- Adam Vinatieri
Adam Matthew Vinatieri (born December 28, 1972 in Yankton, South Dakota) is an American football placekicker currently playing for the Indianapolis Colts. He is best known for his tenure with the New England Patriots from 1996 to 2005, during which he played in four Super Bowls, winning three of them. Vinatieri also won a championship following the 2006 NFL season with Indianapolis.
- Josh Brown
Joshua Brown (born April 29, 1979 in Foyil, Oklahoma) is an American football kicker for the Seattle Seahawks. He attended the University of Nebraska. Brown is rapidly gaining a reputation as one of the premiere clutch kickers in the league, making four game-winning field goals in the last minute in the 2006 season.
- Robbie Gould
Robert Paul Gould, III (born December 6, 1982) is an American football kicker for the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He originally signed with the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent out of Penn State University in 2005.
- Olindo Mare
Olindo Franco Mare (born June 6, 1973) is an American football placekicker for the National Football League's New Orleans Saints. He was the former longtime kicker of the Miami Dolphins. He attended Syracuse before joining the Dolphins.
- Rob Bironas
James Robert Douglas Bironas (born January 29, 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American football player. He is currently the kicker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. Before playing in the NFL, Bironas worked in security and loss prevention at a North Carolina Best Buy store.
- Nick Folk
Nick Folk is an American football kicker. Folk played for the University of Arizona during college and was selected by the Dallas Cowboys during the 2007 NFL draft.
- Shaun Suisham
Shaun Suisham (December 29, 1981 in Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada) is an American football placekicker. He is currently signed with the Washington Redskins of the NFL. Prior to college, Suisham helped Wallaceburg District Secondary School win a Kent County championship in 1999 by kicking a 58-yard field goal in the final. He then attended Bowling Green State University and attended training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- Rian Lindell
Rian Lindell (born January 20, 1977 in Vancouver, Washington) is a placekicker who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills and attended Washington State where he was on the college team with quarterback Ryan Leaf that made an appearance in 1998 Rose Bowl (Lindell was a freshman) and the Cougars lost to the Michigan Wolverines with future NFL stars Brian Griese, Tom Brady and Charles Woodson. Lindell entered the NFL in 2000.
- Josh Scobee
Joshua Taylor Scobee (born June 23, 1982 in Longview, Texas) is an American football kicker for the Jacksonville Jaguars
- Paul Edinger
Paul Edinger (born January 17, 1978 in Frankfort, Michigan; raised in Lakeland, Florida) is a free agent National Football League kicker. Edinger has played for the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings. Edinger is known for his unusual "corkscrew" kicking motion: before the snap he faces backwards in the direction of the opposite side of the field. As the ball is snapped he turns as he steps in a circular pattern toward the ball.
- Justin Medlock
Justin Medlock is a American football kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins and high school football for Mission San Jose High School. Medlock was thought to go into the preseason competing with Lawrence Tynes for the kicking job, but the Chiefs traded Tynes to the New York Giants, thus giving Medlock the "de facto" starting job.
- Noel Prefontaine
Noel Prefontaine (born December 23, 1973 in Camp Pendleton, California) is a punter/kicker with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. Though born in the United States, Prefontaine moved with his family to Montreal, Quebec when he was seven years old, living there for the next five years of his life before moving back to California.
- Scott Norwood
Scott Allan Norwood (born July 17, 1960 in Alexandria, Virginia) is a former National Football League kicker who played predominately for the NFL's Buffalo Bills. Norwood was an integral part of its offense during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and kicked in Buffalo's first two Super Bowl appearances.
- Michael Koenen
Michael Koenen (born July 13, 1982 in Ferndale, Washington) is an American football Punter and Kicker in the NFL, currently playing with the Atlanta Falcons.
