The following is a list of notable ice speed skaters. The list is sorted by speed skating discipline (long-track or short-track), gender and competing nationality.
Long-track
Male
American
Ryan Bedford K. C. Boutiette Kip Carpenter Joey Cheek Shani Davis John Farrell Casey FitzRandolph Eric Flaim Tucker Fredricks Chad Hedrick Eric Heiden Ken Henry Irving Jaffee Dan Jansen Charles Jewtraw Jonathan Kuck Charles Ryan Leveille Trevor Marsicano Terry McDermott Peter Mueller Apolo Ohno Derek Parra Tom Plant Andy Roesch Jack Shea Jordan Stolz Nick Thometz
Australian Colin Coates Colin Hickey Danny Kah Kenneth Kennedy Michael Richmond Phillip Tahmindjis
Austrian Roland Brunner Christian Eminger Michael Hadschieff Werner Jäger Heinz Steinberger
Belarusian Igor Zhelezovski (also competed for Soviet Union)
Belgian Bart Veldkamp (also competed in the Netherlands) Bart Swings
British Bryan Carbis Julian Green Wilf O'Reilly
Canadian Andrew Barron Gaétan Boucher Sylvain Bouchard Arne Dankers Steven Elm Mike Ireland Patrick Kelly Neal Marshall Denny Morrison Jason Parker Kevin Scott Justin Warsylewicz Jeremy Wotherspoon
Colombian Pedro Causil
Czech Milan Sáblík
Dutch Henk Angenent Jan Bazen Jeen van den Berg Jelmer Beulenkamp Ted-Jan Bloemen (also competed for Canada) Jan Blokhuijsen Lieuwe de Boer Jan Bols Jenning de Boo Jan Bos Thomas Bos Kees Broekman Ben van der Burg Jappie van Dijk Hilbert van der Duim Jaap Eden Henk van der Grift Stefan Groothuis Hans van Helden (also competed for France) Martin Hersman Wouter olde Heuvel Bob de Jong
Gerard Kemkers Piet Kleine Coen de Koning Sven Kramer Yep Kramer Harm Kuipers Simon Kuipers Jakko Jan Leeuwangh Rudie Liebrechts Michel Mulder Ronald Mulder Beorn Nijenhuis Tom Prinsen Ids Postma Rintje Ritsma Gianni Romme Frits Schalij Ard Schenk Jan Smeekens Mark Tuitert Jochem Uytdehaage Gerard van Velde Bart Veldkamp (also competed for Belgium) Hein Vergeer Carl Verheijen Kees Verkerk Koen Verweij Leo Visser Erben Wennemars Jan Ykema Falko Zandstra
Finnish Janne Hänninen Juhani Järvinen Pekka Koskela Pertti Niittylä Urpo Pikkupeura Mika Poutala Jukka Salmela Toivo Salonen Julius Skutnabb Clas Thunberg Jarmo Valtonen Jouko Vesterlund
French Alexis Contin Jean-Noël Fagot Hans van Helden (also competed for the Netherlands) Thierry Lamberton Emmanuel Michon Tonny Monari (also competed for the Netherlands)
German
Frank Dittrich (also competed for DDR) Jens Boden Uwe-Jens Mey (also competed for DDR) Samuel Schwarz Olaf Zinke (also competed for DDR)
DDR (East German)
Andreas Ehrig André Hoffmann Uwe-Jens Mey
BRD (West German)
Erhard Keller
Japanese Toru Aoyanagi Manabu Horii Junichi Inoue Joji Kato Yoshihiro Kitazawa Akira Kuroiwa Toshiyuki Kuroiwa Yasunori Miyabe Yukinori Miyabe Hiroyasu Shimizu Keiichi Suzuki
Korean
DPRK (North Korean)
ROK (South Korean)
Joo Hyong-jun (also competes short-track) Kim Cheol-min (also competes short-track) Lee Kang-seok Lee Kyou-hyuk Mo Tae-bum
