John Force (born May 4, 1949 in Bell Gardens, California) is an NHRA drag racer and 14-time Funny Car champion. He is one of the most dominant drag racers in the sport with 122 career victories. He graduated from Bell Gardens High School and briefly attended Cerritos Junior college to play football. Force held the record for qualifying in most consecutive events (395) which ended at the 2007 Summitracing.com NHRA nationals and most Funny Car championships (14).

Scott Kalitta (b. February 18 1962 in Snead Island, Florida) is an American drag racer, currently competing in the Funny Car class in the NHRA Powerade Drag Racing Series. Kalitta is son to veteran NHRA driver and crew chief Connie Kalitta, and is cousin to teammate Doug Kalitta.

Doug Kalitta (b. August 20 1964, Ypsilanti, Michigan) is an American auto racing driver. He was the 1994 USAC National Sprint Car Champion and is a current NHRA top fuel drag racer. Doug Kalitta is the nephew of Hall of Fame driver Connie Kalitta. He owns the airline Kalitta Charters.

Kenny Bernstein (born September 6 1944 in Clovis, New Mexico), is an American drag racing driver.

Tony Schumacher (born December 25, 1969 in Long Grove, Illinois), is an American drag racer, currently competing in the NHRA top fuel class, of which he is a four-time champion, winning the last three years consecutively. In 1999 he was the first driver to exceed 330 MPH in competition. He also has the world record for fastest 1/4 mile top fuel run 337.58 MPH.

Ashley Force (born November 29, 1982) is a funny car drag racer. She is the daughter of 14-time NHRA Funny Car division champion John Force and his wife Laurie Force. Force attended Esperanza High School in Yorba Linda, CA, where she was a cheerleader. In 2003, Force graduated from California State University-Fullerton with a B.A. in communications with an emphasis in TV and video.

Joe Amato (born June 13, 1944 in Exeter, Pennsylvania) is an American dragster driver, who won the NHRA Top Fuel championship a record five occasions and scored 52 event victories. He was the first driver to exceed 260 mph and 280 mph in competition. Between 1982 and 2000, he finished in the Top 10 every year. Eye surgery forced him to retire from competitive driving at the end of the 2000 season.

Gary Scelzi, (born August 11, 1960, Fresno, California), is an American dragster racer who has won the NHRA top fuel championship on three occasions and the funny car title once. In 1997 he won the title in his first full year of competition, after replacing Blaine Johnson, who had been killed at the 1996 US Nationals, while leading the top fuel championship, in the Johnson family-owned car. Scelzi went on to win three Top Fuel championships, …

Warren Johnson (born July 7, 1943 in Buford, Georgia) is an NHRA drag racing driver. He is the driver with the most wins in pro stock with 96 career wins. In 2006 Johnson reached his 500th career race. As of September 2006, he won the National Hot Rod Association's Pro Stock championship in six seasons and 96 NHRA national events. In 1997 he became the first Pro Stock driver to exceed 200 mph with a pass of 200.13 mph at Richmond, Virginia.

Don 'Snake' Prudhomme, (born April 6 1941, San Fernando, California) is an American dragster racer, who won the NHRA funny car championship four times in a thirty-five-year career. He was the first funny car driver to exceed 250 mph. He retired in 1994 to manage his own racing team. With driver Larry Dixon, Prudhomme's team won the top fuel championship in 2002 and 2003.

Eric Medlen son of John and Mary (Mimi) Medlen (b. August 13 1973, Oakdale, CA – d. March 23 2007, Gainsville, FL) was an NHRA Top Fuel Funny Car driver who drove for John Force Racing in 2004, 2005 and 2006, campaigning in the Castrol Syntec Ford Mustang Top Fuel Funny Car, and in 2007, campaigning in the Auto Club/Pleasant Holiday Ford Mustang Top Fuel Funny Car. He had a total of 6 career wins.