- Markus Pröll
Markus Pröll is a German goalkeeper who is playing for Eintracht Frankfurt since 2003-04. He started his professional career with 1. FC Köln and initially even became first goalkeeper until he was benched. He was elected by the German football magazine kicker as the Bundesliga's best goalkeeper of the first half of the 2006-07 season. Unfortunately he hardly could contend this title as he suffered of many injuries.
- Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler was a National Football League kicker for the Cleveland Browns. After failing to make the team he was cut. He has since then became a golf caddy for a long time friend.
- Josh Huston
Josh Huston (born February 28, 1982 in Findlay, Ohio) is an American football placekicker who currently plays for the New York Giants of the National Football League. Huston played college football at Ohio State University. Huston played high school at Findlay High School, where he earned first-team All-Ohio honors as a junior. His holder at Findlay was current NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
- Tony Franklin
Anthony Ray Franklin (born November 18, 1956 in Big Spring, Texas) is a former NFL football kicker between 1979 to 1988 for the Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins. Franklin was best known for kicking with a bare foot during his NFL career. Tony had a storied college career at Texas A&M University where he set the record for the longest collegiate field goal of 64 yards on October 16, 1976 against Baylor University.
- Walther Bensemann
Walther Bensemann (13 January 1873, Berlin, Germany - 14 November 1934, Montreux, Switzerland) was a German pioneer of football and founder of the country's major sports publication Kicker. Bensemann was the son of a Jewish banker. During his time at private school in Montreux he learned about the new sport of football. When he moved to Karlsruhe in order to complete his school-leavers' exam, he began to spread the sport around Germany.
- Brian Mitchell
Brian Mitchell played college football for Marshall University in 1987 and the University of Northern Iowa from 1989-1991. He holds many UNI football records and NCAA records as well including the most accurate single season kicker in NCAA college football history (26 for 27 in field goals). Brian played two years of professional football in the Arena Football League, in 1994 for the Cleveland Thunderbolts and in 1995 for the St. Louis Stampede.
- Luca Congi
Luca Congi (born June 15, 1983 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) is a punter/placekicker playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. Congi was drafted out of college by Saskatchewan (12th overall) in 2006, and he won the position of punter/placekicker in training camp. He replaced the Roughriders longtime franchise kicker Paul McCallum, who left Saskatchewan to join the British Columbia Lions as a free agent in 2006.
- Greg Davis
Greg Davis (born October 29, 1965 in Rome, Georgia) is a former NFL kicker from (1987-1998).
- Herman Moore
Herman Joseph Moore (born October 20, 1969 in Danville, Virginia) is a former American NFL wide receiver. He played football in high school, mostly as a kicker, setting the school record with a 48-yard field goal, as well as playing at tight end. He went to the University of Virginia, where he was first used as a defensive back to little effect, and finally as a wide receiver.
- Remy Hamilton
Remy Martin Hamilton (b. August 30 1974, Wildwood, New Jersey) is an American football kicker for the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League.
- Hans Sarpei
Hans Adu Sarpei (born 28 June 1976) in Tema, Ghana is a Ghanaian International football defensive midfielder who currently, as of May 2007, plays for Bayer Leverkusen. Sarpei who has a German passport, moved to Germany from Ghana with his Parents, when he was a child. He is a member of the national team, and was called up to the 2006 African Cup of Nations and the 2006 World Cup squads. He was with VfL Wolfsburg for 6 seasons, …
- Shane Andrus
Shane Andrus (born October 2, 1980) is an American football kicker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He attended Murray State University, and is currently playing in NFL Europe on the squad based in Hamburg, Germany. Andrus holds a record for home runs in consecutive at bats in the state of Kentucky. His favorite food is chicken.
- Mike Clark
Michael Vincent Clark (November 7, 1940, Marshall, Texas - July 24, 2002, Dallas, Texas) is a former NFL kicker from (1963-1973). He was a part of the Dallas Cowboys' Super Bowl VI winning team. Clark died of a heart attack at Baylor University Medical Center. He was diagnosed with advanced Melanoma in 1998.
