talented underachievers, a player capable of extraordinary darts whos…
Australian
Simon Whitlock
Professional Darts Player
The Wizard — Australia's greatest darts player, whose distinctive long beard and wizarding persona h…
Austrian
Mensur Suljovic
Professional Darts Player
The Gentle — Austria's finest darts player and one of the PDC's most elegant performers, whose smoot…
Northern Irish
Daryl Gurney
Professional Darts Player
SuperChin — one of the PDC circuit's most popular characters, whose two major titles and passionate …
British
Ian White
Professional Darts Player
The Diamond — consistent PDC top-16 performer and one of the circuit's most reliable major-reaching …
Northern Irish
Brendan Dolan
Professional Darts Player
The History Maker — the first player in PDC history to hit a nine-dart finish at the Grand Prix usin…
British
Colin Lloyd
Professional Darts Player
Jaws — one of the PDC circuit's top performers of the 2000s and a consistent major semi-finalist who…
British
Cliff Lazarenko
Professional Darts Player
Big Cliff — one of the most fearsome throwers of the 1980s BDO era, whose enormous physical presence…
British
Kevin Painter
Professional Darts Player
The Artist — protagonist of one of the greatest PDC World Championship finals ever played, his epic …
British
Steve Beaton
Professional Darts Player
The Bronzed Adonis — 1996 BDO World Champion and one of the most durable professional darts players …
British
Mervyn King
Professional Darts Player
The King — BDO World Championship finalist in 2009 and consistent PDC top-32 performer whose powerfu…
Welsh
Mark Webster
Professional Darts Player
The Spider — 2008 BDO World Champion who was the last Welshman to win the BDO World title before the…
British
John Walton
Professional Darts Player
John Boy — 2001 BDO World Champion whose victory over Ted Hankey provided one of the most emotional …
British
Andy Hamilton
Professional Darts Player
The Hammer — PDC World Championship finalist in 2012 whose all-action, crowd-pleasing style earned h…
British
Trina Gulliver
Professional Darts Player
The Golden Girl — ten-time BDO Women's World Champion and the most successful women's darts player i…
British
Deta Hedman
Professional Darts Player
The Hurricane — two-time BDO Women's World Champion and the first player of Jamaican heritage to win…
Japanese
Mikuru Suzuki
Professional Darts Player
The first Japanese player to win a world darts championship — Mikuru Suzuki's 2019 BDO Women's World…