Martial Artist Name Generator
Fighter names with real martial arts roots
Generate martial artist names drawn from kung fu, karate, Muay Thai, taekwondo, capoeira, and MMA traditions: authentic given names, dojo titles, and ring epithets. Built for fighting-game rosters, wuxia and shonen characters, and tabletop monks.
About martial artist names
Martial artist names carry the flavor of the art they practice. A Wing Chun master from Foshan sounds different from a Kyokushin karateka from Osaka, a Muay Thai nak muay from Buriram, or a capoeirista from Salvador. The most convincing names start with a real given name and surname from the right culture, such as Chen Zhen, Kenji Nakamura, Park Ji-hoon, or Rafael Nascimento, and only then add the flourish.
That flourish usually takes one of three forms. Kung fu films and wuxia novels love descriptive epithets like Iron Palm, White Crane, or Drunken Master, often referring to a signature technique or animal style. Modern combat sports use ring nicknames in quotation marks between the first and last name, the way Anderson "The Spider" Silva or Khabib "The Eagle" Nurmagomedov are billed. Traditional schools use titles: Sensei and Shihan in Japanese arts, Sifu and Shifu in Chinese ones, Kru and Ajarn in Thai boxing, Mestre in capoeira, Guro in Filipino kali.
This list mixes all three so you can build a fighting-game roster, an underground tournament arc, or a single wandering hero. Silat, kalaripayattu, sambo, African wrestling and wuxia sects appear too. Legendary figures like Wong Fei-hung and Ip Man appear alongside invented fighters, so you can borrow the shape of a real name and rework it into your own.
How to choose martial artist names
- Match the surname to the art: Japanese surnames for karate, judo, and aikido; Chinese for kung fu and tai chi; Korean for taekwondo and hapkido; Thai names for Muay Thai.
- Give a ring nickname only to fighters who compete publicly. A monastery-trained master would earn an epithet from students, not a promoter.
- For a fighting-game cast, vary name length and rhythm so the roster reads well on a select screen: pair short names like Jin Zhao with longer ones like Sakura Tomioka.
- If you use a real historical name like Huo Yuanjia, treat it as an homage or a mentor reference rather than the protagonist to keep your character your own.
- Titles go before the name (Sifu Lam, Sensei Morikawa) and are never used with a nickname at the same time.
Frequently asked questions
How are martial artists traditionally named or addressed?
Students address teachers by a title plus surname: Sifu Lam in Cantonese schools, Sensei Nakamura in Japanese dojos, Kru Somchai in a Thai gym, Mestre Bimba in capoeira. Fighters themselves usually go by an ordinary given name and surname, sometimes with an epithet earned in competition.
What makes a good fighting-game character name?
It should be short enough to fit a health bar, easy to shout, and hint at nationality or style. Ryu, Chun-Li, Kazuya Mishima, and Liu Kang all follow that rule: two to four syllables and a clear cultural origin.
Are these names good for D&D or Pathfinder monks?
Yes. The Chinese and Japanese given names and the epithet-style names like The Steel Crane translate well to a monastery-raised monk, and the titles work as ranks within a monastic order.
Can I use these names in a published game or novel?
Invented names are free to use. Names of real fighters and copyrighted characters such as Ryu Hoshi or Baki Hanma are included as reference examples and should not be used for your own commercial characters.
