Editing 1920s (section)

===Sports figures===
{{See also|History of baseball in the United States#Babe Ruth and the end of the dead-ball era}}
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[[File:Babe_Ruth_(cropped).jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Babe Ruth]] in 1920]]
[[File:Paavo Nurmi (Paris 1924).jpg|right|thumb|150px|[[Paavo Nurmi]] in [[1924 Summer Olympics]]]]
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* [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Ty Cobb]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Eddie Collins]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Walter Johnson]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Rogers Hornsby]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Babe Ruth]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Tris Speaker]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Lou Gehrig]] (American [[baseball]] player)
* [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]] (American [[Baseball]] Commissioner)
* [[Gene Tunney]] (American boxer)
* [[Jack Dempsey]] (American boxer)
* [[Francisco Guilledo]] (Filipino boxer)
* [[Warwick Armstrong]] (Australian [[cricket]] captain)
* [[Wilfred Rhodes]] (Yorkshire and England cricketer)
* [[Jack Hobbs]] (Surrey and England cricketer)
* [[Herbert Sutcliffe]] (Yorkshire and England cricketer)
* [[Maurice Tate]] (Sussex and England cricketer)
* [[Jack Gregory (cricketer)|Jack Gregory]], Australian cricketer
* [[Bert Oldfield]] (Australian cricketer)
* [[Herbie Taylor]] (South African cricketer)
* [[Alex Grove]] (American bowler)
* [[Red Grange]] ([[American football]] player)
* [[Knute Rockne]] (American football player and coach)
* [[Alex James (footballer)|Alex James]] (Arsenal and Scotland [[soccer]] player)
* [[Gordon Coventry]] ([[Australian rules football]] player)
* [[Walter Hagen]] (American [[golf]]er)
* [[Bobby Jones (golfer)|Bobby Jones]] (American golfer)
* [[Paavo Nurmi]] (Finnish runner)
* [[Bobbie Rosenfeld|Fanny "Bobbie" Rosenfeld]] (Canadian athlete)
* [[Earl Sande]] (jockey)
* [[Gertrude Ederle]] (swimming)
* [[Johnny Weissmuller]] (swimming)
* [[Suzanne Lenglen]] (French [[tennis]] player)
* [[Helen Wills Moody]] (American tennis player)
* [[Bill Tilden]] (American tennis player)
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