Donald Glenn Garlits (born January 14, 1932, Tampa, Florida) is considered the father of drag racing. He is known as the "Big Daddy" to drag racing fans around the world. Always a pioneer in the field of drag-racing, he, with the help of T.C. Lemmons, relating at least in part to the loss of a portion of his foot in a drag racing accident, …

Darrell Russell was an NHRA drag racer. He was the 2001 NHRA Rookie Of The Year. At the time, he was only the third driver to win in his Professional debut. In four seasons of competition in NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters, he compiled a record of 106 round wins versus 75 loses. He won six events and was runner-up at eleven others, out of eighty-one events entered. He was fatally injured during eliminations at the Sears Craftsman Nationals in Madison, …

Shirley Muldowney (b. June 19 1940, Schenectady, New York), the "First Lady of Drag Racing" was the first woman to receive a licence to drive a top fuel dragster by the NHRA. She won the NHRA Top Fuel championship in 1977, 1980 and 1982. After a crash in 1984 she was sidelined for a long period but returned to the circuit in the late 1980s. She continued to race, mostly without major sponsorship, throughout the 1990s in IHRA competition as well as match-racing events.

Angelle Sampey, born Angelle Monique Sampey, August 7, 1970, New Orleans, an American Pro Stock Motorcycle racer. She has won the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle championship three times (2000-2002). Since her debut in 1996, she has earned 42 top-qualifier awards and 41 event victories, the most wins for any female in both NHRA competition and professional motor sports as a whole. On June 23, 2007 in Englishtown, New Jersey, …

Conrad "Connie" Kalitta (born February 24, 1938 in Michigan) is the CEO of Kalitta Air and a retired American drag racing driver, once known as "The Bounty Hunter". He grew up in Mount Clemens, Michigan, and was a 1957 graduate of Mount Clemens High School. He raced from the 1950s through the 1990s. He was the first driver to hit 200 mph in an NHRA sanctioned event. He also helped Shirley Muldowney get started (in the "Bounty Huntress" car).

Erica Enders Born in Houston, Texas on October 8, 1983. Erica is a professional race car driver in NHRA Pro Stock. Attended Cypress Springs High School.Her early junior dragster racing years were made into a Disney Channel movie in 2003 entitled "Right on Track." The film was also about her younger sister, Courtney Enders, and was shown over 100 times on the Disney Channel to an audience in the millions.

Frank Hawley (born 1954 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a two-time World champion drag racing driver. He won seven National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Funny Car and two Top Fuel Dragster national events during his 10-year Top fuel racing career that included the 1982 and 1983 National Hot Rod Association Funny Car World Championship. He was voted "Car Craft" magazine's "Driver of the year". Frank Hawley also served as a television sports commentator for ABC, TNN, …

Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson (born December 7, 1928 - died March 16, 1988) was an American off-road racing legend. He won many championships as a racer, and later formed sanctioning bodies SCORE International and Mickey Thompson Entertainment Group (MTEG). He also raced in dragsters and land speed record automobiles. Thompson was born in Alhambra, California. He was known universally as "Mickey." In his early twenties, …

Scotty Cannon (born July 13, 1962) is the innovator of drag racing and shaping the Pro Modified class in the International Hot Rod Association (IHRA). He currently holds the record for having the most wins in IHRA pro-mod with 27 national event wins. Cannon currently resides at Lyman, South Carolina, United States. Scotty grew up in an area where most of the people enjoyed circle track. He did not find that type of racing pleasing.

Blaine Johnson (b. May 22 1962- d. August 31 1996) was a professional drag racer who showed a lot of promise from early in his career. Blaine's life-long crew chief was his brother Alan. The two went on an excellent run in the NHRA Top Alcohol Dragster Series. They began racing in T/A Dragster in 1988. Johnson won four championships in that series (1990 - 1993). Even at the time of his death Johnson's 26 NHRA titles in the Alcohol Division held up.

Tom Edward Hammonds (born March 27 1967 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Washington Bullets in the 1st round (9th overall pick) in the 1989 NBA Draft. He played in 12 NBA seasons for the Bullets, Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets, and Minnesota Timberwolves averaging 5.3 ppg in his career. He scored a career high 31 points for the Bullets against the New York Knicks on January 29, 1992.