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All 1,000 martial artist names
A: 45 names
- Abbess Miaoyin
- Abbot Shi Mingjue
- Abbot Shi Yongxin
- Abbot Venn of the Hollow Bell
- Agus Wibowo
- Ahn Hyo-joo
- Aisha "The Storm" Bakari
- Ajarn Kaewsamrit
- Ajarn Samran Thongsuk
- Akane "Red Maple" Inoue
- Akhmed Saidov
- Akira Shimazu
- Akuma Gouki
- Aleksandra "The Needle" Wojcik
- Alex "Poatan" Pereira
- Alexei Dobrynin
- Altantsetseg Bayar
- Amado Buenaventura
- Amanda "The Lioness" Nunes
- Amara "The Gazelle" Diallo
- Amir Golan
- Anatoly Kharlampiev
A, continued
- Anderson "The Spider" Silva
- Andre Batista
- Angel Cabales
- Angelo Ramos
- Anko Itosu
- Anong "Golden Knee" Srisuk
- Antonio Ilustrisimo
- Anucha "Elbow King" Suriyawong
- Anucha Suriyawong
- Apidej Sit-Hirun
- Arjun "The Tiger" Malhotra
- Arslan Batbayar
- Arthit Namwong
- Asan Murugan Pillai
- Asan Velayudhan
- Asep Suryana
- Aslan "The Lynx" Dzhabrailov
- Atsushi Makabe
- Aung Kyaw Htet
- Autumn Wind Qiu
- Ayaka Nomoto
- Ayame Okuda
- Azure Kite Qiao
B: 38 names
- Bae Su-min
- Baek Seung-ho
- Bagua Wei
- Bai Ruoxue
- Bak Mei
- Bakhtiyar Yusupov
- Baki Hanma
- Bang Chul-soo
- Barefoot Hui
- Bastien "Le Bourreau" Marchand
- Batbayar Ganzorig
- Bayu "Krakatoa" Santoso
- Beija-Flor
- Bell Ringer Yan
- Ben Largusa
- Benigno Soriano
- Besouro Manganga
- Bianca Sampaio
- Black Tortoise Szeto
- Blind Sword Cheng
- Bobby Taboada
- Bogdan "The Carpathian" Ionescu
- Bokuden Tsukahara
- Bong "Hailstorm" Seo-yeong
- Bongani Mthembu
- Boonlert Saelim
- Broken Bridge Ma
- Brother Ash of the Ember Step
- Brother Tolan Stonepalm
- Bruce Kwan
- Bruno "O Cutelo" Machado
- Bruno Cardoso
- Buakaw "White Lotus" Banchamek
- Buakaw Banchamek
- Buffalo Shoulder Yeung
- Bui Xuan Truong
- Butterfly Knife Tse
- Byun Hae-sung
C: 62 names
- Cabeleira
- Cacoy Canete
- Cain "Brown Pride" Velasquez
- Caio Nascimento
- Callum "The Piledriver" Rourke
- Camila Duarte
- Cao Yunlong
- Carp Leap Xue
- Caua "Tsunami" Valadares
- Cha Byung-chul
- Chae Young-jae
- Chaiya Thepsuwan
- Chalermchai Rungruang
- Chan Rithy
- Chan Wah-shun
- Chatchai Rattanakorn
- Chea Sovann
- Cheikh Mbaye
- Chen "Bronze Bell" Zhen
- Chen "The Wall of Foshan" Wei
- Chen Fake
- Chen Wangting
- Chen Zhen
- Cheng Wenhui
- Chico da Rosa
- Chidi "The Juggernaut" Okonkwo
- Chihiro Matsunaga
- Chikara Toguchi
- Chiu Chi-ling
- Chiyo Sasaki
- Cho Sung-jae
C, continued
- Choi Bae-dal
- Choi Min-jun
- Chojun Miyagi
- Chosin Chibana
- Chow Tak-shing
- Chun-Li Xiang
- Cikgu Azman Yusof
- Cikgu Rohani Idris
- Clement Aubert
- Coach Dmitri Zaitsev
- Coach Earl Buckner
- Coach Imani Okafor
- Coach Mireille Dufresne
- Coach Nikolai Petrov
- Coach Ray Sandoval
- Coach Wim de Groot
- Coban Lookchaomaesaitong
- Cody "Buzzsaw" Lindqvist
- Conor "The Notorious" McGregor
