Olympians With Nobel Prizes or Related to Nobel Prize Winners (11)

Athlete Nation(s) Sport(s) Role(s) Era Notes
Philip Baker GBR ATH Olympics / Other 1912—1920 Noel-Baker won the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on nuclear disarmament.
Jim Beckett IRL WPO Olympics 1924 Uncle of Samuel Beckett, famous Irish author and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Ernest Bohr DEN HOC Olympics 1948 Ernest Bohr’s uncle was Niels Bohr, the renowned physicist, who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Harald Bohr DEN FBL Olympics / Non-starter 1906—1908 A top mathematician in his own right, Harald Bohr’s brother was Niels Bohr, the renowned physicist, who won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Roger Cornforth AUS WPO Olympics 1948 Younger brother of John Cornforth, winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Jean d'Estournelles de Constant FRA SAL Olympics 1900 Brother of Paul Henri, Baron d’Estournelles de Constant, who won the 1909 Nobel Peace Prize for his prominent position in the international movement for peace and arbitration.
Susan Francia USA ROW Olympics 2008—2012 Her mother, Katalin Karikó won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023
Simon Lessing GBR TRI Olympics 2000 Nephew of Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
György Libik HUN ALP Olympics 1948 His father in law was Albert Szent-Györgyi, who won the 1937 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Jack Yeats IRL ART Olympics 1924—1932 Brother of William Butler Yeats, who won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Jenő Zsigmondy HUN TEN Olympics 1908—1912 His father's cousin, Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.