Victor Bray is an Australian drag racing competitor in the Top Doorslammer class of racing. He drives a 1957 Chevrolet. Victor owns a large race team, which is backed by Castrol, his long-time sponsor. He is a six-time Top Doorslammer champion, and the team also includes his son Ben Bray, who has also been the Australian champion in Top Doorslammer and Top Alcohol. Victor and his team are based in Queensland, which is where he was born and raised.

Bruce Sarver was a NHRA Top Fuel and Funny Car driver from 1996 to 2002. Born in Bakersfield, California, he began racing Top Fuel in the Car Quest Auto Parts dragster. In his rookie season, he qualified for 18 out of 19 events. The next season he made it to his first final in Englishtown. He switched to the Funny Car class in 2000 to join Foxen Canyon with Alan Johnson (the tuner) and Gary Scelzi. He opened the 2001 season with a win in Phoenix, …

Gary Beck (January 21, 1941 in Seattle, Washington) is a two-time World champion drag racing driver. Born and raised in the United States, Beck married a Canadian and they made their home in her native Edmonton, Alberta. He competed in stock car racing before switching to drag racing. A virtual unknown, in 1972 he abruptly came to international prominence when he won the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Top Fuel dragster title at the U.S. Nationals in Indianapolis, …

Ronnie Sox (born c. 1938, died April 22, 2006 in Richmond, Virginia) was a United States drag racer. His family ran an Esso service station near Burlington, North Carolina, where got his start in drag racing in the 1950s when the Police Club of Burlington began hosting races at an airport. He raced at tracks throughout North Carolina and became a national sensation in the 1960s and early '70s. Sox won five National Hot Rod Association championships and more than 59 events.

Billy Harper was a Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky.

Danny Ongais (born May 21, 1942) is a former racecar driver from the United States. Born in Kahului, Maui Island, Hawaii, he is the only native Hawaiian to compete at the Indianapolis 500. A motorcycle, sports car, Formula One, and drag racing competitor, in 1963 and 1964 Ongais won the American Hot Rod Association AA Gas Dragster Championship and in 1965 he added the National Hot Rod Association AA Dragster championship title.

Art Malone (born June 3, 1936, Tampa Bay, Florida) is a retired American racecar driver. Malone is known primarily as a drag racer and was the 1963 AHRA Top Fuel World champion. Malone also raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1962-1965 seasons, with 10 career starts, including the 1963 and 1964 Indianapolis 500 races.

Courtney Enders (November 14, 1986) is the younger sister of NHRA Pro Stock Racer Erica Enders. Courtney is also an NHRA Super Stock Racer. She was portrayed in 2003 by Brie Larson in the Disney Channel Original Movie, "Right on Track" the Erica and Courtney Enders Story. Went to Cypress Springs High School.

Janne Petteri Ahonen (born May 11, 1977 in Lahti, Finland) is a Finnish ski jumper. His achievements include individual World Championships in 1997 (normal hill) and 2005 (large hill), first place in the World Cup in 2003–2004 and 2004–2005, and first place in the Four Hills Tournament in 1998–99, 2002–2003, 2004–2005 and 2005–2006. With these four wins he ties the record with Jens Weissflog.

Kitty O'Neil (born 1946 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a former stuntwoman and racer noted for a handful of exceptional accomplishments, despite becoming deaf when she was four years old. In 1977 in the Mojave Desert, she piloted a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket dragster built by Ky Michaelson to the quickest quarter mile elapsed time in auto history, with a timed run of 3.22 seconds at 396 MPH.

Rosco McGlashan OAM an Australian Drag racing record-holder, who currently holds the Australian land speed record at 500 mph (802.6 km/h). This record was set on the 27 March 1994 on the dry salt flats of Lake Gairdner, South Australia 440 km (275 miles) northwest of Adelaide. McGlashan set the record in his jet powered car, Aussie Invader II. The car was powered by a 36,000 hp Atar jet engine from a Mirage jet fighter aeroplane.