- Constable Peng of the Six Gates
- Contramestre Pipoca
- Contramestre Rato
- Contramestre Vento
- Copper Skin Ng
- Coralie "La Guepe" Fontaine
- Corazon Balagtas
- Cotton Palm Yang
- Crane Wing Yip
- Crisanto Dimaculangan
- Cui Wenbo
- Cyril "Bon Gamin" Gane
D: 26 names
- Daisuke Fujimoto
- Dan Inosanto
- Dang Trung Kien
- Danilo "Bolo Punch" Pangilinan
- Daniyar Seitkali
- Dante "The Reaper" Moreno
- Dante Manalastas
- Decha Ruangsri
- Declan Hennessy
- Deer Horn Yin
- Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson
- Deshawn "Cannon" Whitfield
- Diego "El Toro" Fuentes
- Dieselnoi Chor Thanasukarn
- Dimas Nugroho
- Diogo Reis
- Dmitri Vorontsov
- Do Thi Mai
- Dong Haichuan
- Donnie Wu
- Doppo Orochi
- Dragan "The Vise" Petrovic
- Dragon Tail Wong
- Drunken Master Cheng
- Du Chengwu
- Duan Yu
E: 21 names
- Eagle Claw Zhang
- Edgar Sulite
- Edmilson Carvalho
- Efren Macaraeg
- Egami Shigeru
- Eight Trigram Dong
- Eiji Maruyama
- Elder Mo of Mount Hua
- Elder Orrin Farwalker
- Elder Qiu of the Beggar Clan
- Elena "La Cobra" Reyes
- Elnur Mammadov
- Emi Yoshioka
- Emilio Cabral
- Emre Yildirim
- Enkhbat Dorjsuren
- Enrique Salazar
- Eom Dong-wook
- Ernesto Presas
- Escort Chief Lu Dahai
- Etienne Delacroix
F: 13 names
- Fabio Cavalcanti
- Falling Leaf Shao
- Fang Yuxin
- Farid "Sandstorm" Qureshi
- Fatou Camara
- Fedor "The Last Emperor" Emelianenko
- Felipe Costa
- Femke Visser
- Fernanda Alves
- Five Ancestors Chua
- Floro Villabrille
- Flying Sleeve Zhu
- Fong Sai-yuk
G: 36 names
- Gabriel "El Martillo" Cordero
- Garba Tanko
- Gato Preto
- Genta Horikoshi
- Georges "Rush" St-Pierre
- Ghost Step Xie
- Gibbon Arm Su
- Gil Eun-bi
- Go Min-seok
- Golden Rooster Jia
- Goro "Riptide" Akutsu
- Goro Nagatomo
- Graduado Camaleao
- Grandmaster Feng Zhiyuan
- Grandmaster Ji Han-jae
- Grandmaster Tak Yong-su
- Grandmaster Wong Shun-leung
- Granite Shoulder Lu
- Gregorio Maglaya
- Gu Yueh-Chen
- Guan Feng
- Guile Nash
- Guo Jing
- Guo Yunshen
- Guro Andres Lumibao
- Guro Felix Mabini
- Guro Manuel Ortega
- Guro Tomas Batungbakal
- Guru Bahtiar Rahman
- Guru Besar Hasanuddin Lubis
- Guru Muda Fitri Handayani
- Gurukkal Gopalan Panicker
- Gurukkal Govindan Nair
- Gurukkal Raman Kutty
- Gurukkal Sankaran Nambiar
- Gustavo Rocha
H: 28 names
- Hall Master Shen Tiexin
- Han Seo-yeon
- Han Zhi
- Hana Sugimoto
- Hanshi Osamu Kubota
- Hanshi Seiichi Tokuda
- Harpreet "The Lion of Punjab" Sandhu
- Haruka Tachibana
- Haruto Yamashiro
- Hayato "The Lantern" Sugawara
- He Rongguang
- Hector "El Yunque" Lozano
- Hendra Gunadi
- Heo Da-eun
- Hidetoshi Nakazato
- Hiro "Snapdragon" Ozaki
- Hiroshi Tanaka
- Ho Yuen-kam
- Hoang Gia Huy
- Hong Jin-seok
- Hooked Sword Qin
- Hou Mingyu
- Hua Qianru
- Hui Chun-kit
- Hung Hei-gun
- Huo Yuanjia
- Hwang Kee
- Hwoarang Baek
I: 22 names
- Ibrahima Ndiaye
- Im Bo-kyung