- Rich Karlis
Richard John Karlis (born May 23, 1959, in Salem, Ohio) is a former American Football kicker who played nine seasons for the Denver Broncos, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Detroit Lions in the National Football League from 1982 to 1990. He played college football at the University of Cincinnati and is known as the last of the field goal kickers who kicked barefoot full time in the NFL.
- Tommy Davis
Tommy Davis (born October 13, 1934 in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a former NFL punter and kicker from (1959-1969) for the San Francisco 49ers. He was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1962 and 1963 seasons.
- Jim Breech
James Thomas Breech (born April 11, 1956 in Sacramento, California) is a former American football kicker in the National Football League, who played for Oakland Raiders in 1979 and Cincinnati Bengals from 1980-1992. Before his NFL career, Breech played for the University of California and Sacramento High School. After graduating college in 1978, Breech was selected in the 8th round of the NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions, …
- Scott Bentley
Scott Bentley (born April 10, 1974 in Dallas, Texas) is a former American football kicker in the NFL. He played parts of four seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens. He was also a member of the 2001 World Bowl Champion Berlin Thunder of NFL Europe. He attended and graduated from Florida State University and Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado.
- Dan Frantz
Daniel Lee Frantz (born July 9, 1977 in Vancouver, Washington) is an American football kicker for the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League. He played football collegiately at Portland State University. He has also played for the San Jose SaberCats.
- Fred Cox
Fred Cox is a former National Football League kicker for the Minnesota Vikings throughout his career (1963-1977). He is also the inventor of the nerf football. Fred was raised in Monongahela, PA where his family owned a grocery store. He taught PA History at Charleroi High School in 1967. He is the Vikings all-time leading scorer (1,365 points) and leads them in field goals all-time (282).
- Chris Hardy
Chris Hardy (born June 6, 1972) is a Canadian Football League safety for the Toronto Argonauts. He also serves as their emergency punter/kicker. His role with the team is predominantly as a special teams tackler/blocker. Born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Hardy grew up in Edmonton, Alberta.
- Donald Igwebuike
Donald Amechi Igwebuike (born December 27, 1960 in Enugu, Nigeria) is a former American football kicker for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1985-1989). He is the third place all-time scorer for the Buccaneers with 416 overall points. Igwebuike also played in the Canadian Football League with the Baltimore Stallions in 1994 and the Memphis Mad Dogs in 1995. He attended Clemson University. In 1990, Igwebuike was charged with assisting a $1 million heroin smuggling plot.
- Martin Coleman
Martin Isaac Coleman Jr. (born February 2, 1987 in Newark, New Jersey) plays Cornerback, Punter, Kicker for the Pitt Panthers football team. Both of his parents are Liberian citizens. He has dual citizenship for Liberia and United States.
- Mike Mercer
Mike Mercer (born November 21, 1935 in Algona, Iowa) is a former American college and professional football kicker and punter who played for six teams from (1961-1970). In the American Football League, he played for the Oakland Raiders, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills. He was a member of the Chiefs' 1966 AFL Championship team that played in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
- Benny Ricardo
Benito Concepcion "Benny" Ricardo is a former NFL kicker from (1976-1984) for five different teams.
- Efren Herrera
Efren Herrera (born July 30, 1951 in Guadalajara, Mexico) is a former NFL kicker from (1974-1982). Herrera was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1977 season. He was a part of the Cowboys' Super Bowl XII winning team. He later played with the Oklahoma Outlaws of the United States Football League.
- Uwe Rahn
Uwe Rahn is a former German football player. Rahn played 318 Bundesliga matches in his professional career, scoring the majority of his 107 Bundesliga goals in his eight years at Borussia Mönchengladbach where he grew to a West Germany international and lifted the kicker-Torjägerkanone award for scoring the most goals in the Bundesliga of 1986-1987. The attacking midfielder scored 24 goals that season, …