Italian Enrico Fabris Maurizio Marchetto Mirko Giacomo Nenzi Ippolito Sanfratello Roberto Sighel
Kazakh Vadim Sayutin (also competed for Russia)
Mexican Eric Kraan
Norwegian Nils Aaness Roald Aas Hjalmar Andersen Petter Andersen Terje Andersen Ivar Ballangrud Håvard Bøkko Thomas Byberg Armand Carlsen Jørn Didriksen Lasse Efskind Kai Arne Engelstad Ivar Eriksen Eskil Ervik Bernt Evensen Rolf Falk-Larssen Sverre Farstad Dag Fornæss Alv Gjestvang Øystein Grødum Roar Grønvold Rudolf Gundersen Per Willy Guttormsen Villy Haugen Sverre Ingolf Haugli Finn Helgesen Knut Johannesen Arne Johansen Geir Karlstad Johann Olav Koss Roald Larsen Reidar Liaklev Odd Lundberg Fred Anton Maier Charles Mathiesen Oscar Mathisen Per Ivar Moe Alfred Næss Peder Østlund Tom Erik Oxholm Frode Rønning Lasse Sætre Amund Sjøbrend Ådne Søndrål Michael Staksrud Sten Stensen Kay Arne Stenshjemmet Rune Stordal Kjell Storelid Jan Egil Storholt Harald Strøm Kristian Strøm Roger Strøm Arnulf Sunde Magne Thomassen Erik Vea Even Wetten
Polish Zbigniew Bródka
Russian
Dmitry Dorofeyev Aleksandr Golubev (also competed for Soviet Union) Dmitry Lobkov Dmitry Shepel Ivan Skobrev Aleksey Yesin Denis Yuskov
Soviet
Ants Antson Andrey Bobrov Dmitry Bochkaryov Oleg Bozhev Sergey Fokichev Oleg Goncharenko Yevgeny Grishin Nikolay Gulyayev Vasily Ippolitov Sergey Klevchenya Sergey Khlebnikov Viktor Kosichkin Yevgeny Kulikov Vladimir Lobanov Viktor Lyoskin Igor Malkov Sergey Marchuk Eduard Matusevich Yuri Mikhaylov Valery Muratov Dmitry Ogloblin Pavel Pegov Viktor Shasherin Boris Shilkov Vladimir Shilykovsky Boris Stenin Nikolay Strunnikov
Swedish Nils van der Poel Per Bengtsson Göran Claeson Sigvard Ericsson Tomas Gustafson Johnny Höglin Hans Markström Jonny Nilsson Johan Röjler Örjan Sandler Jonas Schön Åke Seyffarth Mats Wallberg
Swiss
Franz Krienbühl Notger "Nök" Ledergerber Roger Schneider
Female
American Chantal Bailey Bonnie Blair Rebekah Bradford Beth Heiden Anne Henning Dianne Holum Kit Klein Maria Lamb Leah Poulos-Mueller Jennifer Rodriguez Chris Witty Sheila Young Ellie Ochowicz Catherine Raney Heather Richardson-Bergsma Nancy Swider Christine Witty
Austrian Emese Antal (born in Romania) Emese Hunyady (also competed for Hungary)
Canadian Susan Auch Ivanie Blondin Lela Brooks Sylvia Burka Sylvie Daigle Eden Donatelli Kristina Groves Clara Hughes Gilmore Junio Cindy Klassen Catriona Le May Doan Christine Nesbitt Shannon Rempel Brittany Schussler
Czech Martina Sáblíková
Danish Cathrine Grage
Dutch Margot Boer Annie Borckink Wieteke Cramer Paulien van Deutekom Carry Geijssen Yvonne van Gennip Annette Gerritsen Renate Groenewold Tonny de Jong Stien Kaiser Atje Keulen-Deelstra Marrit Leenstra Barbara de Loor Jorien ter Mors Laurine van Riessen Ans Schut Gretha Smit Marianne Timmer Diane Valkenburg Lotte van Beek Renske Vellinga Marja Vis Ria Visser Elma de Vries Linda de Vries Ireen Wüst
Finnish
Kaija Mustonen
German Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Stephanie Beckert Jacqueline Börner (also competed for DDR) Anni Friesinger-Postma Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (also competed for DDR) Bente Kraus Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (also competed for DDR) Claudia Pechstein (also competed for DDR) Christa Luding-Rothenburger (also competed for DDR) Franziska Schenk (also competed for DDR) Sabine Völker (also competed for DDR) Jenny Wolf
DDR (East German) Karin Enke Andrea Ehrig-Mitscherlich Helga Haase Constanze Moser-Scandolo Gabi Zange
BRD (West German) Monika Pflug
Japanese Seiko Hashimoto Tomomi Okazaki
Korean
DPRK (North Korean) Han Pil-Hwa
ROK (South Korean) Lee Sang-hwa
Norwegian
Hege Bøkko Maren Haugli Edel Therese Høiseth Bjørg Eva Jensen Synnøve Lie Laila Schou Nilsen
Russian
Svetlana Bazhanova Svetlana Zhurova
Soviet Inga Artamonova Tatyana Averina Vera Bryndzei Maria Isakova Natalya Petrusyova Tamara Rylova Lidia Skoblikova Nina Statkevich Valentina Stenina Galina Stepanskaya Lyudmila Titova Rimma Zhukova
Swedish Jasmin Krohn
Swiss Sylvia Brunner
Short-track
Male
American Apolo Anton Ohno JR Celski Dan Weinstein Anthony Lobello Jr Jordan Malone Simon Cho Rusty Smith Alex Izykowski Ryan Bedford Travis Jayner J. P. Kepka Kyle Uyehara Charles King Keith King
Australian
Steven Bradbury
British
Wilf O'Reilly
Canadian
Eric Bedard Gaétan Boucher Marc Gagnon Michael Gilday Jonathan Guilmette Charles Hamelin François Hamelin François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte Guillaume Bastille Olivier Jean Gilmore Junio
Chinese
Li Jiajun
Dutch
Lieuwe de Boer
Korean
DPRK (North Korean) Choe Un-song Jong Kwang-bom
ROK (South Korean)
Ahn Hyun Soo Ahn Viktor (also competed for Russia) Chae Ji-hoon Hwang Dae-heon Joo Hyong-jun (also competes long-track) Kim Byeong-jun Kim Cheol-min (also competes long-track) Kim Do-kyoum Kim Dong-sung Kim Hwan-ee Kim Hyun-kon Kim Ki-hoon Kim Seoung-il Kim Tae-hoon Kim Yun-jae Kwak Yoon-gy Lee Han-bin Lee Ho-eung Lee Ho-Suk Lee Joon-ho Lee Jun-hwan Lee June-seo Lee Jung-Su Lee Seung-hoon Lim Hyo-jun Min Ryoung Mo Ji-soo Noh Jin-kyu Oh Se-jong Park Ji-won Park Se-yeong Seo Ho-Jin Seo Yi-ra Sin Da-woon Song Jae-kun Song Kyung-taek Song Suk-Woo Sung Si-Bak Um Cheon-ho
New Zealand
Mike McMillen Andrew Nicholson Chris Nicholson Tony Smith Blake Skjellerup
Female
American
Katherine Reutter Allison Baver Kimberly Derrick Carly Wilson Lana Gehring Alyson Dudek Cathy Turner
Bulgarian
Evgenia Radanova
Canadian
Susan Auch Sylvie Daigle Eden Donatelli Marie-Ève Drolet Jessica Gregg Alanna Kraus Anouk Leblanc-Boucher Valérie Maltais Amanda Overland Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent
Chinese
Wang Meng Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S)
Korean
DPRK (North Korean)
Hwang Ok-sil Kim Chun-hwa Ri Hyang-mi ROK (South Korean) An Sang-mi Byun Chun-sa Cho Ha-ri Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Chun Lee-kyung Jeon Da-hye Jeon Ji-soo Jin Sun-Yu Joo Min-jin Jung Eun-ju Kim Alang Kim Min-jee Ko Gi-hyun Park Seung-hi Shim Suk-hee Noh Ah-Reum