- Imi Lichtenfeld
- Inch Punch Tsui
- Ines Silva
- Ingrid "The Valkyrie" Nordahl
- Instrutor Boneco
- Instrutora Onca
- Ip Man
- Ippo Makunouchi
- Irakli Beridze
- Iron Body Kwok
- Iron Bridge Sam
- Iron Head Chow
- Iron Palm Chen
- Iron Wire Lam
- Isagani Reyes
- Isamu Higa
- Israel "The Last Stylebender" Adesanya
- Ito Ittosai
- Ivan "The Bear" Volkov
- Iwan Setiadi
J: 26 names
- Jackie Chow
- Jade Belt Hua
- Jamal "Knockout" Pierce
- Jang Min-ho
- Jeon "The Piston" Woo-jin
- Jet Ling
- Ji Longfeng
- Ji Sang-hoon
- Jiang Hongwei
- Jin Kazama
- Jin Myung-soo
- Jin Zhao
- Jiro Yokoyama
- Joao Pequeno
- Johnny Cage
- Jonas "Trator" Medeiros
- Joris "The Windmill" Vermeulen
- Jose "Scarface" Aldo
- Jose Ricardo Ilagan
- Juliana Moreira
- Julien Carpentier
- Jun Catacutan
- Jun Uehara
- Jung Hye-rin
- Junior Brother Xiao Shitou
- Jurgen Hartmann
K: 58 names
- Kaensak Sor Ploenjit
- Kai "Typhoon" Matsuda
- Kaicho Haruo Matsuzaki
- Kaito Miyagi
- Kamon Pradit
- Kanbun Uechi
- Kancho Tadashi Nakamura
- Kang Dae-sung
- Kang Mi-rae
- Kannan Thampi
- Kanokwan "Jasmine Elbow" Srisuwan
- Kanryo Higaonna
- Kaolan Wongsawat
- Kaori Nishimura
- Kasumi Hirano
- Katsuo Shinoda
- Kazuki Onishi
- Kazuya Mishima
- Keeper Yusei of the Morning Bell
- Keisuke Tanimoto
- Kemal Arslan
- Ken Masters
- Kenji "Iron Palm" Nakamura
- Kenji Nakamura
- Kenshiro Hokuto
- Kenta Oshiro
- Keo Sophal
- Khabib "The Eagle" Nurmagomedov
- Khamla Phommachanh
K, continued
- Kim Doo-han
- Kim Tae-yang
- Kimura Masahiko
- Kiri "The Taniwha" Parata
- Kittisak Chaiyasit
- Kiyomi Fukuda
- Ko Man-lok
- Kofi "Thunderclap" Asante
- Kojiro Sasaki
- Kong Dehai
- Kongsak Sitboonmee
- Kosuke Tsuchiya
- Kotone Yanagi
- Kru Lek Wattana
- Kru Nattaya
- Kru Petchdam
- Kru Somchai
- Kru Yai Somboon
- Kung Lao
- Kunio Takeuchi
- Kwame "Black Mamba" Mensah
- Kwanchai Sombat
- Kwanjangnim Park Chul-min
- Kwanjangnim Seo Jung-il
- Kwok Siu-fung
- Kwon "Steel Heel" Ji-ho
- Kwon Do-yun
- Kyoshi Mariko Onodera
- Kyoshi Yoshiaki Mori
L: 45 names
- Lady Nangong Yan
- Lakshmi Kalarikkal
- Lam Cho
- Lam Sai-wing
- Lame Leg Feng
- Laoshi Fan Yulan
- Laoshi Zou Wenqing
- Lau Wai-lun
- Laughing Ko
- Law Pui-shan
- Leandro Figueiredo
- Lee Sang-woo
- Lee Won-kuk
- Left Hand Poon
- Lei Zhengang
- Leo "Sledgehammer" Brannigan
- Leo Giron
- Leopard Fist Kwan
- Leticia "A Pantera" Brandao
- Leung Bik
- Leung Jan
- Li Shuwen
L, continued
- Li Xiaolong
- Liao Yanzhi
- Lightning Leg Tan
- Lim Chae-won
- Ling "Silver Fox" Zhou
- Ling "Swallow" Feiyan
- Ling Feiyan
- Linghu Chong
- Lito Ramirez
- Liu Fengming
- Liu Kang
- Lok Kru Sam Oeun
- Long Fist Chen
- Long Piseth
- Long Pole Kwok
- Lorenzo "Il Martello" Bianchi
- Lorenzo Dimayuga
- Lotus Palm Mei
- Lu "The Anvil of Jinan" Tieshan
- Luan Mendonca
- Lucas Ferreira
- Lucia "La Loba" Ferrante
- Luo Zhiyuan
