| 100% | GEORGEHALASSR | 13 | Founder/owner/coach who won eight NFL titles in four decades with the 40-Across (3 wds.) |
| 42% | KIMMULKEY | 9 | Coach of the 40-Across who is the only coach in women's college basketball to win national championships with two teams (2 wds.) |
| 38% | APOLOANTONOHNO | 14 | Olympic speed skater who won "Dancing With the Stars" in 2007: 3 wds. |
| 38% | DAWNSTALEY | 10 | Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who won four Coach of the Year awards in 2020: 2 wds. |
| 37% | KIMMULKEY | 9 | Coach of 41-Across who is the only coach in women's college basketball to win national championships with two teams (2 wds.) |
| 37% | DONSHULA | 8 | Former Miami Dolphins coach who holds the NFL record for most all-time wins, with 328: 2 wds. |
| 37% | CHUCKNOLL | 9 | NFL coach who led the Steelers to four Super Bowl victories in six years: 2 wds. |
| 36% | JIMBOEHEIM | 10 | College basketball coach who has won 946 games with the Syracuse Orange as of 3/20/19: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ROBERTDENIRO | 12 | "Raging Bull" actor who won an Oscar for portraying 40-Across in 1974's "The Godfather Part II": 3 wds. |
| 35% | JAMESPALLISON | 13 | American immunologist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tasuku Honjo for discovery of a cancer therapy: 3 wds. |
| 35% | JULIEANDREWS | 12 | Actress who won an Oscar for playing the title role in 39-Across: 2 wds. |
| 35% | TOMLANDRY | 9 | NFL coach who had 20 straight winning seasons with the Cowboys: 2 wds. |
| 34% | JULIEANDREWS | 12 | "The Sound of Music" actress who won an Oscar for playing the title role in 40-Across (2 wds.) |
| 34% | MIKEKRZYZEWSKI | 14 | College basketball coach who has won 1,129 games with the Army Black Knights and the Duke Blue Devils as of 3/20/19: 2 wds. |
| 34% | JOHNWILLIAMS | 12 | Film music composer who has won 24 Grammy Awards, five Oscars, and four Golden Globes in the last six decades (2 wds.) |
| 33% | SUE | 3 | Bird who won four WNBA titles with the Seattle Storm |
| 33% | MANUNITED | 9 | 29-Across team founded in 1878 that has won the most 29-Across titles (20) (2 wds.) |
| 33% | PATSUMMITT | 10 | College basketball coach who won 1,098 games with the Tennessee Lady Vols: 2 wds. |
| 33% | BRIANDABOLL | 11 | New York Giants coach who won the 2022 NFL Coach of the Year award: 2 wds. |
| 33% | BEARBRYANT | 10 | Legendary football coach who won six national championships with the University of Alabama (including one with 18-Across and one with 35-Across) (2 wds.) |
| 33% | ARTHURCCLARKE | 13 | "Rendezvous With Rama" author who won a Hugo and a Nebula in the same year, twice: 3 wds. |
| 33% | MERYLDAVIS | 10 | Olympic ice dancer who won "Dancing With the Stars" in 2014: 2 wds. |
| 33% | ADAMRIPPON | 10 | Olympic figure skater who won "Dancing With the Stars" in 2018: 2 wds. |
| 32% | HARRYS | 6 | With 40-Across, US vice president who became president upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945: 2 wds. |
| 32% | BRIANDABOLL | 11 | New York Giants coach who won the 2022 Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year Award (2 wds.) |
| 32% | STEVEKERR | 9 | Four-time NBA championship-winning head coach who won Olympic gold with Team USA in 2024: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JAYJOHNSON | 10 | Head coach of 35-Across who won league championships with the University of Nevada in 2015 and the University of Arizona in 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 32% | MANNYPACQUIAO | 13 | Boxer who won the WBA Super welterweight championship at 40 in 2019: 2 wds. |
| 32% | PETECARROLL | 11 | Football coach who won two National Championships with USC and a Super Bowl with the Seattle Seahawks (2 wds.) |
| 32% | TIGERWOODS | 10 | Golfer who won the 2008 U.S. Open with a double fracture in his tibia: 2 wds. |