BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality

The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality is given on an annual basis to the non-British sportsperson considered to have made the most substantative contribution to sport in that year. It was first awarded in 1960 to Herb Elliott.

Subsequent winners have been:

• 1961 Valery Brumel
• 1962 Donald Jackson
• 1963 Jacques Anquetil
• 1964 Abebe Bikila
• 1965 Jointly awarded - Ron Clarke and Gary Player
• 1966 Jointly awarded - Eusebio and Garfield Sobers
• 1967 George Moore
• 1968 Jointly awarded - Oleg Protopopov and Ljudmilla Belovsova
• 1969 Rod Laver
• 1970 Pelé
• 1971 Lee Trevino
• 1972 Olga Korbut
• 1973 Muhammad Ali
• 1974 Muhammad Ali
• 1975 Arthur Ashe
• 1976 Nadia Comaneci
• 1977 Niki Lauda
• 1978 Muhammad Ali
• 1979 Björn Borg
• 1980 Jack Nicklaus
• 1981 Chris Evert
• 1982 Jimmy Connors
• 1983 Carl Lewis
• 1984 Björn Borg
• 1985 Boris Becker
• 1986 Greg Norman
• 1987 Martina Navratilova
• 1988 Steffi Graf
• 1989 Mike Tyson
• 1990 Mal Meninga
• 1991 Mike Powell
• 1992 Andre Agassi
• 1993 Greg Norman
• 1994 Brian Lara
• 1995 Jonah Lomu
• 1996 Jointly awarded - Evander Holyfield and Michael Johnson
• 1997 Martina Hingis
• 1998 Mark O'Meara
• 1999 Maurice Greene
• 2000 Tiger Woods
• 2001 Goran Ivanisevic
• 2002 Ronaldo
• 2003 Lance Armstrong
• 2004 Roger Federer