M: 88 names
- Ma Ji-yeon
- Ma Yongzhen
- Mabuni Kenwa
- Madam Leng of Emei
- Made Sudiarta
- Madhavan Kurup
- Maestro Arturo Benavides
- Maestro Isidro Gatdula
- Magpie Foot Ling
- Mahavir Dahiya
- Maitre Lucien Rochefort
- Makoto Iwasaki
- Maksim Zhukov
- Malai Chaiprasit
- Malik "The Verdict" Abernathy
- Mamadou Gueye
- Manabu Otani
- Mandla Zulu
- Manop Sukkasem
- Manor Lord Ximen Jue
- Mantis Palm Shen
- Mao de Pilao
- Marcelino Tolentino
- Marcelo Andrade
- Marco Vidal
- Marcus "The Hammer" Vaughn
- Mariana Souza
- Maricel "The Monsoon" Galang
- Marimbondo
M, continued
- Masaru Kinjo
- Master Choi Hong-hi
- Master Funakoshi
- Master Hadran Quietfoot
- Master Kang Dae-sung
- Master Kano Jigoro
- Master Oyama Masutatsu
- Master Rhee Sung-ki
- Master Ueshiba
- Mateo "El Fantasma" Ibarra
- Maxime Lefebvre
- Meas Vannak
- Meera "Monsoon" Krishnan
- Mei "Quicksilver" Tsang
- Meng Zihan
- Mestre Acordeon
- Mestre Bimba
- Mestre Boca Rica
- Mestre Camisa
- Mestre Canjiquinha
- Mestre Cobra Mansa
- Mestre Coruja
- Mestre Curio
- Mestre Faisca
- Mestre Gaviao
- Mestre Joao Grande
- Mestre Leopoldina
- Mestre Moraes
- Mestre Nenel
M, continued
- Mestre Pantera
- Mestre Pastinha
- Mestre Suassuna
- Mestre Tatu
- Mestre Trovao
- Mestre Tucano
- Mestre Waldemar
- Meteor Hammer Du
- Midori Kase
- Mifune Kyuzo
- Might Guy
- Miguel Santos
- Milos "The Glacier" Jovanovic
- Minh "The Bamboo Whip" Tran
- Minoru Ogawa
- Mio Takahara
- Misaki Kuwabara
- Mist Sleeve Liao
- Modou Faye
- Mok Chi-keung
- Monk Huizhen
- Monkey Fist Jiang
- Moon Tooth Ren
- Moon Ye-jin
- Motobu Choki
- Mountain Gate Tian
- Mu Qingfeng
- Munkhbat Tumur
- Musa Danjuma
- Musashi Miyamoto
N: 30 names
- Nachin Erdene
- Nadia "Nightfall" Petrova
- Nagamine Shoshin
- Nam "Ice Pick" Hye-jin
- Nam Gi-tae
- Nam Tae-hi
- Namsaknoi Yudthagarngamtorn
- Narong "Teep Machine" Phromma
- Nate "The Rebel" Ortiz
- Natsuki Hamada
- Nattapong Sitthichai
- Nestor Cruz
- Ng Mui
- Ngo Thu Ha
- Niall Kavanagh
- Night Heron Mu
- Nikita "Frostbite" Sokolova
- Nikos Stavropoulos
- Nine Rings Cui
- Ning Shuyi
- Niran Chanthara
- Noboru Tamashiro
- Noh "Axe Kick" Tae-hwan
- Nomvula Dube
- Nong-O Gaiyanghadao
- Noriaki Hattori
- Novice Xiaohu
- Nun Jinghui
- Nurlan Zhaksybekov
- Nurul Aisyah
O: 11 names
- Oh Se-hoon
- Ohma Tokita
- Old Man Guo
- Omar "The Scorpion" Haddad
- One-Eyed Ryu
- Oren "Ironclad" Ben-David
- Osamu Chinen
- Otavio Bittencourt
- Otgonbayar Purev
- Otsuka Hironori
- Owen "Haymaker" Driscoll
P: 41 names
- Pak Guru Wiryo Sasono
- Panpayak Jitmuangnon
- Pape Ndoye
- Paper Lantern Ye
- Park "Thunder Kick" Ji-hoon
- Park Ji-hoon
- Paul Phoenix
- Pe de Vento
- Pehlwan Balbir Dhillon
- Pehlwan Jagdish Yadav
- Pehlwan Sukhdev Mann
- Pendekar Haji Ismail
- Pendekar Harun Salleh
- Pendekar Wira Kusuma
- Pendekar Zainal Abidin Osman
- Peng Jiahao
- Petch Sitthichai
- Petchmorakot Petchyindee
- Petchnoi Sor Wichai
- Pham Duc Thinh
P, continued
- Phoenix Eye Lam
- Pimchanok Wongyai
- Plum Blossom Fang
- Poison Palm He
- Pongsak Inthara
- Poon Ho-yin
- Prak Samnang
- Prasit Sor Ploenjit
- Praying Mantis Wang
- Preecha Wattana
- Prioress Saela Dawnmantle
- Priscila Antunes
- Priya "Cobra Strike" Nair
- Professor Caique Drummond
- Professor Canario
- Professor Falcao
- Professor Helio Sarmento
- Professor Relampago
- Professora Borboleta
- Punong Guro Ruben Pascual
- Pyo Kang-san
Q: 4 names
- Qi "Moonblade" Ruolan
- Qiao Yunfei
- Qin Xiaoyu
- Quiet River Jiang
R: 47 names
- Rafael "Ginga" Nascimento
- Rafael Nascimento
- Rafaela "Furacão" Lima
- Raghavan Nambiar
- Raian Kure
- Raimundo Tavares
- Rain Step Wen
- Ramon Bautista
- Ramon Villanueva
- Rasul Kurbanov
- Ratana Boonyarit
- Red Spear Luo
- Reika Mizuno
- Remy Presas
- Ren "Silent Fist" Ishikawa
- Ren Ishikawa
- Ren Tianyou
- Renan Guimaraes
- Renato Sumulong
- Rene Latosa
- Renji Hoshikawa
- Renshi Takumi Sano
- Renshi Yoji Kawakami
R, continued
- Reverend Wuchen
- Reverend Yuanzhao
- Rhino Horn Law
- Ricardo Alvarez
- Rico "Cyclone" Delgado
- Riku Hasegawa
- Rin Ozawa
- Rock Lee
- Rodel Dagooc
- Rodrigo Paixao
- Rodtang Jitmuangnon
- Rogelio Magbanua
- Rolando Lacson
- Rolling Thunder Mak
- Ronda "Rowdy" Rousey
- Rope Dart Xia
- Rosario Evangelista
- Rose "Thug" Namajunas
- Ruslan Akhmedov
- Ruud van Dijk
- Ryo Hayashida
- Ryu Hoshi
- Ryu Ji-woo
- Ryuji Kobayakawa
S: 126 names
- Sabomnim Kim Dae-ho
- Sabomnim Lee Eun-sook
- Saenchai Sor Kingstar
- Saenlek Por Surasak
- Sagat Petchyindee
- Sakchai Phetsuwan
- Sakmongkol Sithchuchok
- Sakura "Cherry Blade" Tomioka
- Sakura Tomioka
- Samart Payakaroon
- Sammo Yuen
- Samson Isaan
- Sander Koopman
- Sani Abubakar
- Santiago "El Relampago" Villalobos
- Satoru Nagase
- Satpal Hooda
- Saya Ba Thein
- Saya Ko Hla Shwe
- Sayaka Kondo
- Scorpion Hanzo
- Sect Leader Leng Yue
- Sect Leader Yun Zhihe
- Seiji Kamiya
- Seikichi Tomigusuku
- Sempai Daigo Yoshimura
- Sempai Nozomi Akiyama
- Senior Sister Su Wan
- Sensei Akemi Hoshino
- Sensei Chieko Hanada
- Sensei Emiko Sato
S, continued
- Sensei Fumio Kanazawa
- Sensei Hideki Morita
- Sensei Hideo Morikawa
- Sensei Kenji Arai
- Sensei Mitsuru Okabe
- Sensei Naoki Fujiwara
- Sensei Rokuro Nishida
- Sensei Ryoko Ishida
- Sensei Toshiro Kagami
- Sensei Yuki Kagawa
- Seo Yun-ah
- Seong Jae-hyuk
- Shadow Kick Lau
- Shamil Ibragimov
- Shane "The Mechanic" Tolliver
- Shao Lingyun
- Sher Singh Grewal
- Shi Dejian
- Shi Heng Yi
- Shi Xingying
- Shi Yanzi
- Shi Zhenhua
- Shidoin Kana Furukawa
- Shifu Bao Zhenyuan
- Shifu Ge Tianlei
- Shifu Yan Ming
- Shigeru Matsuoka
- Shihan Ando Yoshinobu
- Shihan Hitoshi Endo
- Shihan Kazuhiko Mizutani
- Shihan Kenzo Ikeda
- Shihan Masaki Nakayama
S, continued
- Shihan Tsutomu Iwata
- Shin Hyun-woo
- Shinji Takemura
- Shinsuke Maeshiro
- Shiori Kawaguchi
- Sho Watanabe
- Short Bridge Mok
- Shota "Bullet Train" Uemura
- Shunsuke Aoyama
- Sifu Chan Kwok-wing
- Sifu Cheung Man-hei
- Sifu Fung Hok-ming
- Sifu Ho Kam-ming
- Sifu Lam Wing-tak
- Sifu Leung Ting
- Sifu Lo Kwai-fong
- Sifu Tam Kwok-fai
- Sifu Yuen Chi-wah
- Sigung Chu Shing-yat
- Silent Assassin Xu
- Silver Needle Yu
- Sim Hae-won
- Sima Qing
- Sione "The Seawall" Taufa
- Sipho "The Anvil" Dlamini
- Sirirat Thongdee
- Sister Mirela Windstep
- Sister Wren of the Still Water
- Sittichai Sitsongpeenong
- Six Harmony Liu
- Sizwe Mabaso
S, continued
- Snake Fist Pang
- Soe Thiha
- Soke Gennosuke Hirayama
- Soke Hiroaki Yamaguchi
- Sokon Matsumura
- Sombat Chaiwat
- Somkiat Phuangthong
- Sompong Kaewsamrit
- Somsak "Left Hook" Prasert
- Son Na-rae
- Song Ha-neul
- Song Lianhua
- Sparrow Hawk Deng
- Split Bamboo Gao
- Stamp Fairtex
- Steel Fan Song
- Stefan "Der Sturm" Brandt
- Sticky Hands Leung
- Stone Fist Kwong
- Stone Lock Xiong
- Su Meiling
- Sub-Zero Bi-Han
- Sun Lutang
- Superbon Singha Mawynn
- Superlek Kiatmoo9
- Surasak Boonmee
- Suthep Yodrak
- Sven "The Viking" Halvorsen
- Svetlana Kovaleva
- Swallow Tail Ning
- Sword Saint Baili Mu
- Szeto Mei-kuen
T: 141 names
- Tadao Nomura
- Taiga Sakamoto
- Tak Jung-hwan
- Takamura Mamoru
- Takeshi Kurosawa
- Tan Kexin
- Tang Sau
- Tang Xueying
- Taoist Qingxu
- Tariq "The Surgeon" Hakimi
- Tatiana Gromova
- Tatiana Vasconcelos
- Tatsuya Minamoto
- Tawanchai PK Saenchai
- Tea Seller Lau
- Tenzin "Snow Leopard" Dorje
- Tessa "Razor" Kowalski
- Tetsuo Arakaki
- Thabo "Lionheart" Mokoena
- Thanakorn Srisawat
- The Back Alley Saint
- The Bahia Blade
- The Bamboo Blade
- The Bangkok Butcher
- The Barefoot Champion
- The Black Sparrow
- The Blind Swordsman
- The Bronx Southpaw
- The Bronze Buddha
- The Buriram Bull
- The Busan Breaker
- The Canton Tiger
- The Chiang Mai Clincher
- The Clinch Queen
- The Closed Gate
T, continued
- The Cloud Walker
- The Copper Bell
- The Crimson Belt
- The Dagestan Anchor
- The Dakar Giant
- The Diamond Shin
- The Dojo Storm
- The Eastern Serpent
- The Emei Blade
- The Empty Hand
- The Ferryman of Guilin
- The Foshan Fist
- The Ghost Knee
- The Ghost of Foshan
- The Golden Leg
- The Hermit of Mount Song
- The Heron of the Marsh
- The Hidden Dragon
- The Hong Kong Phoenix
- The Hundred Bout Veteran
- The Iron Broom
- The Iron Elbow
- The Iron Lotus
- The Iron Monkey
- The Isaan Cobra
- The Jade Fox
- The Jade Serpent
- The Kowloon Comet
- The Kunlun Sage
- The Kyoto Shadow
- The Lagos Lancer
- The Last Disciple
- The Laughing Abbot
- The Leg Lock Professor
- The Lumpinee Lion
T, continued
- The Manila Machete
- The Marseille Savateur
- The Mat Wizard
- The Monsoon Kick
- The Muay Thai Tornado
- The Nameless Monk
- The Night Market King
- The Ninth Dragon
- The Northern Fist
- The Northern Leopard
- The Okinawa Typhoon
- The One-Armed Boxer
- The Osaka Hurricane
- The Paddy Field Champion
- The Pattaya Pitbull
- The Quiet Kensei
- The Rajadamnern Ghost
- The Recife Razor
- The Red Sash
- The Rio Roda
- The Riverbank Monk
- The Rotterdam Ram
- The Salvador Whip
- The Sandalwood Fist
- The Sao Paulo Sledge
- The Shaolin Lion
- The Shaolin Wolf
- The Silver Staff
- The Sleeping Tiger
- The Southern Crane
- The Southern Tiger
- The Steel Crane
- The Storm Fist
- The Switch Kicker
- The Tbilisi Thrower
T, continued
- The Tea House Brawler
- The Temple Sweeper
- The Ten Thousand Kick
- The Thirteenth Kata
- The Ulaanbaatar Ox
- The Unbowed Reed
- The Unseen Elbow
- The Wandering Monk
- The Weeping Blade
- The Western Wolf
- The Wudang Crane
- The Wudang Sword
- Themba Khumalo
- Thiago Barbosa
- Thibault Renaud
- Thongchai Kaewkla
- Thousand Pound Meng
- Thunder Palm Yuen
- Thunderclap Kong
- Thura Lin
- Tiago Loureiro
- Tian Yifan
- Tico-Tico
- Tiger Claw Fung
- Tiger Crane Wong
- Timur "Steppe Wolf" Abdrakhmanov
- Tok Guru Mat Jusoh
- Tomasz "The Iron Pole" Wisniewski
- Tomoe Kurihara
- Tony Jaa Panom
- Trevor "Bulldozer" Hollis
- Tse Wing-yan
- Tsubaki Hayami
- Tsui "Neon Tiger" Ka-ming
- Twelve-Fist Tang
- Twin Blade Ho
U: 3 names
- Ustad Gurnam Sidhu
- Ustad Karamat Ali
- Ustad Yaqub Chaudhry
V: 10 names
- Vahan Petrosyan
- Valentina "Bullet" Shevchenko
- Valeria "La Centella" Zamora
- Vasily Oshchepkov
- Vikram "Thunderbolt" Shekhawat
- Viktor Spiridonov
- Vinicius Pacheco
- Virgilio Dumlao
- Vo Su Truong Van Loc
- Vo Thanh Long
W: 26 names
- Wagner Peixoto
- Wakana Oda
- Wall Climber Shi
- Wan Shilong
- Wanchai Khamdee
- Wang Lang
- Wang Xiangzhai
- Wayfarer Ilse of the Four Winds
- Weerachai Kiatprasert
- Wei "The Dragon" Long
- Wei Long
- Wei Xiaobao
- Wen Jingyi
- Whirlwind Staff Hou
- White Crane Wu
- White Eyebrow Cheung
- Wichai "The Scythe" Thongchai
- Wilfredo Abalos
- Willow Sword Bai
- Winter Fist Han
- Wirat Saengthong
- Won So-yeon
- Wong Fei-hung
- Wong Kei-ying
- Wooden Dummy Wu
- Wu Jianquan
X: 7 names
- Xia Yulan
- Xiao Feng
- Ximena "La Tormenta" Quiroga
- Xingyi Zhang
- Xiong Daqiang
- Xu Baoshan
- Xue Tianhao
Y: 32 names
- Yael Rosenfeld
- Yagyu Munenori
- Yamashita Yasuhiro
- Yan Shuang
- Yang Chengfu
- Yang Dong-ha
- Yang Guo
- Yang Luchan
- Yasuhiro Shimabukuro
- Ye Qingshan
- Yeo Soo-ah
- Yerlan Suleimenov
- Yeung Kin-fai
- Yevgeny Baranov
- Yim Wing-chun
- Yin Baihe
- Yip Ching
- Yip Chun
- Yodchai Sitnarong
- Yodsanklai Fairtex
- Yodwicha Por Boonsit
- Yoo Jae-won
- Yoon Byung-in
- Yoshiro Kitamura
- Yoshito Shiraishi
- Yu Ga-eun
- Yudi Hermawan
- Yue Fei
- Yujiro Hanma
- Yuki Kagawa
- Yusuf "The Falcon" Demir
- Yusuke Kanemoto